Time Out's gui to the bt LGBTQ+ theatre shows across London. Coverg everythg om lbian drama to queer baret to gay theatre classics, here's where to fd the latt LGBTQ+ shows across the cy.
Contents:
- THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
- GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
- PRI SPECIAL: 5 GAY PLAYS IN LONDON
- WATCH KKD’S GAY SON LEAD LGBTQ+ PROTT LONDON
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
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Okay, there are jt a few dited LGBTQ+ performance venu the cy, cludg gay theatre hubs Above the Stag, Royal Vxhall Tavern and the Kg's Head. Expect everythg om genre-smashg queer baret to lbian romance to gay theatre classics to exploratns of trans experience.
Until 16 September 2023 Sleepg Bety Tak A Prick TicketsSleepg Bety Tak A Prick at Charg Cross Theatre 23 November 2023 to 13 January 2024 Strangers Between TicketsThe Goln Goose Theatre is revivg classic Atralian drama Strangers Between by Tommy Murphy, which looks at the highs and lows of growg up gay morn Atralia. In the first half of the 20th century, you uld be arrted for stagg a gay play.
GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
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Here are ten of the plays that have ntributed to LGBTQ+ theatre's rich Drag by Mae WtThe Drag follows Rolly, a gay man who marri a woman to hi his sexualy, and the nsequenc of this. As an avid and unrelentg supporter of gay rights throughout her life, Mae Wt ma wav wh The Drag 1927, which she wrote unr pen name Jane Mast. Faiar wh ntroversy followg her prev play Sex, The Drag ed the most outrage for her pictn of homosexualy and cross-drsg.
PRI SPECIAL: 5 GAY PLAYS IN LONDON
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Wh a st of exclively gay actors om a Greenwich Village club, the play was a huge fancial succs, but was wily panned by crics and shut down due to obsceny laws and never ma to Broadway as planned.
WATCH KKD’S GAY SON LEAD LGBTQ+ PROTT LONDON
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Bluefish Cove is a “gay woman’s haven” where a group of seven lbians are spendg their annual holiday. Bt plac for LGBTQ+ theatre LondonBent by Mart ShermanMart Sherman’s harrowg play sh a light on the persecutn of gay men durg the Holot. Max (played by Ian McKellen the origal n at the Royal Court) is a gay man Berl the 1930s, taken to Dach wh his boyiend Rudy after the Night of Long Kniv.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
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After Rudy is btally beaten to ath, Max falls love wh an openly gay man the mp.
Bent remas one of the bt known gay plays theatre history and ntu to spire revivals. It is by no means as ntroversial as many plays wh central male gay them, but has to work doubly hard bee of this lack of other lbian storyl on the stage, somethg that is dire need of changg and that Fun Home self uld In Ameri by Tony Khner The exploratn of AIDS 1980s Ameri an epic unrtakg, and Angels Ameri is a suably epic play. Hot on the heels of the Angels Ameri revival, Matthew Lopez asks what is like for the next generatn of young gay men New York, growg up and livg the shadow of the AIDS crisis.
Penned by Tarell Alv McCraney (whose tobgraphil play beme spiratn for the Osr wng Moonlight) this 2008 play talks about what means to be black and to be gay. It remas jt as pertent today, alg wh the stggl that arise om the batn of misogyny and homophobia that are far om beg stamped out today’s society.
KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots. * gay play in london *
Pri Special: 5 Gay Plays In London. When Denmark was occupied by Germany 1940, Dr Carl-Peter Vaer’s rearch to a ‘cure’ for homosexualy turned him to a Nazi favoure, and a war crimal.
Hailed as ‘the bt gay play sce My Night Wh Reg’ is our absolute ‘mt see’. Anyone who's Googled ‘Ben Cohen Naked’ (NSFW) will be lighted wh Odd Shaped Balls, a bare-chted look at homophobia the 15-a-si sport as Matthew Marrs’ Jimmy is outed at the start of a promisg reer.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
Anchorg a send Queer Season at the Kg’s Head pub theatre Islgton om 2 Augt Sptg Image claims to be the UK’s first ever openly gay play, produced the same year as The Boys the Band, at Hampstead Theatre Club where starred ‘Bernard’ om Y Mister, Derek Fowlds and Julian Holloway as a gay uple who nceive a child amid the prejudice of not-so-swgg sixti London. Though the number of LGBT+ venu London has seen a cle the last or so, the cy's gay scene isn't ailg yet – fact, a handful of excellent new venu have opened recent years around the cy. The hight ncentratn of LGBT+ spac n still be found around Old Compton Street Soho, a former red light district that's been heavily gentrified recent years, but remas London's gay heartland.
This Soho stalwart tends to attract a slightly olr crowd of gay guys and has a reputatn for beg cisy. It’s closed on Mondays and Tudays, but hosts a r Sunday pub quiz and gets pretty packed on Friday and Saturday nights when the small dancefloor fills up wh a largely, though not exclively, gay male crowd. Loted Clapham, a 15-20 mute tube ri om the cy centre, this tradnal gay pub-club is a perennial favoure wh LGBT+ Londoners who love an unpretent party.