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that the Olivier Award®-winning and Tony Award® nominated Best Musical, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is launching a globe-spanning World Tour, hitting venues in Birmingham and across the Midlands.

Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) are returning to this year's Birmingham Pride during May Bank Holiday weekend with two separate performances, including El Amor es amor, in support of the city's vibrant LGBTQ+ community.

A brand-new Made at Curve production of the West End and Broadway smash-hit musical comedy LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL will tour the UK in 2026 playing in Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, and Stoke-on-Trent.

British gay day show, I Kissed a Boy is returning for series two with a whole new cast of men looking for love.

London’s production of Cabaret has announced new casting with Coventry-born actor and theatre producer, Rob Madge to take on the role of Emcee and actor and model, Hannah Dodd to take on the role of Sally Bowles.

The make-up competition series, Glow Up, is set to return for a seventh series and among the announced contestants are several hailing from the Midlands.

Plants and flowers have long been used as symbols by the LGBTQ+ community so let's delve into a garden of queerness.

The LGBTQ+ community across Birmingham and the Midlands have been paying tribute following the news that Robert Mills, known to most as ‘Mrs Mills’ had sadly passed away over the weekend.

Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel are set to star in a new play that explores the rivalry between playwrights William Shakespeare, Christopher (Kit) Marlowe.

A line-up of Birmingham-based rap and grime artists, including openly pansexual Lady Leshurr, have collaborated with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) to show that "symphonic music is for everyone”.

As part of an upcoming new series for Sky Max, comedian, presenter and Brummy bab, Joe Lycett, has bought together the ‘United States of Birmingham’

Megan Atkinson from Leicestershire, set up the group ‘Queer Adventure Collective’ as a safe space for LGBTQ+ people from smaller communities

Drag performer, Twiggy, reflects on Birmingham's changing Gay Village and the positive future of the venues

Singer-songwriter & actress, Beverley Knight has collaborated with American actor &singer, Billy Porter on new single, Never Say Never.

Birmingham couple, Richard & Justin, appeared on the latest episode of The Dog House, in search of a four-legged friend

Jenii Luperi, a voice coach from Cannock who works in Walsall, has spoken to the BBC about the 2025 UK entry to Eurovision, Remember Monday

Project 93 is a Staffordshire-based charity supporting LGBTQ+ people of all ages in Staffordshire and the surrounding areas

James Ijames’ Pulitzer prize-winning play, Fat Ham, will make its European premiere at the RSC’s Swan Theatre 

In celebration of Lunar New Year, Midlands Rainbow exploring the connection shared between Chinatown and the Gay Village in Birmingham.

Remembering Matthew Hawkins also known to many as the drag performer, The Divine Miss M; an icon in Birmingham's LGBTQ+ community.