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Northampton Pride – due to take place on Saturday 12th July 2025 – has announced the line-up for the festival which includes a talented collection of singers, performers and entertainers

2025’s Pride Power List from The Guardian has been announced, and among the activist, celebrities, icons and individuals from the LGBTQ+ community in the top 100 are many names from across the Midlands region.

LGBTQ+ veterans have been given a first look at a new memorial that is due to be installed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire this August.

latpack Film Festival – a mobile arts organisation – are hosting a line-up of events this summer in Birmingham, including an outdoor cinema screening of the much-loved classic, The Wizard of Oz (1939).

A new film project that will share stories from the LGBTQ+ community, from people who are facing the end of their lives and those experiencing bereavement, aims to improve the support available to them.

Forward Film and Television Festival together with The Mockingbird Cinema are hosting an event that will screen three short films created by Birmingham’s own Joe Lycett, followed by a Q&A with the comedian, presenter and artist himself.

An adaptation of Paris Lees’ memoir ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’ – set in Nottingham during the early noughties – is coming to the BBC during Pride Month this year.

Birmingham Pride 2025, photos from the parade and reflections on the event and the city's community.

‘Beyond Glitter & Feathers: My Artivism is my Pride’ exhibition – showcasing the work and activism of artist Garry Jones – opens at Birmingham’s Back to Backs this May bank holiday for Birmingham Pride weekend.

Professional gardener and horticulturalist, Tom Leonard from Warwickshire, also known as The Drag Queen Gardener, has announced a formal ambassadorship for the V&A Dundee for a new exhibition. Garden Futures: Designing with Nature.

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”.