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In an ongoing battle over flag flying in Warwickshire, the County’s Council’s LGBTQ+ staff group have called for the Pride Progress flag to be reinstated as part of the authority's policy, allowing it to be flown during Pride Month in June; as it has in the past.

Joe Lycett’s celebration of all things Brummie, the International Day of Birmingham, is returning for its second year in 2025.

The whip-cracking classic comedy musical, Calamity Jane, based on the much-loved movie of the same name has ridden over the rolling plains to Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre. Starring the multi-award-winning West End actor and singer, Carrie Hope Fletcher (Cinderella, Les Misérables) as the fabulously fearless, gun slingin’ lead, Calamity Jane, the musical is set during the American gold rush in the dusty settlement of Deadwood.

Following success at A&E departments in various other regions across the UK, including Birmingham, opt-out testing for HIV and Hepatitis (B and C) was also introduced to Kettering General Hospital (KGH) and Northampton General Hospital (NGH), and has been declared a success by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

A new exhibition, ‘Queer Without Fear: Pride in Who We Are’, which has opened at The Yard, Coventry, celebrates the city’s LGBTQ+ community and history.

A lost miniature portrait, which until now has never been seen by the public, is thought to depict William Shakespeare’s secret gay lover and the subject of his erotic sonnets.

Natalie Brookes, a Northampton-based trans folk musician and composer, is launching a new EP centred around promoting queer musicians on the folk music scene.

The trustees of Warwickshire Pride have responded to a draft flag policy proposed by the Reform-led council, raising concerns at the absence of any mention of the Pride flag.

Lauren Rowles OBE, who has been described by British Rowing as the greatest rower of all time, has announced her retirement from the sport, after over a decade of success on the water.

Drag Race UK winner and Celebrity Big Brother star, Danny Beard, has been announced as part of a sparkling cast for this year’s pantomime at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. Danny will star as the most glamourous villain of Sleeping Beauty, Carabosse.

Labour MP for Nottingham East, Nadia Whittome, has written to Bridget Phillipson, the Women and Equalities Minister, ahead of forthcoming statutory guidance from the EHRC that could have a profound impact of trans lives in the UK.

Dragged to the Musicals, a live vocals tour starring Divina De Campo, Veronica Green, Le Fil, Mimi Chanel and Viola is heading out on tour from September. Ahead of its opening, Midlands Rainbow spoke to Divina De Campo about the all-singing extravaganza that will be playing at several venues across the region.

Ahead of its move to its new centre home in September, Birmingham LGBT have received a donation of £9,609 from the Morrisons Foundation. The cash boost from the supermarket’s charity foundation has covered the costs of creating and furnishing a training room at Birmingham LGBT’s new facility.

James Ijames’ Pulitzer prize-winning queer comic tragedy, playing at the RSC’s Swan Theatre is a tale of love, loss, liberation and joy that brings Shakespeare’s Hamlet into the modern-day.

For the third year in a row, Warwickshire Pride festival was the target of hate-fuelled vandalism in 2025. Luckily, the community came together quickly to help rectify the damage before the festival commenced. Now though, organisers are calling for a focus on tackling the hate at its roots to create real change.

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian is a queer coming-of-age set in New York City during the height of the HIV pandemic.

The cast for series 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has been announced and among them is Coventry’s own Viola.

The Fostering Network, a charity in the West Midlands, is encouraging more people, including those in the LGBTQ+ community to consider fostering.

For the third year in a row, Warwickshire Pride has been the target of vandalism but the community turned “the negativity and the hate into something positive - pure community power,” explained Dan Browne, one of the festival’s organisers.

Nottinghamshire Police have launched an appeal to identify two individuals that they would like to speak to in connection with an incident of homophobic harassment.