SHOUT Festival have announced that funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund has been secured to support the Birmingham Queer Archive project.

During LGBTQ+ History Month, which takes places in February in the UK, Warwickshire Pride are hosting queer history tours of Leamington Spa.

Sally Ryan was an American artist & sculptor, queer icon & co-founder of the Garman-Ryan Collection housed at The New Art Galley, Walsall

The Loft, The Village Inn & The Nightingale Club will all be housed in a new purpose-built night-time entertainment space on Kent Street

British figure skater and Olympic Champion, John Curry OBE was born on 9th September 1949 in Birmingham

Bessie Bonehill, born in West Bromwich in the West Midlands 1855, was an English vaudeville singer, comic entertainer and male impersonator

James Lees-Milne was an English writer born 1908 at Wickhamford Manor, Worcestershire.

Born 27th September 1907 in Wolverhampton, William (Billy) Chappell was a British dancer, ballet designer and director.

Lettice Floyd (1865) was a British Suffragette remembered for her openly lesbian relationship with fellow Suffragette, Annie Williams

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

After The Act: A Section 28 Musical is a production based on commentary from people who experienced living under the infamous Section 28

Staffordshire County Council Archives and Heritage Service introduced their new ‘Pride in Our Past’ LGBTQ+ Community History Project