During Notts Pride weekend celebrations, it was announced that the city’s vibrant ‘Rainbow Quarter’ centred around Hockley would become an officially recognised LGBTQ+ District by the city.

Labour MP for Nottingham East, Nadia Whittome, has said she is proud of her party’s pledge to tackle violence against women and girls but is ‘appalled’ by their stance on trans rights. She hopes, however, to be able to push from within the party to influence change on trans rights, and move the party forward.

Queer Labour MP, Nadia Whittome, has said that the UK’s asylum system needs a “complete overhaul” during a meeting with an LGBTQ+ refugee in parliament.

Nottingham Trans Pride was held on Saturday 21st June 2025, beginning with a march from Hockley's Broadway Cinema at 11am, and speeches in the Old Market Square from noon. The event was well attended with over 1000 people

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.

A Christian teacher (referred to as A) has lost an unfair dismissal and religious discrimination claim in a hearing that took place at Nottingham Employment Tribunal Centre, after accessing a trans pupil's safeguarding record.

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.

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.

Nottingham Against Transphobia together with Nottingham Pastel Project, and Trans Pride Nottingham are holding a protest following the anti-trans Supreme Court ruling

Stephen Parkes, a Birmingham-based contestant on The Great Pottery Throw Down, speaks all things clay with Midlands Rainbow.

Notts Pride, the East Midlands’ largest free Pride event, are hosting a Winter Ball

Nottinghamshire GP practice has announced that it will stop prescribing vital transgender healthcare to patients

2025 is fast approaching & with it comes a new year of great shows in Birmingham & across the Midlands. We've picked just a few of our faves