The Pride Placard Pop-Up
Runs from 29 June to 1 July
Location: Regent’s Street, London
GAY TIMES will be hosting a special community space on Regent’s Street in London during Pride in London for LGBTQ+ people and allies to come along and create their own placards. Guests will have the opportunity to work with a queer creative team to produce Pride-ready banners that will make the pro-LGBTQ+ social and political statement they want to stand by.
Positioned on the Pride in London parade route, the Pride Placard Pop-Up will be open for three days. Those who have worked on their own placard can walk away with it to march the streets of London on 1 July holding it high above their head.
Other creative activities include a pin badge making station, a GAY TIMES exhibition showcasing key queer content from our archives, and a photo moment to capture the memory for socials.
GAG! A Queer Comedy Night
Date: 30 June from 8:45pm to 11pm
Location: Soho Theatre, London
Join us as we celebrate the launch of GAG!, our exciting new series that showcases the best of queer comedy and cabaret talent. With a focus on diverse performers who push boundaries and challenge conventions, GAG! is the ultimate destination for fans of comedy that is fresh, funny and fabulous. Whether you’re looking for laugh-out-loud comedy, jaw-dropping drag performances or outrageous musical performers, GAG has it all.
Join us at Soho Theatre ahead of Pride in London as we celebrate the creativity, humour and unapologetic queer of some of the most talented performers in a showcase event that will celebrate eight new queer comics.
Tickets will be available directly from Soho Theatre very soon. Stay tuned to our social for a further announcement.
Breakthrough with Coca-Cola and GAY TIMES
Date: 1 July from 12pm to 2pm
Location: Pride in London Parade route
This summer, GAY TIMES and Coca-Cola have handpicked four emerging musicians and DJs who will take to the stage at some of the UK’s biggest music festivals and pride events. Keep an eye out for our Breakthrough talent as the float goes down the parade route with a very special DJ set.
Studland Soho with Little Gay Brother, Feel It, Fèmmme Fraîche, Meat and GAY TIMES
Date: 1 July from 6pm to 6am
Location: HERE at Outernet, Tottenham Court Road, London
Welcome to Studland Soho… Saddle up and get ready to ride, as London’s hottest queer club nights team up for a special event in the heart of Soho to celebrate PRIDE. Little Gay Brother, Feel It, Fèmmme Fraîche, Meat and GAY TIMES, come together for a huge 2000 cap mega-rave at London’s new super club, HERE, at Outernet.
Studland Soho will takeover the whole complex of Outernet; including it’s cocktail lounge, The Lower Third club space, and HERE, a new purpose built, state of the art club space. The crews have united to lasso the finest headline DJ talent, including the three P’s of Pride – Berlin’s Paramida! London fave Peach, and Scotland’s Prosumer!
These studs will be joined by the stars and residents of Little Gay Brother, Feel It, Fèmmme Fraîche and Meat – which make these parties so widely loved. Michelle Manetti, the Meat Boys, Dan Beaumont, Princess Julia, Jonjo Jury, Bryony Masters, Mike Menace, Darren & Linzi, will all take to the decks to keep Soho swinging until the early hours.
The whole event will be accompanied by bonkers visuals from Klub Artefakt, and will raise money for an LGBTQ+ charity. You don’t want to miss the biggest party the wild-Westend will have this Pride.
Classical Pride
Date: 7 July
Location: Barbican, London
Classical Pride in partnership with ViiV Healthcare and GAY TIMES, and supported by Mastercard, will be the first time any major concert hall or orchestra anywhere in the UK or Europe has given a classical orchestral concert for Pride.
Conceived and curated by conductor Oliver Zeffman, Classical Pride will take place on 7 July 2023 in the Barbican Hall in London. The evening will be hosted by radio and TV presenter, Nick Grimshaw.
The orchestral concert will pay tribute to enormously vast body of classical music that has been contributed by queer composers over the centuries, as well as celebrating the diversity of the the LGBTQ+ classical music community of today.
It will feature performances from trailblazing classical stars including Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy, Davóne Tines, Nicky Spence and Ella Taylor.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will be joined by an LGBTQ+ community choir, specially assembled for the occasion, and Zeffman will lead them in works by Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, Bernstein, Caroline Shaw and a new commission from British composer Julian Anderson.