A Chat With: mandla rae
As BlackFest 2022 gets underway in the city, we chat with writer and performer mandla rae about as british as a watermelon, mandla’s exploration of unpacking trauma and memories, and how the body keeps a score when trauma is a part of a life, which shows at Unity Theatre on Monday 26th September. Please introduce […]
Danny Beard joins RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
Liverpool-born Drag Queen and host of the inaugural LCR Pride Awards in 2019, Danny Beard, has been revealed as one of twelve fierce new queens in the latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Later this month Danny will join fellow queens Baby, Black Peppa, Cheddar Gorgeous, Copper Topp, Dakota Schiffer, Danny Beard, Jonbers Blonde, […]
Homotopia Returns With “Queer Joy Is A Protest”
Homotopia Festival, the UK’s longest running annual LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival, returns to Liverpool this autumn with a new theme Queer Joy Is A Protest. Featuring theatre, music, spoken word, film, performance and more, this year’s festival shares stories of trans visibility and allyship, queer history, punk identity and gender fluidity. Taking place in […]
LTF 2022: Top Picks
The Liverpool Theatre Festival returns from Wednesday 31st August – Sunday 11th September with drama, drag, cabaret, comedy, opera, musical theatre and family shows, across 12 days of diverse, inclusive live entertainment. You can explore the full programme here, but here are our top picks! I Wish My Life Were A Musical (Age 12+) Direct […]
New Brighton Pride Arrives on Wirral
This Saturday 27th August will see the first ever New Brighton Pride come to the town’s famous Floral Pavilion. The day of family friendly fun will begin at 10.30am with talks from Dame Angela Eagle, one of the event organisers, Jamie Lee Carter and other community members before the main event opens. From 11am until […]
Region Turns Rainbow for Halton & Chester Pride
History was made in Halton last weekend, as the borough played host to its first ever Pride festival. The event took place in the grounds of Halton Castle, on the top of Halton Hill in Runcorn, on Sunday 14 August. The day saw a host of entertainment, including performances from drag queens Miss Claudia and […]
Merseyside charity launches campaign to safeguard vital services
Merseyside’s longest running LGBTQ+* charity is urging people to ‘come together’ and support a campaign to secure its future, after the loss of two-thirds of its funding. Sahir House, which provides vital frontline services to communities in Liverpool and the Merseyside area, including sexual health services and LGBTQ+ support services, has launched ‘Come Together […]
Pride in Liverpool 2022: Tell us what you thought!
Pride in Liverpool returned to the city this weekend for the first time since before the pandemic, painting the city rainbow as more than 12,000 people joined the annual “March with Pride” from St George’s Hall to the festival site at Pier Head. The Barclays Main Stage provided a platform for headliners Boney M and […]
Full Programme for Pride in Liverpool 2022 Revealed
LCR Pride Foundation has revealed its full, community-driven line up for Pride in Liverpool 2022 and invited the city’s LGBT+ community, allies and supporters to ‘come together’ on Saturday 30th July for the free event at Liverpool’s Pier Head. The Barclays Main Stage will provide a platform for headliners Boney M and a host of […]
Boney M. to Replace Samantha Mumba for Pride in Liverpool
Disco legends, Boney M, featuring Maizie Williams, are set to take the top slot on the Barclays Main Stage at Pride in Liverpool this weekend, replacing Samantha Mumba, who will now not be able to perform at the festival due to difficulty with travel from the US. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the Caribbean foursome […]