PRIDE
IN THE SQUARE MILE
London Pride 2024
The largest Pride event in the city, including parades, city-wide celebrations, and community.
A Flash of Pride - a reading
Celebrate stories that build worlds in 100 words—featuring new writers from the Gay Authors Workshop anthology, “FLASH DANCES”.
Classical Pride: My Beloved Man
My Beloved Man – a celebration by the Fourth Choir, London’s LGBTQ+ classical choir, of the love affair between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.
Classical Pride: A Proud Future
A Proud Future features the star performers and composers from the LGBTQ+ student bodies of London’s conservatoires.
Classical Pride: Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerilla
Classical Pride presents Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerilla, a free performance in the Level G foyer with an ensemble put together by violist Stephen Upshaw.
Classical Pride: LSO with Oliver Zeffman & Nick Grimshaw
The culmination of 2024’s Classical Pride, the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Oliver Zeffman celebrate LGBTQ+ classical music in this diverse programme presented by Nick Grimshaw.
YOU BELONG IN THE CITY: Pride Kick-Off Party and Private View
Pre-pride party with Soufiane Ababri private view, welcome drink upon arrival, and entertainment from Drag Rockstar, ENVY! All profits in aid of the Albert Kennedy Trust.
History Talk: The Questioning of Eleanor Rykener
A talk hosted at the London Metropolitan Archives that dives into the oldest document in the collection that speaks directly to LGBTQ+ history
History Talk: The Questioning of Eleanor Rykener
A talk hosted at the London Metropolitan Archives that dives into the oldest document in the collection that speaks directly to LGBTQ+ history
Drag Bingo Party
Bring your besties, bring your date, bring your office mates- it's a raucous night of fun, bingo, drag performances, DJs and outrageous campery with something for everyone.
Queer History Walking Tour - Culture Mile
Exploring the winding streets of this unique corner of The City of London, we discover gay bars from the 1700’s, scandalous ancient cruising grounds, the secrets of queer life in Roman times, plus the many contributions the LGBTQ+ community make to the contemporary city today.
EC BID PRIDE Walking Tour
Join City of London Guide Warren Forsyth to explore 2,000 years of LGBT+ history in an hour. From the same sex love of Roman Emperors and Royalty we celebrate how our community has overcome legal prejudice, embraced life on land and at sea and risen to the highest levels within the City of London
Queer 80s Cinema: Coming Out (15*) + ScreenTalk with actor Dirk Kummer
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Tech(ish) Queer Women & Friends
Come join us for a fun and casual evening filled with tech talk, networking, and connections!
Breaking the Mould: Fighting With Pride
Join Kentro Capital in the Nexus Building on June 26th for an inspiring brunch event with Caroline Paige MBE!
Taylor Swift Bottomless Drag Brunch
Pride Drag Brunch is back but this time with a Taylor Swift twist! Join us for an afternoon of non-stop Taylor Swift bangers, 90 minutes of bottomless bubbles, high tech mini golf, delicious brunch dishes, and yes, of course, a Swiftie lip sync for your life with prizes up for grabs
Queer 80s Cinema: Quest for Love (15*) + introduction by Tara Brown
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Queer 80s Cinema: Law of Desire (18) + Introduction by actor Rebecca Root
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Interbank networking and Pride Celebration
InterBank professional networking events offer an opportunity to meet and socialise with other LGBT+ people working within financial services and professional services, in an informal business environment.
Guildhall Pride 2024
City of London’s main pride event, involving a flag raising ceremony, reception, and celebration of the City of London community.
Queer 80s Cinema: Ashik Kerib (PG) + introduction by Michael Brooke
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Bringing Your Authentic Proud Self to Work
Hosted by HAYS, this special event in celebration of Pride Month, “Bringing Your Authentic Proud Self to Work,” is in partnership with the City of London Corporation. This event is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where LGBTQIA+ employees are empowered to be their true selves.
Libraries and LGBTQIA+ - a talk by LC Chung
A journey through the history of LGBTQIA+ representation in libraries, addressing the sometimes problematic subject headings and practices of the past.
Queer 80s Cinema: Tongues Untied (18*) + introduction by Rikki Beadle-Blair and live poetry
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Queer 80s Cinema: Radical Defiance - Queer Brazilian Super-8 Shorts 1982-3 (18*) + introduction by QueerGarden
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Queer History of Fleet Street Walking Tour
Join us to celebrate Pride Month 2024 and explore the Queer history of Fleet Street in this walking tour with guide Martin Murtagh
The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History
Gresham College are hosting a lecture on Queer History, exploring the world of the second Bloomsbury generation, delving into the intricacies of being young and queer in the 1920s, and how their open way of living and loving is still relevant to our present day.
Queer 80s Cinema: The Farewell (15*) + introduction by Mekella Broomberg
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Pride Drag Brunch
Pride Drag Brunch is back for an afternoon of live music, entertainment, 90 minutes of bottomless bubbles, high tech mini golf, delicious brunch dishes and prizes up for grabs
Queer 80s Cinema: Beyond Gravity and other Gay Shorts from New Zealand (15*) + introduction by Daniel Theophanous
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
Queer 80s Cinema: Beautiful Mystery (18*) + introduction by Tony Rayns
Queer 80s cinema nights hosted at the Barbican to celebrate pride month
St Anne's Pride Service
Pride Service at St. Mary at Hill Church for all those who live, work, and visit London including sermon, reception, and a performance by the London Gay Men’s Choir.
Queer History Walking Tour - Culture Mile (Copy)
Exploring the winding streets of this unique corner of The City of London, we discover gay bars from the 1700’s, scandalous ancient cruising grounds, the secrets of queer life in Roman times, plus the many contributions the LGBTQ+ community make to the contemporary city today.
Queer 80s Cinema: Freak Orlando (18*) + ScreenTalk with Ulrike Ottinger
Ulrike Ottinger’s unforgettably bold and bizarre take on Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing hero has to be seen to be believed.
Years before Sally Potter’s Orlando and Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography came queer icon Ulrike Ottinger’s wild, sprawling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing time traveller, Orlando, played by cult actor Magdalena Montezuma. Alongside residents of so-called ‘Freak City’, Orlando bounces from a modern department store to the Middle Ages to the Spanish Inquisition, encountering weird and wonderful characters on the way.
The film came at the beginning of a wave of queer cinema works made in the last decade of West Germany’s existence. Ottinger’s work with a variety of unconventional actors, the depiction of disabilities and the diversity of the human form, continues to be provocative to this day. It invites us to challenge our own ways of thinking about Queerness and the way we live and conceive it.
Walking Tours: From Prejudice to Pride - throughout June
Free walking tours in partnership with City of London Guides throughout June, uncovering the LGBTQ+ history of the Square Mile