Open Run, Victoria Palace Theatre, 8 Victoria St. Astounding sets and configuration; magnificent play about a boy from a mining town who pursues his ballet career in spite of the discomfort this causes his father, and brother; set against the political backdrop of local community solidarity of the coal miners during the Thatcher years.

Ongoing at BFI Southbank, screenings of over 2000 classic and contemporary films every year, over 1000 hours of free film and TV in the Mediatheque, plus two restaurant/bars. The BFI National Archive holds a magnificent collection of film and television, from the birth of cinema to today; also posters, images, publicity material, original scripts, letters and other artifacts.

Full spectrum of Off West End theatres; heady darkness, dangerous passion of little powerhouses above a pub, under a railway bridge, in a disused warehouse, a butcher's shop or a shopping centre. Taking risks to push boundaries of live performance, entertaining intellects, stretching imaginations -breeding grounds for new talent, new ideas to feed, reinvent, reinvigorate our culture.

Free online plays every Thursday on Youtube at 7pm UK time, and then on-demand for a week.

Thursdays 11pm-4am at Heaven, Under the Arches, off Villiers St, Charing Cross. Fun with or without your clothes on. Anyone can enter the strip contest and let it all hang out! Mixed, mostly gay crowd. Mostly guys get on stage and take off all their clothes, hoping to win the £100 cash prize. Email pornidol@g-a-y.co.uk to enter a future contest.

Fridays, 8pm-5am at Eagle London. Powered by SCRUFF! - getting ready to have a blast and dance all night to beats by DJs Nic Fisher, Louis Lennon + Sugarbear along with the hottest SCRUFFy men of London! An international weekly Friday night party for the gay men of London, São Paulo and Amsterdam. WOOF!

Friday night/ Saturday morning, 11pm-4am, at Heaven. Three rooms of music: Main Floor - 70s & 80s; Star Bar - 90s; The Island & Pop Room - 00s.  Travel "the G-A-Y Tardis" through four decades - just by going from one room to another.

Third Fridays, 11pm-4am. The hottest UK men's underwear/sports kit party for like-minded people w/ no attitude up for a sexy fun time: underwear, sports kit or naked. Chillout area sex permitted + porn by UK Hotjocks + Justfor.fans on the large screen. Performers + the hottest GoGo boys. DJ TBA. Free entry to 4am A:M afterhours (mixed/ no full nudity event).

Every FRIDAY night/ SATURDAY morning 1-10am weekly dance club with stripped-down underground vibe; 2 rooms, different musics - London’s longest running after-hours party. An 18+ event.

Every Friday night/Saturday morning, 1-11am, at Union, Vauxhall. Saturday morning afterhours dance club, gay and straight scene. No pop, no commercial dance music, just cutting-edge underground tech house and techno. Special guest DJs include: Pagano, Jason Chance and Smokin Jo. £10 admission; £8 before 6am and members. WRONG! operates a strict gay majority door policy.

Saturdays, 10pm-5am, usually at Metropolis, 234 Cambridge Heath Rd. Naughty late-night disco where anything goes; little sister of the infamous Club Collective, Sink the Pink; combining Disco Music with Pole Dancing Drag Queens - the late night dirty disco of East London. Resident DJs include: Luke Solomon, Guy Williams, HiFi Sean + Jonjo Jury plus guests Artwork, Smoking Jo + 2 Bears.

Saturdays, 10pm-1am (or 3am), every month or so, at The Victoria, The Chateau or Moth Club. Pulp/ faggy indie/ post punk/ new wave for beatniks, dirtbags and lumberjacks. Live go-gos The Actionettes! DJs Seductive Barry + Pencil Skirt playing stuff like: Ash. Billy Idol. Bowie. The B-52s. The Cure. Dandy Warhols. Elastica. Franz Ferdinand. Garbage Hole. The Hives. Iggy Pop. Kate Bush....

Every Saturday, 10pm-5am at Bunker. We all have a little bit of kink somewhere inside.... London’s kinkiest, most XXXTREME hardcore multi fetish party with the strictest dresscode: Leather / Rubber / Kinky Sportgear / Jocks / Underwear / Skinheads / Uniform / Naked. See new dates when the clubs reopen.

Every FIRST SATURDAY of each month, 10pm-3am. Free Fun Bolly-Pop Dance Class 10pm. A Spin Around the World since 1995: Bollywood, Bhangra, Arabic + Dancefloor Delights! Eastern flavours/ Western classics. Jason Kwan performance. DJs Ritu + Dilz fly you around the world in 80 tunes. Sizzling Bollywood Indian Glitter, Bhangra, Arabic, RnB! See new dates as the clubs reopen.

Saturdays, 11pm-5am at Heaven Under the Arches, off Villiers Street, Charing Cross. The UK's biggest weekly gay party, wide range of music, younger dance crowd, world class pop act performances. Several dance areas play a wide range of music: the best in 80s & 90s pop music, Electro House, commercial dance and R&B. New releases and special events and guest performers.

Saturday nights/ Sunday mornings 4am-12pm. Eclectic 18+ afterhours crowd. Two rooms of Funky, Tech House, Vocal House + Circuit by resident DJs + guests.

Every Sunday 2-6pm and Wednesday 5pm-12am at Bunker. Totally naked nights footwear only. All kinds of 18+ men, climate controlled, heated smokers' terrace, darkroom, maze, glory holes, cheap beer, videos/ horny visuals. Saturdays 7pm-4am BUFF CRUIZE

Every Sunday 2-7pm at The Light Box in Parry St, Vauxhall followed by NBN, 7-10pm at Mirrored Arch (Lightbox Entrance), 6A South Lambeth Place. The best day of the week. Party starts at 2pm with SBN the largest naked party in Europe. Stark bollock naked - apart from foot wear. See more JamieHP events such as Boys+Sirs, Total Fekkin Nude, Horse Fair, Pool Party and virtual events at:

Every Sunday, 3pm-midnight, at RVT, 372 Kennington Lane. Features world-class cabaret line-up on alternating weeks, CHARLIE HIDES TV, LA VOIX, MYRA DUBOIS, TOPSIE REDFERN plus guests. Weekly showtime 5.30pm. Dance, schmooze and cruise to commercial dance and pop music with 3 DJs immediately after the cabaret. Entry £4 members, £5 non-members.

Every Sunday, 5pm-1am. MEN ONLY cruising, socialising, relaxing and more cruising fetish venue with videos play areas, equipment, private cabins, maze, gloryholes, enclosed smoking area and cheap bar prices! DRESSCODE: SHORTS, SINGLETS, JOCKS or NAKED!

Sundays, 8pm-3am at Eagle London. Resident DJs: Jim Stanton, James Hillard, Luke Howard and Severino, transform the Eagle London dancefloor with their inimitable selection of disco classics, unexpected gems and sublime rarities. A magical night of music and a eclectic mix of beautiful people. Special guests visit from all over the world.

Every Monday night, 11pm-5:30am, at Heaven, The Arches. Presenting some of UK's leading DJs, upfront and uplifting vocal progressive house, the coolest hip hop & RnB via Top 40 pop, guilty pleasures, relaxing lounge bar, chill out games arcade. POPCORN operates a strict EVERYONE WELCOME door policy. See website for weekly DJ lineups, and special theme events:

Every Tuesday, 5-10pm at Bunker Bar, 217 City Rd, Shoreditch. Labyrinth of small rooms, booths for private sessions, maze, video room, dark room for frisky moments -- perfect for spanking and other punishment! Smokers area, discrete entrance. Wear anything you want. Army, leather, rubber, uniform, industrial or as you are. No dress code!

Every third Wednesday 6-10pm Jack-Off (Wank) club: hands only playspace limited to 100 people per event! Dresscode: naked, shorts, gymwear, jocks or Speedos (by the end of the evening most lads are stripped off). Spurt returns to Bunker in new time slot: first Saturdays 8pm-Midnight - naked/fetish or whatever - Jack off, grope and/or shag. With g-holes/ maze/ darkroom/ booths.

Productions of An Indian Abroad, Bathhouse The Musical, For Queen and Country, Illusions of Liberty, Iolanthe, Jew…ish, Naked Boys Singing, No Strings Attached, Queer Lady M, and That’s Entertainment with Thelma Ruby at 95, have been cancelled. Aida, scheduled for May 6 - June 6 will be postponed until October - dates TBA. See:

July 3-5, 2020. FRI: 5pm Social Media for Activists w/ Aaron Carty; 7pm Busy Being Black w/ Dr. Eddie Bruce Jones; 10pm Hungama East London Bollywood gay hip-hop club night. SAT: 7pm Conversation: Roots of our movement w/ Lady Phyll + Kuchenga; 9pm Evening w/ The Cocoa Butter Club. SUN: 2pm An Encounter to Ground, Uplift + Grow; 5pm Love and Rage w/ Lama Rod Owens, and Char Bailey.

July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2020, 10pm -1am. Gay fetish guys get together to party online! Cruise in gear or wear nothing at all. Gay video stars perform live in XXX show pushing all boundaries in the fetish scene, w/ sexy sounds + dirty beats all night. Dress code: leather, rubber, latex, denim, uniform, army, construction, sports, jock strap, underwear, naked. Guests: Max Duran, Roni Yarz.

July 4-6, 2020, 11am-1am. Taking bookings for tables all day. The fabulous drag performers won’t be back just yet, but they’ll be serving up vegan delights from Essential Vegan Cafe plus Superstore cocktails and coffees. Extra health and safety measures will be in place, including maximum 6 per table. Read website T&Cs for full info:

July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2020, 8pm-2am. Jamie HP/ TFN men-only internet take-over party: Saturday night’s busiest UK party for guys in the buff. Men get to know other men much like themselvesn in series of meeting points and play spaces. Your video camera must be turned on - be ready for TFN Naked before you attend. Messages can be sent by chat. Event ticket £1.99. Next: Aug 1st.

July 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020. With video camera turned on, leave your clothes on the floor to join hundreds of online users for the busiest UK naked club. Sexy sounds/ dirty beats by DJ Aamyko. 5pm LIVE online show w/ surprise guests. DJ Aamyko. Guys in underwear join in 5pm. Meet guys by video messaging. Stay connected wherever there is internet. Create a photo profile + lose the clothes.

July 13 - August 23, 2020. 1960s to today, complex, sometimes contradictory representations of masculinity. Works of over 50 artists, photographers and filmmakers including Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Catherine Opie. Themes include power, patriarchy, queer identity, female perceptions of men, hypermasculine stereotypes, tenderness and the family.

August 30, 2020, 12:15-5pm, Westminster Millennium Pier. BEEFMINCE takes to the waves aboard The Jewel of London - sail away on this annual tradition, mincing down the Thames with seamen, burly captains and cabin boys on board for an afternoon of fun. BEARS AHOY! A party boat w/ two large outside decks, sunroof, viewing gallery, superb sound system with DJs Silverhook + Cactushead.

September 25, 2020, 10pm-4am. The Klub Kids are super excited to announce an exciting mini tour with fan favourite from RPDR S12 Rock M Sakura and Dragula S2 drag monster ERIKA KLASH. Two fierce queens join forces for a unique drag show. FREE entry to Circa the Club after party w/ best London party DJs + Drag hosts. 9pm VIP M+G. 10pm GENERAL DOORS. 11pm SHOWTIME. 1-4am AFTER PARTY.

October 7-18, 2020, Twelve days of the best new films from around the world; strong/ eclectic programs of feature films, shorts, artists' film, video/ experimental work, discussions, special events. BFI Flare, Documentary, Experimenta, LFF CONNECTS, Sight/ Sound Special Presentations. See this past year's program and upcoming events:

Mid-October, 2020 (TBC), 8:30-10:15pm. Annual event combines the naughtiness of burlesque with West End razzle dazzle, featuring hottest performers currently appearing in the West End. Evening based on the original concept BROADWAY BARES by legendary Broadway/ West End director/ choreographer Jerry Mitchell to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. Afterparty until 2am.

November 17, 2020 - January 10, 2021. Dick may not be straight but he’s pointing in the right direction. Called to London by the enormous dong of Big Ben, country boy Richard Whittington seeks fun, fame and fortune. Where to live? Who to hang with? What’s with all the brunches? Dick soon plunges into a great adventure that will make his name! A Dick on everyone’s lips.

November - December, 2020 (TBC). Annual 10-day Festival of gala premieres, retrospectives, Q+As w/ filmmakers, workshops, audience voting, and Best of the Festival screening. Aims to dispel popular misconception that animation is just cartoons for kids; screening a broad range of intelligent, entertaining, provocative current films from around the world.

January through March, 2021. Eight-week annual arts festival. Past year saw over 350 shows across a festival of events in Waterloo, attracting over 70,000 people to sixteen venues, with bars, food and plenty of surprises. Committed to being the fairest platform in London for artists to present innovative, daring work - see:

Mid-March, 2021. Twelve days of the best in new queer cinema each year from around the world. Opening and closing night, and the Accenture gala. See past year program, plus theme, schedules and venues for 2021 at website as announced:

Mid-May, 2021 (TBC), at The Apple Tree London, 45 Mount Pleasant. All day/ all night festival for queer womxn and non-binary peoples - billed as the biggest qweer festival in London - w/ qweer artists and performers for spoken word, debate, discussion, workshops, art and performance throughout the day + qweer performers and musicians throughout the night, with DJs until 1am.

June 5, 2021, noon-10pm, Brockwell Park Gardens. The most fabulous of all the festivals, Mighty Hoopla is a queer pop focused celebration of trash, camp + drag! -The GUARDIAN. Free-spirited, relaxed, well organised... with tons of glitter and confetti, Mighty Hoopla is a triumph for London's festival scene. -ATTITUDE. Chaka Khan, Tove Lo, All Saints, Kate Nash.

Late June, 2021, 12-3:30pm, dates TBA. Saturday Parade and main events. London's biggest one-day event, one of the world’s biggest LGBT celebrations. Typically over 750,000 people at Pride, 30,000 in the Parade. Sunday to Sunday Pride Festival, showcasing London’s varied LGBT+ cultural scene.