Through A Queer Lens

On an extremely hot day, we made our way to the Manchester Jewish Museum on Cheetham Hill Road and enjoyed Shorbat Adas (Lentil Soup), bagels from the Bagel Bar and plenty of juices and cordials.

Sue, the Chief Executive Officer, gave an introductory talk about the temporary exhibition Through A Queer Lens – Stories of LGBTQ+ Jews.

The exhibition is a series of powerful photographic portraits and personal stories originally developed by Jewish Museum London.

First exhibited in 2016, the project was created through a unique collaboration between Black queer photographer Ajamu and trans activist and heritage manager Surat-Shaan Knan. Building on the landmark Rainbow Jews project, which documented LGBTQ+ Jewish history across the UK, the exhibition celebrates the richness, diversity and resilience of queer Jewish life.

Bringing these national stories to Manchester, the museum has expanded the exhibition through a local lens, sharing new stories from LGBTQ+ Jewish people with connections to the city – Clem Herman, Simon Asher, Stacie Cohen, Norman Goodman, Jo Lewis and Stephen Miller.

Further contributions are invited throughout the exhibition period, as part of the gallery offers visitors the opportunity to share their own stories, experiences and perspectives, helping to reflect on gaps in LGBTQ+ representation within the museum’s collection and to expand and enrich it for the future.

More photos can be seen here.

Thursday, 2 July – 6.00pm – 7.00pm – Author Event: Who’s The Real Dad?

House of Books & Friends, 81 King Street, Manchester M2 4AH

A candid, humorous and moving account of how two men and their surrogate came together to make a family.

Exploring the long-term impact of growing up under Section 28, changing social attitudes, and the expanding possibilities for LGBTQ+ parents, Who’s the Real Dad? demystifies the surrogacy process and offers a fresh perspective on what family really means in the twenty-first century.

Tickets (£5 ticket only / £20 ticket and book / limited amount of complimentary tickets for this event for anyone who needs it. Please contact bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com or call 07597 365 380).

Book here.

Upcoming Pride Events

Friday, 26 June – Sunday, 28 June – Sparkle Weekend

From Friday 26 – Sunday 28 June 2026, Sparkle Weekend returns to Manchester’s Gay Village, where it celebrates its 21st year as the UK’s longest running celebration of trans and gender diverse life, welcoming thousands of visitors for a weekend of community, culture, and visibility.

Introduction of Paid Ticketing

Sparkle Charity has made the decision to introduce paid tickets for 2026. Ticket purchase link: spkl.uk/tickets

Upcoming Prides:

Macclesfield Pride (4 July)

Oldham Pride (11 July)

Weaste Pride (11 July)

Veteran’s Pride (24 July)

Liverpool Pride (25 July)

Stockport Pride (26 July)

Trans Pride Manchester (1 August)

True Pride (1 August)

Prestwich Pride (6-9 August)

Wigan Pride (8 August)

Levenshulme Pride (14-16 August)

Manchester Village Pride (28-31 August)

Didsbury Pride (30 August)

Chorlton Pride (12 September)

Withington Pride (19 September)

True Pride

This summer, TRUE PRIDE arrives in Manchester as an exciting new festival experience unlike any other, taking over Hidden on Saturday 1 August 2026. 

Exclusively queer-curated, the inaugural event has been created to place queer artists, voices and audiences firmly at its heart, offering a bold, authentic and fully representative celebration of LGBTQI+ creativity, culture and community.

The headliners deliver three powerhouse queer voices: Planningtorock‘s visionary trans electronic experimentation, jasmine.4.t‘s emotionally charged transfemme songwriting, viral homo cult band The Irrepressibles, with their symphonic, indie-punk-rock, plus Canada’s Joel Gibb (The Hidden Cameras), with intimate, guitar-driven queer anthems alongside the festival’s in-house string quartet.

Spanning day into night, TRUE PRIDE will bring together live music, DJs, comedy, talks, film, wellness, and performance across multiple spaces, from daytime arts and film programming to late-night club culture across rooms and floors.The Acoustic Stage will feature performers from Queer as F*ck, Manchester’s celebrated grassroots open mic platform dedicated exclusively to LGBTQ+ artists, plus a host of other performers. From midnight to 2.00am, the middle floor will host a DILF takeover, with DILF DJs Dan Louder and Nick Charles playing exclusively queer artists and tracks featuring queer vocalists.

Founded and curated by a team of LGBTQ+ curators, including Jamie Irrepressible, with Manchester-based creatives DJ Bollibubbles, DJ Sandra D, Liam Walsh and Sally McFerran, TRUE PRIDE responds to the ongoing underrepresentation of queer artists in mainstream Pride programming.

Born from frustration, anger and love, TRUE PRIDE is a call to reclaim Pride as a space where LGBTQI+ people are centred, visible and represented through music, art, performance and culture.

Artists confirmed for this announcement include Planningtorock, jasmine.4.t, The Irrepressibles, Joel Gibb (The Hidden Cameras), DJ Bollibubbles, Leo Chadburn, DJ Sandra D, Kerry Leigh, Ollie Becker, Run Remedy, Alabaster Queen, Queer as F**k, DILF DJs Dan Louder and Nick Charles, and Jamie Irrepressible (PA/DJ set), with further artists to be announced.

TRUE PRIDE takes place at Hidden, 16–18 Mary Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M3 1NH. The festival is presented by Of Naked Design and is strictly for ages 18 and over.

Tickets are on sale now via DICE. Early Bird tickets are priced at £22.71 for students, disabled people and unemployed attendees, and £28.38 for General Admission.

Media enquiries: liam@redalertpr.com and alison@redalertpr.com (Red Alert PR, Comms & Events)

For more information: truepride2026@gmail.com

Ticket links: DICE or eventbrite

Alan Turing

Born	Alan Mathison Turing 23 June 1912 Maida Vale, London
Died	7 June 1954 (aged 41) Wilmslow, Cheshire

Turing left an extensive legacy in mathematics and computing which has become widely recognised with statues and many things named after him, including an annual award for computing innovation.

His portrait appears on the Bank of England £50 note, first released on 23 June 2021 to coincide with his birthday.

The audience vote in a 2019 BBC series named Turing the greatest scientist of the 20th century.

Gallup Poll’s recent data

Gallup has been asking people around the world, “Is the city or area where you live a good place or not a good place to live for gay or lesbian people?” since 2006, meaning they now have 20 years of data to look at.

Currently, 40% of people say their area is a good place, while 44% say it’s not. This is a significant improvement over the 23% who said that their area was a good place in 2006 and the 53% who said it was not.

To be clear, this question isn’t an exact statistic measuring how many LGBT+ people are safe worldwide. First, mostly cishet people were surveyed because they’re just the vast majority of the population, and they are the people who are least likely to know what conditions LGBT+ people are living under. Second, the question focused just on “gay or lesbian people,” which excludes a large part of the community, although it’s unclear how aware straight people would be of that fact.

Last, it’s not clear what “a good place” even means in this context. Obviously, it doesn’t mean “gay and lesbian people are treated just as well or better than straight people” since that’s true nowhere in the world. So, at best, the question is asking if the discrimination and oppression gay people face in one’s locality is somewhat less than what gay people face elsewhere, based on the respondents’ imagination of what it’s like to be gay wherever they live.

More likely, though, respondents were just answering based on whether they personally are OK with having gay people in their area. So this poll can offer some insight into broad trends, but don’t take it too literally.

Gallup showed poll results separated by countries that have legalised marriage equality and those that haven’t. The countries that legalised it saw a significant increase in the percentage of people saying their locality is a “good place” from 2006 to 2015 (39% to 73%), while the remaining countries saw some growth in the period after that (16% to 26%).

It’s also notable that Gallup is not legally allowed to ask this question in some countries. Several countries banned either homosexuality or “LGBTQ+ propaganda” in the 2020s or increased the penalties for it, which means that the stagnation is likely worse than what is seen here. Also, the 2020 results are likely skewed because COVID prevented Gallup from conducting in-person interviews and from surveying certain countries altogether.

Section 28 Petition Passes 10,000 Signatures

The petition could see the Government acknowledge the harms of the Thatcher-era law.

A petition calling for a public inquiry into the devastating impacts of Section 28 on LGBT+ people has passed 10,000 signatures, meaning the Government must respond to it. 

Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988) was a Thatcher-era law which banned the “promotion” of LGBT+ identities in schools and by local authorities for more than two decades. It was eventually repealed in 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in England and Wales. However, a hangover from this discriminatory legislation meant for many years after educators did not feel they could talk about LGBT+ identities in the classroom, denying countless young people vital information and continuing an environment of isolation.  

The petition was published on the UK Government’s official petition platform on 24 March and will run for six months until 24 September. It achieved 10,000 signatures on 12 June and currently has more than 17,750 signatures.

When a petition on the platform achieves more than 10,000 signatures the Government must issue a response; if a petition receives more than 100,000 signatures by its end date then it will also be debated in Parliament.

The campaign has been supported by big names like Boy George and Russell Tovey.

You can sign the Petition here.

It’s Pride Season: Play the Rainbow Lottery and support Out In The City

The Rainbow Lottery is the UK’s first and only lottery supporting LGBT+ good causes.

Welcome to the Rainbow Lottery, the exciting weekly lottery that raises money for over 200 LGBT+ good causes totally, openly and exclusively.

The hope is to make a difference to good causes so they can carry on their vital work – which helps us all. Play the lottery, support the community – it’s fun, it’s simple and everybody wins!

How the lottery works:

• £1 per ticket – that’s right, unlike many other lotteries, the lottery tickets are only £1 per week.

• For every ticket you play, 80% goes to good causes and prizes.

£25,000 jackpot prize

• Match all 6 numbers and you win the JACKPOT! There are also prizes of £2000, £250, £25 and 3 free tickets for following week.

• Every month there is a Super Draw. June’s Super Draw is a £1,000 Last-Minute Getaway (or £1,000 cash alternative or plant 1,000 trees).

Buy tickets here.

Cats

A person who doesn’t want to be around people is an Introvert.

A person who likes to be around people is an Extrovert.

But I like to be around cats.

Does that make me a Purrvert?

Blue John Mine and Eyam

Thirty five of us travelled by coach from Manchester to the Blue John Mine in Derbyshire and then on to the village of Eyam.

Blue John (also known as Derbyshire Spar) is a semi-precious mineral, a rare form of fluorite with bands of a purple-blue or yellowish colour. The name may have come from the french “bleu-jaune” (blue-yellow).  

In the United Kingdom it is found only at Blue John Cavern and Treak Cliff Cavern at Castleton in Derbyshire and is rarer than diamonds.

During the 19th century, it was mined for its ornamental value, and mining continues on a small scale.

Twenty four of us ventured down the mine – altogether there are 245 steps and holding on to the handrail was essential as the floor could be slippery. There was only one way in and out! Our guide, Chris, was excellent and explained in detail everything there is to know about Blue John.

We then jumped back on the coach to visit the Eyam Tea Rooms for lunch. Eyam’s main claim to fame is the story of how the village chose to go into isolation so as to prevent infection spreading after bubonic plague was discovered there in 1665.

In the later 20th century, the village’s sources of livelihood largely disappeared. The local economy now relies on the tourist trade, with Eyam being promoted as “the plague village”.

There are lots of photos to see here.

Bridgewater Hall Concerts

We are extremely grateful to the Bridgewater Hall for the Community Members Scheme. During the last season from September 2025 to June 2026 the scheme has enabled 67 different people from Out In The City to attend 36 free concerts.

BBC Philharmonic Series 26/27

This year each of the following concerts are recorded and broadcast across the nation on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 3. In a world that is increasingly divided, it’s quite something that 2,000 people can gather in a room – joined by millions more over the airwaves – and experience the power of live music together.

The season highlights include:

Saturday 19 September: Sibelius ‘Symphony No 5’
(Season opening concert) Chief Conductor John Storgårds and the epic sounds of the Bridgewater Hall organ – James McVinnie performs Gabriella Smith’s ‘Breathing Forests’, followed by Sibelius’s ‘Symphony No 5’.

Friday 25 September: Brahms Reqiuem
Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier leads the Orchestra through Brahms’s enduringly cathartic ‘A German Requiem’. 

Saturday 10 October: Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’
Yoel Gamzou returns to the Philharmonic to conduct Tchaikovsky’s ultimate symphony.

Saturday 6 February: Storgårds conducts Shostakovich
Storgårds continues his critically-acclaimed journey through Shostakovich’s symphonies, this time with ‘Leningrad’ – the single most enduring musical monument to resistance to Nazi invasion.

Saturday 6 March: Walton ‘Symphony No 1’
A UK premiere from this season’s Composer in Residence, Cassandra Miller, alongside Walton’s towering First Symphony.

International Concert Series 26/27

The Bridgewater Hall’s much-loved International Concert Series also returns this season – bringing some of the world’s finest musicians and orchestras direct to Manchester.

Beethoven is a focus in 2027, exactly 200 years after the death of this towering figure. Benjamin Grosvenor joins Paavo Järvi and the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto (20 February, 3.00pm); the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine take on the thrilling Seventh Symphony (1 March); Angela Hewitt dedicates an evening to Beethoven’s piano sonatas (20 May); and Salford’s very own BBC Philharmonic are joined by the CBSO Chorus for the vast Symphony No 9 and its unforgettable ‘Ode to Joy’ (13 March).

That’s the second of two BBC Philharmonic concerts this season, and they’ll be performing another epic in the first – Strauss’s colossal ‘Alpine Symphony’ (4 December).

Conductor John Wilson brings his stellar Sinfonia of London to Manchester for Rachmaninoff, Walton and Dukas (28 February, 3.00pm), while the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined by the brilliant violinist Viktoria Mullova (6 June, 3.00pm).

Two of Germany’s finest orchestras visit in 2026, each performing a Brahms masterpiece. The Stuttgart Philharmonic take on the Third Symphony (20 November), a concert that also features Jeneba Kanneh-Mason playing Mozart. The NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, meanwhile, perform the symphony that followed: Brahms’s magnificent Fourth (12 October).

The season opens just as The Bridgewater Hall celebrates its 30th birthday – when they are delighted to welcome back Harry Christophers and his world-class choir The Sixteen (29 September).

The season ends with a journey back to the salon concerts that were so popular in 18th-century Vienna and 19th-century Paris, brought to us by trumpeter Matilda Lloyd and the Goldmund Quartet (24 July).

The concerts – free of charge – will be advertised on a monthly basis from September 2026 under “Next Outings” on our website. So keep an eye out – https://outinthecity.org/next-outings/

Film: Girlfriends (Cantonese – Subtitled)

Girlfriends, a sapphic love story, arrives in UK cinemas from 19 June!

Through three love stories, we witness a woman’s growth. At 17, she’s naive and inexperienced. At 22, she’s hesitant and lacks courage. At 34, she has matured and grown through life’s challenges. Her journey shows that love can be painful, but it’s also worth fighting for.

Venue: Odeon Manchester Great Northern (release date 19 June)

Time: 5.45pm – 7.20pm

Price: £6.50 – £7.50.

Also at Vue Manchester Printworks (19 – 25 June), The Light, Stockport (21 June & 24 June) and The Light, Bolton (19 – 25 June) and other venues. Please check websites for details.

Out On The Radio

Norman and Tony present a radio show – “Out On The Radio” – aired on the first Tuesday of each month from 2.00pm to 3.00pm on ALL fm 96.9 aimed at older members of the LGBT+ communities. It is also uploaded to Mixcloud so you can “listen later”. 

The link to the latest show is: https://www.mixcloud.com/allfm969/out-on-the-radio-tuesday-02-june-2026/

To listen to previous shows, go to: https://www.mixcloud.com/home/for-you/ (search for – Out on the Radio).

ALL fm is based in Levenshulme Old Library in Manchester and is a community radio station featuring a wide variety of shows. Our show features an eclectic mix of music and the occasional guest. You will hear some familiar songs like Jim Reeves “I Love You Because” and Elkie Brooks “Pearl’s a Singer” alongside obscure tracks from Wrabel, Le Gateau Chocolat and Nazamba.

Listen in … give it a try. We are sure you will enjoy.

Loneliness Awareness Week

Loneliness Awareness Week 2026 takes place from 15 – 21 June.

Hosted by the Marmalade Trust, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the campaign, featuring the theme “Giving Loneliness a Voice”.

The goal is to reduce the stigma around loneliness by encouraging open conversations and sharing personal stories.

Ageing Without Limits Day

We organised a party for Ageing Without Limits Day with some great entertainment, a raffle and buffet to celebrate ageing and to challenge ageism.

Thanks to Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited and all those who donated raffle prizes, Jim on reception, Andi, Ken, Norman and Peter for help in the kitchen, David for selling raffle tickets, and all the brilliant acts – Norman, Andi, Jennifer and Wolf.

Tony read out a poem by Alyson Malach:

Salford Pink Picnic

Thanks to AutoTrader for sponsoring a stand with Proud 2 B Parents at Salford Pride’s Pink Picnic. It was the 15th anniversary.

Bury LGBTQI+ History Walk

Saturday, 20 June – 2.00pm – 3.30pm

Meet at Victoria Wood Statue, Library Gardens, Manchester Road, Bury BL9 0DF

Discover Bury’s LGBTQI+ past and a great way to connect, share and celebrate together.

Tour is free – but donations welcome – no need to book.

Happy Straight Pride Month! Wait … let me double check my notes

It’s finally that time of year, when we celebrate “Straight Pride!” Frankly, it’s about time. For centuries, heterosexual people have been oppressed, marginalised, and forced to live in the shadows of a ruthlessly queer-dominated world. It’s time we address this glaring inequality and finally celebrate the joy, the triumph and the beautifully beige aesthetic of being straight.

First, let’s brush up on our straight history. Even before the 1960s, heterosexual people were routinely targeted, harassed and arrested just for holding hands in public.

Hold on, my editor is whispering in my ear. Correction: That was actually homosexual people. My mistake! But I’m sure if we dig deep enough into the archives, we’ll find a time when straight people were persecuted for their orientation. No? Nothing in the database?

Well, no matter! Straight people should still be able to celebrate the brave act of being exactly what society expects them to be. What’s not to celebrate? Imagine the sheer courage it takes to embrace an attraction to the opposite sex without a single fear of societal retaliation. It’s not like heterosexuality has been the default setting since, well, the dawn of human civilisation. They deserve a parade and a flag!

The big straight coming out

I’ll never forget the day my sister finally came out to our parents. Lord, what an emotional roller coaster. She had confided in me weeks prior, trembling as she asked if Mum and Dad would still love her. I kept reassuring her: “It’s going to be okay. They’re progressive. They’ll accept you.”

When the moment arrived, she sat on the couch, clutching a shredded tissue in her shaking hands, took a deep breath, and confessed that she was … straight. Mum immediately burst into tears. Dad gasped. But they both jumped up to embrace her, whispering, “No matter what the outside world thinks, you are our baby, and you are perfectly, statistically normal.” I was beaming with pride.

The fight for representation

It’s just exhausting seeing how lopsided our culture is in favour of the LGBT+ community. Those poor, sweet straights are practically invisible. You never see them in movies, and they are certainly never depicted as representing the “normal” way of living. When was the last time you saw a commercial featuring a man and a woman? Or a sitcom centred around a husband and wife? Almost never!

It’s completely unfair that straight people don’t have a designated month to look at a billboard and think, “Wow, it’s okay to be me.”

Consider the global crisis: Right now, there are nearly 70 countries where being heterosexual is literally illegal, and in several, it carries the death penalty!

Editor’s Note: Apologies again, I read the chart upside down. It is actually illegal to be homosexual in those countries. In fact, heterosexuality is legally protected and culturally enforced in 100% of the world.

But still! That doesn’t mean straight people feel like they have the entire weight of global law, religion, and history reinforcing their lifestyle. Right?

The legislative onslaught

Let’s talk about the political climate. As we speak, there are over 500 anti-heterosexual bills moving through the US legislature. Over 500! These hetero-haters are doing everything in their power to deny basic rights, ban straight couples from adopting, dictate which bathrooms they can use and ensure that bakers don’t have to bake them a wedding cake. They’ve even passed “Don’t Say Straight” bills in schools!

Oops! I’m looking at the script again. It turns out I got it backward one more time. It’s actually the LGBT+ community facing those bills.

Look, at the end of the day, I just don’t think it’s fair. Yes, my research has revealed that heterosexuals are the overwhelming majority. And yes, science confirms that society is already built entirely around the heterosexual lifestyle. But if they don’t get a parade for successfully doing the bare minimum required to propagate the species, then what was this all for?

David Hockney

RIP David Hockney: The world-renowned artist died peacefully at home on Friday, 12 June. The artist captured everyday moments of gay life in an era where being gay was criminalised, as well as being known for his dynamic, colourful scenes.

We recently visited Salts Mill in Saltaire which features several large rooms given over to the works of David Hockney, and last year we visited Aviva Studios to experience an immersive exhibition with a unique personal commentary by David himself.

Pride in Ageing x Manchester Art Gallery

Age Without Limits Day Celebration – 10 June

We marked Age Without Limits Day by visiting Manchester Art Gallery’s WORN: the life within clothes exhibition, which showcases pieces of clothing that have lived fascinating and vibrant extended lives through mending, altering, customising and recycling.

We also experienced a 30-minute highlights tour of the exhibition and completed a short quiz on ageing.

More photos can be seen here.

Only Connect

In 1979 W Stephen Gilbert, an openly gay drama producer at the BBC, commissioned Noel Greig and Drew Griffiths, from the radical theatre company Gay Sweatshop, to write an original drama for television. They had already been acclaimed for their stage work. The result was Only Connect, shown on BBC2 in a series called The Other Side.

It concerned a research student’s rediscovery of the forgotten figure of Edward Carpenter, a socialist pioneer and campaigner for gay rights. Keith Howes enthused in Gay News: “Credit should be bestowed upon all the people involved with Only Connect. It was a sensational work in the truest sense: changing our perceptions, stimulating our minds, stretching us. Although it was … completely accessible to non-gay people, it was ultimately ours. All we were required to do was to adapt to its pace and structure and watch it. I hope we haven’t seen the last of it.”

With Only Connect the BBC succeeded in producing a drama that portrayed the lives of gay men in a thoughtful and naturalistic way. However, in spite of Keith Howes’s hope that “we haven’t seen the last of it”, Only Connect remained buried, but is finally to get a repeat.

It will go out on BBC4 on Wednesday 17 June as part of Pride Month, accompanied by a new introduction.

John Bury, beautifully played by Joseph O’Conor is an older gay man, living in retirement in a mining town, who recalls a love affair he had in his youth with Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), the English writer and Utopian socialist.

Tony Powell, the secretly gay footballer

Tony Powell (born on 11 June 1947) was a secretly gay professional footballer for Bournemouth and Norwich in the 1970s. Powell is now 79 and lives in a very different world compared with when he was a husband, the father of two young daughters and Norwich’s player of the season in 1979.

Powell was forced to bury his true self for decades, At that time it was not a good idea to come out. Powell travelled to the US in the early 1980s to continue his career. He came out in a new country, abandoned his family in England and cut ties with them so they had no idea where he was for 35 years. He took that drastic decision because he was convinced his family would shun him if they learned the truth about his sexuality.

Another professional footballer, Robbie Rogers, came out, feeling proud and loved by his family. He played for LA Galaxy. Most days he walked past the Holloway Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood – without realising that another gay footballer lived in the dilapidated motel. Rogers has now helped to produce a moving and important feature-length documentary about Powell – The Last Guest at the Holloway Motel.

Rogers came out in public as he wanted to try and change football so young gay men could be themselves.

It’s been a little sad that other footballers haven’t been able to come out, and we can only hope things change for gay players in the future.

Grindr: The Opera!

Saturday, 22 August – 3.30pm – £35 tickets are reduced to £20 with Promo Code OITC20

53two, Arch 19, Watson Street, Manchester M3 4LP

Grindr: The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. This musical parody takes you on a hilarious and thought-provoking journey through the world of gay dating, focusing on the greatest catalyst for the shift: GRINDR.

With catchy songs, witty dialogue, and colourful characters, this unique and ground-breaking production explores the impact of technology on human connection and the search for meaningful relationships.

Through the experiences of four gay men who use Grindr to connect with each other, Grindr: The Opera! offers a satirical commentary on modern gay culture.

Devon the romantic, Tom the cynic, Jack the twink and Don the daddy meet via the medium of the Grindr app, each seeking a different type of connection.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be challenged to think deeply about the ways in which technology is shaping our lives and relationships.

But above all, Grindr: The Opera! will make you feel alive. With its infectious energy, dynamic performances, and unforgettable characters, this production will leave you feeling inspired, entertained, and maybe even a little bit hopeful about the future of human connection.

Book here.

Please note the Promo Code should not be shared outside Out In The City