LGBTQ+ Events

Take a look at what's taken place during previous years and be inspired by Haringey's LGBTQ+ history...all year round!

LGBTQ+ Previous events

2024 events

Below is a selection of events that took place in January and February 2024 at Haringey libraries, Jackson's Lane, Bruce Castle Museum and Archive and Chestnuts Community Centre.

  • Book clubs: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy, Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
  • Crafts: Amazing Bodies workshop
  • Events: Card-Making and Poetry: 'Self-Love and Healing', Zine workshop: LGBTQ+ History Month, Collage on Ceramics with House of Frisson, Meet and greet your local Metropolitan Police Service, Pamper and Portraits, A celebration of LGBTQ+ history in Haringey at Haringey Learning Partnership
  • Fims: Paris is Burning, Benediction, Madchen in Uniform, Buddies, A Fantastic Woman, Pain and Glory, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Orlando, Carol, Les Invisibles, Lola and the Sea 
  • Performances: Queer Euphoria: A Celebration of Queer Circus Cabaret, Jean Daniel Brousse: (Le) Pain, Nikki & JD: Knot
  • Talks: Curator's Pick for LGBT+ History Month: An Eligible Spinster - With Sadie Lee, Panel Discussion: 'Don't Say Gay' - Why Section 28 Matters Today, Gay Authors Workshop x Paradise Press Talk, Gateway to Heaven with Clare Summerskill
  • Walks: Hidden Pride of Haringey: 400 years of LGBTQ+ Heritage in Tottenham 

2023 events

Below is a selection of events that took place in February and March 2023 at Haringey libraries, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Jackson's Lane and Bruce Castle Museum and Archive.

  • Crafts: Design and Build Inclusive Banner Workshops and Exhibition, in association with El Warcha
  • Events: Drag Bingo Show, LGBT+ Book Display, Card-Making Frolics 50+
  • Films: Black Lens, Pier Kids, Call Me by Your Name
  • Performances: Emerging//Emerged, LGBTQ+ Identities and JL Circus
  • Talks: LGBT + Poetry Reading and Talk with author Andreena Leeanne

2022 events

Below is a selection of events that took place in February 2022 at Haringey libraries, Jackson's Lane, Bruce Castle Museum and Archive and online.

  • Events: LGBTQI+ Display: Celebrating and showcasing our LGBTQI+ collection of materials, Broadway Brunch, Hidden Pride of Haringey: A Virtual Tour Through LGBTQ+ Heritage in Tottenham, Positive Rainbow Haringey and Met Police Stall
  • Films: Lizzie, The Favourite, Lynn and Lucy, Supernova, The Garden, Dallas Buyers Club, All About My Mother, Nighthawks, But I'm a Cheerleader, Moonlight
  • Performances: The Chosen Haram (Sadiq Ali)
  • Talks: What LGBTQI+ history means to me with Niranjan Kamatkar, Poetry Reading and Talk with author Andreena Leeanne
  • Book clubs: Arundahti Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Online Activities

Ellen Jones, writer, speaker, campaigner and creative consultant producing work for and about the LGBTQI+ and disabled community joins a panel of passionate young activists to discuss activism and how to make your voice heard no matter your age or background.

The session forms part of a programme that ran at Alexandra Palace, which supports young people to launch a career in the creative sector. 

Beth Sitek, queer performance artist and drag king who makes climate activist work about human nature and the animal kingdom and cabaret events, joins a panel of female theatre makers using theatre as a vehicle to inspire societal change.

The session forms part of a programme that ran at Alexandra Palace, which supports young people to launch a career in the creative sector.

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