Queer Britain, the UK’s national LGBTQ+ museum based in King’s Cross, is painting the town all colours of the rainbow for Pride, literally. It’s installing rainbow lights in the tunnel connecting King’s Cross underground station to the King’s Cross Estate (open daily 7am to 8pm).
Meanwhile, in the museum, you can explore the special exhibition Fighting With Pride, shining a light on the UK government’s decision to lift the ban on gay people serving in the Armed Forces in 2000, and being gay in the British military. Alongside it, there are meet the author events, including Max Hovey author of No Fats, No Fems (24 June, £15), Emily Garside, author of Rainbow Wales (27 June, £15) and Mollie E. Barnes and Gemma Rolls-Bentley, authors of Queer Art (22 July, £15).
If that’s not enough the museum will also be popping up across London with special events. We are Queer Britain at the National Theatre documents over 150 years of British LGBTQ+ history, showing early Prides, drag kings, trans pioneers, activists, political scandals and cultural icons. (10am to 11pm, Monday-Saturday until 1 October, free).
On Pride Day itself, the museum will host a post-parade outdoor screening of Kinky Boots at Everyman on the Canal (7pm, free), and it will be putting a Queer Love Photo Booth between 12 noon and 5pm, selected snaps will become part of a new Covent Garden exhibition.
