Coming events

An intimate and boldly transgressive film by South African director John Trengove, charting a young teen's initiation ritual in a remote mountain retreat off the Eastern Cape. Featuring a terrific debut from openly gay musician Nakhane Touré, better known in his native South Africa as a successful singer-songwriter, The Wound is a thought-provoking exploration of manhood as reflected through the prism of African Culture.
Assigned to guide city boy Kwanda, lonely factory worker Xolani participates in an ancient rite of passage into manhood alongside the tribe's other young men. Defiantly clinging to his queer identity within this toxic masculine environment, before long Kwanda recognizes the nature of Xolani’s relationship with his fellow guide, Vija. What follows is a dangerous entanglement of lust and desire between the three men. Having premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, as with Moonlight, the film's comparable Oscar-winning predecessor, The Wound injects the coming-of-age genre with a much needed shot in the arm.

BOOK by June 29th !! Members of the former Guildford Area Gay Group are having a garden party, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. It will take place from 1pm to 5pm on Saturday 28 July in Aldershot about 15 to 20 minutes walk from the station. (Bring a bottle or equivalent.) Tickets are £5 and are only available in advance (not on the door). A direct train (£13 super off peak day return) leaves Waterloo at 11.53, Clapham Junction 12:00 reaching Aldershot at 12.49. Also donations of gay books, mags, videos, DVD’s for the charity bookstall would be appreciated.

Due to lack of numbers turning up, Mark not catering, and Lee (gay) the manager having retired , the committee have decided not to continue supporting these lunches.We are hoping to replace them with maybe a regular pub eatery in the evening instead, starting maybe in September.SO PLEASE DON'T ATTEND THIS FUNCTION ANYMORE,NONE OF THE COMMITTEE WILL BE GOING.

Monthly meeting for LGBT asylum seekers only, except by invitation. For further information, please contact info@rainbowsacrossborders.org.uk .

Friday 10th 7:30 for 8pm start.Tony hosts a classical music evening. £3 donation for refreshments.

On Sunday 12 August the London Gay Men's Chorus Ensemble performs at the Camden Fringe Festival . Performances at 6pm and 7.45pm, tickets £12 and £10 concs. Upstairs at the Gatehouse pub, Highgate West Hill, Highgate, N6 4BD. Book online.

Join SLG to see the Story of Reich’s campaign against ‘degenerate’ art and the response in London in 1938 by an exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries in London. Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square,WC1B 5DP. Free admission. Lunch at the Shakespeare’s Head (Wetherspoons),64-68 Kingsway, Holborn WC2B 6BG.

Group members are invited to tell their life stories.Should be an interesting evening and hopefully you will all add something.

Three one-act plays written during the suffrage campaigns in the early 20th century - ‘How the vote was won’ by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John, ‘A Chat with Mrs Chicky’ by Evelyn Glover and ‘Press Cuttings’ by George Bernard Shaw. Putney Arts Theatre, Ravenna Road, Putney, SW15 6AW. £14,concs £10.

Meet at Richmond station for a short walk to Ham Fields (cruising area) where you can walk around and we can picnic together. Bring your own food to share and drink.If you are late walk on the East side of the Thames two miles and about 1/4 mile from Teddington Lock leave the towpath and enter the fields near a canoe centre. Catch the 12.28 Reading train from Clapham Junction platform 6.

Inter-group pub evening in Balham Wetherspoons, (opposite Balham tube and rail stations). Food available until 10pm.

David welcomes us all back to East Croydon for yet another party.£3 for the food and bring your own drink, 8pm start and ring him before Thursday13th.

Informal lunch club for CAGS members and their friends. Toby Carvery, Park Place, 54 Commonside West, Mitcham CR4 4HB (264 bus towards St George’s Hospital from stop KK opposite Croydon central library, stop KE on Park Street, stop WM outside the Whitgift Centre or stop B3 at West Croydon bus station. Get off at Madeira Road. The journey takes around 40 minutes)

We'll be discussing In A Hidden Room by Stella Duffy.

Monthly meeting for LGBT asylum seekers only, except by invitation. For further information, please contact info@rainbowsacrossborders.org.uk .

Informal lunch club for CAGS members and their friends. The Sandrock, 152 Upper Shirley Road, Croydon CR0 5HA (466 bus from East Croydon Station or Croydon Library)

Monthly meeting for LGBT asylum seekers only, except by invitation. For further information, please contact info@rainbowsacrossborders.org.uk .

7.00 for 7.30pm The third of the series of SLAGO quizzes for the 2018 SLAGO Cup. 3F is the central London group of OneBodyOneFaith (the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement).

Informal lunch club for CAGS members and their friends. A return to an old haunt, with good food, good service and a wide choice of menus.

We'll be discussing Days without End by Sebastian Barry.