BLKOUT.
Events
What's on.What's open.Where we are.
a short list you can trust beats a long one you can't. every listing here has been looked at by a person — and a quiet week is shown as a quiet week.
What’s happening?
ask in your own words — a borough, a month, a kind of thing. AIvor reads the same gatherings, openings and places you see here.
Things to go to
fewer, and true. a real place, a real date, a named organiser, a working link — or it does not go up.
Sin City — Shenanigans LDN × The Cookout
Shenanigans LDN × The Cookout
The White Swan, 556 Commercial Road, London E14 7JD
More in Tower Hamlets →Hidden Generation — The Launch Party
Hidden Generation (Sunday Happy Day, SGL, Groove Aspect)
JUNGLA Camden, 22 Inverness Street, London NW1 7HJ
More in Camden →Bare It All: Blackout (BMM Autumn Nights, Birmingham)
Black Meat Market UK
Private venue, City Centre, Birmingham (shared after verification)
More in Birmingham →DL Bruthas Linkup: Code Black (BMM Autumn Nights, Birmingham)
Black Meat Market UK
Private venue, City Centre, Birmingham (shared after verification)
More in Birmingham →Africa's Legacy of Collective Enterprise
Black Co-op CIC
University of East London, University Square Stratford (USS), room US 1.01, 1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF
More in Newham →FLUXX - WINTERS COMING AND SO ARE WE
dr.creatur3
Unit58, Mill Mead Road, London, N17 9QU
More in Haringey →Dean Atta: Big Man
Writeidea Festival (London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
Tower Hamlets Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BJ
More in Tower Hamlets →
bodybased — somatic rest and movement space for Black people
Siobhan Davies Studios
Southwark, London
More in Southwark →Things to go after
jobs, commissions, residencies, bursaries, funds, calls — open to Black queer people in the UK, with a deadline and a link.
East Bank SEEDED Residency 2027
East Bank, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
A part-time, paid residency of up to six months from January 2027 for east London artists with a socially engaged practice. Four places, one each at Sadler's Wells East, UCL East, V&A East and London College of Fashion, UAL, leading to a showcase in summer 2027.
open to: Early to mid-career artists and creative practitioners who live or work in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest
Youth Joy Fund
LGBT+ Fund
Grants for organisations working with and for LGBT+ young people to foster joy, belonging and positivity through projects, trips and other enriching experiences.
open to: Organisations or youth groups based in England working with and for LGBT+ young people
Recharge Fund: Racial Equity
Youth Music
Core funding of up to £120,000 over four years for creative organisations, in any art form, led by and for communities who experience racial injustice and working with children and young people aged 0 to 25. No match funding needed; one-stage online application.
open to: Legally constituted organisations in England with turnover of £500,000 or less, at least 51% of decision-makers from communities experiencing racial injustice, and a year of creative work with 0–25s by December 2026
Side Hustle Support
Do it Now Now (DiNN)
Free 6-week online business growth programme for Black founders. ~4 hrs/week, on-demand. 16 downloadable resources. Build your business foundation and entrepreneurial mindset. Registration takes 3 minutes with a DiNN Code.
open to: Black entrepreneurs and founders
Call for illustrators
We Are Makers
We Are Makers is looking for illustrators to help communicate place with its readers over the coming years. No style restrictions. To be considered, comment an example of your work on the post or tag a suitable illustrator. No deadline stated.
open to: Open to all; no style restrictions
Write For Us — open submissions for racially-minoritised writers and illustrators
Storymix
Storymix, a children's and YA book packager, takes rolling open submissions of sample work from racially-minoritised writers and illustrators at any career stage.
open to: Racially-minoritised writers and illustrators, new or experienced; agents may submit for clients
Project Timbuktu
BLM UK
An 8-week course starting January 2027 blending discussion, strategy-building and collective visioning through weekly 2-hour learning circles. Applications open in October.
"the gathering" — free interactive theatre performance programme
The Black Men's Consortium (Tony Cealy)
Free interactive theatre performance programme at Brixton House Theatre. Rehearsals Tuesday evenings 6-9pm from 3 November, continuing Feb-Mar 2027; final performance 6 April 2027. Register interest by email or DM to Tony Cealy (07956 877358). Limited places.
open to: Actors, creatives, performers and artists
Rwendo Research Network
Rwendo Research Network
A community for Black researchers to connect, share and support one another in their research practice.
Archival Support, Library Assistance and Communications volunteering
Black Cultural Archives
Black Cultural Archives, the home of Black British history in Brixton, is seeking ongoing volunteers for archival support, library assistance and communications work.
open to: Individuals over 18, from all backgrounds
The White Pube Creatives Grant
The White Pube
Monthly £500 grant for working class UK creatives at any career stage. No strings — covers materials, time, rent, whatever. Rolling applications, no reporting required.
open to: Working class creative practitioners based in the UK, early in their careers, all ages. All disciplines welcome.
Where we are
organisations, groups, venues and regular rooms — standing things you can find when you need them, checked this summer.
Annual celebration for LGBT Africans, asylum seekers and allies, with a lip-sync battle.
Poplar Union, Tower Hamlets, London
Ajamu X's fine art photography studio exploring the Black male body and same-sex desire, open for hire.
Brixton, Lambeth
QTIPOC collective in London running events and writing on Substack as Bare Radicals from Ends
London — Greenwich (QUEERCIRCLE, SE10)
Erotic nightlife and private parties built for Black gay, bi and DL men. Adults only.
London — White Swan, Limehouse, and Bar Silver, Upper Street
Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S)
London collective — club nights and sound system events centring Black queer and trans experiences.
London
Strictly for Black queer men aged 30 and over: an intentional space outside nightlife, with book discussion and games.
London — LGBTQ+ Community Centre, 60-62 Hopton Street
Black Thrive Lambeth's LGBTQIA+ programme — Black, Queer & Thriving, and a Black LGBTQ+ working group
Lambeth
Black queer and trans-led movement supporting and amplifying Black trans and non-binary people.
London (online services UK-wide)
Blackening UK
Events and spaces for Black queer men to connect, celebrate and just be
London
Long-running Black queer club night — Afrobeat, Amapiano, RnB, Dancehall — for Black gay/queer men.
Vauxhall, London
One of the UK's longest-running LGBTQ+ South Asian club nights, founded 1995 by DJ Ritu
London
Black-owned bar, café, community hub and five-floor queer club on Old Compton Street — opened June 2026
Soho — 30 Old Compton Street W1D 4UR
DLPlug London
Black-centred sex-positive party space for Black MSM, monthly nights in Shoreditch.
Shoreditch, London
Faith community and global network centring Black, African and Caribbean LGBTIQ+ people of faith, founded by Islington-born Rev Jide Macaulay. Meets in person at Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, on the third Sunday of each month at 4pm.
Islington, London — Union Chapel, Compton Terrace
UK's oldest charity for LGBTQI+ Muslims — support groups, Ramadan/Eid/Pride events and schools outreach.
London
Sober community space in Bankside — hosts Melanin Vybz (POC 50+), sexual health and mental health support.
Bankside, Southwark, London
Monthly group for LGBTQ+ people of colour over 55 at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre
London — LGBTQ+ Community Centre, 60-62 Hopton Street
Misery
Sober club night and mental health collective for QTIBPOC people in London
London (various venues)
BAME-focused sexual health charity — HIV support and culturally specific services in five languages.
London
QTIPOCs London
Facebook group for Queer, Trans and Intersex People of Colour in London to connect and share resources
London (online, Facebook)
Cultural archive of Black LGBT history in the UK — art, photography and oral histories.
London
Health and wellbeing service with targeted HIV prevention for Black LGBTQ+ communities.
London
Twenty-year LGBTQ+ day party — soulful house, disco and deep house, hosted by Yveelicious and Marky Mark
London
Tabanca LDN
Queer Caribbean day parties — soca, bouyon, konpa, zouk and dancehall, celebrating Carnival culture
London
London's first consciously queer intersectional bookshop, café and events space — QTIPOC-led
East London (two sites)
Queer African collective celebrating Black British LGBTQ+ culture through events — The CookOUT
London — south-east
Celebration and organisation for LGBTQ+ people of African, Caribbean, Asian and Latin American descent.
London — Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (flagship event, paused for 2026)
Global Majority and LGBTQI+ arts charity running since 1999: the gayWISE drop-in and GFEST, its cross-arts festival.
Haringey, London
Black-owned LGBTQ+ organisation in Bedfordshire with a focus on LGBTQ+ people of colour — support, activities, training
Bedfordshire
Queer-led producer of intersectional performance, parties and community gatherings, based in Brighton
Brighton (no longer based at a fixed venue)
Brighton mental health service run by and for LGBTQ+ people, with BIPOC-focused programming.
Brighton
Free creative social network for QTIBPoC in Brighton & Hove — dinners, disco, life drawing, book clubs, beach days
Brighton & Hove
Bristol QPOC Socials
Monthly socials for QTIBPoC in Bristol; marches as a bloc at Bristol Pride and runs the QTIPOC Inter-City Gathering
Bristol
Fruit Punch Birmingham
Birmingham's largest BIPOC queer social night, monthly at The Night Owl in Digbeth
Birmingham — The Night Owl, Digbeth
Monthly gathering for South Asian LGBTQ+ people at Loco Lounge, Birmingham — henna, connection, rest; free to £4
Birmingham — Loco Lounge
Birmingham's LGBTQ+ arts festival, including CineQ, its queer-of-colour film strand.
Birmingham
Bradford Black and Brown Queers (BBBQ)
QTIPOC collective in Bradford — talking, walking, dancing; ran Queer Joy 2025, Bradford's first QTIPOC festival
Bradford
QTIPOC DJ and dance collective staging catwalk extravaganzas and club performances, touring UK-wide
Manchester, touring UK-wide
House of Ghetto
Manchester Vogue house and ballroom collective led by Darren Pritchard, for young Black women and queer POC.
Manchester
House of Noir
Voguing/ballroom house and fashion platform for QTIPOC performers in Manchester.
Manchester
House of Suarez
Vogue house and dance company running the annual Vogue Ball in Liverpool and Manchester since 2006.
Liverpool and Manchester
Noire Gayze
Inclusive platform for Black and other people of colour in Liverpool's LGBTQIA+ community.
Liverpool
Social, peer support and community action for LGBTQI people of colour in Greater Manchester, incl. QTIPOC-only events
Manchester — The Proud Place, 49-51 Sidney Street
LGBTQ+ support in Merseyside, including sexual health and HIV testing, with a focus on people of colour.
Merseyside
Manchester youth charity — mentoring, counselling and QTIPOC-specific services for young LGBTQ+ people.
Manchester
Sexual health service, including HIV testing and peer support, for LGBTQ+ people of colour in Yorkshire.
Leeds, Yorkshire
Wales' largest grassroots charity for LGBTQ+ global majority people, running Pride and regular meetups.
Cardiff (Wales-wide)
Scotland's primary QTIPOC+ organisation — spaces for queer, trans and intersex people of colour in Glasgow
Glasgow
Monthly writing group for QTIPOC people in Edinburgh, hosted by LGBT Health and Wellbeing
LGBT Health and Wellbeing, Edinburgh
Monthly papercraft and social group for LGBTQ+ people of colour aged 16+ in Glasgow
Glasgow — Glasgow Caledonian University
Support, advocacy and community for LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers of African heritage
London and Manchester
Advocates for LGBTQ+ rights across Nigeria and Africa, founded by activist Bisi Alimi.
UK-wide
Global Majority therapists giving decolonial therapy, explicitly welcoming LGBTQ+ and gender-diverse clients.
UK-wide
Afro-futurist performance party centring disabled, Black and QTIPOC people, touring UK-wide
Touring UK-wide (led from Brighton)
Busy Being Black (podcast)
Award-winning podcast by Joshua Rivers centring queer Black joy, intimacy, spirituality and politics
UK-wide, online
Cabaret/burlesque collective showcasing Black and POC queer performers, touring UK venues and festivals.
UK-wide
International Black LGBTQI+ Pride network, founded 2020 by Global Black Gay Men Connect — BLKOUT a founding member
International — Paris, 9–13 Sep 2026
UK's leading queer Muslim charity — volunteer-led welfare and support for LGBTQI+ Muslims
UK-wide
Inclusive affirming Christian community for LGBTIQ+ people; supports LGBTIQ asylum seekers.
UK-wide
Digital storytelling platform and monthly book club for Black and queer African diaspora readers.
UK-wide, online
Team Angelica Publishing
Radical queer-of-colour publishing imprint — the UK's only dedicated Black queer publisher.
UK-wide, online
What we list: things for Black queer people in the UK with a real place, a real date, a named organiser and a working link. What we turn away: listings pages, boilerplate, anything we cannot verify, and anything a scraper dated for us. A thin month is shown as a thin month. When a feed stops, we say so rather than show you something out of date.
The first ask
this page is fed by the people who use it. ten minutes, from a sofa, on a phone — and your name goes on the listing.