Fun things to do in London to celebrate equal marriage
Say 'I do' to equal marriage
Southbank Centre, Sat Mar 29
Join Sandi and Debbie Toksvig when they renew their marriage vows at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall. There'll be melodies from the London Gay Men's Chorus, Sharon D Clarke and keyboard virtuoso Rick Wakeman on the Royal Festival Hall organ.
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, southbankcentre.co.uk
BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival
BFI Southbank, Mar 20-30
Eleven days of LGBT films, including the charmingly bizarre Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? in which producer, director and actor Anna Margarita Albelo stars as Anna, a lesbian film-maker who tries to seduce a woman she fancies by casting her in a hastily made-up screenplay. Giant comedy vagina costumes abound.
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT, bfi.org.uk/flare
Gay marriage is legal - let's dance!
South Place Hotel, Sat Mar 29
Horse Meat Disco will provide the soundtrack to this night of fun, with champagne, cake and a room full of rainbows (that's not a euphemism for euphoric drug taking – they're actually decorating everything in multi colours).
South Place Hotel, 3 South Place, EC2M 2AF, southplacehotel.com
Britain's biggest equal marriage party
Heaven, Fri Mar 28
Mega gay superclub Heaven will hold an equal marriage party with cake, confetti and a countdown to midnight. Ice cream legends Ben & Jerry's have designed an ice cream flavour especially for the night, called Apple-y Ever After. Tuck in!
Heaven, under the arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG, heavennightclub-london.com
A Hard Rain
Above The Stag Theatre, until Sun Mar 30
This new play is set in New York in 1969, just before the Stonewall riots which kicked off the gay liberation movement in America. The plot follows “Ruby”, a drag queen who's been thrown out of the army after a year in Vietnam.
Above The Stag Theatre, Arch 17, Miles Street, SW8 1RZ, abovethestag.com/a-hard-rain
