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The new ITVX drama will bring a personal account of pandemic trauma to life

The Gateways is back. The longest-running lesbian club of all-time — the one whose actual clientele appeared in the 1968 film The Killing of Sister George; the one where Mick Jagger tried to talk the owner into letting him crash in a frock; the one that was a sanctuary to every class and sort of woman, from well-known figures such as the writer Patricia Highsmith and the artist Maggi Hambling (then an art student) to swimming-pool attendants at the Tooting Bec lido — has been given a new lea...

Jagger (pictured in 1969), who lived in Chelsea with his girlfriend Marianne Faithful, wanted to get in to The Gateways club a few streets away, but was denied entry by manager Gina Ware.

A new documentary takes viewers back down the rickety stairs to the trailblazing Gateways in Chelsea

Tales of LGBTQ+ bars, professional wrestlers and the history of the “New Romantics” movement in London are among the documentary offerings at this year’s Inside Out Film Festival, which has ...

This year’s festival had 25,000 attendances across BFI Southbank and on BFI Player with over 40% of online screenings viewed from outside of London.

Filmmaker Jacquie Lawrence and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig uncover the history of a forgotten lesbian landmark in Gateways Grind.

We take a look at six of the most exciting films due to air at BFI Flare, London's vital queer film festival.

Our springtime celebration of queer cinema runs 16 to 27 March at BFI Southbank and with a selection of titles available digitally UK-wide on BFI Player.