The gay theatre group Homo Promos was founded in 1988 as a response to Section 28, which forbade councils from ‘intentionally promoting homosexuality’.
Section 28 got the chop in 2003, but all these years later Homo Promos marches on.
This website tells the story of its numerous productions, its community activities and its current plans.
Peter Scott‐Presland is the founder/director of Homo Promos and has written much of its material.
He has also been a journalist, historian, and songwriter, and is a compiler of crosswords.
Homo Promos Theatre Company has also received an International Award
To learn more about Homo Promos, explore the various pages of this website.
See our HP Shop page and the Digital Download of Coming Out - Ready or Not.
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Publication of the Anthology is planned for early November 2024.
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After three successful series, leading to a forthcoming anthology, Homo Promos and Gay Authors Workshop are again joining forces for an autumn series of workshops every Monday from 7 October until 2 December 2024.
Come and explore your creative side, use your imagination, play with words. Take risks in a safe environment with other interesting creative people.
Click here for further detailsThe video of the Cockpit performance of 1944: Home Fires is now available to view plus the Classic FM article about its cancellation at HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs.
On Friday 19 January 2024 at 8.40 a.m., composer Robert Ely wrote "leaving only the Wilde portrait illuminated", "ppp" and "Finis" at the end of the score for 2001: Hitched, the final section and epilogue of A Gay Century.
One of the most ambitious works of gay art, of queer theatre and indeed in the whole of opera, was finally completed. Seventeen episodes, seven and a half years' work and 19 hours 55 minutes of music.
Few outside Wagner have had such vision and scope. It is a unique achievement. We are insufferably proud of it. See A Gay Century to get the measure of this great cycle.
Carl Davis (1936 - 2023) wasn’t only a brilliant composer of film and TV music, he wrote some great songs.
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