Gay Theatre is Great Theatre

Performing for the community for thirty years

Glinda SouthThe 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.

Peter

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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Launch of new e-Magazine by Paradise Press
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Paradise Press have announced the launch of their brand new e-magazine Flash PPink.

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LGBT+ Creative Writing 2025
Autumn workshops

Homo Promos, in partnership with Gay Authors Workshop, is commencing a new series of five creative writing workshops for young and fledgling LGBTQ+ writers at the Kings Arms, Poland Street on Monday 29 September 2025 from 17:30 to 20:00.

All you need is writing materials and enthusiasm.

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Flash Dances Anthology
Flash dances

The publication of Flash Dances: 100 Little Queer Tales was launched at an event on 17 September 2024 and is now available for purchase.


Home Fires

The 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.

Hitched

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.

Music

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 RIP

Carl Davis (1936 - 2023) wasn’t only a brilliant composer of film and TV music, he wrote some great songs. 

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