Following the Queer 80s season in 2024 and Queer 70s in 2025, the Barbican Cinema is time travelling once again and heading back to the 1960s for Pride month. The Queer 60s season will celebrate LGBTQ+ cinema in a decade of massive social change, which ended with the Stonewall riots in 1969.
Despite homosexuality still being illegal in many countries during the decade, filmmakers were able to depict a variety of LGBTQ+ lives on screen. Highlights from the programme include Frank Simon’s The Queen, featuring the legendary Crystal LaBeija; Diferente, made by director Luis María Delgado during Franco’s repressive regime; Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates (Sayat-Nova); shorts programme Gay Erotica from the 1960s, featuring works by Bob Mizer, Pat Rocco and Peter de Rome; and Queer Britain on Screen in the 1960s with an introduction by introduction by archivist Simon McCallum.
Key Information
Dates | Tues 9th June – Tues 7th July 2026
Address | Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
For more information | barbican.org.uk
