How many set-ups with teasingly homoerotic overtones can one circus show sustain? Plenty … when Head First Acrobats’ Railed places four frisky, highly physicalised bandits alone …

“Realities are made harsher by being poor, non-white, and gay… and having few opportunities. Finding a love relationship amongst all that, can be an impossible dream.”

Belfast Pride brought people of all sides together and presented a conflict free zone, offering the hope of how a normalised society could look and feel.

We rank LGBTI informed shows, from the unapologetically queer to the ‘straight acting’ yet still subversive.