9 clubs and groups you can join, with training nights, fees and the beginner route into each.
Mixed-voice LGBT+ chamber choir of around 50, Bach and Rachmaninov to ABBA and Sondheim, rehearsing on Wednesday nights in the City of London. A simple audition arranged by email, and the choir says it is recruiting. A new musical director takes over in September 2026 after Jan Rautio's ten years.
Central · Wed · Beginners
A 60-piece all-genders community choir, founded in 2017, with no auditions, no sheet music and no gendered voice parts.
A twenty-piece jazz orchestra founded in summer 2011, mostly but not only LGBT players and singers, Britain's Got Talent semi-finalists in 2014. It publishes no rehearsal night, vacancies or audition process, so joining starts with an email.
Began in 1991 with nine friends singing carols at Angel tube for the Terrence Higgins Trust, now over 300 singing and non-singing members and Europe's largest gay male chorus. Four parts, no audition, Monday nights in Camden plus one weekend day a month. The catch is the queue: one year for first tenors, six for baritones.
North · Mon · Beginners
The LGSO's sister band: around 50 woodwind, brass and percussion players, professionals to lapsed school players, based in central London. Wind band classics through show tunes and video game music to disco, three big concerts a year plus bandstands and the Pride march. No formal audition, a suggested minimum of around Grade 5, and vacancies listed in every section.
Central · Beginners
Founded in 1996 by a group of friends led by Robin Gordon-Powell, over 100 active members and five concerts a year. No auditions, but the bar is Grade 8 for wind and brass and Grade 7 with orchestral experience for strings. Wind and brass are generally full, so strings and the deps list are the realistic way in. £40 per concert.
Central · Sun · Beginners
Founded in 2017 by voice coach Stephen Davidson, London's first choir for trans, non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming singers. You sing in whatever register or part fits, there is no audition, and nobody asks you to prove anything. Every other Sunday morning near Warren Street, with new members joining in January and September.
North · Sun · Beginners
Formed in 1983 for the Lesbian and Gay Pride march, Europe's longest-running LGBT+ choir by its own account, now 90 singers aged 18 to 75 plus. Mixed voices, madrigals to gospel to show tunes, all memorised. Every Sunday afternoon in central London, an audition with nothing to prepare, and two full concerts a year.
Central · Sun · Beginners
London's LGBTQ+ chamber choir for advanced singers, founded in September 2013. Around 50 members, half former choral scholars or professionals, about 36 on stage per concert. A cappella, medieval to contemporary, with commissions from gay composers. Thursday evenings in Lambeth, a proper audition, and membership by voluntary donation.
South · Thu · Beginners
New clubs, changed training nights, and the occasional weekend. No more than that.
A weekend away with a group of gay men, and nothing to prove.