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The first UK gay wedding? A brand new LGBT group has formed during 2013 in Walsall, West Midlands. BENT productions, an amateur issue based LGBT theatre group, have written their own „Adult Only‟ Pantomime titled A-Lad‟in Tights! The pantomime is the story of A-Lad‟in; how he „comes out to his mom‟, falls in love with the Prince and after gay marriage is legalised by the emperor he finally gets to marry his prince. Performance dates 31January & 1February 2014, at Pelsall Community Centre, Pelsall, Walsall. Tickets are available now at £7. Proceeds are going to help Bent‟s future initiatives and to a local project, „Beginnings‟, which helps young LGBT people that find themselves homeless due to discrimination from within their own family. Future projects will include anti-bullying performances for primary schools, LGBT acceptance and awareness productions for high schools and youth groups and a myriad of productions for the wider community that promote LGBT issues and social acceptance Pantomime Synopsis:Deep in the heart of the Black Country lives Madame Spanky, who runs a most disreputable knocking shop at the edge of town. Despite the establishment‟s popularity with many of the local politicians, businessmen and bankers, the business has fallen on hard times...and not the sort of hard time that can benefit the sex trade. A‟Ladin and Wishy, Madame Spanky‟s son and daughter work for the family business and do all they can, in all sorts of angles and positions, to improve the businesses balance sheet. Madame Spanky yearns for the day that her son finds a girlfriend and settles down, however, she does not realise (even though it is extremely obvious!) that A‟ladin is gay and longs to find the man of his dreams. Will A‟ladin find true love? Will Madame Spanky accept her son for who he is? And will the family business survive? The answer to all these questions will be revealed in the hilarious pantomime, for adults, A-Lad‟in Tights........ Back to contents Christmas at Walsall Leather Museum 25% Christmas Discount on Walsall-Made Leathergoods