Hurst Street lies at the heart of Birmingham’s Gay Village and backs directly onto the Arcadian and the Chinese Quarter. Rainbow flags fly proudly from several buildings, while gay clubs and cabaret venues offer a wide choice of evening entertainment.
Every last Monday in May, on the weekend before the Spring Bank Holiday, Hurst Street hosts Birmingham Pride, when the city’s LGBTQ+ community and visitors come together to celebrate and party.
Hurst Street has always been something of an unconventional street, with its open car park, a mixture of commercial buildings of varying sizes, and a blend of older structures alongside newer developments as you approach the Chinese Quarter.
There is diversity here too. At the lower end of the street, old warehouses and a small number of residential houses sit alongside budget furniture shops, cut off from wider residential areas by the Jubilee Centre and adjacent car parks.
Walking further along Hurst Street, visitors will pass clubs, cafés, restaurants, pubs and adult shops. Add to this historic back-to-back houses, a Tesco Express and the nearby Hippodrome theatre, and you have the distinctive character of Hurst Street.
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