Letters Zip up and behave yourselves! Dear Gscene, “I really must complain about the level of cruising happening at Dukes Mound during daylight hours. I have no problem with the area being used at night but I do have a problem with any activity at all during the day. In the recent hot weather things have been getting out of control. […] By Contributor • 1 min read
Theatre Marlene comes to Brighton Marlene Dietrich is one of the most enduring of all gay icons – glamorous, outrageous, brave and entirely unconcerned with convention. Her long career spanned just about the whole of the 20th century, and her legend continues even now, twenty years after her death. She started out as a jobbing actre By Contributor • 3 min read
Letters Thank you from THT Dear Gscene, “Terrence Higgins Trust Brighton would like to say a huge thank you to all the staff and customers of The Brighton Sauna and Brighton Sauna Two for their recent donation of £645. The money was raised from their free day. The money raised will help support local safer sex resources provi By Contributor • 1 min read
ethnic, folly, building, dome, arch, tower, minerette, roof, ornate, brighton, pavilion, pavillion, brighton, onion National News For Russia LGBT with Brighton Love: Show your support this Brighton Pride I’m one lucky bugger. This Brighton & Hove Pride I will be dancing with my queer mates, parading proud through the city I love, kissing my missus in the park and shaking my queer thing as I DJ at the many, many fabulous Pride parties. Basically I’ll be being myself. Being queer. Being me. And not [ By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts DUSTY LIMITS – POST MORTEM: Emporium Theatre: Review Dusty’s show, which clocks in at just over an hour, is a short and (bitter)sweet look at life’s big full stop. An obit junkie – Mr Limits claims to have them beamed directly to his Kindle – he begins the evening fretting about how the newsprint summation of his life will read. His rumination on […] By Contributor • 1 min read
News WooHoo! Organic Lube – Good clean fun! Woohoo! organic lube is a water-based organic lubricant with a silky and sensuous feel, designed to enhance intercourse and intimacy. Containing only natural, organic ingredients, woohoo! has been designed to not only improve the nation’s sex lives, but also address the concerns of those worried abo By Contributor • 2 min read
Letters LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Well done Simon! “Last week the Same Sex Marriage Bill became law. As one of the many gay Tory MPs, who spoke in favour of the Bill and received press coverage, I wanted to put on record the invaluable work my colleague, Simon Kirby MP for Kemptown and Peacehaven undertook to get the Bill through Parliament. There a By Contributor • 2 min read
Letters Letter to the editor: Dear Sirs or Mesdames, The dangerous 20mph speed limit is not only unenforceable it increases fuel consumption and pollution…cyclists regularly exceed 30mph let alone 20mph – I don’t see any being stopped especially along the sea front. The highest pollution based on my hypersensitive lungs are thos By Contributor • 1 min read
Books The Pretty Gentleman by Max Fincher: Book Review Erotic sketches, a blackmail letter, a closeted aristocrat, and a sacrificial murder. All laced with love, betrayal, deception and vengeance in Regency London By Contributor • 3 min read
Features & Longread On Safari with Jaq Bayles Camping; where you can be at one with nature. The stars your blanket, the soft night sounds your comforter. Until that inevitable moment, usually at around 3am, when you wake up needing the loo. Hate that moment – scrabbling for shoes, hunting for the tent zip, crawling outside into the cold air to By Contributor • 6 min read
Features & Longread An insiders guide to Hong Kong : By Steve Lusher Hong Kong is situated on the south-east coast of China and covers an area of 425 square miles. It comprises of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories in addition to 262 outlying islands. Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the First Opium War (1839–42) and remained under By Contributor • 8 min read
Travel Exotic Bali : By Steve Lusher Bali is a province in the country of Indonesia. The province covers a few small neighbouring islands as well as the Isle of Bali. The main island is located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country’s […] By Contributor • 4 min read