Health MindOut: Dr Helen Boyle, Brighton lesbian icon, makes mental health history! MindOut celebrates LGBT+ History Month in time-honoured fashion by commemorating the brilliant work of their predecessor, Helen Boyle, who was a mental health pioneer who laid the foundations for MindOut. By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Broken Biscuits at Komedia Broken Biscuits, an evening of spoken word, music, comedy and film, returns to the Komedia in Brighton on Sunday, January 29 from 7.30pm. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Bad Book Project with Jane Postlethwaite The Bad Book Project is a free monthly night in Brighton that involves really funny people reading from very bad books. By Contributor • 2 min read
“PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST (POOL WITH TWO FIGURES)” 1972 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 84 X 120″ © DAVID HOCKNEY PHOTO CREDIT: ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES/JENNI CARTER Arts PREVIEW: David Hockney Exhibition at Tate Britain Tate Britain presents the world’s most extensive retrospective of the work of David Hockney. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL: LGBT History Month: Divas Aneesa Chaudhry, Jennie Castell, Gabriella Parish and Hannah Brackenbury join forces to bring you an evening of jazz, show tunes, ballards and torch songs. By Contributor • 3 min read
Arts LGBT History Month celebrates 25 years of the Sussex Beacon In the presence of the Mayor of Brighton & Hove, Cllr Pete West, Celebration! will be the curtain raiser to LGBT+ History Month 2017, and the opening event of the B RIGHT ON LGBT+ Festival being staged for the first time in the specially constructed Phil Starr Pavilion on New Steine Gardens. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Win pair of tickets for Sister Act at Brighton Centre We have a pair of tickets to see Alexander Burke in Sister Act at The Brighton Centre on Wednesday, January 11 at 7.30pm. Gscene have a pair of tickets to give away for SISTER ACT at The Brighton Centre on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 7.30pm. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Sister Act @ Brighton Centre The hit musical comedy Sister Act comes to the Brighton Centre from January 11-14. Starring Alexandra Burke, the musical is based on the smash hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Maggie Smith. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL: LGBT History Month: Sing-a-long-a ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Now at long last The Rocky Horror Picture Show gets what it’s been SCREAMING for – the full sing-a-long-a treatment. If you’ve done The Time Warp before, you’ll never have done it quite like this! By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘We Raise Our Hands in the Sanctuary’ New play spotlights the crucial importance of queer spaces and club culture. The 1980’s saw a major shift towards the emergence of a global gay club culture, but it was set against a backdrop of desperate levels of unemployment, riots, driven by racism, and AIDS casually reported as a gay plague. By Contributor • 2 min read
Community News MindOut and Allsorts launch ‘Urgent Need Advocacy Service’ A new project launches this month which aims to support LGBT+ people in economic hardship who live in Brighton by providing free independent and person-centred advocacy. By Contributor • 4 min read
Community News OBITUARY: Gary Swan – ‘Gloria’ Anyone who has supported the Brighton commercial scene over the last 30 years will probably at some point have had contact with Gary either as a friend or a customer at one of the many venues he worked at. The majority of us knew him as Gloria. By Contributor • 3 min read
