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REALBrighton take a well earned rest

As we announced late last year, we are winding up Real City Network Limited, the company behind REALBrighton.com and the other REAL branded city guides. It has been a difficult decision taken for a number of reasons. Real City Network has been feeling the pinch of tighter budgets as businesses incre

Julie Burchill in transphobia row

Newspaper columnist Julie Burchill has been accused of making transphobic comments in an article defending her friend Suzanne Moore. In Moore’s original article she said that some women were angry at “not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual”. When a number of transsexuals

Theatre Review: Quartermaine’s Terms at the Theatre Royal

Theatre Review: Quartermaine’s Terms at the Theatre Royal

Simon Gray’s 1981 play is a masterful examination of English lives, and England, in the early sixties. The language school common room in which it is set is full of repressed emotions, longings and simmering resentments. At its heart is the title character, St John Quatermaine (Rowan Atkinson), a ma

In Your Hands: The Everyman’s Guide to Masturbation by Emme Mark

In Your Hands: The Everyman’s Guide to Masturbation by Emme Mark

In Your hands by Mark Emme With over 70,000 copies sold of this book I was looking forward to an interesting read and perhaps even pick up a few tips for the oldest male pastime in the world. How disappointed was I? I suspect some of the 70,000 books sold were bought as a joke […]

Farewell to Pride in Canterbury

The organisers of Pride in Canterbury posted the following final message on their website today, December 31. To date the website has received over 25,000 hits, it will remain on line and will be archived.

Gay headmaster creates his own anti bullying charity, ‘Inclusion for all’

Gay headmaster creates his own anti bullying charity, ‘Inclusion for all’

It is 2010 and I’ve been Deputy Headteacher of a large inner city primary school in London for several years. There is a knock at my office door and two children stand looking crestfallen, accompanied by a red faced lunch time supervisor. “Can you sort this out please Shaun?” she asks, obviously ann

Green plans to cut Pride grant in 2014 puts Pride Parade at risk

Green plans to cut Pride grant in 2014 puts Pride Parade at risk

Brighton and Hove City Council have ear marked the annual grant of £25,000 to be cut after the 2013 Pride event. The Green administration are having to make cuts of 20 million pounds to balance the books. They indicate their planned cuts will see no children’s centre’s close, all branch libraries re

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