HIV To mark National HIV Testing Week, Andrea Leadsom and Angela Rayner join 40 MPs testing for HIV Health Minister Andrea Leadsom MP, Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner MP and 40 other MPs have tested for HIV to show how quick and easy it is and encourage others to do the same during National HIV Testing Week (until 11 February). A host of cross-party MPs got tested including Health Minister Andr By Graham Robson • 3 min read
International News Huthi authorities sentence seven to stoning and two to crucifixion for homosexual ‘crimes’ Huthi authorities in Yemen must halt planned executions and end the persecution of people based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, said Amnesty International, after two Huthi-run courts sentenced more than 40 people either to death, flogging or prison over charges rela By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBT History Month The Linden Archives: an affectionate look back on the brash, thriving gay scene of the 1990s Stuart Linden Rhodes established the Instagram account Linden Archives during the lockdowns of 2020-21, scanning and digitising hundreds of photographs – primarily as a way to preserve his reportage photography for All Points North and Gay Times magazines, images that had been unseen for thirty year By Graham Robson • 2 min read
HIV Terrence Higgins Trust’s Work and Skills Programme for people living with HIV to return in May 2024 Terrence Higgins Trust, the HIV / sexual health charity, has announced its Work and Skills Programme for people living with HIV will be returning in spring 2024 and is now open for registrations. Last year, Terrence Higgins Trust helped many people living with HIV to build confidence, set goals and By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Music WHAM! to re-release iconic albums ‘FANTASTIC’ and ‘MAKE IT BIG’ WHAM!’s original studio albums, Fantastic and Make It Big, are to be released on special edition colour vinyl and black vinyl, the first time the records have been available in a physical vinyl format in over 30 years. When George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley exploded onto the scene with Fantastic, t By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Queer Britain partners with wine brand Madame F for Madame F Queer Britain Art Award Lead Pic: previous prize winners Sadie Frost, Oliver Freeston, Paul Harfleet The UK’s LGBTQ+ museum Queer Britain has again partnered with wine brand Madame F for the third year of the Madame F Queer Britain Art Award, which this year has a theme to celebrate Queer Creativity, inspired by illustrato By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts So so so scandalous! Danny Beard’s ‘Straight Expectations’ coming to Brighton Komedia in September Danny Beard, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season 4, has announced their brand-new tour for 2024, Straight Expectations, will be coming to Brighton Komedia on Thursday, September 19. Full tour dates HERE. See Danny perform with full live band and be perched for a night of killer vocals, snappy com By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Sir Lindsay Hoyle urges Home Secretary to ban Uganda leader, Anita Among, who promoted “Kill the Gays” law The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, met with LGBTQ+ campaigner Peter Tatchell last night (Wednesday, February 7) in Parliament and has agreed to press the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, to ban the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, Anita Among, from entering Britain. Acting at t By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News “Sickening”. Rishi Sunak’s trans jibe – made while mother of Brianna Ghey attended Prime Minister’s Questions – condemned by Amnesty International Rishi Sunak has been criticised for aiming a political jibe about trans people at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer – while the mother of murder victim Brianna Ghey attended Prime Minister’s Questions. In Prime Minister’s Questions, his weekly showdown with MPs and the leader of the opposition, Mr Suna By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Film Małgorzata Szumowska’s ‘Woman Of’, an affecting drama about a transgender woman in Poland, to be shown at this year’s Kinoteka Polish Film Festival 2024 Małgorzata Szumowska‘s Woman Of, an affecting drama about a transgender woman in Poland – a country with a poor record on LGBTQ+ rights – will be shown at year’s Kinoteka Polish Film Festival 2024, which takes place between 6-28 March in London. Developed from interviews with the transgender communi By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ Choirs Brighton’s LGBTQ+ choir, the Rainbow Chorus, has a new accompanist! The Rainbow Chorus has announced it has found a new accompanist for its choirs to replace Mojca Monte Amali who stepped down after 12 years and received a heartfelt send-off at the chorus’ recent Winter Concert. The new accompanist is Olly Parr, who is an accomplished pianist, singer, organist, and By Graham Robson • 1 min read
HIV Equalities Minister, Stuart Andrew MP, visits Brighton for National HIV Testing Week to show how quick and easy it is to get tested Lead pic: Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew MP, visits Jubilee Library’s HIV and STI test vending machines Today (Tuesday, February 6), Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew MP, visited Terrence Higgins Trust in Brighton to show how easy it is to test for HIV and see the city’s world-leading H By Graham Robson • 4 min read
