Arts Pride Guided Tours at Shakespeare’s Globe to bring to life queer stories and characters from Shakespeare’s life and times Pride Guided Tours bring to life the queer stories and characters from Shakespeare’s life and times. Guides will explain what life would have been like for the queer community during Shakespeare’s lifetime, an important era in LGBTQ+ history. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News New book explores gay life in Kazakhstan with intimate photography and personal storytelling Elska, a project dedicated to sharing the bodies and voices of LGBTQ+ communities around the world, has put the spotlight on Almaty, Kazakhstan for its latest edition. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Credit Shanni Collins Community News Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQ+ communities and allies make a lot of noise to mark IDAHOBIT 2023 Organised by the city’s LGBTQ+ choir, the Rainbow Chorus, there was a good turn out of community members from across LGBTQ+ communities. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
In The South PACT’s adoption services rated outstanding for third time Adoption and support services for adoptive families run by charity Parents And Children Together (PACT) have been rated outstanding by Ofsted for the third successive inspection. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Health SURVEY: How do you feel about NHS health and care services? NHS Sussex has launched a new survey to understand your experiences and views of the health and care services in Brighton & Hove. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News Racial Harassment Forum, the Rainbow Hub and Possability People to host Hate Incident Awareness Workshop at Friends Meeting House, Brighton on June 15 At this event, find out what the difference is between a hate incident and a hate crime, and why reporting is so important. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Transgender News IDAHOBIT: Brighton & Hove Green Party to “stand with transgender community against hate and call out political wavering” Brighton & Hove Green Party councillors have announced, on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), that they stand alongside the trans community to fight back against violence By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Coventry and West Midlands West Midlands Police silent on apology for LGBTQ+ “witch-hunts” West Midlands Police have declined to say whether they will apologise for what human rights organisation the Peter Tatchell Foundation calls their “past witch-hunting of the LGBTQ+ community”. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Exhibitions Bristol’s Spike Island to present Harmonycrumb, a new commission by Flo Brooks exploring trans and gender-nonconforming histories through painting and assemblage Together, these works explore speculative entanglements between Brooks’ own life and the experiences of different historical figures, including military leader Joan of Arc (1412-31), ‘female husband’ Charles Hamilton (1721-46), and physician Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62). By Graham Robson • 2 min read
In The South Art installation depicting the suffering of the people of Ukraine arrives in Brighton & Hove An art installation depicting the suffering of the people of Ukraine has arrived in Brighton & Hove, standing in Valley Gardens, close to the Mazda Fountain, from 15 – 31 May 2023. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Health Care Quality Commission downgrades University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust with Royal Sussex County Hospital rated as ‘inadequate’ This latest rating, combined with ratings from previous CQC visits carried out over an 18-month period, has lowered the overall rating for the Trust to “requires improvement”, which means CQC does not consider the Trust to be performing as well as it should and that it must improve. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Theatre Myra DuBois to bring ‘Be Well’ – a new manifesto for mental health – to Brighton’s Komedia on Thursday, November 16 Myra DuBois calls out to you, the disadvantaged, downtrodden and tyrannised of the world, with her manifesto for mental health: AdMyrism! But are you ready to receive the call? By Graham Robson • 1 min read
