Pride Honey Dijon to headline Brighton & Hove Pride dance tent on Saturday, August 5 Brighton & Hove Pride has announced that international dance star and trailblazer Honey Dijon will headline Saturday’s dance tent, bringing her inimitable live experience to Preston Park. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts New season of Queer I Am, the podcast that celebrates queer artists and queer allies, to launch Saturday, May 1 Queer I Am, the podcast that celebrates queer artists and queer allies, has announced the launch of its third season, which will be recorded weekly in front of a live studio audience, kicking off on May 1 with authors SJ Watson and Helen Trevorrow, and performer Anthony Barnett (AKA Shallow Vera). By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News South Western Railway launches UK’s first Intersex-Inclusive Pride train The new livery was applied to a Class 444 train at the Bournemouth Depot over the weekend and is now in service. On its first run, the newly designed train was crewed exclusively by LGBTQ+ SWR colleagues. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News Rainbow Call Companions, a service for older LGBTQ+ people, celebrates its first anniversary Award-winning Rainbow Call Companions service, run by charity Re-engage, is celebrating its first anniversary – and is on course to reach its target of helping older LGBTQ+ people. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Community News MindOut to hold first WELLFEST in collaboration with Radical Rhizomes and supported by UK Black Pride All are welcome to this free festival of wellness workshops, connection and community, which are led by and centring LGBTQ+ people of colour. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Fundraising News Terrence Higgins Trust’s flagship event, The Auction, raises over £200,000 to support people living with and affected by HIV across the UK Lots from Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Kenny Everett went under the hammer this year at the event By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Cabaret Darcelle XV, the world’s oldest working drag queen, dies aged 92 Darcelle was crowned the world’s oldest working drag performer in 2016 by the Guinness Book of World Records. The performer’s death from natural causes was announced on Facebook by the club she ran in Portland, Oregon, that was named after her drag persona. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Sport World Athletics to exclude trans women from female events World Athletics is to exclude transgender women who have gone through male puberty from female events with the body’s president, Lord Sebastian Coe, saying “decisive action” had been taken to “protect the female category in our sport”. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Music “I want this song to set folks free.” Billy Porter releases new single, ‘Baby Was A Dancer’ “Growing up queer, growing up black, growing up in the church, there was a lot of push back in terms of my authenticity. To talk about yourself, to have the language and the audacity to know one’s place and intention on this planet.” By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Film LGBTQ+ short film Stroke of Fate, starring Sheila McCarthy and Nathaniel Bacon, now available on Amazon Prime Video in the UK Stroke of Fate details a moment of time in a hospital waiting room. A mother and her gay son wait for news of their loved one’s prognosis. Old family wounds come to the surface under the pressure of the situation. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
General News Collaborative project highlights women’s differing experiences of lockdown A [Socially Isolated] Room of One’s Own: Women Writing Lockdown is a multi-disciplinary project which aims to capture the thoughts and feelings of women who endured the UK’s first phase of lockdown, when people’s lives were transformed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Television Froot.TV announces UK premiere date for new drag designer competition show, Sew Fierce, hosted by Barbada de Barbades Sew Fierce will see eight of the world’s top drag designers compete to win the first ever drag designer competition and a cash prize of $10,000. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
