Community News LETTER TO EDITOR: Thank you LGBT Community Safety Forum I wanted to write and thank Billie Lewis and the volunteers from the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum, for everything they did to help us with the Soul Safari days at the B Right On LGBT festival. They did an absolutely amazing job with everything, and the space they created for us to wor By Besi • 2 min read
Community News MBE for local LGBT Vicar Nigel Nash the Convenor of the Brighton Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement received an MBE in the 2016 Queens birthday Honours list (2016). The citation read: ‘For work with children and for voluntary work work the LGBT+ Community’. By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Activists take over London landmarks to reclaim our LGBT+ history A group of LGBT+ activists took over key London landmarks yesterday, turning the city’s public spaces into a living museum of radical queer history, subverting English Heritage’s historic blue plaques and bringing living exhibits to its streets. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: International Women’s Day: ‘Celebrating Women in Film’ The Brighton Film Quartet will be playing live at Brighton’s oldest arthouse cinema, the Duke of York’s, showcasing beautiful imagery from top local filmmaking talent on the big screen and a specially composed soundtrack. By Besi • 1 min read
In The South Major hate crime study to shape new and improved support services for victims A major new study to investigate hate crime in the West Midlands and to shape the development of improved support services for victims is being led by the University of Leicester. The project’s aims are closely aligned with the priorities set out within the Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan which By Besi • 2 min read
In The South Caroline Lucas MP to hold surgery at offices of Terrence Higgins Trust Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion will be holding a surgery at the offices of Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) on Friday, February 24 from 4pm-6pm. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Pride Arts & Film Festival: Summer Of Love Exhibition 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality for men in England and Wales. For more than eighty years this Victorian piece of legislation forced gay men to live their lives closeted and in the shadows. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Drawing Circus: After-hours life drawing in the Royal Pavilion’s sumptuous Music Room The Royal Pavilion’s sumptuous Music Room plays host to the Drawing Circus’s unique brand of theatrical life drawing at this unique, after-hours event. Having won Best Museum Drawing Event for its night-time event at the Booth Museum in October 2015, the Drawing Circus is returning to Royal Pavilion By Besi • 1 min read
General News Graham Norton supports National Diversity Awards “Did we know that we were standing on the threshold of a very different and much darker new world?” said Moira Smyth, Winner of the positive Role Model Award for LGBT. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Brighton Pride call for ideas to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 Young people’s charity The Budding Foundation, have been donated a bag of 580 mint uncirculated old pennies from 1967, the year the sexual offences law changed. By Besi • 1 min read
Fundraising News Eastbourne Hart raise £200 for older peoples group Members of Eastbourne Rainbow, AGE Concern Eastbourne’s 50+ LGBT social group receive a cheque for £200 from Andrew and Gary of The Hart, Eastbourne’s premier gay bar. The money was raised from ticket sales for the sell-out musical evening ‘Till I Hear You Sing’. By Besi • 1 min read
Community News PICTURE Diary: B RIGHT ON Festival: Family Fun Day During the B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival, part of LGBT History Month the LGBT Community Safety Forum OUTReach project organised a Family Fun Day on Saturday, February 18 in the Phil Starr Pavilion in New Steine Gardens. By Besi • 1 min read
