Community News Community Works celebrate the city’s volunteers Community Works an organisation that helps people looking to volunteer, and organisations looking for volunteers, find each other have organised an event tomorrow, June 3 2015 to celebrate the difference volunteers make to the city. If volunteers were paid the living wage for their work in Brighton By Besi • 2 min read
Danny Dwyer Community News Bear-Patrol receive Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service Brighton based Bear-Patrol, have been recognised with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Bear-Patrol are an LGBT social group who organise leisure, challenge and fundraising events to reduce isolation and provide a network for the local community. They have been honoured with the Queen’s Award By Besi • 3 min read
Norman Lamb MP and local party members News Lib Dem leadership contender visits local party in Brighton Brighton & Hove Liberal Democrats welcomed leadership contender Norman Lamb MP to the city on Saturday, May 30. The Local Party has doubled in size since polling day and members were in buoyant mood as Norman set-out his vision for the future of the Liberal Democrats. By Besi • 2 min read
B*Witched Arts Home is where the Pride is! Five of the North East’s leading housing providers are proving there’s no place like home by sponsoring one of the region’s largest events. Gentoo, South Tyneside Homes, Places for People, Gateshead Housing Company and Riverside are all backing Newcastle Pride 2015. The LGBT festival, which returns By Besi • 2 min read
The Team are all safely down having raised thousands of pounds for the Rainbow Fund Community News Bear Patrol abseil down Spinnaker Tower for Rainbow Fund Bear Patrol organiser Danny Dwyer and entertainer Jason Sutton, joined 17 friends and Bear Patrol members at Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth at 8am this morning to abseil down the 560 foot high Spinnaker Tower. The purpose of the early start was to raise funds for the Brighton based Rainbow Fund, who m By Besi • 4 min read
General News Brush up for ‘National Smile Month’ at Food Festival TePe, the experts in interdental care, teamed up with the Dental Health Spa on Queen’s Road, Brighton to host a Brushing Booth to educate children and their parents about good oral care and to help raise funds for Mouth Cancer Awareness during the Brighton Food Festival which closes tomorrow. By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News LGBTI equality and the next Scottish election The Equality Network, Scotland’s national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality and human rights charity, launches its Scottish Parliament election LGBTI equality priorities consultation. The survey, which the charity conducts in the run-up to every Scottish Parliament el By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Edit Profile Edit Profile is an explicit and raunchy exploration of the escapades of a single hard and horny gay man as he navigates the world of dating apps, chemsex and group play. With all this non stop pleasure at his fingertips what could possibly go wrong? What are you into? Into Chemsex? BB? Groups? Where By Besi • 1 min read
In The South Zoo Pride at Bristol Zoo Gardens Bristol Pride and Bristol Zoo Gardens are staging a unique party in Bristol Zoo on August 1. Bristol Pride may be on July 11, but Pride works all year round. This year Bristol Pride organisers will be linking up with Bristol Zoo Gardens for a very special collaboration which will see an evening take By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Raffle prizes needed for charity art show ‘BRUSH’ the independently owned boutique hair salon and art gallery in the North Laines are to stage a group art show to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and The Martlets Hospice. The ‘LUNGS’ exhibition opens with a launch party on Saturday, May 30 at 7pm and runs until Thursday, July 2. All procee By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Britain’s Greatest Generation! George Montague, affectionately known as the oldest gay in the village appears in the last episode of a four-part BBC TV series tomorrow, Friday, May 29, on BBC at 9pm. The series, Britain’s Greatest Generation: How our parents and grandparents made the twentieth century, focuses on the postwar year By Besi • 1 min read
Cabaret Hove landlord runs for the Beacon Adam Brooks, landlord of the Beford Tavern in Hove raised £7,106.37 for the Sussex Beacon from his marathon challenge earlier in the year. Adam’s next fundraising project will take place over the weekend of June 26-28 when he will be raising money for the Rainbow Fund. By Besi • 1 min read
