LGBTQ+ News Student Pride will celebrate 10th anniversary in London in 2015 Student Pride will be held at the end of LGBT History month (Feb 27 – Mar 1) centred around a daytime festival at the University of Westminster’s Marylebone campus opposite Madame Tussauds. The City of Brighton & Hove lost the honour and kudos of staging Student Pride to London in 2014 through spira By Besi • 2 min read
General News Hastings Pier – set to reopen Summer 2015 Once Hastings, the ancient Cinque Port was one of the country’s most important resorts, and its 910ft‑long pier – thought to be the first of the 99 in Britain that were built for entertainment, rather than as landing stages – was at the heart of its fortunes. By Besi • 1 min read
General News Elf and safety goes mad this Christmas! More than 100 homeless residents in Brighton & Hove City Council hostels received presents this Christmas after the council’s Health and Safety Team collected more than 600 donations to distribute. The gifts were restricted to warm clothing such as socks, scarfs, gloves, hats and underwear as well a By Besi • 1 min read
In The South Portsmouth plan a Pride in 2015 Organisers are planning to hold a Pride in Portsmouth on June 20, 2015. Plans are an an early stage for a parade starting from Victoria Park, progressing through the city centre and culminating with an event at the Guildhall where there will be stalls and live music. By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Christmas Hamper for Sussex Beacon Danny Dwyer, organiser of Bear Patrol, delivered a hamper to the Sussex Beacon on Christmas morning on behalf of the members of Bear Patrol. The contents of the hamper were donated by members of Bear Patrol at their Santa Bear Bash Christmas Party at the Camelford Arms on Sunday, December 21 which r By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Eight organisations named as ‘Stonewall Star Performers’ Stonewall have launched a new programme to bring together top-performing organisations who over the years have consistently demonstrated good practice to support their lesbian, gay and bisexual staff. The new Stonewall Star Performers – named as Accenture, Barclays, EY, Gentoo, Goldman Sachs, Home O By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Invisible Woman Maxine Jones starts the UK tour of her show Invisible Woman at the Other Place, Brighton on January 23. Maxine came to comedy late in life, though she’d always been a fan. She studied French at Durham University and worked as an EFL teacher and secretary in northern Italy and Paris before settling i By Besi • 2 min read
Arts 2015 is the year of the musical at Eastbourne Theatres Musical Theatre fans in Eastbourne will be spoilt for choice in 2015 with productions of Dirty Dancing, Calamity Jane, Anything Goes, Oklahoma, Sound of Music and Annie. Eastbourne Theatres will be offering musical theatre fans ‘The Time of Their Life’ next year as Dirty Dancing kicks off an unprece By Besi • 2 min read
The team at Radio Reverb General News New studios for RadioReverb RadioReverb invited people to check out their new studios in Brighton last month, to have a drink, a chat and see their new facilities. RadioReverb is one of the largest voluntary organisation in Brighton with more than 100 volunteers working on programmes and behind the scenes. They have no paid st By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Support for same-sex marriage in Scotland at all time high Newly released Scottish Social Attitudes survey results reveal a record 68% support for same-sex marriage, while opposition at 17% is record low – a four to one majority. On the day that Scotland’s historic equal marriage legislation came into effect, Wednesday, December 17, a new study by ScotCen S By Besi • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Commission launches new project to help tackle LGBT hate crime The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a 16-month-long project to tackle significant under-reporting of hate crime against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people in Great Britain. Recent figures in England and Wales show less than 4,500 homophobic and transphobic inciden By Besi • 2 min read
Health Ealing council commits to halving late and undiagnosed HIV through early testing Not long after World AIDS Day, Ealing Council has committed to halving late and undiagnosed HIV. The council unanimously passed a motion on HIV testing in support of the ‘Halve It’ campaign. The motion recognises the importance of local action in coordinating and commissioning accessible and effecti By Besi • 2 min read
