Arts Museums in Liverpool and Brighton awarded LGBT funds National Museums Liverpool has been awarded a significant grant to fund research into its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) collections in its art galleries and urban history items at the Museum of Liverpool. The £91,863 grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund will be used by Nat By Besi • 3 min read
Cllr Bill Randall General News Seven households swap homes in time for Christmas Local families are swapping their council homes to combat the government’s under occupation rule, with one family negotiating a seven-way swap before Christmas taking them from a 4-bed house in rural West Sussex to a 3-bed flat in central Brighton. More than 100 families have swapped their council h By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Changing Attitude Carol Service The annual Changing Attitude Sussex/Brighton and Hove LGCM Carol Service will take place on Friday, December 19 at 7.30 pm at St George’s Church Kemptown. Changing Attitude Sussex is an organisation committed to telling the truth about Christian teaching on homosexuality, and works for the full incl By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: HIV-Positive? New Year, New You! Paul Thorn’s eagerly anticipated eBook called ‘HIV Happy’ presents a tried and tested methodology on how to improve your day to day life with the virus. It expands on many of the ideas that were presented in his award nominated GT magazine column called Recipes for Life. The column had been noticed By Besi • 2 min read
Health Med diet linked to improved CV function in erectile dysfunction patients The Mediterranean diet is linked to improved cardiovascular performance in patients with erectile dysfunction, according to research presented at EuroEcho-Imaging 2014 by Dr Athanasios Angelis from Greece. Patients with erectile dysfunction who had poor adherence to the Mediterranean diet had more v By Besi • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Holly At Christmas 2014 Buddy Holly and The Cricketers rocks its way to the Congress Theatre on Sunday, December 21. Britain’s most popular Buddy Holly tribute act will bring to life the great American singer’s all-time favourites such as That’ll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Heartbeat, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, Raining In My He By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Ho Ho Homo Festival Fun up north! MANCHESTER PRIDE, the award-winning festival for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, is hosting an evening of festive fun and fundraising in the Manchester’s Gay Village on Friday, December 5. By Besi • 1 min read
News PREVIEW: Big Quiffy Quiz The Big Quiffy Quiz begins a weekly residency at the Marlborough Theatre Bar, deep in the heart of fashionable Brighton town, and you gotta be in it to win it! Go along and test your knowledge of showbiz with your quizmonger extraordinaire, the inimitable Boogaloo Stu, for an evening of frivolous fu By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus welcome new members in January BRIGHTON GAY Men’s Chorus will be holding a New Members’ Evening on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 7:30pm at the Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton. Fresh from the success of their ‘Putting On The Glitz’ show at the Theatre Royal, they are preparing for their next season and new members are By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: We all live together: A Concert for World AIds Day I have been covering LGBT community events for the last 20 years and Monday nights World Aids Day Concert, ‘We all live together’ was up there with the very best of them. St Mary’s Church on the corner of St James Street and Rock Gardens was full to the rafters for one of the few days of the year wh By Besi • 2 min read
James Preston and Philip Robathan first same sex couple to be married in Brighton Town Hall LGBTQ+ News Ten same sex couples tie the knot at 10 o’clock on December 10 Ten couples will make history in Brighton & Hove when they are married at the same time in Brighton Town Hall on the first day the law allows. All ten couples are civil partners and will be converting their existing civil partnerships into marriages at 10am on Wednesday December 10, 2014. By Besi • 2 min read
General News Report says local CAMHS put young people in vulnerable position Healthwatch Brighton and Hove has published a report on people’s experiences of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Brighton and Hove. The report shows that the complexity of the service and lack of information is putting young people in a vulnerable position. By Besi • 2 min read
