LGBTQ+ News H2 Women’s Disco returns to Steyning After a long gap the popular H2 Women’s Disco is returning on Saturday, November 8. DJ Ann will be spinning the tunes, nibbles and coffee will be provided and there will be a free raffle. By Besi • 1 min read
LGBT Healthwalks LGBTQ+ News Keep fit and make new friends with monthly Healthwalks Brighton & Hove Healthwalks are launching a range of new monthly walks for LGBT people and their friends, starting on November 2. The first walk starts from St Ann’s Well Gardens in Hove at 2pm and at different locations around the city thereafter. By Besi • 2 min read
General News Men may have witnessed rape in Steine Street, Brighton on Saturday night Police wish to talk to three men who were in Steine Street, Brighton, when a woman was raped on Saturday morning. CCTV shows three men, all walking separately, enter the narrow street leading towards the seafront moments after a man had led a 27-year-old woman there and raped her. By Besi • 1 min read
International News Scotland hosts major conference for transgender and intersex rights this weekend Charity calls for action to secure equality for transgender and intersex people. Over 150 transgender and intersex equality activists from across the UK and Ireland will gather in Edinburgh this weekend (Oct 31 – Nov 2) in the biggest push for transgender and intersex rights Scotland has seen. By Besi • 4 min read
LGBTQ+ News Independent on Sunday ‘Rainbow List’ nominations close at midnight tonight The Pioneering list, now in its fifteenth year, celebrates The Independent on Sunday’s 101 most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Britain with Nicola Adams, Clare Balding and Paris Lees among those to previously top the list. By Besi • 2 min read
Health Labour stands up for the NHS Labour made a firm commitment to a free and locally accountable NHS, and slammed the Conservatives’ push for privatisation within the health service at todays (October 23) full council meeting. By Besi • 1 min read
News Hove MP’s swimming pool petition makes a splash! Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, met with around 75 supporters from his 50m swimming pool protest campaign outside Hove Town Hall this afternoon. The group lobbied councillors as they arrived for todays full council meeting where Mike was handing in his petition in suppor By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News What makes life ‘liveable’ for LGBTQ people in Brighton? The ‘Liveable Lives’ project, led by Dr Kath Browne at the University of Brighton, is exploring what ‘Liveable Lives’ means to people who come under the LGBTQ grouping (including but not limited to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people) and how this might be powerful in seeking positive soc By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Victims of Hate Crime remembered The LGBT Community Safety Forum hosted the annual Anti Hate Crime Vigil which was opened by the Rev Michael Hydes, on Saturday, October 18. The Vigil was one of many taking place all over the country to mark the three nail bomb attacks that rocked London on April 17, 24 and 30 in 1999. By Besi • 3 min read
News Frank Dobson MP to speak at Hassocks meeting Long-serving Labour MP and former Secretary of Health, Frank Dobson MP will speak at a ‘Save Our NHS’ meeting organised by the Labour Party in Hassocks, mid-Sussex on Wednesday, October 29, starting at 7.30pm. By Besi • 3 min read
Health Sunday Lunch at Lunch Positive In addition to the weekly Friday HIV Lunch Club, Lunch Positive will be running a monthly Sunday Lunch for people with HIV starting November 2. The Sunday Lunch will be held at the Lunch Positive hired venue, Dorset Gardens Methodist Church and will take place on the first Sunday of each month durin By Besi • 2 min read
General News Action to tackle dangerous parking around schools Action days are being held around four schools in Brighton & Hove this week to highlight the dangers of parking on pavements and grass verges. During the week Brighton & Hove City Council road safety staff, parking enforcement officers and police officers will be out and about in streets around scho By Besi • 2 min read
