Community News Lunch Positive raises £3,211.50 at Pride A record number of volunteers, supporters and friends helped Lunch Positive host its annual Community Cafe at Pride this year. Twenty-seven people gave a total of 214 hours both behind and in front of the scenes to prepare and serve over 600 meals and 400 cakes! The café was situated in the Communit By Besi • 2 min read
News Lib Dems announce candidate to fight Lucas in Brighton Pavilion Liberal Democrats have selected a candidate with a strong environmental track record to fight the seat of Britain’s only Green MP at next May’s general election. Chris Bowers, 53, was the founder director of the Environmental Transport Association in 1990. MOre recently he has been better known as a By Besi • 2 min read
Health Volunteers needed at Lunch Positive Lunch Positive, the HIV charity is looking for volunteers to help provide the Friday lunch club for people with HIV. The lunch club provides a safe and supportive space for people to share lunch, make friendships and find peer support. Volunteers are needed to help on Friday afternoons in the dining By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Lily Allen at Brighton Centre Lily Allen will play the Brighton Centre on Thursday, November 27 as part of a nine date tour. The tour includes a headlining show at the highly prestigious Edinburgh Hogmanay Show on December 31 which will see Lily bring in 2015 at the ‘Home of Hogmanay’. Lily, who has been touring extensively al By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Final call for runners to enter Southampton charity drag race The Titanic Pub in Southampton is raising money for Cancer Research UK at the annual drag race on September 6, 2014 hosted by Sonia Marmite. The Race will be started by Southampton Councillor Linda Norris and all money raised will be used for cancer research and treatment in the Southampton area. La By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Naked calendar to benefit testicular and prostate cancer A group of men from South Wales are supporting the Everyman Appeal. They aim is to raise £10,000 while also making people more aware of the risks to men of testicular and prostate cancers. Men are less likely to talk about these matters or go for checkups, so the idea is to use the calendar […] By Besi • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Manchester Pride partners with the LGF for Pride 2014 The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF) Community Hub will open for the Big Weekend. Manchester Pride is working with The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF) to create a new area at the Big Weekend. The LGF Community Hub will offer thousands attending the Big Weekend a series of free services designed to By Besi • 4 min read
Arts ‘Out there’ a new anthology of Scottish LGBT literature The first anthology of Scottish LGBT writing published in twelve years, and only the third in Scottish literary history. Freight Books is publishing a new and definitive anthology of prose writing and poetry from Scotland’s leading and emerging LGBT writers, edited by Zoe Strachan, in September. It By Besi • 1 min read
International News Canadian lawyer receives prestigious 2014 leadership award Cynthia Petersen is the recipient of the Egale Canada Human Rights Trust 2014 LGBT Leadership Award. The award is presented annually to a Canadian whose leadership has advanced lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) human rights both at home and abroad. Cynthia was called to the Ontario Bar in 1994 By Besi • 2 min read
Community News ‘Oldest Gay in The Village’ announces his fundraising totals over Pride George Montague, the former Pride Ambassador, was out over the Pride weekend raising money for the Rainbow Fund. George, who is affectionately known as the Oldest Gay in the Village, celebrated his 91st birthday a few weeks before Pride. He signed copies of his new book “The Oldest Gay in the Villag By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Love is in the air for Manchester Pride Manchester woke up to a sea of red heart balloons yesterday morning, following a stunt by Manchester Pride organisers which saw 500 red balloons mysteriously floating in key city centre locations. The stunt was carried out ahead of Manchester Pride’s Big Weekend, which takes place over the August Ba By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Lord Fowler to make exclusive appearance at Prowler Soho Lord Fowler will appear at Prowler Soho, 5-7 Brewer Street, London, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, August 28 to promote his new book, AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice. Norman Fowler (Lord Fowler since 2001), author of the book AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice, has recently returned from the Internationa By Besi • 2 min read
