General News Do you want your NHS records sold to private companies? Starting soon, private companies will be able to buy information on everyone from the NHS’s new universal patient database. This will include everything from mental health conditions, sexually transmitted infections and diseases like cancer all linked to your postcode, gender and ethnicity. Everyone By Besi • 1 min read
International News Parody website highlights the failure of major Olympic advertisers to speak out against Russia’s anti-LGBT laws New York activist hijacks Olympic sponsors social media promotions. As opposition to Russia’s anti LGBT laws continues to grow and major Olympic advertisers including Coca-Cola, McDonalds and VISA fail to speak out against those laws, Scott Wooledge an LGBT activist and member of Queer Nation NY has By Besi • 2 min read
International News To Russia with love from Brighton To mark the opening day of competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, protesters in Brighton highlight the plight of LGBT people in Russia. More than two hundred people turned out in deadful weather conditions this afternoon to support the To Russian with love demonstration at the Clock Tower on Q By Besi • 2 min read
International News Local licensees remove Coca-Cola products from their bars Licensees Adam Brooks and his partner Tony make a personal stand against the refusal of Coca-Cola to speak out about the basic human rights being denied to LGBT people in Russia. They have removed all Coca-Cola products from their shelves following the deafening silence from one of the headline spon By Besi • 2 min read
Health Local MP visits MindOut ‘Time to Talk’ event in Brighton Caroline Lucas MP for Brighton Pavilion popped into the MindOut Time to Talk event at Lovefit Cafe yesterday (Thursday, February 6) for coffee, cake and a chat. Time to Talk in Brighton was organised by MindOut the Brighton based LGBT mental health project as part of a wider national event organised By Besi • 1 min read
International News ‘To Russia with love’, solidarity demo in central Brighton on first day of Sochi Olympics A family friendly demonstration on the first day of the Sochi Olymics to show solidarity with LGBTQ+ people in Russia will take place, tomorrow Saturday, February 8. “To Russia with Love, Brighton” starts at Noon at the clock tower at the bottom of Queens Road. Following the success of the first “To By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Final month of ‘Turner in Brighton’ exhibition The Turner in Brighton exhibition which runs at the Royal Pavilion until March 2 has just under a month to run. The exhibition shows Brighton’s development as a seaside resort through the artist’s eyes, and brings together a range of his works, including watercolours, oil paintings, drawings, sketch By Besi • 1 min read
International News Gay travel foundation appoints new board members The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) Foundation appoint gay travel leaders Richard Gray and Ed Salvato to its board of directors. The IGLTA Foundation is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) tourism globally. Richard Gra By Besi • 2 min read
Arts ‘To Russia with love’ A protest on the eve of Putin’s Olympic opening, Thursday, February 6. Vince Laws will be face painting 83 volunteers with the names of the 83 countries where homosexuality is illegal at Ku-Bar, London on February 6 at 7pm on the eve of the opening of the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. There will be By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Fostering and adoption in Brighton & Hove is open to everyone An event is being held to raise awareness among the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community of the life enhancing possibilities becoming a foster carer or adopting a child can offer. The event is at the Jubilee Library in central Brighton on Tuesday, February 11, from 5-7pm. I By Besi • 1 min read
Health SLUT – How many men is too many? FS magazine looks at promiscuity in the gay community. Slut. It’s an insult that’s hurled around a lot in the gay community, but is there actually anything wrong with being a bit of a slut? In fact what defines someone as slutty? Is it purely a numbers game or is it the way you carry […] By Besi • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Police make donation to personal safety workshops for LGBT people Sussex Police donates £300 to MindOut, the LGBT mental health project to help fund personal safety workshops. MindOut will be running two half-day workshops that will equip people with the skills they need to feel assured whether in public or at home. The personal safety trainers specialise in worki By Besi • 2 min read
