LGBTQ+ News More support for LGBT youth needed The Government is amending the ‘Children and Families’ Bill, bringing positive change to the care system. Broken Rainbow UK, the LGBT domestic violence charity, urges LGBT people to consider fostering and adoption to support young LGBT people in foster care due to domestic violence and abuse. Federi By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Reports of Hate Crimes increase Sussex Police force has been named as one of only three police forces in England and Wales to record an increase in reporting across all five forms of hate crime monitored by police – disability, race, religious belief, sexual orientation and transgender. Hate Crime can be in the form of verbal abus By Besi • 2 min read
Tom French LGBTQ+ News Scottish Parliament rejects wrecking amendments to equal marriage bill The Scottish Parliament’s Equal Opportunities Committee has rejected amendments supported by opponents of same-sex marriage in Scotland, which the Equality Network says are unnecessary and would have ‘reintroduced discrimination and rolled back LGBT equality’. The Committee was tasked with consideri By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Tom Daley leaps to victory in Co-operative’s ‘Respect ‘Loved by You’ Awards’ ‘Respect’, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) network for the The Co-operative has announce the winners of their inaugural ‘Loved by You’ awards. During the last four weeks the awards generated 8,753 nominations and reached over 2.5 million people on Twitter with support from communit By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Brighton youngsters to star in West End production of ‘Scrooge the Musical’ at The Brighton Centre next week Next week, the record-breaking London Palladium production of Scrooge the Musical, featuring Tommy Steele will open at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, for a Christmas run. More than 30 children from Drama Queens in Brighton have been selected to appear in the show at The Brighton Centre. They range i By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News New LGBT reps elected for ‘Community Works’ Gary Pargeter volunteer co-ordinator at Lunch Positive and Chris Cooke from the St James Street LAT have been elected the new LGBT representatives for Community Works. Community Works members (formerly the Community and Voluntary Sector Forum) elect representatives from within their membership to re By Besi • 2 min read
International News To Putin with love! Yesterday afternoon, December 18, Alistair Stewart and Chris Price of the Kaleiderscope Trust attempted to deliver a Christmas gift to Vladimir Putin via the Russian Embassy in London. Featuring the signatures of Sir Elton John, Stephen Fry and Graham Norton, the gift was a set of Russian Nesting Do By Besi • 1 min read
Arts The Brighton Belles in concert The Brighton Belles, Brighton’s newest gay choir are performing a Christmas Show on Friday, December 20 at the Brighton Arts Club starting at 7.30pm. Singer and author Krissie DuCann is special guest for the evening. The choir will be singing to benefit The Martlets Hospice. They have begged, borrow By Besi • 1 min read
News Gay music groups raise £1,812 for Lunch Positive Brighton’s LGBQI music groups raise £1,812 for Lunch Positive. The 2013 World Aid’s Day Concert: We All Live Together organised by Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus and featuring all the city’s LGBTQI music groups performing together, raised an amazing £1,812 for Lunch Positive, the HIV charity and lunch cl By Besi • 1 min read
International News Member of General Synod advocates prison for gays One of the Sussex Diocese of Chichester representatives on the Church of England General Synod, Andrea Minichiello Williams, recently attended a conference in Jamaica to urge the Government to keep the law which criminalises homosexuality. She spoke in derogatory terms about gay people, and peddled By Besi • 3 min read
International News Green MEP backsEuro proposals to eliminate homophobic bully from schools and workplaces London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert has backed a decision to take EU-level action to stamp out homophobia. Members of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee have voted with a large majority to establish an EU road-map against homophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gen By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Kemptown MP Kirby calls for urgency in allowing civil partnership to marriage conversions for same sex couples Simon Kirby, Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, has called for greater urgency in allowing same sex couples to convert a civil partnership into a marriage. Last week the Government announced that, following the passage of the Equal Marriage Act, the first same sex weddings wi By Besi • 2 min read
