LGBTQ+ News Sussex Police seek more volunteers to advise on LGBT issues Sussex Police are seeking more volunteers from the community to help officers gain a better understanding of issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people across Sussex. A group of people from across the county, including councils, LGBT charities and support groups and also independen By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News LGBT children, young people and families day – will you be involved? Young People’s Voice, a campaigns action group based at Allsorts Youth Project are organising ‘LGBT Children, Young People and Families Day’ on February 4, 2014. The event takes place on the first Tuesday of February 2014 during LGBT History Month. Last year Allsorts ran a successful LGBT Tea party, By Besi • 1 min read
Arts ALADDIN: A family panto for Christmas A company of Brighton’s local talented actors and performers are to stage a performance of Aladdin in support of a worthy charity, and to give local families a traditional and magical festive pantomime. In the absence of a family Christmas show at the Theatre Royal in Brighton this year, Music Theat By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Brighton’s LGBT choirs perform together on World Aids Day For the first time ever all of Brighton’s LGBT Choirs came together yesterday, Sunday, December 1 at St Mary’s Church, Kemptown to perform a concert of the very highest quality on World Aids Day. It has taken many years to have a single event to celebrate World Aids Day, but the wait was well worth By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Tom Daley confirms he is in a relationship with a guy Olympic bronze medalist Tom Daley confirmed the world’s worst kept secret to his two million followers on You Tube this morning, revealing he is “in a relationship with a man and could not be happier”. While not using the word ‘gay’ he said: “In spring this year my life changed massively when I met By Besi • 1 min read
Health WORLD AIDS DAY: Candlelit Vigil The lives of those lost to HIV/Aids were remembered at the 25th Anniversary World Aids Day Candlelit Vigil at the Brighton Aids Memorial yesterday, Sunday, December 1. Representatives from the voluntary sector, council, police and politicians from all political parties read the name of those who had By Besi • 1 min read
Health World Aids Day: Sunday December 1: Candlelit vigil The Brighton & Hove World AIDS Day community partnership is staging a candlelit vigil to mark this year’s World AIDS Day tomorrow, Sunday, December 1. Lunch Positive, the HIV charity who provide a free meal every Friday for people who are HIV positive, will be hosting a community café with hot drink By Besi • 1 min read
Arts WORLD AIDS DAY CONCERT: ‘We all live together’: Sunday December 1 Tomorrow for the first time ever, all the local LGBTQ music groups (and a few of their friends) will be performing together in a concert on World Aids Day at St Mary’s Church in Kemptown, in support of Lunch Positive, the HIV charity and lunch club who provide a healthy lunch for positive people onc By Besi • 2 min read
Health Lunch Positive celebrate World Aids Day with friends and supporters Lunch Positive the HIV charity hosted a special lunch on November 29 to commemorate World AIDS Day. The HIV lunch club welcomed 72 people including guests from partner organisations who support the LGBT community. Guests included Lawson Unit, Public Health, HIV Community Specialist Team, East Sussex By Besi • 1 min read
Arts ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ auditions A new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is being planned during next year’s Fringe Festival at the New Venture Theatre. Told as an extended monologue by Hedwig during one of her concerts, she recounts her metamorphosis from the young East German “slip of a girly-boy” Hansel to the tragic Hedwi By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Tory MP delays Alan Turing pardon John Leech the Lib Dem MP for Manchester Withington has spoken of his disappointment that a Tory MP’s objection to the bill to pardon Alan Turing made during its second reading in the House of Commons has delayed its progress until the new year. Alan Turing played a key role in cracking the German E By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News ‘To Russia with Love – Enough is Enough’ – Peter Tatchell to speak at demonstration in Brighton today Peter Tatchell will be a guest speaker today along with Raphael Francis Fox (My Generation), Phelim McCafferty (Green Party), Russian and local activists at the solidarity demo, To Russia With Love, Brighton UK. In Russia today, LGBTQ+ people and their allies are under attack, they are beaten, arres By Besi • 1 min read
