Community Works HIV reps update HIV hasn’t gone away, nor the complexity of issues that it can present. We’d be doing ourselves and our community a disservice to take the comfortable view that it has. By Besi • 3 min read
Greens secure delay on plans by Brighton Council to sell ‘Same Sky’ building Plans for the sale of Belmont Street, home to a creative community including local charity Same Sky, the organisation behind the Children’s Parade and Burning the Clocks Festival, would see the groups offered relocation into New England House. By Besi • 3 min read
Greens select local activist to fight council leaders ward Brighton & Hove Green Party selects well-known local resident and activist Mitchie (Michelle) Alexander as its candidate for the Moulsecoomb & Bevendean ward in the May 2019 council elections. By Besi • 1 min read
Brighton Pride supports Trans Pride Brighton Following the disruption of last weekend’s Pride in London Parade by a tiny number of individuals, Brighton & Hove Pride issue statement totally condemning their actions. By Besi • 1 min read
Miss Jason, the Hover hostess with the mostess today at Isle Of Wight Pride! Miss Jason will lift up her skirts to host exclusive trips to todays Isle of Wight Pride On the Beach with Hovertravel. Iconic drag persona Miss Jason will meet, greet and entertain hovercraft passengers travelling to this unique event located on Ryde beach on the Isle of Wight, which this year is a By Besi • 2 min read
Make a donation to support Trans Pride Brighton Trans Pride 2018 features a comprehensive series of events culminating in Saturdays’ March and the main event in Brunswick Gardens, Hove. By Besi • 1 min read
Brighton, UK. Brighton Trans Pride 2017, 22/07/2017, Photo Credit: Hugo Michiels Photography Greens to march at Trans Pride Brighton Brighton and Hove Green Party will march in solidarity with the city’s trans communities today, August 21, at the annual Trans Pride Brighton March. Trans Pride Brighton is now in its sixth year with the number of attendees growing year on year. Last year over 2,500 people marched to promote equalit By Besi • 4 min read
32 organisations demand PrEP for everyone by April 1, 2019 NHS England and local authorities must ensure PrEP is routinely availability for HIV prevention by April 1, 2019, says a coalition of 32 organisations. By Besi • 4 min read
Navigate is moving forward Navigate is a group for transgender men, trans masculine people, genderqueer people, non-binary people, those assigned intersex and/or female at birth that fit somewhere else on or off the spectrum or those who are questioning their gender identity. By Besi • 1 min read
American Express support the new Brighton Pride Community Village This year the Pride Community Village, supported by American Express, has grown in to a brand new enhanced area, becoming a hub for our charities and community groups. Open from 12.30pm until 7pm on Pride Saturday (August 4), the Village will host the Family Diversity Area, the Trans Tent, the Well By Besi • 1 min read
American Express supports the Community Village at Brighton Pride 2018 American Express continues its partnership with Brighton & Hove Pride by supporting the 2018 Community Village. The Community Village will give local charities and community groups an opportunity to meet festival goers, display the work they do to support and advance LGBT+ causes. By Besi • 2 min read
Rainbow Fund grants round – final call for applications The Rainbow Fund would like to remind everyone that they are open for applications to their Annual Funding Round. The online application form, together with an explanation of this year’s criteria, can be found on The Rainbow Fund website at www.rainbow-Fund.org/application-form By Besi • 2 min read
HIV charity hosts Brighton Pride Community Cafe Once again this year, Lunch Positive will be staging a Community Café at Brighton Pride in Preston Park on Saturday, August 4. The Café will be sited in the Community Village near the centre of the park and will have a seating area, designated tables and assisted table service for people with access By Besi • 1 min read
PREVIEW: Club Krankenhaus @Caroline of Brunswick Count Addiction and Cherry Fakewell invite you to the best underground drag show in Brighton Pride! Celebrating two years at the Caroline of Brunswick, Bitter Sours are staging Club Krankenhaus, their third party celebrating Pride. By Besi • 1 min read
Brighton graduate lights up London University of Brighton graduate lights up London’s most iconic buildings with political slogans. Jack Mills, who graduated with BA(Hons) in Humanities and is now Print Features Editor on the magazine Dazed and Confused, teamed up with New York activist group The Illuminator who travel the world proj By Besi • 2 min read
Photo by Liz Finlayson/Vervate Martlets Snowdogs by the Sea campaign – The Salt Room and The Coal Shed are sponsoring The Martlets Trail Makers – Trail makers are picture here with staff from the Salt Room with Bobby the Snowdog Could you care for Martlets’ Giant Snails? Are you a closet performer? A humble historian or an art addict? Do you want to meet people, re-discover this vibrant city and help a wonderful cause? If so, then sign up to be a volunteer Route Master as part of the Snailspace art project being run by Martlets, this September. By Besi • 1 min read
Newcastle Pride to close with Candlelit Vigil Newcastle Pride closes on Sunday, (July 22) with members and friends of all LGBT+ communities coming together to show solidarity with those going through hardship and those who have lost their lives in the fight for LGBT+ rights. By Besi • 2 min read
REVIEW: Rainbow Chorus 21 @ St Georges Church When you attend a Rainbow Chorus concert, you look forward to taking away the memory of an evening of excellent music and singing, but this special 21st anniversary celebration was a completely different matter and offered much more. By Besi • 2 min read
PICTURE DIARY: Worthing Pride – the people Photographer Tyrone Darling spent Saturday creating his personal record of the people attending the inaugural Worthing Pride. By Besi • 1 min read
PICTURE DIARY: Worthing Pride – the parade Thousands cheer on the first Worthing Pride parade whose message Love is Love was captured in a riot of colour and dancing on Saturday, July 14. Under blue skies and soaring temperatures more than six hundred people from a wide range of voluntary and statutory organisations marched and danced the le By Besi • 1 min read
PICTURE DIARY: Doctor Brightons – a night to remember! It was billed as a closing party following the brewery’s decision not to renew their lease for Doctor Brightons with Brighton & Hove City Council. A last minute decision by the Council, following an open tender, to offer Charles Child, the sitting tenant, a new 15 year lease and what was supposed to By Besi • 1 min read
PICTURE DIARY: Worthing Pride – photos of the parade More than 600 people pre registered By Besi • 1 min read
PICTURE DIARY: Worthing Pride – photos on the park It was the first Worthing Pride, but organisers certainly did the town proud delivering an event that was accessible, with plenty of first class entertainment for everyone and a good turnout of groups and organisations who support the LGBT+ communities in Worthing. By Besi • 1 min read
Greens demand assurances over future of local services Plans by the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to make £50m in savings by next April are provoking ongoing concerns from the Green Group of councillors on Brighton & Hove City Council, who say the programme of cuts will put local services at risk. By Besi • 2 min read
