Health THT launches online peer support for people with HIV HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has launched a new addition to its myHIV website (www.myHIV.org.uk), which will offer real-time online peer support to people with HIV who may be struggling with the condition. The charity has recruited and trained a team of volunteers livin By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News A Big Weekender Christmas Cracker Bender Miss Jason, three times winner of the Golden Handbag Entertainer of the Year award, is hosting a Weekend Bender in Eastbourne at The Lions Mansion Hotel on the weekend of Friday November 8. She is being joined by friends including Tammy Twinkle, Kevin Cruise, Sandra, Sally Vate, TiTi La Camp, Charli By Besi • 1 min read
Community News MindOut and mental health! MindOut, the LGBT mental health project celebrated a year in the life of MindOut at the Dorset Gardens Methodist Church last Wednesday, October 16. All aspects of their work were profiled and then some service users gave short talks about why MindOut was important to them. It was powerful stuff, but By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Help Colin raise money for Lunch Positive Colin Bentley is a supporter of Lunch Positive, the HIV charity who provide a healthly meal for people who are positive every Friday at the Dorset Gardens Methodist Church in Kemptown. He is running both the Brighton Half and Full Marathons to raise funds for the charity in 2014. Colin took up runni By Besi • 1 min read
General News Reversing the tide of the UK tuberculosis epidemic A primary-care based screening programme could help tackle tuberculosis (TB) in the UK according to a comment from Public Health England (PHE) published in The Lancet (October 18). London has the highest rate of TB of any western European capital and the UK will have more TB cases than the USA withi By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Art auction raises £30,000 for THT Last week Christie’s hosted a charity auction at its annual Vanity Fair Contemporary Art Party, where an artwork by acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin raised £30,000 for HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT). The artwork, How many times do I say I love you, was created from a By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Anti-Hate Crime Vigil Tonight at 7.30pm- Paint the Town Purple! The Brighton Anti-Hate Crime Vigil, organised by the Brighton & Hove Community Safety Forum (LGBT CSF), will be held tonight, Saturday, October 19 near the Old Steine fountain at 7.30pm sharp. Vigils will be taking place simultaneously in cities all over the country to mark the three nail bomb atta By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Report highlights problems for LGBTI refugees Micro Rainbow International (MRI), a pioneering enterprise set up to address the situation of poverty of LGBTI people worldwide, has launched a new report entitled Poverty, Sexual Orientation and Refugees in the UK. The report, which is the first to be published in the UK on the issues of poverty fa By Besi • 1 min read
General News Leading academic to warn of deepening crisis of trust in UK institutions Leading sociologist Frank Furedi will this weekend launch a stark warning that UK’s public institutions will face more severe crises of trust – such as those currently afflicting the BBC, NHS (from Mid Staffs to the Jimmy Savile scandal) and police (post Plebgate) – unless they make a concerted bid By Besi • 2 min read
General News Exeter City FC continue to promote equality and diversity in football Exeter City FC will be celebrating the role of women and girls in football at its specially designated One Game One Community (OGOC) home game against Burton Albion on Saturday, October 26. Each season the Supporters’ Trust backed Exeter City OGOC group to organise a match with an equality and diver By Besi • 2 min read
General News Credit where it’s due! Brighton & Hove Council are investing £100, 000 over the next 2 years in the East Sussex Credit Union, (a local not for profit savings and loans co-operative), as part of the council’s new Financial Inclusion Strategy. Credit Unions offer a chance to save and borrow ethically and a sensible option f By Besi • 2 min read
Arts SUNNY DRAKE: Transgender Seeking…. at the Basement The award-winning Australian queer and transgender theatre artist – Sunny Drake, is appearing at the Basement in Brighton on Thursday, October 24. Currently based in Toronto, Sunny has toured his work extensively, including the San Francisco International Arts Festival and three times to the USA Nat By Besi • 1 min read
