Community News Lunch Positive Community Cafe raises £2,764 Lunch Positive’s Community Café at Pride on Preston Park this year was a great success and raised £2,764 towards the ongoing costs of running the weekly lunch club, which provides a healthy meal each Friday for people who are HIV positive. The Community Cafe was a real team effort, involving twenty- By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Thank you from the Gay Village Party The annual Gay Village Party took place over the Pride weekend on August 3-4 in St James’s and adjoining streets on the Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. Over the two days it is estimated that over 40,000 revellers attended the event without any major incident. This years party cost over £20,00 By Besi • 2 min read
General News Abandoned bikes raise funds for Sussex Central YMCA Brighton & Hove City Council has announced it removed over 500 abandoned bikes in 2012 and 2013, which have since been donated to the local charity Sussex Central YMCA to be sold or recycled. Last year, the council’s Highway Enforcement team, who deal with reports of abandoned bikes across the city, By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Pride organisers present Rainbow Fund cheque Pride organisers Paul Kemp and Dulcie Danger have presented the Rainbow Fund Chairman Paul Elgood with the charitable proceeds of this year’s event totalling £43,103. This funding will be available for the autumn’s Rainbow Fund grant round for LGBT/HIV community groups delivering frontline services. By Besi • 1 min read
Comedy Comedians rally for LGBT rights in Russia This Thursday, August 22 at 2.30pm the Equality Network, the Scottish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality charity, are joining with award-winning comedian Mark Thomas for a special one-off Edinburgh Festival Fringe gig outside the Russian Consulate [Consulate General of the Russia By Besi • 2 min read
Cllr Warren Morgan News Hove MP Urges Caution Over Tourism Tax Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has joined the growing group of local hotel owners, business owners and politicians opposing a Labour national proposal for a tourist tax, describing it “unworkable and damaging”. Brighton & Hove relies heavily on the revenue that it recei By Besi • 2 min read
News Hove MP slams south-to-north train subsidies Following the announcement that rail fairs are set to increase by an average of 4.1%, Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has criticised the convoluted system of subsidies that is in place and called for an end to the practice. Currently train users in the South subsidise ot By Besi • 1 min read
Health Clubbers offered free HIV home sampling kits Gay men heading home from a night out in south London are for the first time to be offered free home sampling kits to find out their HIV status. The innovative initiative has been developed by Mortimer Market Centre, a sexual health clinic run by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust an By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Same Sex Dancers bring back World Championship titles to UK The First International Same-Sex Dance Association (IFSSDA) World Same Sex Dance Championship took place between August 7-9 at the World Outgames 2013 Antwerp, Belgium. Alan Wake and David Smith were crowned IFSSDC World Champions in the Men’s Senior 2 Ten Dance and Victoria Settle and Yvonne Settle By Besi • 2 min read
Maisie Trollette’s 80th Birthday Party Community News Brighton salutes David Raven in his 80th year Legendary entertainer David Raven will be celebrating his 80th Birthday in the company of friends he has worked with during his 40 years in show business at a Royal Gala Variety Show hosted by Lola Lasagne at the Theatre Royal on Sunday, August 18 at 7.30pm. David, better known to his fans as Maisie By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Ecostream protest continues today with Grace Jones tribute Following her performance as Cher at last Saturday’s demonstration outside Ecostream on Western Road where she claims she received homophobic abuse from supporters of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israeli goods) – Miss Chelsea Fox, from Just Divas appeared today as Grace Jones to ent By Besi • 1 min read
