Community News TWO HOURS LEFT: to get Pride tickets for £12.50 from Brighton venues The tropical weather is putting everybody in a sizzling mood for Pride. Brighton is a sea of naked, bronzed bodies all topping up their tans for the most talked about Brighton Pride ever. Tickets for Brighton Pride are £20 on the day. You can still get tickets from Brighton shops and bars for £12.50 By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Vince Laws takes on Norwich Pride Controversial poet, artist and activist Vince Laws will be unveiling his new work Homosexual Propaganda at the launch of Pride Without Prejudice, an art show celebrating the fifth anniversary of Norwich Pride, at St Margaret’s Church of Art, St Benedict’s Street, Norwich on Monday, July 22. Homosexu By Besi • 2 min read
Arts HAVE A WORD in August: at Emporium ‘Have A Word’ the LGBTQ arts literary performance event presented by Ellis Collins moved to Emporium, Brighton’s newest arts venue last month and the feedback has been very positive. People love the venue and the event! The next Have a Word is on August 14 and performers include: • Vicki Crowther…Ac By Besi • 1 min read
Community News PRIDE ICONS Flash Mob Want to take part in a Flash Mob! Want to make this years Brighton Pride flash mob the biggest ever? Simply go to one or both of the free rehearsals and find out where the flash mobs will be held later that day. Show up at the flash mob location and… flash mob! Remember you […] By Besi • 2 min read
Community News LATEST TV: QTube Episode 4 In episode 4 of the QTube, Jonesy, Torsten and Al Start look at some Pride events coming up with guest Richard Jones from Brighton Pride. Torsten checks out the Pride Film Festival, running in the two weeks leading up to Pride and Al reveals what’s coming up in the Women’s Performance Tent. In a sp By Besi • 1 min read
National News PROUD TO BE WED Festival in 2014 London’s Southbank Centre is to celebrate the Same-Sex Marriage Bill by welcoming all couples to wed over one weekend in summer 2014. The Proud to Be Wed Festival will see gay or straight couples join in with the mass celebrations with a two-day relay wedding reception, complete with flowers, food a By Besi • 1 min read
Food & Drink Mzz KIMBERLEY makes rare Brighton appearance The New Steine Hotel & Bistro are staging a dinner and show to raise money for Brighton Pride on Wednesday, July 24 at 7pm. An evening of delicious French food will be followed by a live show from the UK’s favourite import from Detroit, Michigan, Mzz Kimberley, singing songs from her youth including By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PRIDE ICONS art exhibition at Jubilee Library Brighton Pride’s first ever Arts & Film Festival, which covers multi-aspects of LGBT art, culture and lifestyle, has teamed up with Brighton-based Thirteen Art Productions to produce a flagship art exhibition. Working to Prides ‘Icons’ theme, this exhibition includes a number of South East-based art By Besi • 2 min read
National News ALAN TURING ‘pardon’ gets second reading in Lords A Parliamentary Bill calling for Alan Turing to receive a posthumous pardon received its second reading in the House of Lords yesterday. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Sharkey’s bill calls for the pardon of code-beaker Alan Turing, who was prosecuted for homosexual acts of ‘gross indecency’ in 1952. Man By Besi • 2 min read
Community News RAINBOW FUND Pride Grants Round Ahead of this year’s Brighton Pride, the Rainbow Fund is inviting applications for funding. LGBT voluntary sector groups looking for frontline grant funding can apply to the Rainbow Fund via the Sussex Community Foundation from now until October 11. Brighton Pride is one of the high profile groups w By Besi • 2 min read
Community News UK LGBT History Project: Two-years on This month marks the two-year anniversary of the UK LGBT History Project, an online encyclopaedia documenting the history of LGBT people in the UK. Founded by Jonathan Harbourne, the encyclopaedia, which now includes over 1,700 articles, is based on the same software as Wikipedia and uses a similar By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Survivors Network need your help! Survivors Network, the rape crisis centre for Sussex, needs your help conducting research into the experiences of transgender and non-binary survivors of sexual violence. Currently, the vast majority of sexual violence support services are for either only men or only women, which may create signific By Besi • 1 min read
