News Jurys Inn Hotel: The People’s Favourite? Brighton’s, Jurys Inn Hotel needs your votes after making the Top 10 of the People’s Favourite Award at this year’s PEA Awards 2013. The awards demonstrate the importance of sustainability, whether its in the community, by raising awareness, creating technologies, designing products and services, tr By Besi • 1 min read
News Council moves to protect office space Brighton & Hove’s councillors are to consider re-introducing measures to protect office space in central Brighton and at other key employment sites at a Policy & Resources Committee meeting on Thursday, July 11, at Hove Town Hall, from 2pm. This follows from a temporary change in planning law introd By Besi • 3 min read
National News Gay Times launch socialising network to help guys make friends GT (Gay Times), the gay men’s lifestyle magazine, today launch GT socializer the first social discovery network to connect reader’s offline at group social events and help guys to meet new people and explore their city. The networks aims to fill the gap in the market for guys who want to connect wit By Besi • 2 min read
News New STI diagnoses increases by 5% in England Data published by Public Health England (PHE) has shown that new sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnoses rose five per-cent in 2012, up to 448,422 from 428,255 in 2011. While the increase could be a result of improved data collection, the continuing high STI rates in England suggest too many By Besi • 1 min read
National News UK LGBT History Project The UK LGBT History Project was launched two years ago last month. In that time its online encyclopaedia has expanded to include over 1700 articles, documenting the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people in the UK from Julius Caesar to the present day. It was founded by Jonathan H By Besi • 1 min read
News Local Tory MP’s support in-out referendum Both local Conservative MPs, Simon Kirby, MP for Kemptown & Peacehaven and Mike Weathereley, MP for Hove & Portslade voted in support of James Wharton’s Private Members Bill last week which seeks to legislate for an in-out referendum from the European Union by 2017. The Bill was passed by 304 vote t By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Trans benefit at The Prince Albert There is a fundraising gig at The Prince Albert on Friday, August 5 to benefit Gendered Intelligence, an organisation who support young trans people. The event, an ‘alternative’ night of quirky and entertaining music, will include performances by The Astronauts, Asbo Derek, Citizen 2 and The Bobby M By Besi • 1 min read
National News Michael Gove MP tells Stonewall Conference: ‘It’s medieval to use the word “gay” as an insult.’ The Education Secretary Michael Gove MP told over 500 education professionals and young people at Stonewall’s Education for All Conference on, July 5 that the Government is committed to supporting schools and colleges in tackling homophobic bullying. The Conference, Britain’s biggest event for teac By Besi • 2 min read
News Gscene comment I am in my late 50s. Over the years I have witnessed all the legislative changes affecting LGB&T people that has brought us to the present debate over ‘Equal Marriage’. Often while we made the advances I thought we never took seriously the ‘heart and minds’ argument necessary to make the public at l By Besi • 1 min read
News Labour leader visits local school The Leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband MP, visited Blatchington Mill School in Hove this afternoon, Friday July 5. He first met with parents to discuss anti-homophobic bullying strategies and the schools equalities work and then took a question and answer session for forty five minutes with stu By Besi • 2 min read
News The ‘Oldest Gay in the Village’ to be Pride Ambassador George Sydney Montague is better known to everyone as the Oldest Gay in the Village. For the last few years he has proudly rode on his mobility scooter on the Pride Parade. In June he celebrated his 90th birthday and invited friends and family to his home on Marine Parade in Brighton. People came fr By Besi • 3 min read
News Hove MP Weatherley slams King Alfred report Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has condemned a report on the King Alfred Leisure facility made by a Brighton & Hove City Council cross-party Project Board. The Brighton & Hove City Council Policy & Resources Committee is meeting on Thursday, July 11 to rubber stamp a se By Besi • 1 min read
