News Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus raise £5622.48 for the Sussex Beacon Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus made a triumphant return to the Brighton Dome in December for their annual Christmas extravaganza Pull A Cracker. This year, the Chorus were joined on stage by acclaimed West End actress Rosie Ashe for a packed out festive evening. For the second year running, the event ra By Besi • 1 min read
News Champion Sports Night On Thursday February 28, Champion, London will have it’s first ever gay monthly sporting social night. Champion is a community event for gay sporting people to come together on the last Thursday of each month for a night of networking, sharing information, recruiting and generally, having a good tim By Besi • 2 min read
News First headliner revealed for ‘As One In The Park’ LGBT Festival As One In The Park a joint production between Orange Nation and Saturn Star will be the first large-scale gay festival in London for over a decade, putting the capital in line with other major European cities including Barcelona and Madrid. Victoria Park is firmly established as a prime festival sit By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Community Base Annual Poster Brighton Community Base, a charity providing a home for community and voluntary groups in Brighton & Hove, has released its annual poster guide for 2013. Now in its 10th year, the guide is designed to highlight vital information about the variety of support services, organisations, jobs and informat By Besi • 1 min read
Arts ‘Canary’ comes to Brighton Canary, a play by Jonathan Harvey, the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing and Gimme Gimme Gimme, is coming to the Brighton Little Theatre on Saturday, March 2-Saturday, March 9. Set in 1960s Liverpool, Tom and Billy hide their love in the closet, then go their separate ways. As pits close and t By Besi • 3 min read
Music Back to Bach in March Back to Bach, a night of Baroque Music, takes place at The Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton on March 9 at 7.30pm. Baroque flautist, Robert Goodman and harpsichordist, Massimo Redaelli will perform Bach’s ‘English’ Suites BWV 707 & 808, Partita BWV 830 and the Sonata for flauto traversiere and By Besi • 1 min read
News Hove MP joins powerful select committee Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has joined the powerful House of Commons Justice Select Committee. The Justice Committee was appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Ministry of Justice and associated public bodies. M By Besi • 1 min read
News Subline raises £800 for charity On Saturday February 16, the staff at Subline in St James Street, organised their first Big Staff Auction. Eight members of staff were auctioned off to the highest bidder by auctioneer Wilma Fingadoo. The winner of each ‘lot’ won a meal for 2 with their ‘prize’ at one of seven venues across the city By Besi • 1 min read
News Just Good Friends in Hove Just Good Friends, a cabaret-style show of material by composer and lyricist Mark Bunyan, will be playing at The Purple Playhouse in Hove on Friday, March 8 – Sunday, March 10 at 7.30pm. Directed by Johnnie Worthy, and starring Mark Bunyan, Kate Dyson and Mark Inscoe, the show takes a contemporary l By Besi • 1 min read
News Predator of Soho finally barred by unique ASBO ruling A thief who preyed on the gay community in Soho for more than a decade has been banned from every public toilet in central London in an ASBO ruling thought to be the first of its kind. Westminster City Council, with the support of the Metropolitan Police, is thought to be the first authority in […] By Besi • 2 min read
News Peer Action Quiz Night Volunteers at Peer Action, the HIV charity for those affected by HIV are organising a ‘Bounce into Spring’ quiz night at St. George’s Crypt Community Centre in Upper Kemptown on Saturday, March 16 at 7.30pm The quiz host for the evening is Adam, the esteemed landlady from the Bedford Tavern. Food an By Besi • 1 min read
