Is your cat the UK’s most marvellous moggy? Cats Protection, the UK’s leading feline welfare charity, asks cat owners in the south-east to nominate their furry friends in this year’s National Cat Awards, which celebrate the difference cats make to owners’ lives. By Besi • 2 min read
PREVIEW: Balans Soho presents new work by the artist, Villain Balans Soho Society will host an exhibition of new work by the artist, Villain entitled Retrosexual from February 1, 2019. ‘Retrosexual’ addresses contemporary issues of racism, homophobia and body shaming while gleefully honouring a rapidly disappearing subculture. By Besi • 1 min read
Brighton Holocaust Memorial Day event BRIGHTON and Hove Stand Up to Racism will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with a public meeting at Friends Meeting House on January 30, 2019 from 7.15 – 9pm. By Besi • 1 min read
Red Herring art studios find new home in Portslade Red Herring Studios, Brighton & Hove’s long-established cooperative art studio, finds a new home in Portslade. The artist group was last in the news in 2017 when its previous site in School Road, Hove, was cleared for redevelopment. By Besi • 2 min read
Over £16,600 raised by Brighton’s community for Burning the Clocks 2018 Same Sky, the community arts charity behind Burning the Clocks, reveal £16,689.95 raised for the annual winter solstice parade. Volunteer – led bucket collection on the night of Burning the Clocks raised £5,846.95 and the event’s crowdfunder exceeded its target and raised £5,055 from 57 individuals By Besi • 2 min read
LETTER TO EDITOR: Even Muscles Are Beautiful Lee Henrique’s article on body image is certainly interesting (January 2019 Gscene). Though I have to admit to being slightly puzzled over his reference to ‘overly glorified body types with six-packs and obnoxious muscles’. By Besi • 2 min read
Walkout at public meeting result of homophobic undercurrents A public meeting called to discuss moving the Pride Village Party to Madeira Drive collapsed into chaos last night after perceived homophobic opinions expressed by the chair. The meeting, advertised on a poster in St James Street, attracted around sixty people to St Mary’s Church Hall in Kemp Town a By Besi • 5 min read
UK’s first LGBT+ business and media centre launches in Gateshead Former North East television studio gets a new lease of life, as the UK’s first LGBT+ business and media centre. Stonehills, at Shields Road, Pelaw, was previously used by the BBC but has been empty for a number of years. By Besi • 2 min read
Kemptown Carnival receives Arts Council funding for 2019 event! Kemptown Carnival will return on June 1, 2019, in partnership with Brighton Palace Pier, with the help of Arts Council Funding. The funding will support the creation of five new live processional and street performances, working with a range of Brighton based artists and community groups to showcase By Besi • 2 min read
Brighton & Hove Way Association hold first AGM The Brighton & Hove Way Association, will hold their AGM on Wednesday, January 30, at The Old Vicarage, Brighton & Hove High School, Temple Gardens, Brighton at 6.45pm for 7pm. By Besi • 2 min read
Royal British Legion launches new branch for LGBTQ+ communities The Legion’s new branch opens 19 years since the UK Government lifted the ban on lesbians, gay men and bi people serving in the Armed Forces. By Besi • 2 min read
PrEP trial extended to a further 13,000 people NHS England is to double the size of its implementation trial of the HIV prevention drug PrEP (the ‘Impact trial’), to widen participation to an additional 13,000 patients. By Besi • 2 min read
