Nudes and nipples on Brighton Pride parade – all in the best possible taste! Brighton Body Casting tuk tuk in Pride community parade to feature flying nudes and water jet nipples. Local celebrity artist Jamie McCartney will be driving his tiny pink tuk tuk in the Brighton Pride Parade again this year. As well as the crowd pleasing water jets from last year there’ll be floati By Besi • 2 min read
‘Marsha Was Her Name’ – Totnes to celebrate sixth Pride Historic market town of Totnes in Devon to host sixth Totnes Pride on Saturday, September 1, 2018. Social enterprise Proud2Be will be organising a whole host of events, to bring the wide and varied West Country LGBT+ communities together with their allies, to celebrate diversity in the town with the By Besi • 4 min read
Collin Day at 60! Collin Day aka Pooh la May celebrated his 60th birthday with friends and family, where else, but the Queens Hotel on Brighton seafront on Saturday, July 21. By Besi • 1 min read
Historic remains discovered on Quakers’ Croft site laid to rest The 200 to 300-year-old remains of 18 individuals, discovered during redevelopment work at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange last year, are laid to rest at the Memorial Cemetery, Woodingdean. By Besi • 3 min read
Lynx partnership with Brighton Pride to benefit Rainbow Fund Lynx partners with Brighton Pride to launch limited edition Unity Pride body spray. The Rainbow version is available exclusively in Superdrug throughout the summer, following the launch of Lynx Unity earlier this year. By Besi • 2 min read
IGLTA launch LGBT+ Travel Chatbot International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) launches Facebook-powered chatbot to assist the LGBT+ communities with planning travel. The chatbot, which resides within Facebook Messenger, is available on desktop, tablet and mobile. Sharing LGBT+ welcoming travel opportunities, it offers rec By Besi • 2 min read
Run 501 raises £1,500 for Rockinghorse RUN 5.30, the early morning Italian 5k event that promotes an active lifestyle, saw hundreds of people take to the empty streets of Brighton. Last Friday, July 20, over 450 people ran, jogged and walked through the city centre and along the seafront after being waved off by Run 5.30 founder Sergio B By Besi • 2 min read
New film reveals experiences of LGBT+ young people in care New film reveals the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning (LGBT+) young people coming out in the care system. The six-minute animation promotes the findings of SpeakOut – a national study led by researchers at the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Centre for Research on Child By Besi • 3 min read
GLOW! Brighton’s Community Choir for LGBTQ+ people and their allies! Unique amongst the many choirs in Brighton, GLOW Choir is a Natural Voice choir for LGBT++ people and their Allies to unite in song. ALL voices are welcome, without exception! There is no ‘identity policing’ at GLOW, and no discrimination is tolerated. By Besi • 3 min read
Report uncovers successes and failures of UK’s support for Syrian immigrants Syrian refugees have higher levels of unemployment than UK citizens, are often overqualified for work they do find, and are being underserved by current British immigration policy despite their eagerness to contribute to society, new research reveals. By Besi • 3 min read
Brighton Pride welcomes banned teenage drag queen to the City. Brighton & Hove Pride step in to give banned teenage drag queen a stage and audience at Brighton Pride, the biggest LGBT Festival in the country. Lewis Bailey made national news recently when he was banned from performing as his drag persona Athena Heart at his school’s end-of-year talent show at Ca By Besi • 2 min read
OPINION: Sam Trans Man – what lies between? I WAS at a dinner party last night. A great and old friend, renowned for her fabulous catering, put on a pretty impressive do to celebrate her 50th. She is one of a circle of friends from my pre-transition days who are really accepting of my new life, have embraced my amazing partner and her family, By Besi • 4 min read
