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# PICTURE DIARIES: Bears! Bears! Bears!
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/bears-bears-bears/
- Published: 2017-07-03T09:38:45.000Z
- Updated: 2017-07-03T09:47:01.000Z
- Description: Hundreds of Bears and their admirers descended on Dorset Gardens in Brighton Kemptown on the hottest Saturday of the year (June 17) for the annual Brighton Bear Weekend Bear-B-Que and Picnic. This year’s picnic, the busiest yet, featured for the first time a main stage with entertainment provided by
- Author: Besi
- Tags: In The South, News, Picture Diaries, Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents, Dave Lynn, Mysterry, Rainbow Chorus, Spice

## Kemptown welcomes Bears from Bath to Buenos Aires to the city.

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dsc_0500.jpg)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/gscene-com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dsc%5F0500.jpg)

**Hundreds of Bears** and their admirers descended on Dorset Gardens in Brighton Kemptown on the hottest Saturday of the year (June 17) for the annual Brighton Bear Weekend Bear-B-Que and Picnic.

This year’s picnic, the busiest yet, featured for the first time a main stage with entertainment provided by **Dave Lynn**, **Jason Thorpe**, **Mysterry**, **Spice**, **Wain Kara Douglas** and Brighton’s only LGBT+ choir, the **Rainbow Chorus**.

Volunteers from Lunch Positive, the HIV lunch club, prepared delicious burgers and salads for the hungry Bears raising £1,247.50 for their funds, while volunteers from The Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum ran the bar raising £1,558 towards their funds.

Other events during the weekend included the Bears Quiz at the Camelford won by the team from Brighton & Hove Sea Serpent Rugby Football Club; a welcome and registration party at Bar Revenge hosted by the lovely Spice with London DJ Alex B banging out the tunes and after parties at Envy, Latest Bar and Subline.

All monies raised by Brighton Bear Weekend are donated to the [Rainbow Fund](http://www.rainbow-fund.org/?ref=scenemag.co.uk), who make grants to LGBT+/HIV organisations in Brighton and Hove, who provide effective front line services to LGBT+ people in the city. The final total raised for the Rainbow Fund during Brighton Bear Weekend will be announced on July 10 at a thank party at the Camelford Arms.

Brighton Bear Weekend is a volunteer led organisation.

**For more information, [click here:](http://brightonbearweekend.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

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