Arts Britney to receive 2018 GLAAD Vanguard Award International Mega Star Britney Spears, to be honoured as one of the most prominent LGBT+ icons of all time, at the 2018 GLAAD Vanguard Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 12 at the Beverley Hilton in Los Angeles. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts COMPETITION: Win a pair of tickets for Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show Gscene have a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for the Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show hosted by Christopher Howard in the Phil Starr Pavilion on Friday, February 16. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: LGBT Restorative Circle As part of the B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival, the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum (B&H LGBT CSF) present an LGBT Restorative Circle workshop in partnership with the Brighton & Hove City Council Workers Forum. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts DJ PROFILE: Claire Fuller We’ve survived January and are still coping with all the rubbish this crazy world seems determined to chuck at us. So it must be time for a bit of healing, particularly when Cupid’s set to twang that arrow. By Queen Josephine • 2 min read
Arts Sing for fun with RC+ RC+ (Rainbow Chorus Plus) is a community initiative from the Rainbow Chorus, Brighton’s long-standing LGBT choir. The ‘plus’ is there to highlight the fact that the group is an extension of the main choir and is open to the entire LGBT+ communities, embracing cis, trans and non-binary members with a By Besi • 3 min read
Arts ‘Transworkers’ exhibition celebrates LGBT History Month The Transworkers photographic exhibition curated by photographer Stella Michaels will be displayed in the Phil Starr Pavilion during The B Right On LGBT Community Festival from February 16 – March 3. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Winter edition of The Pink Humanist ready to download In the latest issue Peter Tatchell writes on the importance of putting LGBT rights on the agenda of the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which takes place in the UK in April, 2018. By Besi • 2 min read
Image: Richard Davenport Arts PREVIEW: ‘TESTOSTERONE’ by Kit Redstone Drawing on autobiographical experiences, this is the true story of transgender writer-performer Kit Redstone’s first entrance into a male gym changing room at the age of 33. What first appears as a routine ritual of four men changing after a work out, then transforms into an epic coming-of-age ques By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Author Cath Lloyd shines spotlight on trans issues Truth, honesty, anger, acceptance and love were some of the themes under discussion when author Cath Lloyd spoke to college students about her life with her transgender father. The writer, lifestyle coach and stress-relief expert shared her first-hand experiences with more than 150 learners at West By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: 45 Minutes of organ music 45 Minutes of Music @The Meeting House, University of Sussex, Brighton. The increasingly successful series of 45 Minutes of Music @ the Meeting House continues on February 28. There are four monthly concerts on the last Wednesday (except March) of each month till May. All start at 12 noon (March’s By Besi • 2 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Soul Safari As part of LGBT History Month, Soul Safari will explores LGBT spirituality at the B Right On LGBT Community Festival (BRO LGBT CF). B Right On celebrates LGBT History Month, is organised by the volunteers of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and will take place at the Phil Starr Pavili By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Leonard Rosoman – Painting Theatre In spring 2018, Pallant House Gallery will hold an exhibition exploring the influence of the theatre on British painter Leonard Rosoman R.A (1913 – 2012). Experience John Osborne’s controversial play A Patriot for Me through the eyes of British painter Leonard Rosoman RA (1913 – 2012) in a series of By Besi • 2 min read
