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FRINGE REVIEW: MYTHOS: RAGNAROK
This show, all throbbing muscle and wrestling on top holds a seriously affirming message at heart, …..we went for the eye candy, but left thrilled, enchanted and seriously entertained.
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FRINGE REVIEW: You Bet @ Round Georges
We feel Bet the woman, tender, whole, emotionally unfulfilled by her lovers, but not by her life. Bet the friend, turning over the disappointment from the other women in her life.
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FRINGE REVIEW: Lachlan Werner: Voices of Evil @ Spiegeltent Bosco
‘a delightful, daft and debauched hour of occult decadence..’
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Cam sex, drag queens and Grindr
In the first of two articles, Brian Butler finds a treasure trove of queer shows
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REVIEW: Van Gogh Alive @ Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
Eric Page reviews “engaging and thoughtful” Van Gogh Alive at Brighton Dome
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BOOK REVIEW: Panic Response by John McCullough
This is superb LGBTQ+ poetry, poems from a queer voice of the highest quality, a book to return to, to open at random, to let into your mind to cavort. McCullough is also (and I’ve said this before) a bloody good read.
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Pride Guided Tours at Shakespeare’s Globe to bring to life queer stories and characters from Shakespeare’s life and times
Pride Guided Tours bring to life the queer stories and characters from Shakespeare’s life and times. Guides will explain what life would have been like for the queer community during Shakespeare’s lifetime, an important era in LGBTQ+ history.
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REVIEW: The Way Old Friends Do @ Theatre Royal Brighton
Great fast paced fun for fans of modern relationship comedy, light touch while pretending to be something deeper, a must for those who worship at the Alter of ABBA with plenty of original music scattered throughout the evening.
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Queer artist Abby French wins Brighton Marina Bench Wrap design competition
Abby’s design was unveiled at Brighton Marina over the May Bank Holiday and will grace 26 benches until the start of next year’s competition.
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Arts and activism organisation, Queer-side, becomes a CIC and launches Just Giving to support its work
Queer-side is now fundraising and looking for new sources of funding which will allow them to continue their development for the LGBTQ+ community locally. In order to raise funds, Queer-side has set up a JustGiving page to raise £6,000 to support their work.
Arts
Jill Gardiner, celebrated lesbian historian and poet, dies aged 63. Words by Jane Traies.
Her death has come as a shock to her many friends, and is a loss to the wider lesbian community. As well as being a significant historian and poet, Jill will be remembered as a loyal and generous friend, who has been taken from us far too soon.
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Wolverhampton born Beverley Knight wins Best Supporting Actress at Olivier Awards
During her speech, Beverley Knight praised theatre, which is becoming more accessible and inclusive. She said: “A show like Sylvia makes theatre accessible. We are diverse on stage and I love that I look out and see diversity in age, in race and most likely in [theatregoers’] financial situations, t