Arts Brighton & Hove LGBT+ communities to feature on BBC ‘The One Show’ on August 29 Members of Brighton and Hove’s LGBT+ communities are to feature on national TV around the time of Pride in London week, in a piece commemorating and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality. By Paul Gustafson • 1 min read
Arts Five days left to support Pride documentary Kickstarter campaign Film makers are working on a new LGBT+ film called PRIDE? a documentary exploring the history of Pride in the UK, where it is today and where the movement needs to go. In March a work-in-progress edit was screened at the BFI FLARE Festival. The Independent called it one of the 9 picks of the festiva By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Polari tenth birthday tour comes to the Marlborough Theatre London’s multi award-winning LGBT literary salon returns to the Marlborough Theatre on Friday, October 20, as part of its tenth birthday tour, funded by Arts Council England. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts Research urges discussion about the term LGBT+ community! The phrase ‘LGBT community’ can be problematic and must be used with caution, according to research from Sheffield Hallam University. The UK-wide study, which included responses from more than 600 participants, explored the use of the phrase commonly used to describe and group people who identify as By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Polari First Book Prize shortlist announced f championing LGBT+ voices with UK-wide tour. The shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize 2017 was announced last night at the Polari Literary Salon in London’s Southbank Centre. The prize, now in its seventh year, is awarded annually to a writer whose first book explores the LGBT+ experience, wh By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Naked transgender models appear in anti-fur campaign For the first time, two transgender models feature in a PETA campaign: Holland’s Next Top Model winner Loiza Lamers and Men’s Health Germany cover star Benjamin Melzer appear together in the fearless new ad proclaiming, “Transform Your Wardrobe: Don’t Wear Fur!” By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Queer City: Peter Ackroyd Ackroyd connects us modern day queers up with our Celtic and Roman forbearers and all the benders, faggots, dykes, trannies, queers, inverts, perverts, queens, Ganymede’s, sappho’s, cross dressers, gender twisters, fops, dandies, genderqueers and utterly baroque non binary beauties (and run of the By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus – Showtime @St Georges Church It is difficult to find new things to say about the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus that I have not written before, except that at their Pride Concert (July 29) at St Georges Church, Kemptown, they once again turned in a highly polished performance, highlighting the strength in depth of the chorus’s soloi By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Tori Scott @Marlborough Theatre New York based singer and actress Tori Scott brought her one woman show to the Marlborough Theatre on Wednesday (July 26) and gave Brighton its finest cabaret event of the season. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts New inequality campaign from Absolut Absolut has created a powerful poster campaign to highlight the fact that it is still illegal to engage in same-sex activity in 72 countries worldwide as part of its campaign for a more inclusive and open world. Launched to mark the 50th anniversary of the amendment of the Sexual Offences Act – the By Besi • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Ocean Vuong: Night sky with exit wounds This book is a magical journey into the imagination and talents of Vuong’s mind and worth pursing for anybody interesting in poems which can change, more spells than sentences, they alter reality as we read them and leave us impressed and impressed upon by this astonishing young man’s collection of By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts FEATURE: Why we need a ‘Queer’ Theatre (now, more than ever) Still buzzing from a jam-packed Brighton Fringe programme and clad in his retro lavender style – a look I’ve come to associate with the man behind the Marly – I sat down with Tarik Elmoutawakil to discuss the challenges and rewards that come with programming queer performance. By Spencer Charles Smith • 4 min read
