LGBTQ+ News Queer in Brighton to present ‘No Longer Private’ at Queer Bloomsbury at Charleston This coming Sunday, September 18, Queer in Brighton is holding a special Queer History Club, presenting cutting edge research from Samson Dittrich in conversation with the inimitable Kuchenga, to mark the launch of the first major public exhibition of Duncan Grant’s erotic drawing Very Private? By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Original Cast Recording- The Pleasure Garden Brian Butler fins enchantment in the soundtrack of a Queer romance By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts NEW DATE: Musical theatre sensation The WestEnders to treat Brighton to an unforgettable entertainment extravaganza in aid of the Sussex Beacon For one night only at The Old Ship Hotel on Thursday, September 29, musical theatre sensation The WestEnders will be treating Brighton to an unforgettable entertainment extravaganza in aid of local HIV charity the Sussex Beacon. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts The Coast Is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s festival of LGBTQ+ writing, to return in October Three days of accessible, lively literary conversations, panels, workshops and films celebrating some of the best and brightest LGBTQ+ writers By Graham Robson • 5 min read
Arts Shortlist of 15 short films competing for LGBTQ+ Iris Prize Best British award revealed Organisers of the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival have announce the shortlist of 15 films competing for the Iris Prize Best British Supported by Film4 award. Also revealed are the two juries for the main prizes… By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Traumfrau, Marlborough and Pecs present: ‘Very Private? The Party’ at Queer Bloomsbury festival this weekend Join this holy trinity of queerness as they lead you through a night of debauched fun! Get there early for life-changing and pheromone-altering shows, queer DJs – including Xzan and Affy Go Bang! – all-women and non-binary company Pecs Drag Kings, and live art making with Artists Model Ink. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram Part history, part dream, part political, part romance, part research but wholly celebratory. A book that tells Our story, by those that built and continue to build the spaces we choose to live in. The range of voices written in its pages reflects the diversity of our community back to us, but time By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. It’s a book about chosen family, finding yourself and the way truly being seen is the safest place o By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts SPOTLIGHT ON: Queer romance, schoolboy crushes, bullying and disability In the second of two preview articles Brian Butler finds joy, despair and Queer history to dig into By Brian Butler • 4 min read
Arts Birmingham’s Black Peppa joins the cast of Drag Race UK season 4 Their drag name comes from a combination of things – celebrating their blackness, a friend obsessed with Peppa Pig and a love of spiced food. By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Arts Festival fever hits Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus As summer draws to a close, Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus are celebrating their first full year of performances since Covid, with two very special shows at regional and international festivals. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Photo: Manuel Harlan Arts REVIEW: The Doctor @ Theatre Royal Brighton Robert Icke’s The Doctor is very much an ideas-driven play. It’s a profusion of debates about race, gender, identity, morality, religion, medical ethics and wokeness which, against the odds, fit neatly into one production. It’s hard to know where the author stands on pretty much any of the themes he By Michael Hootman • 3 min read
