Arts Brighton Pride: Libraries Literature Live in the Park After the critical success of last year’s Literature Live at Brighton Pride, Brighton & Hove Libraries in partnership with Queer in Brighton and ‘HAVE A WORD’ will host an afternoon of entertainment at Preston Park with writers and performers talking about and reading from their own work. Sit back, By Besi • 2 min read
Arts ME Show (Open House) at Merlin & Ellis For the duration of May, Merlin & Ellis in Manchester Street are hosting a diverse collection of art from a group of hugely talented artists. Merlin & Ellis is a treasure trove of goodies including vintage and second hand label clothes, LGBT books, natural scents, eau de colognes and a huge range of By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Magazine printed in HIV+ blood fronts anti stigma campaign Progressive German men’s lifestyle mag Vangardist has printed it’s latest edition using HIV+ blood in a bid to ‘end the social stigma’ that is associated with the virus. In a new campaign headed by Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland for Vangardist, the magazine – which is a leading men’s monthly in Germa By Alice Blezard • 2 min read
Arts ‘Forgotten Stories’ from the Royal Docks People are being asked to contribute forgotten stories to a new historical archive, honouring the rich cultural history behind London’s Royal Docks. Did you or your family used to work in or grow up in or around London’s Royal Docks? Were you a docker or did you live in a dockside community? Perhaps By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Polari secures ACE funding for UK tour London’s leading LGBT literary salon, Polari, has this week been awarded Arts Council England (ACE) funding for a seven month series of events outside of the capital: Polari on Sea in Hastings, and a second nationwide tour. Starting June 30, Polari on Sea, will see the award-winning movement begin a By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape: David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz’s use of photography, writing and painting, was extraordinary. He was a fresh brash and multitalented artist and brought his furious and bright brain to bear on life as a gay man in the sudden and terrible crisis that hit gay culture following HIV. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Out of Orange: A Memoir Out of Orange chronicles Wolter’s time in the drug trade, her incarceration, her friendships and acquaintances with odd cellmates, her two marriages, and her complicated relationship with Piper.. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda With a bright enquiring and loving intelligent and geeky queer character at the heart of the narrative this coming-of-age, coming out story this is a splendid first novel from Becky Albertalli. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Blood Relatives Alcock has written that most lovely of books, a wonderfully spot-on working class positive coming out story of the most precious kind, authentic, self-defined and rough, but veined with hope and life lived well. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Up Stairs Lounge Arson This grim but absorbing read covers the events of June 24, 1973, when a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, an arsonist set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, 32 people lost their lives, including a third of By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Why primary school kids are not too young to learn about diversity Elly Barnes, CEO of Educate & Celebrate, talks about her experience educating primary school children and introduces a film showing the Educate & Celebrate PRIDE in Primary Education resources being used. Children are not born racist, sexist or homophobic; this is a fact I say in every training sess By Contributor • 3 min read
Books The Pink Humanist Spring issue ready for download The role played over many decades by black atheists in the struggle against institutionalised racism and homophobia is highlighted in a major feature in the latest issue of The Pink Humanist. Also included in the spring 2015 edition are articles about: Workplace equality, which shows that companies By Besi • 1 min read