Arts Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club to explore Queers and Books at Brighton’s Jubilee Library on Sunday, February 26 Opening Pandora’s Box: queer dimensions of library legacies, struggles and hopes will see Alice Corble share stories from her career as a queer library user, worker, researcher and activist, reflecting on the spaces and communities of queer discovery and connection that libraries can foster, as well By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Brighton Schlock by Merryman Downes “A rich, heady confection of daftness.” By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: LIARMOUTH by John Waters John Waters doesn’t disappoint here, his mind is twisted ways which makes rococo baroque look straight, this fun exploration of more Baltimore lives is a shock-o-rama of his favourite themes By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr This perfect book leaves you with an appetite to learn more, offering reassurance of constant affirming glorious presence of women loving women throughout known herstory. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Winners of the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards announced Books by Juno Dawson, Shon Faye, Lemn Sissay, Louie Stowell and Erik J. Brown chosen as readers’ favourites of the year By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: ‘This Way Out’ by Tufayel Ahmed There’s not enough life affirming queer, Muslim, brown protagonists on our LGBTQ+ bookshelves, and this romantic honest book is to be celebrated not only for the clarion voice of Amar but for its honesty of the struggle to find and keep rare, precious queer love in a world set against us every attai By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Queens of Sarmiento Park by Camila Sosa Villada I absolutely adored it, in the face of bleak reality and a world which rejects anyone different it offers pure trembling life affirming moments of brilliant vibrant hope, a spiritual connection with the essence of life, an irrefutable rightness of being you, which cannot be taken away by harsh grind By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Michael Handrick to give reading from ‘Difference is Born on the Lips’ at Kemptown Bookshop Join award-winning Brighton author Michael Handrick for a reading from his new book, ‘Difference is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society’, at Kemptown Bookshop in Brighton on Thursday, November 3 from 7pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts The Ledward Centre announces new Book Club event this Friday at 7pm The Ledward Centre, Brighton’s new LGBTQ+ community and cultural centre in Jubilee Street, is holding its first Book Club this Friday evening from 7pm. By Chris Gull • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Coast Is Queer 2022 The Coast Is Queer brought together writers, poets, performers, academics, activists and, of course, readers, for three superb days of accessible, lively in-conversation events, workshops, films and discussions celebrating queer lives and literature. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Enemy Within by Adam Macqueen The Enemy Within’ is a cracking read,a gripping thriller and complex real Queer love story, of men struggling to be honest and real enough to grab love when it’s there, an adventure racked with radical threat and emotional trauma, a tender self-realisation story as Alex matures and understands himse By Eric Page • 6 min read
Arts Juno Dawson among authors shortlisted for this year’s Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards LGBTQ+ books shortlisted include: The Transgender Issue by LGBTQ+ rights commentator Shon Faye, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Stonewall role model Juno Dawson, poetry anthology 100 Queer Poems, edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan, and Alice Oseman’s LGBTQ+ YA romance webcomic Heartstopper. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
