Fundraising News
Brighton & Hove Buses’ Santa Bus is once again returning to the city for its 20th anniversary. To help celebrate 20 years of Christmas giving, this year’s Santa Bus will travel across 20 routes, over 20 separate nights, whilst raising money for 20 local charities, including Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ Sw
Exhibitions
A new exhibition – Trans-Sensory Storying of Gender-Based Violence – is showing at University of Brighton‘s Grand Parade Building from November 5-7. The exhibition includes a collection of responses to stories of gender-based violence in the UK and Mexico during and after the Covid 19 pandemic. It
Features
Growing up queer in an age of political division, it is very easy in today’s current climate to get swallowed up into a black hole of fearful journalistic pieces. We are surrounded by hollering headlines on war, violence, corruption, greed and selfishness. It appears that the world has become a syst
Community News
Connecting and working with other people and with community groups is an enjoyable part of both my HIV Chaplain and HIV Pharmacist roles, and is essential to delivering an effective service (which I hope I do!). In both positions the needs of the person living with HIV and/or their loved one(s) are
Community News
At times, living life as a LGBTQ+ person can seem like the most wonderful thing. A diverse community where we can find acceptance, to support each other, to know that others understand who we are. However, sometimes life can throw challenges our way. Some of these are unique to our diverse community
Community News
At Lunch Positive we’re so pleased that the global theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is Let Communities Lead. It speaks to everything we are as a charity, and all of our ways of working. Our work is the much needed continuation of support by and for people living with HIV that started when HIV fir
LGBTQ+ News
The Sussex Beacon has announced its infamous, annual Bizarre Bazaar will take place at the charity’s St James’s Street store on Sunday, October 29 from 11am-3pm. Stock up on fetish wear, leatherware & accessories, kinky clothing, rubber gear, whips & chains, masks/blindfolds and hoods, adult literat
Interviews
Romany Mark Bruce, Ireland born and Brighton-based, is a highly accomplished sculptor and painter whose work has attracted both national and international acclaim. Romany is responsible for creating and designing the striking TAY sculpture, the Brighton & Hove AIDS Memorial, which has now become an
LGBTQ Choirs
Brighton & Hove has long had a vibrant and dynamic musical community from all across the city. The LGBTQ+ community contributes to this through its many groups and individual performers, from their own shows, participating in other shows and as soloist, from a chorus of 100 to drag queens, from chur
Features
Community HIV Specialist Services (CHIVSS) provides care for people in Brighton & Hove and West Sussex. People can be referred in by their clinic or self-refer. Primarily we provide clinical care in people’s homes and we also provide sign posting to other services and charity organisations. We regul
Community News
More to Me than HIV is a grassroots community art initiative that aims to normalise people living with HIV through portraiture. We have nearly 30 people who have shown their faces publicly and shared the information that they are living with HIV. We have exhibited 24 large-scale portraits at Jubilee
HIV
The Martin Fisher Foundation (MFF) continues to work in partnership with other HIV organisations in Brighton & Hove towards ZERO HIV stigma, ZERO new HIV infections and ZERO deaths from HIV. Our aim, to work collaboratively and support shared HIV prevention and treatment goals across the city, is g