Pride Brighton & Hove Pride 2024 announces first ever sober dance tent in collaboration with Sober Bright’Huns with Tonic Brighton & Hove Pride has announced its first ever sober dance tent at this year’s 2024 FABULOSO event at Preston Park, Brighton on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August. Serving the new face of sobriety, the dance tent will provide a sober and safe space for festival goers to enjoy the most of what the [… By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Pride Local queer artist Ladypat designs ‘FABULOSO’ artwork for Brighton & Hove Pride 2024 Local queer artist Ladypat has designed FABULOSO artwork for this year’s Brighton & Hove Pride to celebrate queer identities and the rich diversity and flamboyance of the LGBTQ+ community. Beginning in 2001, Ladypat (a name challenging notions of gender, class and punctuation) has always utilised te By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Community News Queen Josephine releases limited edition LGBTQ+ Pride artwork, featuring LGBTQ+ icons, including James Ledward, and raising funds for LGBTQ+ mental health charity, MindOut Queen Josephine’s You. Me. Them. Us. original 2023 artwork for Paul Smith’s Pride Project is now available as limited edition A3 and A4 prints on GCLI textured fine-quality art paper. A celebration of what Pride means to Queenie – it’s always about the people – this incredible original artwork, comm By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBT History Month Between the Lines: The History of Queers in Brighton A brief history of how the LGBTQ+ community has kissed, danced, and laughed down our city’s beaches and roads By Xantippe Steele • 5 min read
Pride Brighton & Hove city councillors set to agree plans to deliver annual Brighton & Hove Pride for the next five years Brighton & Hove city councillors are set to agree plans to deliver the annual Brighton & Hove Pride festival and events for the next five years. A report is going to the council’s Culture, Heritage, Sport, Tourism & Economic Development Committee next week to agree the running of the Community Parad By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Lola Lasagne Community News The Brighton Rainbow Fund presents grants to community groups and celebrates fundraisers All photos by Michael Stone from Nick Ford Photography On Monday, October 16, Ironworks Studios was the venue for the 2023 event to announce the grants that have been approved by the Brighton Rainbow Fund (BRF) independent grants panel. BRF distributes funds raised within the community as grants to By Chris Gull • 4 min read
Pride Brighton & Hove Pride announces very limited amount of super early bird tickets for FABULOSO 2024 Plans are well underway for another stunning weekend of Love, Protest and Unity with the FABULOSO celebration right at the heart of it all. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Features & Longread Pioneers at Pride: Sussex Gay Liberation Front returns to the heart of LGBTQ+ communities Lead Pic: Pedal People and Sussex GLF, courtesy of Elly Hargreave Brighton & Hove Pride in 2023 was certainly memorable, and not just for the atrocious weather. The first ‘Gay Pride’ here took place in 1973, organised by the Sussex Gay Liberation Front. Fifty years later, members of the group were a By Alf Le Flohic • 2 min read
Pride Paws up! Brighton & Hove Pride’s Annual Community Day and Dog Show to take place at Preston Park on Sunday, August 27 Get ready for a day of fun and barking frolics as Brighton and Hove Pride’s Community Day & Dog Show will be taking place on Sunday, August 27, in partnership with Coastway Vets. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ Choirs Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus: shoulder to shoulder with community groups at Brighton & Hove Pride BrightonGMC’s parade float took to heart the Pride organisers’ call: Dare to be Different. Using the pink triangle and black text stylings of the campaign to abolish Section 28, the float celebrated 20 years since the law change which legalised being different in UK education. By Contributor • 2 min read
Pride Brighton & Hove Buses returns to Brighton & Hove Pride 2023 in partnership with Switchboard Brighton & Hove Buses, partner of Brighton & Hove Pride and platinum partner of Pride City Angels, showed their support once again for Pride celebrations this year with three special buses, two of which were featured in the parade itself. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Pride Brighton & Hove Pride 2023: Look for the rainbow in every storm – a weekend of campaigning, protest, and celebration! Fifty years after the first Brighton ‘Gay Pride March’ in the city, Brighton & Hove Pride defied the wind, rain and travel disruptions to return for another spectacular year and a weekend packed full of campaigning, protest and partying in equal measure. After what has been a challenging year, it wa By Graham Robson • 3 min read
