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Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus raises over £2,000 for local HIV charity Lunch Positive

Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus raised just over £2,000 for local HIV charity Lunch Positive from two shows earlier this month. Over two nights, Retrospective: 20 Years of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus saw the Chorus, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, take a trip down memory lane. The shows, which we

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Community News

Host of ‘Show Up, Show Out!’ Tayris Mongardi said: “A labour of love and necessity to our trans+ community.”

An event to support our trans communities at Revenge in Brighton raised a massive £2,427.77 for Trans Pride Brighton on Sunday, 4 May. Produced and hosted by Brighton drag artists Tayris Mongardi and Ex-Girlfriend, Show Up, Show Out! consisted of three incredible drag shows, and music from Revenge’s

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Community News

Nathaniel J Hall visits the Sussex Beacon!

Local HIV charity the Sussex Beacon has said it is “enormously grateful” to the “delightful” Nathaniel J Hall, who took time out of a busy schedule to visit the centre to find out more about their work. Many will know Nathaniel as Donald Bassett in the hit series It’s A Sin, but he is also […]

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Brighton Fringe

BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: ‘The Pink List’ by Michael Trauffer

It’s well documented that gay people were singled out alongside Jews to be persecuted and sent by the Nazis to concentration camps in the 1930s and ’40s. Less well known – certainly to me – was the fact that the so-called Pink Lists of such people compiled by the Nazis continued to be used as […]

By Brian Butler • 1 min read

Television

Kita Mean and Anita Wigl’it to host outrageous new game show, ‘Winner Winner Chicken Dinner’

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, an outrageous new game show hosted by leading New Zealand drag queens, Kita Mean and Anita Wigl’it, crashes onto screens with feathers flying and rules out the window on 6 June. This hilariously unpredictable game show invites everyday contestants to compete in wild chi

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Community News

Brighton & Hove to come together for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on 17 May

Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQ+ communities and allies will come together on Saturday, 17 May for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia (IDAHOBIT). This year’s event will take place at the stairs of the Brighton Unitarian Church from 12-1pm and feature music from Brighton Gay Men

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Brighton Fringe

Brighton Fringe: all things queer and quirky

In part two of my preview of Brighton Fringe, I give you tips for more queer and quirky shows that might amuse, shock and educate. Dates and times vary, so in no particular order, here they are:  C’est Magnifique is a love letter to cabaret and musical theatre. Be swept along as our characters whisk

By Brian Butler • 2 min read

Transgender News

Members of non-ability womxn and non-binary football club urge FA to stop banning trans women from football

Members of Goal Diggers Football Club, a non-ability womxn and non-binary football club in London, walked from their training pitches at Haggerston to Wembley on 5 May to deliver a letter to the FA urging them to rethink their current transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming grassroots foot

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Pride

An “uplifted, reimagined celebration”. Brighton & Hove Pride issues update on this year’s Pride Street Party

Brighton & Hove Pride has announced it is teaming up with local LGBTQ+ venues to create an “uplifted, reimagined celebration” for this year’s Pride Street Party. According to Pride, this “exciting evolution will allow us to provide a safe and sustainable Pride Street Party for the future in addition

By Graham Robson • 3 min read

Community News

QUEER THE MARLY: “a venue run by and for the Brighton queer community”

The Queer The Marly campaign began in the summer of 2021, when the pub’s future was uncertain. Hundreds of testimonials were collected from the community and the building was granted status as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). Due to this status, the community has been given first notice of intent

By Contributor • 3 min read

Transgender News

Hundreds gather outside Glasgow office of Equalities and Human Rights Commission to protest anti-trans Supreme Court ruling

Hundreds of trans rights campaigners gathered outside the Glasgow office of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on 2 May to protest against the recent anti-trans Supreme Court ruling. Backed financially by JK Rowling, who’s now known for spouting controversial posts on social media abo

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

Transgender News

Winchester’s trans community and allies come together to protest against anti-trans Supreme Court ruling

On Saturday, May 3, the Hampshire Trans+ Network organised a protest in Winchester against the recent Supreme Court ruling which has excluded trans women from the definition of a woman in UK law. The fallout of the anti-trans Supreme Court ruling has ranged from trans women seeing themselves banned

By Graham Robson • 1 min read