Community News SURVEY: Help shape Switchboard’s future Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard is currently developing its next three-year strategy to ensure that the charity is heading in a direction that the community wants. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News The Brighton Rainbow Fund is open for applications The Brighton Rainbow Fund has announced they are now able to accept applications to their main grants programme, the Innovation and Community Strengthening Fund. By Chris Gull • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor This collection of eleven LGBTQ+ stories, interwoven and interconnected by character, theme and narrative tension is superb. Taylor takes the familiar Queer tropes and upends them, shakes them out, twists them round, some get a spit and rub, others placed back in strang By Eric Page • 3 min read
Fundraising News Centre Stage Brighton announces fundraiser for Sussex Beacon Centre Stage Brighton, the LGBTQ+ hotspot on Brighton seafront, will be raising funds for their charity partner the Sussex Beacon on Thursday, September 1 from 7pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News MindOut to launch its community research report on LGBTQ+ migration to Brighton, mental health and social isolation Join LGBTQ+ mental health charity MindOut for the launch of the charity’s community research report, Pathways between LGBTQ migration, social isolation & distress: liberation, care and loneliness, at Friends’ Meeting House in Brighton on Wednesday, September 28 from 11.45am -2.15pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News MindOut to hold ‘Mindfulness Art Workshop’ on Thursday, September 8 MindOut, the LGBTQ+ mental health charity, is to host a Mindfulness Art Workshop on Thursday, September 8 from 3pm. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News Allsorts Youth Project launches GIDS Pilot Project in Sussex This new service is available in Sussex for young people & parents/carers of young people who are trans, aged 11-17 (year 7+) and on the waiting list or being seen by the Gender Identity Development Service By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Fundraising News Cherry Fakewell to raise funds for the Sussex Beacon at STAUNCH: A Fright at the Movies at The Curzon on Saturday, October 1 “Gather round my darlings, for we have a tale of the FORBIDDEN, a story of the FIERCE and a telling of HORRIFIC, GLAMOROUS, TERROR!” By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Former Green Cllr Geoffrey Bowden said: “Pride is not a sacred cow” Health Geoffrey Bowden appointed Chair of Healthwatch Brighton & Hove Healthwatch Brighton & Hove has announced that Geoffrey Bowden has been appointed Chair of the “independent champion for people who use health and social care services in the city”. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Features & Longread FEATURE: Queer Love – Keep The Fire Burning “It can take just a few years for fiery relationships to go a little colder. This does not have to happen to you, so long as you take a few key steps to keep your passion alive.” By Contributor • 3 min read
Arts Ladypat and Boogaloo Stu present ‘QUEER HEARTS’ The year-long project which will encompass a joint exhibition of new artworks, plus workshop events, and concluding in May 2023 with a cultural exchange between the artists’ home locations of the Isle of Wight and Brighton. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
In The South Brighton & Hove’s A-Level students praised Students across Brighton & Hove are celebrating impressive A-level results today. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
