Arts COMPETITION: Win a pair of tickets for Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show Gscene have a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for the Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show hosted by Christopher Howard in the Phil Starr Pavilion on Friday, February 16. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts World Cup 2018 – coming to a cinema near you This summer’s month long beach cinema event will include key matches from the 2018 World Cup, the city council announced today. Along with the latest blockbuster movies, screen lovers will be able to watch the world’s most widely viewed sporting occasion while soaking up the seaside atmosphere. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival: Free big screen showing of ‘The Shack’ The Village Metropolitan Community Church will host a one-off screening of The Shack as part of the Soul Safari day of events during this year’s B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts London remembers ‘Section 28’ – 30 Years on 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of ‘Section 28’– which banned the promotion of homosexuality in public institutions, which lasted until 2003. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts LGBT HISTORY MONTH: Screening of ‘The Celluloid Closet’ in Eastbourne To celebrate LGBT History Month in February, The Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne will team up with Eastbourne Rainbow, and Bourne Out to present a special screening of The Celluloid Closet. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts ‘Beyond the Binaries’ final call for Winter Pride art submissions Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Winter Pride UK, in partnership with Emerald Life and The House of St Barnabas, is looking for artists to submit their work for its latest Winter Pride Art Awards, Beyond the Binaries. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Polish gay couple sing for ‘love at Christmas’ Polish gay couple Jakub and Dawid who rose to international attention last year after their lip-syncing video of Roxette’s Some other summer went viral, have recorded their own Christmas song. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: LGBT+ and BAME works prominent in London Short Film Festival London Short Film Festival (LSFF) announces its full 2018 programme, screening over 500 UK and international short films over 10 days, from January 12-21, 2018. Now in its 15th year, LSFF is an established and important addition to the film calendar, bringing inclusive and ground-breaking film-makin By Paul Gustafson • 3 min read
Arts FILM PREVIEW: HUGO XO, a film by Dale John Allen Specifically aimed at the queer viewer, Hugo, XO explores societies ‘shame culture’ surrounding sex and is designed to reflect societies prudish, damaging and shaming obsession with sex, gossip, rumours and prejudice. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: I AM THEY @Sallis Benney Theatre The film is engaging and interesting without being preachy and using this young couple’s obvious and romantic personal experiences and relationship as the main narrative thrust allows us to keep the focus on them, and the daily struggle they face and the struggle they have to marry – something the r By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: You Were Never Really Here If I had to sum up Lynne Ramsay’s style of filmmaking in a word it would be ‘concentrated’. Important clues about a character, or a vital link in a chain of events, might be expressed in a single shot or a couple of words. By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Queer Films @ Cinecity Film Festival Cinecity, the Brighton film festival, is showing a number of LGBT-themed films tonight and over the weekend. The Misandrists (pictured) is the latest provocation from underground queer film legend Bruce LaBruce (The Raspberry Reich, Hustler White, Gerontophilia). It’s the story of a dissident lesbia By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
