Arts PRIDE PREVIEW: Stephen Fry’s ‘Out There’ Stephen Fry’s BBC2 Out There documentary will be screened at Duke’s At Komedia on Sunday, July 27 as part of the Pride Arts and Film Festival together with a special Q&A with director Fergus O’Brien. Few documentaries hit home as forcibly as Out There. Fry’s journey across the globe highlights the s By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Pride Film competition Win tickets for marathon screening of Orange is the New Black in partnership with Netflix. Brighton Pride are presenting a marathon screening of the highly-acclaimed second season of Orange is the New Black as part of the Brighton Pride Arts & Film Festival in partnership with Netflix. The event wil By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Queer film icons exhibition opens at Hackney Picturehouse Queer Cult Camp, an exhibition by two leading artists from the ‘queer’ London underground art scene, Kev Clarke and Sina Sparrow, will run until July 5. The exhibition features 12 posters (6 by each artist) exploring queer icons from pop culture in a comic book style. Kev Clarke’s work is focused on By Besi • 3 min read
Film PREVIEW: Cleavedon Road by Yasmin Zadeh and Jack McMahon Two lesbians. Two gays. Two breakups! Temporary Theatre and The Pink Fringe in association with The Marlborough Theatre present Cleavedon Road, two one-act comedies set on the same street. Emerging gay writers give a fresh new insight into how messy break ups can get with two hilarious, poignant and By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Crossroads Crossroads is a forthcoming film by writer/director Katie Smith and produced by Gloria Daniels-Moss. It tells the story of Rex, a young gay man currently in a secret relationship with a co-worker. Though aware and happy with his own sexual orientation, Rex has been hiding this fact from his father, By Besi • 2 min read
Film Nipples, cocks and Dali! New film tells extraordinary story of the King of Brighton’s eccentrics. A new British independent documentary, The Man Whose Mind Exploded, which was played at the British Film Industry’s recent Flare Festival of LGBT cinema, explores the extraordinary past and never-ending now of Drako Oho Zarharz By Besi • 2 min read
Film Free Community Conference: Austerity and Us at Brighthelm Centre Speakers from around the country are coming to Brighton on Saturday, May 31 to speak on the economic crisis, austerity and our local community. The free conference is supported by the University of Sussex’s Public Culture Research Hub, and the event will end with a screening of the award-winning doc By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Blue Camel Club at Brighton Corn Exchange Blue Camel Club – a Carousel project – will be hosting a club night on Monday, June 23 at Brighton Corn Exchange. Picture the scene. A massive dance floor in a beautiful old building in central Brighton. On stage the brilliant dance tunes of The Dancing Rock Queens, TV sensation Daniel Wakeford, mel By Mitchell Orriss • 1 min read
Film Brighton’s big screen and foosball tournament Brighton’s Big Screen, now in its third year will take place on Brighton beach, next to the Wheel and the Volks Railway from June 12 – July 13. To celebrate showing the Football in Brazil, Brighton & Hove Albion FC and Brighton’s Big Screen have teamed up to present the inter-company World Cup Foosb By Besi • 2 min read
Film Out in Alabama – A film about LGBT communities in Alabama New York-based filmmaker, Bonnie Blue Edwards, originally from Alabama, is making a feature-length documentary, Out In Alabama, about the communities in Alabama where LGBT rights are embraced. The film aims to provide an intimate view of the people who defy prejudice and to showcase the continued ho By Contributor • 2 min read
Film Big Screen on the Beach Brighton’s Big Screen returns in June with a great line-up of blockbuster and classic movies plus live coverage of the World Cup from Brazil. The free outdoor beach cinema will showcase a mixture of movie classics and recent box office hits on the gigantic 40sqm screen including: The Hunger Games Ca By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘Bette Bourne: It goes with the Shoes’ at Sallis Benney Theatre The University of Brighton’s Equality and Diversity Unit are screening the film ‘Bette Bourne: It Goes with the Shoes’ for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) and as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival on May 22. With acclaimed playwright Mark Ravenhill as a gu By Besi • 1 min read
