Arts A Golden Celebration at Bar Broadway Current holders of the Golden Handbag awards for Best Small Bar and Best Bar Person, Bar Broadway in Steine Street, celebrates it’s third birthday this weekend, with four days of celebrations starting from Thursday, July 27. By Besi • 2 min read
Community News LETTER TO EDITOR: Thank you A huge thank you to Gscene, James Ledward, the Golden Handbag Awards and everyone who sent in a citation to nominate me for a Lifetime Achievement Award for services to the LGBT+ Communities at this years Golden Handbag Show. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts Chair of Rainbow Chorus receives ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at Golden Handbag Award Ceremony For the first time this year I asked LGBT+ groups and organisations to nominate someone who they felt deserved a special award at Golden Handbags 2017. I was personally thrilled to present Finola Brophy with a Gscene Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to equality and LGBT+ people in the cit By Besi • 22 min read
Arts ‘Out with Allan Jay’ gets the gossip at the Golden Handbag Awards 2017 Alan Jay report on the winners and the losers, the tops and the bottoms at the 2016/17 Golden Handbag Awards on his Latest TV programme Out with Allan Jay this evening at 9pm. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Voting closes at midnight in the 2017 Golden Handbag Awards There is just over 24 hours left to vote in this years Golden Handbag Awards. Voting closes tomorrow night, Monday, May 29 at midnight when the countdown begins to the winners being announced at the Golden Handbag Show on Sunday, June 11 at the Brighton Metropole Hilton starting at 7.30pm sharp. By Besi • 3 min read
Subline Community News Subline reclaim their golden crown Subline the gentlemen’s bar on St James Street, beat twenty other teams at Charles Street last night to become the cleverest LGBT+ crew in the city and regain the crown they last held in 2014. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Community News Voting in the Golden Handbag Awards 2017 goes live Voting in the Golden Handbags Awards, 2017 is now live. This year is the 21st anniversary of the very first Golden Handbag Awards, staged in 1996 at the Brighton Dome with the original tiller girls topping the bill. By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Golden Quiz kicks off Golden Handbag season at Charles Street tonight Get your handbags at the ready for the annual Golden Quiz Challenge at Charles Street tonight, Tuesday, April 25. The Golden Handbags Quiz kick starts the voting for this year’s Golden Handbag Awards which are celebrating their 21st anniversary and will take place at the Brighton Metropole Hilton Ho By Besi • 1 min read
In The South Sussex Beacon take Golden Crown The Sussex Beacon voted Brighton’s favourite HIV organisation at the Golden Handbags Awards. On Sunday, June 12, 2016 organisations from across Brighton’s LGBT communities came together for the Golden Handbags Awards. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Fundraising News Last chance to vote in Golden Handbag Awards 2016 West End star Mark Inscoe to appear at Golden Handbag Awards on June 12. Mark, one of the most in demand leading men in musical theatre, recently played Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, William Desmond Taylor in Mack & Mabel with Michael Ball and Dean Martin at the Savoy Theatre in The Ratba By Graham Robson • 1 min read
James Ledward Fundraising News Online voting opens in Golden Handbag Awards 2016 Voting in the 2016 Golden Handbag Awards opens at midnight tonight giving readers of Gscene Magazine the opportunity to recognise and reward those in the community who have worked selflessly in the last 12 months to make Brighton and Hove a better place for LGBT people to live. By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Ceri Dupree Arts Ceri Dupree to star at Golden Handbag Awards The Golden Handbag Show, Brighton’s annual Gay Oscar award ceremony will take place on Sunday June 12 at the Brighton Metropole Hilton Hotel. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
