Transgender News Protest in support of trans rights to take place in Parliament Square this Saturday This Saturday (April 19) at 1pm in Parliament Square, London, there will be a critical protest in support of trans rights, following the Supreme Court’s decision that threatens the recognition and dignity of trans people across the UK. Organisers of the protest say: “Trans women are women. Trans men By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community Scene magazine statement regarding recent news report on Brighton Rainbow Fund and our director Chris Gull Dear readers, In light of recent news regarding the Brighton Rainbow Fund and our director Chris Gull, we at Scene magazine want to reassure our community. We remain, as we have always been, a community-focused publication produced and maintained by a dedicated team of volunteers. This core aspect o By Scene Editorial Team • 2 min read
Arts POP MUSIC: #DaleyPop makes a lot of ‘Pink Noise’ over ‘Big Dreams and Faded Jeans’ Our resident pop nugget Dale Melita goes nuts over KP + more pop (midget) gems so dive in! By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts Join us on BBCSussex Thu evening Join some of our editorial team on BBC Sussex, talking about Scene, been there, done that, and now planning for the future! By Scene Editorial Team • 1 min read
Business News Gscene is looking for… A person or agency to help us sustain the viability of the magazine by advising us on maximising the potential of our advertising opportunities within the print magazine, the online magazine, website and social media platforms, and perhaps, as a result of that advice, to manage this part of our Soci By Contributor • 1 min read
Letters LETTER TO EDITOR: Too many drag queens and half naked chaps in Gscene Your magazine is dropped off at The Bristol Bar as part of your distribution but I’m afraid we no longer want to receive it. I am sure there is a healthy market for Gscene but, it is so full of drag queens and implausibly buff half-naked chaps that it does not represent the gay life I am living nor By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: If I could I would: Mimbre Mimbre don’t challenge; they change and provide a healthy counter narrative to the usual edge-of-danger acrobatics and physical theatre and ‘If I could I would’ allows them to convince us that we’ve all got capacity to fly, have pools of resilience and sometimes you just need two cheeky old ladies a By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Sarah Connolly: All Saints Church There was hefty representation from the gay composers tonight and the spread of their works balanced the simple but strong lyricism of the first half, with a wonderfully witty encore of a James Fenton poem offered up with panache. This was an evening of quality, musical excellence and pure vocal joy By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Endings @Old Market Saulwick come across like a retro-modern Madame Blavatsky using the vintage recording machinery and snatches of interviews to express her theosophical investigations, the temporary and temporal mashing up to form the present, the past and gone giving us creative material for the now, the reflection By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: For the Birds: Brighton Festival You hop on a bus, reminiscent of the mystery tours so favoured by aunts of mine in the 1970’s and are deposited in the dark, with some superb and wholly novel views of the city in the distance, it’s a long walk thought this night-time trail, like a crepuscular robotic nature watch we come across the By Eric Page • 3 min read
Community News Community groups invited to bid for a grant to put Pride in our city For one weekend every year, the city is taken over by a sea of rainbows. From the parade watched by tens of thousands through to the festival in Preston Park to the street party in St James’ Street, the whole city comes together to mark the LGBT celebration that is Brighton Pride, the largest annual By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Of Mice and Men: Theatre Royal This is a complex play about simple people, doing simple things with terrible consequences, it’s about love, kindness and brutality and the ties that bind them done with a vivid lightness of touch that engages from the off. By Eric Page • 4 min read
