LGBTQ+ News Hastings-based drag queen Heather Duster to host ‘Church of Duster’s Alternative Sunday Service’ in St Leonards Church Heather Duster, the Hastings-based drag queen, will be hosting Church of Duster’s Alternative Sunday Service as part of A Curious Town Grows Festival at St Leonards Church, St Leonards-on-sea on Sunday, 25 May. Spend your Sunday worshiping drag idols, indulge in drinking the holy spirits and belt ou By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Pride Trans Pride Hastings 2025 to launch on Trans Day of Visibility Trans Pride Hastings 2025, which won Grassroots Pride of the Year at the Gaydio Pride Awards 2024, is to launch this year at the Observer Building on Trans Day of Visibility on Monday, March 31. Head to the bar area on the ground floor from 6pm to hear organisers share plans for this year’s events, By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts “Bold, bright and totally queer.” Marlborough Productions celebrates 15 years with scintillating spring 2025 programme In their 15th anniversary year, Marlborough Productions has programmed an offering of live performance featuring trailblazers from the UK’s queer arts scene including Emma Frankland and Subira Joy. Alongside a dynamic lineup of live work, Marlborough Productions continues to lead the way as makers a By Graham Robson • 4 min read
Transgender News Trans Pride Hastings to bring trans joy to the town on 27 and 28 July Trans Pride Hastings came into being in February 2023. Victoria and Zed are the company co-directors and co-organisers and in July 2023 they worked with a team of volunteers to deliver 15 events across eight days focusing on community building, support and celebration. This year’s Trans Pride Hastin By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Film ‘ONE FOR THE BOOKS: THE MAUPIN MARATHON’ to be screened at Hastings Rocks International Film Festival 2024 on Saturday, April 13 Seaford writer and director Rose Collis is to present her documentary ONE FOR THE BOOKS: THE MAUPIN MARATHON at Hastings Rocks International Film Festival 2024 on Saturday, April 13. In 1984, HM Customs raided the legendary Gay’s the Word bookshop and seized 2,000+ books. They included Tales of the By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Cabaret “Yes, dear!” Fundraiser for Hastings Pride with iconic Miss Jason at Forbidden Fruit Forbidden Fruit Hastings is to host a glamorous fundraiser for this year’s Hastings Pride with the iconic Miss Jason on Thursday, May 23. All proceeds from the event, which is hosted in partnership with Forbidden Fruit and RBE Associates, will go to Hastings Pride so whether you chose to donate or a By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Exhibitions The Funny Hole: a weekend of unbridled gaiety and whimsy with Jane Dinmore, Boogaloo Stu, Ladypat and John Lee Bird The Funny Hole, an exhibition at the Observer Building in Hastings from April 19-21, will bring together four distinctive artists for a weekend of unbridled gaiety and whimsy. Organisers of the exhibition said: “Presenting collages, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, film and sound work, you are invite By Graham Robson • 1 min read
In The South New research from Shelter shows nearly 27,000 people are recorded as homeless in the South East Brighton & Hove comes out worst, with one in 78 people homeless, one in 107 people are homeless in Hastings, followed by Milton Keynes where one in 122 people are homeless. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Community News Allsorts Youth Project will be visiting The Nest in Hastings on Thursday, February 17 Allsorts would like to invite all LGBT+ young people and their families along to socialise, meet the Allsorts team, find out what Allsorts does and take part in shaping the future service, and enioy free cake and refreshments! By Graham Robson • 1 min read
In The South Silver Award for Hastings 5 star Boutique B&B Swan House, a 5 star Boutique B&B in Hastings receives national recognition winning the Silver Award in the Bed & Breakfast/Guest House Accommodation of the Year category at the prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2015 ceremony. The Silver Award at national level is a great achievement an By Graham Robson • 2 min read
National News 1066 Country businesses shortlisted for prestigious ‘Beautiful South Awards’ Swan House boutique B&B, Hastings, Crowhurst Park Holiday Village and Rye Tourist Information Centre are among the South East’s leading tourism businesses to have been chosen for the finals of the Beautiful South Tourism Awards 2014. This year saw over 120 entries from the cream of the tourism indus By Besi • 2 min read
