From left to right: Chris Gull Rainbow Fund Chair, Graham Munday Brighton Bear Weekend Chair and Danny Dwyer from Bear-Patrol Community News Bear-Patrol raise £716.61 for Rainbow Fund Bear-Patrol raise a total of £716.61 for the Rainbow Fund over the Pride weekend. The money was raised at the Bear-Patrol pre-Pride Quiz at the Camelford Arms on August 3 (special thanks to the Co-Op Funeral Care who donated the wonderful hamper prize) which was won by the Fantastic Foreskins; By Besi • 1 min read
In The South TRAVEL: Sao Paulo Pride campaigns for a secular state in Brazil Despite all the progress towards equality over the last few decades – we still face daily discrimination and prejudice – to combat this we have the tradition of Pride a mixture of protest, awareness and celebration. I had the opportunity to see the 21st Sao Paulo Pride quite unexpectedly on Sunday, By Mike Nelson • 4 min read
Features & Longread FOOD & DRINK: Revenge of the Burgers! You can’t keep a good man down – it was only a matter of time before Barry Nelson would surface again and he is back managing and cooking in the kitchen of a new Burger Bar upstairs at Bar Revenge called Burgershack. By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Sinitta and Sonia headline Southampton Pride today The South Coast’s latest Pride gets underway in Southampton’s Guildhall Square at 11am this morning with an opening welcome from Cllr Satvir Kaur the Labour Cabinet Member for Communities, Culture and Leisure on Southampton City Council. By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Chris and Tony raise £1,900 for Macmillan Horizon Centre Gogglebox star Chris Butland-Steed and his husband, TonyButland-Steed, threw open their garden to visitors on the weekend of July 29-30 to raise money for the Macmillan Horizon Centre in Brighton. A total of 24 gardens featured on the citywide Trail and despite horrendous rain on the Saturday, Chris By Besi • 1 min read
Community News RSPCA launches LGBT t-shirts for ‘biggest ever’ Pride Cymru presence The charity’s iconic logo will be proudly placed on a rainbow background in anticipation for the Bank Holiday weekend event. RSPCA Cymru has launched a new limited edition range of clothing for Cardiff’s Pride Cymru event (August 26-27), featuring animals carrying positive connotations within the LG By Besi • 2 min read
Business News Who’s the boss behind the bar @Subline This month Morgan Fabulous takes a step out of the usual commercial pop and sequins and heads off to Subline, managed by Steven David Lee, to find out what makes the bar so unique. Subline will have been open for seven years come October and beyond the obvious, which so many think is the big thrust By Morgan Fabulous • 2 min read
In The South LETTER TO EDITOR: A Gay Arrest! In the early sixties, I was arrested by two plain clothed agent provocateurs in Manchester. I was in a public toilet alone when they walked in and stood either side of me about two stalls away. I immediately felt uneasy and stepped back to leave but they took hold of me by my coat cuffs and marched By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Tony Warren celebrated in new exhibition The early life and career of Tony Warren, creator of Coronation Street, the world’s longest running continuing drama, is to be remembered in an exhibition at Salford Museum & Art Gallery. Four Miles from Manchester; Tony Warren’s Coronation Street runs from Saturday October 21, 2017 to Tuesday, July By Besi • 3 min read
Community News PRIDE VOICES: Rabbi Elli Tikvah to speak at Village Metropolitan Community Church In the last of their PROUD VOICES series for Pride 2017, The Village Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) will welcome Rabbi Elli Tikvah to their pulpit on Sunday August 27 at 6pm. Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah of the Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue describes themselves as a Trouble Making Femin By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: No Fear No Shame by Alice Denny This new collection of poems from Alice Denny, like herself, is slim but packs a punch. There is an essential contradiction in all Denny’s poems; like all poets she’s both startlingly intimate and ruthlessness private, exposing and hiding, showing and telling, letting us feel the throb of blood in h By Eric Page • 2 min read
Community News Welsh charities join forces for LGBTQ+ carers Welsh charities, Carers Wales and Pride Cymru, have joined forces to issue an innovative new guide for unpaid carers of all ages who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer (LGBTQ+). By Besi • 2 min read
