Community News Brighton Pride announce schedule of community group engagement meetings for Pride 2015 The first Brighton Pride community groups engagement meeting will be on Tuesday, November 4 upstairs at Charles Street from 7.30 – 9pm. This first meeting will be a feedback meeting giving groups and voluntary sector organisations the opportunity to feedback their views on Pride 2014 to the organise By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Winter Pride UK Arts Awards 2014 The second Winter Pride UK Arts Awards will be hosted by Irish broadcasting personality Brendan Courtney at Tobacco Dock in East London on Saturday, November 15. Winter Pride UK, a unique celebration of creativity and a dazzling display of the finest performance and visual arts, is open to all artis By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Brighton Trans*formed launch party Brighton Trans*formed was launched at a reception at Jubilee Library in Brighton last night, September 24. The groundbreaking book published by QueenSpark Books chronicles the lives and experiences of Brighton and Hove’s Transgender community. It is a beautifully edited compendium of writing, memori By Besi • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Local church comes out in support of first Totnes Pride procession Totnes in Devon saw its second Pride event last weekend, with over 1000 people coming from all over Devon & Cornwall, to celebrate the local LGBT community. Organisers of the event, the Devon-based Proud2Be Project, laid on a whole host of events in the town. The event began with a colourful process By Besi • 4 min read
Community News Pride honour those who make Pride happen each year Pride Directors Paul Kemp and Dulcie Weaver honoured the people who work behind the scenes to make Pride happen each year, at the Pride Supporters Awards at the Brighton Metropole Hilton on Monday night (September 1). Special awards were presented to representatives from the police and council who h By Besi • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Gay choir win ‘Best Community Float’ award Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus were awarded the Gold Medal for the Best Community Float at the Pride Supporter Awards on Monday night at the Brighton Metropole Hilton. Their float, Homage to ABBA, was judged to have best captured the flavour of this year’s The Worlds a Disco theme. The Pride Community Pa By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Pride recognise Legends and Marine Tavern fundraising efforts Pride directors Paul Kemp and Dulcie Danger recognised the fundraising efforts of two local businesses at the inaugural Pride Business Supporter Awards on Monday September 1 at the Brighton Metropole Hilton. With sponsorship support of the cabaret tent to the value of £5,000 and 640 Village Party pl By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Artists raise over £700 for Pride and The Rainbow Fund Artists from the LGBTQ sector (and their supporters) raised £713.74 for Brighton Pride and the Rainbow Fund from their exhibition at Jubilee Library during this year’s Arts and Film Festival. The self-funding event featured artwork from the local community and beyond, including items donated by Boy By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Rainbow Fund awards record grants to LGBT/HIV groups The great and the good attended the Rainbow Fund Awards ceremony at the Brighton Metropole Hilton last night. Rainbow Fund patron, comedienne Zoe Lyons and Lola Lasagne hosted the ceremony, which saw grants totalling over £50,000 awarded to twelve local LGBT/HIV organisations providing effective fro By Besi • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Brighton Pride announce ‘Community Group Engagement’ meetings for Pride 2015 Preparations are under way to organise Brighton Pride in 2015. A series of Community Group engagement meetings will be staged upstairs at Charles Street bar on a monthly basis in the lead-up to Pride 2015. The first meeting on Tuesday, November 4 will be a feedback meeting to give you the chance to By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Elly Barnes to open family-themed Herts Pride Elly Barnes, CEO and founder of Educate and Celebrate will open Herts Pride 2014 under the theme We Are Family on Saturday, August 30 at Cassiobury Park, Watford. This year over 20 acts are due to appear on the various stages including the main stage, cabaret tent as well as in the wellbeing and mar By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Free travel for Manchester Pride goers To show its love for the city, Manchester Metrolink is offering Pride wristband holders free travel around the city centre in support of the bank holiday event. Operating from the first tram on Friday morning, August 22 to the last service on Monday night, August 25, all wristband wearers will be ab By Besi • 1 min read
