Business News Brighton Gin celebrates Brighton Pride with limited edition bottle Brighton Gin to donated percentage of sales to The Rainbow Fund. Small batch, super premium Brighton Gin has created just over 400 limited edition bottles of the UK’s favourite gin (as voted for by the public in the 2017 People’s Drinks Awards) – with specially-created rainbow labels and pink wax se By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Community News Leeds Beckett University host BiCon conference Well Met Conferencing, the conference office at Leeds Beckett University host BiCon from August 10-13 at the historic James Graham and Caedmon venues in Headingley. With around 400 people attending, 25% of who are attending for the first time, the event is set to be ‘the highlight of the bisexual ye By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Five days left to support Pride documentary Kickstarter campaign Film makers are working on a new LGBT+ film called PRIDE? a documentary exploring the history of Pride in the UK, where it is today and where the movement needs to go. In March a work-in-progress edit was screened at the BFI FLARE Festival. The Independent called it one of the 9 picks of the festiva By Besi • 2 min read
In The South Mr Gay Europe title comes to Brighton Matt Rood, Gscene’s cover model for the August Pride issue was crowned Mr Gay Europe at Stockholm Pride today. Matt won the Social Media Challenge (SoMe) and My Project challenge, he came second in the preliminary interview, the photo challenge and the sports challenge. By Besi • 3 min read
In The South “We won’t wait another 50 years for lasting equality” says Cllr Phelim MacCafferty This weekend tens of thousands of people are taking to the city’s streets celebrating our LGBT communities, says Phelin MacCafferty, Convenor of the Green Party. By Besi • 2 min read
The Co-Operative, Job Number 37144: The Co-Operative Funeralcare’s new rainbow hearse in Brighton with Richard Miller (left) and Chris Sarson. In The South “Somewhere over the rainbow” Co-op Funeralcare’s first Rainbow hearse will be unveiled this weekend. Believed to be one of only two in the UK, attendees at Brighton Pride will be the first to see the new vehicle. It is the most recent addition to Co-op Funeralcare’s growing fleet of 7 specialist hearses, now ranging from a Land By Besi • 2 min read
Competition Win a Holiday to the Florida Keys & Key West at Brighton & Hove Pride The Florida Keys has long been a favourite holiday destination for LGBT+ visitors, who receive a warm welcome to the island chain where the official motto, One Human Family, signifies an atmosphere of inclusion and recognition that all people are created equal. By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Lunch Positive host community café at Pride on Preston Park Lunch Positive, the local HIV charity that provides a weekly HIV lunch club is staging it’s Community Café at Pride again this year. The café will be at the south end of the park in the Community Village. Volunteers from Lunch Positive will be preparing and selling a range of affordable food and dri By Besi • 1 min read
In The South Proud2Be will paint the town gold at fifth Totnes Pride The historic market town of Totnes in Devon, will host the fifth Totnes Pride on Saturday, September 2, 2017. Social enterprise Proud2Be are organising a host of events, which will bring the LGBT+ communities together with their friends, families and supporters, to celebrate diversity in the town. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus – Showtime @St Georges Church It is difficult to find new things to say about the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus that I have not written before, except that at their Pride Concert (July 29) at St Georges Church, Kemptown, they once again turned in a highly polished performance, highlighting the strength in depth of the chorus’s soloi By Besi • 3 min read
Business News George Street barbers to raise money for Sussex Beacon OS Barbers in George Street will once again be raising money for the Sussex Beacon on Friday, August 4. For the third successive year, barbers, George and Joe will be donating all the takings from the haircuts they both do, all day. By Besi • 1 min read
Features & Longread OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – my memories of past Prides My first experience of a Pride event was back in 1997, some 20 years ago. A fresh-faced 16-year-old kid, who knew she was trans but only in her wildest dreams did she think she could transition, made her way to Clapham Common for Pride London. I was absolutely terrified as I made my way there with m By Ms Sugar Swan • 4 min read
