Arts Queer Britain, the UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum, announces its first exhibition has opened We Are Queer Britain is a riot of objects, voices, art and images By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Features & Longread FEATURE: Have we fallen out of love with civil partnerships? Only 785 civil partnerships were formed between same-sex couples in England and Wales in 2020, compared with 6,925 marriages By Contributor • 2 min read
In The South Queer in Brighton team up with Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft for ‘LGBTIQ+ History Club Pride Out-ing’ Jump on the bus at Brighton and head to Ditchling for E-J Scott’s Bourne & Allen textile show & tell and a tour by Ditchling’s very own headstone sleuth Dr Jane Traies before tea and cakes on the village green. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Birmingham More dates announced for MOBILISE, a series of radical and joyous queer dance parties in Birmingham Following a successful first MOBILISE queer and sober dance party at the end of June, Fatt Projects, producers of the event presented as part of Birmingham 2022 Festival, have announced future dates for the series taking place at The Exchange in Birmingham By Graham Robson • 1 min read
News Brighton & Hove City Council: Getting ready to welcome Pride back to the city With a month to go, we at Brighton & Hove City Council are getting ready to welcome back Brighton & Hove’s fantastic Pride celebrations! By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts Back to Earth Live presents Queer Earth and Liquid Matters Hosted at London’s Stone Nest on Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17, the festival will be a two-day festival exploring transformation, queerness, the natural, the unnatural and the wild, as well as decolonial, indigenous and submerged perspectives on the climate crisis By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Tea Uglow Eric Page is delighted by the insight, sass and glorious rhetoric (from) these speeches shine like beacons, they glow with the power of inspiration, they shake with rage, shudder with righteous anger and shout across time space for us to echo them in our daily testimony, struggle and who we fight to By Eric Page • 3 min read
News UK Queer Arabs to march Pride in London for the first time The group was established in September 2021 to connect, support and represent the LGBTQ+ community with a range of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression who have an Arabic Heritage and Culture. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News The UK’s first national LGBTQ+ museum, Queer Britain, announces future plans Its current display, Welcome To Queer Britain, runs till Sunday, July 3. The museum is also seeking a full-time Business Manager to help make Queer Britain resilient and sustainable. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News BBC Radio 6 Music announces ‘Loud and Proud’ season for Pride Month BBC Radio 6 Music’s Loud and Proud season, which includes Billy Porter, Skunk Anansie and Andy Bell, will celebrate LGBTQ+ voices throughout June with a range of special shows, guest presenters and mixes. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Fatt Projects announces steering group for MOBILISE – an exciting new queer project Fatt Projects – formed by Adam Carver aka Fatt Butcher – is planning a series of “raucous, joyful and radical queer accessible sober social dance parties” under the name MOBILISE By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Community News Turning The Tables: Scene chats to Andrew Flewitt Andrew is here to tell us about his new Podcast series, Queer I Am, which is launching on July 2. By Chris Gull • 4 min read
