Arts BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram Part history, part dream, part political, part romance, part research but wholly celebratory. A book that tells Our story, by those that built and continue to build the spaces we choose to live in. The range of voices written in its pages reflects the diversity of our community back to us, but time By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. It’s a book about chosen family, finding yourself and the way truly being seen is the safest place o By Eric Page • 3 min read
Photo: Manuel Harlan Arts REVIEW: The Doctor @ Theatre Royal Brighton Robert Icke’s The Doctor is very much an ideas-driven play. It’s a profusion of debates about race, gender, identity, morality, religion, medical ethics and wokeness which, against the odds, fit neatly into one production. It’s hard to know where the author stands on pretty much any of the themes he By Michael Hootman • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Love From the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder This book is a huge throb of love, from a woman who continues to give and share. Her love teaches us that radical unconditional love will get us through the darkest of times and give us an opportunity to build on the ashes of the glories of those who went before. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: Boys On Film 22 – Love To Love You Brian Butler finds gems in Peccadillo Pictures latest Queer collection By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: I Am Not Raymond Wallace by Sam Kenyon A satisfying new addition to queer literature. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor This collection of eleven LGBTQ+ stories, interwoven and interconnected by character, theme and narrative tension is superb. Taylor takes the familiar Queer tropes and upends them, shakes them out, twists them round, some get a spit and rub, others placed back in strang By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Destination Pride by Andrew Collins Destination Pride Andrew Collins This travel sized book, part of the ‘Destination’ series is a celebration of freedom and of the progress that continues to make it both safe and inspiring for Queer people to explore parts of every continent. LGBTQ+ travellers know the importance of feeling safe and By Eric Page • 2 min read
Azara Meghie Arts REVIEW: ‘Short & Sweet’: Thick & Tight Dance Company Alison Thomson’s review of the first piece to be performed in Brighton’s brand new The Dance Space. By Contributor • 3 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: Donna Brian Butler finds a truly remarkable trans heroine By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts AT HOME WITH HOOTMAN: From ‘Get Carter’ to ‘Vampyr’ What’s hot on the box? Film reviews from Michael Hootman By Michael Hootman • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Waitress @ Theatre Royal Brighton This is a fizzing fun and quirky show, I was delighted by it. It’s lovely to enjoy such a clever combination of writing, lyrics and music which pull the classic arc of musicals into a modern messy genre mixing focus. But in a charming surgery way which belies the sophisticated work going on beneath By Eric Page • 4 min read
