Arts “Bold, bright and totally queer.” Marlborough Productions celebrates 15 years with scintillating spring 2025 programme In their 15th anniversary year, Marlborough Productions has programmed an offering of live performance featuring trailblazers from the UK’s queer arts scene including Emma Frankland and Subira Joy. Alongside a dynamic lineup of live work, Marlborough Productions continues to lead the way as makers a By Graham Robson • 4 min read
Arts Marlborough Productions celebrates 15 years of pioneering intersectional queer culture and performance This September, Marlborough Productions celebrates 15 years of creating and supporting boundary-pushing, cutting-edge queer performance, parties, heritage and radical gatherings. A catalyst for queer culture and community, Marlborough Productions has worked alongside writers, performers, activists, By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Books The Coast Is Queer, Brighton’s well-established festival of LGBTQ+ writing, returns this year from 10-13 October The Coast Is Queer, Brighton’s well-established festival of LGBTQ+ writing, returns this year from 10-13 October with conversations, panels, workshops, performance and films, celebrating queer writing. It was the first festival of its kind in the UK, and it’s once again at the Attenborough Centre fo By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Books The UK’s only LGBTQ+ literary festival, the Coast Is Queer, to return to Brighton in October Brian Butler looks forward to the only UK queer literature festival – and it’s here in Brighton By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts Neil Bartlett and Okechukwu Nzelu @ Coast is Queer Coast is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQ+ literary festival, presents an intriguing intergenerational conversation between two of the UK’s most exciting gay writers – Neil Bartlett and Okechukwu Nzelu – at Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts on Saturday, October 8 from 2pm. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO : Coast is Queer panel event As part of the Coast is Queer festival, this exciting panel event looks at two new collections of life writing and short fiction salute the richness of queer life experience – This Arab is Queer celebrates the varied experiences of the queer diasporic community. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts FEATURE: The Coast Is Queer 3 – Jamie Windust Brian Butler listens intently to non-binary writer/model Jamie Windust By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts FEATURE : The Coast Is Queer 2 – film maker Campbell X Brian Butler finds queer film maker Campbell X’s masterclass hugely enjoyable By Brian Butler • 4 min read
Arts FEATURE: The Coast Is Queer 1: Val The Queen Of Crime Novels Dropping in on Brighton’s queer literary festival Brian Butler listens to Val McDermid By Brian Butler • 4 min read
