Posts in 'Events' Category
LGBT and Sport: A Blog of Two Halves.
LGBT and Sport: A Story of Two Halves. I really look forward to the day when words like, brave, shocked or courageous are no longer used when a sportsperson tells the public that their sexuality isn’t heterosexual. Having watched the Channel Four programme, Britain’s Gay footballers (a misleading title as apparently there aren’t any) saw [...]
First Look at GO.GO Festival 2012 Line Up Announced & London’s Iconic Candy Bar Locates to GO.GO
Last year Zhoosh went along to the GO.GO women’s festival along with 200 other women from Brighton & Hove to join thousands of females from across the UK. We genuinely had a great time and the moment the dates were announced for 2012 myself, the girlfriend and the same friends that went together last year booked the time off from work without hesitation. Here they announce the line-up and improved changes to the festival for 2012.
Catch O’Hooley & Tidow in Brighton & Hove – One night only on their UK tour
Guest Post by Belinda O’Hooley from folk duo O’Hooley & Tidow “I’m Belinda O’Hooley from folk duo O’Hooley & Tidow. Our new album ‘The Fragile’ was released last week and we have had 4 star reviews across the board in The Guardian, Mojo, Uncut, The Word, Songlines etc. We are performing at HOVE Folk Club [...]
“BORN IN FLAMES” (15) dir: Lizzie Borden USA 1983
There might be some connection – a coincidence of a cinematic kind perhaps – when a rare category, exempli gratia films made by women about women, follow each other to the box office. I am thinking of “The Iron Lady” re Margaret Thatcher (dir: Phyllida Lloyd) and “W.E.” re Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII (dir: [...]
Brighton & Hove Libraries Services Celebrate LGBT History Month 2012
The Brighton & Hove Libraries Service have a number of events and activities taking place in February 2012 to mark LGBT History Month and is marking Holocaust Memorial Day January 27th with an exhibition (now until 30th Jan) tracing the way Germany’s Nazi Party changed the world for male and female homosexuals and transvestites. LGBT Exhibition [...]
New Monthly Night for Lesbian, Bi and Trans Women Launching In Brighton
In this post we interview local resident and lesbian DJ Lesley Warwick-Love aka DJ ‘The Fondue Inferno’. So, Lesley, tell me about your DJ background? ‘The Fondue Inferno’ has had many aliases over my 18 years of Dj’ing. I made my mark as an underground DJ playing House, hard house and hardcore at Phase II’s [...]
BRIGHTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS CHRISTMAS SHOW AT DOME SET TO SELL OUT AFTER TICKET SALES SOAR!
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus is delighted to announce that a total of 1,340 out of 1,400 tickets had been confirmed as sold for their Pull A Cracker Christmas show at the Brighton Dome. And, as a direct result of this ticket selling bonanza, the Dome Box Office agreed to release just under 100 further seats [...]
Sussex Police LGBT Team launch New ‘Online’ Chat Drop-In
As part of their work to connect with more people in the community, members of the Kemp Town Neighbourhood Police Team (NPT) are going virtual for a new regular online drop-in session. With temperatures dropping across Sussex, our LGBT team came up with the idea of trying an online ‘drop-in’ starting 22nd November 7pm, so [...]
Rise Living Library, ‘Tales of the Unexpected’ Brighton Event
Jubilee Library, Brighton. November 23rd-25th 2011 Life doesn’t always go according to plan and many people find their lives affected by domestic abuse, alcohol, drugs or HIV/AIDS. These can happen to anyone and are often hidden problems that can seem to carry a stigma. Survivors and workers have volunteered themselves as ‘Living Books’ to [...]
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus and Sussex Beacon unite for Christmas for TWO shows!
Embracing the Christmas notions of giving and sharing, Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus has announced it will be working with the Sussex Beacon Emergency Appeal to help them raise £150,000. This association means that for every ticket purchased for either of the two Chorus’ organised shows scheduled for this coming December will not only provide priceless [...]
