Posts in 'Trans' Category
‘My Transsexual Summer’ new Channel 4 TV series
The above titled new series begins on Tuesday 8th November at 10pm on Channel 4. The series places seven people undergoing many different gender reassignment procedures in a retreat over 5 weekends and follows them on their journey to become who they really are.
Are you trans, transgender, gender queer or questioning your gender identity?
Are you trans, transgender, gender queer or questioning your gender identity? There are now a number of groups in Brighton for you. In this post, read about Transformers Youth Network, FTM Brighton, The Clare Project Drop-In, The LGBT HIP Project and details about International Transgender Day of Remembrance on the 20th November.
Transformers – Brighton’s new Trans Youth Network
Post by Andi Devine, Allsorts Youth Project. Brighton is a very diverse city; therefore there is a large amount of support accessible for those who need it. Yet those who struggle with or even question their gender identity can sometimes be overlooked. All too often, trans people and especially young trans people, can find themselves [...]
Mental Health & Wellbeing
All of us from time to time will have days when we just can’t find a smile to put on our face. Having a blue day, feeling under the weather, (particularly if that weather is stormy and grey) a bit depressing. Thankfully the majority of the time we find that by the end of the [...]
National Coming Out Day October 11th. Groups for LGBT Young People in Brighton
October 11th marks ‘National Coming Out’ Day. For some ‘coming out’ as lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans (LGBT) can be a liberating experience as they acknowledge who they are, and for others it’s a time of huge turmoil and confusion. For those aged 13-25 in Brighton & Hove there is Allsorts Youth Project who provide [...]
Authors Asked to Erase Gay Character.
You’re a writer, you have worked hard on developing a plot for your young adult, fictional novel. You have created a character you love and you know will reach out to your readership. The excitement builds as you get a call from a literary agent who says they love the book but… for the manuscript [...]
So, you don’t DO Pride?
Don’t want to go to the Park? Don’t think you should pay to do so? So, like, totally over the whole Pride thing?
Well what are you going to do this weekend then?
In the Name of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Pride.
With only two days to go before Brighton’s LGBTQ Pride hits the streets, with people either choosing to stay at home, pay to go to the organise event in the park, gather in one of the other parks, hit the beach or congregate in the ‘Gay Village’ up and down St James Street. Although the [...]
Fundraising @ THT
Fundraising at THT As part of their ongoing strategy to keep the message of safer sex and HIV in the public’s mind, the team at Terrence Higgins Trust have embarked on a range of fun fundraising activities. On the 15th May THT joined the event “Brighton’s Hero’s Run”, organised by the charity “Passing It On”, [...]
LGBTQ Hate Crime Exists in Brighton & Hove: Let Us Not Be Complacent & Invisible
If estimated statistics are correct, the 20,000 LGBT residents of Brighton & Hove that day were predominantly invisible. Apathy was prevailing and our city bubble mentality preventing many from feeling the need to make any noise. Let ‘us’ not be our biggest enemy. 72 crimes and incidents of LGBT hate crime within our ‘Brighton bubble’ in one year is reason enough to for us to not become invisible through complacency, a shrug of our shoulders and a mis-guided belief that ‘it doesn’t effect me’.
