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BLAGSS’ FOOTBALL TEAMS
PLAY SUSSEX FA TEAMS DURING
'FOOTBALL v HOMOPHOBIA' MONTH
ANDREW PARKER
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Football v Homophobia, staged a month of action last month with matches
played between men’s and ladies football teams at Brighton Lesbian and
Gay Sports Society (BLAGSS) and teams from Sussex County FA.
BLAGSS has around 400 lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) members who participate in
sports as varied as badminton, cricket, cycling,
football, golf, orienteering petanque-boules, running,
sailing, squash, table tennis, tennis, tennis virgins, ten
pin bowling, walking and yoga.
Elliot Toms, who organises the football team, added:
"I am a geologist, we have a civil engineer, lawyer,
doctor and builder all aged between 20 and 53 playing
for us.
"Homophobia still exists in football. It is appalling,
especially when you consider there will be children at
games who will hear these comments. Our aim is to
raise awareness that homophobia still exists in football
and quite simply it shouldn't."
) Football v Homophobia, now an established
international initiative, runs every February and
opposes homophobia in football at every level –
from grassroots to professional clubs.
The aim of the initiative is for football to take a clear
stand against homophobia so that everyone can
enjoy the beautiful game while football leads the
way in removing discrimination and prejudice based
on gender identity and sexual orientation.
In an exciting game against Sussex Country FA on
February 1 at Lancing football ground, BLAGSS
men controlled much of the first half of play against
Sussex Country FA XI. Aaron Keens put BLAGSS
ahead before Sussex FA scored three goals on the
trot. A spectacular header in the second half by
Colin Maplesden was not enough to even the
game, which Sussex FA won 3-2. Man of the match
was sweeper and the oldest player on the pitch
Paul Gustafson.
Not to be outdone, BLAGSS women played a
Sussex FA team at Lancing Football ground on
February 15 as part of the month of action,
scoring a resounding 10-3 victory. The fixture was
the first ever and hopefully will become an annual
event showing that homophobia in football is being
tackled at a grassroots level and to show that the
LGBT communities and women are welcome in
football and have a positive contribution to make.
Mathew Major, Sussex County FA chairman, said:
"Football is for everyone in Sussex, and I am
delighted that BLAGSS have now affiliated with us.
Yes, there are still some people in society who may
hold negative views, but one would hope that is a
minority view in 2016."
At the moment BLAGSS football teams only play
friendly games and are not enrolled in a competitive
league. The men's team travelled to Munich at the
end of November 2015 to play in the World AIDS
Day Football Tournament, organised by Munich
Street Boys, where they achieved a respectable ninth
place in a lineup of 14 international LGBT football
teams.
Following their success, the BLAGSS ladies team are
looking to enter more competitive events in the
coming season.
Plans are also coming together for the Pride
Diversity Games from July 22-24 which will include
sporting disciplines including football, golf,
badminton, tennis, rugby, cricket and much more!
For more information about BLAGSS, view:
www.blagss.org
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LOLA LASAGNE
GOLDEN HANDBAG
AWARDS 2016
) The Golden Handbag Show, Brighton's annual Gay Oscar award ceremony
will take place on Sunday June 12 at the Brighton Metropole Hilton Hotel.
Now in their 21st year, The Golden Handbags celebrate everything positive and
uplifting about the LGBT scene in Brighton and Hove. Who is a top and who is a
bottom? What is your favourite bar and which is your favourite
voluntary sector organisation are questions that get answered on
the night in spectacular hollywood fashion. This year’s awards
will once again be raising money for local good causes and all
voting will take place online only. The evening will be hosted by
Lola Lasagne and the lineup of artists appearing will be
announced shortly.
VIP tables seating 12 people cost £240, go on sale from Tuesday March 1 and
will be released on a first come first served basis. To book a table email:
[email protected] or telephone 01273 749 947. If you’re not lucky enough to
be invited onto a VIP table, unreserved single tickets for £20 can be purchased
from Prowler, 112 St James Street, Brighton from Tuesday, May 2.
) The legendary Golden Quiz Night which officially launches the online voting
is at Charles Street on Tuesday, April 26. Get a team together and win the first
Golden Handbag of the season. Entry is £25 for a team of 8 players with all
proceeds going to local good causes. To book your place email:
[email protected]
MISS JASON RECEIVES
AWARD FROM SUSSEX POLICE
) Jason Sutton aka as entertainer Miss Jason has been presented with a
special community award by Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp from Sussex Police
acknowledging the help he gave police officers during a bomb scare at the start of
the Brighton & Hove Pride Parade in 2015.
The start of the Pride Parade
was delayed by two hours while
police investigated a suspicious
package strapped to a lamppost
outside the Brighton Hotel,
opposite the Bandstand on
Brighton seafront. Jason who
had been hosting a Pride
breakfast at the Brighton Hotel,
kept the crowds outside calm
and entertained while police
investigated the package and
then evacuated the crowd while bomb squad officers carried out a controlled
explosion. The package turned out to be a pinhole camera intended to take
photographs over an extended period of time.
The citation on the award, read: "Miss Jason is thanked by Sussex Police for
assisting in the evacuation of a large number of people during Brighton & Hove's
Pride 2015 celebrations following the discovery of a suspicious package. Miss
Jason displayed great professionalism and helped to ensure a calm and organised
evacuation putting the safety of the local community first."
Chief Super Nev Kemp, said: "My officers reported that Miss Jason was a
considerable help in keeping people calm and in a good mood during the long wait
to establish if the package was dangerous. We did not want to let his contribution in
keeping the crowd good-tempered and safe go unrecognised."
Miss Jason added: "It was so camp my dears! I had a wonderful time keeping
everyone entertained in the long wait to establish how serious the situation was.
Everyone played their part and the most important thing is that no one was hurt,
everyone had a great day and I am very happy to have played my part."
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BRIGHTON & HOVE
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S DAY
BLACK VALENTINE’S PARTY RAISES
£201.75 FOR THE RAINBOW FUND
Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, FGM
campaigner Nimco Ali and community organiser Emily
Wright will be joining a panel discussion to explore
some of the key issues affecting women today.
You can join a women’s history walk around the Pavilion
Estate, the stomping ground of headstrong princesses,
era-defining queens, writers, artists and businesswomen.
Free workshops that can be booked on the day include
Women’s Self-Defence, Beatboxing with UK champion
Bellatrix, Sing Your Heart Out
with Aneesa Chaudhry, Creative
Writing with Evlynn Sharp
and Women’s History. There will
also be a room showing all-day
films. Browse the information stalls, enjoy the
entertainment or learn some new skills.
The added bonus was that BBW
raised £201.75 on the day for the
Rainbow Fund, who make grants to
small LGBT/HIV organisations in
ANEESA CHAUDHRY
) In March, pop artist Lez Ingham will be showcasing her new collection of
paintings at Taylor-West & Sloan, the new optometrists in Hove. Real Eyes:
Realise will be on display to the public from March 8 for five weeks. For this
exhibition Lez has referenced
vintage 1960s comic and movie
poster images featuring multilayered, tongue-in cheek humour
with a twist of irony in bright
kaleidoscope colour.
Taylor-West & Sloan have an
amazing collection of stylish
frames from around the world
along with state of the art
optometrist equipment.
Real Eyes: Realise exhibition by Lez Ingham, Taylor-West & Sloan
Optometrists, 80 Church Road, Hove, BN3 2EB, Tuesday March 8 for 5 weeks,
9.30am–6pm. Closed Sunday and Monday
The BBW team extend special
thanks to Steven Lee, Ian Sinclair
and DJ Screwpulous at Subline, the
Sea Serpents Rugby Team who
celebrated England's win against
Italy in Rome in the bar and all
the horny men that made the party
so great.
The next BBW event is the Easter
Quiz at the Camelford Arms on
Thursday, March 24 from 7pm with
the quiz starting at 9pm.
For all BBW info, view:
www.brightonbearweekend.com
BEAR-PATROL COLLECTION TINS
APPEAL REACHES 500 TARGET!
The Early Childhood Project will keep the 0-12 year olds amused with their allday children’s activities. Or, pamper yourself with low-cost holistic therapies and
retreat to the café bar to relax over tea and cake. Prepared to be entertained,
inspired and empowered!
REAL EYES: REALISE
Brighton & Hove who provide
effective front line services to
LGBT+ people in the city.
APPEAL FOR COLLECTING TINS FOR
SUSSEX BEACON REACH 500
BELLATRIX
In the exhibition area, Brighton Dome’s flagship outreach project Miss
Represented will have jewellery-making and collage workshops alongside their
retrospective work. In Dead Reckoning, artist Bern O'Donoghue presents 3,771
miniature boats, each one bearing witness to the death in 2015 of a migrant or
refugee who attempted to cross the Mediterranean in their efforts to reach Europe.
) Brighton Bear Weekend (BBW)
made an exciting return to Subline
on Valentine’s Day for a Black
Valentine’s Party. BBW's first
Sunday afternoon event of the
season was a success with many
men in leather, rubber and even
more in black and rubber. Graham
Munday, Chair of BBW, said: “It
was good to see so many regular
faces, old faces and new faces on
old faces enjoying the delights of a
Sunday afternoon party in the
bowels of Subline.”
Bear-Patrol asked supporters to
donate just £2 each to cover the
cost of buying one collection tin
and reached their target of buying
500 new tins on February 19. The
Sussex Beacon have now ordered
the new tins, which will be labelled
by Bear-Patrol volunteers, and they
will be delivered in early March. If
you want a new tin in your venue or
business, email:
[email protected]
) Bear-Patrol, the social
networking group for bears and
their friends launched a new
community fundraising project to
purchase a new batch of collection
tins to help further promote the
services of the Sussex Beacon and
to increase the amount of tins
circulated in the local community.
The new tins are white and will
include security chains and the
Beacon's new logo which is due to
be rolled out in April 2016.
Danny Dwyer, organiser of BearPatrol, said: "These new collection
tins will also help to replace some
of the older tins which are now tired
and/or damaged and as always we
thank you for your support."
DANNY DWYER
Host for the day, UK Slam! champion, Rachel Nwokoro,
will be introducing an impressive line-up on the main stage
including Brighton’s all-women a capella choir, We Bop;
female ukulele band, Qukulele; and Beatbox Champion
Bellatrix, who will be belting out foot-stomping tunes
alongside other dance, music and poetry performances.
CAROLINE LUCAS MP
RACHEL NWOKORO
) Brighton Women’s Centre and Brighton Dome will celebrate the 105th
International Women’s Day (IWD) with an action-packed day of entertainment,
films, workshops, exhibitions, discussions, history tours and children’s activities.
IWD celebrations will take place at the Brighton Dome, Church Street, Brighton on
Saturday, March 5, from 10am to 4pm.
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NEW ADVOCACY SERVICE
FOR TRANS COMMUNITIES
RADIO REVERB’S HIV HAPPY
HOUR IS TOP OF THE PODS!
) MindOut, the LGBT mental health project, and
Healthwatch Brighton & Hove are to jointly set up the city’s
first Trans Advocacy Service. Jointly funded by Brighton &
Hove Clinical Commissioning Group and Brighton & Hove
City Council, the service will provide person-centred advocacy
support for the trans communities in Brighton & Hove.
) The podcast of Radio Reverb’s HIV
Happy Hour has reached the No One
spot in the LGBT: Society and Culture
category of Podomatic. The radio show
is not only listened to by Brighton
locals, but nationally and all over the
world, with a growing following in the
US. The programme, presented by Paul
Thorn and Martin Chatfield, is
broadcast on Radio Reverb 97.2fm and
is streamed globally via their website.
The aim of the show is to challenge the
negative thinking that people with HIV
often hold about themselves, and make
the most of life.
The Advocacy Service will offer advice, information, representation and case work
support on all issues related to trans care pathways, including services and
treatment at the Gender Identity Clinic and: Primary and secondary health care;
Social care; Legal issues; Family and relationships; Employment; Housing; Hate
crime, harassment and bullying; Diagnosis; Treatment options, referral systems
and waiting times as well as health issues not related to the trans care pathway
HELEN JONES
Research into the mental health needs of trans people shows that 84% of
respondents experienced suicidal distress, dropping to 3% post-transition,
demonstrating a clear indication of the life-saving
potential of prompt and timely support.
Helen Jones, Director of MindOut, said: ”We are
so pleased to be able to provide much-needed,
dedicated support for trans communities. We look
forward to working closely with local trans groups
and organisations to meet growing needs.”
DR SAM HALL
Nicky Cambridge, Chief Executive of Healthwatch Brighton & Hove, added:
“Healthwatch is delighted to be part of this project. We will ensure that the issues
being raised by trans people accessing services are raised at local and national
levels so that systems improve and change permanently. We will do this with the
community who have faced institutional prejudice and discrimination for far too
long.”
PAUL THORN
All MindOut services are free, independent, impartial and confidential.
show very much and are pleased to
know that people like it. More
importantly we hope that it’s making a
difference to people’s lives.”
The HIV Happy Hour is broadcast live
on Thursday at 7pm, and repeated on
Presenter Paul Thorn, Tuesday at noon and Wednesday at
9am. To catch up with the Podcast,
said: “This is
view: www.hivhappy.co.uk/
absolutely thrilling.
Martin and I both
The HIV Happy Hour is supported by a
enjoy making the
grant from the Rainbow Fund.
BRIGHTON BEAR WEEKEND MERCHANDISE
NOW AVAILABLE AT PROWER
Dr Sam Hall, Chair of the Clare Project and Trans
Alliance representative, said: “This is a fantastic
example of how the Trans Needs Assessment can
be used as a springboard to achieve equality of
access to services for Brighton & Hove’s trans
residents and service users. We look forward to
working with MindOut to ensure that the best
possible use is made of this new service.”
For more information about MindOut, view: www.mindout.org.uk/
ME SOCIETY LAUNCH NEW WEBSITE
COLIN BARTON
ME sometimes follows a viral infection or trauma and affects around 6,000 adults
and children across Sussex, including a significant number of the LGBT+
community, some of whom are virtually housebound and in need of care.
Colin Barton, Sussex ME Society Chairman and
former bar manager, said: ”We have seen much
progress over the years both in the recognition and
treatment of the illness but there is still some way to
go before those affected receive services equal to
that afforded to those with other neurological
disorders”.
To view the new website, view: www.measussex.org.uk
) Merchandising for Brighton Bear
Weekend in June is now available at
Prowler, 112 St James Street. This
year's popular logo, designed by
Fergus Salder, features three bears
and Brighton Pavilion, presenting two
icons in one. T-shirts, costing just £12,
are available in red and black in sizes
from small to 3XL and there is a new
line of black polo shirts, costing £15,
with sizes from small to 2 XL. All
money raised from sales will go to the
Rainbow Fund who give grants
to LGBT/HIV organisations in Brighton
& Hove providing effective frontline
services to LGBT people in the city.
Graham Munday,
Chair of Brighton Bear
Weekend, says: “It's
great to be working
with Prowler Brighton.
It gives a chance for
people to pick up and try on our
clothing. It’s very convenient for people
in Brighton and you save by not having
to pay for postage. Don't forget you can
always buy online at
www.brightonbearweekend.com"
GRAHAM MUNDAY
) The charity that supports those in the region affected by Myalgic
Encephalopathy (ME) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has a new website
designed to cover the latest local and national news and developments in an
easily understood format. The organisation, soon to mark its 30th year, is
supported by some of the leading medical professionals in the field who
contribute regularly to the charity’s work.
Brighton Bear Weekend will take
place from June 17-19, 2016. For more
information, view:
www.brightonbearweekender.co.uk
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WIN £300 AT BRIGHTON BEAR
WEEKEND EASTER QUIZ
) At Brighton Bear Weekend (BBW) headquarters they
often think of chocolate, bears and sometimes chocolate
bears. So to keep minds occupied, BBW will be hosting a
quiz and when better than the Thursday before Easter on
March 24 at the Camelford Arms. The quiz will start at
9pm and Mark Flood, the manager of the Camelford, will
be your quiz master for the night. Questions will be set by
Brighton Bear Weekend Chair, Graham Munday, so expect
chocolate, religion and maybe a bit of naughtiness. It is recommended you book a
table as the bar is always busy for quizzes. Why not make it a full evening out and
eat at the Camelford before the quiz? To make a reservation call 01273 622386.
It's just £2 to enter and the top prize is £300 in cash. Join a team or build your own
with friends. On the night there will be a raffle and all money from the quiz and
raffle will go to the Rainbow Fund who give grants to local LGBT/HIV organisations
providing effective frontline services to LGBT people in Brighton & Hove.
MINDOUT FOR THE
LAUGHS RETURNS!
the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus
and more.
The venue, St George’s Church in
Kemptown, is fully accessible and
will have a licensed bar.
Go along, take your friends and enjoy
a fun-filled evening while raising vital
funds for LGBTQ mental health charity
MindOut!
) Due to popular demand, the
comedy cabaret extravaganza
supporting MindOut, the LGBT mental
health charity, is returning on
Thursday, March 17, showcasing
great comedy with a good dose of
musical entertainment thrown in.
The line-up includes award-winning
Zoe Lyons. If you haven’t had the
chance to catch her before at one of
her sold out performances, or if you
missed her on BBC’s Live at the
Apollo, this is the perfect opportunity
to see her live.
MindOut for the Laughs, is at St
George’s Church, Kemptown,
Brighton, on Thursday, March
17. Doors open at 6.30pm for
7.30pm start. Tickets: £12/ £10
concs from: www.bit.ly/laughs2016
ZOE LYONS
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Compere for the evening is Spice who
will also lend his vocal prowess.
BRIGHTON BEAR WEEKEND
TEAM UP WITH GIN & BEAR IT!
) Brighton Bear Weekend (BBW) are teaming up with Gin & Bear It to supply
liquid refreshment at this year's bears’ picnic on June 18 at Dorset Gardens from
1pm. Aaron Burns and John Azzopardi are Gin & Bear It and together they serve
drinks from their 1968 Morris Minor, Aubrey, who they’ve cleverly fitted out with
optics rigs and a pop-up bar created from vintage luggage in keeping with the age of
their beloved car. Aaron said: "We are so excited to be a part of the BBW picnic, and
look forward to meeting loads of great people and giving something back to our
community, something we always love doing.”
John added: “BBW is a great opportunity to have a fantastic time with members of
our community while raising money for an extremely worthy cause. The work that the
Rainbow Fund does is so important and to be able to support this is an honour.”
Graham Munday, Brighton Bear
Weekend Chair, said: "This is amazing
to have Gin & Bear It join us, Aaron
and John who will be serving the drinks
for you are so friendly and professional.
They will be joining us and all the
volunteers from Lunch Positive who will
be providing food, tea and coffee for
the picnic on June 18."
The evening will be featuring the
hilarious Debra-Jane Appelby, the
sparkly talented Dolly Rocket, the
entertaining Sally Vate, members of
NEW MONTHLY LGBTQ PUB
CRAWL ROUND THE GAY VILLAGE
) A new monthly LGBTQ Pub
Crawl, visiting some of Brighton's
famous gay bars and pubs, will meet
at the Marine Tavern every third
Friday of the month from 8pm. Go
along, meet new people and enjoy
Brighton's best-loved LGBTQ venues
into the early hours of the following
morning. Bars on the route will be
offering free shots and the event is free
for everyone to attend.
So mark in your diaries, Friday
March 18 starting from 8pm at the
Marine Tavern in Broad Street. Pubs
being visited include Queens Arms,
Poison Ivy, Bar Broadway and
Bulldog to name a few.
Brighton Bear Weekend will take place from June 16-19. For more information,
view: www.brightonbearweekend.com
This is a great chance to make new
friends and visit bars you might not
normally visit alone in the company of
the lovely Stephanie Von Clitz and
the outrageous Linda Bacardi who
will be your accompanying drag
guides for the evening’s fun. A wild
night out is promised for everyone.
The Rainbow Fund make grants to LGBT/HIV organisations in Brighton & Hove
providing effective frontline services to LGBT people in the city.
For up to date information, check out
the Facebook group.
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) New research reveals harassment and bullying of LGBT+students and staff
continues to be a problem in colleges and universities. Sixty per-cent of students
have witnessed bullying based on sexual orientation, with one in 10 saying they see
it every day, warns a new report. The report, looking at bullying of lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender (LBGT+) staff and students, also found that 17% of staff
have experienced name-calling at work, and one in 10 had been threatened or
intimidated.
Pride and Prejudice in Education was produced by the National Union of
Students, the Equality Challenge Unit, the Learning and Work Institute, the
Skills Funding Agency, the University and College Union and the Forum for
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality. It calls on universities and
colleges to provide good quality training and support for staff. It also recommends
that institutions develop an inclusive curriculum, have zero tolerance for harassment
of LGBT+ students and take action to prevent students dropping out due to
discrimination.
ROBBIIE YOUNG
Key findings from the report include:
• 60% of respondents had witnessed a learner acting negatively towards people
because of their sexual orientation at least once. One in 10 respondents saw or
heard this behaviour every day.
• 51% of lesbian and gay students and 59 per cent of non-binary students had
experienced homophobic or transphobic name-calling.
• 47% of non-binary students have seriously considered dropping out of their
course, compared with 35 per cent of respondents on average.
• 17% of staff respondents had experienced biphobic, homophobic or transphobic
name-calling at work.
• 13% had been harassed, one in 10 had been threatened or intimidated and 3%
had been physically assaulted.
• 11% reported that they had experienced another kind of biphobic, homophobic
or transphobic bullying.
• 78% of respondents said they did know who to go to in their place of work if
they experienced bullying.
• 52% of staff said that no sexual orientation or gender identity equality training
was provided for staff or learners where they worked.
Robbiie Young and Fran Cowling, National Union of Students
LGBT+ officers, said: “It’s deeply concerning to see how
widespread the bullying and harassment of LGBT+ students is.
Every student should feel safe while at college or university. They
shouldn’t have to face name-calling and other bullying, or have to
consider dropping out of their course because of the way they are
treated by other students. NUS will be working with students’ unions to implement
the recommendations in this report to create learning environments that are inclusive
and welcoming for all LGBT+ students.”
CLARE PAVITT
HELEN CARR
Helen Carr, University and College Union head of equality,
added: “While much is being done to address bullying and
harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity in
colleges and universities, there’s no getting away from the fact
that it’s still a problem. The findings in this survey are consistent
with a recent House of Commons report on transgender equality that called for better,
and more readily available, training. While there’s greater awareness of the issue and
better structures in place to deal with bullying, this has not translated into incidents
being properly dealt with or even reported.”
Clare Pavitt, Equality Challenge Unit senior policy adviser, said:
“The experiences of LGBT+ staff in higher education appear to
have improved from when we conducted similar research in 2008.
However, there are still significant concerns that need addressing.
The fact staff are still suffering physical attacks because of their
sexual orientation is unacceptable. The recommendations in this
report are sensible and achievable and ECU will work with higher education
institutions to help them be delivered.”
GOVERNMENT REJECTS
COMPULSORY SEX
EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
) Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) condemns government decision on Sex
and Relationships Education. The Government has rejected calls for
mandatory sex education in schools to be made compulsory, from the
government’s chief medical officer, three cross-party committees of MPs and
the children’s commissioner.
The announcement, not to make
Personal, Social and Health Education
(PSHE) and Sex and Relationships
Education (SRE) statutory, was made
two months later than expected, by
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan,
who had originally promised to report
by the end of last year. Instead, she announced the Government will work with
a group of leading head teachers and practitioners to improve PSHE, but this
will not include statutory status, and is hardly likely to have the breadth or
scope to tackle Ofsted’s finding that 40% of PSHE teaching is not of sufficient
quality.
NICKY MORGAN
LGBT+ STUDENTS AND STAFF
CONTINUE TO BE BULLIED IN
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Shaun Griffin, Executive Director
External Affairs at THT, said: “The
government missed its own deadline
in reply to the Education Select
Committee on PSHE, and now reveals
itself to have completely ignored that
report, and the recommendation of no
less than four chairs of parliamentary committees. Quite incredible.
Confusingly, in its letter the government expresses concern around the variable
quality of PSHE provision, yet rejects the obvious solution. If PSHE and SRE is
made compulsory in all schools, it will be treated as other subjects, with
teachers getting the training they need, and enough time being allocated in
timetables for quality lessons.
SHAUN GRIFFIN
)
“Countless reports have shown the value of statutory PSHE including a strong
link to good academic performance. It is quite astonishing that the government
should disregard the advice of its own committee and mounting external
evidence that the current system doesn’t work. We have failed young people in
our country with inadequate and unrealistic SRE, and we now look set to fail
many more.”
Contrary to the Government’s current assertion that the vast majority of
schools already make provision for PSHE and SRE, this is only obligatory in
the 40% of secondary schools which are maintained. This excludes the
growing number of academies and free schools, let alone primary schools.
THT, campaigns for universal statutory status for SRE in all schools as part of
the Sex Education Forum.
Ruth Hunt, Stonewall CEO, reacting
to the news, said: "We are
disappointed with the Government’s
decision not to make PSHE statutory
and inclusive in schools. High-quality
PSHE has a key role to play in making
sure all young people have the
information they need to stay safe, healthy and prepared for life in 21st century
Britain. Lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) young people overwhelmingly tell us
they are not receiving the information they need to make safe, informed
choices about their wellbeing, including online. We are however pleased that
consideration will be given to reviewing sex and relationships education (SRE).
Existing guidance was developed at a time when teachers were prevented from
talking about LGBT issues in school at all, and so we strongly encourage new
guidance which reflects the experiences of LGBT young people."
RUTH HUNT
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LGBT SMALL GROUPS BECOMES
A CONSTITUTED ORGANISATION
) On Saturday, February 20, 15 smaller LGBT and HIV community groups
formally came together to create a newly constituted organisation called LGBT
Small Groups, which has been formed from participants of the former LGBT
Small Groups Network. The new organisation will meet regularly to facilitate
cooperation and support between the individual community groups that are
members, share information, help promote the work of its member groups, and
enable capacity building.
GARY PARGETER
LGBT Small Groups has been founded by a diverse range of smaller local LGBT
and HIV community groups, including Brighton & Hove LGBT Community
Safety Forum, BLAGSS, Brighton Bothways, Brighton GEMS, Clare
Project, FTM Brighton, Lunch Positive, MCC Brighton, Older & Out, Peer
Action, Rainbow Chorus, Rainbow Families, Trans Alliance, Trans Pride,
and Village Church. Between these groups over 300 people volunteer to deliver
services and support and provide hundreds of community and health & wellbeing events, to at least 3,500 people every year.
Gary Pargeter, Acting Chair, says: “LGBT Small Groups is
an exciting development for all of us involved in leading and
running smaller local community groups. For the last two
years we’ve been meeting as an informal network to
cooperate and support each other, and are now at exactly
the right place to become formally constituted.
“The community groups who have formed LGBT Small Groups will meet together
at least four times a year, focussing on cooperating and advancing the success of
the work we deliver by our individual organisations to our service users, and the
wider LGBT community. Our member community groups are truly inspirational, the
work they carry out unique and the fundamental involvement of volunteers are a
testament to the skills, passion and commitment everyone has. Just look at how
many people volunteer and are supported or involved in the services provided –
it’s an amazing contribution by our community, for our community.”
TRANS
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communities in partnership with the Trans Alliance.
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LGBT Small groups will soon be launching its new look website. In the meantime
you can find out more at www.lgbt-groups.org or email [email protected]
SIMON FANSHAWE OBE
WERE YOU AT UNIVERSITY IN
BRIGHTON OR KENT IN 1966?
) The BBC have commissioned a series of regional
documentaries about 1966. Broadcaster Simon
Fanshawe OBE is making the one about the South East
and will be looking at the year through the lens of the
Universities of Kent and Sussex. He wants to speak to a
lesbian or gay man who remembers what it was like to live
in Brighton in 1966. If you can help email Simon at: [email protected]
) A group of older gay men celebrated Valentine's Day together with Sunday
lunch organised by Keith Kerr on February 14 at the Waterfront Hotel on
Brighton seafront.
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RUMOUR HAS IT... RAISES
£205.17 FOR RAINBOW FUND
WAYNE DURANT & CHARLES CHILD
evening, shaking their buckets while
encouraging everyone to have fun.
DR BRIGHTONS CELEBRATE
SEVEN YEARS AT THE TOP!
) On Saturday March 5, Charles Child and his team at Doctor Brightons will
be celebrating their 7th birthday 'gaying' it up on Brighton seafront. Charles took
over the reigns of the bar in 2009 and was joined in 2010 by the barman with the
dirtiest laugh in Brighton, Wayne Durant, who arrived hot from managing the
Bulldog.
Charles and Wayne both agree that
one of the highlights of the last seven
years was the Reunion Party last
month, hosted by the evergreen
Stephanie Starlet which brought
many old faces back out onto the
scene for a night of nostalgia, great
music and serious dancing.
The team at Dr Brightons are regular
supporters of LGBT/HIV organisations
and in 2015 raised £3,687.46 for
the Rainbow Fund to distribute to
LGBT/HIV organisations delivering effective front line services to LGBT people in
Brighton and Hove.
Their next fundraiser is on Bank Holiday Monday, May 2 to raise money for the
Ride4Rhinos project which is part of TIA Volunteers and the TIA Charitable
Foundation who are raising money for anti poaching units in South Africa and
working to rebuild a South African village to become self sustainable.
QUEENS ARMS RAISES OVER
£1,000 FOR RAINBOW FUND
) Barry Nelson, manager at the Queens Arms on George Street, hands over a
cheque for £1,044.00 to Chris Gull, Chair of the Rainbow Fund. The money
was raised during Barry's Birthday bash at the Queens Arms, on Sunday,
January 31. The Rainbow Fund give grants to LGBT/HIV groups who provide
effective services to LGBT people in the city.
Plans for the future include extending the popular 241
cocktails range with a new range of cocktails coming out
soon and the return of legendary DJ Josh the Barber with
a regular spot at the bar.
You will find Dr Brightons at 16-17 King's Rd, Brighton
BN1 1NE. Happy hour and 241 cocktails are all day
Sunday to Friday and 1 till 7 on Saturday. Free game of pool when you buy a
round of drinks during happy hour and DJ Tony B plays live every Saturday night
from 9.30pm. The bar is open Monday-Thursday 3pm-12am; FridaySaturday 1pm-2am and Sunday 1pm-12am.
BARRY NELSON & CHRIS GULL
Charles said: “I chose to raise money for the Rainbow Fund last year because
through their independent grants programme they make sure that the money goes
to organisations with the most need. It is the fairest way to make sure that smaller
groups who provide such great services don’t get squeezed during the present
cutbacks.”
JOSH THE BARBER
TONY B, STEPHANIE STARLET & CHARLES CHILD
After seven years they are still packing them in with their winning formulae of great
value cocktails during the week, music from top DJs at weekends, and their unique
handmade shots including Werther's original, pear drops and drumstick sweets
infused with vodka served every day of the week. They are one of the few gay bars
offering a pool table which remains a popular attraction at the pub.
Rumour has it... the next soiree is at
Funfair on Good Friday, March 26.
Doors open at 10pm and the party
goes right through until 4am. The
warm up party is in Dr Brightons who
are offering 2 for 1 cocktails and a free
shot with each queue jump ticket.
When they say free shot this is an
) Rumour has it... the new club night appropriate time to put money in the
charity bucket. Entry to the club is free
for the LGBT clubbers was a huge
between 10–11, this is another
success at Funfair on January 29,
raising £205.17 for the Rainbow Fund appropriate time to put your money in
the charity bucket!!
in the process. Organisers were taken
aback by the numbers attending on
opening night which resulted in people
having to queue outside in the cold and
rain to gain entry. This has been
remedied and for future parties you can
get fast track entry by going to
Facebook.com/rumourhasitbrighton
and following the links, while the foyer
of the club has also been altered to
make entry quicker and more efficient.
Once again the promoters will be
collecting for The Rainbow Fund who
The promoters would like to say a
through their independent grants
massive thank you to everyone who
programme make grants to LGBT/HIV
supported their ‘conscience clubbing’
organisations in Brighton & Hove
concept and donated so generously to
the Rainbow Fund. Sexy door hostess's providing effective front line services to
LGBT people in the city. In other words
Britney Fierce and Gia Massacre
the money goes to those organisations
were relentless in keeping everyone
reminded of the charitable nature of the most in need.
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FAN GROUP MARK
LGBT HISTORY MONTH
AT AMEX STADIUM
BRIGHTON BASED GAY
RUGBY TEAM PLAYS FIRST
COMPETITIVE MATCH
) To celebrate LGBT History
Month, two 10-metre-long
banners were unfurled by football
fans in the stands at the
Amex Community Stadium as the
Albion and Bolton teams came
onto the pitch at the beginning of
their Football League Championship
game on February 13.
stands and in football fandom.
They attend games at other
stadiums displaying their banners
challenging prejudice and bigotry,
presenting a positive, inclusive
football environment that is safe
and welcoming to all fans.
The banners welcomed all LGBTQ
fans to Brighton and Hove Albion
games and the Amex Stadium.
Football v Homophobia Month of
Action, a European campaign, and
we, the fan group, wanted to play a
visible part in that month and to
make a good strong positive
message as part of the campaign,
as a lot of terms used can be
negative around anti-homophonic
language and behaviour. We
wanted to turn it into a positive
thing, thus the welcoming banner."
A spokesperson for the group
said: "This was also about the
) Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents RFC played their inaugural match at Hove
Rugby Football Club on February 20 against The Kings Cross Steelers 4th XV.
Despite the miserable weather almost one hundred friends and supporters turned out
in the muddy conditions to cheer both teams on, creating the opportunity for gay
men to play rugby together in Brighton and Hove for the first time.
After a shaky start the Sea Serpents settled down and in the second half gained
more possession. The Steelers came out winners 25-0 with all the points being
gained from tries, there were no conversions.
After the match, the Sea Serpents enjoyed themselves at the Bar at Hove Rugby
Club before moving on to entertain their guests from London at
the Camelford Arms who are sponsoring the team.
For more information about the Brighton & Hove Sea Serpents, RFC, view
www.pitchero.com/clubs/brightonandhoveseaserpents
The fan group North Stand
Kollective, who were behind the
huge banners, are well-known for
using the Amex stands to promote
a message of inclusivity. They are
at the forefront of challenging
homophobia and racism in the
NEWS HEADER
)
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18 St Georges Road, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1EB
01273 623 408
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The LGBT Community Safety Forum
is an independent group of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* (LGBT)
volunteers in Brighton & Hove.
For more info visit: lgbt-help.com
REPORT IT!
If you would like to report a Hate Crime or Incident with us
via our Anonymous Third Party reporting service ‘Report It’
please email [email protected] or call 01273 855620
REMEMBER always dial 999 in an emergency
• Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum is is a member of The LGBT Community Groups Network and funded by
the Rainbow Fund and Police Crime Commissioner. • Listening Ear Service provided by the Samaritans.
• This Advert was paid for with a grant from the Rainbow Fund.
BRIGHTON & HOVE
LGBT COMMUNITY
GROUPS NETWORK
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HOMELESS HOTELS FROM
HELL - DANIEL’S STORY!
DANIEL HARRIS
After three years, Brighton & Hove Council overturned their earlier
decision not to home Daniel Harris and accepted they have a care of
duty to him and he is in priority need.
house where I was paying £300 a month. In total I
have to pay £900 a month to live here.
I tried to commit suicide last year when everything
got too much. I am in recovery and have a history of
not eating well, this room only has a microwave. The
bed is not fit to sleep in and the mattress is stained
with what looks like urine. The ceiling is falling apart
and I am now seriously doubting a way forward in my
life, I simply cannot afford to pay those rates and am
considering quitting my job.
I am not allowed visitors so I will be on my own a lot.
I was told today that I should feel privileged as most
people get moved 30 miles away, I should feel
privileged that I am staying in the city that my family
have lived in for over 300 years, I am privileged for
needing support in terms of my medical condition?
Based on my calculations on £800 a month rent x 60
rooms in total that's £540,000 that vulnerable people
are paying to this Private Landlord annually.
Please support me by signing my petition asking the
council to give me a secure property that meets my
needs.
By supporting this petition you will be supporting
other homeless people as I will ask the council to
review their policy for placing vulnerable people in
privately owned accommodation which is a detriment
to their health."
) Last month the Council's Housing
Department put Daniel into emergency housing
which he says is not fit for purpose and he has
challenged local Councillors and the Head of
Housing for Brighton & Hove City Council, Tracey
John, to spend a night in the type of property they
are putting vulnerable people, many with mental
health issues, into.
HERE IS DANIEL’S STORY:
"Having been homeless and sofa surfing for three
years, Brighton & Hove City Council finally
overturned a decision stating I was in fact in
priority need and rightly so accepted a duty of
care.
Today I was emergency housed at Percival Terrace
in Brighton & Hove, there are over 60 rooms in this
privately owned accommodation. In order for me to
be housed and not street homeless I accepted the
property.
I am suffering from a mental illness and in
particular from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,
following sexual abuse I suffered as a six-year-old
boy. I didn't have an advocate with me at the
meeting with the council and feel I have been
pushed into a decision which is unlawful and took
advantage of the vulnerable position I am in right
now. I am suffering from chronic anxiety and
depression, however I am having counselling which
I missed today in order to move.
The rent on this self-contained room is £28 a day, I
have to pay a further £50 a month for utilities and
Council Tax. I have worked out I am actually £600
worse off each month moving from my friend's
Daniel is calling for a review of his application to the
council and his circumstances in particular with
regards to the historic sexual abuse which Brighton &
Hove Children Services refuse to investigate to help
him get the answers and move on with his life.
To sign Daniel’s online petition, view:
https://www.change.org/p/homeless-hotels-fromhell-my-story-brighton-hove-city-council-wastingmoney-by-paying-private-limited-companiesmillions-from-housing-benefits-for-substandard-cells
Gscene have asked Tracey John, the Council's Head
of Housing, if he will be taking up Daniel's challenge
and spending a night in his room or a similar one
where vulnerable people are being placed by the
council’s housing department. No reply has been
forthcoming. Cllr Warren Morgan leader of the
council when asked if he would signposted us to Cllr
Meadows Labour’s chair of housing.
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BLAGSS’ 18TH BIRTHDAY
) BLAGSS, (Brighton Lesbian and Gay Sports Society) celebrated their
18th birthday at the end of January with a dinner dance at the Sussex
Cricket Club. One-hundred members were treated to a sumptuous three
course sit down dinner followed by classic disco and line-dancing.
A raffle raised £505 for MindOut, the LGBT mental health charity who are
BLAGSS's adopted charity for the year. Prizes were donated by local
businesses, including: Nick Rivett Sport, Hove; Florian the Florist, Hove;
Prowler, Kemptown; Pallant of Arundel; PJ Foster, Tennis Coach; Sussex
County Cricket, Hove; Camelford Arms, Brighton; Velvet Jacks, Brighton;
and Hollingbury Golf Course.
BLAGSS has more than 400 members of all different shapes, sizes, ages and
abilities who participate in sports as varied as Badminton, Cricket, Cycling,
Football, Golf, Orienteering, Petanque-Boules, Running, Sailing, Squash,
Table Tennis, Tennis, Tennis Virgins, Tenpin Bowling, Walking and Yoga.
BLAGSS aim is to encourage LGBT people to play sport to enrich their lives
and promote health and fitness while developing sporting talent in the LGBT
community. For more information about BLAGSS, view: www.blagss.org
of the issues that women face by celebrating
women who have fought against it in amazing
and inspirational ways. Marking IWD in this way
can help to break some of the negative stigma
that has become attached to women’s rights
movements. Focusing on achievements made by
women around the world doesn’t take away from
the seriousness of the obstacles and oppression
that many women still face, but it does make
IWD more accessible, increasing the scope for
intersectionality.
PLEDGING FOR PARITY:
WE’RE ALL ROLE MODELS
International Women’s Day has been around since
the early twentieth century, and we’ve come a long
way. But what role does it play within today’s society,
and do we still need it? By Alice Blezzard
) International Women’s Day (IWD) began
early in the 1900s, when inequality and
oppression saw women begin to campaign for
change. In a turbulent society, industrialisation
and the rise of radical ideologies led to women
becoming more vocal in calling for parity.
Since then, much of the disparity women faced
at that time has become almost unimaginable
to young women living within modern society
in the UK today, and some have even said that
IWD is no longer needed. But are they right?
Do we still need it?
The answer is simple: of course we do.
The fact that anyone feels as though the fight
for women’s rights is a battle that has already
been won is, in many ways, true testament as
to how far we have come. It isn’t, however, an
accurate reflection of current society even here
in the UK. Although much of the world has
seen a massive change in societal thoughts
around women’s equality, parity is not
something that has yet become established.
Women are able to have a family and go to
work, and at work there are more women
present in boardrooms. But women are still
faced with an increased risk of poverty, as well
as a higher chance of experiencing domestic
and sexual violence. Women are still largely
underrepresented within business and politics,
and the gender pay gap is still very much in
existence. The fight for equality is far from
over, and parity is something that some
experts have said we won’t see within this
century.
Many believe that intersectionality is key to
achieving equality, as marginalisation is
something that is still faced by many. A lot of
the inequalities faced by women and raised on
IWD are similar to obstacles faced by people
within the LGBT community every day, but
there isn’t much in the way of historical links
between women’s rights campaigning, and the
fight for LGBT rights. Women’s rights and the
rights of the LGBT community are not
exclusive; and in fact women’s rights and LBT
rights are one and the same. Women aren’t
being empowered at all if it’s not inclusive,
and yet intersectionality doesn’t seem to be
something that’s given the acknowledgment it
perhaps should when the subject of women’s
rights is discussed; instead it becomes a ‘them’
and ‘us’ kind of scenario.
The growth of IWD around the world offers a
glimpse of hope for those nations where
women’s rights are not as equal as they are
here in the UK. The day has taken its place in
many different cultures, and is marked and
celebrated around the world in a multitude of
different ways – whether that’s celebrating
women’s political and social achievements,
raising awareness of the many struggles that
women still face worldwide or simply wearing a
purple ribbon. In some regions the more hardhitting political associations take a back seat,
and instead the day has become an occasion to
celebrate the women in your life in a manner
more similar to Mother’s or Valentine’s Day.
Many IWD celebrations come together to
celebrate female role models, raising awareness
This year’s main IWD event in London will play
host to many well-known female role models,
from celebrities to political activists and
refugees. As younger generations look to public
figures and celebrities more and more, the
importance and influence of role models within
the public eye increases. This can be especially
true for young LGBT people, who may find that
LGBT role models are not present within their
everyday lives.
During adolescence and beyond, role models are
incredibly important to building a healthy and
positive sense of self. Having someone to look
up to, who openly identifies as LGBT or as an
ally, can make a huge difference at what can
prove to be a difficult time. This same openness
also works to promote equality, by contributing
to societal acceptance of diversity. The visibility
of LGBT people in the public eye has grown
massively in recent years, and as LGBT role
models become more and more visible within
the mainstream media, their value only grows.
Typical and harmful stereotypes are slowly
being eroded, and space for diversity is growing
in the process.
This year’s IWD campaign theme is ‘Pledge for
Parity’, and calls for people of all genders to
come together to celebrate the social,
economic, cultural and political achievements of
women worldwide. By promoting inclusivity,
IWD aims to no longer be seen solely as a
political campaign confronting society, but
instead as what it is: a day for human beings
who are campaigning for equality, irrelevant of
gender. With this in mind, this IWD let’s
celebrate our female and LBT role models, and
maybe even the role model within ourselves.
“Women are still largely
underrepresented within
business and politics, and
the gender pay gap is still
very much in existence”
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WEIRD, CONTEMPORARY AND
UNIQUE - TRAUMFRAU AT ENVY
) Traumfrau, Brighton’s most unusual queer night, runs monthly from a
different venue, in February it was above Charles Street at Envy. Expect to step
into a colourful reality, where you can dance until the late hours, watch
unapologetic drag queens and incredible performers, be part of a show, enter a
painting competition, play a game, dance some more and meet the most social
and interesting people.
From outdoor festival-like parties, with fire pits, a pool, and food, to club nights,
performances, and great DJs, no two Traumfrau parties are ever the same. All are
an unforgettable experience. An intellectual dancefloor for the unusual crowd.
Bizarre and enlightening. Forget everything you know about a gay club, butch up
your camp, and camp up your butch, break all binaries, wear whatever you want,
or very little, scr*w the pressure of having to be anything else than what you
want.
The Allergic Disco (Screw Romance) non-Valentine’s party at Charles Street
on Valentine's weekend was a night dedicated to friendship and non-packaged
love… Rubyyy Jones - international Queen of Queerlesque, sex educator, and
révolutionnaire - was live on stage to amuse and inspire the assembled multitude.
DJ Alex Spinks banged out house, disco and pop while DJ Solomon Onyemere
provided a little leftfield electro and post-punk experience.
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But it wasn’t until I discovered drag that all my
insecurities started to disappear and a different
me started to shine. I have abuse and death
threats made against me on social media, abuse
shouted at me while on the tube, people staring
and making remarks about the way I look and
people laughing in my face, all because of my
look. It’s not a nice thing to experience and it’s
a good job I have a thick skin.
BEING
MORGAN FABULOUS
In a way, being a drag queen for me is like being a
superhero, I put on my costume to inspire change,
promote awareness and defend the vulnerable, but
unlike a superhero I don’t wear a costume to disguise
myself, says Morgan Fabulous.
) I’m the same person in and out of drag,
confident, courageous, and benign. My drag
persona Morgan Fabulous is an extension of my
personality; it’s an outlet for my creativity and
desire to be different. When I’m not in a pair
of heels I enjoy doing regular things like going
to the gym, socialising, gaming and spending
time with my partner. I’m covered in tattoos
and I’ve got stretched ears which may be seen
as a barrier when looking for a job or can
potentially limit your career choices, and to a
certain extent that’s true, but that’s also
something I feel strongly about. I think that
having the right attitude, respecting others
and being kind can break through negative
opinions associated with aesthetic
stereotyping.
When I’m in drag I don’t shave my beard, I
enhance it. Throughout history beards have
been linked with notions of masculinity, male
courage and virility. A beard is a statement and
even more so when you pair it up with a dress
and a nice pair of heels.
I enjoy being Morgan and it’s given me the
confidence to try things that I wouldn’t
normally do. I entered an alternative modelling
competition as I wanted to challenge myself
and represent a different type of model that
you wouldn’t normally see in a fashion
magazine. I would love to appear as the face of
a clothing brand and blur the line between
male and female fashion models.
I was involved in a TV series where I was
stripped of my drag identity and camouflaged
into the background. People were only seeing
me as a canvas; there was nothing to judge me
on apart from the paint that was being applied
to my body, none of it representing who I was.
It was a great experience on many levels. Until
that point in my life, only a few people have
seen the process in reverse and being filmed
removing all my clothes and makeup was
something I actually looked forward to doing.
I’m not blaming people for having opinions on a
subject they know nothing about, and the
reason they don’t know anything about it is
because it isn’t covered enough in the media
and they may have never experienced it firsthand. To some people, seeing me walk down the
street is like seeing an alien from another
planet, some can’t control their initial reaction
and some don’t know how to react. If I saw an
alien I’d want to find out more about it before I
made a decision on whether to welcome it to
our planet or not. I wish people would give me
the benefit of the doubt and realise I come in
peace. All they need to do is initiate a friendly
gesture, an act of kindness or return a smile and
the world would be a better place for everyone
no matter who they are.
So I’m going to continue dressing in whatever I
feel fabulous in and giving people a visual
experience that they may not have had yet and
will never forget. Hopefully I’ll spark bravery and
curiosity in people who’ve been waiting for the
time when dressing how you want will be
accepted and praised rather than being judged
and stereotyped. It’s an ongoing battle but
together we’ll reach our goal, being strong and
being patient will tear down those walls of
discrimination that we’re all trapped behind.
So the message I’m trying to convey is a simple
one: be kind to one another, don’t judge people
on their appearance and respect our differences
even if you don’t understand them.
I have no issues with people seeing me
without makeup and it’s something that I
hadn’t seen before other than my reflection.
Seeing the transformation on TV was a real
eye-opener. It was so surreal to be standing
naked in the middle of a busy market, I should
have felt exposed but it was the opposite, I
felt totally invisible and I could barely see
myself on the monitor as the paint gradually
made me disappear into the background.
Last month I modelled for an anti-bullying
campaign, which was a project very close to
my heart and something I was honoured to be
part of as I haven’t always been this confident.
Throughout my school and teenage years, like a
lot of people, I was bullied and teased about
being gay and being different which made it
even more difficult to admit to myself. It
wasn’t until the age of 21 that I came out and
realised I didn’t care what people thought and
it was from that point that put me on the path
to becoming who I am today.
HOPE Fundraiser For THT
) Morgan is appearing at the HOPE
Fundraiser For THT at the Synergy Centre,
78 West St, Brighton, Sunday, March 27,
6pm–midnight. Tickets: £7 adult, family of
4 adults £20, VIP tickets £25, all available
on the door on the night.
BASEMENT CLUB
BASEMENT CLUB
BASEMENT CLUB
QUEENS ARMS
BAR BROADWAY
LEGENDS
BAR BROADWAY
LEGENDS
BAR BROADWAY
LEGENDS
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GSCENE OUT & ABOUT
BOUTIQUE
QUEENS ARMS
BOUTIQUE
QUEENS ARMS
CHARLES STREET
CAMELFORD ARMS
CHARLES STREET
CAMELFORD ARMS
CHARLES STREET
CAMELFORD ARMS
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DANCE MUSIC
BY QUEEN JOSEPHINE & KATE WILDBLOOD
ALBUMS
) Spring is on its way and we’re
blossoming into our fave time of
year. Yep, Brighton with sunshine.
It doesn’t get much better.
Fill yourself with
the joys of
spring this
March with the
life-affirming
Baron Retif &
Concepcion Perez’s Navettes on
Musique Large. Filtered-funkinfused disco and soulful grooves
await you. Or head over to the
warmth of New Jersey as Deep88
delivers some right fine Italoflavoured house with The Black
Album on 12 Records.
As are our March marvels. Every
time Joey Negro hits the studio
you’re
guaranteed
something
special and
Remixed With
Love By Joey
Negro Vol.2 on Z Records is just
that. Genius disco retakes that
have had us spinning in sequins
since it first dropped our way. As
has the exquisite Unfug’s The
Deep Sea & Its Rivals on Gibbons
Records. Techno with soul,
enchanting, engaging and highly
addictive. Purchase and grin.
This month’s
must-play is
Dinamo Azari’s
Estranged on
Others worth a
The Vinyl
nod and a spring
Factory.
wink include the Stepping on from Azari & I, this is
soulful
hungry as hell as Dinamo heads to
adventures of
the gritty underbelly of the house
Zona’s Peace,
scene and comes up smiling. The
Love &
perfect distraction – however long
Understanding
spring may take in coming. Enjoy.
on 70x7 Records
and the slo-jam Catch Wildblood & Queenie at
Home Service@Patterns on
boogie that’s
Sunday March 6, 6pm-12am, and
that man
monkz’s outstanding Columbusing on RadioReverb 97.2FM & DAB
on Delusions of Grandeur. Too, too on March 13 at 5pm.
perfectdistractions.com
good.
WILDBLOOD & QUEENIE’S MARCH MARVELS
) EL NINO ANDRES She Understood Duke Ellington Jackie Brown
Feel the warmth, feel the disco, feel the Duke love.
) FOLD Tracksuits & Tennis Shoes AUS Music
House and disco sample heaven as Fold continue to thrill.
) DETROIT Swindle In Reverse Heist Recordings
In Reverse EP action that hits the button. As they do.
) FABIAN KASH Berlin Oh Stockholm
A timely reminder to book those plane tickets.
) FATTY MOMBASSA Weak Friday Fox Recordings
Stand out track from the brilliant Sounds from the Den Vol.2.
) HAWKES & BLAKE Love Precipitation / Flip A Coin AUS Music
Timothy Blake and Marquis Hawkes deliver a disco-infused delight.
) ALEK SOLTIROV Sometimes La Musique Fantastique
Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air. Honest.
) ATELLA ft O Martin Mechanical Sparrow Eskimo Recordings
Majestic Norwegian melodies anyone?
) SEBASTIEN FAUVEL Obsession (Faze Action remix) Follentez
The funk gets well and truly cooked in this FA wonder.
) SATIN JACKETS ft Emma Brammer We Can Talk Eskimo Recordings
As crisp as a March morning with added spring sunshine. Nice.
DJ PROFILE: LONESOME M
Fancy a change of rhythm to get you springing into March? Feel like
doing some new dancefloor moves?? Well now’s the time to increase your
repertoire with the wonderful DJ Lonesome M…
Where can we see/hear you DJ these days? I do a monthly night
called Diablo at The Bee’s Mouth, Western Road. It’s a fantastically
unusual venue – like a trip down the rabbit hole into a world of eccentric
décor and interesting clientele. They specialise in Belgian and craft beers
which is great as I’m a total beer geek. Diablo is on the first Saturday of
every month from 9pm and it’s free to get in. You can sometimes catch
me guest DJing at some of Brighton’s rockabilly nights (Brighton Rumble
Rockabilly Club, Rollin’ Dynamite, etc). My own club night, Frockabilly,
still exists, but only as one-off specials. However, I also produce and
present a weekly radio show, Frockabilly Radio, on Brighton’s Radio
Reverb. As far as I know, it’s the only female-fronted rockabilly radio
show on FM radio in the whole of Europe (possibly even the world!). The
show goes out live every Wednesday night at 7pm.
DJ style? I play rockabilly and rockin’ blues, mostly on 7” vinyl.
Rockabilly has its roots in both hillbilly and rhythm & blues and was an
early version of the rock ‘n’ roll that was later somewhat sanitised for
mainstream audiences. As many of my records are between just one and
two minutes long my style tends to be fast and furious!
Tune that fills your dancefloor? At rockabilly clubs there are three main
dances; the Jive, the Bop and the Stroll. A good DJ plays a mix of jivers,
boppers and strollers throughout the night. If the dancefloor is empty, I
normally throw on a few boppers. One that’s pretty much guaranteed to
get some rockabilly boots a-stampin’ is Big River by Johnny Cash (my
copy represents the best 10p I ever spent at a car boot fair!).
Best ever gig? When I first started Frockabilly I set out to do two
things; open up the rockabilly scene to queer people, and open up the
queer scene to a different kind of music. Over the past couple of years
I’ve played two brilliant gigs which made me feel I’ve achieved both
those aims, at least in part. In 2014 I DJ’d at Europe’s biggest rockabilly
festival, The Rockabilly Rave, and in 2015 I played at Brighton Pride.
Perhaps music can change things…!
Tell us a secret? I’m not lonesome and my real name doesn’t begin with
M.
DJ LONESOME M’S CURRENT TOP FIVE
) WARREN SMITH I’ve Got Love if You Want It Sun
) ALICE JAYNE meets The Sirocco Bros Hoo Doo Rollin Records
) JAKE CALYPSO & HIS RED HOT Call Me Baby Chickens Records
) CHARLIE HIGHTONE Hangover Blues Sleazy
) THE DEUCES WILD I’m In a Whirl Speciality
GSCENE 29
MORGAN & VICTORIA CHECK
OUT THE NEW LOOK REVENGE!
By Morgan Fabulous
) Victoria Vanity is a 20-something yearold drag queen who I’ve recently become
friends with. We met at a Lip Sync
competition that runs every Tuesday at Bar
Revenge in Brighton. The competition is for
anyone who wants to get up on stage and
reinvent themselves as the popstar they
always wanted to be without the task of
singing. We’d both entered a few times as
we hadn’t quite made it to the final. It was a great experience because through my
life I’ve suffered from social anxiety and find it difficult to put myself in situations
where I could embarrass myself or be made a fool of. The competition helped me
overcome some of these feelings and each week I grew a little more confident.
Drag has taught me a lot about myself and I still learn from it.
Victoria and I became regulars there and after the competition ended we arranged
to go out for drinks. I’ve a lot of respect for Victoria as she knows who she is even
at a young age and isn’t afraid to express herself through make-up and fashion. I
saw her one day in town across the road, sporting an androgynous casual day wear
look, perfectly applied make-up and carrying a designer handbag. She looked like
she meant business as she paraded down St James’s Street, like she was on a
catwalk. She is undeniably tenacious and had entered the competition eight times
before getting to the final. It’s that kind of dedication that motivates you to succeed
and I often wish that I had that kind of determination.
To a certain degree I think we can all learn a lot from the Victorias of this world.
Their seemingly carefree life style, the un-paralleled confidence to be a man, wear
make-up and carry a handbag, hold down a job and still go out partying four
nights a week and to live her life without consequence. As we get older we take on
more responsibility and prioritise our outgoings but do we do it to the extreme
where our previous lifestyle choices seem precarious?
Last month, on Victoria’s birthday, we met in town for a few drinks and
introductions before we headed off to the new look Revenge. I hadn’t been to
Revenge for around three years, and was a little apprehensive. Having gotten used
to going to the same place for so long, with the same clientele, I’d forgotten what
going somewhere different had felt like. There was a great atmosphere in Revenge,
everyone seemed to be having a fabulous time, celebrating life and dancing the
night away to the soundtracks of their lives. The sound system and lighting effects
had been replaced along with the curved wall round the old dance floor giving the
impression of a much bigger club. There are now seven luxury VIP booths off from
the main floor which you can hire, offering an optional escape from the dance floor
if you’re in need of a retreat or to socialise a little.
I’ve noticed with some club-goers these days a lack of consideration for others.
Revenge is a great place to let your hair down and forget about the rest of the world,
but like any nightclub it suffers from inconsiderate people throwing empty bottles
and glasses on the floor. Alcohol affects different people in different ways and for
some their consideration for others goes down the drain with their self-respect and
ability to stand. Maybe tolerance for that is something that goes hand in hand with
being in your 20s and dance floor etiquette is a thing of the past.
I’m always considerate and if I do accidentally bump into someone or spill my drink
on them I always apologise. The majority of us have experienced similar affects from
alcohol at some point in our lives, and alcohol has certainly got the better of me on a
few occasions so I’m in no way judging anyone for having a few too many drinks but
I will certainly think twice about wearing my best white dress when out clubbing in
future.
But all that aside, and moving on very quickly, I felt accepted in the company of this
generation’s party goers. There was a diverse selection of people there, all with their
unique style and yet somehow unified by the music. I spoke to a lot of friendly
people during the evening and the crowd seemed quite attitude-free. I felt there was
a very positive atmosphere on the dance floor which was very liberating. Could it be
that this generation is more accepting of the different variety of people we have in
Brighton? Even though I spend my time amongst the LGBT community there have
been occasions where my style and lifestyle choices have been questioned, but not
once at Revenge did I witness or face any negativity. The night was coming to an end
and I had spent my taxi money on drink so it was a short walk home in my heels.
Thought for the day: Did spending time with Victoria and the 20-something crowd
shift my perspective on what was important and give me a new taste for partying or
was I just regurgitating an already digested past? Answers on a postcard please.
30 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT
PICS FROM BAR 7 + BAR BROADWAY
MARCH
BAR 7 CRAWLEY
BAR BROADWAY
) 7 Pegler Way, Crawley, RH11 7AG, Tel: 01293 511177, www.7crawley.co.uk
) OPEN Sun, Tue & Wed 6pm–12.30am, Thur–Sat 6pm–2.30am
) 10 Steine Street, BN2 1TE, Tel: 01273 609777, www.barbroadway.co.uk
) OPEN Mon-Thur 6pm-1am, Fri 5pm–3am; Sat 4pm-3am; Sun 4pm–1am.
) EASTER OPENING HOURS: Thur (24) 5pm-3am; Fri (25) & Sat (26)
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Sat (26) is the BAR 7 ANNUAL
BEACH PARTY with DJ Lewis Osborne, holiday resort
décor, holiday-inspired cocktails and holiday fancy dress
encouraged from 9pm.
) REGULARS Thur is TOTAL REQUESTS with DJ Jazzy
Jane from 9pm. ) Fri is 7 UPSTAIRS with DJs spinning
tunes all night from 9pm. ) Sat is 7 SINS with DJs Lewis
Osborne & Ben Castle from 9pm, free entry before 11pm. ) Sun is KARAOKE
with Jane from 8pm. ) Tue is CREWSDAY cabin crew night with DJs from 9pm.
Information is correct at the time of going to
press. Gscene cannot be held responsible for
any changes or alterations to the listings
TUESDAY 1
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY Crewsday: DJ
Lewis Osborne 9pm
l BAR REVENGE Karaoke with Liz 9pm
l MARINE TAVERN Quiz & Curry
7.30pm
l REVENGE DJs Toby & Trick 11pm
WEDNESDAY 2
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY Fresh! 9pm
l BAR BROADWAY A Voice for
Broadway: Voice of Broadway 2016 9pm
l BAR REVENGE Lip Sync for your
Life: Crystal Lubrikunt 9pm
l BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Ice:
DJ Claire Fuller 11pm
l BRIGHTON SAUNA Naked Day
11am
l CAMELFORD ARMS Seniors’ lunch
2-3.30pm
l CHARLES ST Silly Willy Wednesdays
with Drag With No Name 9pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS An Audience With
Sally Vate 9.30pm
l SUBLINE Happy Hump Day 9pm
THURSDAY 3
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY Total Request
Thursdays: DJ FRESH Princess 9pm
l BAR BROADWAY It’s All Fun &
Games with Sally Vate 9pm
l BAR REVENGE FOMO warm-up 9pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash
Quiz 9pm
l CHARLES ST Mad Cow’s Tea Party:
Ms Joan Bond, DJs Lee Jeffery & Ruby
Roo 9pm
l MARINE TAVERN Throwback Thur
8pm
4pm–4am; Sun (27) 4pm-3am
JASON THORPE
DJ LEWIS OSBOURNE
LISTINGS
) ONE FOR THE DIARY This time last year, Bar Broadway went on a search for The
Voice Of Broadway 2015, which saw seven contestants compete for a place in the
final and the chance to win a diary of gigs and time in a
recording studio. Last years winner was Jason Thorpe, a
former musical theatre performer, and now assistant manager
at Bar Broadway (such is his love for a good musical). Since
the win last year, Jason has performed at the Fireplace
Sessions multiple times, formed a singing duo with Tabitha
Wild (Wet & Wild) who regularly performed at A-Bar and
the Zone. He also performed at the Bar Broadway Pride Village Party stage, lunchtime
cabaret during Brighton Fringe, and a Bedford Tavern fundraiser. Not only has been
asked to perform with a 7-piece jazz band, but March sees his debut with Wain
Douglas (Kara Van Park), and then in May he’ll be dabbling in a spot of lunchtime
Cabaret during Brighton Fringe, where he will perform a one-man show, Tell Him On
A Sunday, of songs from Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Tell Me On A Sunday with a gay
twist. And all if this comes as a result of winning the title of Voice of Broadway 2015!
This year's competition, hosted by Jason (you could say he’s gone full circle!), will
have auditions every Wed at 9pm during March, then the weekly competition starts
throughout April & May, with the final being held on the spring Bank Holiday Mon.
Alasdair Jarvie, Bar Broadway’s owner, says: “Think you have what it takes to be the
next Voice Of Broadway? Get down on Wednesday nights to grab the opportunity!”
l PARIS HOUSE Live music: Fleur de
Paris 8pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Christopher
Howard 9.30pm
l REVENGE FOMO: DJs 11pm
l SUBLINE Brace Yourself 9pm
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Quiz:
£150 jackpot 7.30pm
FRIDAY 4
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY 7 Upstairs 9pm
l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 5pm
l BAR REVENGE Club warm-up 9pm
l BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS
Glitter: DJ Steve Lush 11pm
l BOUTIQUE i-Candy: DJ Thierrie &
giveaways 10pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS Fri Club 6pm
l CHARLES ST Fruity Friday Fix: DJ
Leeroy 9pm
l DR BRIGHTONS House Rules: DJ
Nick Hirst 9.30pm
l GROSVENOR BAR Mysterry’s
karaoke 8.30pm
l MARINE TAVERN Jukebox Disco
8pm
l PARIS HOUSE DJ Havoxx 9pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Baga Chipz
9.30pm
l REVENGE Level 1: New York Strip:
Celeb Brother’s Tiffany Pollard + host
Crystal Lubrikunt; level 2: Anthem with DJ
Toby Lawrence 10.30pm
l SUBLINE Steam 9pm
PICS FROM BEDFORD TAVERN
GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 31
BEDFORD TAVERN
) 30 Western St, Hove, BN1 2PG, Tel: 01273 739495
) OPEN Daily from 12pm.
) FOOD Sunday Roasts served every Sun from 12.30pm; Supper Club every
Mon with a free meal with your first drink purchase from 6pm.
ADAM BROOKS
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY It's back! Once again the Bedford plays host to
Brighton's annual EASTER BONNET PARADE and CHARITY DRAG RACES
(register by Sat 5 to take part) to help raise funds for the Sussex Beacon on Sun
(27). Western Street in Hove will be closed to traffic from 12pm when the bar
opens and betting begins. The Bonnet Parade kicks off at 2pm and everyone
young and old is invited to create a bonnet to parade in front of Brighton & Hove's
Mayor, who will then judge the winner! After the Parade there’s an afternoon of
Drag Racing from 3pm. This annual spectacle, now in its 7th year, promises to
be the biggest and campest yet where you could win a fantastic prize if your Drag
Runner wins. There is entertainment from JB at the
Bedford's piano at 5pm and the infamous PIANO BINGO
at 6pm. Enjoy a bevy of talent at the BEDFORD EASTER
CABARET show from 8pm, which includes local stars
along with some of London's top entertainers.
Adam Brooks, manager, says: “Easter is the highlight of
our calendar that is not only a unique fun filled day for all
but one that raises funds for such a great cause.”
SATURDAY 5
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY 7 Sins 9pm
l BAR REVENGE Sweet Revenge
warm-up 9pm
Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm
l BEDFORD TAVERN The Drag Ball
7pm
l BOUTIQUE se-XXY: DJ Klipz, shot
drops & giveaways 10pm
l CHARLES ST Fierce: DJs Lil Alex,
Grant Knowles, Leeroy 9pm
l DR BRIGHTONS 7th Birthday Party:
DJ Tony B 9.30pm
l GROSVENOR BAR Cabaret:
Stephanie Von Clitz 9.30pm
l LEGENDS BAR Pre-club DJs 7pm
l MARINE TAVERN Saturday Squeeze
Disco 8pm
l PARIS HOUSE Live jazz 4pm; TC’s
Joyful Noise: DJ Kenny 9pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Lola
Lasagne 9.30pm
l REVENGE Level 1: Sweet Revenge:
DJs Missy B & Patch; level 2: R-Haus
10.30pm
l SUBLINE Men’s Room: DJ
Screwpulous 9pm
SUNDAY 6
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY Jane’s karaoke
8pm
l BAR BROADWAY Fireplace Sessions
pres: Jennie Castell 8.30pm
l BAR REVENGE Sunday Funday:
Micklos hosts giant board games &
karaoke 8.30pm
Pop!Candy: DJ Claire 11pm
l BEDFORD TAVERN Sunday roasts
12.30pm; Piano Bingo 5pm
l BOUTIQUE Mother’s Day Special
with kids’ face-painting 1pm
SUNDAY PIANO BINGO
ROASTS from 12.30pm, PIANO BINGO at 5pm
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MONDAY SUPPER CLUB
FREE SUPPER from 6pm with drink purchase
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SAT 5th DRAG BALL
The night to register for EASTER DRAG RACES
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SAT 19th CABARET
with KARA VAN PARK at 9.30pm
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EASTER SUNDAY 27th
ANNUAL EASTER BONNET
PARADE & DRAG RACES
Easter Bonnet Parade at 2pm, Drag Racing at 3pm
Evening: Piano Bingo & Cabaret (fundraising for Sussex Beacon)
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30 Western St, Brighton 01273 739495
PICS FROM BRIGHTON SAUNA +BOUTIQUE
MARCH
LISTINGS
BRIGHTON SAUNA
BOUTIQUE
) 75 Grand Parade, BN2 9JA, Tel: 01273 689966 www.thebrightonsauna.com
) OPEN Mon–Thur 10–1am; Fri 10am then 24 hours through till 1am on Mon
) 2 Boyces St @ West St, BN11AN, 01273 327607 www.boutiqueclubbrighton.com
) OPEN daily from 1pm–very late ) FOOD all day, every day till midnight
) DRINK PROMOS Mon–Fri, bottles of Moet £50 & Veuve £60. Fri & Sat: five J-
Put the Spring back in your step and bask in the warm welcome from the Brighton
Sauna Boys, who aim to bring you a great sauna experience, with a smile and a
friendly attitude at all times, no excuses for things not working and no mess or dirt! Is
this your first visit to a sauna? Maybe you’re nervous, or you've got lots of questions?
The Brighton Sauna boys get asked all the time by people if they'll be safe if they're
young or inexperienced, if someone will show them around, whether they'll fit in if
they're bigger or hairy, or whether they'll be welcome if they're older. Once inside
you'll be greeted by friendly staff who will make sure you know where everything is.
The venue is modern, clean, and well presented, with free filter coffee, tea, chilled,
filtered water, towels, use of a locker, internet with three computers and super-fast
WiFi. You will be safe at all times, and won't be pushed into anything you don't want
to do. Some even just come for the facilities, and nothing more. The Brighton Sauna
boys promise: “You won't regret a visit to a sauna for men, and you can't start at a
better place than ours. So be brave, take the plunge, and come along to see us. Or
call and speak to one of our friendly staff for further advice.”
and, due to popular demand, every Sun 12pm–close. You'll be given a small towel
for your drips, and you can have a regular towel to shower with before you leave, but
NO towels can be worn at all on these days. The Brighton Sauna boys say: “Some try
to hide their bits behind the small towel! Seriously guys, let it all hang out, no matter
what you've got down below... nobody cares. It's all about letting it all hang out, and
feeling free! What better way to chill out at the end of the weekend than having
everything on show, and letting it all hang out, so to speak. Give it a try - it's a
fantastic day.”
12pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS Bear Bash, Free
Food & Raffle 5pm; roasts & select menu
12pm–till gone
l CHARLES ST Cabaret: Titti La Camp
7.30pm; Sally’s Rock & Roll Bingo
8.30pm
l DR BRIGHTONS Showtunes Sunday
1pm
l LEGENDS BAR Cabaret: Topping &
Butch 3.30pm; roasts 12–3pm
l MARINE TAVERN Sunday roasts 126pm; Open Mic Drag with Stephanie Von
Clitz 9pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Kara Van
Park Clitz 6pm & 9.30pm
l SUBLINE Guilty Pleasures: DJ
Screwpulous 9pm
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS The Jazz
Roast 3pm; Sunday roasts 1-6pm
MONDAY 7
l BAR BROADWAY The Just After Work
Big Showbiz Quiz 6.30pm
l BAR REVENGE Mon MashUp Student
& Industry Night: DJ Lewis Osborne 9pm
l CHARLES STREET Studio 150
10.30pm
l LEGENDS BAR Cabaret: Maisie
Trollette & Dave Lynn 9.30pm
l MARINE TAVERN Monday Madness
8pm
) REGULARS Sat is CLUB SE-XXY with superstar DJ
Klipz, free shots at 1.30am & 2.30am, and giveaways/
themes: Spring Warm-Up Party & VIP booth giveaway (12)
and free karaoke session for everyone all night (19). Entry
free till 10pm, £3 guest list till 11pm, £5 after. ) Fri is ICANDY with VIP booth giveaways and DJ Thierrie
spinning your favourite tunes. Free before 10pm, £3 guest
list till 11pm, £5 after. Sing your heart out in a karaoke suite, ideal for a staff party, a
birthday, whatever! Contact Rebecca on 07583 028735 to book a suite today!
TUESDAY 8
Lewis Osborne 9pm
l BAR REVENGE RuPaul’s Drag Race
Season 8: Lydia L’Scabies 8pm; Karaoke
downstairs with Liz 9pm
7.30pm
WEDNESDAY 9
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY Fresh!: DJ Jazzy
Jane 9pm
Broadway: The Voice of Broadway 2016
9pm; The Two Harmonies@The Gods:
Keith Pemberton & Jason Lee 8pm
l BRIGHTON SAUNA Naked Day 11am
2-3.30pm
l PARIS HOUSE Live jazz: Aurora 9pm
Sally Vate 9.30pm
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Open Mic
with The Purple Shoes 8.30pm
THURSDAY 10
l BAR BROADWAY Is What It Is@The
Gods: stand-up & sketch comedy 8pm;
It’s All Fun & Games: Sally Vate 10pm
l BAR REVENGE FOMO Warm-up 9pm
Quiz 9pm
Roo 9pm
DJ TIERRE
) EASTER WEEKEND Fri (25) is GOOD FRIDAY I-CANDY
with DJ Thierrie, regular drink deals and free creme eggs
from 11pm ) Sun (27) is the EASTER SUNDAY ALL-DAY
PARTY with Easter bunnies, regular drink deals & free
chocolate shots on arrival from 1pm ) Mon (28) is EASTER
MONDAY BANK HOLIDAY with an Easter Egg Hunt and
regular drink deals.
DJ KLIPZ
) REGULARS The Brighton Sauna NAKED DAYS are every Wed from 11–1am
Bombs for £5 and 2-4-1 selected cocktails.
PICS FROM CAMELFORD ARMS
CAMELFORD ARMS
) 30-31 Camelford St, BN2 1TQ, Tel: 01273 622386, www.camelfordarms.com
) OPEN daily from 12pm. The most dog-friendly pub in town.
) FOOD Mon–Sat 12–9pm; Sunday roast & select menu 12pm–till gone; Wed
seniors' lunch 2–3.30pm, two courses £7.50.
) EASTER WEEKEND Fri (25) is the GOOD FRIDAY CLUB from 6pm with food,
including hot cross buns, till 9pm. Sun (27) is Easter Sunday with delicious
roasts & free Easter Eggs 12pm–till they're gone; then it's the BEAR BASH with
free food & a raffle at 5pm.
) ONE FOR THE DIARY It’s that time again! Thur (24) is the BRIGHTON BEAR
WEEKEND (BBWE) EASTER QUIZ & RAFFLE with a £300 cash prize up for grabs
from 9pm; entry £2 per person and all the money raised on the night from the Quiz
& Raffle will be donated to the Rainbow Fund. Mark Flood, the manager of the
Camelford, will be asking the questions set by BBWE’s own Graham Munday, so
expect chocolate, religion and maybe a bit of naughtiness!
GRAHAM MUNDAY
Graham Munday says: “Here at BBWE headquarters we
are often are thinking of chocolate, bears, and sometimes
chocolate bears! So to keep our minds occupied we are
hosting a Quiz and what better time than the Thursday
before Easter weekend. We do suggest booking a table as it
does get full and it's a great place to eat so having dinner
there is also a great choice!”
) REGULARS Thur is Quiz Master Mark’s £300 BIG CASH QUIZ at 9pm with
nibbles, fun rounds and many prizes. ) Fri: the FRIDAY CLUB at 6pm.
) Sun: the BEAR BASH at 5pm with free food and a raffle.
8pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: TBA
9.30pm
FRIDAY 11
l BAR REVENGE Pop Tartz warm-up
9pm
giveaways 10pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS Friday Club
6pm
Leeroy 9pm
l DR BRIGHTONS Funky Friday: DJ
Nick Hirst 9.30pm
karaoke 8.30pm
8pm
l PARIS HOUSE DJ Meryl 9pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: TBA
9.30pm
l REVENGE Level 1: Pop Tartz; level 2:
Festival: DJ Bader 10.30pm
l SUBLINE The Big Scrum sportskit
night 10pm
PICS FROM CHARLES STREET & ENVY + DOCTOR BRIGHTONS
MARCH
LISTINGS
CHARLES STREET BAR
DOCTOR BRIGHTONS
) 8 Marine Parade, BN2 1TA, Tel: 01273 624091, www.charles-street.com
) OPEN daily from 12pm.
) FOOD Mon–Sat 12–8pm.
) 16-17 Kings Rd, BN1 1NE, Tel: 01273 208113 www.doctorbrightons.co.uk
) OPEN Mon–Thur 3pm–midnight; Fri & Sat 1pm–2am; Sun 1pm–midnight.
) HAPPY HOURS all day Sun–Thu; 1pm till close Fri; 1–7pm on Sat. Cocktails
Monday (28) is BANK HOLIDAY CABARET with Danny Beard, Drag Idol UK
Winner 2015, from 7.30pm.
DANNY BEARD
Danny, a vocalist who performs chart hits, musicals and big diva songs, will be
bringing lots of glitter, drinking plenty of skittle bombs, spouting out big vocals and
working his Scouse charm to make this a Bank Holiday to remember!
Danny says: “I’m fairly new on the cabaret scene, having
performed live in Brighton only once before and I’ve only
been on ‘the scene’ for approx 8 months. It’s fair to say I'm
a total newbie, but I’m majorly excited to be holding a Bank
Holiday Monday residency throughout 2016 at Charles
Street. Since winning Drag Idol it’s been crazy 7/8 months! I
am working all over the UK and absolutely loving it. From
what I have seen, Brighton’s gays expect more, and that’s a
good thing - you guys know what you want and you get it!! Some of the best acts in
the UK work in Brighton regularly, so the bar is set very high!
“My first experience at Charles Street was a truly amazing one, the crowd was up for
a good time and I even got a standing ovation. If you have never seen me before, you
might just like it! And if that’s not enough to make you wanna come, it’s a Bank
Holiday Monday so just another excuse to have a few tipples.”
) REGULARS Wed is SILLY WILLY WEDNESDAYS with the ever-fabulous Drag
With No Name hosting a night of games and camp competitions from 9pm. Expect
lots of teamwork, there may well be a ‘chair’ and it’s all going to be incredibly silly!
) Sun is CABARET with local and national stars from 7.30pm: Titti La Camp (6),
the Charlie Hides Show (13) and Miss Penny (20).
SATURDAY 12
warm-up 9.30pm
l BOUTIQUE se-XXY Spring Warm-Up:
DJ Klipz, shot drops & giveaways 10pm
l DR BRIGHTONS Sexy Saturday: DJ
Tony B 9.30pm
l GROSVENOR BAR Cabaret: Topsie
Redfern 9.30pm
Disco 8pm
BOGOF all day Sun–Fri and till 7pm on Sat. Free pool with every round every day.
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Fri (25) is the GOOD FRIDAY
PARTY with DJ Josh the Barber at 9.30pm. ) Sun (27) is
JOSH THE BARBER
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Thur (24) is the MAD COW EASTER SPECIAL with
Joan Bond's Egg Hunt from 7.30pm. ) Good Friday (25) is with topless bunny
boys behind the bar from 7.30pm. ) Easter Sunday (27) is CABARET with Drag
With No Name tearing up the Charles Street stage from 7.30pm. ) Easter
EASTER SUNDAY BANK HOLIDAY REFLEX with DJ Adam
Rice spinning 1980s classics at 8pm.
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Sat (5) is DR BRIGHTON’S 7TH
BIRTHDAY with DJ Tony B at 7.30pm.
) REGULARS Fri (4) is HOUSE RULES with DJ Nick Hirst spinning the best
decadent house tunes from 9.30pm. ) FUNKY FRIDAY is with DJ Nick Hirst
spinning some of the coolest tunes on the block from 9.30pm. ) SEXY SATURDAY
is with DJ Tony B sexing up your weekend with cracking tunes from 9.30pm. )
SHOWTUNES SUNDAY is every Sun from 1pm.
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Martha
D’Arthur 9.30pm
l REVENGE Level 1: Sweet Revenge:
DJs Missy B & Patch; level 2: R-Haus
10.30pm
Screwpulous 9pm
SUNDAY 13
8pm
pres: Elton John Tribute 8.30pm
karaoke 8.30pm
Valentine’s Pop!Candy: DJ Claire Fuller
11pm
12pm
12pm–till gone
l CHARLES ST Cabaret: Charlie Hides’
Show 7.30pm; Sally’s Rock & Roll Bingo
8.30pm
1pm
l LEGENDS BAR Cabaret: Lizzy Drip
3.30pm; roasts 12–3pm
Clitz 9pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Double Cabaret:
Dave Lynn 6pm & 9.30pm
l SUBLINE Guilty Pleasures: DJ
Screwpulous 9pm
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Jazz
MONDAY 14
l BAR REVENGE Monday MashUp
Student & Industry Night: DJ Lewis
Osborne 9pm
10.30pm
8pm
PICS FROM DON’T TELL MAMA + GROSVENOR
MARCH
LISTINGS
DON’T TELL MAMA (DTM)
GROSVENOR
) 75a St George’s Road, Kemptown, Brighton, BN2 1EF Tel: 01273 911910
) 16 Western Street, Hove, BN1 2PG, www.thegrosvenorbar.com
) OPEN daily from noon–late.
www.donttellmama.co.uk
) OPEN Wed–Sun from 8pm from Wed (16).
) MEMBERSHIP Free membership during Launch Week everyday from 8pm.
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Monday (28) is the EASTER BANK HOLIDAY
AFTERNOON CREWS from 3pm.
Serge, host, says: “One of my biggest dreams was always
to run my own bar, something like The Quinquina back in
Toulouse, a tiny ‘Cheers’ with a kink and Guy made it happen
for me. I hope you will come and join me on this new
adventure! Intimate, stylish, friendly and reasonably priced,
D.T.M will fast become one of Brighton’s hidden gems!”
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Sat (26) is Mike’s Big Birthday
Bash with cabaret from Lola Lasagne at 9.30pm then
Davina Sparkle from 10.30pm.
) REGULARS Wed & Thur is M.O (MEN ONLY). Thur (17) is the ST PATRICK’S
DAY SPECIAL with a free shot of Jameson’s on arrival. Fri is the HIT ON FRIDAY!
men-only night, the perfect way to kick off your weekend! Sat is CLUBT, a noattitude evening for T-Girls, their friends and their admirers. LAZY SUNDAY is menonly and the perfect way to end the weekend!
TUESDAY 15
Lewis Osborne 9pm
l BAR BROADWAY Beyond the
Footlights: Tanya Hyde, Jon Moore &
Kara Van Park 8pm
7.30pm
WEDNESDAY 16
Jane 9pm
11am
2-3.30pm
l D.T.M Launch Week: M.O (men only)
8pm
l PARIS HOUSE Live jazz: Sara
Oschlag 8pm
Sally Vate 9.30pm
THURSDAY 17
MYSTERRY
SERGE
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Wed (16)–Sat (19) is LAUNCH WEEK with a free glass
of bubbly on arrival and free membership everyday from 8pm. Sat (19) is the
Official LAUNCH PARTY with bubbly on arrival and a small buffet from 8pm.
DAVINA SPARKLE
) EASTER WEEKEND Sun (27) is the EASTER BONNET PARADE and DRAG
RACES on Western Street, raising vital funds for the Sussex Beacon from 12pm.
Western Street in Hove will be closed to traffic from 12pm when betting begins. The
Bonnet Parade will kick off at 2pm and Brighton & Hove's Mayor will be on hand to
judge the best bonnets so you’d better get crafting! Following the Parade there will be
an afternoon of Drag Racing from 3pm. This annual
spectacle is now in its 7th year and there’ll be fantastic prizes
on offer if your Drag Runner is victorious!
) REGULARS Sat is CABARET time with stars of the local
and national drag scene entertaining from 9.30pm:
Stephanie Von Clitz (5), Topsie Redfern (12) and Miss
Jason (19) ) Fri is KARAOKE with the ever-glamorous
Mysterry from 8.30pm. Mysterry says: “I love hosting
karaoke at the Grosvenor! It's great to hear the punters singing
and I like having the chance to try out new stuff. Come along
and join us, it's an attitude free zone, all friends together!”
Games St Patrick’s Day Special: Sally
Vate 9pm
l BAR REVENGE Paddy’s Day Special
& Club Warm-Up 9pm
l BOUTIQUE St Patrick’s Day Street
Party 7pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS St Patrick’s Day
Guinness Party & £300 Big Cash Quiz
9pm
Roo 9pm
l D.T.M Launch Week: M.O (men only)
8pm
8pm
l PARIS HOUSE St Patrick’s Day
Murphy’s Party 5pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS St Patrick’s Day
Cabaret: Miss Jason 9.30pm
l REVENGE FOMO Paddy’s Day 11pm
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS St
Patrick’s Day Guinness Party & Quiz:
FRIDAY 18
l BAR REVENGE Club Warm-Up 9pm
giveaways 10pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS Fri Club 6pm
Leeroy 9pm
l DR BRIGHTONS Funky Friday: DJ
Nick Hirst 9.30pm
PICS FROM LEGENDS BAR + LEGENDS BASEMENT CLUB
MARCH
LISTINGS
LEGENDS BAR
LEGENDS BASEMENT CLUB
) 31-34 Marine Parade, BN2 1TR Tel: 01273 624462, www.legendsbrighton.com
) OPEN daily from 11am–5am
) FOOD Mon–Sat 12–5pm; Sunday lunch served 12–3pm
) 31-34 Marine Parade, BN2 1TR Tel: 01273 624462, www.legendsbrighton.com
) OPEN Wed & Fri–Sun from 11pm.
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Easter Sun (27) is CABARET with Davina Sparkle
LIZZY DRIP
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Catch Lizzy Drip bringing old-school drag and a touch of
timeless glamour to the Legends stage on Sun (13) from 3.30pm. With over 30
years treading the boards, Lizzy’s show is a unique blend of comedy impersonations,
puppetry and lightning costume changes. Make sure you get there early to secure a
seat and enjoy a delicious, belt-busting Sunday roast, served till 3pm!
The award-winning performer says: “My show is old-school
drag, that is to say miming dressed as larger than life
characters and never trying to fool the audience into thinking
it's a real woman! It's a quick-change show, a pastiche of
famous divas using animated costumes and some audience
participation.
“I left drama school in the mid 1970s and did really well performing straight roles for
a while, then after performing in panto in Bridlington a camp old queen in the cast
said 'you should put a drag show together'. I did just that and entered a talent show in
Blackpool, won my heat, then the final. The prize was an 18-week summer season at
the Lion Cabaret Bar! I've been working ever since and am now in my 36th year!
“Legends is one of my favourite venues, in fact anywhere I have worked in Brighton
has been great. The audience here are so welcoming and really appreciate the
entertainment that is put on. If you haven't seen Lizzy before come along to Legends
for the brand new show! If you have... come anyway! I love seeing you! Xxx”
) REGULARS Sun is CABARET with a whole host of local and national stars rom
3.30pm: Topping & Butch (6) and Lola Lasagne (20).
l D.T.M Launch Week: Hit On Friday!
8pm
karaoke 8.30pm
8pm
l PARIS HOUSE DJs Funk Food 4pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Miss Penny
9.30pm
l REVENGE Spice World - Spice Girls
Special 10
SATURDAY 19
warm-up 9pm
l BEDFORD TAVERN Cabaret: Kara
Van Park 9.30pm
drops, free karaoke & giveaways 10pm
DJ CLAIRE FULLER
at 3.30pm. Bank Holiday Mon (28) is CABARET with JLo feat Miss Jason & Lola
Lasagne at 3.30pm; then it’s Maisie Trollette & Dave Lynn at 9.30pm.
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Easter Sunday (27) is the POP!CANDY BANK
HOLIDAY SPECIAL with DJ Claire Fuller spinning a fun and camp mix of
pop/chart remixes from 11pm. Claire is a Brighton-based DJ with over 20 years of
experience behind the decks playing most genres of music although her main love
is commercial dance/chart remixes and mash ups. Not only
is she approachable and friendly, but also she knows how
to read a crowd and get that ‘hands in the air’ party vibe
going! DJ Claire, whose main love is seeing the crowd’s
reaction to the music she plays, says: “Pop!Candy has
grown and developed its own fan base and is busy, camp
and fun every Sunday – but this time with added Easter
flare!”
) REGULARS Wed is ICE with DJ Claire Fuller spinning chart/house/r&b from
11pm. ) Fri is GLITTER with DJ Steve Lush spinning chart/disco classics
remixed from 11pm. ) Sun is POP!CANDY with DJ Claire Fuller spinning sugar
coated pure pop from 11pm.
Tony B 9.30pm
l D.T.M Official Launch: clubT (T-Girls,
admirers & friends) 8pm
l GROSVENOR BAR Cabaret: Miss
Jason 9.30pm
Disco 8pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Mary Mac
9.30pm
l REVENGE Sweet Revenge: DJs Missy
B & Trick on level 1; R-Haus on level 2
10.30pm
Screwpulous 9pm
SUNDAY 20
8pm
pres: Gilly B 8.30pm
karaoke 8.30pm
Pop!Candy: DJ Claire Fuller 11pm
12pm
12pm–till gone
l CHARLES ST Cabaret: Miss Penny
7.30pm; Sally’s Rock & Roll Bingo
8.30pm
1pm
l D.T.M Lazy Sunday: men only 8pm
l LEGENDS BAR Cabaret: Lola Lasagne
3.30pm; roasts 12–3pm
Clitz 9pm
PICS FROM MARINE TAVERN + PARIS HOUSE
MARCH
LISTINGS
MARINE TAVERN
PARIS HOUSE
) 13 Broad St, BN2 1TJ, Tel: 01273 905578, www.marinetavern.co.uk
) FOOD Daily from 12-9pm; Sunday roasts served 12–6pm, £5.95 each or two
) 21 Western Rd, BN3 1AF, Tel: 01273 724195, www.parishousebrighton.com
) FOOD daily from 12pm–close.
for £10; Tue is Curry Night with curry for £1 served 7.30–9pm; free corned beef
hash every Wed from 5pm.
) EASTER WEEKEND Friday (25) is GOOD FRIDAY DISCO with DJ Havoxx
spinning r&b/Motown/funk & soul from 9pm with free entry. ) Sunday (27) is
Easter Sunday with food & free Easter Eggs served from 12pm. ) Monday (28)
is Easter Monday with food served all day.
STEPHANIE VON CLITZ
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Unleash your inner diva every Sunday at OPEN MIC
DRAG, a chance for professionals or first timers to perform on the Marine Tavern
stage, with Stephanie Von Clitz from 9pm. Turn up on the night in drag (or book
your slot at the bar in advance), perform for 10 minutes, and receive £10. Get there
early to enjoy one of the Marine’s infamous Sunday roasts, served 12–6pm, then
drink as much as you like for £20 from 9pm, just pick up a wristband at the bar.
Stephanie says: “The first Open Mic Drag was so much fun
from start to finish! If there is anyone else that would like to
perform then please come along and release your inner diva.
There is also a chance for one lucky winner to take their
place, and strut their stuff, on our Pride stage on Broad Street
in August so it's worth entering! See you there, lovers!”
l QUEEN’S ARMS Double cabaret:
Davina Sparkle 6pm & 9.30pm
l SUBLINE Cum in Your Pants: DJ
Nude, underwear party 9pm
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Jazz
MONDAY 21
Osborne 9pm
10.30pm
8pm
TUESDAY 22
Lewis Osborne 9pm
7.30pm
WEDNESDAY 23
Jane 9pm
Broadway: The Voice of Broadway 2016
9pm
11am
2-3.30pm
l D.T.M M.O (men only) 8pm
l PARIS HOUSE Live music: Karandash
8pm
Sally Vate 9.30pm
) REGULARS Wed is free live music from 8pm: jazz & French chanson with
Aurora (9), jazz vocalist Sara Oschlag (16), Eastern European folk from
Karandash (23) and jazz piano from the Al Scott Trio (30). ) Thur (3) is free live
chanson from the 1930s–50s with Fleur de Paris at 8pm. ) Fri is with DJs from
9pm: DJ Havoxx (4), Meryl (11) and Funk Food (18). ) Sat: live jazz at 4pm;
then TC'S JOYFUL NOISE with DJ Kenny at 9pm, free entry.
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Open
Mic with The Purple Shoes 8.30pm
THURSDAY 24
l CAMELFORD ARMS Brighton Bear
Weekend’s £300 Big Cash Quiz, Raffle &
Fundraiser for the Rainbow Fund 9pm
l CHARLES ST Mad Cow’s Easter Tea
Party: Ms Joan Bond’s Easter Egg Hunt
+ DJs Lee Jeffery & Ruby Roo 9pm
8pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Cabaret: Miss Jason
9.30pm
l REVENGE FOMO Easter: DJs 11pm
FRIDAY 25
l
l
l
l
BAR 7@CRAWLEY 7 Upstairs 9pm
BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 5pm
BAR REVENGE Club warm-up 9pm
BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS
l BOUTIQUE Good Friday i-Candy: DJ
Thierrie, creme eggs & giveaways 10pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS Good Friday
Club with hot cross buns 6pm
l CHARLES ST Good Friday Fix: DJ
Leeroy & topless bunny barboys 9pm
l DR BRIGHTONS Good Friday
Special: DJ Josh the Barber 9.30pm
l D.T.M Hit On Friday!: men only 8pm
karaoke 8.30pm
8pm
l PARIS HOUSE DJ Havoxx 9pm
l QUEEN’S ARMS Good Friday
Cabaret: Drag With No Name 9.30pm
l REVENGE Level 1: Pop Tartz Easter
Special; level 2: Fat Lip: DJ Fifi 10.30pm
l SUBLINE Barcode Berlin 2016 Show
case 3pm; Easter Friday: Crucify 9pm
SATURDAY 26
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY Annual Beach
Party: DJ Lewis Osborne, holiday decor &
fancy dress encouraged 9pm
l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 4pm;
Giggle @The Gods Easter Special: live
comedy 8pm
warm-up 9pm
PICS FROM QUEENS ARMS + REVENGE
MARCH
CASSIDY CONNORS
LISTINGS
QUEENS ARMS
REVENGE
) 7 George St, BN2 1RH, T: 01273 696873, www.thequeensarms.wix.com/thequeensarms
) OPEN 4pm Tue–Fri; 2pm Sat & Sun.
) 32-34 Old Steine, BN1 1EL, Tel: 01273 606064, www.revenge.co.uk
) OPEN Tue from 11pm, Thur, Fri & Sat from 10.30pm.
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Good Friday (25) is CABARET with Drag With No
Name at 9.30pm. ) Easter Sunday (27) is with darling of the stage, Cassidy
Connors, performing songs from the American songbook with a live band at 6pm
and again at 9.30pm. Cassidy’s creator and all-round entertainer, Wezley
Sebastian, has been treading the boards for over 10 years as a professional dancer,
choreographer, singer, actor, club host and drag artiste, and can be often seen
working with a classic jazz band! When he’s not channelling Billie Holliday, he’s
known for his witty vocal impersonations of artistes like Cher, Liza Minnelli, Tina
Turner, Louis Armstrong and Judy Garland. Wezley, who created the role of Miss
Understanding in the original London cast of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert alongside
Jason Donovan, has toured internationally with his various cabaret shows including
The Cassidy Connors show, Trashville Tennessee and with
his band, who perform jazz classics which complement
Wezley’s inimitable vocals.
) DISCOUNT ENTRY Buy a drink at Bar Revenge on Thur, Fri & Sat to pick up
discounted entry passes for Club Revenge.
Wezley says: “Catch me at the Queen’s Arms over Easter
where I’ll be performing the gems and the jewels from the
Great American Song Book. Expect Gershwin to Porter,
Herman to Sondheim and all the classics that Ella, Billie,
Louis and Lena gave us over the golden years!”
) REGULARS Thur is CABARET with top local and national acts at 9.30pm:
Christopher Howard (3), Lola Lasagne (10), St Patrick’s Day with Miss Jason
(17) and Miss Jason (24 & 31). ) Start your weekend every Fri with CABARET at
9.30pm: Baga Chipz (4), Sally Vate (11) and Miss Penny (18). ) Sat is top
CABARET at 9.30pm: Lola Lasagne (5), Martha D’Arthur (12), Mary Mac (19)
and Miss Jason (26). ) Sun is a double helping of CABARET at 6pm & 9.30pm:
Kara Van Park (6), Dave Lynn (13) and Davina Sparkle (20) ) Wed is AN
AUDIENCE WITH SALLY VATE at 9.30pm. Sally says: “Clap, laugh, listen and just
enjoy! If you love having a laugh then come and join me, sometimes you need to take
a step back and not take life too seriously!”
drops & giveaways 10pm
Tony B 9.30pm
l D.T.M clubT: T-Girls night 8pm
l GROSVENOR BAR Mike’s Big
Birthday Cabaret: Lola Lasagne 9.30pm;
Davina Sparkle 10.30pm
Disco 8pm
9.30pm
l REVENGE Sweet Revenge Easter
Wonderland: DJs Missy B & Sam DMS on
level 1; R-Haus on level 2 10.30pm
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Saturday (26) is SWEET
REVENGE EASTER WONDERLAND with Easter-themed
entertainers and decor, DJs Missy B & guest Sam DMS
chart music on level 1 and R-Haus with house tunes on level
2! ) Sunday (27) is the FOMO EASTER SPECIAL with
DJs Missy B & Fifi spinning pop/r&b/house/bass/punk/
cheese from 11pm, selected drinks £2.50.
) ONE FOR THE DIARY ‘Hold Tight!’ on Fri (18) for SPICE WORLD, a Spice
Girls-themed party from 10pm. Dedicated to when Sporty, Ginger, Baby, Scary &
Posh ruled the world (and the waves) with Girl Power, Revenge will be Spicing up the
Night with some of the best 90s tunes and the unforgettable songs you grew up to!
Dressing up is more than recommended (LBD optional!), and there’ll be Spice Girls
masks, 90s inflatables, T-Shirt giveaways, a photobooth & props, plus thousands of
lollipops putting that Zig-a-Zig-ah into your night! For tickets visit:
https://www.fatsoma.com/spice-world or skiddle.com/e/12663811
l SUBLINE In the Cave 9pm
SUNDAY 27
l BAR 7@CRAWLEY Karaoke 8pm
pres: Lascel Wood 8.30pm
karaoke 8.30pm
Easter Sunday Pop!Candy: DJ Claire
Fuller 11pm
l BEDFORD TAVERN Easter Bonnet
Parade, Drag Races & Sussex Beacon
Fundraiser: Street Party 12pm; Bonnet
Parade 2pm; Drag Race 3pm; JB@the
Piano 5pm; Piano Bingo 6pm; Cabaret
8pm
l BOUTIQUE Easter Sunday Special:
Easter bunnies & chocolate shots 1pm
l BRIGHTON SAUNA Naked Day 12pm
l CAMELFORD ARMS Easter Sunday
Bear Bash, Free Food & Raffle 5pm;
roasts & select menu 12pm–till gone
l CHARLES ST Easter Cabaret: Drag
With No Name 7.30pm
l DR BRIGHTONS Easter Bank Holiday
Reflex: DJ Adam Rice, 80s night 9pm
l D.T.M Lazy Sunday: men only 8pm
l GROSVENOR Easter Bonnet Parade,
Drag Races & Sussex Beacon Fundraiser
12pm
l LEGENDS BAR Easter Sun Cabaret:
Davina Sparkle 3.30pm; roasts 12–3pm
Clitz 9pm
l PARIS HOUSE Easter Sunday with
Easter eggs & food 12pm
l REVENGE Sweet Revenge Easter
Wonderland: DJs Missy B & Sam DMS on
level 1; R-Haus on level 2 10.30pm
DJ MISSY B
) VIP BOOTHS Club Revenge has been totally transformed in their major new refit
and you can now hire a Luxury VIP booth for the evening from £125.
7 GEORGE STREET BRIGHTON
01273 696873
http://thequeensarms.wix.com/thequeensarms
WEDNESDAY 9.30PM
AN AUDIENCE WITH
SALLY VATE
THURSDAY 9.30PM
MISS
JASON
3 CHRISTOPHER HOWARD
MAR
10MAR LOLA LASAGNE
Easter
Weekend!
25 MAR GOOD FRIDAY
DRAG WITH NO NAME
26 EASTER SATURDAY
MAR
MISS JASON
27 MAR EASTER SUNDAY
DOUBLE SHOW 6 & 9.30PM
CASSIDY
CONNORS
WITH A LIVE BAND
FRIDAY CABARET 9.30
PM
4 MAR BAGA CHIPZ
11 MAR SALLY VATE
18 MAR miss penny
25MAR DRAG NO NAME
SATURDAYCABARET 9.30
PM
5 MAR LOLA LASAGNE
12 MAR MARTHA D’ARTHUR
19 MAR MARY MAC
26MAR MISS JASON
SUNDAY
DOUBLE CABARET
AT 6PM & 9.30PM
6 MAR KARA VAN PARK
13 MAR DAVE LYNN
20 MAR DAVINA SPARKLE
27MAR CASSIDY CONNORS
WITH A LIVE BAND
PICS FROM SUBLINE + ZONE BAR
MARCH
LISTINGS
SUBLINE
ZONE BAR
) 129 St James' St, BN2 1TH, Tel: 01273 624100, www.sublinebrighton.co.uk
) OPEN Wed–Sun from 9pm.
) 33 St James’ St, BN2 1RF, Tel: 01273 682249, www.zonebar.co.uk
DJ SCREWPULOUS
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Fri (11) is THE BIG SCRUM
Sportswear Night from 10pm, entry £5 in sportswear, £7
otherwise.
) REGULARS Sat is MEN’S ROOM with DJ
Screwpulous bringing the tunes from 9pm. Sun is GUILTY
PLEASURES with DJ Screwpulous from 9pm. Sun (20)
is the CUM IN YOUR PANTS Underwear Party with DJ
Nude from 9pm, entry is free for members, £5 otherwise.
l QUEEN’S ARMS Easter Sunday
Cabaret: Cassidy Connors with a live
band 6pm & 9.30pm
l SUBLINE Easter Sunday Bank
Holiday: Resurrection 9pm
l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Easter
Sunday Jazz Roast 3pm; Sunday roasts
& free Easter eggs 1-6pm
MONDAY 28
l BAR BROADWAY The Just After
Easter Big Showbiz Quiz 6.30pm; The
Fireplace Sessions pres: Wain Dougles
(Kara Van Park) & Jason Thorpe 8.30pm
Osborne 9pm
l BOUTIQUE Easter Monday Special:
Easter egg hunt 1pm
l CHARLES STREET Easter Monday
Cabaret: Danny Beard 7.30pm; Sally’s
Rock & Roll Bingo 8.30pm
l D.T.M Easter Monday Afternoon
Crews: men only 8pm
l LEGENDS BAR Bank Holiday
Monday Cabaret: JLo feat Miss Jason &
Lola Lasagne 3.30pm; Maisie Trollette &
Dave Lynn 9.30pm
l MARINE TAVERN Easter Monday
Madness 8pm
l SUBLINE Easter Monday Club
Silencio: vaudeville & avant-garde night
8pm
TUESDAY 29
Lewis Osborne 9pm
7.30pm
l REVENGE DJs Trick & Toby 11pm
SHARON BARR
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Good Friday (25) is the BARCODE BERLIN 2016
SHOWCASE with the latest styles of hot fetish wear and the chance to try on a few
from 3pm, all over 18s welcome! After you’ve stocked up on your leathers, head to
CRUCIFY – “because all the tasteful names were gone!” – from 9pm, entry £3/£5.
) Sat (26) is IN THE CAVE from 9pm, entry £3/£5. ) Easter Sunday (27) is
the RESURRECTION Bank Holiday Special from 9pm, entry £3/£5. ) Easter
Monday (28) is CLUB SILENCIO, which sees Subline turned into a funfair of
vaudeville and the avant-garde from 8pm with the show from 9pm. Expect classy
trash, B-movie monsters, comedy, fortune-tellers, live art, music, film and donuts,
all for a mere £4.50.
) OPEN daily from 10am. Closed Sun (6) to Sun (13)
) ONE FOR THE DIARY From Sun (6) to Sun (13), the
Zone will be closed for a major refurbishment to celebrate
10 YEARS of first class entertainment and one of the
friendliest atmospheres right in the heart of the gay village.
Sharon Barr, owner, says:“Thank you to everyone, staff,
customers and performers, for making these last 10 years
so memorable! We’re going all out with the décor so we
hope you’ll be impressed! Here’s to the next 10 years!”
WEDNESDAY 30
Jane 9pm
l BRIGHTON SAUNA Naked Day 11am
2-3.30pm
l PARIS HOUSE Live jazz: Al Scott Trio
8pm
Sally Vate 9.30pm
THURSDAY 31
Quiz 9pm
l CHARLES ST Mad Cow Tea Party: Ms
Joan Bond, DJs Lee Jeffery & Ruby Roo
9pm
l MARINE TAVERN Throwback Thur 8pm
9.30pm
THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS
) 59 North Rd, Brighton, BN1 1YD, Tel: 01273 608571, www.3jollybutchers.com
) OPEN 12pm on Mon–Sat, 1pm on Sun. Private function room available.
) FOOD Mon–Fri 12–9pm; Sat 12–8pm; Sunday roasts 1–6pm.
) EASTER BANK HOLIDAY Sun (27) is the EASTER JAZZ ROAST from 3pm;
roasts & free Easter Eggs from 1pm.
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Thur (17) is the ST PATRICK'S DAY GUINNESS PARTY
with a quiz and a £150 cash prize at 7.30pm.
) REGULARS Wed (9 & 23) OPEN MIC with Purple Shoes at 8.30pm. ) Thur
QUIZ NIGHT with £150 prize at 7.30pm. ) Sun is JAZZ ROAST at 3pm, free entry.
GSCENE 43
PICS FROM LONDON HOTEL SOUTHAMPTON
SOLENT
l HAMPSHIRE BOULEVARD
1 Hampshire Terrace, Southsea
TEL: 2392 297509
l OLD VIC 104 St Paul’s Rd, Southsea
TEL: 02392 297013, www.oldvicportsmouth.co.uk
SOUTHAMPTON
l ISOBAR 100c St Mary’s St
TEL: 02380 222028
l LONDON HOTEL 2 Terminus Terr, SO14 3DT
TEL: 02380 710652, www.the-london.co.uk
OPEN: Mon-Wed 12-11pm, Thur 12-12.30am,
Fri & Sat 12-1.30am, Sun 12-11.30pm
FOOD: Mon-Sat 12-3pm; Sun roasts 12-3pm
l TITANIC Simnel St, SO14 2BE
TEL: 023 8021 1879, www.thetitanicpub.co.uk
l EDGE Compton Walk, SO14 0BH
TEL: 02380 366163, www.theedgesouthampton.com
THURSDAY 10
PORTSMOUTH
l HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am
l OLD VIC karaoke 8pm
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE Pop!: DJ 11pm
l LONDON HOTEL Karaoke Cruising with
Martha D’Arthur 8.30pm
FRIDAY 11
PORTSMOUTH
l HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE Get Some: DJs 10pm
l LONDON HOTEL Fairylea Friday: DJ Ruby
Roo 8.30pm; cabaret: Beverley Ballcrusher
10.15pm
SATURDAY 12
PORTSMOUTH
l OLD VIC Quiz 8pm
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE video jukebox 11pm
PORTSMOUTH
l OLD VIC DJs all night
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE The Big One: DJs 10pm
l LONDON HOTEL Guilty Pleasures: DJ Dazza
9pm
WEDNESDAY 2
SUNDAY 13
TUESDAY 1
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE Bar 150: DJs & karaoke 10pm
THURSDAY 3
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
FRIDAY 4
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
Roo 8.30pm; cabaret: Kevin Cruise 10.15pm
SATURDAY 5
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l LONDON HOTEL Guilty Pleasures: DJ Neil
Sackley 9pm
SUNDAY 6
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE Pounded: DJ 11pm
l LONDON HOTEL London Podium: Tanya
Hyde & Davina Sparkle 8pm; roasts 12-3pm
MONDAY 7
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l LONDON HOTEL London Podium: Kara Van
Park & Martha D’Arthur 8pm; roasts 12-3pm
MONDAY 14
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE DJs 11pm
TUESDAY 15
PORTSMOUTH
l OLD VIC Quiz 8pm
SOUTHAMPTON
WEDNESDAY 16
SOUTHAMPTON
THURSDAY 17
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
FRIDAY 18
) EASTER Fri (25) is GOOD FRIDAY FAIRYLEA with DJ Ruby Roo from 8.30pm;
then Tiara Thunderpussy live on stage 10.15pm. ) Easter Sun (27) Kara Van
Park & Rose Garden on the LONDON PODIUM from 8pm.
) ONE FOR THE DIARY Sat (26) is GUILTY PLEASURES with DJ Lucinda Lashes
from 9pm; then 2 Shoes live on stage from 10pm.
) REGULARS Fri FAIRYLEA with DJ Ruby Roo high camp/pure cheese at 8.30pm;
CABARET at 10.15pm: Kevin Cruise (4), Beverley Ballcrusher (11) and Mary
Mac (18). ) Sat GUILTY PLEASURES with DJs from 9pm: Neil Sackley (5),
Dazza (12) and Claire Fuller (19). ) SUNDAY NIGHT ON THE LONDON PODIUM
with guest hosts Tanya Hyde (6) and Kara Van Park (13 & 20) at 8pm and guest
cabaret at 9pm: Davina Sparkle (6), Martha D’Arthur (13) and Wilma Fingerdo
(20). ) Thur is KARAOKE CRUISING with hosts Martha D’Arthur (3, 10, 17 &
31) and Lucinda Lashes (24) at 8.30pm.
SOUTHAMPTON
l LONDON HOTEL London Podium: Kara Van
Park & Wilma Fingerdo 8pm; roasts 12-3pm
MONDAY 21
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE DJs 11pm
TUESDAY 22
PORTSMOUTH
l OLD VIC Quiz 8pm
SOUTHAMPTON
PORTSMOUTH
SUNDAY 27
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l LONDON HOTEL Easter Sunday London
Podium: Kara Van Park & Rose Garden 8pm;
roasts 12-3pm
MONDAY 28
SOUTHAMPTON
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l EDGE DJs 11pm
THURSDAY 24
TUESDAY 29
FRIDAY 25
SUNDAY 20
SOUTHAMPTON
l LONDON HOTEL Guilty Pleasures: DJ
Lucinda Lashes 9pm; cabaret: 2 Shoes 10pm
WEDNESDAY 23
SATURDAY 19
WEDNESDAY 9
SOUTHAMPTON
) 2 Terminus Terr, SO14 3DT, Tel: 02380 710652, www.the-london.co.uk
) FOOD Mon–Sat 12–3pm; Sunday lunch 12–3.30pm.
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
Roo 8.30pm; cabaret: Mary Mac 10.15pm
PORTSMOUTH
l OLD VIC Quiz 8pm
SOUTHAMPTON
SOUTHAMPTON
LONDON HOTEL
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
Lucinda Lashes 8.30pm
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l LONDON HOTEL Guilty Pleasures: DJ Claire
Fuller 9pm
TUESDAY 8
WILMA FINGERDOO (SUN 20)
PORTSMOUTH
MARTHA D’ARTHUR (THUR 3, 10, 17 & 31)
LISTINGS
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
l LONDON HOTEL Fairylea Friday Easter
Special: DJ Ruby Roo 8.30pm; cabaret: Tiara
Thunderpussy 10.15pm
SATURDAY 26
PORTSMOUTH
PORTSMOUTH
l OLD VIC Quiz 8pm
SOUTHAMPTON
WEDNESDAY 30
SOUTHAMPTON
THURSDAY 31
PORTSMOUTH
SOUTHAMPTON
GSCENE 45
GEEK SCENE
COMICS & GAMES BY CRAIG STORRIE
COMICS
) Whilst it may have taken a few false starts, DC are finally getting
round to having their Justice League assemble up on the big screen
with it all starting in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice released
this month. After
numerous stand-alone
films were cancelled, such
as Joss Weadon’s Wonder
Woman and David S
Goyer’s The Flash, Warner
Bros tried to get their big
seven heroes together for
a brand new start back in
2007 in the film Justice League: Mortal. Every part was fully cast
and it was even to be directed by Mad Max creator George Miller.
Sadly after numerous put backs, such as the 2008 writers’ strike and
the film having to be moved from Australia to Canada due to the
Australian Government refusing Warner Bros the right to film there,
the movie was put on hold for the foreseeable future and eventually
cancelled.
Fast-forward to 2013 and after the success of Man of Steel, David S
Goyer was hired by Warner Bros to write both a sequel to Man of
Steel and a Justice League film as well as hiring Zack Synder to direct
both films. Whilst the Justice League film will be split into two parts,
coming out both in 2017 and 2019 respectively, the sequel would be
retooled into a film that would introduce Superman to Batman and
Wonder Woman as well as many characters that would form part of
the Justice League, planting seeds which will come to fruition in the
actual Justice League film later down the line. That movie is Dawn of
Justice, a film that is
basically Batman and
Superman not seeing eye
to eye and beating the
ever-loving crap out of
one another. No doubt
this will be sorted by the
end of the film somehow
and will eventually lead to
their famous friendship.
Dawn of Justice will be
the second film of the DC
Extended Universe after
Man of Steel and followed
by Suicide Squad later
this year.
David S Goyer has taken
inspiration for the film
from the now famous
Batman limited series The
Dark Knight Returns and it
certainly shows with its dark gritty visuals right down to even using
the same design for the older Batman’s iconic Batsuit. In this new
film, Batman is now an ex-vigilante who gave up crime fighting after
the death of his ward and sidekick, Robin, at the hands of the evil
Joker. He takes it upon himself to come out of retirement after seeing
first-hand the raw power that Superman possesses. He travels to
Metropolis to see if Superman can be trusted and, if not, he means to
take him down and put him out of the picture for good. With all this
going on others are rising and making their place known in the world
from the villainous Lex Luthor, who also means to bring down
Superman, to the powerful king of Atlantis Aquaman and the
demigoddess Wonder Woman aka Diana Prince.
GAMES
) As any regular readers of this
column will know, I love me some
Street Fighter. I’ve been there since
day one and have managed to play
every single entry in the series, even
the ones hardly anyone remembers
such as the EX series. It is one of my
most treasured gaming franchises so
imagine my fevered excitement when
Street Fighter V was finally confirmed to be released in February of
2016! Not only that but it would only be exclusively available on the
Playstation 4 and Microsoft Windows. No offence to the Xbox lovers out
there but I cannot abide fighting games using that controller as I find
it cumbersome and not as responsive as the Dualshock 4; but that is
just my preference.
As with all numbered entries in the series, Street Fighter V carries on the
side-scrolling one-on-one gameplay of its predecessors with a few
changes. The super-combo bar is now the EX gauge which is similar to
the one introduced in Street Fighter III. This bar is filled when the
fighter lands attacks on their rival and can be used to perform EX
versions of normal special moves making them stronger or saved up to
perform a fighter-specific Critical Art. These super-moves can cause
massive damage as well as being both beautiful and deadly to watch.
Gone are the focus attacks
of Street Fighter IV
replaced with a new
system revolving around
the new V-Gauge. The VGauge slowly fills up when
the player is attacked and
can be utilised in three
different ways. V-Skills are
character-specific special attacks that can help to build the V-gauge
faster if successfully performed. For example, if timed correctly Ryu can
use his V-Skill to parry any incoming attack, very much like the parry
system from Street Fighter III. V-Reversals allow fighters to use a
portion of the gauge to counter whilst being attacked; it can also act as
a combo-breaker if timed correctly. Finally V-Triggers use the whole of
the gauge to trigger a unique ability such as Ken gaining flaming
normal attacks which cause more damage or Chun-Li moving faster so
her moves score extra hits. All in all it is a clever and intuitive system
that can really turn the tide of battle if used strategically.
The game features 16 characters at launch with four being completely
brand new to the series. Unlike previous entries into the series new
characters and stages will be developed and added into the game via
regular updates. These new additions will have to be purchased in one
of two ways: by using ‘Fight Money’, which is earned through gameplay
and is not unlike the coins in Super Smash Bros, or by using ‘Zenny’
which is purchased using real-world money. Street Fighter V truly looks
stunning with brilliant character and stage design as well as having
amazing music and sound effects to boot. It could even be regarded as
the best entry in the series, given enough time!
46 GSCENE
Comedy Roadshow). Featuring
headliner Diane Morgan, Andrew
Doyle and Pippa Evans.
ARTS
B Y MIC HA E L HO O TMA N
BRIGHTON CENTRE
Chaudhry, Creative Writing with
poet Evlynn Sharp and Women’s
History talk. Other highlights
include live performances from
Qukulele, a capella choir We Bop
QUKULELE
Kings Rd, Brighton,
Box office: 0844 847 1515
) WET WET WET (Tue 1). Marti
Pillow and the band sing their
greatest hits.
) PETER ANDRE (Fri 11). Singer
and reality TV star sings classics
Mysterious Girl and material from
his new album Come Fly With Me.
) COLLABRO (Sat 12). Britain’s
Got Talent winners perform with
support from A J Brown and
special guest Catriona Murray.
and beatbox Champion Bellatrix; a
panel discussion exploring key
issues affecting women today with
MP Caroline Lucas, FGM
campaigner Nimco Ali and local
activist Emily Wright chaired by
Razia Aziz; Women’s history walks
around the Pavilion Estate; Miss
Represented jewellery making and
collage workshops; artist Bern
O’Donoghue’s installation Dead
Reckoning with 3,771 miniature
boats representing the death of a
Theatre Royal, New Rd, Brighton, Box office: 08448 717650
migrant or refugee who attempted
) END OF THE RAINBOW (Mar 29–Apr 2). Join Judy Garland as she
) LITTLE MIX (Mon 14). The group to cross the Mediterranean in 2015.
makes her explosive London come back at the height of the swinging
) HAIR PEACE (7.30pm, Sat 5). A
play hits from their two platinum
sixties. This funny and emotionally charged play finds the once
charming and funny exploration of
albums DNA and Salute.
glittering star sparring with her new fiancé, her devoted accompanist,
where exactly hair extensions come
) JASON DONOVAN (Wed 23).
and her own demons. Filled with Garland’s legendary tenacity, razorfrom, by Victoria Melody.
Solo tour of his debut 1989
sharp wit and once-in-a-generation voice. Featuring Garland’s most
) KATHERINE RYAN KATHBUM
album Ten Good Reasons.
memorable songs The Man That Got Away, Come Rain Or Come
(8pm, Sat 5). Razor sharp and
Shine, The Trolley Song and of course Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
hilariously funny Canadian returns
IWD
@
BRIGHTON
DOME
Stars Lisa Maxwell (Loose Women, The Bill), Gary Wilmot (Me & My
with new show.
Church St, Brighton
Girl, Chicago) and Sam Attwater (EastEnders, Dancing on Ice).
) THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Box office: 01273 709709
The Dome celebrates International (7.30pm, Sun 6). Directed by
Angela El-Zeind, this special
Women's Day 2016 with special
benefit performance is presented as
performances and events...
part of a global initiative for
) MISS REPRESENTED:
RETROSPECTIVE (free, Fri 4 – Wed women survivors of violence to rise
9). Outreach project working with and demand an end to violence.
young women in Brighton presents
a retrospective of their work, with
new additions around Being Female.
) TWELVE ANGRY WOMEN
) BEYOND THE FOOTLIGHTS (8pm, (7.30pm, Fri 4). An outraged fusion
ALL THE NICE GIRLS
of drama, poetry, prose, art and
The Brunswick, 1-3 Holland Road, Tue 15) Mrs Moore, Tanya Hyde
and Kara Van-Park are no strangers music with contributions from
Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1JF
to Musical Theatre, getting there
Yasmin Ali, Sara Clifford, Rowena
) BEHIND THE LINES: ALL THE
was a different story... £10.
Easton, Suhayla El Bushra, Belona
NICE GIRLS (4pm, Sun 20 & Sun
27). A tribute to pioneering lesbian ) GIGGLE @ THE GODS (8pm, Sat Greenwood, Carol Leeming, Edana
) SANDI TOKSVIG LIVE!
Minghella, Chloe Moss, Joanna
variety stars Gwen Farrar and Nora 26) with six stand-up comics, £3.
POLITICALLY INCORRECT (Tue 8).
Neary, Deanna Rodger, Sarah
Blaney in Music Hall, Variety and
Toksvig, comedian, novelist, actor,
BENT DOUBLE
Naomi Lee and Chris Taylor.
Revue by the LGBT theatrical duo
Komedia, Gardner St, Brighton
) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY broadcaster, university chancellor,
Ali Child and Rosie Wakley. Ali
and (inter)national treasure finds
OPEN HOUSE (10am–4pm, Sat 5).
Child says, “Too often depictions of Box office: 08452 938480
herself in the startling position of
) BENT DOUBLE (Sun 6). A gayBrighton Women's Centre
lesbian romance on TV end in
having co-founded the UK’s fastest
tragedy. Our show celebrates lesbian friendly, irreverent night of fun and celebrate the 105th International
growing political party, the
frolics hosted by Zoe Lyons (Mock
Women’s Day with a day of
love, then and now, in a witty,
Women’s Equality Party. She is
The Week and Michael McIntyre’s
entertainment, films, workshops,
joyous, nostalgic, musical way.”
celebrating the launch of the party
exhibitions, discussion, history
tours, children’s activities, low cost with a fundraising tour of a
BAR BROADWAY
holistic therapies hosted by Rachel uniquely witty evening of her
The Gods, 10 Steine St, Brighton
stand-up, stories and fascinating
Nwokoro (UK SLAM! Champion).
) THE TWO HARMONIES (8pm,
facts. Sandi will entertain us solo
Some of the free workshops that
Wed 9), Keith Pemberton and
can be booked on the day include: for the first half of the evening and
Jason Lee Howlett cover a range
Women’s Self Defence, Beatboxing in the second will introduce some
of genres from classical to rock, £3.
with UK champion Bellatrix, Sing special guests and special ideas
) IT IS WHAT IT IS (8pm, Thu 10)
behind this exciting new venture.
Your Heart Out with Aneesa
free comedy and sketch show.
SANDY TOKSVIG
BEYOND THE FOOTIGHTS
DIANE MORGAN
ALL THE NICE GIRLS
END OF THE RAINBOW
EMPORIUM
MORGAN FABULOUS
88 London Rd, Brighton
thelittleboxoffice.com/emporium
) THE TEMPEST (Mon 7–Mon 28).
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped
and exiled by his own brother,
holds sway over an enchanted
island. He is comforted by his
daughter, Miranda, and served by
his spirit, Ariel, and his deformed
slave, Caliban. When Prospero
raises a storm to wreck his
perfidious brother and his
confederates on the island, his
long contemplated revenge at last
seems within reach. Imbued with a
spirit of magic and supernatural,
the play is Shakespeare’s late great
masterpiece of forgiveness,
generosity and enlightenment.
MindOut returns for a fun filled
evening showcasing great comedy
and musical entertainment. The
compere for the evening is Spice
and line-up includes award winning
Zoe Lyons, Debra-Jane Appelby,
Dolly Rocket, Sally Vate and
members of the Brighton Gay
Men’s Chorus. Come along, bring
your friends and enjoy a fun-filled
evening while raising vital funds
for LGBTQ mental health charity
MindOut! The venue is fully
accessible with a licensed bar.
Tickets: £12/£10, available
online: www.bit.ly/laughs2016
For more information email
[email protected]
St George’s Church, Kemptown,
Brighton BN2 1ED
) MINDOUT FOR THE LAUGHS
(7.30pm, Thur 17). The comedy
cabaret extravaganza in support of
WANTING THE MOON
Dukebox Theatre, The Iron Duke,
3 Waterloo St, Hove, BN3 1AQ.
ROSE COLLIS WANTING THE MOON
(7.35pm, Thurs 24). Another
chance to catch this one-woman
play written and performed by Rose
Collis. Clemence Dane, playwright,
artist and screenwriter, is asked by
her friend Noel Coward to revive
her acting career and play the
famous role he created for her:
Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit. As
she prepares to answer him, she
reflects on their long relationship
and memorable episodes from her
chequered career. Tickets £8/£6 at:
www.hovegrown.org.uk/productio
n/wanting-the-moon/
PINK FRINGE
Marlborough Theatre, 4 Princes
St, Brighton, Box office:
www.brownpapertickets.com
) KING OF THE FRINGE: HEAT 2
(Fri 11). Brighton’s only drag king
competition is back and tougher
than ever! It’s time for bois to
become men as they battle it out
over three heats to make their way
to the final. The Kings will get
a chance to strut their stuff before
the extra special judges decide who
HOPE FUNDRAISER
The Synergy Centre, 78 West St, deserves a place (and a shot at the
Brighton, www.thesynergycentre.org £100 prize money) in the grand
finale in Brighton Fringe. Expect
) HOPE: A Fundraiser for THT
bulging biceps, protruding
(6pm–midnight, Sun 27). Staged
packages, fierce facial hair, all
by SP Productions at multimedia
community art centre and café bar slathered in sass as we try to find
the next King of the Fringe!
hosted by Misty Lee with acts
including porn star Danny Chase
IWD @ TRAUMFRAU
(Hard Brit Lads), Sammy Silver,
Wagner Hall, 9 Russell Place,
Trudi Styles & The Pianoman,
Brighton, www.traumfrau.co.uk
Miss Sugar, Dozy Queen, Stan
) INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY
Munro Davies, Bambi Boo,
EXTRAVAGANZA (9pm-3am, Sat
Strawberry Whip, Miss Golden
Cox, Morgan Fabulous, Miss
Chanel Lamon, Miss Gin and
Stephanie von Clitz. There will
also be a raffle. Tickets: £7 adult,
family of 4 adults £20, VIP tickets
£25 all available on the door on
the night.
MINDOUT FOR
THE LAUGHS
12). TRAUMFRAU and PINK
FRINGE have teamed up again to
create a night long queer festival.
Dancing, shows, live art, food and
installations in Brighton's most
unusual al fresco venue with DJs,
live art, performers, immersive
experiences, a garden, a party, a
disco, food, fire, outdoor dancing,
indoor dancing, garden shows, all
at one huge queer party. From
9–10.30pm it’s open decks so BYO
CDs and have a go at being a
Traumfrau DJ! Followed by DJs
Lianne Hall (Berlin) and Jenna
(Spellbound/Eight Miles High),
with live performances throughout
the night from a fine selection of
renegade artists: Stacy Makishi,
Ira Brand, Paula Varjack and
Emma Frankland. Tickets £8 /
£13 from Marlborough or
www.brownpapertickets.com/even
t/2509647. Carer/chaperone can
get a free ticket online via the
tickets link. For other accessibility
needs please email
[email protected]
ROSE COLLIS
ZOE LYONS
GSCENE 47
BETWEEN WORLDS
Language Learning Centre, Arts A, University of Sussex, BN1 9RH
) As part of the Language and Culture Series 2015/2016, MARIA
JASTRZᶒBSKA, poet and author of At The Library Of Memories and
Dementia Diaries will be talking with Jeremy Page (5pm, Tues 15)
about her new book CEDRY Z WALPOLE PARK, growing up and living in
more than one culture and the impact on her writing. Wine served
from 5pm. Free event, all welcome.
What makes a Polish writer Polish or a British writer British? Is it the
language they employ? Or what they write about? Can poetry
transcend identity? Should it aim to? Is there such a thing as
universality? Writer John O’Donoghue says of Maria’s work: ‘There’s a
subtlety and seeing-round corners perspective to her poems that could
be Polish, could be queer or could be pure Jastrzębska.’
Maria Jastrzębska is a Polish-born poet, editor and translator. She is
the author of six poetry collections, including At The Library of
Memories (Waterloo Press, 2013), and a literary drama Dementia
Diaries which toured with Lewes Live Literature in 2011. She was coeditor of Queer in Brighton (New Writing South, 2014). Her work is
frequently anthologised, most recently in Hallelujah for 50ft Women
(Bloodaxe, 2015), and features in the British Library project Poetry
Between Two Worlds. Her selected poems, Cedry z Walpole Park/The
Cedars of Walpole Park, have been translated into Polish by Anna
Błasiak, Paweł Gawroński and Wioletta Grzegorzewska and
published in a dual language collection (K.I.T, Stowarzyszenie Żywych
Poetów, Faktoria series, 2015). www.mariajastrzebska.wordpress.com
REVIEWS
) To mark International Women’s
Day, I’ve looked back at my
columns for the last year or so,
looking out for women performers,
composers and conductors. Out of
around 40 CDs reviewed, just four
feature women composers, and
about 10 have female lead
performers (that doesn’t include
women in mixed chamber
ensembles and groups). None
feature women conductors. So
what’s going on here? Now I
clearly have my part to play here,
as I have choice over the CDs I
review – although in my defence, I
sought to review two CDs by one
female composer, Cheryl FrancesHoad, after hearing one of her
works performed live in the Proms.
And perhaps herein lies the key –
exposure is often achieved best
through concert performances,
often via the championing of wellknown performers. On this
occasion, it was The Tallis
Scholars who had commissioned a
new work for their Prom concert.
Brown’s programme for women
conductors at Morley College is
now in its third year, so hopefully
we will continue to see more
women on the podium. But then
there’s still a way to go – shortly
before Alsop appeared at The Last
Night of the Proms, conductor
Vassily Petrenko said in an
interview that ‘a cute girl on a
podium means that musicians think
about other things’.
But what of composers? Well,
recently, 17-year-old Jessy McCabe
launched a campaign when she
discovered that Edexcel’s A-level
music syllabus featured 63 male
composers and no women. Her
campaign persuaded them to
include five works by female
composers as a result. The BBC’s
Ten Pieces project for schools
included one work by Anna
Meredith in its first year, aimed at
primary school children, and in the
second year, targeted at secondary
level, a piece by Anna Clyne has
been included.
BARBARA HANNIGAN
BREMF
KALA RAMNATH
ALICE COOTE
MIRGA GRAŽINYTė-TYLA
FIONA SHAW
Well, in the 2016 Brighton
Festival, Alice Coote returns to
sing Angel in The Dream of
Gerontius by Elgar, with the
Brighton Festival Chorus and the
City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra (CBSO), conducted by
Edward Gardner. And while we’re
At Glyndebourne, Fiona Shaw’s
on the CBSO, they’ve recently
great production of Britten’s The
announced that 29-year-old
Rape of Lucretia won plaudits all
round. Then of course our very own Lithuanian conductor Mirga
Gražinytė-Tyla will be taking over
Brighton Early Music Festival
(directed by two women, Clare
Norburn and Deborah Roberts)
dedicated the whole of last year’s
festival to the theme of Women:
Enquirers, Muses, Enchanters. We
heard music by women composers
including Élisabeth Jacquet de La
from Andris Nelsons as Music
Guerre, Hildegard of Bingen,
Director in September 2016.
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and
Currently at the Los Angeles
Barbara Strozzi, among others.
Philharmonic, Gražinytė-Tyla had
Women performers included Dame
already gone down well with
Emma Kirkby, harpsichordist
Carole Cerasi, Clare Norburn and audiences and the musicians in
Birmingham, and was apparently
Belinda Sykes with Joglaresa.
the unanimous choice to take over
But the outstanding triumph of
the baton.
the 2015 Brighton Early Music
Also in the Brighton Festival,
Festival (BREMF) was surely their
staging of the first surviving opera Indian violinist and composer Kala
Ramnath will be performing The
by a woman, Francesca Caccini’s
Seasons of India, her own piece
La Liberazione di Ruggiero
for Indian violin and orchestra
Dall’isola di Alcina. The
with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
production by Susannah Waters,
And talking of live performances,
when I look back over the last year directed by Deborah Roberts, was
a great success, placed in the top
in Brighton, it has in fact been a
good year for women. In the 2015 ten classical music events of the
year by The Guardian. And great
Brighton Festival, mezzo-soprano
Alice Coote performed her
exploration of gender identity in
Being Both, a programme of
Handel arias for male and female
And BREMF Co-Director, Clare
characters. Soprano and conductor
Norburn, brings her play, Breaking
Barbara Hannigan sang and
the Rules, about the composer
conducted the Britten Sinfonia in
Gesualdo, performed by an actor
a concert of Mozart, Haydn and
and the Marian Consort. The play
Stravinsky. And violinist Isabelle news – a recording of the
was piloted at BREMF in 2013, and
performance
will
be
broadcast
on
Faust gave stunning performances
was a hit then, so it’s great to see
Sunday 8 March, International
of the complete cycle of Bach’s
it returning in a new and reworked
Women’s Day, on BBC Radio 3’s
version to Brighton. She is also
Early Music Show. I urge you to
writing a play about Galileo for the
listen in!
Monteverdi String Band and the
Deborah Roberts also conducted
Marian Consort, which will
and performed with Musica
premiere at BREMF this year.
Secreta, the Celestial Sirens
Meanwhile, further afield, despite
(both all-women ensembles) and
the Brighton Festival Youth Choir having left as Principal Conductor
of the Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra in 2008, Marin Alsop is
a regular on UK concert platforms,
and made history in 2013 as the
first female conductor of The Last
Night of the Proms. Her partner,
Kristin Jurkscheit, is a horn
player and also director of the
WOW (Women of the World)
Baltimore festival. And conductors
Alice Farnham and Andrea
ALICE FARNHAM
CLASSICAL
NOTES
B Y NIC K B O STO N
ANNA MEREDITH
in a programme directed by herself
and Laurie Stras, about Lucrezia
Borgia’s daughter Leonora d’Este,
with the first modern performances
of music potentially by her. And
Sonatas and Partitas. This is not to again, she directed and sung in a
consort of music by Strozzi,
mention a good proportion of
Caccini and Cozzolani, with the
women performers at festival
BREMF Consort of Voices, later
lunchtime concerts, and at other
broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
chamber concerts throughout the
year.
So coming up in the next year?
MARIN ALSOP
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But when was the last time you
heard a work by a woman on the
programme of a mainstream
orchestra? International classical
listings and review website,
Bachtrack (www.bachtrack.com)
looked at the statistics from over
25,000 concerts worldwide in 2014
and found only five female
composers in the top 260 – and
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ART MATTERS
B Y E NZO MA RRA
To find out more about women
composers, BREMF have helpfully
set up a page on their website
dedicated to women composers.
There’s information about some
key early music composers, but
also links to a range of sources of
general information about female
composers worth checking out.
www.bremf.org.uk/womencomposers
More reviews/comment/events at:
www.nicks-classicalnotes.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @nickb86uk
Email: [email protected]
For March I’ve found a quartet of exhibitions all located an easy train
ride away from Brighton, I hope you’re able to create time to wander
around the various displays at each gallery.
TOWNER
BORIS GODUNOV
CINEMA
) Bryn Terfel, with John Graham-Hall
and John Tomlinson in Mussorgsky’s
Boris Godunov, is live from the Royal
Opera House (Mon 21).
) Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (Sat 5) from the Metropolitan Opera with
Kristine Opolais and Roberto Alagna. In local cinemas Duke’s at the
Komedia & Odeon in Brighton, Cineworld Eastbourne, and the
Connaught Cinema, Worthing. Check times/dates.
PALLANT HOUSE
9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ http://pallant.org.uk
) JOHN PIPER: THE FABRIC OF MODERNISM (Sat 12 March–Sun 12
June). John Piper was one of the leading Modern British artists of the
20th century, best known for his paintings of Britain’s romantic
heritage, including churches, country houses and wartime ruins.
Through over 80 works, this major
exhibition is the first to focus on
John Piper’s textile designs, shown
alongside related paintings and
other studies to demonstrates how
Piper’s designs were intricately
connected with his wider work.
Marking the 50th anniversary of
the installation of the artist’s
celebrated altar tapestry in
Chichester Cathedral, many of the
studies for this important example
of religious art will be on show.
CONCERTS
BRIGHTON DOME & CORN EXCHANGE
BTN FESTIVAL CHORUS
Church Street, Brighton, 01273 709709, www.brightondome.org
) The Brighton Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Howard Shelley
(2.45pm, Sun 6), perform Brahms’
Variations On A Theme by Haydn and
Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No 2
with Shelley on piano, and
Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 3 (The Scottish).
) They return (2.45pm, Sun 20) conducted by Barry Wordsworth, to
perform Willam Alwyn, Bernstein’s Symphony No 2 (The Age of
Anxiety), with Rob Clark on piano, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea
Symphony, with Brighton Festival Chorus.
) The Heath Quartet (11am, Sun 27) perform Mozart, Tchaikovsky
and Ravel.
) RADICAL CRAFT: ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF MAKING (Sat 12 March–Sun
12 June) combines Outside In’s (www.outsidein.org.uk/) 4th triennial
open art exhibition and Craftspace’s touring exhibitions programme. It
will showcase UK creativity by artists who define themselves as facing
barriers to the art world for reasons including health, disability, social
circumstance or isolation. The craft works selected through this open
call out will be displayed alongside pieces by historically renowned and
invited contemporary Outsider and self-taught artists.
ALL SAINTS CHURCH
Hove, www.ssomusic.co.uk or via Dome Box Office
) The Sussex Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Andrew
James (7.30pm, Sat 5), perform Smetana, Sibelius and François
Borne’s Fantasie Brillante On Themes from Bizet’s Carmen, with
Daniel Shao (flute).
SUSSEX FLUTES
ST LUKE'S CHURCH
BRODSKY QUARTET
Sussex Downs College, Lewes, www.nylewes.org.uk
) The Brodsky Quartet (7.45pm, Fri 18) perform
Borodin, Shostakovich and Beethoven.
ZIMMERSTEWART GALLERY
Queens Park Rd, Brighton,
www.stlukesconcerts.webeden.co.uk
) Volt & Potenza piano duo (7.30pm, Fri 11)
perform Schumann, J C Bach, Grieg, Rachmaninov,
Poulenc and commissioned work by Philip Martin (b. 1943)
) All-female group Sussex Flutes (7.30pm, Fri 18) perform music by
contemporary Brighton composers, including Peter Copley, Barry Mills
and Phil Baker.
ALICE WALTER
NICHOLAS YONGE SOCIETY
Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ
www.townereastbourne.org.uk
) ANNUAL SCHOOLS 2016 (Thu 24 March–Sun 5 June), presents an
exhibition which initially emerged
from dialogue with teachers six
years ago and has grown into one
of the largest professional
exhibitions of school age students’
work held in the UK. Each year, a
theme is chosen which relates to
the Towner Gallery collection and the participating schools are shown
works which relate to the chosen theme. This year’s theme is Walking
The Line, exploring how drawing and mark-making is the starting point
for expressing ourselves. The children have taken inspiration from the
artworks and worked collaboratively to create their own responses.
JOHN PIPER
So if you think classical music is
all by dead white men performed
by living white men, well, perhaps
that’s still often the case (my
listings for this month will confirm
this…). But things are hopefully
changing, and as I began by
saying, the key is exposure and the
support of performers and concert
programmers. And maybe we’re
doing better than some places
here in Brighton, with imaginative
programming at the Brighton
Festival and the out and out
championing of women in music at
BREMF – long may this continue!
ANNUAL SCHOOLS 2016
Sofia Gubaidulina, the top, only
scraped in at No 132! Judith Weir,
the Master of the Queen’s Music
(yes, Master), makes it to No 219.
Oh, and back to conductors, their
statistics show just five women in
the top 150, with Marin Alsop
leading the women at No 42.
29 Tarrant Street, Arundel, www.zimmerstewart.co.uk
) INTRODUCING ALICE WALTER & DAVID AUBORN (Sat 5–Sat 26)
presents a showcase of two emerging artists, both recently graduated
painters from Brighton University who studied under Tom Hammick.
Both painters producing abstract
expressionistic works, informed by
an element of implied
representation. Alice Walter's
paintings use repeated imagery and
symbols, tools she uses to edge
towards feelings of familiarity or
intimacy. David Auborn's works are
similarly abstract, but more textural and earthy, reflecting the
physicality of life and our place in it. At a micro-level showing
individual cells and at a macro level representing large buildings.
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PAGE’S PAGES
B O O KS B Y E RIC PAG E
) THE DEVASTATION by Melissa Buzzeo. This book-long poem/prose/
performance book gripped me and wouldn’t let go. It feels like a soft
poetical echo of ‘By Grand Central Station I laid down and wept’ but
watery and full of eddies and submerged currents of meaning and has
all of that metaphorical lightning
and utterly sublime and profound
writing that shocks you into a
moment’s clarity. Buzzeo’s use of
words is simply stunning, in all
senses of the word and I found
myself sitting still just re-rolling
sentences across my mind to see
their effects. Her central premise of
using language to express the
things which language can’t’
express is balanced with such a
noble, fine grace as to sometimes
appear impossible to sustain itself
but rather than crash, it soars
under its own grace. Buzzeo’s writing can be winding and appear longer
than it is, it’s an odd talent she has and this story about two lovers
who survive the ‘Devastation by laying on the bottom on the ocean’ is
political, ecological and philosophical and all three plaited in some
highly original ways. Very difficult to write about, utterly transporting
to read, this is the poetry book to cherish this year.
) THE INFORMANT by Susan
Wilkins (Pan Macmillan). Set in
London and Essex, this is a
thrilling edge-of-your-seat story of
ruthless criminals, corrupt cops,
obsessive love and villainy on both
sides of the law. Drug-fuelled
teenage tearaway, Kaz Phelps, took
the rap for little brother Joey over
a bungled armed robbery and went
to jail. Released six years later,
clean, sober and driven by a secret
passion for her lawyer, Helen, she
wants to escape the violence and
abuse of her Essex gangster family
and put the past behind her. Joey
is a charming, calculating
psychopath. When he murders an
undercover cop, DS Nicci
Armstrong is determined to put
him behind bars. She doesn't
realise that her efforts are being
sabotaged by one of their own and
the Met is being challenged at the
highest level. The final test for Kaz
comes when her cousin, Sean, gets
out of jail. He is a vicious, oldschool thug and wants to show Kaz
who is boss. Kaz may be tough
enough to face down any man, but
is she strong enough to turn her
back on her family and go straight?
) UNDER THE UDALA TREES by
Chinelo Okparanta (Houghton
Mifflin). Ijeoma comes of age as
her nation does. Born before
independence, she is eleven when
civil war breaks out in the young
republic of Nigeria. Sent away to
safety, she meets another
displaced child and they fall in
love. They’re from different ethnic
communities and also both girls.
When their love is discovered,
Ijeoma learns that she’ll have to
hide this part of herself but there
is a cost to living inside a lie.
Under the Udala Trees uses one
woman’s lifetime to examine the
ways in which Nigerians continue
to struggle toward selfhood. Even
as their nation contends with and
recovers from the effects of war
and division, Nigerian lives are
also wrecked and lost from taboo
and prejudice. This story offers a
glimmer of hope - a future where a
about what it means to be LGB
today (no mention of trans) and
uses this to illuminate her ideas;
that being gay is choice and a
seriously considered alternative to
the heteronormative experience;
and that modern gay life has given
up on changing the world and
making it a better, less patriarchal
place. I agree with this and found
her controversial arguments offered
up with conviction, evidence and
her trademark academic precision
refreshing. Her candid approach to
this subject gives an incisive shake
up of all gay things close to our
woman might be able to shape her hearts. I loved this, it reminds me
life around truth and love. Inspired of the discussions and arguments I
have with my closest lesbian friends.
by Nigerian folktales and terrible
war, this searching, powerful debut
) THE ROYAL HEART by Greg
about the dangers of living and
McGoon (Avid Readers). Once upon
loving openly is full of heartbreaking prose and characters who a time, in a faraway land, an heir
to the throne is born and the King
will stay with you long after you
has a son to follow in his
finish this firestorm of a book.
footsteps. But life isn’t all it
) STRAIGHT EXPECTATIONS by
appears. Family love triumphs over
Julie Bindel (Guardian Books).
doubt and together they grow
From picket line to picket fence stronger. This powerful children's
what does it mean to be gay
book tells the story of a prince who
today? More than four decades
transforms into a princess,
after the start of the gay liberation
movement, lesbians and gay men
can legally marry, adopt children,
and enjoy the same rights and
respect as heterosexuals... or can
they? Julie Bindel, ‘out’ lesbian
since 1977, tracks the changes in
the gay community and asks if
fighting for the right to marry has
achieved genuine progress. Her
central argument that the gay
rights movement has swapped,
bargained and offered up its
radicalism for conformity,
acceptance and belonging is
compelling. Drawing on her own
becoming her authentic self on her
and fellow activists’ experiences
16th birthday. The story, with
she shows how the gay movement richly detailed illustrations by J
has moved from being critical and Orr, reminded me of the books that
demanding to cosying up to and
I read as a child, but with an
becoming part of the mainstream. implicit LGBT theme. The story of
Bindel surveyed a large group
Princess Lyric and her search for
truth feels authentic with universal
themes of love, acceptance and
leadership. This triumphant,
transformative story is one of
finding your own true self and then
becoming it. It’s a most
traditionally styled fairytale
featuring a transgender character
and the first in a series that
McGoon plans to create, detailing
the lives and stories of LGBT
characters in a fairytale framework.
It’s as delightfully fun, engaging
and satisfying from an LGBT
perspective as G Maguire, author of
Wicked, who this reminded me of.
Great fun!
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“It’s assumed that we have
a choice, a choice with
whom we have sex, and
that we should really not
have chosen a same-sex
partner”
they will change through time is, of course,
impossible to detect. That does not stop us
falling in love with them, and the very act of
doing so may, for many years, obscure our
gender-awareness or feelings of sexuality.
ENJOYING IT
BOTH WAYS?
Why Bisexuality is Not All Fun by Robin Noble
) One of the things which annoys me about
(particularly) British society is its general
inability to cope even with the naked human
body.
In Brighton, where the World Naked Bike Ride
takes place every year, photographed by
hundreds of happy folk with cameras at the
ready, (and, of course, the well-patronised
naturist beach), you might not believe that
there’s still a problem, but strip off anywhere
else, at almost any other time, and you would
soon discover there is.
That being the case, I suppose I shouldn’t be
surprised by the inability of so many even to
discuss sexuality, which is basically the fun we
can have with those bodies.
If you just happen to be bisexual, there are
many occasions when you meet that inability,
or certainly when you meet a complete lack of
comprehension, even on the part of other
members of the LGBT community. There can be
an occasional, slightly puritanical reaction,
something along the lines of: “Well, it’s hardly
a problem for you, is it, you can have sex with
anyone you like“.
Somehow, you can sense that that freedom is
somewhat disapproved of. With others, the
disapproval becomes rather clearer, at least for
the male bisexual. It’s assumed that we have a
choice, a choice with whom we have sex, and
that we should really not have chosen a samesex partner.
That faint undercurrent, the basic disapproval
of homosexuality which still lurks under much
of an apparently liberal society, comes to the
surface when confronted with the bisexual.
There’s something they don’t like about us
‘choosing’ a same-sex partner. If we were
simply, unabashedly, wildly gay, we would
probably now get away with it, they would
feel that we “cannot help it“, that is “how we
are“.
What’s particularly annoying and unfair about
this is that such judgmental folk forget one
thing: that particularly unnecessary and dirty
trick played on the human being of any
sexuality or gender.
I am referring of course to our peculiar
tendency to fall in love.
For some lucky folk it’s all wonderful. That
intoxication may last until the end of their
lives - or, more likely, and equally happily, it
will slowly transform into a deep and tender
regard for each other, which, one hopes, will
endure as long. So far so good, but for many it
leads to completely unsuitable unions, to
years of misunderstanding and misery all
round.
I suspect that many members of the trans
community will be able to relate to this, but
we bisexuals suffer too. The problem is that
we seem quite unable to select the person
with whom we fall in love.
For most of us, especially perhaps in the late
teens or early twenties when we start doing it,
the choice of partner may be rather limited.
Their sexuality (let alone anything deeper and
more complex) may be unguessed, and how
Eventually, however, that first flush of
obsession fades. It may not be replaced with
anything longer-lasting, and so, in time, many
of us become unstuck - a process which may
have many causes, not all of them by any
means related to incipient sexuality.
I suppose I should mention in passing the
number of guys who are said to marry girls in
order to hide their homosexuality, perhaps for
social or career reasons. I’m sure that must
happen, but I have to say that most of the
folk whom I have met, did fall genuinely in
love with their female partner, and thoroughly
enjoyed what are described as ‘normal marital
relations’.
This may, of course, be partly a problem of my
generation, or even the one after me. For the
sake of clarity, I’m now 65, and our
generation, and even that of my children,
tended (throughout Britain as a whole) to go
and get married, even, heaven knows, then to
have children. Ten years later, many of us
might, in fact, be saying, “Well, that was a
big mistake“.
But not many people will readily accept the
idea that no-one should get married or have
children until they have been together for ten
years, and really know what the other person
is like.
To make matters worse, for some reason which
I don’t understand, many male bisexuals tend
to fall in love, when young, with girls... and
perhaps much later, with men. That is, very
approximately, what I did, and I have met
many like me, formerly married, with children.
The trouble is that our simplistic, and
judgmental society then decides to put us in a
pigeon-hole which they think they can
understand - we are obviously gay, and were,
obviously, lying all through the years of
marriage and bringing up children.
This attitude, if repeated often enough, and
especially to those children, can be deeply
hurtful and lead to years of misery. That is the
experience of many bisexuals, and I’ve known
some who’ve taken refuge in alcoholism
because of it, or through fear of it. Ultimately,
that can kill.
Being bisexual is not necessarily all fun.
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portrayal of my life, cardboard coffin and a good
old-fashioned booze up afterwards.
What funeral arrangements make you cringe?
C: It saddens me to hear of people’s negative
experiences in relation to funerals.
S: When splits in families spill out when people
are arranging or (even worse) at the funeral.
Eric Page chats to award-winning local funeral directors,
Cara Mair and Sarah Clarke, of ARKA Original Funerals
What funerals inspire you?
C: Funerals that are heartfelt, real and true to
the person who died and the people left behind.
S: I think when it fits right, everybody is
different and therefore every funeral needs to
be different.
Tell us about your national awards?
The Funeral Director of the Year Award from the
Good Funeral Guide was amazing! A complete
surprise, and a really great honour as it’s a
team effort.
Does where you live affect what you offer?
C: Brighton has fully embraced the way that we
work. I think we’re considered freaks when we
venture out of Sussex (not that we mind).
S: The city is the home of the most creative
people; we embrace difference here so it’s
much easier to create really beautiful funerals.
Your shops have quite a specific tone...
C: Let’s be honest it is not hard to bring style
to an industry where most premises hide
behind a dusty velvet curtain and a window
headstone display.
S: Our shops are challenging to some and
inspiring to others, we provoke thought and
hopefully make people feel comfortable when
they come through the door.
SEAGRASS COFFIN
) What got you into the death industry?
C: After my mother died I arranged her funeral;
I came out the other side questioning the choice
and involvement that the bereaved can have.
S: The vicar at my mother’s funeral got her
name wrong, one of my best friend’s died and
her funeral whitewashed any mention of her
long life as a courageous lesbian. These
experiences make you angry, make you want to
do things better. My best friend Cara ran a
brilliant funeral company, we went for a drink
and the rest is history!
You’ve pioneered a very organic bespoke
style, what’s your drive?
C: This ties in with our lifestyle beliefs and our
love of the planet, and empowering people to
plan a farewell for a loved one truly respecting
the life that they lived.
S: Seeing the difference that a bespoke funeral
can make is very inspiring. We have a natural
approach, we come from the earth and that’s
where we will all return, the less chemical
involvement the better!
How do you give back to the LGBT
community in the city?
S: We keep saying about having a float at
Pride, although funerals and the carnival
atmosphere aren’t natural bedfellows.
When was the last time you cried?
C: I was horseriding through the Ashdown
Forest and it was a beautiful cold day and tears
came; with happiness
S: Yesterday I went to see my mother’s grave in
Plymouth. I’m welling up as I type this but it
was a good thing to do. Even as funeral
directors it can be a struggle sometimes to
embrace our own pasts.
What is the biggest misconception about
your profession?
C: That by law a funeral director is needed and
that a funeral director knows best.
S: The death industry is all about
misconceptions – a lot of people are afraid of
talking about death, and so when someone
close to them dies they become vulnerable.
How will your own funeral be?
C: I love horses but would rather a horse and
cart, I love the idea of a windswept hill and a
pyre but think I’d be buried.
S: Hopefully good music, a fair but honest
What’s your typical working day?
We’re on call 24/7 so a day can start any time.
You never know what a day may bring: gently
collecting someone who has died from their
home, hospice or hospital; supporting someone
to wash and dress their loved one; delivering a
coffin to someone’s home for them to paint;
maybe visiting charity shops to look for
containers that would be suitable to hold ashes;
meeting people to make arrangements; writing
notes and phoning and emailing to book things.
Any new projects in the pipeline?
C: We held Brighton’s First Death Festival in
conjunction with the Modern Funeral Company
and Copperdollar. It’s a free community event
for people to come together and explore the
hidden world of death.
S: We’re planning another event this May at
Woodvale: Crème de la Crem (details TBC)
DEATH FESTIVAL
DOWN TO EARTH
How has being LGBT influenced your choices?
C: I first started working in the funeral world
within the traditional male role, as a chauffeur
bearer. It was hard being a woman in that
environment, let alone gay. I moved on from
there ready for the challenge that I knew
working in this field would bring.
S: Ooh I think being gay is a blessing, we’re all
very lucky to be gay and live here! It could be a
death sentence in a lot of places in the world.
We serve the whole community but I hope are
trusted by our LGBT community to be a safe,
caring business to work with.
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SHOPPING
WITH MICHAEL HOOTMAN
) DEEP RED (Arrow blu-ray). Perhaps
director Dario Argento’s finest work, his
1975 giallo stars David Hemmings as a
pianist living in Rome who witnesses the
murder of a famous psychic. He soon teams
up with a reporter to try and find the
murderer’s identity. Visually it’s amazing, a
frenzied fever-dream with bravura direction
making up for what it lacks in narrative
clarity. Arrow’s presentation comes with
both the director’s original cut and the 20minute-shorter international version.
) VALENTINO (BFI blu-ray). On paper it
certainly looks intriguing: a biopic of the
silent star directed by Ken Russell and
starring Rudolf Nureyev. On the screen,
however, it’s something of a disaster.
Russell directs with the
subtlety and psychological
insight of a hyperactive
seven-year-old. The script
seems to be a collection of
snappy retorts which don’t
quite work, its 1920s
Hollywood is poorly
realised, and despite its
occasional tone of near-hysteria it’s actually rather
boring. Nureyev isn’t great, but certainly better than I’d
feared. On the plus side the costumes are nice.
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Resistance for both her undercover work and her
service as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Women’s
Auxiliary Air Force.
CRAIG’S THOUGHTS
Salt and Pepper: the civil rights activism of a
black bisexual, or: everybody wants to dance
like Josephine Baker by Craig Hanlon-Smith
@craigscontinuum
) Diversity awareness is not an uncommon
feature in our 21st century calendars. Black
History Month, LGBT History Month,
International Women’s Day. Day? Girls, you
want to pull your finger out, even the bullies
get a week. But Josephine Baker straddles
them all - a Civil Rights campaigning black
bisexual female dancer whose career spanned
for 50 years until her death in 1975.
It’s quite possible that early 20th century
convention drove Baker to keep her lesbian
relationships under wraps, but confirmed by
her son Jean-Claude Baker, one of her 12
adopted children, in his book Josephine: The
Hungry Heart that, although married several
times, Josephine Baker had many lesbian
lovers. Her son describes that in modern terms
she was what we could call a bisexual: “In
those days if one of the [chorus] girls by
preference was gay, she would be called a bull
dyke. The girls would all stay together and
develop lady lover friendships. You have to put
her back into the context of the time in which
she lived”.
Amongst Baker’s many female lovers was the
(also married) Mexican artist Frida Kahlo,
although this relationship is conspicuous in its
absence in her son’s account. In my February
interview with Ty Jeffries (aka Miss Hope
Springs), Ty revealed that his Godmother had
once been Baker’s lover. What is certain is that
when Baker felt uncomfortable in one of her
four marriages, she thought nothing of ending
the relationship and walking away from a
conventionally stable arrangement. From an
early age, she was the money behind her
romantic partnerships and always had both the
capital, and independent will, to stand alone.
When Baker first graced the stage in the 1920s
in her late teens, she’d left a life in segregated
America cleaning houses and babysitting
children for rich white American families. Baker
would acutely experience the racial divisions of
the United States throughout her life. Her
child-minding days were littered with constant
reminders not to kiss the children on account
of her race, but years later, once her star had
well and truly risen in Europe, she returned to
America in the late 1930s determined to
capitalise on her European celebrity. Despite
having a starring role in the legendary
Ziegfield Follies, the New York Times, sensing
the distaste of the US audiences for a black
star turn, described Baker as a flop and “Negro
Wench”. She completed her engagement
heartbroken and returned to a Europe that,
thanks to the rise of the German Nazi Party and
its charismatic leader Adolf Hitler, was about
to undergo some major changes of its own.
Despite arriving back in Europe shaken by the
experience in her homeland, Josephine was not
about to let Hitler tramp all over her beloved
adopted Paris without a personal commitment
to protect the French. Her career had excelled
in France, and her celebrity status seemed
unstoppable once she began performing at the
Follies-Bergère. Her racial origin was in no way
inhibiting in 1930s Europe and she became one
of the most photographed women in the world,
alongside silent film ingénues Mary Pickford
and Gloria Swanson. (Swanson would go on to
star in the legendary Sunset Boulevard some 30
years later, a film largely criticising the
Hollywood machine that had made her, then
cast her aside as she became too old for 1920s
Hollywood and silent films gave way to
‘talkies’).
Josephine herself starred in films as well as
dancing revues in the 1930s, and became so
wealthy she was able to buy an estate in rural
France and move her entire extended family
into it, from St Louis in America. She now
considered France her permanent home, and as
the Nazis invaded in May 1940, Baker joined
the French resistance by night whilst officially
performing for the French and allied troops by
day. After the war ended, Baker was awarded
the Legion of Honour and Medal of the
Undeterred by her pervious experience and
spurred on by her post-Hitler bravery and state
recognition, Baker returned to a United States
in the grip of racial protests and civil
disturbance. Upon being refused entry to a
popular elite New York club, Baker took her
racial equality fight to the media, writing
scathing responses to established newspaper
columnists pedalling state-supported racism.
Her wartime experiences had lit a fire in her
belly that she wasn’t about to let any prosegregation pundit extinguish. She was about
to show the world that deep down everyone
wanted to dance like Josephine Baker.
What had changed after some 25 years since her
last rejection by the US media and public alike,
was the weight of her celebrity reputation and
showbiz royalty prowess. She marched on
Washington in 1963 alongside Martin LutherKing and spoke to cheering crowds describing
the racial mix before her as “Salt and Pepper.
Just as it should be”. And despite being booked
by US promoters and a box-office draw for both
black and white audiences, she would refuse to
perform if the audience was in any way
segregated and on many occasions, walked out
of theatres moments before a performance if
she saw evidence of an in-house segregation
policy or culture. She was the draw, and she
used her power to not only make a point but to
instigate immediate and lasting change.
During her 50s and 60s, Baker, who hadn’t had
any children of her own, decided that she
wanted to demonstrate to the world that people
of all nationalities could live as one family,
under one roof, that they “could still be
brothers”, and she adopted 12 children of all
backgrounds that she proclaimed “The Rainbow
Tribe”. She toured the children around with her
as she continued to perform, publically
demonstrating how happily her multi-cultural
children were living together.
Baker was still performing as she neared her
70th year and the audience at Carnegie Hall in
New York, who had 40 years before stormed out
of her performances, were now so welcoming
that she broke down on stage and wept with
joy. She returned to Paris in 1975 for a 50th
career anniversary series of performances, but a
few days after her triumphant opening night,
attended by Princess Grace [Kelly] of Monaco,
she suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in her
sleep and died aged 68.
Baker’s funeral in Paris was attended by over
20,000 and she was honoured by a state 21 gun
salute, a fitting end for a woman whose career
and political commitments earned her true
international legendary status.
“Baker joined the French resistance by night whilst
officially performing for the French and allied
troops by day”
GSCENE 55
HYDES’ HOPES
HOMELY HOMILY
BY REV MICHAEL HYDES
BY GLENN STEVENS
UNSUNG HEROES
A FORMIDABLE LADY
) In the Church, an Icon is a picture painted under the influence of
the Holy Spirit through which you can connect with the reality of God.
In my life icons are those people that serve the same function, in
whose lives I can see God working in the world.
) Lily Tomlin is probably best know for her camp films, 9-5 and Big
Business, but she is also a brilliant stand-up, character comedian and
my favourite famous lesbian.
In my own congregation there's Mary, Ann, Linda, Jaz, Jean, Wendy,
Sarah, another Wendy, Nicki, Jan, Vicky, and others who I have the
privilege of knowing, and they are all heroes to me.
I know it sounds like I'm brown-nosing but I'm being absolutely
honest. The reality is that from Katherine Hepburn to Ellen there's lots
of celebrities that have undoubtedly done much for the lesbian
community, but I haven't met any of them. I don't know what
personal price they paid or how much courage they needed to make a
difference; but my friends here in Brighton – I know a little of what
it's cost them.
“There's lots of celebrities that have
undoubtedly done much for the lesbian
community, but I haven’t met any of
them... but my friends here in Brighton –
I know a little of what it’s cost them”
Mary supports the most vulnerable in our community. Ann is a
cornerstone of our church and, with Mary and Jaz, was instrumental in
forming the charity Sleepsafe. Linda works tirelessly in the Church and
with the rough sleepers in Brighton. And their stories are not unusual.
Each and every one of the women I listed above, and many others,
give of themselves in ways that make a difference. They administer a
crisis fund, work with children in Gambia, give tirelessly to an NHS
hospital without the support or recognition they deserve, support a
local hockey team, an LGBT choir, or serve the community in other
ways that are essential but often unseen.
It’s these same women who can
tell you stories of the 1960s and
the women's liberation
movement; and if you don't
understand the relationship
between the groundbreaking work
that they've done over the years
and the marriage equality we now
enjoy then you haven't been paying attention.
And of course it's not just the women in my congregation. There are
other women that I work with in the community. Working, often
unpaid, for LGBT Switchboard, or Pride, or Gscene, or on behalf of the
homeless, or those living with a disability, or the LGBT deaf
community, BME community, and many, many more. Quiet heroes,
lesbian and bisexual women making a difference. And not without
personal cost. These women have suffered. Sometimes quietly in
situations that choked the spirit, or publicly as they've dared to be
the change that's needed. Either way they have often lived and worked
with the choking acrid smoke of prejudice. Real heroes. My icons.
An Icon is a work of art through which you are connected with the
extraordinary, with the supernatural, with God. When I spend time
with these women God shines through. They're not perfect, but they
are brave and true. More often than not they don’t know what a
difference they make or see the value of their presence. My Gift is that
I do see their value, and thank God for them. Who are my lesbian
icons? They're all around me.
Tomlin first broke into comedy on the
last week of 1965 but it would be
decades later before she would speak
openly about her own sexuality. In
these more enlightened times when
someone ‘comes out’ it positively lights
up the array of social media accounts,
but back in the 1970s coming out was
considered a death knell for anyone in
the public eye to declare themselves as
a happy homosexual.
Tomlin’s sexuality was not a secret to those she worked with as she
was in an open, long-term relationship with her partner, writer Jane
Wagner, but Tomlin had never publicly ‘come out’. Then in 1975 she
was offered the front page of Time Magazine, a game changer for
anyone’s career. However, Tomlin declined when she was told the
headline would read: ‘Yep, I’m gay’.
Tomlin would later say, “I was more insulted than anything. I felt it
was a bribe: ‘We need a gay person, and we’ll take anybody!”
Tomlin was also advised by her good friend, LGBT activist Vito Russo,
that the time was not right for her to come out as it may be
detrimental to her career. Tomlin did make the front cover of Time
two years later, but this time focusing on her career.
As for the ‘gay headline’ It would
take another 22 years before Time
would go with the ‘Yep, I’m gay
headline’, this time asking Ellen
DeGeneres to grace the front page.
Unfortunately, even with the
passing of two decades, Russo’s
warning to Tomlin would come true
for Ellen, who would see her career suddenly stall for three years.
Interestingly, with another two decades passed, DeGeneres is now one
of America’s most iconic lesbians, with a fan base that crosses the
board… one questions if Tomlin’s career would have been allowed to
blossom in those less tolerant times as seen through the Tomlin
narrated documentary, The Celluloid Closet, based on Vito Russo’s book
of the same name.
Fast-forward to present day and Tomlin’s sexuality is most certainly
no longer an open secret. Tomlin cemented her 42 year relationship
with Wagner and married on New Year’s Eve of 2014 and they now
share a Facebook page.
Career-wise, at the age of 75, Tomlin has now
come full circle, with her 2015 film, Grandma,
in which she plays a lesbian in the title role;
a role that would never have reached the
mainstream back in
1970, let alone her TV
comedy reuniting her
with Jane Fonda in the new Netflix comedy,
Grace & Frankie, in which both women find
themselves thrown together when their
husbands fall in love with each other.
Over the last 55 years Tomlin has been making us laugh and raising
her voice of support on LGBT issues from a whisper to a shout,
making this formidable comedian my favourite famous lesbian.
56 GSCENE
built a wall, hoping that they’d all just
disappear behind it.
Which of course, they didn’t.
The Scots, being the crafty little Celts we know
they are, saw the opportunity before them and
set up trading stations between the mile forts,
throwing across and bartering whatever they
could. Eventually, the first black economy was
established - all because of a dictator in a
solitary and centralised point of power
somewhere else.
CHARLIE SAYS
Stuck between hell and a hot place!
By Charlie Bauer Phd
http://charliebauerphd.blogspot.co.uk
) It’s not the fact that one is fast
approaching middle-age that prompts me to
write this, I’m not going to bitch the younger
generation, but being snatched away between
the baby-boomers and Millennials has had its
own breed of problems. For a kick-off there is
the banking crisis that nobody seems to want
to talk about (my house went up 40k last year
and all that), in fact they all seem to be in
denial.
most point of the Empire and they were over
it all. It’s almost like the Romans phoned it
in. Not too unlike today’s prefabricator going
to a foreign land where they mark out a plot,
then get local builders to put together a
building when it arrives in sheets on the back
of a truck. Each building looking the same,
each one no different from the other,
scattered around the planet. By the same
companies.
Then there’s the baby-boomer grandparents
who are giving the hipster grandkids all the
money because they are getting zilch interest
and have been for years - and the little tykes
are going to get it all anyways. The only
caveat being that they have to buy property
because everything else out there is a crap
bet.
However, unlike Fuengirola, when the Romans
came back to test the roads nearly one
hundred years later, under another emperor,
Hadrian, what did they find? Well they didn’t
find any roads, that’s for sure... They in fact
found nothing - just a group of layabout Celts
flipping them the bird and asking WTF they
think they are, bandying their orders around
to all and sundry.
So, hipster grandkids go buy the house and
push all prices up along that road just that
little bit further. Adding to another false
economy of ever-increasing house prices and
the subtler unregulated market of the
homelessness / street economies - a subeconomy if you will.
Something very similar to the Cold War black
economy or, if you want to go further back to
the beginning, the Romans and the Celts. You
see, these types of economies have been
operating for millennia.
When the Romans arrived in bonny Scotland,
they didn’t conquer because they didn’t need
to. They just showed the stoopid Celts what a
road was. And a wheel. And said they’d be
back when they’d made some infrastructure to
ride their chariots on. It was the Northern
Of course the Romans were mightily pissed off
and so built a wall to stop this widespread
lack of enthusiasm for some dictator lording it
up over a thousand miles away. They couldn’t
exactly call on the Saxons to rise up, they
needed peace in the colonies – and this was
after all the Holy Roman Empire. So they just
Like any colonialisation, the farthest reaches
are the last to be considered and this becomes
the downfall. This is always the same when
there is a land grab of this nature. Which is
really not unlike the current housing market.
The farther-most regions will require additional
scrutiny. Because it isn’t going to be the middle
management fodder that will revolt. It will be
the disenfranchised homeless, tempest tossed
to the far edges of society - then moved yet
again, that’ll turn.
Of course this is only until somebody
somewhere decides to fight back. Up until then,
it’s just a time-tested theory. But since the
electoral processes have fallen in the West not
only do rogue governments get to play out their
wet financial dreams of cuts and oppression
(there, I’ve said it) but Theresa May is making
sure that we all feel watched, so we’ll tow the
line without ever raising our heads.
The other side issue – the old ‘Orwellian kids
down the hall’ trick – is that nobody,
particularly the Millennials, would ever dream
of diverging or going against, those that are
not just their employers, but their heartfelt
gods. Their bosses and their bosses’ bosses.
Sound familiar?
Okay, enough of the Orwellians for a moment,
but the kids at Apple would never dream of
disclosing information they’ve been sworn to
keep tight hold of in order to work in the
hippest store on the high street. Like what
‘Apple’ tests they have to carry out in the back.
Or the girl from the bank at the other end of
the phone who, when a disaster occurs because
of a recent unknown colleague ineptitude,
responds with ‘I’m sorry to hear that, Sir’ or ‘I
can only apologise for my colleague’s mistake…’
And that’s it. The end of the issue. With no care
about reputation - because reputations don’t
make any money - but with a hubris and
arrogance of protecting the big league from the
increasingly powerless proles, like us.
“Since the electoral processes have fallen in the
West not only do rogue governments get to play out
their wet financial dreams of cuts and oppression but
Theresa May is making sure that we all feel watched,
so we’ll tow the line without ever raising our heads”
GSCENE 57
NETTY’S WORLD
STRIP SERVICE
BY NETTY WENDT
BY QUEEN JOSEPHINE
BILLIE JEAN, CHALLENGER OF DEMONS
) When I was very young, I played tennis over our garden fence with
Martin, the boy next door. He insisted I was ‘Yvonne Goolagong’, and he
was ‘Billie Jean King’. It took me years to realise ‘Billie’ was a woman.
Martin, wanting to play as a female, was rare. These were the Sexist
Seventies, an era when my Mum couldn’t rent a TV set from ‘Radio
Rentals’ until the shop received her husband’s written permission. One
of the highest grossing TV programmes was The Benny Hill Show, and
men who should have gone to prison for sex crimes, occupied the most
high-profile and powerful positions in the country. Women were
routinely ridiculed; successful ones were goaded and sometimes
threatened.
No surprise then that in 1973, 55-yearold ex-Wimbledon champion and male
chauvinist pig Bobby Riggs claimed
women tennis players were so inferior,
even a man of his age would beat them.
Having despatched the under-confident
top player Margaret Court in straight sets,
he then challenged Billie Jean King to
the much-hyped ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
Imagine the self-esteem of women around
the world when Billie Jean stepped up
and beat him 6-4 6-3 6-3, walking away
with the $100,000 prize pot!
Less then a decade later, she was back in the headlines but for all the
wrong reasons. Whilst divorcing her husband, Billie Jean’s long-term
lesbian affair with her secretary was exposed. I remember the
champion crying at a press conference, how keenly I felt the shame of
her admitting her lesbianism to the baying crowd. All her endorsements
and sponsors disappeared overnight. She was financially ruined. She
had inadvertently become the first openly gay high-profile female
athlete in the world. The pressure should have killed her, but she was
no stranger to overcoming adversity.
“How keenly I felt the shame of her
admitting her lesbianism to the baying
crowd. All her endorsements and
sponsors disappeared overnight”
Back in the 1950s when her name was Billie Jean Moffet, which sounds
more bunny rabbit than super woman, she lost continually to players
like 45-year-old Dorothy ‘Dodo’ Cheney (tennis players had brilliant
names back then). This was because her idol Maureen ‘Little Mo’
Connolly informed her she would amount to nothing. Nice. Billie Jean
recovered, then won an astonishing 39 Grand Slam titles.
She’s responsible for making the doddery old crocs who run Wimbledon
pay equal prize money to men and women. She founded the Women’s
Tennis Association, Life magazine named her “one of the most
important Americans of the 20th Century”. She works tirelessly for the
Elton John AIDS Foundation and LGBT rights. President Obama awarded
her the Medal of Freedom, her nation’s highest honour.
Her partner Ilanna Kloss has been singing Billie Jean is my lover for
nearly 30 years and they divide their time between Chicago and New
York; how idyllic.
Meanwhile, Martin my old tennis partner is a lorry driver living in Kent
and married with three kids. He fondly remembers his brief time in the
sun when he was Billie Jean King. I do so love a happy ending.
58 GSCENE
SAM TRANS MAN
As I mentioned earlier, however, increased
visibility and recognition can all lead to a
worsening of discrimination and harassment.
This ‘zeitgeist’ certainly has its detractors, and
there are high-profile opponents to the socalled ‘transgender movement’. This is a
misnomer. Transgender Equality Movement - yes;
Trans activism - yes; Transgender rights - yes;
but not ‘transgender movement’. As though we
were somehow picking and backing a battle to
) So 2016 is well underway and I’m phenomenally hardships and perils of trans living in the UK
be allowed to ‘be’ trans. No, no, no! We’re trans.
today. Again, at risk of repeating myself, the
busy and likely to remain so for the next two
It’s a real thing. What we want is recognition
greater hardships lie with those who identify as
years whilst I pursue my new career as a GP.
that we are valid humanbeings with lives and
female but were born male-bodied, and to a
I’m trying to keep my commitments to the
loves and highs and lows just like anyone else,
world of trans activism to a minimum but I find large extent those who identify as non-binary
and we deserve to be treated with the same
in some way. The former because they’re the
it hard. I’ve said this before but I’m not afraid
degree of respect as cisgender people are.
to repeat it - I believe that if you have a voice subject of ridicule, discrimination and
All of which brings
harassment, and the latter because they don’t
you should use it. There are so many people
me to my lesbian
who don’t have the opportunity to speak up or feel they belong at all in the gender binary icon. I pick Ruth
speak out, and it seems to me that those of us and yet they have no choice in this, any more
Hunt, CEO of
than someone who does identify with the gender
who can and do, should continue to do so
Stonewall. Since
binary but has the wrong body to show for it.
wherever and whenever possible.
she took the helm
None of us, in fact, have any choice about our
Someone mentioned the word ‘zeitgeist’ the
of that esteemed
‘transiness’. What we do have a choice about is
other day, in reference to all things trans. I
organisation, she has single-handedly turned its
how far, if at all, we take transition. Everybody
have to confess that in my ignorance I had to
attitude towards trans people by 180°. The
has a point at which they’ll feel they’ve done
go and look the word up. I was delighted to
trans communities in this country needed some
enough. It’s all about being comfortable in
discover the following definition “the defining
considerable persuading that Stonewall could
spirit or mood of a particular period of history as your own skin. For me, nothing short of full
and should take up our cause and fight
medical transition will do, but for many,
shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time”. I
alongside us for trans equality. The history of
think this is true. The last few years have seen stopping short of this at some point, or not
rejection was long and deeply felt.
even starting, is perfectly acceptable. There’s
an explosion in interest and popularity of all
no right or wrong, no such thing as ‘not trans
things trans-related. Everyone wants to know
enough’, just identifying where you’re
one of us, count us as a friend, or be an ally.
comfortable on the gender spectrum and
Well, not everyone, but more of that later.
finding ways to feel that in your body and in
There are trans people in acting roles,
your relationships with others and with the
represented in the media, working in all areas
world.
of government and the public sector, and across
Language is also continually evolving. Recently,
many different professions. Many are quietly
The riots for which the organisation was named
getting on with their jobs, doing what they do a survey for school-age kids (15/16 year olds)
were famously started by trans women of colour,
gave them 23 different options to choose from
to the best of their ability. Some are bravely
a group who remain at huge risk of all manner
stepping out and being open about their trans in terms of gender identity. There are many
of transphobia today, including murder. It
more, but this questionnaire used a selection.
history, inspiring the rest of us to stand tall
seemed so ironic then that Stonewall refused to
The more descriptors you use, the more likely
and be proud. We’re becoming more visible by
engage in the battle for transgender rights until
the day it seems. In the last fortnight I’ve been people are to find something that works for
2015. We used to joke “it’s actually called
them. And if they don't find a word or phrase
asked to comment on national TV and local
Sonewall, since there is no ‘T”. However, under
that fits, they will make one up, which
radio about various aspects of trans living and
Ruth’s excellent steerage, this credible and
eventually gets absorbed by the trans
our needs in the wider community, and this
successful organisation is now getting behind
community and used by others for whom it
month two of us are running a comprehensive
the trans fight for equality and recognition with
resonates. This kind of openness about trans
training day for local GPs, which I’m sure will
great promise. Stonewall is well funded, well
issues is invaluable. Schoolchildren struggling
be well attended.
regarded and has political clout; we need all the
with their gender identity can take some solace
allies we can get and this is a very promising
At last people are curious, not in a ‘circus freak’
from this - there is understanding and
development.
way, but genuinely wanting to know about the
enthusiasm out there to get this right.
Despite life getting in the way,
Dr Samuel Hall has a voice and he
isn’t afraid to use it!
“We used to joke ‘it’s
actually called Sonewall,
since there is no ‘T’”
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providing access to low-cost psychotherapy
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Dorset Gardens (off St James Street)
Brighton BN2 1RL
Except 1st Tues when there’s an
optional meal out preceded by the
drop-in from 5–7.30PM
Please see website for further details
www.clareproject.org.uk
f Clare Project
[email protected]
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DUNCAN’S
POLICE LGBT
BY DUNCAN STEWART
BY PC SARAH LAKER & RORY SMITH
GRATITUDE
STAND UP!
) On a cold wet Sunday morning I had an hour to spare before a
birthday lunch party for an old friend in Tewkesbury so I made my
way to the Abbey and sat at the back of the nave. The building is a
solid Norman masterpiece with elegant interior decoration and built
on a scale that is strangely relaxing with none of the daunting
grandeur of some of our magnificent cathedrals. The vicar, dressed in
his ornate costume, urged the
members of a small elderly
congregation, plus a red setter
irritated by the incense, to
thank the Lord for His gifts. He
didn’t seem to be getting much
response and the whole event
seemed a bit dispirited but it
did feel like the perfect space in
which to contemplate.
) Anyone can be an icon if they want to
be that role model, that individual that
others look up to. We should all aspire to
be that person and aspire to be that role
model or icon for our community. In our
own ways we try to be role models. For
LGBT History Month, PC Laker was one of
many police officers who proudly wore
rainbow laces to show support for LGB&T
and against hate and discrimination.
DOMAIN
When I reached the lunch party I was surprised by the presence of a
wheelchair-bound vicar who gave a simple grace: “For food and friends
we give thee thanks O Lord. Amen”. Surprising, because I know that our
host is a fellow non-believer, but the sentiment needed saying – I am
grateful for our long friendship and the excellent lunch that followed.
One of the problems of atheism, and there are I believe many benefits,
is that it does not provide a space or a destination for gratitude on
those occasions when Fortune smiles on you. To what, and where, do
you give thanks for good outcomes? This thought has crossed my mind
on many occasions but it has stayed with me for some days now after
a day in which I had two encounters with the rhetoric of religion.
There is so much to like about church music, the language of the Bible,
the fabulous buildings and indeed the good intentions of holy men
that should not be rejected just because the supernatural element is,
to me, unbelievable, I doubt many people would reject the social
benefits of obeying Ten Commandments. Best not to murder your
neighbour, steal his car or seduce his partner etc. These core beliefs of
those who belong to any of the three main Abrahamic faiths are almost
identical but the fragmentation of what could be a single tolerant
religion into warring sects is frighteningly and murderously absurd.
Freud described it perfectly as “the narcissism of small differences”.
“The core beliefs of those who belong
to any of the three main Abrahamic
faiths are almost identical but the
fragmentation of what could be a
single tolerant religion into warring sects
is frighteningly and murderously absurd”
I must also admit that I occasionally find the complexity or beauty of
Nature so amazing that I start to doubt it could be achieved by Natural
Selection but Darwin always wins in the end.
My feelings about gratitude are that it is a frame of mind that needs to
be consciously adopted because it raises the quality of one’s life “Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth” was Sophocles’ view. It also
needs to be spread about. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is
like wrapping a present and then not giving it” because our good
experiences are encouraging for others as of course are the warning
tales of the pits into which we have fallen.
So practise gratitude and avoid becoming a sad-faced old curmudgeon!
LIAISON TEAM
Who are our female icons? We drew up a list of some of our favourites,
including: Martina Navratilova, who was not only a smashing tennis
player but also campaigned for gay and lesbian rights despite the
sporting world being one of the last bastions of homophobia; and
musicians k.d. lang and Tracy Chapman, who both give hope to
thousands of young gay and bi women. It’s hard to imagine that less
than a hundred years ago, women were disenfranchised and not
allowed to vote, which is such a key part of citizenship, so we pay our
respects to the likes of Emmeline Pankhurst.
At the recent LGBT Community Safety Forum meeting we discussed the
topic of hate crime, the wording around hate crime and how to report
matters to police whether in person or anonymously. We all agreed
that ‘official’ definitions were full of jargon and sometimes difficult to
understand.
A hate crime is any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim
or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based
on a personal characteristic (i.e. being gay). Hate crimes can include
verbal abuse, threats of and actual physical attacks. For example;
being shouted at in the street, being lunged at in an aggressive
manner, to being hit and physically injured. But it also can include
other crimes like graffiti, nasty messages or theft. There is no specific
hate crime law, but instead any law can be broken in a way that
especially hurts gay, lesbian, bi and trans people. Galop, the LGBT
hate crime charity based in London, have produced a handy guide
about laws that cover hate crime which is really worth a read. Find it
at www.galop.org.uk
It’s really important that if you’ve been victim or witness to anti-LGBT
incidents, that you tell us so we can do something about it. Report it.
Don’t be a bystander.
Be that icon or role model and be that person standing up for the
community. Let’s stand up to hate crime.
JANUARY STATS:
There were 17 anti-LGBT hate crimes in January, including:
harassment, threatening neighbours, verbal abuse in the street and
assault. There were several instances of malicious communications,
(letters, texts or electronic messages) being sent in an abusive
way. Of note, there was a serious assault on two males that took
place near Dukes Mound in the early hours of Saturday 23 January.
We’re appealing for witnesses, so if you have any information,
please call 101 quoting 212 23/01/16.
CONTACT INFORMATION
) We both have Facebook profiles and a page – our usernames are:
PC Sarah Laker and LGBT Caseworker Rory Smith, and Brighton &
Hove LGBT Police Team. We tweet @PoliceLGBT.
Social media should not be used for reporting incidents – please call
us on 101, or if it’s an emergency, 999.
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SERVICES
DIRECTORY
LGBT SERVICES
) ACCESS 4 ALL
LGBT disabled people’s forum. Safe, welcoming, support,
activities, awareness. Tel: 07981 170071 or email
[email protected]
) ALLSORTS YOUTH PROJECT
Drop-in for LGBT or unsure young people under 26, Tues
5.30-8.30pm. Tel: 01273 721211 or email
[email protected], www.allsortsyouth.org.uk
) BRIGHTON & HOVE POLICE
Report all homophobic and transphobic incidents to:
• The Sussex Police 101 (for emergencies 999)
email: [email protected]
tweet: @policeLGBT and @pclaker
• LGBT Officer PC Sarah Laker on 101 ext 550727
• LGBT Caseworker Rory Smith on 101 ext 550217
or 07775 546548
• Facebook: Brighton LGBT Police
) BRIGHTON & HOVE LGBT SAFETY FORUM
Independent LGBT forum working with the community to
address and improve safety issues in Brighton & Hove.
[email protected]
www.lgbt-safety-forum-brighton.com
) BRIGHTON & HOVE LGBT SWITCHBOARD
Help-line with email & webchat facility from 5pm daily on
Tel: 01273 204050.
• LGBT specialist face to face low cost counselling service,
• LGBT Older peoples' project,
• LGBT HIP engagement project.
• Volunteering opportunities call Tel: 01273 234009.
www.switchboard.org.uk/brighton
noon–2.30pm, Community Room, Dorset Gdns Methodist
Church, Dorset Gardens, Brighton. Lunch £1.50.
Tel: 07846 464384 or www.lunchpositive.org
) MINDOUT
Independent, impartial info, guidance for LGBT people with
mental health problems. 24 hr confidential answerphone:
01273 234839 or [email protected]
www.mindout.org.uk
) PEER ACTION
Regular low cost yoga, therapies, swimming, meditation
& social groups for people with HIV.
[email protected] or www.peeraction.co.uk
) RAINBOW FAMILIES
Support group for lesbian and/or gay parents.
Tel: 07951 082013 or [email protected]
www.rainbowfamilies.org.uk
) SOME PEOPLE
Social/support group for LGB or questioning aged 14-19,
Tue, 6-8pm, Hastings. Call/text Nicola Tel: 07974 579865
or email Neil or Nicola: [email protected]
) VICTIM SUPPORT
Practical, emotional support for victims of crime.
Tel: 08453 899 528
) THE VILLAGE MCC
Christian church serving the LGBTQ community. Sundays
6pm, Somerset Day Centre, Kemptown
Tel: 07476 667353, www.thevillagemcc.org
HIV PREVENTION, CARE
& TREATMENT SERVICES
) AVERT
Sussex HIV & AIDS info service, available by phone
Tel: 01403 210202 or email [email protected]
) BRIGHTON & HOVE CAB HIV PROJECT
Info, counselling, drop-in space, support groups.
Tel: 01273 698036 or visit www.womenscentre.org.uk
Money, benefits, employment, housing, info, advocacy.
Appointments: Tue-Thur 9am-4pm, Wed 9am-12.30pm
Brighton & Hove Citizens Advice Bureau, Brighton Town Hall.
Tel: 01273 733390 ext 520 or www.brightonhovecab.org.uk
) FTM BRIGHTON
) CLINIC M
Social/peer support group for FTM, transmasculine &
gender-queer people. Every 3rd Fri of month, 7-9pm at
Space for Change, Windlesham Venue, BN1 3AH.
For info email [email protected] or visit
www.ftmbrighton.org.uk
Free confidential testing & treatment for STIs including HIV,
plus Hep A & B vaccinations. Claude Nicol Centre, Sussex
County Hospital, on Weds from 5-8pm.
Tel: 01273 664721 or www.brightonsexualhealth.com
) GEMS (GAY ELDERLY MEN’S SOCIETY)
Medical advice, treatment for HIV+, specialist clinics, diet
& welfare advice, drug trials. Tel: 01273 664722
) BRIGHTON WOMEN’S CENTRE
Social group for mature gay men, meet 7–10pm every last
Fri of month at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church Hall.
www.brightongems.com
) LAWSON UNIT
) SUBSTANCE MISUSE SERVICE
Thur 7–10pm, Sat 6pm-12am, chatroom HEALTH INFO THT.
• Condom Male: discreet, confidential service posts free
condoms/lube/sexual health info to men who have sex
with men without access to commercial gay scene in
East Sussex.
• Positive Voices: volunteers who go to organisations to
talk about personal experiences of living with HIV.
• Fastest (HIV Testing): walk-in, (no appointment) rapid
HIV testing service for men who have sex with men. Pre &
post test discussion with clinical staff. Results in an hour.
10 men max tested per session. Mon: 6–8pm.
(Full sexual health screen available)
• Sauna Fastest at The Brighton Sauna (HIV Testing):
walk-in, (no appointment) rapid HIV testing service for
men who have sex with men. Pre & post test discussion
with clinical staff. Results in 30 minutes.
Wed: 6–8pm. (STI Testing available).
• Face2Face: confidential info & advice on sexual health
& HIV for men who have sex with men. Face-2-face or
phone. Up to 3 one hour appointments.
• Specialist Training: wide range of courses for groups/
individuals. Specific courses to suit needs.
• Counselling: from qualified counsellors for up to
12 sessions for people living with/affected by HIV.
• Informed Passions: Expert Volunteers project to identify
& support sexual health needs of local men who have sex
with men and carry out field research in B&H on issues
affecting men’s sexual health. Extensive training provided.
• Lounge (Group for Gay Men Living with HIV):
fortnightly peer support group for gay men.
• What Next? Thurs eve, 6 week peer support group work
programme for newly diagnosed HIV+ gay men.
• HIV Support Services: info, support & practical advice
for people living with/affected by HIV.
• Volunteer Support Services: 1-2-1 community support
for people living with or affected by HIV.
• HIV Welfare Rights Advice: Find out about benefits or
benefit changes. Advice line: Mon–Thur 1:30-2:30pm.
1-2-1 appts for advice & workshops on key benefits.
) TERRENCE HIGGINS EASTBOURNE
Dyke House, 110 South St, Eastbourne, BN21 4LZ,
• HIV Services support for HIV diagnosis, managing side
effects, sex and relationships, understanding medication,
talking to your doctor, finding healthier lifestyle.
Assessment of support needs and signposting on to
relevant services. Support in person, by phone or email.
• Support for people at risk of HIV confidential info and
advice on sexual health and HIV for men who have sex
with men. Up to 3 one hour appointments depending on
need. Sessions in person or on phone.
• Web support & info on HIV, sexual health & local
services via netreach and myhiv.org.uk
• Positive Voices: volunteers who go to organisations to
talk about personal experiences of living with HIV.
• Positively Social Informal peer support groups for people
living with HIV, monthly meets in Eastbourne & Hastings.
Local social group offers friendship, social events, meets 1st
Thurs at Regency Tavern, 7.30pm. Tel: 07594 578035
www.lesbianlinkbrighton.co.uk
CRI / Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust. Open access
drop-in, assessment, support, advice, info on drug & alcohol
issues. Tel 01273 607575. LGB&T worker provides
confidential, non-judgemental outreach service. Support for
people over 18 wishing to address substance misuse.
Tel 07717 774 658
) LESBIAN & GAY AA
) SUSSEX BEACON
12-step self-help programme for alcohol addictions. Sun
7.30pm, Chapel Royal, North St, Btn (side entrance).
Tel: 01273 203343 (general AA line)
24 hour nursing & medical care, day care.
Tel: 01273 694222 or www.sussexbeacon.org.uk
NATIONAL HELPLINES
) TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST SERVICES
) LGBT NA GROUP
For more info about these free services go to the THT office,
61 Ship St, Brighton, Mon–Fri, 9.30am–5.30pm.
• Venue Outreach: info on HIV, sexual health, personal
safety, safer drug/alcohol use, free condoms/lubricant
for men who have sex with men.
• The Bushes Outreach Service @ Dukes Mound:
advice, support, info on HIV, sexual health, personal
safety. Free condoms, lube, tea/coffee from Outreach van
parked next to ‘The Patio’ at the Bushes.
• Netreach (online Outreach in Brighton & Hove):
info/advice on HIV/sexual health/local services.
THT Brighton Outreach workers online @ Gaydar:
LGBT Domestic Violence Helpline, Mon 2-8pm,
Wed 10-1pm, Thur 2-8pm Tel: 08452 604460
) LESBIAN LINK BRIGHTON
Brighton-based LGBT (welcomes others) Narcotics
Anonymous group every Tue 6.30–8pm, Millwood Centre,
Nelson Row, Kingswood St. Tel: 0300 999 1212
) LGBT MEDITATION GROUP
Meditation & discussion, every 2nd & 4th Thur, 5.30–7pm,
Anahata Clinic, 119 Edward St, Brighton.
Tel: 07789 861367 or www.bodhitreebrighton.org.uk
) LUNCH POSITIVE
Lunch club for people with HIV to meet/make friends, find
peer support in a safe environment. Every Fri,
) WARREN BROWNE UNIT
Free confidential tests & treatment for STIs inc HIV. Hep A &
B vaccinations. Shoreham based. Tel: 01273 461453
) BROKEN RAINBOW
) LONDON LESBIAN & GAY SWITCHBOARD
Tel: 02078 377324
) POSITIVELINE (EDDIE SURMAN TRUST)
Mon-Fri 11am-10pm, Sat & Sun 4-10pm Tel: 0800 1696806
) MAINLINERS Tel: 02075 825226
) NATIONAL AIDS HELPLINE 08005 67123
) NATIONAL DRUGS HELPLINE 08007 76600
) THT AIDS TREATMENT PHONELINE
Tel: 08459 470047
) THT DIRECT Tel: 0845 1221200
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www.revenge.co.uk
26 QUEENS HOTEL
1/3 Kings Rd, 01273 321222
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118 St James’ St, 01273 692424
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21 AVALON HOTEL
34 JUSTIN LLOYD (Brunswick)
7 Upper Rock Gdns, 01273 692344
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22 GULLIVERS HOTEL
12a New Steine, 01273 695415
28 DENTAL HEALTH SPA
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14–15 Queens Rd, 01273 710831
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23 HOTEL PELIROCCO
1 A-BAR
10 Regency Sq, 01273 327055
29 THT BRIGHTON
11–12 Marine Parade, 01273 696691
61 Ship St, 01273 764200
www.abarbrighton.co.uk
24 HUDSONS
22 Devonshire Place, 01273 683642
7 CAMELFORD ARMS
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30-31 Camelford St, 01273 622386
11 LEGENDS HOTEL
www.camelford-arms.co.uk
31-34 Marine Parade, 01273 624462 30 PROWLER
112 St James’ St, 01273 683680
www.legendsbrighton.com
8 CHARLES STREET BAR
8-9 Marine Parade, 01273 624091
31 SUSSEX BEACON Charity Shop
25 NEW STEINE HOTEL
130 St James’ St, 01273 682992
10/11 New Steine, 01273 681546
www.sussexbeacon.org.uk
www.newsteinehotel.com
35 CUP OF JOE
28 St George’s Rd, 01273 698873
www.cupofjoebrighton.co.uk
11 LEGENDS BAR
31-34 Marine Parade, 01273 624462
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13 Broad St, 01273 681284
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25 NEW STEINE BISTRO
12a New Steine, 01273 681546
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13 PARIS HOUSE
21 Western Road, 01273 724195
www.parishouse.com
15 REGENCY TAVERN
32-34 Russell Sq, 01273 325652
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13 Broad St, 01273 681284
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13 PARIS HOUSE
2 BAR REVENGE
21 Western Rod, 01273 724195
7 Marine Parade, 01273 606064
www.parishouse.com
www.revenge.co.uk
14 QUEEN’S ARMS
3 BAR BROADWAY
7 George St, 01273 696873
10 Steine Street, 01273 609777
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www.barbroadway.co.uk
15 REGENCY TAVERN
4 BEDFORD TAVERN
32-34 Russell Sq, 01273 325652
30 Western Street, 01273 739495
www.regencytavern.co.uk
5 BOUTIQUE BAR
16 SUBLINE
2 Boyces St @ West St, 01273 327607
129 St James St, 01273 624100
www.boutiqueclubbrighton.com
www.sublinebrighton.co.uk
6 BULLDOG TAVERN
17 THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS 01273
31 St James’ St, 01273 696996
59 North Rd, 01273 608571
www.bulldogbrighton.com
www.three-jolly-butchers.co.uk
7 CAMELFORD ARMS
18 ZONE
30-31Camelford St, 01273 622386
33 St James’ St, 01273 682249
www.camelford-arms.co.uk
www.zonebar.co.uk
8 CHARLES STREET BAR
) CLUBS
8-9 Marine Parade, 01273 624091
11 BASEMENT CLUB (below Legends)
9 DR BRIGHTON’S
31-34 Marine Parade, 01273 624462
16 Kings Rd, 01273 208113
www.doctorbrightons.co.uk
5 BOUTIQUE CLUB
10 GROSVENOR
2 Boyces St @ West St, 01273 327607
16 Western Street, 01273 438587
www.boutiqueclubbrighton.com
11 LEGENDS BAR
19 DON’T TELL MAMA
31-34 Marine Parade, 01273 624462
75a St George’s Rd, 01273 911910
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) LEGAL & FINANCE
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49 Vallance Hall, Hove St, 01273 204411
) COMMUNITY
39 BRIGHTON WOMEN’S CENTRE
72 High St, 01273 698036
www.womenscentre.org.uk
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