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AUG 2013 GSCENE magazine www.gscene.org @gscene GScene.Brighton
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FEATURES 22 BRIGHTON BEARS WEEKENDER Organisers raise a fantastic £2802.84 for the Rainbow Fund
24 BRIGHTON & HOVE PRIDE A guide to what’s on over Pride weekend.
26 CHIEF SUPER NEV KEMP BRIGHTON BEAR WEEKENDER
Arts News Art Matters Classical Notes Film Reviews
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Letters to the editor Dance Music DJ Profile: Richard Jones Charlie’s Kitchen Come Dine With Morham Geek Scene Shopping Craig’s Thoughts Wall’s Words Gay Socrates Sharp Words Trans Scribe Sam The Transman Heart & Sole Addicted Choir Boys Charlie Says Duncan’s Domain TV Scene Keith Sharpe Twisted Gilded Ghetto Lunch Positive MindOut
Gscene talks to Nev Kemp, the new Divisional Commander of Brighton.
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75 Services Directory 76 Classifieds 78 Advertisers’ Map
Who was top and who was bottom in Gay Brighton in 2012
58 PRIVATES ON PARADE Gscene talks to Jason Sutton, aka Miss Jason, about his new show.
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t David Cameron MP, Prime Minister, and Nick Clegg MP, the Deputy Prime Minister, have sent a joint letter of support to the organisers of this year’s Brighton Pride. The letter reads: “We are delighted to once again offer our support to Brighton Pride, the annual celebration of the vital contribution made to this vibrant city by its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&T) community. “A key event in the local calendar, Pride is a fantastic opportunity for people of all communities to come together to enjoy the carnival atmosphere of this colourful celebration of LGB&T life. Indeed, in addition to the parade and musical performances which characterise Pride, this year also marks the first citywide showcase of LGB&T artists and photographers as part of The Brighton Pride Arts & Film Festival, allowing the promotion of both newcomers to the scene and some of the UK's leading figures in this area. “It is fantastic that across the United Kingdon people come together to celebrate Pride, and for our part we are committed to ensuring equal rights for same-sex couples. We both wish everyone attending Brighton & Hove Pride 2013 all the very best for a successful and enjoyable event.” Rt Hon David Cameron, MP: Prime Minister & Rt Hon Nick Clegg, MP: Deputy Prime Minister Simon Kirby, MP for Kemptown and Peacehaven, said: “It’s great to get this statement of support for the 2013 Pride event in Brighton & Hove. I’m pleased that, like me, this Government is a firm supporter of equality for same-sex couples. Pride is a great event celebrating the diversity of our city and I’m looking forward to taking part in the parade again this year.” Mr Kirby and the local Conservative group will be joining LGBT Labour and the Lib Dems on the LGBT Community Parade this year. The Green group marched at London Pride in June but as we go to press have not registered for this year’s Brighton Pride LGBT Community Parade.
SHARON BARR
GAY VILLAGE PARTY SECURES LAST MINUTE SPONSOR
t Following the withdrawal of an offer of funding from Bacardi-Brown Foreman which put the future of this year’s Gay Village Party (GVP) in jeopardy, organisers secured a sponsorship deal worth £3,500 with Proof Drinks, suppliers of Aqwa, Briska Cider and Pistonhead Beer which will help organisers stage the annual event. Sharon Barr, Chair of The Gay Village Party, said: "Without the support of a small drinks company like Proof Drinks the street party would never have gone ahead. We still need to raise more money by way of donations from local business including hotels and guest houses. In fact anyone who makes money from the Street Party should contribute. We’re calling into local business over the next few days asking for donations. I would encourage all party goers to only buy from businesses who display the GVP window poster. This proves they have donated money. Once again Morrisons, Tesco, Co-operative and Sainsbury's have given nothing to help us. Morrisons, Tesco and the Co-operative benefit most as they sell thousands of cans of alcohol over the weekend. It is a disappointing show of the lack of support from the big four in St James Street.” Contributions can be made by BACS to: Gay Village Party (Brighton) Ltd. Santander Bank, Sort Code: 09-01-28 Account Number: 31599765. The Gay Village Street Party is a not-for-profit Ltd Company
DORRETT AGOREYO
NUMBER 10 SENDS MESSAGE OF SUPPORT TO ORGANISERS OF BRIGHTON PRIDE
t Dorrett Agoreyo, otherwise know as Do, is the fourth and final Ambassador for this year's Pride celebrations. She will march at the front of the Gay Icons, LGBT Community Parade along with Danny Dwyer, Helen Marie Carter and George Sydney Montague who are the other nominated Ambassadors. Do is 58 years old and was born in Jamaica. She came to live in the UK in 1966 when her parents emigrated here to work in London. She is the second of five children and has three sisters and one brother. She was married in 1979 and has two children and three grandchildren the oldest of which is 17! Do lived for many years in South London, working as a legal secretary from 1971 to 2000 in the West End of and then in Earls Court where she met her partner Maura (the other half of Mo and Do). They came to live in Brighton in 2005 where she works as a legal secretary for a local law firm. Do has lived with Maura for the last 16 years and this August they celebrate the 5th anniversary of their Civil Partnership which was held at Brighton Register Office, followed by a great community party afterwards in Charles Street where Mo and Do socialise and are very well known. Do says: “We love living in Brighton & Hove. The city has everything for us and we would not want to live anywhere else.”
PRIDE ICONS FLASH MOB
t Want to take part in a flash mob and make this year’s Brighton Pride flash mob the biggest ever? Go to one or both of the free rehearsals and find out where the flash mobs will be held later that day. Show up at the flash mob location and… flash mob!(Remember you need to purchase a ticket to gain access to Preston Park). Brighton Dance Flash Mobs were formed in 2010 and since then they have flash mobbed 31 times. Their first flash mob was at Brighton Pride. This year’s theme at Brighton Pride is Icons so their first flash mob is laden with icons including Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, will.i.am and more! If you can’t go to the rehearsals, learn the routine online at (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudOgq_8Hak ) and email them so they can tell you the exact locations of the flash mobs! They will also tweet it 5 minutes beforehand using #brightonprideflashmob. Follow them @BDFlashMobs. Also you can download the Brighton Pride app and receive live updates. There are two free rehearsals on the day of Pride. Go to one or both. Rehearsals are at: • Emporium, 88 London Rd, BN1 4JF (old Methodist Hall) from 10amnoon. Wear comfortable clothes and bring water. Please support the venue and buy a drink/ snack as they are supporting the flash mob. They will be serving Pride Brunch too. The parade will be passing by the venue at around midday so you will be able to catch most of it. • Women's Performance Tent, Preston Park: 1-1.20pm The two flash mobs will be in Preston Park at 3pm & 4pm. Brighton Dance Flash Mob have 30 free entry tickets to the park only for those attending the 10am rehearsal and taking part in both flash mobs and on a first come first served basis. Email: brightondanceflashmobs@gmail.com with your full name and mobile number. One ticket per email address. They’ll give you the ticket on the day at rehearsals. See details of rehearsals at Facebook Brighton Dance Flash Mobs, Twitter @BDFlashMobs or email: brightondanceflashmobs@gmail.com http://brightondanceflashmobs.com/
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MAISIE TROLLETTE’S 80TH BIRTHDAY SHOW
PAUL ELGOOD
t Legendary entertainer, David Raven, will be celebrating his 80th Birthday in the company of friends he has worked with during his 40 years in showbusiness at a Gala Variety Show compared by Lola Lasagne at the Theatre Royal on Sunday, August 18 at 7.30pm. David, better known to his fans as the irrepressible Maisie Trollette, will be joined on stage by artists he has shared the stage with during 40 years in showbusiness including: Jimmy Trollette, Miss Jason, Dave Lynn and Drag With No Nmae. Local entertainers Jennie Castell, JP Christian, Connie Conway, Krissie Du Cann, Pooh La May, Wezley Sebastian, Davina Sparkle, Spice and Tammy Twinkle will perform a Broadway Tribute, whilst Marc Inscoe and Jason Lee Howlett will perform a 'Rat Pack' set.
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West End stars including Jae Alexander, Jill Nalder, Peter Stanford, Linda Jarvis, Frances Fry and Jon Osbaldeston will perform together as the WestEnders singing a selection of numbers from West End Musicals and international female impersonator extraordinaire Ceri Dupree will bring her fabulous characters to the stage of the Theatre Royal for the first time. The Brighton Gay Men's Chorus and the Actually Gay Men's Chorus complete the lineup of this classic community event to celebrate one of 'Gay Brighton's' finest. John Bruzon who has worked with David over the years, returns for this special Gala as Musical Director for the evening.
David came to prominence in the 1970s as part of the magical Trollettes who reigned supreme as London's top drag duo and cabaret act. Since coming to live in Brighton he has worked with some of the biggest stars in the business including Paul O'Grady aka Lily Savage, Diana Dors, June Brown, Christopher Biggins, the legendary Danny La Rue, the Beverley Sisters, Dorothy Squires and the fabulous ventriloquist Paul Zerden who he originally introduced to a Brighton audience at the Iconic Sunday lunches at Fudges Restaurant on Brighton seafront. In panto he has worked with Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, the late Hugh Lloyd and Wendy Richard, Susan Maughan, Maureen Nolan and Wendy Craig. He has performed in live serious theatre, Panto and has strutted the stage of most gay venues up and down the country performing his alter ego Maisie Trollette, a drag queen character created in the classical vaudeville tradition. David will be reunited for this special evening with James Court, aka Jimmy Trollette, to recreate the magical Trollettes who reigned supreme as London's top drag duo and cabaret act in the 1970s and 80s.
Maisie Trollette's 80th Birthday Show, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, 7.30pm, Sunday, August 18. Tickets: £25/£20/£15, to book call 0844 871 7627 (booking fees apply). If you book in person at the Theatre Royal there are no booking fees.
PRIDE RAISE OVER £16,000 FOR THE RAINBOW FUND
PAUL KEMP
David has been a passionate supporter and fundraiser for the Sussex Beacon, a care centre for men and women with HIV/AIDS related illnesses since it was built and along with other Brighton & Hove entertainers helps support an orphanage for destitute children in Thailand with his fundraising. All profits from this show will be shared between the Sussex Beacon and the Rainbow Fund who award grants to LGBT/HIV organisations providing frontline services to the LGBT community.
t Ahead of this year's Brighton Pride, the Rainbow Fund is inviting applications for funding. LGBT voluntary sector groups looking for frontline grant funding can apply to the Rainbow Fund via the Sussex Community Foundation from now until October 11. Brighton Pride is one of the high profile groups who donate to the Rainbow Fund, giving £1 per ticket sold directly to the fund. Paul Elgood, Chairman of the Rainbow Fund, said: “Thanks to the continued generosity of our fundraising groups and supporters, we can once again offer LGBT and HIV groups and charities the chance to apply for grant funding. The majority of our autumn grants come thanks to Pride, so it is exciting that the application process is open during the build-up to the event. I cannot stress enough that we only fund frontline HIV and LGBT groups and activities on a needs-led basis. If an activity does not have a direct benefit in terms of health care, well-being, social care, community safety or similar frontline service, it will not be funded. Our donors provide funding on that basis. “No group has the automatic right to funding and for the system to work some applications get turned down, as they are independently assessed by funding priority. Because of limited funding there are times when even strong applications get turned down. Groups need to understand this before applying. We do what we can, but we simply cannot fund every application. “Voluntary sector organisations with frontline projects which will benefit the local LGBT community are encouraged to apply. The Sussex Community Foundation independently assess applications, and then a grants panel meets to discuss the applications. If a group wants to be successful they have to pass both stages and convince the six members of the grants panel for support. The panel members individually make their own minds up on applications - there are no advance recommendations before a meeting. It is a very fair process and the best projects get funded. “I would like to thank our donors for making this grants round possible. We are accountable to our donors, who give money on the basis that the money donated is used in a transparent and accountable way, for the most pressing frontline causes in our community.” The Rainbow Fund is independently administered by the Sussex Community Foundation to provide donors with a transparent and open way to support the LGBT community. The fund benefits from a number of high profile fundraising events and activities, and does not raise money directly itself. Everyone at the Rainbow Fund is a volunteer, with no salaries, offices or overheads to fund. The only expenses relate to the professional advice and support it receives to ensure the safe accounting and distribution of its funds. Applications for grants need to be made directly to the Sussex Community Foundation. For more information view: www.sussexgiving.org.uk
t Prior to this year’s event, Brighton Pride raised over £16,237,00 for the Rainbow Fund from ticket sales for the Icons on the Park event on Preston Park on August 3. Brighton Pride CIC Company has guaranteed to ring fence £1 from every ticket sold for the Rainbow Fund to distribute through their grants programme to LGBT/HIV organisations who provide frontline services to LGBT people in Brighton & Hove. Paul Kemp, Pride Director, said: "Although Pride is a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity of our city and community, we never forget our main priority is fundraising for the Rainbow Fund who provide grants to our local LGBT/HIV organisations to deliver frontline services to the LGBT community 365 days of the year. The grants are administered independently through the Sussex Community Foundations grant programme. Many business do very well over the Pride weekend and we're grateful for the support of local businesses who contribute to the general fundraising efforts by staging fundraisers or just by putting money in the pride buckets. We are hopeful that 2013 will beat all previous records.”
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GREEN MOTION TO SUPPORT LONDON GAY GAMES BID
t London is bidding to host the 2018 Gay Games along with Paris and Limerick in Ireland. Since the first Gay Games in San Francisco in 1982, host cities have included Vancouver, New York, Amsterdam, Sydney, Chicago and Cologne. The 2014 Gay Games will be staged in Cleveland and Akron in the USA. The LGBT Sports Movement split in 2003 after the Montreal organising committee, who in 2001 had won the bid to stage the 2006 Gay Games, broke off discussions with the Federation of Gay Games organisers after they failed to come to an agreement over the size of the Montreal event, the size of the budget, the number of athletes taking part and financial transparency. Montreal went on to stage the first World Outgames in 2006, one week after Chicago, who were awarded the 2006 Gay Games after Montreal withdrew, staged the seventh edition of the Gay Games. The Canadian Government got behind the Montreal bid and the World Outgames in Montreal were judged a huge success. Montreal staged an LGBT Human Rights Conference during the sports festival in 2006 issuing the Declaration of Montreal at the end of the conference, the principles of which Cllr Paul Elgood and Cllr Simon Burgess signed Brighton & Hove Council up to in 2007. The Green Party in Brighton & Hove are putting a motion to full council to support the London 2018 bid. The motion reads: “This council congratulates Sport London, a network of LGBT Sports Clubs in the capital, which has successfully campaigned for London to be in the final short-list of three cities to host the 2018 Gay Games. It is the first time the UK has put its hat in the ring for the Gay Games, and the bid is built on the excellent job done by London in hosting the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games. “The Gay Games started in San Francisco in 1982 and is held every four years. One of the world’s largest sporting and cultural events, it lasts seven days and covers up to 36 sports and cultural activities. It attracts around 10,000 participants from more than 70 nations. Paris and Limerick are the other two cities on the short list. A decision is expected towards the end of the year. “This council shares the founding principles of the Gay Games, which are inclusion, participation and personal best. It believes Brighton & Hove can only benefit from the games coming to London, particularly through participants and spectators making the short trip to enjoy our city with its strong and vibrant LGBT community. There is also the possibility that one of the national teams might use the city as its base. “It therefore agrees to ask the Chief Executive to write to Sport London expressing the council’s formal support for the bid.” Proposed by: Cllr Bill Randall, seconded by: Cllr Stephanie Powell.
ACTRESS OPENS BEACON OPEN GARDENS FUNDRAISER
t The Sussex Beacon's annual Open Gardens fundraising event took place over the weekend of June 29-30. Doc Martin actress, Julie Graham cut the tape on the morning of Saturday 29 to open the Sussex Beacon's garden to the public. In attendance were Sussex Beacon Patrons Baroness Gould, Dave Lynn and the Deputy Mayor of Brighton & Hove, Cllr Bill Randall and his wife along with supporters of the Beacon including representatives from The Gay Men's Chorus. Over 70 gardens and community spaces all over the city were open to the public this year and all money raised from ticket sales goes to the Beacon's fundraising. www.sussexbeacon.org.uk
GREEN MEP CONDEMNS CUTS TO EQUALITY WATCHDOG
t Jean Lambert, London’s Green MEP, is warning that cuts to the Government's equalities watchdog, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), could lead to an increase in the incidence of LGBT-related discrimination and attacks. The EHRC will see its budget halved by 2015, it has been stripped of its duty to promote a society with equal opportunity for all, and it’s currently undergoing a review that could see it being scrapped altogether. Jean said: “These massive cuts, as well as the change to its remit, will mean that LGBT people are less-well protected against discrimination. The EHRC will also be able to support fewer local events – and will do less to foster a sense of equality in communities. That’s a disaster and a set-back in terms of protecting hard-won gains in equality in recent years.”
SURVIVORS NETWORK NEEDS YOUR HELP Survivors Network, the rape crisis centre for Sussex, needs your help conducting research into the experiences of transgender and non-binary survivors of sexual violence. Currently, the vast majority of sexual violence support services are for either only men or only women, which may create significant barriers for trans and non-binary people who want support. The Network will be conducting interviews and focus groups for trans and non-binary survivors and the professionals who work with them. If you would like to participate in any of these interviews or focus groups, email: dropin@survivorsnetwork.org. uk You can also complete a confidential online questionnaire. Do so before August 31, www.tinyurl.com/transsv Participants may win a £50 Amazon Voucher. For more information about Survivors Network, view: www.survivorsnetwork.org.uk
STARS CELEBRATE EQUAL MARRIAGE WITH STONEWALL T-SHIRT CAMPAIGN
t Following the House of Lords’ historic decision to pass the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill, an array of celebrities have joined a Stonewall campaign to celebrate equal marriage. Stars including Gok Wan, Stella Duffy and Dr Christian Jessen have posed in Stonewall’s new Some Guys Marry Guys/Some Girls Marry Girls. Get Over It! t-shirts. The celebrities have also given their views on why equal marriage is important to them.
Charlie Condou, the Coronation Street star who was the first to have his photo taken, said: “Equal marriage means everything to me – finally gay people will be recognised as people.” Jen Brister, comedian, added: “Equal marriage isn’t just about the opportunity to get married to my partner. It’s about my relationship being acknowledged by law and society as equal to any heterosexual relationship. It might be different, but it’s not second-best.” Other stars involved in the campaign include comedian Julian Clary, writer Sarah Waters and A Chorus Line’s John Partridge. X Factor star Rylan Clark and supermodel Eden Clark have also posed in the shirts. Catherine Bosworth, Stonewall Director of Fundraising, said: “Equal marriage is a truly amazing achievement, and we’re delighted to be working with Square Peg and our celebrity friends to celebrate it." Stonewall’s new t-shirts along with a range of other Stonewall merchandise are available at www.stonewall.org.uk/shop.
CATHERINE BOSWORTH
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Simon Topham, Managing Director of MPG, said: “Millivres Prowler Group was born out of the gay liberation movement in the 1970s and played a major role in raising awareness of HIV in the 1980s and 90s. Our company has strong community bonds and we are keen to strengthen these even further. In the past we have been a principal donor to and sponsor of Stonewall, in addition to being a regular media sponsor and supporter of arts-based and Pride events.”
MATTHEW HODSON
Focus months will comprise special fundraising activities within the Prowler and Expectations stores, editorial and advertising features within Gay Times (and in some cases DIVA), in addition to a range of other projects designed to raise the profile of all partners concerned. The schedule of the focus months is as follows: August: Positive East; September: GMFA; October: The Food Chain; November: AVERT; December: National AIDS Trust; February: PACE. Matthew Hodson, Chief Executive of GMFA said: “Each year thousands of UK gay men of all ages hear the devastating news that they have contracted HIV. Despite welcome improvements in the treatment of HIV there is no cure and living with the virus presents ongoing emotional and physical challenges. We’re thrilled to be working with MPG on this new initiative. Together we will raise awareness of the particular challenges of HIV in the 21st century and involve gay men in the delivery of new, frank and innovative campaigns to prevent new infections, improve gay men’s health and reduce the harms associated with HIV.”
PR CHRIS BONES
t Sir Nick Partridge will step down from his role as Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) at the end of October 2013. He joined THT as its first paid member of staff in 1985 when it operated out of a small London office run by a group of volunteers. THT is now the largest HIV and sexual health charity in Europe, with over 30 centres across England, Scotland and Wales. It has a membership of 14,000 people, 500 volunteers and 270 staff, and an annual turnover of just over £20 million. Sir Nick said: “It’s been an extraordinary three decades, and a privilege to serve such a remarkable charity as Chief Executive. Having led THT through its 30th anniversary, the time feels right for me to move on to other challenges. I know that the Trust will continue to go from strength to strength and of course I’ll continue to support that journey as a friend of the charity.” Professor Christopher Bones, Chair of Trustees of THT, said: “We are hugely grateful to Sir Nick for his enormous contribution to THT over the last three decades. His vision, networks and insight are huge assets, and I am delighted that he will remain an important part of our family in the years to come. Our environment is one of continual change and we know that the future holds significant challenges. The Board is now looking for the next Chief Executive to lead THT to 2020 and beyond.” From November 1, Paul Ward, currently Deputy Chief Executive at THT, will become acting Chief Executive while the Board recruits for the role.
SIR NICK PARTRIDGE
THT BOSS TO STEP DOWN
t Caroline Lucas, Brighton’s Green MP, has picked up the prestigious Newcomer MP of the Year award in Parliament in recognition of her work to represent deprived and minority communities in the city and across the country. The awards, organised by the Patchwork Foundation in association with Mosaic Associates, Three Faiths Forum and UpRising, recognise MPs who have made a positive contribution to encouraging the positive integration of diverse communities into British politics. Mr Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow announced the Patchwork Foundations awards at a ceremony in Westminster last month.
t Data published by Public Health England (PHE) has shown that new sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnoses rose 5% in 2012, up to 448,422 from 428,255 in 2011. While the increase could be a result of improved data collection, the continuing high STI rates in England suggest too many people are putting themselves at risk through unsafe sex, especially young adults and men who have sex with men (MSM). Chlamydia remained the most commonly diagnosed STI (206,912; 46%), but considerable numbers of genital warts (73,893; 16%) and genital herpes (32,021; 7%) cases were also reported last year. New gonorrhoea diagnoses rose 21% overall (from 21,024 in 2011 to 25,525 in 2012), and by 37% in the MSM population (to 10,754). Dr Gwenda Hughes, PHE Head of STI surveillance, said: “There have been significant improvements in screening in recent years, particularly for gonorrhoea and chlamydia among young adults and MSM, so we are diagnosing and treating more infections than ever before. “However, this data shows too many people are continuing to have unsafe sex, putting themselves at risk of STIs and the serious consequences associated with infection, including infertility. Ongoing investment in programmes to increase sexual health awareness, condom use and testing, particularly for groups at most risk, is vital. “We must also ensure chlamydia screening remains widely available. Local authorities should continue to integrate chlamydia screening into broader health services for young adults. This will also help this age group develop positive relationships with services, enabling them to develop and maintain good sexual health throughout their lives.”
MP CAROLINE LUCAS
SIMON TOPHAM
t Millivres Prowler Group (MPG), one of the largest gay businesses in Europe, has launched a strategic partnership with charities linked to the gay community. In a new partnership which demonstrates an ongoing commitment to the community, the retail and media divisions of MPG are devoting special focus months to raise awareness of and fundraising for AVERT, The Food Chain, GMFA, National AIDS Trust, PACE and Positive East.
CAROLINE LUCAS MP WINS AWARD
NEW STI DIAGNOSES INCREASES BY 5% IN ENGLAND
DR GWENDA HUGHES
PROWLER SUPPORTS COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS
Caroline said: “I’m truly honoured and delighted to have been chosen to receive this prestigious award – and particularly grateful to have been nominated by Brighton & Hove residents. For many people, Parliament still feels old fashioned and inaccessible, and there is a long way to go to address the huge underrepresentation of minority and deprived communities. As MP, I am committed to doing all I can to fight for support and engage with those communities, especially in Brighton but also more widely. “That’s why I’ve been campaigning, for example, for an extradition system that respects human rights, an end to cruel welfare cuts like the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ and for same-sex marriage.” Announcing the winners from the Speaker’s House, the Rt Hon John Bercow MP, said: “I wish to congratulate the Patchwork Foundation for all their excellent work over the past year in encouraging the positive integration of deprived and minority communities into British political society. “I also congratulate all the Members of Parliament on their nominations as MP of the Year.” The awards were compered by Martyn Lewis CBE, Chairman of the NCVO Trustee Board, Founder of YouthNet, former BBC/ITV television journalist and a patron of the Patchwork Foundation. He said: “I am delighted to be involved in a ceremony that acknowledges and honours the great work that many MPs are doing to help minority and deprived communities across the country. It was particularly good to see so many being nominated, and highlighting those who have done most in this important area of national life will hopefully encourage others to follow suit."
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SAME-SEX COUPLES ACT GETS ROYAL ASSENT
MIKE WEATHERLY MP
SIMON KIRBY MP
BEN SUMMERSKILL
t Following its successful passage through the House of Lords, The Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on July 17. The Act enshrines equal marriage in law, and will lead to same-sex couples being able to marry in England and Wales. Ben Summerskill, Stonewall Chief Executive, said: “Royal Assent sets the final seal on this modest and decent law which will bring joy to tens of thousands of gay couples and their friends and families. We’ll be working closely with officials over the coming months to make sure that the law is implemented without delay and that the first weddings can take place next January.” Stonewall, the LGB equality charity now intends lobbying ministers to make sure implementation happens as soon as possible, in the hope that same-sex couples will be able to marry from January 2014. Parts of Kemptown form the heart of Brighton's 'gay village'. Simon Kirby is the MP for Kemptown & Peacehaven and a long time supporter of equal marriage: “I know how important this issue is to people in Brighton, and I have worked very hard to get this Bill through Parliament. I am, therefore, absolutely delighted that the SameSex Marriage Bill has received Royal Assent. I think that it is a fantastic achievement, and one which many MPs and Peers will be able to look back on with pride in years to come. “I can now look forward to the first same-sex marriage ceremonies taking place in Brighton and across the UK next year. They will mark an important step in the advance of equality in the UK and I believe they will make our society happier and leave the institution of marriage stronger.” Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove & Portslade, added: “I am delighted the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill has been enshrined in law today, as it received Royal Assent and is now an Act of Parliament. The Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act is a historic piece of legislation that was long overdue and I was privileged to support.” LGBT+,the Liberal Democrats LGBT group, paid special tribute to Nick Clegg MP, whose personal support for marriage equality predates the Lib Dems becoming the first major party to adopt the policy. Adrian Trett, Chair, said: "Thanks to the Lib Dems, there was a Government majority to carry this through the house, with welcome support from most sides." "This is an historic step for equal rights for same-sex couples in this country. Despite some of the usual suspects' attempts to derail the legislation, it has received support from across the political spectrum. "While the Act still falls short of Liberal Democrat policy in several areas, it nonetheless removes a major barrier and cause of discrimination for LGB people in same-sex relationships in England and Wales. "I am particularly proud that the tone of the debate from supporters was joyful and positive, particularly the vigils outside Parliament that our newly-engaged vicechair Ed Fordham co-ordinated.” Brian Stone, Chair of Brighton & Hove Liberal Democrats, has been a long term political campaigner for sexual equality, and was the first chair of the Liberal Democrat for LGBT rights. He said: "If there was one good reason why the Liberal Democrats should have gone into Coalition with the Tories, the introduction of Equal Marriage is surely that.”
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t Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, visited Blatchington Mill School in Hove last month. He first met with parents to discuss anti-homophobic bullying and the school’s equalities work and then took a question and answer session for 45 minutes with students from all years. Subjects covered in the questions ranged from homophobia in sport to homophobic and transphobic bullying in the classroom. From the Brighton bin strike to the recent military coup in Egypt. In his opening remarks, Mr Miliband said that when he was at school 32 years ago no-one was 'out' and nobody discussed LGBT issues and questioned why that was. “It was about prejudice" he said, and he explained how through the legislative changes implemented by the last Labour Government right through to the present 'equal marriage' legislation going through Parliament, the difference now is that in the eyes of the law everyone is equal and valued. Questions taken from the students included his views on gay marriage, homophobia in football, the reluctance of the Church to support gay marriage and women bishops, his views on biphobia/transphobia and whether he thought there would ever be a trans politician in Parliament. Whilst student attainment and progress at Blatchington Mill are a key school priority, student wellbeing is considered vital. If all students are happy they are then able to learn to the best of their ability when they are studying. The school is determined to remove barriers to learning for all students; their ethos is one of celebrating diversity and challenging prejudice in any form. Blatchington Mill is a Stonewall champion school and recently had the opportunity to discuss their antibullying strategies with the Brighton & Hove Council anti-bullying scrutiny panel. The visit by Mr Miliband coincides with three student commissioners from Blatchington Mill School travelling to London to attend the Stonewall 'Education for all Conference' in London, which was attended by the Minister for Education, Michael Gove, MP. These students were all from Year 9 (13-14 years old) and received training on how to lead anti-bullying initiatives in school, as well as how to address and challenge homophobic language and bullying. Blatchington Mill School was reported as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted for Behaviour and Safety, including its success in tackling LGBT issues and has continued to expand and advance its proactive work in this area.
GSCENE COMMENT I’m in my late fifties. Over the years I’ve witnessed all the legislative changes affecting LGBT people that has brought us to the recent debate over 'Equal Marriage'. Often while we made the advances I thought we never took seriously enough the 'heart and minds' argument necessary to make the public at large buy into and embrace the hard won legislative changes. The Leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband MP visited Blatchington Mill School in Hove and took questions on LGBT issues from the young people. It was a revelation! The students asked great questions, were not afraid to tackle any LGBT issue and most importantly showed a deep understanding of importance of being respectful and understanding to everyone who is different. Blatchington Mill School in Hove is at the vanguard of equalities work, dealing with homophobic bullying and all LGBT issues affecting young children in school. Whatever they do with these young children at Blatchington Mill should be rolled out in every school in the country. Too many people never appreciated how serious the effects of Section 28 were to a generation of LGBT people. Section 28 resulted in teachers being afraid to talk about LGBT issues in school, making young people feel that there was something wrong with being LGB or T. All I can say is on the evidence of what I saw and heard at Blatchington Mill School, 'we're safe in their hands' and I will sleep much better tonight knowing that these post Thatcher children ‘get it’. I will also never forgive the architects of Section 28 who made a generation of young people in schools throughout the country feel isolated and unloved through their formative years.
KEMPTOWN MP RE-ELECTED TO HIV/AIDS PARLIAMENTARY GROUP
t Simon Kirby, MP for Kemptown & Peacehaven has been re-elected as Vice Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on HIV & AIDS. The unanimous decision was reached at the group’s Annual General Meeting, held in Parliament last month. Simon has been Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the group since shortly after his election to Parliament in 2010. In that time the APPG has carried out important work promoting public health and drawing attention to the ongoing fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic both in the UK and overseas. Simon said: “As a Member of Parliament for a Brighton constituency I am very aware of the ongoing struggle against HIV/AIDS. “Brighton has one of the highest levels of HIV in the country with more than 7 per 1,000 people living with the virus. However, more than a quarter of people with HIV in the UK are undiagnosed and therefore at risk of serious health problems.
“I believe that the APPG HIV/AIDS has been doing fantastic work in raising awareness of continued risk of infection and the need for greater emphasis on prevention of this terrible illness. This is a very important message for people in my constituency, and I am therefore delighted to have retained my position on this important Parliamentary group. “I will continue working hard with my fellow MPs and peers to ensure that the British Government is leading the fight against HIV/AIDS at home and in developing countries.”
GAY ‘CURE’ THERAPY IS “FLAWED & DAMAGING”
t Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has branded gay-tostraight conversion therapy that is conducted in some parts of the UK as flawed and dangerous and has joined a group of crossparty parliamentarians in condemning the practice. He has signed the Early Day Motion 219 (Gay-to-Straight Conversion Therapy in the UK) which draws attention to the harmful attempts to ‘cure’ lesbian, gay or bisexual people and how that the Department for Health has not condoned the practice. More worryingly, links to NHS doctors recommending conversion treatment have been uncovered and Mike agrees that these developments need to be properly investigated. He said: “It is deeply disturbing that there may be any links with the NHS and ‘conversion therapists’. Not only can this kind of therapy be incredibly damaging, it is based on the false notion that there is something wrong with anything other than a heterosexual sexual orientation. I have absolutely no qualms in joining calls for this flawed process to be banned for anyone under 18. The Early Day Motion 219 states: “That this House believes that being lesbian, gay or bisexual is not a disease or illness and that therapy which attempts to cure or change a person's sexual orientation is both ineffective and potentially extremely harmful; notes that a 2009 survey of 1,300 British psychiatrists, therapists and psychoanalysts revealed over 200 had attempted to change at least one patient's sexuality (BMC Psychiatry, 9:11, 26 March 2009); further notes than an undercover investigation in 2010 (The Independent, 1 February 2010) found one psychotherapist claimed most of her clients were forwarded to her from her local GP; further notes that the Department of Health does not condone the concept of therapists offering cures for homosexuality and recognises that the practice may well cause significant harm to some patients; is deeply concerned that nothing currently prevents conversion therapists from freely operating in Britain or practising in the psychotherapy sector; and therefore calls on the Government to investigate any NHS links with conversion therapists, ensuring that NHS medical professionals cannot inflict this cruel treatment on their patients and to take steps to ban conversion therapy for under 18s.”
MIKE WEATHERLEY MP
LABOUR LEADER VISITS HOVE SCHOOL TO DISCUSS LGBT BULLYING
SIMON KIRBY MP
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THE SUSSEX BEACON HOME STORE
JONATHON NEALE
t The recently opened Sussex Beacon Home Store charity shop on London Road, is making a positive impression on the local retail market. The home store concentrates on the sale of good quality, second hand furniture and items specific to the home, including electrical items ranging from HiFis to food processors. It also stores an extensive range of artwork, which is often donated by artists who want it to contribute to fundraising for the Sussex Beacon. The income from this charity shop and the other long-established shop at the bottom of St James’ Street, which specialises in clothing, is an important part of fundraising for the Sussex Beacon clinical care centre which offers support for anyone affected by HIV and provides inpatient and outpatient services and therapies.
PETER AND POLLY TIE THE KNOT
PEER ACTION NEWS
ELTHAM PALACE
t Peer Action, a community support group for all those affected by HIV coinfections, have a lot planned in August, including the gentle swimming session with Ian every Tuesday at the little known Kemptown pool at 12.15pm. Phil’s meditation classes on Sunday now run at the Sussex Beacon, August 11 and 25 from 11am-noon. Regular activities include yoga and bingo, and while the holistic therapies are taking a break during August, they will be returning fully refreshed in September. Peer Action’s Positive Women’s Group has grown significantly and welcomes positive women to get involved. Coming events for the calendar include: • Sunday, September 15: coach trip and guided tour of South East London’s Eltham Palace, a must for fans of the Art Deco style. • Thursday, September 28: Peer Action is holding a Public Forum for the entire community to go along and say what they want from the organisation in the future. Would you like to be involved? Got some great ideas? Then go along to let them know. The event is being held at Friends’ Meeting House, Ship Street from 7–9pm, Thursday, September 26 Peer Action prides itself on being fully inclusive to all those living with HIV and co-infections, regardless of sexuality. Your feedback on all Peer Action events is appreciated by the organisation. For more details on all Peer Action events and how to get involved, view: www.peeraction.co.uk
Local businesses have commented on the elegance of the home store, laid out as ‘room-sets’ with atmospheric design styling from the Beacon's volunteer staff who are managed by Jonathon Neale. There’s a great atmosphere in the store and volunteer staff say they love working there. Many volunteers meet up outside shop hours to socialise helping create a wonderful spirit among the people who spend time working and volunteering for the Sussex Beacon. Beacon volunteers are loyal and love working for the charity. If your interested in volunteering, the Beacon are always keep to here from you. Home store offers affordable and competitive prices. Anyone setting up home for the first time will find everything they need at very good value there. Everything on display has been donated and real care is taken in the preparation and presentation of items to guarantee good condition and satisfaction at the point of sale. Donations for both shops, including furniture can be made for free and delivered to: The Sussex Beacon Home Store, 72/73 London Rd, Brighton, BN1 4JE. T: 01273 680264. Opening hours: 9.30am-5pm, Monday to Saturday. For more info about the Sussex Beacon, view: www.sussexbeacon.org.uk HOMESTORE VOLUNTEERS
t Peter Heron and Paul Thompson met in November 1977 and finally 'got together' on Paul's birthday, June 6, 1978. Paul was manager of the Vauxhall Tavern in London at the time, remaining there until 1986. The pair moved to live in Brighton in 1991 where Paul became a licencee with Andy Feest at the Queens Arms in George Street from 1996–1998. In 2001 they emigrated to Spain living first in Benidorm and then Arroyo in Malaga. They returned to live to Brighton in 2010 because of illness in both of their families. When they decided to finally tie the knot they were just going to have a small reception but soon realised that many people they knew would want to be there including both sets of families and friends so the event became a celebration of not only their Civil Partnership but also their 35 years together. Paul said: “We had a fabulous time, my old mum would have loved it, but sadly she passed away just two weeks before our big day. That is my only regret.” Friends and family gathered at Brighton Register Office in June for what was an emotional Civil Ceremony (yes big boys do get teary) moving onto 122 Church Street for the reception and speeches with guests being entertained by Miss Jason and Drag With No Name. Why didn’t they wait so they could get a full marriage ceremony? Paul said: “As far as we’re concerned we have always been married. A Civil Partnership is fine for us, when the full marriage legislation is passed that will just be the icing on the cake."
HIV COMMUNITY PICNIC
t Lunch Positive, the HIV charity who provide a free meal every Friday for people who are HIV positive, is hosting a free community picnic for people with HIV on Saturday, August 17. There’ll be plenty of good food, space to relax and the chance to meet new people and enjoy the great outdoors! The event is ticketed, and tickets give further details of the event. Tickets for people who use Lunch Positive, Peer Action, Sussex Beacon or Terrence Higgins Trust are available from these organisations. If you don’t use any of these organisations but would like to attend, contact Lunch Positive: 07846 464384 or info@lunchpositive.org. For more information about Lunch Positive, view: www.lunchpositive.org
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LGB&T MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT
COURSES
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SELF ESTEEM
Explore and learn together about Self Esteem 4 WEEK COURSE STARTING
WED 4TH SEPT IN SOUTHWICK ___________________________________________
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION 8 WEEK COURSE STARTING
MON 16TH SEPT IN BRIGHTON ___________________________________________
SPEAK OUT, BE HEARD West Sussex Consutation Event
SAT 28TH SEPT IN WORTHING ___________________________________________
SELF ESTEEM
Explore and learn together about Self Esteem 4 WEEK COURSE STARTING
SAT 9TH NOV IN WORTHING ____________________________________________ For more info see www.mindout.org.uk email info@mindout.org.uk or call 01273 234839 Registered Charity No 1140098
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t You would have thought that with the Brighton Marina being right on the door step, someone would have considered offering Rainbow Cruises before. Well they haven't, not until now that is. Brighton Sea Cruises ran their first Rainbow Cruise in June. I have lived in Brighton for 30 years and have never seen the seafront from the ocean. There is no better way to see the city than from the sea. On a clear day the views are quite simply stunning.
BUNTY & CHRIS
The Belle carries up to 60 passengers and is fully licenced under MCA regulations with refreshments and entertainment available on board on selected trips or by special request. You will find her moored by pontoon 4 or 6 in Brighton Marina next to Wetherspoons Bar, The West Quay. Cruises are ran daily along the seafront: on Mondays by prior arrangement; Tues–Thurs from 3pm with evenings by prior arrangement; Fri and Sat at 11am, 1.30pm, 4pm and 6.30pm for private hire; and Sun at 11am, 1.30pm and 4pm with evenings by arrangement. Trips take one-and-a-half hours and you cruise along the seafront between the piers and back again to the Marina. Adults cost £10, children under 14 £6 and students £8 (with NUS card). Private hires are a reasonable £275 for one hour, £380 for one-and-a-half hours, £500 for two hours, £600 for three hours and £700 for four hours; off peak discounts are available. These rentals are ideal for a private birthday party with a difference, staff team building sessions, a fishing trip or a civil partnership celebration. There is a small bar on the boat manned by the lovely Bunty and catering arrangement can be organised by calling 0800 0935 191 or 0794 2491 654 Chris Sweeting left his job working as a trolley dolly for Air New Zealand to invest in this new venture. He wants to develop the 'gay cruises' idea but as I said to him every cruise is a gay cruise nowadays. Special events include comedy nights on board which have proved to be very successful. If that’s not your thing you can relax on the top deck and take in the sea air. To find out when there are special Rainbow Cruises, view: www.brightonseacruises.com For more information call 0800 0935 191 or 0794 2491 654.
These ideas are then reconstructed into a reflective, social statement. eel said: “An artist may produce a piece with a distinct message, but someone may interpret that message completely differently. This for me is successful art. I don’t force the viewer towards a predetermined conclusion. I encourage them to find their own meaning in my art.” For more information about eel, view: www.eelart.co.uk
t The Queens Arms are celebrating 22 years at the top, on Sunday, August 11 with two shows from drag queen extraordinaire, Ceri Dupree. Ceri will be presenting two completely different characters during her two shows at 6pm and 9pm. Andy Feest, Queens Arms landlord, said: "We don't get the opportunity to see Ceri Dupree often enough so we thought we would like to thank all our customers by bringing this amazing talent to the QA to celebrate the last 22 years with us.”
Ceri has been delighting audiences worldwide for almost 30 years performing in musical theatre, pantomime, summer seasons, television and cabaret. His show appeals to all audiences and demographics. He has performed at major venues throughout England, Ireland, Scotland and his birthplace Wales. His international work has included appearances in Greece, France, Holland, Spain, Germany, South Africa and the Seychelles.
HAVE A WORD AT EMPORIUM
t Have a Word, the LGBTQ arts literary performance event presented by Ellis Collins, moved to Emporium, Brighton's newest arts venue and the feedback is very positive. People love the venue and the event! The next Have a Word is supporting the Sussex Beacon on August 14 and performers include: Vicki Crowther (actor, model, storyteller); VG Lee (author, actor, comedian); Jonathan Kemp (novelist, academic, DJ); Della Lupa (singer, songwriter, pianist). Music is from resident DJ Josh the Barber. Have a Word, Emporium, 88 London Road, Brighton, August 14, tickets: £6/early bird 10% discount.
CERI DUPREE
CRUISING AT BRIGHTON MARINA
t Brighton-based conceptual artist eel has been shortlisted for this year's Cork Street Open Exhibition, which takes place in London on August 9. The artist, whose work appears "playful at first glance, but reveals a deeper social context” has a particular interest in spray cans, and deconstructs the concept of a can, the pressurised container and introduces it as a vessel containing ideas and concepts rather than just paint.
QUEENS ARMS’ 22ND BIRTHDAY WITH CERI
ANDY FEEST
BRIGHTON ARTIST SHORTLISTED FOR CORK STREET OPEN EXHIBITIO
Over the years he has impersonated almost every major female star, from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, Shirley Bassey to Barbara Cartland, Tina Turner to the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He has also sent up Cruella De Ville, Snow White, the Wicked Queen, and Belle (from Beauty & The Beast) during his show Dupree's Disney Divas. Ceri also performs as Her Majesty The Queen of England, Jordan and his newest addition, Amy Winehouse! When Ceri appears, variety is certainly not dead. Ceri Dupree is more than a comic in a frock. His shows are elegant, professional and extremely funny. Don’t miss him at the Queens Arms on Sunday August 11 at 6pm & 9pm.
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t Bill Randall, the Deputy Mayor of Brighton & Hove, handed over cheques to the three charities he supported during his year as Mayor, which ended in May 2013.
QUEENSBURY ARMS SPONSOR TWO GUIDE DOG PUPPIES
t Diane Marks from Hove Guide Dogs received £240 from John Osborne, the manager of the Queensbury Arms to sponsor two puppy guide dog pups, Flint and Harley. The money was raised through the weekly customer bonus ball and quiz nights.
NAKED ROWERS RAISE MONEY FOR OUTREACH SCHOOL PROGRAM
t Rowers from Warwick University have launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise funds for an outreach schools program that will raise awareness of prejudice, bullying and homophobia. They money raised will also go towards producing a naked calender in 2014. The campaign has gained celebrity support from the likes of Gok Wan, Stephen Fry, and Made in Chelsea star, Caggie Dunlop. The calendar will feature stunning images of the senior men’s rowing team from Warwick University, naked and semiundressed. People who back the crowd-funding bid for the calendar on crowdfunder.co.uk will receive copies of the calender as a reward. To donate, view: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/warwick-rowing-naked-calendar/
The £20,000 raised will be divided equally between: • The Allsorts Youth Project, which works with young LGBT people; • The Brighton Women’s Centre, which has supported women in Brighton & Hove for more than 35 years; • The Martlets Hospice, which provides end of life care for more than 1,000 people every year. Each charity received a cheque for £6,666. Councillor Randall, said: “My thanks go to all the people and organisations who supported my fundraising work during the year. They displayed a generosity and community purpose which is typical of our extraordinary city. I would also like to thank the three charities, who worked so well together. I enjoyed working with them and seeing first hand the magnificent work they do for Brighton & Hove.”
Allsorts LGBT Youth Project provides a range of counselling and advice services for young LGBT people under 26, many of whom are vulnerable. It also raises awareness about LGBT issues in local schools, colleges and youth projects. The services include one-to-one confidential support and sexual health advice. Allsorts recently launched a summer programme for LGBT under 16s. For more information about Allsorts Youth Project, view: www.allsortsyouth.org.uk
BEAR PATROL SKY DIVE FOR SUSSEX BEACON
t Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s a bird in a plane. DJ Queen Josephine threw herself out of a plane two miles up on Saturday, July 6, to raise money for the Sussex Beacon. Queen Jo jumped with eleven other people from The Bear Patrol at Nethervon airfield on Salisbury Plain to raise money to support those living with HIV in Brighton & Hove. Bear Patrol is a social networking group for Bears and their friends and raise money for the Sussex Beacon. At present they have collectively raised more than £5,000 from the skyjump. You can still donate till July 31 at justgiving.com/queenjo
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SUN SHINES ON THE ‘BRIGHTON BEAR WEEKENDER’ Brighton Bear Weekender raises £2820.84 for the Rainbow Fund. Hundreds of Bears descended on Brighton & Hove at the end of June for the Brighton Bear Weekender. A staggering £2,820.84 was raised for the Rainbow Fund which included a £200 donation from Steve and the Subline Boys. A series of planned events took place at 112 Church Street, Subline, Legends and the Camelford Arms. The Come to Daddy dance night at Envy was a huge success. On Saturday, Bears gathered in Queens Park for a Teddy Bears Picnic. Lunch Positive the HIV charity provided a pop up community cafe serving delicious salads and cakes. The Brighton Bear Weekender is a fundraiser for the Rainbow Fund who through their independent grants programme administered by the Sussex Community Foundation distributes money raised to LGBT and HIV organisations who provide front line services to the LGBT community. Paul Elgood, Chairman of the Rainbow Fund said: “I would like to congratulate the organisers for a successful event and for raising such a terrific amount for the Rainbow Fund. £2,820.84 is an amazing total for just one weekend. The Brighton Bear Weekender has firmly established itself as one of the highlights of the year, and the organisers are a pleasure to work with. I would like to thank all the Bears team of helpers for the time and energy they put into it. “The Rainbow Fund relies entirely on the support of organisations, venues and events such as this to benefit the frontline work that we support. We do not fundraise directly but
benefit from a number of high profile activities. We provide fundraisers with a needs-led mechanism guaranteeing the safe distribution of the money they raise, ensuring help for a wide range of groups providing frontline services to the LGBT community.” A few thank you's are in order: Come To Daddy & Mitch On Line: Lunch Positive, Gary Pargeter and his team of volunteers, 112 Church Street, Subline, Brighton Sauna, Neighbourhood, Charles Street & Envy, Legends and The Camelford. Thank you to all the raffle donators: The Grand Hotel Brighton, UMI Hotel, Brighton Wheel, David Lilly, Richard Denne, Mick L Angelo, Komedia Brighton, Actually Gay Men's Chorus, Chillax Massage, Camelford Arms, David Gardener Photography, Simon O'Corra, John Summers and Andrew Charles Tull. More thanks to: Radio Reverb and Kathy Canton, Sauce Fm and Dulcie Danger, Jemmone and Phil Marriott. The Brighton Bear Weekender team of helpers: Jerome Banks, Micheal Pyner, Graham Munday, Ant Howells and Francisco Guillen. Thanks to: Visit Brighton, REALBrighton, Gscene Magazine, Brighton & Hove Pride, Bear World Magazine. Josh Sharples and BearShaft, Nice 'n' Naughty, Royal Pavilion & Brighton Museums, Jackson Barber Shop, 9a Manchester Street, Brighton.
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BRIGHTON & HOVE PRIDE LGBT COMMUNITY PARADE The annual LGBT Community Pride Parade is one of the most colourful events in the city’s calendar. It brings the whole community onto the streets with over 100,000 people stopping the traffic to view the spectacle in all its outrageous finery. Starting at 11am at the Brighton Wheel on Madeira Drive and led by our Pride Ambassadors, the Parade of over 50 entries will head along the seafront, though the centre of town and on to Preston Park. Entries vary from the fire service and police force to businesses and local charitable organisations. Watch out for the Bear-Patrol and their Freddy Mercurys, the Brighton School of Samba and their Carmen Mirandas, a chorus of choirs and the Brighton Rockers Roller Derby. The Parade finishes (roughly two hours after it starts) at Preston Park where the Icons On The Park party will be underway.
ICONS ON THE PARK On Saturday August 3, Preston Park is transformed into one of the biggest LGBT events in the UK with a live stage, dance areas, community village, funfair and more from noon–8pm. There are six entrances including the VIP entrance, the main entrance is half way up the park on Preston Road. You can’t bring alcohol or glass onto the park, but you can take in personal supplies of food and soft drinks ie packed lunch and soft drinks in 'sealed containers'.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013
Buy your ticket in advance,from gay venues £17.50 (cash) with no booking fee or £20 on the day when you will have to queue. Please recycle your rubbish, respect your fellow festival goers and the nearby residents and importantly, throw some money in the Pride collection buckets! This year all the money raised will be donated via the Rainbow Fund to local LGBT community groups, so help to support them by giving generously.
COMMUNITY VILLAGE In the heart of the park is the Community Village with stalls by local and national charities, groups and organisations. Many of the stalls are given free by Pride Brighton & Hove so these organisations can promote their LGBT work, issues and charitable aims.
ACCESS TENT The Federation Of Disabled People Access Tent is a safe base and chill out for people with disabilities or mental health difficulties. See faq’s at www.brighton-pride.org for full details on Access Pride.
THE MARKET STALLS Selling everything from toys, clothing, jewellery, DVDs and novelty gifts.
TRANSPORT Use The Big Lemon Pride buses as a percentage of the fare comes back to Pride and on to local charities.
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WOMEN’S DANCE TENT
There will be five bars and plenty of food stalls around the park so you won’t have to wait long for your favourite tipple or nibble.
The Official Brighton Pride Gay Girls Weekender is hosting the Women’s Dance Tent for 2013 including the best lesbian DJs from Brighton & London. For full details and DJ profiles: www.brightonlesbianparties.com
Pride’s Bear Zone features a themed DJ stage for plenty of alfresco dancing, a Bears bar, food stalls, hog roast, seating area, Bears picnic area and a Bears in the woods area, plus loads of extra Grrr surprises.
DJ LINE-UP 12.00pm Lee Jeffrey 1.30pm Josh The Barber 2.45pm Mikalis 3.30pm Micky Galliano 4.15pm Richard Jones 5.00pm Severino 5.45pm Chris Barker 6.30pm Paul Coals 7.15pm Hifi Sean
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MAIN STAGE The main stage returns to Preston Park packed with top entertainment and artists, featuring introductions from special guests as well as information about Pride. The star-studded line up includes: Ms Dynamite, MKS (Mutya Keisha & Siobhan, the original Sugababes), Paloma Faith, Alison Moyet, Stooshe, Lindy Layton, Hazell Dean, boybands Class A and The Mend, Angie Brown, Britain’s Got Talent act The Glambassadors as well as fun and entertainment all day long! For detailed lineup info buy the Brighton Pride App or lanyard, available from local venues.
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The Cabaret Tent is hosted once more by Lola Lasagne and sponsored by Legends Hotel. Enjoy over five hours of entertainment, humour and powerhouse vocals from the best of the local cabaret scene including: Tanya Hyde & Baga Chipz aka The Pop Tarts, Tammy Twinkle, Jacqui Cann, winner of the Queens Arms Pride’s Got Talent competition, Drag With No Name, Davina Sparkle, Lady Imelda, Maisie Trollette & Miss Jason, Trashville Tennessee, Jennie Castell, Rose Garden, La Voix, Crystal D’Canter & Kelly Mild aka CK, Sandra, Dave Lynn and Eva LaDiva.
Wild Fruit are back on the park again for 2013 hosting a massive dance tent. Expect an exceptional line-up of international DJs alongside some of Brighton’s best local DJ talent, amazing lighting and sound systems, Wild Fruit’s sexy production dancers, special PAs and live performances.
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LINE-DANCING TENT Open from 4–8pm and hosted by London’s Cactus Club and featuring a line dancing lesson specially formatted for wheelchair users at 6pm.
Famous for showcasing the UK’s top women performers from the LGBTQ community, this year’s line up includes gay icons, chart toppers, alternative acts and quirky & fresh new talent!
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WILD FRUIT DANCE TENT LEGENDS CABARET LINE UP
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CLASS A
LEGENDS CABARET TENT
Calabash provides an entertainment space that promotes diversity and inclusivity with a range of local artists that reflect the diversity that exists within our LGBT community. The focus is on urban dance music, including bhangra, grime, dub step, r&b, soul, disco and anything funky with DJs, live artists and a few surprises including: DJs Pushy C, Rob Ninebob, Affy & Ali Go Bang, Melody Kane, Osaro, and very special guest TBA.
PALOMA FAITH
CALABASH TENT
12pm Lil Alex 2pm Kate Wildblood & Neil Duffie 3pm Mark Doyle 4pm Seamus Haji 5pm The Freemasons 6pm Steve Pitron 7pm Dulcie Danger/Maze & Masters
VIP LOUNGE VIP tickets give swift entry to Preston Park via the VIP entrance, an exclusive Moroccan themed VIP Lounge and dedicated bar, luxury VIP toilets, champagne, lunch from noon–4pm, an exclusive VIP pit in front of the main stage and a VIP viewing area in the Wild Fruit dance tent. A limited number of tickets willl be released for sale prior to the event.
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NEV KEMP A modern commander for a unique city
The new Chief Superintendent chats to James Ledward Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp, took up his new post as the city’s Divisional Commander in April this year. A Brightonian born and bred, Nev Kemp is a family man with 17 years service with the force. He joined Sussex Police in 1995 as a constable and his meteoric rise through the ranks have included being Head of Crime Investigations Brighton & Hove and Head of the Force Protecting Vulnerable People Branch. From an LGBT perspective the appointment of a new Chief Superintendent is always critical as it sets the 'tone' of the command team at Sussex Police. The previous Chief Superintendent, Graham Bartlett was a moderniser within the police and someone who understood and supported the force’s diversity and equality agenda. For all the communities of interest it is important that this modernising agenda continues and most importantly that Sussex Police listen, use and adopt the expertise that has developed since they created dedicated LGBT Police Liaison roles in 2006. At the time of his appointment in April, Chief Superintendent Kemp said: “This is without doubt the highlight of my career so far but I also know it will be the most challenging thing I have done. From a policing perspective I love the diversity, innovation and buzz of Brighton & Hove; you have to deal with just about everything. For me it’s like coming home - having been posted here as a sergeant in 2000. The last five years I’ve been in detective roles but I’m really looking forward to getting back into uniform and getting out and about with officers and meeting the local community. “I’ve inherited an amazing team of officers and staff with a strong sense of identity and team spirit and this is one of the reasons I am so enthusiastic about my new role. But it
goes beyond just the police and includes many partnership teams, successfully set up by my predecessor, Chief Superintendent, Graham Bartlett. The division could not operate effectively in almost any area now, without strong partnership working and this is something I want to continue to develop and make stronger still.”
“I want my gay officers to feel comfortable and supported not only by the force but by me personally” I asked him how he thought Sussex Police were doing with their diversity agenda. He said: “When I first came into the police there were no openly gay officers. Some colleagues might have been suspected, but no one was ‘out’. I look at where we are now, especially in Brighton & Hove where we have many ‘out’ officers in all ranks, and just think at the enormity of the progress. I want my gay officers to feel comfortable and supported not only by the force but by me personally. “This year I am the Gold Commander at Brighton Pride. Unless there is a serious operation problem on the day, I will be marching on the LGBT Community Parade with my officers. Some people might say it is just tokenism, but for me it is really important. I will feel really proud to march as will my officers. “The gay community brings so much to the city and their presence here creates a special vibe that helps make Brighton & Hove the special city it is. Last year I took my daughters to Pride and they loved it.
“It is my role to make sure that everyone who comes to Pride is safe and enjoys themselves all weekend. I personally think the street party is brilliant and have been involved in it out on the ground in the past as the Silver Commander. Sussex Police is fully supportive of the street party but have to balance that against any potential safety and disorder issues. It costs us a great deal of money to police the event but we are 100% committed to doing it.” Commander Kemp is a moderniser within the police and is driven by old school principles of public service. “From my early teens I knew that I wanted to work in the public sector and try and make a difference. This desire was definitely influenced by my father, who although British, volunteered to fight for America in the Vietnam War. He spent three years there, was shot down twice and awarded the Silver Star and years later he wrote and published a book about his experiences. He is certainly someone who has inspired me and is very proud of the career path that I’ve chosen.” First and foremost, Nev Kemp believes in partnership working and thinks it is quite appropriate for people to challenge and question, so long as it is done constructively. However, he was genuinely surprised when I suggested that there was a perception that through their partnership working with the City Council many people thought the police had surrendered too much of their independence to the bureaucrats. On future plans for policing the city, he said: “I would of course like to see overall crime drop and for people to feel safe going about their daily business irrespective of what time of the day it is. But I would also like to see more of certain crimes reported to us because at present we know we don't get to know the full picture. First amongst these are sexual offences and domestic abuse. Work is already underway in Sussex Police looking at how we can redesign our teams and introduce specialist investigators for serious sexual offences. “Violent crime linked to alcohol in public places will always be a challenge, and even though Brighton & Hove is generally a safe place, incidents of this type can be so damaging. I am pleased with the approach the council is taking in looking at this and I am also keen we do all we can to work with them and local businesses to make the city even safer still. “I have some ideas that I think will improve the way we police the city but I know that my team at Brighton have many more and I want to make sure that my management team and I tap into that - I’m hoping to be in the post for a good few years that will allow me to do just this.” And how does he relax outside of work? “Everyone needs something to help them switch off from work and besides my two
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To help relax and stay in shape he took up running a few years ago and completed the inaugural Brighton Marathon running for the Alzheimer’s Society. He ran the half marathon again this year. He is a Brighton & Hove Albion supporter and although not a season ticket holder enjoys taking his daughters to see matches when he is not working. Commander Kemp is passionate about politics and current affairs and his favourite television programme is Have I Got News For You. His favourite film of all time is Into The Wild, a true story directed by Sean Penn. He dislike bullies and those who abuse their position of power and authority. He gets sad about anything to do with human suffering, particularly where children are concerned. “As a boy, I was in the scouts and had a wonderful leader who taught me lots about public service as well as how to tie a knot!”
“I’ll be marching on the LGBT Community Parade with my officers. Some people might say it’s just tokenism but for me it’s really important” Over the years I have seen the LGBT community's relationship with Sussex Police have highs and lows. When I chaired the LGBT Community Safety Forum between 2002 and 2005, the LGBT community received a different service to mainstream Brighton residents, an inferior service. We were policed differently. Through the modernisation implemented from 2006-10 I have no doubt that we now not only receive a better service, but dare I say it, the same services as everyone else. And that’s how it should be. There is always room for improvement, but with the cuts the police are taking people’s expectations need to be realistic. Reporting mechanisms are in place to help. If you are the victim of a homophobic attack, report it no matter how small the incident is. Only by people reporting all incidents can an overall picture be created by the police. We will continue to get some bad news stories but that’s how it happens in the modern police force. Most times they get it right, sometimes they get it wrong. Most importantly Chief Superintendent Kemp is a pragmatist, he is a listener and understands the ‘LGBT stuff’. That’s as good as it gets. If you are the victim of a crime dial 999 or 101 if it is not urgent.
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MP MIKE FREER
teenage daughters and my wife, I have to tend to our four chickens, one cat, two gerbils and a very energetic dalmatian dog that we rescued two years ago. I also try to find time for gardening, which includes a small vegetable plot.”
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL Last week the Same-Sex Marriage Bill became law. As one of the many gay Tory MPs, who spoke in favour of the Bill and received press coverage, I wanted to put on record the invaluable work my colleague, Simon Kirby MP for Kemptown and Peacehaven undertook to get the Bill through Parliament. There are many Parliamentarians who deserve a huge amount of credit for bringing about this historic change in the law. I want to take the opportunity to commend the work of MP Simon Kirby, because otherwise I fear that he may not get the credit he undoubtedly deserves. I know that Simon is very proud to represent a constituency which is as diverse as Brighton Kemptown, and he has always been a strong voice for the LGBT community in Parliament. Since the issue of same-sex marriage came onto the political agenda last year, Simon has worked tirelessly to get a Bill onto the floor of the House of Commons and put a great deal of effort into drumming up support amongst colleagues and steering the Bill through Parliament. As a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport he has a close working relationship with Maria Miller and Hugh Robertson, which has enabled him to be a particularly effective advocate for equal marriage. Much of this work is very much behind the scenes, and as such it is at risk of going unnoticed. However, I think it is important to acknowledge the contribution that Simon has made, which has gone a long way towards the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill achieving Royal Assent. I noticed that Stonewall Chief Executive Ben Summerskill paid tribute to Simon yesterday, identifying him as “a dogged supporter of the right thing.” I would certainly echo that sentiment. Now that the lengthy political process of getting a Bill into law is out of the way thousands of gay couples can look forward to planning their wedding ceremonies from next year. I know that there will be many
happy couples in Brighton Kemptown making such plans, and they can be very proud of their hard-working local MP for standing up for their rights throughout the equal marriage debate. Brighton Kemptown is not only a special place but it also has a very special MP! Mike Freer, Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley & Golders Green
20MPH SPEED LIMIT The dangerous 20mph speed limit is not only unenforceable it increases fuel consumption and pollution... cyclists regularly exceed 30mph let alone 20mph - I don't see any being stopped especially along the seafront. The highest pollution based on my hypersensitive lungs are those where the buses congregate, the foot of St James’ Street and the hill opposite... and how do they intend to enforce it and are they going to put their own heavily polluting buses off the road? I think not! More ‘flag waving’ to show they are doing ‘something’ by introducing a policy which costs the Brighton Council tax payer a fortune and does absolutely nothing to address the problems causing congestion and pollution. My recommendation: take out all traffic lights, kerbs and fences along roads. This open street planning slows traffic, reduces accidents and reduces pollution as vehicles are not stopped idling but continue to move at a slow pace. Jeff Ware, Brighton
ETHICS AND VALUES? According to a Co-operative Group advertisement (Gscene Magazine, July), and no doubt other current publications, “We’ve been living our ethics and values since 1844… At The Co-operative we put our ethics and values at the heart of everything we do”. Unlike most companies that are nearly bust, the Co-Operative Group is not liquidating the majority of the assets within the group in order to plug the hole in its accounts, but is self-servingly proposing to help themselves to the savings of blameless outside investors. If the Co-Operative Group cannot act ethically in this matter, what is the point of its continuing existence? David Mount, Brighton, BN2 1FD
SPECIAL AWARD: ALLSORTS FOR THEIR TRANS* YOUTH GROUP TRANSFORMERS
GOLDEN HANDBAGS AWARDS CEREMONY, JUNE 23, 2013 Thanks go to The Brighton Metropole Hotel and Jon Allan for donating the use of the hotel ballroom free of charge and to the duty manager on the night Martyn Wheeler who made sure we had everything we needed. To Rutters Stocktakers Ltd for sponsoring the evening. To Matt and Coral at Arena Entertainments Ltd and their team, Terry Wing and the Resolve security team and Billie Lewis Promotions for dressing the tables. All the artists appearing including David Raven, Dave Lynn, Eva La Diva and Myra Dubois donated their services free of charge as did the back stage team of Billie Lewis and Nick ‘Lanky’ Wade. Thanks to Portraits For Fun for taking photos. The team on the day included David Holland and Andrea Warren. Special thanks to Wilkinsons in Worthing who donated the runners-up frames, Sam Pink for photographing the winners and Natasha Parker-Small and Amanda for photographing the audience. As always a special thank you to Stephen Richards for holding everything together on the night and Besmir Dema for producing the powerpoint display of the nominations and winners on the big screens. The Rainbow Fund who give grants to LGBT/HIV organisations who provide front line services to the LGBT community received £3,500. MindOut have been awarded a £6,000 Gscene bursary for the next 12 months and The Clare Project, Peer Action and Lunch Positive a £2,000 Gscene bursary each for the next 12 months also. Finally a special thank you to Bill Cole for leaving the dodgem cars overnight for us to use. James Ledward
FAVOURITE VOLUNTARY SECTOR ORGANISATION: MINDOUT
FAVOURITE CLUB: BASEMENT CLUB @ LEGENDS
FAVOURITE CLUB NIGHT: GIRLS ON TOP @ REVENGE
FAVOURITE BIG BAR & HOTEL: LEGENDS
FAVOURITE CABARET VENUE: CHARLES STREET
FAVOURITE SMALL BAR: BULLDOG
FAVOURITE BAR BOY: ED STOCKER
FAVOURITE BAR GIRL: RACHEL HOGG
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO DR MARTIN FISHER FOR DEVELOPING BRIGHTON’S SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH HIV
SPECIAL AWARD FOR FUNDRAISING FOR AIDS/HIV: DANNY DWYER (BEAR PATROL)
FAVOURITE HIV ORGANISATION JOINT WINNER: LUNCH POSITIVE
COMMUNITY AWARD TO JASON SAW (MINDOUT) FOR HIS WORK WITH MINDOUT LGBT MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT
29 TO ACTUALLY SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDGSCENE GAY MEN’S CHOIR FOR THEIR DEBUT ALBUM SOMEWHERE FOR ME
FAVOURITE HIV ORGANISATION: JOINT WINNER: SUSSEX BEACON
FAVOURITE DJ: ALEX BAKER
FAVOURITE HOSTESS: JOAN BOND
FAVOURITE DOOR SECURITY: CARL DIVALL AT SUBLINE
FAVOURITE VENUE FOR TRANS*: LEGENDS
FAVOURITE ENTERTAINER: MISS JASON
FAVOURITE NON LICENSED BUSINESS: THE BRIGHTON SAUNA
FAVOURITE WOMEN’S VENUE: BAR REVENGE
FAVOURITE LGBT SOCIAL GROUP: BRIGHTON GAY MENS CHORUS
FAVOURITE LANDLORD: COLLIN DAY
FAVOURITE SUNDAY LUNCH: A BAR
FAVOURITE OUT OF TOWN VENUE: THE EDGE SOUTHAMPTON
LOLA LASAGNE
EVA LA DIVA
DODGEMS
MAISIE TROLLETTE
RESOLVE SECURITY TEAM
DAVE LYNN
MYRA DUBOIS
HANDBAG AWARD WINNERS IN ORDER GAY CLUB 1. BASEMENT CLUB AT LEGENDS 2. Revenge 3. Subline 4. Envy at Charles Street 5. Funky Fish Club CLUB NIGHT 1. GIRLS ON TOP (Revenge) 2. Popcandy (Legends) 3. Wild Fruit 4. The Mens Room (Subline) 5. Studio 150 (Envy) VENUE FOR WOMEN 1. BAR REVENGE 2. Revenge 3. Marlborough 4. Grosvenor in Hove 5. Charles Street VENUE FOR TRANS* 1. LEGENDS 2. The Zone 3. Poison Ivy 4. Bar Revenge 5. Revenge BRIGHTON DJ 1. ALEX BAKER (Revenge) 2. Claire Fuller (Legends) 3. Peter Castle (Legends) 4. Dulcie Danger (Wild Fruit) 5. DJ Trick (Revenge) DOOR HOSTESS 1. JOAN BOND (Charles Street) 2. Lady La Rue (Legends) 3. Lou Bag (Bar Revenge) 4. Stephanie Starlett 5. Sonia Marmite (Poison Ivy) DOOR SECURITY 1. CARL DIVALL (Subline) 2. Liz Blythe (Bar Revenge) 3. Ryan Gosling (Charles Street) 4. Sharon Walsh (Legends) 5. Duncan Cobb (The Edge) SMALL BAR 1. BULLDOG 2. Camelford Arms 3. Queens Arms 4. Poison Ivy 5. Bedford Tavern LARGE BAR 1. LEGENDS 2. Bar Revenge 3. Charles Street 4. Dr Brighton's 5. A Bar
3. Mat Richards (Bedford Tavern) 4. Sam McLaughlan (Revenge) 5. Jamie Jones (Marine Tavern) BAR GIRL 1. RACHEL HOGG (Bedford Tavern 2. Collette Newbound (A Bar) 3. Dana Catterson (Revenge) 4. Jemela Quick (Revenge) 5. Amy Bowditchl (Charles Street) CABARET VENUE 1. CHARLES STREET 2. Queens Arms 3. Legends 4. Bulldog 5. Church Street LOCAL ENTERTAINER 1. MISS JASON 2. Drag with no name 3. Lola Lasagne 4. Tammy Twinkle 5. Dave Lynn BRIGHTON HOTEL 1. LEGENDS 2. Queens Hotel 3. Amsterdam 4. Metropole Hotel 5. New Steine Hotel OUT OF TOWN VENUE 1. THE EDGE (Southampton) 2. Bar 7 (Crawley) 3. The Stage (Worthing) 4. London Hotel (Southampton) 5. The Hart (Eastbourne)
Based in central Brighton, the Clare Project weekly drop-in is a safe and confidential space to explore issues around gender identity. Facilitated peer support is an important element, as well as providing access to low-cost psychotherapy.
CLARE PROJECT meets every TUESDAY at DORSET GARDENS METHODIST CHURCH Dorset Gardens (off St James St) Brighton BN2 1RL from 2.30–5.30pm except on the first Tuesday of each month, when there is an optional meal out in the evening preceded by the drop-in from 5–7.30pm. More details can be found on the website www.clareproject.org.uk or find on us facebook under Clare Project. Email clareprojectinfo@gmail.com
SUNDAY LUNCH VENUE 1. A BAR 2. 112 Church Street 3. Camelford Arms 4. Bedford Tavern 5. Regency Tavern BUSINESS (NON LICENSED) 1. BRIGHTON SAUNA 2. Prowler 3. LoveFit Cafe 4. Cardome 5. Red Roaster Cafe LGBT SOCIAL GROUP 1. BRIGHTON GAY MEN'S CHORUS 2. Bear Patrol 3. Actually Gay Men's Chorus 4. BLAGSS 5. Brighton University LGBT Society
LGBT VOLUNTARY SECTOR ORG 1. MINDOUT 2. LGBT Switchboard 3. Allsorts Youth Project LANDLORD/LANDLADY 1. COLLIN DAY (Church Street) 4. LGBT Community Safety Forum 2. Adam Brookes (Bedford Tavern) 5. Clare Project 3. Steve Chillingworth (Marine Tav) LGBT VOLUNTARY HIV ORG 4. Andrew Roberts (Revenge) 1. SUSSEX BEACON 5. Mark Flood (Camelford Arms) 1. LUNCH POSITIVE 3. Terence Higgins Trust BAR BOY 1.ED STOCKER (Charles Street) 4. Peer Action 2. David Weeble (Subline
GSCENE COMMUNITY/SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS • Danny Dwyer (for his fundraising for AIDS/HIV) • Allsorts (for their trans* youth group Transformers) • Dr Martin Fisher (for developing services for people with HIV) • Jason Saw (for his work with Mindout LGBT mental health project) • Actually GMC (for their debut album ‘Somewhere For Me’)
We are an independent LGBT Forum working with the Community to address and improve safety issues in Brighton & Hove. We hold quarterly public meetings. Please sign up for our news letter at: www.lgbt-safety-forum-brighton.com/newsletter
TRUST AND CONFIDENCE SURVEY recommendations out now - visit www.lgbt-safety-forum-brighton.com/survey
WISHING BRIGHTON & HOVE A SAFE AND HAPPY PRIDE STAY SAFE THIS PRIDE! For a list of local support groups visit www.lgbt-safety-forum-brighton.com/support-groups
For advice on reporting crime visit www.lgbt-safety-forum-brighton.com/report-a-crime
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PICS FROM A-BAR, BAR 7 CRAWLEY, BRIGHTON SAUNA + BULLDOG
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A-BAR
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Reduced Mooi Caribbean menu served noon–6pm Fri (2), Sat (3) and Sun (4). n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Wed is the OPEN MIC night with Mark Hodge; sing your favourite tune with Mark or just listen at 8.30pm. n REGULARS: Fri & Sat is PRE-CLUB music and drink promos. n FOOD: bar food served Mon–Fri noon–3.30pm; Sat noon–7pm; Sunday roasts served from noon, last orders 4pm, to book call 01273 696691; Mooi Foods Caribbean restaurant and take away served Sun–Fri 5–10pm. n DRINK DEALS: double-up on spirits for an extra £1.50 on Fri & Sat. Wed & Thur are cocktail nights from 9pm; buy one get the other half price. n OPEN: Sun–Thur noon–midnight; Fri & Sat noon–2am. Unrivalled sea view, large heated smoking terrace and all big sport events.
Information is correct at the time of going to 8pm; open noon-3am press. Gscene cannot be held responsible for n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS The Big Gay Pub Quiz any changes or alterations to the listings THURSDAY 1 n A-BAR bar food 12-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; cocktail night; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Proud to Party 6pm n BAR REVENGE Girls On Top Neon White Party Warm-Up 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Pre-Pride Frisky Disco: DJ Ben Castle 11pm-5am n BEDFORD TAVERN Thur Social n BULLDOG Release: DJ Grant 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash Pride Quiz 9pm; food 12-3pm & 6-9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Mad Cow’s Tea Party Pride 2 Floor Special: Ms Joan Bond, DJs Leeroy & Ruby Roo, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots, win bar tabs, £1 per entry donated to Pride
BAR 7 CRAWLEY
8pm; open 3pm-late n ENVY Mad Cow’s Tea Party Pride Two Floor Special: hostess Ms Joan Bond, DJ Lil Alex, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots, win bar tabs, £1 per entry donated to Pride 8pm-3am n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR Pre-Pride Cabaret: Drag With No Name 9.30pm; food 12-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY cabaret 9.30pm; karaoke; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS An Audience With Dave Lynn: stories & games 9.30pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Pride Opening Neon White Party: Girls On Top v inDecent, 10.30pm n SUBLINE Leathered 9pm
n PRIDE: Sat (3) is the PRIDE DIRTY POP PARTY with DJ Waynsierudeboy. n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Sat (24) is a WILD WEST themed party with DJ Cozmo Ben & drink promos. n REGULARS: Tue is PARTY NIGHT with DJ Magic, happy hour 6–9pm. n Wed is DRAG BINGO with Lady Ty. n Thur is PROUD TO PARTY with drink promos. n Fri is LUST with DJ Magic & drink promos; (16) is SuperHero themed, (23) is cabaret with Mitzi Macintosh. n Sat is PARTY NIGHT with drink promos and DJs: Kirsty Anderson (10), Waynsierudeboy (17) and Edg, Mix & Match Mayhem & cabaret with Drag With No Name (31). n Sun is KARAOKE hosted by Ed & Tyler, sing to win a shot. n OPEN: Sun, Tue & Wed 6pm–12.30am; Thur–Sat 6pm–2.30am. Closed Mon. n www.7crawley.co.uk
n ZONE open 10am
n DR BRIGHTONS Pre-Pride Party: DJ Nick Hirst 9pm; open 1pm-4am FRIDAY 2 n DSD@OHSO SOCIAL Pride Lift Off: DJs n A-BAR Pride: reduced Mooi Caribbean menu Queen Josephine, Chris Barker & Hifi Sean, noon-6pm; open noon percentage of profits to Rainbow Fund 8pm n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Lust: DJ Magic 6pm n ENVY Fruity Fri Fix Two Floor Pre-Pride n BAR REVENGE Girls On Top Pride Warm-Up Party: DJs Tony B, Jonesy & Lil Alex 9pm-3am Party 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon-6am n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Pre-Pride n FUNKYFISH CLUB Comic Pride: stand-up Terrace Party: 3 spaces, 2 floors, DJs Peter comedy with Pierre Hollins, Julie Jepson, Cath Castle, Claire Fuller, Ben Castle 8pm-4am Bailey, Fraser Geesin, tickets £10 7pm; Thank n BEDFORD TAVERN Pre-Pride Cabaret: Funk It’s Pride: DJs over 2 rooms 9.30pm Crystal D’Canter; open noon n LEGENDS BAR Pre-Pride Terrace Party: 3 n BRIGHTON SAUNA Pride 24 Hour Weekend spaces, 2 floors, DJs Peter Castle, Claire Fuller, 10am Ben Castle 8pm; food 12-5.30pm; open 11n BULLDOG 68-Hour-Long Pride Weekender: 4am DJ Grant Knowles 10pm; cabaret: Sandra n MARINE TAVERN open noon-2am midnight; open 11am n POISON IVY karaoke 7pm; open 11-3am n CAMELFORD ARMS food 12-3pm & 6n QUEEN’S ARMS Pre-Pride Camp Attack & 9pm; FriClub & Pre-Pride Party 6pm; open 12 karaoke 8pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Fruity Fri Fix 2 Floor Pre-Pride n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & Party: DJ Leeroy 9pm; food 12-7.45pm; open 6-8.30pm; open 11am noon-3am n REVENGE Revenge v Gaydio Pride Warm Up: n 112 CHURCH ST cabaret: Jennie Castelle DJs Lee Harris & Trick on the main floor, 9pm; food noon-late; open noon Lollipop Stu & ALex Baker on level 2 10.30pm
BRIGHTON SAUNA
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Open from 10am on Fri (2)–1am on Tue (6) (closes for 1 hour cleaning on Sun & Mon at 9am). Entry after 11am on Fri (2) is £15 standard entry, right through the weekend into Mon. No concessions on Sat (3) from 10am, and weekend pass not available at all on Pride weekend. Licensed bar till 2am every night, all drinks £3, Cidre £3.50. Food available throughout, plus fresh tea, coffee and internet. Private luxury cabins available to hire in 12 hour slots at normal rates, call 01273 689966 to book in advance. n REGULARS: Wed (7) is BEARS NIGHT for bears, cubs and admirers; drink offers, club music at 7pm. Wed (14 & 28) is NAKED all day, no towels to be worn. Wed (21) is mandatory UNDERWEAR NIGHT, thongs, briefs, speedos, at 7pm. n DRINKS: licensed bar 7 days a week; Sun–Thur 11–1am and Fri & Sat 11–2am. n OPEN: For future listings visit: www.thebrightonsauna.com
PICS FROM THE BULLDOG
BULLDOG
n PRIDE WEEKEND: 68-Hour-Long Non-Stop Weekend from 11am on Fri (2) to 7am on Mon (5). n Fri is DJ Grant Knowles at 10pm, CABARET with Sandra at midnight. n Sat is a STREET PARTY 6pm–midnight, karaoke at 11.30pm, DJ V John at midnight. n Sun PRIDE STREET PARTY 2–8pm, DJ Grant Knowles at 8pm. n BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND: The 92-Hour Non-Stop Bank Holiday IBIZA BEACH PARTY Weekend with 3 tonnes of sand from 11am on Fri (23) –7am on Mon (26). n ON FOR THE DIARY: Sun (11) is the Help for Heroes Charity Benefit with over 20 acts live on stage, a raffle and an auction at 3pm. n REGULARS: Wed is DIVA RUSH, all drinks £1.60 when selected artist is played and the traffic light turns to green, 10pm–2am. n Thur is RELEASE with DJ Grant Knowles at 10pm. n Fri CABARET is in the top bar at midnight: Lady Imelda (9), Cassidy Connors (16), The Kruger Sisters (23), Lizzy Drip (30); DJ Grant Knowles is downstairs at 10pm. n Sat is with DJ V John at 10pm, DJ Lil Alex at 3am, and karaoke upstairs at 10pm. n Sun is with DJ Grant Knowles at 8pm, karaoke is upstairs at 8pm. n Mon is DJ Marcia’s Glitter Ball with 70s & 80s tunes at 10pm. n DRINK DEALS: Mon & Tue 3–7pm & 11pm–midnight; Wed 3–7pm; Thur 3–7pm & 10pm–midnight; Fri 3–7pm & drinks £1.60 10pm–midnight; Sat 10pm–midnight; Sun all day–midnight. Times/drink deals may change over Pride weekend. Drinks inc: pints from £1.95, double spirit & mixer from £2.30, bottles from £1.85 (Ts & Cs apply). n OPEN: daily from 11am–very late. n www.bulldogbrighton.com n SUBLINE Pride Warm Up: afternoon session 5pm; night shift: DJ Screwpulous 9pm n ZONE Pre-Pride Party: JJ & Juliette + dancing 9.30pm; open 10am
Tom Logan in room 1; DJ Ali in room 2 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon-5am n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n CROWN & ANCHOR Pride: breakfast 9am-12; BBQ 1pm; cabaret: Miss Jason 9pm n DR BRIGHTONS Pre-Pride Parade drinks SATURDAY 3 10am; DJs 6pm; Street Party 6pm; open 10n A-BAR Pride: reduced Mooi Caribbean 4am menu noon-6pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Pride Dirty Pop Party: n DSD@OHSO SOCIAL Pride Full Throttle Super Icons: DJs Queen Josephine, Chris DJ Waynsierudeboy 6pm Barker, guest Paul Coals, host Kane O’Farrell, n BAR REVENGE Girls On Top Pride Party: dancers, lasers, giveaways, percentage of DJs 6pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS After Pride profits donated to Rainbow Fund 8pm n ENVY Fierce Pride Two-Floor Special: DJs Terrace Party: 3 spaces, 2 floors, DJs Richard Lil Alex, Leeroy, Grant Knowles & Tom Logan in Jones, Claire Fuller, Missy B, Peter Castle & room 1; DJ Ali in room 2 9pm-5am Ben Castle 7pm-5am n FUNKYFISH BAR DJ 7pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Happy Pride! n FUNKYFISH CLUB Drag Ball: DJs + show n BRIGHTON SAUNA Pride 24 Hour hosted by Lady La Rue featuring Cookie Weekend n BULLDOG 68-Hour-Long Pride Weekender: Monstar, stripper Jaydon Jay, cash prize of street party 6pm; karaoke 11.30pm; DJ V John £250 for the best dressed 9.30pm n LEGENDS BAR After Pride Terrace Party: 3 midnight spaces, 2 floors, DJs Richard Jones, Claire n CAMELFORD ARMS Pride Party with hot Fuller, Missy B, Peter Castle & Ben Castle dogs all day; open noon 7pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11-5am n CHARLES ST Fierce Pride Two-Floor Special: DJs Lil Alex, Leeroy, Grant Knowles & n MARINE TAVERN Pride; open 12-3.30am
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LISTINGS
CAMELFORD ARMS
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is the £300 Big Cash Pride QUIZ NIGHT at 9pm. Fri (2) is the FRIDAY CLUB & Pre-Pride Party at 6pm. Sat (3) & Sun (4) are Pride Parties all day with hot dogs and great atmosphere! n BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND: Fri (23) is the Bank Holiday FRIDAY CLUB at 6pm. Mon (26), food service extended noon–9pm. n REGULARS: Thur is the £300 Big Cash QUIZ at 9pm. n FRIDAY CLUB is at 6pm. n FOOD: home-cooked menu & manager's specials served Mon–Fri noon–3pm & 6–9pm; Mon (26) noon–9pm; Sat noon–7pm; Wed is seniors' lunch with two courses for £5.50 served 2–3.30pm; Sunday roasts & select menu served noon–till gone! Hot dogs served over Pride weekend, Sat (3) & Sun (4). n OPEN: daily from noon. The Camelford is the most dog-friendly pub in town. n PARIS HOUSE live jazz 4pm; TC’s Joyful Noise: DJ Kenny 9pm; open noon n POISON IVY outdoor bar; open 11-3am n QUEEN’S ARMS Pride & QA in the Street: outside bar, drag hosts, karaoke & dancing 3pm-3am; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN Rebecca’s Pride Breakfast 9am; open 11am n REVENGE Pride roof terrace party: DJ & free Pimms 3pm; Icons of Pride Party: DJs Zach Burns, Lee Harris, Sam DMS, King K, Smithy, Alex Baker & Trick 10pm n SUBLINE Pride Breakfast 11am-1pm; Sanctuary: chilled sounds, Barcode Berlin specials 5pm; Pride Underground: DJ Screwpulous 9pm n TRAUMFRAU@PHOENIX Pride Fair: DJs, live acts, live drawing, exhibitions, 8pm n WILD FRUIT@SHOOSHH Official PostPride Party in 3 rooms with hosts Chrissy Darling & Dolly Rocket: DJs Steve Pitron, Guy Williams, Fat Tony & guests in main room; DJs Severino & Micky Galliano in bears room; DJs Big John, Jeffrey Hinton & Patrick Liley in urban room hosted by Work + seafront terrace, 4 bars, VIP area 10pm-6am n ZONE Happy Pride!
SUNDAY 4 n A-BAR Pride: reduced Mooi Caribbean menu noon-6pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Ed & Tyler’s karaoke 6pm n BAR REVENGE Sunday Funday: retro games; Karaoke Queens: LouBag & Smithy 8pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Pride Pop!Candy: DJ Claire Fuller 9pm n BEDFORD TAVERN Sunday roasts 12.305pm; Piano Bingo 5pm; open noon n BRIGHTON SAUNA Pride 24 Hour Weekend n BULLDOG 68-Hour-Long Pride Weekender: street party 2pm; DJ Grant Knowles 8pm; closes 7am n CAMELFORD ARMS Pride Party with hot dogs all day; open noon n CHARLES ST Apres Pride: house in the bar 3pm; DJs Lil Alex, Grant Knowles, Jonesy & Leeroy till 3am; food served from noon n 112 CHURCH ST Sun Roast noon-late; open noon n CROWN & ANCHOR food noon-10pm; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Pride Recovery; Reflex: DJ Adam Rice 8pm; open noon-4am
n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR Non-Stop Cabaret Fundraiser for Rainbow Fund: hosted by Lola Lasagne with 16 top acts 3pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open 1pm-2am n POISON IVY outdoor bar; open 11-3am n QUEEN’S ARMS Pride Street Party noon; karaoke 3pm & 8pm; Pride cabaret: Sandra 6.30pm; cabaret: Benji O’fficial 10.30pm; dancing/karaoke till 3am; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN Sunday roasts noon5pm; Piano Bar 1.30pm; open noon n REVENGE live performance: S Club 8.30pm; Girls On Top v inDecent Foam Party: all-girl DJs on main floor, DJs King K & Adam Turner on level 2 10.30pm n SUBLINE Fetish Pride 1pm; Pride Eruption: DJ NUDE 8pm n SUNDAY SUNDAE@AUDIO Pride Reunion: DJs Guy Williams, Fat Tony, Pete Hayward, Richard Jones, Kate Wildblood & Queen Josephine 3pm-late n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live jazz: The Ian Price Jazz Project 3pm; open noon n WILD FRUIT@SHOOSHH Official Pride Closing Party over 3 floors: DJs Dulcie Danger, Lil Alex, Richard Jones, Becky Perry, Lady Lola, Missy B & special guest tba 10pm-late n ZONE Gay Village Street Party; open 10-4am MONDAY 5 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR REVENGE Quiz with Liz 8.30pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BRIGHTON SAUNA Pride 24 Hour Weekend; closes 1am n BULLDOG DJ Marcia’s Glitter Ball 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 69pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Pride Mon Cabaret: Pie & Mash (Dolly Diamond & Rose Garden) 7.30pm;
food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food noon-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Medication Mon; open 3pm n ENVY Pride Studio 150: student night 10pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR Miss Jason Does Legends 9.30pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY Spice’s 80s night; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Pride Closing Party: Lola Lasagne 9.30pm; open noon n REBEL AFTERHOURS Pride BlowOut: DJs Paul Heron, Neil Duffie, Guy Williams, Seamus Haji, Dulcie Danger, King K, Lee Harris, Pete Hayward, Queen Josephine, Kate Wildblood, Mikalis, Hollie, Lil Alex, Lee Jeffery, Jonny M, Jon Byrne & Miss Masters n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am TUESDAY 6 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY DJ Magic; open 6pm n BAR REVENGE VIP Tue: Harry’s Karaoke, DJs Kelly & Fifi, win drinks/VIP cards/bar tabs 8pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Theatre Bar; open noon n BULLDOG open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 69pm; open noon n CHARLES ST food 12-8pm; open 12 n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tue; open 3pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN Nat’s Quiz 9pm; open 12 n POISON IVY Bar 150 karaoke 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS sing-along with Peter, Les & friends 9pm; open noon
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PICS FROM CHARLES STREET + ENVY
AUGUST
LISTINGS
CHARLES STREET BAR
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is MAD COW TEA PARTY Pride 2 Floor Special with hostess Joan Bond, tea pot cocktails, drink me shots & pumping tunes with DJs LeeRoy & Ruby Roo (bar) and Lil Alex (club) 8pm–3am; entry £2 from 8pm, £3 after 10pm, £1 donated to Pride. n Fri (2) is Icons of House & Dance FRUITY FRIDAY FIX PrePride Party on 2 floors with the best house & dance courtesy of DJ Leeroy (bar), DJs Tony B, Jonesy & Lil Alex (club) 9pm–3am; entry free b4 10pm, £3 after. n Sat (3) is FIERCE PRIDE on 2 floors with 2 dance zones, DJs Lil Alex, Leeroy, Grant Knowles & Tom Logan funky house & dance (room 1), DJ Ali commercial dance & chart (room 2) 9pm–5am; entry free b4 10pm, £8 b4 midnight, £8 Q-jumpers available at the bar now! n Sun (4) is APRES PRIDE with house in the bar from 3pm, DJs Lil Alex, Grant Knowles, Jonesy & Leeroy till 3am; entry free b4 10pm, food from noon. n Mon (5) is PRIDE CABARET with Pie & Mash (Dolly Diamond & Rose Garden) 7.30pm. n BANK HOLIDAY: Sat (24) Builders & Scaffolders Party celebrates the scaffolding coming down. Mon (26) is Bank Holiday Cabaret with Glam Jam at 7.30pm. n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Sun (11) is Maisie Trollette's 80th Birthday Show 7.30pm. n REGULARS: Wed is CABARET CAROUSEL at 9.30pm: Bitch'n Synch (Rose Garden & Mitzi Macintosh) (7 & 21) & Trashville Tennessee (14 & 28), free entry. n Thur is MAD COW'S TEA PARTY with Alice in Wonderland décor, tea pot cocktails, 'drink me' shots, pumping tunes & hostess Ms Joan Bond at 8pm, drinks from £1, win a bar tab for the night, entry £1. n FRUITY FRIDAY FIX with DJ Leeroy best dance & funky house at 9pm; cocktails from £3.50 a glass, £8.50 a jug 9pm–close, free entry. n Sat is BOYS IN THE BAR all-male DJ line-up Jonesy, Lil Alex, Grant Knowles & Leeroy on rotation at 9pm, free entry! n Sun CABARET at 7.30pm: Drag With No Name (18), Titti La Camp (25); TRANNY ROCK & ROLL BINGO with Sally Vate & rolling jackpot 8.30pm. n FOOD: Two for £7.95 on selected mains and 2-4-1 on all desserts, all day every day; Sunday Lunch: home roast beef, chicken or veggie served noon–7pm, £6.95. n DRINK DEALS: Afterwork happy hours: all drinks 1/3rd off Mon–Sat from 5–9pm, till 8pm on Thur, on Sun after the show till close. All deals exclude sparkling wine & cocktails & not in conjunction with other offers. n OPEN: daily from noon. n www.charles-street.com
n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Naughty Pop: DJs Trick & Alex Baker 11pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS The Pickin’ Circle 8pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am WEDNESDAY 7 n A-BAR open mic with Mark Hodge 8.30pm; bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 510pm; cocktail night; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Lady Ty’s Drag Bingo; open 6pm n BAR REVENGE pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS DJ Missy B 10pm
n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BRIGHTON SAUNA Bears Night 7pm n BULLDOG Diva Rush: DJ Marcia 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS seniors lunch 23.30pm; reg food 12-3pm & 6-9pm; open 12 n CHARLES ST Cabaret Carousel: Bitch’n Synch (Rose Garden & Mitzi Macintosh) 9.30pm; food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic; open 3pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY Gloria Hole’s karaoke: win £100 7pm; open 11am
ENVY @ CHARLES ST
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is MAD COW TEA PARTY Pride Two Floor Special with hostess Joan Bond, tea pot cocktails, drink me shots & pumping tunes with DJs LeeRoy & Ruby Roo (bar) and Lil Alex (club) 8pm–3am; entry £2 from 8pm, £3 after 10pm, £1 donated to Pride. n Fri (2) is Icons of House & Dance FRUITY FRIDAY FIX Pre-Pride Party on 2 floors with the best house & dance courtesy of DJ Leeroy (bar), DJs Tony B, Jonesy & Lil Alex (club) 9pm–3am; entry free b4 10pm, £3 after. n Sat (3) is FIERCE PRIDE on 2 floors with 2 dance zones, DJs Lil Alex, Leeroy, Grant Knowles & Tom Logan funky house & dance (room 1), DJ Ali commercial dance & chart (room 2) 9pm–5am; entry free b4 10pm, £8 b4 midnight, £8 Q-jumpers available at the bar now! n Mon (4) is a special PRIDE STUDIO 150 till 3am with singles & bottles for £1.50, entry £1.50. n REGULARS: Mon is the STUDIO 150 student night with singles or bottles for £1.50 all night, entry £1.50. Mon (5) is the Bank Holiday Studio 150. open till 3am. n Thur is MAD COW'S TEA PARTY with Alice in Wonderland décor, tea pot cocktails, 'drink me' shots, pumping tunes & hostess Ms Joan Bond at 8pm, drinks from £1, win a bar tab for the night, entry £1. n www.charles-street.com n QUEEN’S ARMS Candi’s Capers karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n SUBLINE Backlash: retro night 9pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Big Cash Quiz 7.30pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am THURSDAY 8 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; cocktail night; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Proud to Party 6pm n BAR REVENGE Girls On Top warm-up: DJ Kelly L 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Thur Social; open 12
n BULLDOG Release: DJ Grant 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash Quiz 9pm; food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots & win bar tabs 8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food noon-late; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thur; open 3pm n ENVY Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots & win bar tabs 8pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon
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PICS FROM BEARS WEEKEND @ CHURCH STREET, DR BRIGHTONS + FUNKY FISH
AUGUST
LISTINGS
CHURCH STREET
DR BRIGHTONS
n ONE FOR THE DAIRY: Fri CABARET at 9pm: Jennie Castelle (2), Jason Lee (9), Miss Jason (16), Krissie DuCann (23) and Pooh La May (30). n FOOD: specials served Mon–Sat noon–late, buy two lunches for £10; Golden Handbag-winning Sunday lunches served noon–late. n OPEN: All private parties catered for, contact Collin on 01273 606864 or in the bar. Find the secret beer garden for some summer sunshine, it's the perfect place for a drink and a smoke!
SATURDAY 10 n A-BAR Pre-club music; food noon-7pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY DJ Kirsty Anderson 6pm
SUNDAY 11 n A-BAR Sunday roasts: bookings 01273 696691 noon-4pm; Mooi Caribbean food 510pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Ed & Tyler’s karaoke 6pm n BAR REVENGE Sunday Funday: retro games; Karaoke Queens: LouBag & Smithy 8pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Pop!Candy: DJ Claire Fuller 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN Sunday roasts 12.305pm; Piano Bingo 5pm; open noon n BULLDOG Help for Heroes Fundraiser: 20 live acts, raffle & auction 3pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS Sunday roasts & selected menu noon-till gone; open noon
n CHARLES ST Maisie Trollette’s 80th Birthday Show 7.30pm; Tranny Rock & Roll Bingo: Sally Vate & roll over jackpot 8.30pm; Sunday lunch noon-7pm n 112 CHURCH ST Sunday Roast noonlate; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Hangover Therapy; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR cabaret: Sandra 3.15pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open 1pm
n POISON IVY cabaret 5.30pm; karaoke; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS QA’s 22nd Birthday Cabaret Show with Ceri Dupree: 2 different shows 6pm & 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN Sunday roasts noon5pm; Piano Bar 1.30pm; open noon n SUBLINE Come in Your Pants: DJ N.U.D.E, underwear party 9pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live jazz: The Ian Price Jazz Project 3pm; open noon n ZONE live music: Collusion 6pm; open 10am
JULIE JEPSON
FRIDAY 9 n A-BAR Pre-club music; bar food 12-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Lust: DJ Magic 6pm n BAR REVENGE Shameless warm-up 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Friday Night Live with Lady La Rue: 2 floor party, DJ Peter Castle in club 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN Krazy Kamikaze Karaoke 8.30pm; open noon n BULLDOG DJ Grant Knowles 10pm; cabaret: Lady Imelda midnight; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; Friday Club 6pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Fruity Fri Fix: DJ Leeroy 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST cabaret: Jason Lee 9pm; food noon-late; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Funky Fri: DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n FUNKYFISH CLUB Thank Funk It’s Friday: DJ Antony 10.30pm n LEGENDS BAR Friday Night Live with Lady La Rue, 2 floor party 9pm; DJ Peter Castle in club 11pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY karaoke 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Camp Attack & Flashback with karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open 11am n REVENGE Shameless: DJs Lee Harris & Trick 10.30pm n SUBLINE open 5pm n ZONE live music: Back Beat 9.30pm; open 10am
n BAR REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Free warm-up: DJ Fifilicious 9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG DJ V John 10pm; DJ Lil Alex 3am; karaoke 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-7pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Boys In The Bar: all-male DJs Jonesy, Lil Alex, Grant Knowles, Leeroy on rotation 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Sexy Sat: DJ Tony B 9.30pm; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n FUNKYFISH CLUB Old Skool Sat: DJ Sean Quinn 10pm n LEGENDS BAR Pre-Fusion 7pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n PARIS HOUSE live jazz 4pm; TC’s Joyful Noise: DJ Kenny 9pm; open noon n POISON IVY afternoon karaoke & Betty Swollocks’ karaoke till midnight; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS cabaret: Auntie Robbie 4.30pm; mystery guest karaoke 6pm; Kamp Kevin’s Sat Night Party 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-6pm; open 11am n REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Still Free: guest DJ Jonesy & regs over 2 floors 10.30pm n SUBLINE Men’s Room: DJ Screwpulous 9pm; open 5pm n ZONE cabaret: Sally Vate 9.30pm; open 10am
PIERRE HOLLINS
n POISON IVY cabaret 9.30pm; karaoke; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Girls On Top: DJs over 2 floors 10.30pm n SUBLINE Leathered 9pm n ZONE open 10am
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is THE BIG GAY PUB QUIZ at 8pm with happy hour prices 3–10pm, open 3pm–late. n Fri (2) is The PRE-PRIDE PARTY with DJ Nick Hirst at 9pm, open extra late till 4am. n Sat (3) is PRE-PARADE drinks from 10am, free shots, and then a DJ & STREET PARTY at 6pm, open 10–4am. n Sun (4) is Pride Hangover Therapy with REFLEX 80s night with DJ Adam Rice at 8pm, open noon–4am. n BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND: Sun (25) is Bank Holiday Hangover Therapy with REFLEX 80s night at 8pm. n REGULARS: FUNKY FRIDAY with DJ Nick Hirst at 9.30pm, free entry. n SEXY SATURDAY with DJ Tony B is at 9.30pm, free entry. n DRINK DEALS: from Sun–Thur all day and Fri & Sat from 1–7pm: Fosters & Carling £3.15 a pint, large Smirnoff & mixer £4, large Smirnoff & energy drink £5. Buy two cocktails for £11 from Sun–Thur. Free game of pool every day with every round of drinks purchased during happy hour. n OPEN: Mon–Thur 3pm–midnight; Fri & Sat 1pm–2am; Sun 1pm–midnight. n www.doctorbrightons.co.uk
FUNKY FISH
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Fri (2) is COMIC PRIDE stand-up with comedians Pierre Hollins, Julie Jepson, Cath Bailey, Fraser Geesin, tickets £10 at 7pm; then it's THANK FUNK IT'S PRIDE with DJs over 2 rooms playing disco, party anthems & house at 9.30pm, free entry. n Sat (3) features a DJ in the bar at 7pm, free entry. The DRAG BALL is in the club with DJs playing party favourites, house & club classics from 9.30pm; then it's the show at midnight featuring hostess Lady LaRue, Cookie Monstar, a 'full monty' strip by Jaydon Jay and a cash prize of £250 for the best dressed, free entry. n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Fri (30) is DIRTY RETRO with some of London's funkiest DJs 1960s–80s disco grooves/electro rocking retro club classics at 10.30pm, free entry. n REGULARS: Fri is THANK FUNK IT’S FRIDAY with DJ Antony playing funk/soul/disco/dance & more at 10.30pm, free entry. OLD SCHOOL SATURDAY is with DJ Sean Quinn playing the hottest hits of the 70s/80s & 90s at 10pm, entry £5. n OPEN: The Funky Fish Bar is open daily from noon. www.funkyfishclub.co.uk
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PICS FROM LEGENDS BAR + BASEMENT CLUB
AUGUST
LISTINGS
LEGENDS BAR
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is Pre-Pride CABARET with Drag With No Name at 9.30pm, free entry. n Fri (2) is the Pre-Pride TERRACE PARTY on 2 floors with DJs Peter Castle, Claire Fuller & Ben Castle from 8pm–4am, entry free before 9pm, £5 after. n Sat (3) is the After Pride TERRACE PARTY over two floors with DJs Richard Jones, Claire Fuller, Missy B, Peter Castle & Ben Castle from 7pm–5am, entry free before 8pm, £5 after. n Sun (4) is the Non-Stop CABARET Fundraiser for Rainbow Fund hosted by Lola Lasagne and 16 top acts from 3pm, free entry, donation encouraged. n BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND: Sun (25) is Bank Holiday CABARET with Dolly Diamond at 3.15pm. Mon (26) is Bank Holiday CABARET Lucinda Lashes at 3.15pm, followed by MISS JASON DOES LEGENDS at 9.30pm. n REGULARS: Mon is MISS JASON DOES LEGENDS at 9.30pm. FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE over 2 floors with Lady La Rue, DJ Peter Castle and drink deals from £1.50. n Sat is Pre-Fusion with DJ sounds at 7pm. n Sun CABARET at 3.15pm: Sandra (11) and Glam Jam feat Lady Imelda (18). n FOOD: summer menu, including gourmet burgers, sharers and cream teas, served Mon–Sat noon–5.30pm. Mon–Thur 2 burgers for £10. Check Legends' Facebook or website for food promos. n OPEN: daily from 11am–5am. Heated smoking area, free entry and all day sun-terrace. www.legendsbrighton.com
MONDAY 12 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR REVENGE Quiz with Liz 8.30pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG DJ Marcia’s Glitter Ball 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Medication Mon; open 3pm n ENVY Studio 150: student night 10pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR Miss Jason Does Legends 9.30pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY Spice’s 80s night; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS karaoke party; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am
TUESDAY 13 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY DJ Magic; open 6pm n BAR REVENGE VIP Tue: Harry’s Karaoke, DJs Kelly & Fifi, win drinks/VIP cards/bar tabs 8pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Theatre Bar; open 12 n BULLDOG open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n CROWN & ANCHOR food noon-10pm; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tue; open 3pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN Nat’s Quiz 9pm; open noon n POISON IVY Bar 150 karaoke 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS sing-along with Peter, Les & friends 9pm; open noon
LEGENDS BASEMENT CLUB
n FREE ENTRY: to the Basement Club every day. n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is the Pre-Pride FRISKY DISCO with electro, classic pop & disco courtesy of DJ Ben Castle at 11pm, free entry. n Fri (2) is the Pre-Pride TERRACE PARTY on 2 floors with DJs Peter Castle, Claire Fuller & Ben Castle from 8pm–4am, entry free before 9pm, £5 after. n Sat (3) is the After Pride TERRACE PARTY on 2 floors with DJs Richard Jones, Claire Fuller, Missy B, Peter Castle & Ben Castle from 7pm–5am, entry free before 8pm, £5 after. Sun (4) is the Special Pride POP!CANDY with DJ Claire Fuller 9pm–4am. n REGULARS: Wed is CRUSH with DJ Missy B playing tracks to get you jumping and requests, drinks from £2, £1.50 shots. n FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE on 2 floors with Lady La Rue, DJ Peter Castle and bottles of Becks £1.50, WKD £1.50 and Corona £2.50 all night. n Sat is FUSION with DJ Peter Castle house & chart sounds. Sat (6) is with DJ Lee Harris. n Sun is POP!CANDY with DJ Claire Fuller recent/classic pop, drinks from £2. n OPEN: Fri–Sun 11pm & Wed 10pm. Closed Mon, Tue & Thur. Legends will host your party from £150, call Matt on 01273 624462 for more info. n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Naughty Pop: DJs Trick & Alex Baker 11pm n ZONE open 10am WEDNESDAY 14 n A-BAR open mic with Mark Hodge 8.30pm; bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; cocktail night; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Lady Ty’s Drag Bingo; open 6pm n BAR REVENGE pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS DJ Missy B 10pm
n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BRIGHTON SAUNA Naked Day: no towels 10-1am n BULLDOG Diva Rush: DJ Marcia 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS seniors lunch 23.30pm; reg food 12-3pm & 6-9pm; open 12 n CHARLES ST Cabaret Carousel: Trashville Tennessee 9.30pm; food 12-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic; open 3pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food noon-5.30pm; open 11am
PICS FROM LEGENDS BASEMENT CLUB, MARINE TAVERN + PARIS HOUSE
GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 43
AUGUST
LISTINGS
MARINE TAVERN
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Open till 2am Fri (2); till 3.30am Sat (3); till 2am Sun (4). n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Tue is NAT’S QUIZ at 9pm. n DRINK DEALS: Wed & Thur 7–11pm: pints of Carlsberg & Stowford Press £3, plus buy a single spirit and get the mixer free. n OPEN: Mon–Sat noon, Sun 1pm.
n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY Gloria Hole’s karaoke: win £100 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Candi’s Capers karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n SUBLINE Backlash: retro night 9pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Big Cash Quiz 7.30pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am THURSDAY 15 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; cocktail night; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Proud to Party 6pm n BAR REVENGE Girls On Top warm-up: DJ Kelly L 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Thur Social; open 12 n BULLDOG Release: DJ Grant 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash Quiz 9pm; food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots & win bar tabs 8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thur; open 3pm n ENVY Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots & win bar tabs 8pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am
n MARINE TAVERN open noon n PARIS HOUSE live gypsy jazz: Ian Price Project 9pm; open noon n POISON IVY cabaret 9.30pm; karaoke; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Girls On Top: DJs over 2 floors 10.30pm n SUBLINE Leathered 9pm n ZONE open 10am FRIDAY 16 n A-BAR Pre-club tunes; bar food noon5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Superhero themed party: DJ Magic 6pm n BAR REVENGE Shameless warm-up 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Friday Night Live with Lady La Rue: 2 floor party, DJ Peter Castle in club 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN Krazy Kamikaze Karaoke 8.30pm; open noon n BULLDOG DJ Grant Knowles 10pm; cabaret: Cassidy Connors midnight; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; Friday Club 6pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Fruity Fri Fix: DJ Leeroy 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST cabaret: Miss Jason 9pm; food noon-late; open noon
n DR BRIGHTONS Funky Fri: DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm; open 1pm n DSD@OHSO SOCIAL Queen Josephine’s Golden Jubilee: DJs GoBang & Kate Wildblood celebrate Queenie’s 50th Birthday 9pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n FUNKYFISH CLUB Thank Funk It’s Friday: DJ Antony 10.30pm n LEGENDS BAR Friday Night Live with Lady La Rue, 2 floor party 9pm; DJ Peter Castle in club 11pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY karaoke 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Camp Attack & Flashback with karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open 11am n REVENGE Shameless: DJ Trick & Lee Harris 10.30pm n SUBLINE open 5pm n ZONE live music: Jennie Castelle 9.30pm; open 10am SATURDAY 17 n A-BAR Pre-club music; food noon-7pm; open noon
PARIS HOUSE
n BAR 7@CRAWLEY DJ Waynsie-Rudeboy 6pm n BAR REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Free warm-up: DJ Fifilicious 9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG DJ V John 10pm; DJ Lil Alex 3am; karaoke 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-7pm; open noon n CHARLES ST The Boys In The Bar: allmale DJs Jonesy, Lil Alex, Grant Knowles, Leeroy on rotation 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Sexy Sat: DJ Tony B 9.30pm; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n FUNKYFISH CLUB Old Skool Sat: DJ Sean Quinn 10pm n LEGENDS BAR Pre-Fusion 7pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n PARIS HOUSE live jazz 4pm; TC’s Joyful Noise: DJ Kenny 9pm; open noon
n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Thur (15) is live gypsy jazz with the Ian Price Project at 9pm, free entry. n REGULARS: Sat is live jazz at 4pm, free entry; then it's TC's Joyful Noise with DJ Kenny at 9pm, free entry. n FOOD: platter of French food to share & large carafe of wine £15. n OPEN: daily from noon. n www.parishousebrighton.com
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PICS FROM POISON IVY + QUEENS ARMS
AUGUST
LISTINGS
POISON IVY
n PRIDE WEEKEND: On Sat (3) & Sun (4), an outdoor bar will mean you can soak up the Pride atmosphere on St James' Street. Open till 3am on Fri (2), Sat (3) & Sun (4). n REGULARS: KARAOKE all week with drag hosts, including: Spice, Betty Swollocks, Misty Lee & Gloria Hole. n Mon is 80s night with Spice. n Tue is BAR 150 KARAOKE. n Wed is KARAOKE COMPETITION with Gloria Hole, win £100! n Thur CABARET at 9.30pm. n Sun CABARET at 5.30pm. n HAPPY HOURS: 60 a week, including 11am–7pm Tue–Sat; all day Sun & Mon. n POISON IVY afternoon karaoke & Betty Swollocks’ karaoke till midnight; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS cabaret: Broadway to Brighton with Cosmic & West End star 4.30pm; mystery guest karaoke 6pm; Corruption with Cosmic: tunes/games/karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food 12-6pm; open 11am n REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Still Free: guest DJ Zach Burns & & regs over 2 floors 10.30pm n SUBLINE Men’s Room: DJ Screwpulous 9pm; open 5pm n ZONE cabaret: Miss Jason 9.30pm; open 10am SUNDAY 18 n A-BAR Sunday roasts: bookings 01273 696691 noon-4pm; Mooi Caribbean food 510pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Ed & Tyler’s karaoke 6pm n BAR REVENGE Sunday Funday: retro games; Karaoke Queens: LouBag & Smithy 8pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Pop!Candy: DJ Claire Fuller 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN Sunday roasts 12.305pm; Piano Bingo 5pm; open noon n BULLDOG DJ Grant 8pm; karaoke 8pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS Sunday roasts & selected menu noon-till gone; open noon n CHARLES ST cabaret: Drag With No Name 7.30pm; Tranny Rock & Roll Bingo: Sally Vate, roll over jackpot 8.30pm; Sun lunch 12-7pm n 112 CHURCH ST Sun Roast noon-late; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Hangover Therapy; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR cabaret: Glam Jam feat Lady
Imelda 3.15pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open 1pm n POISON IVY cabaret 5.30pm; karaoke; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Super Sun: Sissy Sucs: cabaret: Sandra 6pm; karaoke 7.30pm; open 12 n REGENCY TAVERN Sunday roasts noon5pm; Piano Bar 1.30pm; open noon n SUBLINE Come in Your Pants: DJ N.U.D.E, underwear party 9pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live jazz: The Ian Price Jazz Project 3pm; open noon n ZONE live music: Ian Mark Burzio 6pm; karaoke; open 10am MONDAY 19 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR REVENGE Quiz with Liz 8.30pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG DJ Marcia’s Glitter Ball 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 69pm; open noon n CHARLES ST food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Medication Mon; open 3pm n ENVY Studio 150: student night 10pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR Miss Jason Does Legends 9.30pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY Spice’s 80s night; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS karaoke party; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am
QUEENS ARMS
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Fri (2) is the Pre-Pride CAMP ATTACK with dancing from 8pm–3am. n Sat (3) is Pride & QA IN THE STREET with an outside bar, drag hosts, karaoke and dancing from 3pm–3am. n Sun (4) is the Pride Sunday STREET PARTY from noon; karaoke is inside at 3pm; Sandra performs at 6.30pm; plus more karaoke at 8pm; Benji O'fficial performs a special Pride show at 10.30pm; then dancing and karaoke till 3am. n Mon (5) is the Pride Closing Party with Lola Lasagne at 9.30pm. n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Sun (11) is QA's 22nd BIRTHDAY Celebration with the sensational Ceri Dupree performing 2 completely different shows at 6pm & 9pm. n BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND: Sun (25) CABARET with KARAOKE & two shows: The Kruger Sisters at 6pm, Trudi Styles & Pianoman at 9.30pm. Mon (26) CABARET with Trashville Tennessee at 6pm. n REGULARS:Mon & Wed is KARAOKE Party with over 5,000 songs & drink promos. n Tue is SING-ALONG with Peter, Les & Friends, bring your own backing track to perform on The QA stage.n Thur (1) is An Audience With Dave Lynn with the yes/no game and anecdotes at 9.30pm. n Fri is CAMP ATTACK with FLASHBACK and karaoke at 9pm. n Sat CABARET is at 4.30pm: Auntie Robbie (10), Broadway to Brighton with Cosmic & a West End star (17), Peter Davies & friends (24); mystery guest KARAOKE at 6pm; Kamp Kevin's disco, karaoke & games at 9pm; CORRUPTION with Cosmic at 9pm (17). n Sat (31) is Charity Day CABARET Fundraiser for CJD Disease Research with host Pasty Cline & cabaret stars at 4.30pm; charity KARAOKE make a donation to sing at 6.30pm; Kamp Kevin's disco, karaoke & games at 9pm. n Sun (18) is CABARET with host Sissy Sucs and Sandra at 6pm; KARAOKE at 7.30pm. n OPEN: daily from noon.
TUESDAY 20 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY DJ Magic; open 6pm n BAR REVENGE VIP Tue: Harry’s Karaoke, DJs Kelly & Fifi, win drinks/VIP cards/bar tabs 8pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Theatre Bar; open noon n BULLDOG open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 69pm; open noon n CHARLES ST food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tue; open 3pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN Nat’s Quiz 9pm; open 12 n POISON IVY Bar 150 karaoke 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS sing-along with Peter, Les & friends 9pm; open noon
n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Naughty Pop: DJs Trick & Alex Baker 11pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS The Pickin’ Circle 8pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am WEDNESDAY 21 n A-BAR open mic with Mark Hodge 8.30pm; bar food 12-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 510pm; cocktail night; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Lady Ty’s Drag Bingo; open 6pm n BAR REVENGE pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS DJ Missy B 10pm n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BRIGHTON SAUNA underwear night 7pm n BULLDOG Diva Rush: DJ Marcia 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS seniors lunch 23.30pm; reg food 12-3pm & 6-9pm; open 12
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46 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT
PICS FROM BAR REVENGE + REVENGE
AUGUST
LISTINGS
BAR REVENGE
n CHARLES ST Cabaret Carousel: Bitch’n Synch (Rose Garden & Mitzi Macintosh) 9.30pm; food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic; open 3pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY Gloria Hole’s karaoke: win £100 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Candi’s Capers karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n SUBLINE Backlash: retro night 9pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Big Cash Quiz 7.30pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am THURSDAY 22 n A-BAR bar food 12-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; cocktail night; open 12 n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Proud to Party 6pm n BAR REVENGE Girls On Top warm-up: DJ Kelly L 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Thur Social; open 12 n BULLDOG Release: DJ Grant 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash Quiz 9pm; food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots & win bar tabs 8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12
n DR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thur; open 3pm n ENVY Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots & win bar tabs 8pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY cabaret 9.30pm; karaoke; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Girls On Top: DJs over 2 floors 10.30pm n SUBLINE Leathered 9pm n ZONE open 10am FRIDAY 23 n A-BAR Pre-club tunes; bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm n BAR 7@CRAWLEY cabaret: Mitzi Macintosh + DJ Magic 6pm n BAR REVENGE Shameless warm-up 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Friday Night Live with Lady La Rue: 2 floor party, DJ Peter Castle in club 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG 92 Hour Non Stop Ibiza Beach Party Weekend: DJ Grant Knowles 10pm; cabaret: Kruger Sisters midnight; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 69pm; Bank Hol Friday Club 6pm; open 12 n CHARLES ST Fruity Fri Fix: DJ Leeroy 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is the Girls On Top Neon Party Pride Warm Up. Fri (2) is Girls On Top Pride Warm Up Party, buy a drink from the bar and get a free entry pass into the club before 10.30pm. n Sat (3) is the PRIDE PARTY hosted by the Girls On Top Dream Team, with DJs at 6pm–super late; entry free b4 8pm, £5 after. n REGULARS: SUNDAY FUNDAY with retro games at the bar, and KARAOKE QUEENS with LouBag & Smithy at 8pm. n Mon is QUIZ WITH LIZ with cash prizes at 8.30pm. n Tue is VIP KARAOKE with Harry & DJs Kelly & Fifi at 8pm; win drinks, VIP cards and bar tabs in the club. n Thur is the Girls on Top Official Warm-Up with DJ Kelly L at 9pm. n Fri is the Shameless Warm-Up with DJ Alpha at 9pm. n Sat is the F@#ck Me! It’s Free Warm-Up with DJ Fifilicious at 9pm. n REVENGE PASSES: Free Revenge discount passes on Thur; buy a drink and get free entry into the club on Fri b4 midnight & Sat before 1am. n FOOD: served Sun–Fri 5–9pm & Fri & Sat midnight–6am; pizzas, sandwiches, burgers & more; buy a pizza & 4 drinks for £9.99 Mon–Fri. n DRINK DEALS: 2-4-1 cocktails Sun–Fri 5–9pm; drinks from £1.99 & get half price and reduced wines noon till late on Wed; from £1.50 Thur after 7pm; from £2.49 Fri & Sat; Jagerbombs £1.99 on Sat. n OPEN: daily from noon–2am & till 6am on Fri & Sat. n www.revenge.co.uk n 112 CHURCH ST cabaret: Krissie DuCann 9pm; food noon-late; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Funky Fri: DJ Nick Hirst 9.30pm; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n FUNKYFISH CLUB Thank Funk It’s Friday: DJ Antony 10.30pm n LEGENDS BAR Friday Night Live with Lady La Rue, 2 floor party 9pm; DJ Peter Castle in club 11pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY karaoke 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Camp Attack & Flashback with karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open 11am n REVENGE Shameless: DJs Trick & Lee Harris 10.30pm n SUBLINE Big Scrum: sportskit night 9pm; open 5pm n ZONE live music: Eva La Diva 8pm; open 10am
Josephine & more tba 3pm n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Wild West themed party: DJ Cozmo Ben 6pm n BAR REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Free warmup: DJ Fifilicious 9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG 92 Hour Non Stop Ibiza Beach Party Weekend: DJ V John 10pm; DJ Lil Alex 3am; karaoke 10pm n CAMELFORD ARMS food 12-7pm; open 12 n CHARLES ST Builders & Scaffolders Party 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Sexy Sat: DJ Tony B 9.30pm; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n FUNKYFISH CLUB Old Skool Sat: DJ Sean Quinn 10pm n LEGENDS BAR Pre-Fusion 7pm; food noon5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon SATURDAY 24 n A-BAR Pre-club music; food 12-7pm; open n PARIS HOUSE live jazz 4pm; TC’s Joyful Noise: DJ Kenny 9pm; open noon noon n POISON IVY afternoon karaoke & Betty n ABOVE AUDIO RISE Fundraiser: terrace party with DJs Andy Mac, Kate Wildblood, Queen Swollocks’ karaoke till midnight; open 11am
PICS FROM REVENGE + SUBLINE
GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 47
AUGUST
LISTINGS
REVENGE
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Thur (1) is Pride Opening NEON WHITE PARTY with Girls On Top DJs mash-ups (main floor), inDecent DJs vocal house (level 2); drinks from £1.50, free glow sticks, free entry passes available, otherwise £3/£4. n Fri (2) is REVENGE v GAYDIO Pride Warm Up with DJs Lee Harris & Trick (main floor), DJs Lollipop Stu & Alex Baker guilty pleasures (level 2); entry free/£5. n Sat (3) is the Pride ROOF TERRACE PARTY with a funky house DJ, free entry & Pimms on arrival at 3pm; ICONS OF PRIDE PARTY with DJs Zach Burns, Lee Harris, Sam DMS, King K, Smithy, Alex Baker & Trick at 10pm, entry free/£5. n Sun (4) S Club perform live at 8.30pm; GIRLS ON TOP FOAM PARTY with all-girl DJs (main floor), DJs King K & Adam Turner vocal house anthems (level 2) at 10.30pm; entry £5, venue opens 8pm. n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Sun (25) is the SHAKEDOWN 2 Pre-Party with tickets to the festival up for grabs; entry free/£3/£4. n REGULARS: Tue is NAUGHTY POP with DJs Trick & Alex 90s & 00s tunes; £1.50 shots, all other drinks £2, entry £3, £2 NUS. n Thur is GIRLS ON TOP lesbian night with pop (main floor), house (level 2); drinks from £1.50, entry £4/£3 NUS. n Fri is SHAMELESS with DJs Trick and Lee Harris fresh pop & guilty pleasures; entry free/£5. n Sat is F@#K ME! IT’S STILL FREE with regular DJs pop/house plus Jonesy (10), Zach Burns (17), Sam DMS (24), Lee Harris (31); all drinks £2.50 b4 midnight, Jagerbombs £2.50 all night, double up for £1.50 all night, free entry b4 1am with a pass, £5 after. n PASSES: get free entry passes all week from Bar Revenge and www.revenge.co.uk n DRINK DEALS: All drink specials exclude champers & doubles (excl doubling up). n OPEN: 11pm on Tue; 10.30pm Thur, Fri & Sat.
n QUEEN’S ARMS cabaret: Peter Davies & friends 4.30pm; mystery guest karaoke 6pm; Kamp Kevin’s Sat Night Party 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-6pm; open 11am n REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Still Free: guest DJ Sam DMS & regs over 2 floors 10.30pm n SUBLINE Men’s Room: DJ Screwpulous 9pm; open 5pm n ZONE cabaret: Sally Vate 9.30pm; open 10am SUNDAY 25 n A-BAR Sunday roasts: bookings 01273 696691 noon-4pm; Mooi Caribbean food 510pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Ed & Tyler’s karaoke 6pm n BAR REVENGE Sunday Funday: retro games; Karaoke Queens: LouBag & Smithy 8pm; open noon
n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Pop!Candy: DJ Claire Fuller 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN Wartime Fundraiser for Help the Heroes: wartime-themed roast 12.305pm; Piano Bingo 5pm; open noon n BULLDOG 92 Hour Non Stop Ibiza Beach Party Weekend: DJ Grant 8pm; karaoke 8pm; closes 7am n CAMELFORD ARMS Sunday roasts & selected menu noon-till gone; open noon n CHARLES ST cabaret: Titti La Camp 7.30pm; Tranny Rock & Roll Bingo: Sally Vate, roll over jackpot 8.30pm; Sun lunch 12-7pm n 112 CHURCH ST Sunday Roast noonlate; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Bank Hol Hangover Therapy: Reflex 80s night 8pm; open 1pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR Bank Hol Cabaret: Dolly Diamond 3.15pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open 1pm
SUBLINE
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Fri (2) is PRIDE WARM-UP with the afternoon session & all pints £2.50 5–8pm; the NIGHT SHIFT kicks off with DJ Screwpulous at 9pm, entry £3 members, £5 non-members. n Sat (3) is a Pride Breakfast with bacon sarnies and bubbly served 11am–1pm, £10 per person, includes fast track ticket into Sat & Sun nights; SANCTUARY with chilled sounds, drink promos, Barcode Berlin specials & free entry at 5pm; then PRIDE UNDERGROUND with DJ Screwpulous at 9pm, entry £5 members, £8 non-members. n Sun (4) is FETISH PRIDE from 1–6pm; then it's PRIDE ERUPTION with DJ Nude 8pm–late, entry £5 members, £8 non-members. n BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND: Fri (23) is THE BIG SCRUM sports kit night at 10pm, entry £4 in kit/£6 otherwise. n Sun (25) is SPUME Foam Party. n REGULARS: Sat is THE MEN'S ROOM with DJ Screwpulous, members get cheap drinks and free entry till 11pm. n Sun is COME IN YOUR PANTS underwear party with DJ N.U.D.E. n Wed is BACKLASH retro tunes and prices, including selected drinks £3 all night for members. n Thur is LEATHERED with free lockers. n OPEN: Fri & Sat from 5pm–4am, Sun from 8pm–2am, Wed & Thur from 9pm–1.30am. Closed Mon & Tue. n www.sublinebrighton.com n POISON IVY cabaret 5.30pm; karaoke n QUEEN’S ARMS Bank Hol cabaret: The Kruger Sisters 6pm; Sissy Sucs’ karaoke; Trudi Styles & The Pianoman 9.30pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN Sunday roasts noon5pm; Piano Bar 1.30pm; open noon n REVENGE ShakeDown 2 Pre-Party: win tickets to the festival 10.30pm n SUBLINE Foam Party 9pm n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live jazz: The Ian Price Jazz Project 3pm; open noon n ZONE live music: Back Beat 6pm; open 10am MONDAY 26 n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi
Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon n BAR REVENGE Quiz with Liz 8.30pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG DJ Marcia’s Glitter Ball 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS Bank Hol food noon9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Bank Hol Cabaret: Glam Jam 7.30pm; food noon-8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Medication Mon; open 3pm n ENVY Studio 150 Bank Hol Special: student night 10pm-3am n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon
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PICS FROM THE THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS + THE ZONE
AUGUST
LISTINGS
THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS
n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Tue (6 & 20) is live bluegrass and old time country with The Pickin Circle at 8pm, free entry. n REGULARS: Wed is the BIG CASH QUIZ at 7.30pm. n Sun is live jazz with The Ian Price Jazz Project at 3pm, free entry. n FOOD: served noon–3pm & 6–9pm; two burger meals £15. n OPEN: daily from noon. Private function room available for parties call 01273 608571. n LEGENDS BAR Bank Hol Cabaret Lucinda Lashes 3.15pm; Miss Jason Does Legends 9.30pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY Spice’s 80s night; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Bank Hol Cabaret: Trashville Tennessee 6pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open noon n ZONE open 10am
WEDNESDAY 28 n A-BAR open mic with Mark Hodge 8.30pm; bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean food 510pm; cocktail night; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Lady Ty’s Drag Bingo; open 6pm n BAR REVENGE pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS DJ Missy B 10pm n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BRIGHTON SAUNA Naked Day 10-1am TUESDAY 27 n BULLDOG Diva Rush: DJ Marcia 10pm; n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean open 11am food 5-10pm; open noon n CAMELFORD ARMS seniors lunch 2n BAR 7@CRAWLEY DJ Magic; open 6pm 3.30pm; reg food 12-3pm & 6-9pm; open 12 n BAR REVENGE VIP Tue: Harry’s Karaoke, n CHARLES ST Cabaret Carousel: Trashville DJs Kelly & Fifi, win drinks/VIP cards/bar tabs Tennessee 9.30pm; food 12-8pm; open 12 8pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n BEDFORD TAVERN Theatre Bar; open noon n DR BRIGHTONS Cocktail Clinic; open 3pm n BULLDOG open 11am n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n CAMELFORD ARMS food 12-3pm & 6n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am 9pm; open noon n MARINE TAVERN open noon n CHARLES ST food noon-8pm; open noon n POISON IVY Gloria Hole’s karaoke: win n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 £100 7pm; open 11am n DR BRIGHTONS Twisted Tue; open 3pm n QUEEN’S ARMS Candi’s Capers karaoke n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon 9pm; open noon n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & n MARINE TAVERN Nat’s Quiz 9pm; open 12 6-8.30pm; open noon n POISON IVY Bar 150 karaoke 7pm; open 11 n SUBLINE Backlash: retro night 9pm n QUEEN’S ARMS sing-along with Peter, Les n THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Big Cash Quiz & friends 9pm; open noon 7.30pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & n ZONE open 10am 6-8.30pm; open noon n REVENGE Naughty Pop: DJs Trick & Alex THURSDAY 29 Baker 11pm n A-BAR bar food noon-5pm; Mooi Caribbean n ZONE open 10am food 5-10pm; cocktail night; open noon
ZONE
n PRIDE WEEKEND: Fri (2) is the PRE-PRIDE PARTY with JJ and Juliette at 9.30pm, plus tons of dancing, closes 4am. n Sun (4) is the GAY VILLAGE STREET PARTY, open from 10am all the way through to 4am. n REGULARS: Fri is LIVE MUSIC at 9.30pm: Back Beat (9), Jennie Castelle (16), Eva La Diva at 8pm (23) and Stone & Street (30). Sat cabaret at 9.30pm: Sally Vate (10 & 24), Miss Jason (17) and Tammy Twinkle (31). n Sun is LIVE MUSIC at 6pm: Collusion (12), Ian Mark Burzio (18) and Back Beat (25). n DRINK DEALS: from Mon–Thur from 10am–late. n OPEN: daily from 10am. n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Proud to Party 6pm n BAR REVENGE Girls On Top warm-up: DJ Kelly L 9pm; pizza 5-9pm; open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN Thur Social; open noon n BULLDOG Release: DJ Grant 10pm; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash Quiz 9pm; food noon-3pm & 6-9pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots & win bar tabs 8pm; open noon n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Thirsty Thur; open 3pm n ENVY Mad Cow’s Tea Party: Ms Joan Bond, DJs, tea pot cocktails, ‘drink me’ shots 8pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n LEGENDS BAR food 12-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY cabaret 9.30pm; karaoke; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food 12-2.30pm & 68.30pm; open 12 n REVENGE Girls On Top: DJs on 2 floors 10.30pm n SUBLINE Leathered 9pm n ZONE open 10am
club 11pm; food noon-5.30pm; open 11am n MARINE TAVERN open noon n POISON IVY karaoke 7pm; open 11am n QUEEN’S ARMS Camp Attack & Flashback with karaoke 9pm; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food noon-2.30pm & 6-8.30pm; open 11am n REVENGE Shameless: DJs Trick & Lee Harris 10.30pm n SUBLINE Brighton Bear Weekend: The Bear Cave: DJ Bozzybear 10pm; open 5pm n ZONE live music: Stone & Street 9.30pm; open 10am
SATURDAY 31 n A-BAR Pre-club; food 12-7pm; open noon n BAR 7@CRAWLEY DJ Edg, Mix & Match + cabaret with Drag With No Name 6pm n BAR REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Free warmup: DJ Fifilicious 9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG DJ V John 10pm; DJ Lil Alex 3am; karaoke 10pm n CAMELFORD ARMS food 12-7pm; open 12 n CHARLES ST Boys In The Bar: all-male DJs Jonesy, Lil Alex, Grant Knowles, Leeroy on rotation 9pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon FRIDAY 30 n A-BAR Pre-club tunes; bar food noon-5pm; n 112 CHURCH ST food 12-late; open 12 n DR BRIGHTONS Sexy Sat: DJ Tony B Mooi Caribbean food 5-10pm; open noon 9.30pm; open 1pm n BAR 7@CRAWLEY Lust: DJ Magic 6pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n BAR REVENGE Shameless warm-up 9pm; n FUNKYFISH CLUB Old Skool Sat: DJ Sean pizza 5-9pm; open noon-6am n BASEMENT CLUB@LEGENDS Friday Night Quinn 10pm n LEGENDS BAR Pre-Fusion 7pm; food noonLive with Lady La Rue: 2 floors, DJ Peter Castle 5.30pm; open 11am in club 11pm n MARINE TAVERN open noon n BEDFORD TAVERN open noon n BULLDOG DJ Grant Knowles 10pm; cabaret: n PARIS HOUSE live jazz 4pm; TC’s Joyful Noise: DJ Kenny 9pm; open noon Lizzy Drip midnight; open 11am n CAMELFORD ARMS food noon-3pm & 6- n POISON IVY afternoon karaoke & Betty Swollocks’ karaoke till midnight; open 11am 9pm; Friday Club 6pm; open noon n CHARLES ST Fruity Fri Fix: DJ Leeroy 9pm; n QUEEN’S ARMS Charity Cabaret Fundraiser: host Pasty Cline & special guests 4.30pm; food noon-7.45pm; open noon charity karaoke: donate to sing 6pm; Kamp n 112 CHURCH ST cabaret: Pooh La May Kevin’s Sat Night Party 9pm; open noon 9pm; food noon-late; open noon n REGENCY TAVERN food 12-6pm; open n DR BRIGHTONS Funky Fri: DJ Nick Hirst 11am 9.30pm; open 1pm n REVENGE F@#k Me! It’s Still Free: guest n DSD@OHSO SOCIAL DJ Lee Harris 9pm DJ Lee Harris & regs over 2 floors 10.30pm n FUNKYFISH BAR open noon n SUBLINE open 5pm n FUNKYFISH CLUB Dirty Retro 10.30pm n ZONE cabaret: Tammy Twinkle 9.30pm; open n LEGENDS BAR Friday Night Live with Lady 10am La Rue, 2 floor party 9pm; DJ Peter Castle in
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SOLENT & BOURNEMOUTH BOURNEMOUTH
n BAKERS ARMS 77-79 Commercial Rd, BH2 5RT, Tel: 01202 555506 n BAR VENTANA at CUMBERLAND HOTEL East Overcliff Dr, BH1 3AF, Tel: 01202 556529 www.cumberlandbournemouth.co.uk n BRANKSOME ARMS 152-154 Commercial Rd, BH2 5LU, Tel: 01202 292254 n CUMBERLAND HOTEL East Overcliff Drive, BH1 3AF, Tel: 01202 290722 www.cumberlandbournemouth.co.uk n DYMK 31 Poole Hill, BH2 5PW, www.dymk-bar.com n SAUNABAR 140 Commercial Rd, BH2 5LU, Tel: 01202 552654 www.gaysaunabournemouth.co.uk n 2930 THE TRIANGLE CLUB 29-30 The Triangle, BH2 5SE, Tel: 0845 496 2934 www.2930thetriangle.com n EASY TIGER 27 The Triangle, BH2 5SE; open: Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-6.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Tel: 01202 554195 www.easytigerstore.com n XCHANGE 4 The Triangle, BH2 5RY, Tel: 01202 294321
PORTSMOUTH
n HAMPSHIRE BOULEVARD 1 Hampshire Terr, Southsea, Tel: 02392 297509 Open: Sun 9pm-2am, Mon 9pm-2:30am, Tue closed, Wed & Thur 7pm-2am, Fri & Sat 7pm3am, cabaret bar and club THURSDAY 1 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC karaoke 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Pop Party: DJ Neil Sackley 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Karaoke Cruising: Pat Cruise 8.30pm; food noon-3pm; open noon FRIDAY 2 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; party till 2am SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Get Some: DJs Lady Bex, Lohands, Rob Davies + giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Fairylea with Scarlett Diamonte 8.30pm; food noon-3pm SATURDAY 3 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; DJs all night SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE The Big One: 3 bars, 2 DJs 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Neil Sackley’s Guilty Pleasures 10pm; food noon-3pm; open noon SUNDAY 4 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL Sun lunch 12.302.30pm & 7-9pm; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC Sun lunch 1-5pm; open noon
n OLD VIC 104 St Paul’s Rd, Southsea Tel: 02392 297013 www.oldvicportsmouth.co.uk Open: Mon-Fri: 11am till late, Sat: 5pm-late, Sun: noon-12,30am. Regular cabaret, food. n TROPICS SAUNA 2 Market Way Tel: 02380 296100 www.tropics-sauna.com Open: 7 days a week, 11am-10pm
SOUTHAMPTON
n ISOBAR 100c St Mary’s Street Tel: 02380 222028 Open: Mon 5–11pm, Tue 3pm-11pm, Wed-Sat 3pm-midnight, Sun 4pm-midnight. Modern bar, decked garden, popular with younger crowd. n LONDON HOTEL 2 Terminus Terrace Tel: 02380 710652 www.the-london.co.uk Open: Mon-Wed noon-11pm, Thur noon12.30am, Fri & Sat noon-1.30am, Sun noon11.30pm. Friendly cabaret venue, serves food. n EDGE Compton Walk Tel: 02380 366163 www.theedgesouthampton.com Open: Tue, Thur & Sun 11pm-3am; Wed, Fri & Sat 10pm-5am. Stylish club on 2 floors with 3 bars. n PINK BROADWAY SAUNA 797/80 East St Tel: 02380 238804 www.pink-broadway.com Open: Sun-Thur noon-10pm, Fri & Sat noonmidnight
SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Fundays: DJ Liam Searle 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Dolly Partem’s Sunday Service 8.30pm; Wilma Fingadoo 9.30pm; Sun lunch noon-3.30pm; open noon MONDAY 5 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 2am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; open noon SOUTHAMPTON n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm TUESDAY 6 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n OLD VIC Quiz 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bomb It!: video jukebox 11pm n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm WEDNESDAY 7 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD open till 2am n OLD VIC NUS night 7pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bar 150: DJ Lady Bex, Liam Searle, Cheeky Pete’s karaoke & WKD giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL Quiz 8.30pm; food noon3pm THURSDAY 8 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC karaoke 8pm; food noon-5pm
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PICS FROM THE EDGE + THE LONDON HOTEL, SOUTHAMPTON
LUCINDA LASHES (SAT 24)
DOLLY PARTEM SUNDAY SERVICE
SOLENT & BOURNEMOUTH
LONDON HOTEL SOUTHAMPTON
EDGE SOUTHAMPTON
n BANK HOLIDAY: Sun (25) is FUNDAYS BUMPER EDITION with DJ Liam Searle 10pm–5am; bullet vodka £1, VS bottle £1.25, white Sambuca £1.50, house double £2, cocktail pint £4, win £500 cash, entry £3. n REGULARS: Sun is FUNDAYS with DJ Liam Searle, drinks from £1.25, entry free b4 11.30pm, £2 after. n Tue is BOMB IT with £2 Jagerbombs all night, free video jukebox & free entry. n Wed is BAR 150 with DJ Lady Bex, Liam Searle, Cheeky Pete’s Karaoke & win a case of WKD at 10.30pm; entry free b4 10.30pm, £3-£6 after. n Thur is the POP PARTY with DJ Neil Sackley playing pop tunes; £2.50 cocktails, XXL cocktails and entry £1. n Fri is GET SOME with DJs Lohands, Lady Bex, Rob Davies & huge give-aways, entry free–£6. n Sat is THE BIG ONE with resident DJs, guest Lee Harris (10 & 24) and 3 bars, entry free–£6. n OPEN: Tue, Thur & Sun 10pm–3am; Wed, Fri & Sat 10pm–5am. Closed Mon. n www.theedgesouthampton.com
SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Pop Party: DJ Neil Sackley 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Karaoke Cruising: Pat Cruise 8.30pm; food noon-3pm; open noon FRIDAY 9 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; party till 2am SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Get Some: DJs Lady Bex, Lohands, Rob Davies + giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Fairylea with Drag With No Name 10pm; food noon-3pm SATURDAY 10 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; DJs all night SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE The Big One: 3 bars, DJ Lee Harris & regs 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Pat Cruise with Eva La Diva 10pm; food noon-3pm; open noon SUNDAY 11 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL Sun lunch 12.302.30pm & 7-9pm; open 9am
n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC Sun lunch 1-5pm; open noon SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Fundays: DJ Liam Searle 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Dolly Partem’s Sunday Service 8.30pm; Rose Garden 9.30pm; Sun lunch noon-3.30pm; open noon MONDAY 12 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 2am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; open noon SOUTHAMPTON n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm TUESDAY 13 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n OLD VIC Quiz 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bomb It!: video jukebox 11pm n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm WEDNESDAY 14 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm
n BANK HOLIDAY: Mon (26) is the Help For Heroes Fundraiser. n ONE FOR THE DIARY: Wed (7) is monthly QUIZ NIGHT with cash prizes at 8.30pm; £1 per person to enter, winner takes all! n REGULARS: Thur is Pat Cruise’s KARAOKE CRUISING at 8.30pm. n Fri is with DJ Fairylea at 8.30pm and CABARET at 10pm: Scarlett Diamonte (2), Drag With No Name (9), Davina Sparkle (16), Mary Mack (23) and Karen Dalton (30). n Sat is GUILTY PLEASURES with DJs & cabaret at 8.30pm: Neil Sackley (3), Pat Cruise with cabaret from Eva La Diva (10), Dazza (17), Lucinda Lashes (24) and Tiny (31). n Dolly Partem’s SUNDAY SERVICE is at 8.30pm, cabaret at 9.30pm: Wilma Fingadoo (4), Rose Garden (11), Lucinda Lashes (18) and Dave Lynn (25). n FOOD: traditional pub food served Mon–Sat noon–3pm; Sunday lunch served noon–3.30pm, 2 courses £8.50. n OPEN: daily from noon. www.the-london.co.uk PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD open till 2am n OLD VIC NUS night 7pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bar 150: DJ Lady Bex, Liam Searle, Cheeky Pete’s karaoke & WKD giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm THURSDAY 15 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC karaoke 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Pop Party: DJ Neil Sackley 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Karaoke Cruising: Pat Cruise 8.30pm; food noon-3pm; open noon FRIDAY 16 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; party till 2am SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Get Some: DJs Lady Bex, Lohands, Rob Davies + giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Fairylea with Davina Sparkle 10pm; food noon-3pm
n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC Sun lunch 1-5pm; open noon SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Fundays: DJ Liam Searle 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Dolly Partem’s Sunday Service 8.30pm; Lucinda Lashes 9.30pm; Sun lunch noon-3.30pm; open noon MONDAY 19 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 2am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; open noon SOUTHAMPTON n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm TUESDAY 20 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n OLD VIC Quiz 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bomb It!: video jukebox 11pm n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm WEDNESDAY 21 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD open till 2am n OLD VIC NUS night 7pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bar 150: DJ Lady Bex, Liam Searle, Cheeky Pete’s karaoke & WKD giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL food noon-3pm; open noon
SATURDAY 17 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE The Big One: 3 bars, 2 DJs 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Dazza’s Guilty Pleasures 10pm; food noon-3pm THURSDAY 22 BOURNEMOUTH SUNDAY 18 n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am BOURNEMOUTH n DYMK open 2pm n CUMBERLAND HOTEL Sun lunch 12.30PORTSMOUTH 2.30pm & 7-9pm; open 9am n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am
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DAVE LYNN (SUN 25)
ROSE GARDEN (SUN 11)
SOLENT & BOURNEMOUTH
n OLD VIC karaoke 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Pop Party: DJ Neil Sackley 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Karaoke Cruising: Pat Cruise 8.30pm; food noon-3pm; open noon FRIDAY 23 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; party till 2am SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Get Some: DJs Lady Bex, Lohands, Rob Davies + giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Fairylea with Mary Mack 10pm; food noon-3pm SATURDAY 24 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm
PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE The Big One: 3 bars, DJ Lee Harris & regs 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Lucinda Lashes’ Guilty Pleasures 10pm; food noon-3pm SUNDAY 25 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL Sun lunch 12.302.30pm & 7-9pm; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC Sun lunch 1-5pm; open noon SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bank Holiday Fundays Bumper Edition: DJ Liam Searle, win £500 10pm-5am n LONDON HOTEL Dolly Partem’s Sunday Service 8.30pm; Dave Lynn 9.30pm; Sun lunch noon-3.30pm; open noon
MONDAY 26 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 2am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; open noon SOUTHAMPTON n LONDON HOTEL Bank Holiday Help For Heroes Fundraiser; food noon-3pm TUESDAY 27 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n OLD VIC Quiz 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bomb It!: video jukebox 11pm n LONDON HOTEL chillout; food noon-3pm WEDNESDAY 28 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD open till 2am n OLD VIC NUS night 7pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Bar 150: DJ Lady Bex, Liam Searle, Cheeky Pete’s karaoke & WKD giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL food 12-3pm; open noon THURSDAY 29 BOURNEMOUTH
n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD karaoke till 2am n OLD VIC karaoke 8pm; food noon-5pm SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Pop Party: DJ Neil Sackley 11pm n LONDON HOTEL Karaoke Cruising: Pat Cruise 8.30pm; food noon-3pm; open noon FRIDAY 30 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; party till 2am SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE Get Some: DJs Lady Bex, Lohands, Rob Davies + giveaways 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Fairylea with Karen Dalton 8.30pm; food noon-3pm SATURDAY 31 BOURNEMOUTH n CUMBERLAND HOTEL food/drink; open 9am n DYMK open 2pm PORTSMOUTH n HAMPSHIRE BLVD DJ till 3am n OLD VIC food noon-5pm; DJs all night SOUTHAMPTON n EDGE The Big One: 3 bars, 2 DJs 10pm n LONDON HOTEL DJ Tiny’s Guilty Pleasures 10pm; food noon-3pm; open noon
52 GSCENE
DANCE
MUSIC
BY QUEEN JOSEPHINE & KATE WILDBLOOD
REVIEWS As you read this you’ll either be: a) ridiculously excited about Pride and in need of tunes as you glue mirror balls to various body parts or b) in the Pride recovery position requiring something to kick start the rest of your summer. Either way let us oblige. n The classy deep and jumpin’ house vibes of 5 Years of ALiVE on ALiVE Recordings jacks and then it jacks again. Just what, er, Jack ordered. n As is Tortured Soul’s Undercover Remixes on Dome Records. Discerning house music, delivered by a stunning array of remixes from the likes of Eric Kupper and Fred Everything. n If you like your techno and house stripped back to its glorious bass basics then check out Cocoon Ibiza mixed by Ilario Alicante & Alejandro Mosso on Cocoon... n But if you need your house fuelled by jack and deepness it has to be Rhythm Plate’s debut album Off The Charts on Lost My Dog Records. Cor. For our August must-haves we have been spoilt with some real wonders
this month.
n Essential
summer listening is the sensational Eskimo Recordings Presents the Pink Collection on Eskimo Recording. We fell for this wonder of indie dance, nu disco and electronica within moments of our first listen and can’t keep from pressing play. n As is the right proper house present on Phil Weeks’ Crate Diggin Volume 3 on Robsoul. Never has someone’s crates delivered more gems. n Finally we bow down to Trax matriarch Screaming Rachel. Her compilation Queen of House on Trax Records encapsulates everything that is so special about house music and delivers a history lesson that you’ll never forget. Gawd bless you screaming Ma’am. Have a safe and disco glorious Brighton Pride. Catch Wildblood and Queenie at Icons in the Park, DSD, Sunday Sundae, Brighton Pride Gay Girls Weekender, Above Audio, Moody Disco and Tech Noir. www.perfectdistractions.com
WILDBLOOD & QUEENIE’S AUGUST 12”S n FUNKY FAT Jealousy (Severino Remix) Hot Creations Severino ensures those Pride parties just got disco hot! n STEVE SILK HURLEY & Sharon Pass The Word Is Love S&S Say the word and this tune will be there for you all Sundae long. n BONAR BRADBERRY 3two5 (Mario Basanov Remix) Needwant Just when we thought this tune couldn’t get any sweeter. n CORRADO RIZZA pres Global Mind In the Heat (Deluxe Vocal) Salted A house heatwave that will ensure hot, hot, hot nights. n DETROIT SWINDLE The Break Up (Original Mix) Heist Recordings So many female vocal disco samples so little time. n DJ WILD Shape U Rebellion Moody Disco deepness deserving of any terrace party. n PBR Streetgang feat Danielle Moore C With No Name Futureboogie There’s not calling this EP a Summer Riot for nothing. Glorious. n HUSKY So Crazy Salted Required 4/4 house listening courtesy of the Bobbin Head EP. n MIKE SCOT, RICHARD EARNSHAW & CHAPPELL Tonight Duffnote To paraphrase Morrissey, some tunes are bigger than others. n DINKY Blind (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) Visionquest Beauty that is tune deep.
DJ PROFILE Just in case it had escaped anybody’s notice there’s a little festival coming up here in Brighton & Hove on the first weekend in August. So whilst you’re worrying about which outfits to wear, whether it’s suncream or a rain hat to stuff into your hand/man bag and how many exes you’ll bump into at the parade, a slightly over excited Queen Josephine catches up with the fabulous Richard Jones to find out how he’ll be entertaining you over what will undoubtedly be the best Pride ever! Just make sure you’re ready to get those arms aloft because wherever Mr Jones is there’s sure to be a right proper paaaaaarrrrrrtttttyyyyy……. Where can we see you playing over the Pride weekend? Pride Saturday I’ll be at the Men’s Area in Preston Park and at the Terrace Party at Legends Bar. Then on Pride Sunday I’ll be playing Sunday Sundae at Audio and the Official Pride Closing Party at Shooshh! What song are you most looking forward to playing this Pride? I can’t wait to play Big Mountain by Daniel Bovie featuring Sandrine. It’s just soooooo good! Describe your DJing style? Funky, eclectic and always hands in the air (like you just don’t care). Tune that always fills/rescues your dancefloor? Show Me Love by Robin S; the original twelve inch mix of course! Tune you wish you’d never played at Pride or indeed anywhere? There really isn’t one, I won’t play tunes I don’t like - what would be the fun in that? Pride aside, what would be your dream gig? I’d love to play by the pool at Ushuaia Beach Hotel in Ibiza, or Studio 54 New York (the original one)! Guilty pleasures? NY cheesecake, chavvy boys, Nando’s, Marks & Spencers shorty pyjamas & Emmerdale. (Queenie would like to thank Richard for his honesty, plus he’s owned up to more guilty pleasures than any other DJ so far!) Best ever gig? Too many to mention individually! Hearing the crowd roar when you play ‘the tune’ rocks my world, and it’s happened many times in the Wild Fruit Tent at Pride over the years. Tell us a secret! I was (maybe still am) the youngest DJ to mix an album in the UK – I was 18, it was proper Hi-NRG…
TOP 5 FOR PRIDE
n DANIEL BOVIE ft Sandrine Big Mountain Essential Records n BOBBY D’AMBROSIO & Michelle Weeks Moment Of My Life OSIO n WINNING TRIPLET v B Tucker & A Paci We Wanna Boogie Fierce Angel n CALVIN HARRIS ft Ayah Marar Thinking About You Hed Kandi n Freemasons ft Katherine Ellis Tears (Club Mix) Loaded
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CHARLIE’S KITCHEN BY CHARLIE NYEREYEGONA
the tomatoes into halves and finely chop the mint and coriander. Remove the chicken breasts and allow to rest for a few minutes. Place the pitta breads under the grill for 30 seconds to warm them through. To serve: Make a pocket in the pitta bread with a sharp knife. Fill with some of the lettuce and tomato. Add a chicken breast and finish off with some fresh coriander and mint. For a little extra bite, add a dollop of yoghurt, mixed with a chopped green chilli and a squeeze of lime or, as I sometimes like, with a slice of pineapple for a hint of sweetness. 10 MINUTE PRAWN LINGUINE A quick easy dinner for pasta lovers when the sun is shining!
CHARLIE’S RECIPES Summer is a time to enjoy a wealth of beautiful, fresh ingredients. Here are a few simple, delicious recipes for you to try, which are perfect for Pride too! LOBSTER AND MANGO SALAD In June and July, lobster is both plentiful and cheap; the perfect time to indulge in this delicious summer salad! Ingredients (serves 4): • 2 cooked lobsters (split and meat removed) • 2 large spring onions • 1 large carrot (grated) • 1 bag mixed lettuce leaves • ½ bag bean sprouts • 1 mango (peeled and roughly chopped) • 1 large avocado (peeled & sliced - squeeze some lime juice over to keep the colour) • 1 large green chilli (roughly chopped) • Handful fresh basil, mint & coriander (roughly shredded) • 4 tsp soy sauce • 1 tsp chilli sauce • 3 tbsp orange juice • Juice of ½ a lime • 1½ tsp honey • 1 tsp sesame oil Method: In a salad bowl gently mix together the lettuce leaves, bean sprouts, carrot and chilli. Combine the soy sauce, chilli sauce, lime juice, orange juice, honey, sesame oil and the chopped herbs in a jug to make the dressing. To serve: Arrange a quarter of the salad on each plate. Add some of the chopped mango and avocado slices. Top with chunks of the lobster meat. Drizzle with the dressing. Serve with chunks of crusty bread.
TANDOORI CHICKEN POCKETS This is one of my best quick summer lunches; delicious and nutritious. Enjoy!
Ingredients (serves 2): • 250g raw peeled king prawns • 1 packet fresh linguine (available in any good supermarket) • 12 cherry tomatoes • 4 large cloves of garlic (peeled) • ½ tsp dry Italian seasoning • Olive oil • ½ tsp paprika • 1 tsp sun dried tomato paste • 2 tbsp of white wine • ½ a lemon
Ingredients (serves 4): • 4 large chicken breasts • 2 large tbsp tandoori masala powder (available in Taj Mahal or other Asian store) • ½ tsp cinnamon powder • ½ tsp cumin powder • Juice of 1 lemon & 1 lime • ½ teaspoon sunflower oil • 1 iceberg or curly lettuce • 8 cherry tomatoes • 150g greek yoghurt • Handful of fresh coriander • Handful of fresh mint • 4 wholemeal pitta breads • Salt & pepper Method: Mix together the yoghurt, spices, oil and citrus juices in a large bowl. Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper and marinate in the yoghurt mixture for 20 minutes in the fridge. Place in a grill pan and spoon over some of the marinade to keep the breasts moist and cook for 10 minutes on each side. Meanwhile shred the lettuce, cut
Method: Pre-heat the oven to 190ºC. Place the tomatoes, garlic and herbs in an oven dish and generously drizzle over olive oil. Roast in the oven for about 8 minutes. Meanwhile boil a large pot of salted water and cook the pasta for 3-4 minutes. Remove the dish from the oven and mash the tomatoes and garlic with a fork. Stir in the tomato paste. Add the prawns and squeeze over the lemon juice. Pour over the white wine and return to the oven for a further 2 minutes To Serve: Drain the pasta and add to the prawn and tomato sauce. Mix through and serve. Enjoy and have a happy and safe Pride! For recipe ideas or cookery questions, contact me at: tastydelish@hotmail.com
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WITH MORHAM BY MORHAM WHITE The skies are overcast, but already I’m hunkered down for two weeks at Wimbledon. Ah the joys of retirement! Being a bit of a tennis nerd, I’ve followed the clay court season with miserable attendance in the stands, I’ve sunned myself on the first day at Eastbourne after a rain delayed start and now here I am, in my ‘command module’ with computer, TV and neighbourhood watch at my finger-tips. It’s coming together. The languid and rather dishy Fognini has just let slip his control of the first set against Melzer and then taken the tie-break. It’s so stylish but I’m sure I’ll be able to replicate something at my 10am bash with the boys on the courts on Dyke Road tomorrow... in my dreams! Meanwhile, it’s also the beginning of my summer party season, with friends amused at my desire to control events of the coming weeks starting with yesterday’s pre-Oscars lunch and finishing up with an Indian curry experience with neighbours in the gardens opposite. I do need to brush up on my puddings though, beyond my fall-back option of Eton Mess!
Then the cheeseboard, which was mighty fine with hearty chunks of brie, cheddar, stilton and others accompanied by grapes, celery and beautiful bijou strawberries. Wine consumption was modest for those who had over-extended themselves the night before and those needing a clear head for the task ahead. A superb white Rioja at £16.70 and a Merlot at £15.80 were keenly priced and several jugs of sparkling and still waters went down well. Mr B arrived for the cheese course just after the workers left to help put together the evening’s entertainment at the Metropole. I had intended a brief stroll along the seafront prior to moving on but it was so cool out that I snuck in the side door with the others to head upstairs for more wine, awards and entertainment. Awards came and went, handed out by the politicians who entered into the spirit. Miss Lola Lasagne was the star for me - holding it all together, and delivering songs whilst latecomers sidled back to their seats, a challenge for anyone!
THE REGENCY TAVERN 32-34 Russell Square, Brighton, BN1 2EF, tel: 01273 325652 I’d booked a table for lunch, somewhat taken aback at being asked for a deposit, as I had no cash on me at the time. In the event my booking, in the name of Sir, was accepted and we assembled at 2.30pm in The Regency Tavern, off the north-west corner of Regency Square. A table for six in the window was ideal, as I admired the drapes and the over the top décor, which continues to define this haven of tranquillity. Somehow the normal stress of a modern day restaurant was totally lacking, as we set off on a lengthy sojourn leading up to our 7.30pm date with the dodgems and the Golden Handbag Awards show in the Metropole Hotel. I’d already requested a separate cheese course to fill the space available! Whilst presenting the simplest of menus for a Sunday lunch, it fully hit the spot, a nice robust offering. We had the choice of French onion soup or paté for starters at a tad over £4. Then there was the choice from the full array of roasts at £9.50: beef, lamb, pork; a supreme of Chicken £10.95; and the pie of the day with Rebecca’s nut roast £8.95 for veggies and vegans. Gravy boats and bowls of mixed vegetables followed the searingly hot plates with the meats, roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings and we were all set. Perhaps the puddings were the weakest element, with the ice-creams lacking variety of flavour, the strawberry drizzle cake a tad bland, but I was impressed by the bread & butter pudding with custard boat.
So my gripe of the month has to be the sandwiches offered by the Metropole Hotel. Whilst looking different in their Japanese-style black boxes, the bread was so thick it had fully dried out on the surface. They were quite dreadful and at the princely sum of £45 for two measly offerings, quite the worst value for money I’ve experienced in a long while. Thank goodness the day had been such fun. The Regency Tavern serve lunch from Monday to Friday from noon to 2.30pm and then evening meals from 6–8.30pm; on Saturday food is served from noon–6pm; Sunday roasts are served from noon–5pm with accompaniment on the baby grand piano from 1.30pm. Rebecca is serving Pride Breakfasts again this year on Saturday 3 August from 9am. The Regency is the perfect place to start your Pride celebrations! Call 01273 325652 to reserve your table.
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BY MICHAEL HOOTMAN
PINK FRINGE
Queen of eccentric song, the To coincide with Pride, Pink Fringe incomparable Lorraine Bowen. returns for some queer performance 'You'll fall over laughing' Time Out; 'Bloody amazing!' The Guardian. art shenanigans. For more info visit: www.pinkfringe.org.uk
PRIVATES ON PARADE
New Road, Brighton, box office: 08448 717 650 n DOLLY PARTON – 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL (Mon 5–Sat 10). This new musical comedy, direct from Broadway, stars Ben Richards (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Grease, The Bill) and Jackie Clune (Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia!) and is based on the hit movie and centres on three office workers who turn the tables on their sexist, egotistical, lying, bigot of a boss. They conspire to take control of the company and learn there's nothing they can't do - even in a man's world. Outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic, Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 The Musical is about teaming up and taking care of business... n MAISIE TROLLETTE'S 80TH BIRTHDAY SHOW (7.30pm, Sun 18). Legendary entertainer David Raven, better known to his fans as the irrepressible Maisie Trollette, will be celebrating his 80th Birthday at a Gala Variety Show hosted by Lola Lasagne and joined by artists he has worked with during his 40 years in show business including Jimmy Trollette, Miss Jason, Dave Lynn and Drag With No Name. Performing a Broadway Tribute will be: Jennie Castell, JP Christian, Connie Conway, Krissie Du Cann, Poola May, Wezley Sebastian, Davina Sparkle, Spice, Tammy Twinkle. Marc Inscoe and Jason Lee Howlett will perform a 'Rat Pack' set. West End stars including Jae Alexander, Jill Nalder, Peter Stanford, Linda Jarvis, Frances Fry and Jon Osbaldeston will perform as the Westenders singing numbers from West End musicals and Ceri Dupree will bring her fabulous characters to the Theatre Royal for the first time. The Brighton Gay Men's Chorus and the Actually Gay Men's Chorus complete the lineup of this classic community event to celebrate one of Gay Brighton's finest. John Bruzon who has worked with David over the years, returns as Musical Director for the evening. All profits will be shared between the Sussex Beacon and the Rainbow Fund. Tickets £25/£20/£15: from 0844 871 7627 (booking fees apply) or if you buy tickets in person at the Theatre Royal there are no booking fees. n PRIVATES ON PARADE (Tue 22–Sat 31) It’s 1948. Peace reigns in Britain but in South East Asia our boys are fighting a forgotten war against Communism. So, what do the British military send over to help win the war? The boys of The Song & Dance Unit South East Asia. Jason Sutton, better known as Miss Jason, leads a talented troop of fine young soldiers in this emotional rip-roaring comedy. Jason plays the cross-dressing role of Acting Captain Terri Dennis, as he romps his way through the jungle giving us performances as Marlene Dietrich, Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda and Noel Coward. In his delicate hands, are a set of privates whose journey from boys to men is handled with care. The comedy of this play is set against the violent jungle warfare where laughter meets death and shy, sexually inexperienced National Service lads become men.
DAVID HOYLE
DOME Church Street, Brighton Box office: 01273 709709 www.brightondome.org n I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU (Fri 2). From Monroe to Minaj, our culture is obsessed with peeling back the layers, looking under the covers and undressing our idols. Using a mash up of theatre, cabaret and music, a stellar line up of Queer artists interrogates Celebrity; the altar at which we kneel, and the fairground mirror that reveals the beauties and beasts within us all. Featuring David Hoyle, Stacy Marishi, Dickie Beau, Boogaloo Stu, Gary Clarke Dance Company.
Brighton n THE PINK FRINGE PICNIC (1pm6pm, Sun 4). Head to Jubilee Square with a hamper of tasty treats on Pride Sunday for a feast of different performances and activities for all. Free.
BRIGHTON CENTRE Kings Rd, Brighton, Box office: 0844 847 1515 n LEONARD COHEN (Wed 28). Cohen's songs have been covered by artists from Judy Collins (Suzanne) to Jeff Buckley (Hallelujah). U2, REM, Sting, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and the late Johnny Cash are among other famous devotees.
KOMEDIA Gardner Street, Brighton Box office: 0845 293 8480 www.komedia.co.uk n BENT DOUBLE (Sun 4). An irreverent night of fun and frolics hosted by Zoe Lyons (Mock The Week and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow).
GLYNDEBOURNE
DICKIE BEAU
MAISIE TROLLETTE
THEATRE ROYAL
MARLBOROUGH THEATRE 4 Princes St, Brighton www.brownpapertickets.com n THE LIPSINKERS & LORRAINE BOWEN (Sat 3). The LipSinkers triumphantly, shambolically, return to Brighton Pride. New skits, classic hits and the usual chutzpah! Special guest hostess, Brighton’s
BILLY BUDD
9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL
JUBILEE SQUARE
Lewes, East Sussex Box office: 01273 815000 http://glyndebourne.com/ n BILLY BUDD (Sat 10–Sun 25). Benjamin Britten's homoerotic opera of sublimated desire, tragedy and death, stars Jacques Imbrailo in the title role. The tense and stifling atmosphere on board a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic wars, with discipline brutally enforced and danger of attack ever present, is powerfully evoked in this production by Michael Grandage. Based on Herman Melville's novella, and with a libretto co-written by EM Forster, Britten examines – in counterpoint to his later Death in Venice – how an antipathy to beauty and innocence can similarly have fatal consequences.
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BRIGHTON PRIDE LGBT LITERATURE TENT
M AT T E R S BY ENZO MARRA
This month I’ve sourced a quartet of creative opportunities for your viewing in and around Brighton.
MOKSHA CAFFE 4-5 York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GU, www.mokshacaffe.com www.custombrighton.wordpress.com, www.jonhowe.co.uk n Custom present an exhibition of work by Brighton-based artist JON HOWE (Aug 7–Oct 10), showcasing a selection of pieces from the last seven years which reveal Howe's exploration of drawing, painting, printmaking and collage. Private view 5–7pm, Friday, August 9.
Jubilee Street, Brighton, BN1 1GE http://brighton-pride.org n Catch the final day (Thur 1) of the ICONS exhibition in association with Brighton Pride. Pride’s first Arts & Film Festival covers many aspects of LGBT art, culture and lifestyle and has teamed up with Brighton-based artist and art director Hizze Fletcher of Thirteen Art Productions (100 Artists for World Aids Day' 2008-2010, The Underground Open House Art Movement 2012). Following Pride’s Icons theme, the exhibition features a number of recognised artists and photographers including: Romany Mark Bruce, Mark Vessey, Rachel Adams, Kitty Finegan, Fox Fisher, Manel Ortega, Hizze Fletcher, James Robinson, Hannah Keuls, Precious Murphy, Mandy Webb, Will Blood, Eleanor Whiteman, Billy Chainsaw, Lawrence Latham and David Sutherland.
TOWNER Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ, www.townereastbourne.org.uk n Further afield at the Towner in Eastbourne, DEPENDENT RATIONAL ANIMALS (until Sept 22) is a collaboration between Sally Underwood and Roxy Walsh. Dependent Rational Animals began in 2011 with a conversation about how sculpture might make a home for painting and how painting might hold the interior of a sculpture. The exhibition will include wall paintings and large-scale architectural sculptures alongside smaller works, so that visitors can take time to experience echoes and assonances between the imagery, content and structure of works, enabling visitors to enjoy the installation at a different pace.
ZIMMER STEWART GALLERY 29 Tarrant Street, Arundel, West Sussex, www.zimmerstewart.co.uk n BLACK, WHITE OR GREY (Sat 3–Sat 31). Many of the artists shown regularly, including Ann Sutton, Andrea Schulewitz and Nicholas Wriglesworth, were invited to submit works which are Black, White or Shades of Grey. The exhibition celebrates their tenth Arundel Festival by including many of the artists visitors have seen over the last decade including Felix Anaut, Nick Bodimeade, Derek Davis, Gary Goodman, Barbara Macfarlane, Piers Ottey, Ann Sutton, Phil Tyler, Nicholas Wriglesworth, Anthony Frost, Jim Dine, Matt Bodimeade, Giles Penny, John Kirby, Tracey Emin and The Chapman Brothers.
POP ICONS koba, 135 Western Road, Brighton, www.kobauk.com, http://brighton-pride.org n POP ICONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY (Mon, July 29–Sun, Aug 4) exhibition by celebrated artist Lez is part of Brighton Pride’s Arts & Film Festival. The collection of pop art 3D artworks features depictions of Grace Jones, David Bowie and the Beatles among others. A percentage of sales will go to Brighton Pride.
MANDA SCOTT
JUBILEE LIBRARY
n PRIDE LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD TENT at Preston Park (2–5pm, Sat 3). Brighton & Hove Libraries in partnership with East Sussex Library & Information Service host an afternoon of entertainment with LGBT writers and performers talking about and reading from their own work. Prize winning authors including playwright/author NEIL BARTLETT (Skin Lane, Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall, Mr Clive & Mr Page, Who Was That Man?); best selling author of lesbianthemed historical & crime fiction MANDA SCOTT, (Hen’s Teeth, the Boudica series); author and stand up comedienne VG LEE (Diary Of A Provincial Lesbian, The Woman In Beige); plus authors and local writers from Queer Writing South including playwright/poet MARIA JASTRZEBSKA (Dementia Diaries, At The Library Of Memories) and Allsorts Youth Project. An openmic session means you may have a chance to shine! Tea and scones will be available to make this an afternoon of literary heaven!
JUBILEE LIBRARY Conference Room 1 n JAMES WHARTON OUT IN THE ARMY (2pm, Sun 4) looks at the amazing journey of James as he becomes a man, joins the army and learns to deal with his sexuality in a sometimes hostile environment prior to coming to terms with and in turn, helping the army come to terms with homosexuality. His experiences form the bedrock to this tale, from serving in Southern Iraq and with Prince Harry in Canada, to being hospitalised after a homophobic beating, to helping at the 7/7 bombings and serving at the Royal Wedding. His story is taken right up to the point when James left the army in 2013, after a ten-year commitment. James was the first openly gay person to appear on the front cover of Soldier, the British Army’s official magazine. By being one of the first highly visible ‘out’ soldier James has helped the armed services to begin to address its institutionalised homophobia. Free event tickets available at The Book Lover Store.
So, just seven years after arriving in Brighton Jason finds himself playing the leading role in Peter Nichols’ play, Privates On Parade at the Theatre Royal in Brighton from August 22-31. Described as ‘a play with songs in two acts’, the drama is set around the activities and exploits of the fictional Song & Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA), a mostly gay British military concert party stationed in Singapore and Malaysia in the late 1940s during the Malayan Emergency. The script draws on Nichols' own experiences in the real-life Combined Services Entertainment, the postwar successor to ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association).
Many will know Jason Sutton through his outrageous alter ego Miss Jason, without doubt the campest creation on the UK drag cabaret circuit at the moment. Jason arrived in Brighton in 2006 via a career in local politics on Portsmouth City Council and Hampshire County Council where he was political assistant to Lib Dem Baroness Emma Nicholson. The thought of Jason doing a maiden speech at council or scuttling round after Emma 'with the butch voice' Nicholson is quite surreal. I can feel a musical coming on! Jason started doing drag after an early encounter with the late great Phil Starr who he saw working at the Old Vic in Portsmouth. Jason said: “I thought Phil was wonderful. After the show I cornered him and said I was working on an act and would like some advice. Phil asked for my telephone number and said he would contact me. The next day, which was a Monday, Phil called and said I would be working with him two days later at the Queens Arms in Brighton at Phil's Piano Bar. I couldn’t believe he’d taken the trouble to call and panicked as I didn’t have a pair of tights to my name never mind an act to perform! I came to Brighton on the Wednesday and the rest is history.”
After years building up his act on the gay scene, Jason took his first steps into mainstream pantomime in 2010 playing Dame Trot in Jack & the Beanstalk in Redhill, opposite magician Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee. In 2011 he played Widow Twanky in Weston-Super-Mare and in 2012 Dame Able Mabel in Peter Pan in Derby opposite EastEnders star Larry Lamb. This Christmas he teams up with Dave Lynn to play the ugly sisters in Cinderella in Woking for First Family Entertainments. One famous producer remarked to me once that Jason's panto performances reminded him of the late great Dockyard Doris. Praise doesn’t come any higher.
“Phil called and said I’d be working with him two days later at the Queens Arms... I didn’t have a pair of tights to my name never mind an act to perform!” His TV credits include facing down Anne Robinson on the Weakest Link Drag Queen Special and appearing for a week on Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me where he surprised the other contestants by hosting his dinner at the end of the week in full drag. Jason dipped his toe into serious theatre in 2012 playing Donald in Kevin Wood's production of the 1970s drama, Boys In The Band at the Theatre Royal in Brighton. Boys In The Band was one of the first dramas in the 1970s to tackle homosexuality head on and the resulting film, which introduced a group of gay characters to an American film audience for the first time, is considered to be a milestone in queer film history.
Privates On Parade follows Steven Flowers during the Second World War, who embarks on a journey of discovery as he is sent to South East Asia as part of the Song & Dance Unit, with Captain Terri Dennis (played by Jason Sutton), his commanding officer. The Captain is a flamboyant, dare I say camp man, and it is with his help he realises what it takes to be a man as he cross-dresses and entertains audiences with performances imitating the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Carmen Miranda. To be more precise, Privates On Parade is a comedy - a farce with musical score composed by Denis King. Most of the numbers are performed by Jason in different guises. The show was premiered in Stratford by the Royal Shakespeare Company, before receiving its London premiere at the Aldwych in 1977. Successful revivals in 1979 and 1982 in Derby, the Donmar Warehouse in 2001 and the Noel Coward Theatre in London in 2012 are testimony to the ongoing popularity of this camp romp. Jason said: “I’m thrilled to be headlining in my home town of Brighton. It’s terrifying for me to think that one day I’ll be on stage at the Queens Arms and then the next starring in this wonderful production at the Theatre Royal. The last year has been very important for me and I learnt so much working with Dave Lynn and the other entertainers who appeared in Boys In The Band last year. I really want to thank them for the help they gave me. The Privates On Parade team have been like a family to me and have been so gracious in building my confidence. “The director, Carole Todd, the producers Kevin Wood, Tim Anscombe and Stephen Holroyd and choreographer Damien Delaney, who has got my rather 'fuller' figure to move in time to the music, have all been so supportive, as has my co-star Eric Potts from Coronation Street. I’m so looking forward to our opening night.”
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n PRIVATES ON PARADE: the Theatre Royal from Thurs 22 – Sat 31 August at 7.30pm; matinees Thurs & Sat at 2pm. n Tickets: £23.50 include a glass of Prosecco. To book call 0844 871 7650 (booking fee applies). No booking fee if you book at the Theatre Royal box office. www.privatesonparade.com
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REVIEWS n Pianist Peter Donohoe has
begun a cycle of Prokofiev’s (1891-1953) Piano Sonatas with the first five. They range from an early student work, unashamedly romantic in the style of Tchaikovsky, through to the fifth, a rather introspective and refelective work, and the only one of nine to be composed outside Russia. Whilst the Sonatas 6-8, his War Sonatas, are widely considered to be his greatest piano works, these first five show a remarkable journey from the early romantic work through to the lively challenges posed by the Fourth Sonata, and the strange expressive harmonic world of the Fifth Sonata. Donohoe is a great British pianist, with a remarkably sensitive approach to even the most virtuosic of repertoire. Prokofiev certainly needs virtuosic command, but the expressive side of his music, most notable here in the slow movement of the Fourth Sonata, is often given less careful attention. Donohoe brings this first volume to a subtle and enigmatic close with the final movement of Fifth Sonata’s surprisingly quiet conclusion – almost as if in anticipation of the next volume to follow soon. Somm SOMMCD249 n Jean-Efflam
minuet and trio of variations, the startling harmonic jump in the finale of No. 54, and the strangely unsettling and destabiliising rhythmns of No. 56. Once again, Bavouzet demonstrates incredible precision and command, at the same time as bringing this music alive with a sense of fun and enjoyment throughout. Chandos CHAN10763 n Clarinetist
Michael Collins is back with Volume 2 of British Clarinet Sonatas, once again joined by Michael McHale on the piano. The earliest work here is Arthur Benjamin’s (18931960) Le Tombeau de Ravel, a ‘tombeau’ (memorial tribute) in itself to Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin. This sequence of miniature waltz time sections ends with a wonderful climax reminding one of Ravel’s La Valse. Sir Malcom Arnold (1921-2006) is perhaps finally gaining the status he deserves, after a lifetime of battling against being seen as a ‘light’ film composer. His Sonatina is not a hugely substantial work, but contains delightful jazz infusions, a beautifully lyrical slow movement, and a wildly virtuosic finale. Edward Gregson (b.1945) has written five Tributes to particular composers (including Poulenc and Bartók), composed for specific clarinetists, including Emma Johnson, and Collins himself. The other works here are Arnold Cooke’s (1906-2006) Sonata, a substantial four movement work with influences of Hindemith evident, with whom Cooke studied, and finally, a delightful Sonatina by Joseph Horovitz (b.1926), full of lyricism and bouncy syncopation. Collins, ably accompanied by McHale, is the ideal advocate for works that sadly seldom receive an airing. Chandos CHAN10758
Bavouzet continues his survey of Haydn’s (17321809) Piano Sonatas, with volume 5 once again containing 6 sonatas spread across the composer’s output, with the earliest, No. 15 from 1760, through to Nos. 54-56 from 1784. No. 12 is also here, although its authenticity as a genuine Haydn sonata is under considerable doubt – but whoever composed it, it n Violinist probably originated even earlier in Arabella 1755. However you look at it, Steinbacher has though, this disc once again combined an old shows the extraordinary range and favourite, the constant flow of invention that Violin Concerto Haydn demonstrated over such a No. 1 by Max Bruch (1838-1920), long period. Highlights are the with Erich Korngold’s (1897-1957) lively finale of No. 37, a dance-like Violin Concerto, and the Poème for
n Finally, more
piano, from Irish pianist Barry Douglas. He’s on the second volume of Works
for Solo Piano by Brahms, with Ballades, Intermezzi, a Rhapsody and the Sonata No. 3. His approach of splitting and mixing up Brahms’ sets creates interesting programmes as a result. I am so used to hearing the Intermezzi in their respective sets, that it takes a little getting used to hearing them separated in this way. However, once I got used to not hearing what I expected on the next track, I actually really enjoyed the juxtopositions here – particularly the sense of building towards the great Sonata as a climax. Douglas plays with great sensitivity, and avoids a heaviness that can creep in with Brahms at his most dramatic. In fact this whole disc builds beautifully to the heart-stopping Rückblick before the joyous chorale-like closing finale of the Sonata. The sign of a great pianist is being able to say something new with familiar repertoire, without resorting to distorting interpretations, and that is what Douglas achieves here. Chandos CHAN10757 Reviews, comments and events: nicks-classical-notes.blogspot.co.uk Email: nbclassical@hotmail.co.uk
CONCERTS ST LUKE’S CHURCH Queen’s Park Road, Brighton www.stlukesconcerts.webeden.co.uk n The WOODLARK DUO (Julie Groves, flute and Laura Snowden, guitar) perform Landscape – Music and Place, a programme of music by Ibert, Piazolla, Takemitsu and Bartók (7.30pm, Fri 2). n Pianist HELEN BURFORD performs Bach and Martin Butler, with other jazz, Baroque and contemporary works (7.30pm, Friday 23). n The FRETFUL FEDERATION, a community mandolin orchestra, perform an eclectic mix of music, including Bach and Yasuo Kuwahara, as well as other modern and popular works (7.30pm, Fri 30).
FABRICA Duke St, Brighton The gallery space Fabrica is hosting several music performances this month to accompany an exhibition by sculptor SUSIE MCMURRAY, entitled RESONANCE, which uses thousands of musical manuscripts to create a fragile landscape (until Mon 26). n FLAUGUISSIMO DUO (Yu-Wei Hu, flute, and Johan Löfving, guitar) perform 19th century Romantic music (3-4pm, Thurs 1). n THE TELLING (Clare Norburn, soprano, and Leah Stuttard, medieval harp) perfom songs of the Troubadours (2-3pm, Sat 10). n The BREMF Consort of Voices perform music by Byrd and Tallis (12.30pm-1.30pm, Sat 17).
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Violin and Orchestra by Ernest Chausson (1855-1899). These are all full-on romantic works, and a whole disc of such music could be rather overpowering, were it not for the fact that Steinbacher takes a cleaner, more measured approach than one might expect. That is not to say that she is at all reticent in her playing – on the contrary, in the slow movement of the Korngold, for example, she extracts every ounce of romantic lyricism, with a beautifully singing tone throughout. It’s just that somehow she saves the high romanticism for the ‘right’ moments, rather than wallowing throughout. Interestingly, if you listen to just one of the works here (perhaps the Bruch in particular), you might be left wanting more, but listening to the disc as a whole the end result is just right – satisfying without feeling like you’ve over-indulged on too much dessert. Pentatone PTC5186503
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FILM
LOVELACE
BY MICHAEL HOOTMAN
FROM UP ON POPPY HILL Dir: Goro Miyazaki Stars: Sarah Bolger, Anton Yelchin, Christina Hendricks Plot: Studio Ghibli animation about an innocent romance beginning to bud between Umi and Shun, two high school kids caught up in the changing times. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics. Word on net: “A gentle film, hand-drawn with irresistible colours, that exudes nostalgia in a lovely way.” n “The artistry is peaceful and comforting to the eyes but not especially stirring.” n “An emotionally nuanced, nostalgic look at the past that is grounded in everyday reality but which retains the studio's trademark humour and delight.” forces Julian to settle the score with his brother's killers. Word on net: “Refn clearly thinks he's saying something profound with this laboriously overproduced dross.” n “By embellishing low art in high art surrounds, Refn is challenging ideas of context and consumption, a sick twist on Warhol's placement of a soup can in an art gallery.” n “There's plenty of ravishing cinema in movie, but almost nothing of real life.”
Dir: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple Plot: Biopic about Linda Lovelace, used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life. Word on net: “A workmanlike movie that feels TV-safe rather than big-screen daring.” n “Fine performances and sharp attention to period detail are not enough to
save Lovelace from the doldrums of mediocre filmmaking.” n “A respectful, sympathetic portrait of an icon with a healthy balance of titillation, nostalgia and truth.”
Plot: In New York, a girl is caught in the midst of her parents' bitter custody battle. Word on net: “Touching, filled with taste and care, but not enough to avoid being coy and sentimental.” n “Intimate, unnerving and entirely addictive.” n “Not the first story of a child dealing with the consequences of parental break-up – but maybe one of the best.” n “Dynamics are more complex than its simple exterior.”
ALSO OUT...
n ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA
stars Steve Coogan as Norwich's most famous son. Also starring Sean Pertwee, Colm Meaney and Anna Maxwell Martin. n Jonny Depp stars as Tonto in a revisionist FOXFIRE THE LONE RANGER. The Native Dir: Laurent Cantet HEAVEN’S GATE American warrior recounts the Stars: Raven Adamson, Katie Dir: Michael Cimino untold tales that transformed John Coseni, Madeleine Bisson Stars: Christopher Walken, Kris Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of Plot: Set in the 1950s, a group of Kristofferson, Jeff Bridges, John the law, into a legend of justice. young girls in upstate New York Hurt form their own gang. Adaptation of Also stars Helena Bonham Carter, Plot: Reissue for epic Western Tom Wilkinson and Harry Joyce Carol Oates' novel. about the conflict between poor Treadaway. n Action comedy 2 Word on net: “Heartfelt, immigrant settlers and rich cattle GUNS stars Mark Wahlberg and naturalistic period drama whose barons. Denzel Washington as two law strong message is hampered by Word on net: “A beautiful, enforcement agents investigating wavering performances and an moving, at times surprisingly each other to find they have been overstretched plot.” n “Cast of subtle film that hovers precariously set up by the mob, the very relative amateurs certainly look somewhere between greatness and organisation the two men believe the part but sometimes appear folly.” n “An unforgettable film full they have been stealing money awkward or skittish.” n “Potent CALL GIRL of heartfelt sincerity and pointed occasionally touching depiction of from. n Matt Damon and Jodie Dir: Mikael Marcimain commentary about America's Foster star in sci-fi thriller feminism.” n “Overlong, off-key bloody history of hypocrisy, greed, Stars: Ruth Vega Fernandez, ELYSIUM. Set in 2154, where the affair does a disservice to its Pernilla August, David Dencik and racism.” n “Another look at very wealthy live on a man-made underlying pre-feminist politics.” Cimino's 1981 epic suggests that it Plot: A young girl is recruited from space station while the rest of the the bottom rung of Swedish has major problems but is not a population resides on a ruined WHAT MAISIE KNEW society into a ruthless world where total catastrophe.” Earth, a man takes on a mission Dir: Scott McGehee, David Siegel power can get you anything. Based that could bring equality to the Stars: Julianne Moore, Steve on a true story. polarised worlds. Coogan, Alexander Skarsgård Word on net: “Consistently engaging and fluid, but never particularly innovative or surprising... narrative is hardly n Patrick Wilson stars in THE different in its unremarkable CONJURING playing one of two competence.” n “Designed to stir paranormal investigators working people up and get them outraged, to help a family terrorized by a and that’s exactly what happened ONLY GOD FORGIVES dark presence in their farmhouse. in Sweden for most of 2012.” n “A Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn To win two tickets to the meaty, never sensationalistic Stars: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Odeon Brighton send the answer to political thriller that benefits from Thomas the following question to: Gscene its slow burn approach.” n “Set Plot: A respected figure in the Film Competition, 111 Western Rd, Hove, BN3 1DD: against the backdrop of election criminal underworld of Bangkok In which film did Wilson play a paedophile terrorised by one of his season in Stockholm, where runs a Thai boxing club and victims? politicians in what is regarded as smuggling ring with his brother the model utopian society legislate Billy. Billy is suddenly murdered JUNE COMPETITION: The Daily Mail. new rights for women even as they and their crime lord matriarch, patronise underage prostitutes.” Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas)
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BY CRAIG STORRIE
COMICS SANDMAN Since I have been reading comics I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing many fantastic storylines as well as some completely abysmal ones, but the only series I can safely say that had me hooked from the first issue to the very last is that of The Sandman. Conceived and written by one of the great geek gods, Neil Gaiman, The Sandman chronicles the story of Dream or Morpheus (who as one of the Endless is an aspect of the Universe), a supremely powerful personification of dreams who rules the land of dreams and nightmares. After being imprisoned for 70 years by an ageing occultist who tries to use Morpheus to achieve the secret to immortality, Morpheus escapes to avenge his capture on his prisoners and must reclaim his objects of power as well as returning to his realm to reclaim his kingdom which has fallen into disrepair in his absence as well set right the world of dreams. The journey to reclaim his totems takes him through many areas of the DC Universe while still in a weakened state, confronting an addict to his dream powder, the legions of Hell, and an all-powerful madman (Doctor Destiny) whilst also encountering heroes and villains such as Martian Manhunter, John Constantine, Scarecrow and even a cameo by Batman. Morpheus begins the series a lofty god whose haughty and cruel nature begins to soften as the story moves forward. But the challenge of undoing past sins and changing old ways is an enormous one for a being who has been set in his ways for billions of years. In its beginnings, the series is a very dark horror comic. Later, it evolves into an elaborate fantasy series, incorporating elements of classical and contemporary mythology, ultimately placing its protagonist in the role of a tragic hero. But, it’s the relationship with his siblings that makes the series stand out head and shoulders above most other comics out there. Dream is one of the Endless seven siblings who represent aspects of the Universe and all begin with the letter D: Dream, Death, Delirium, Destiny, Despair, Destruction and Desire. It’s in his relationship with his sisters, Death and Delirium, that define him the most and he shares a close, reciprocal bond of dependence and trust with his elder sister, Death, who always seems to appear when Dream is at his lowest and helps to lift him back onto his feet and see things for what they are. The Sandman is collected into 10 separate graphic novels which all deserve to be experienced as the series is hands down one of the best I have ever read. Even now, almost 10 years after I first read them, the series is still the benchmark to which I compare every future comic to.
GAYMING I shouldn’t be listing games that will keep you indoors and away from the summer sun but knowing how reliable our British weather is, chances are it’s going to be pouring with rain, so kick back with a glass of Pimms, open those windows, avoid the rain and break out your consoles, as this year it’s all about the games!
REMEMBER ME Set in the year 2084, Remember Me is a futuristic stealth games based in the city of Neo Paris. The story revolves around a woman named Nilin who is part of a rebel cell fighting against the mysterious company named Memorise. Memorise have created a brain implant called Sensen which enables roughly 99% of the population to upload memories onto the net to share as well as removing painful or sad memories. This implant gives Memorise a degree of control over people which creates a surveillance state to which some people have risen up against. The story is deep and engaging but it’s within the excellent mechanic known as memory remixing that allows Nilin to rearrange or influence a target’s
memories. This can be utilised by changing a target’s memory of an outcome be it a fight, being discovered or wiping that target’s memory all together. Remember Me is both a smart and exciting game that shows that there are still so many original ideas out there for the taking.
THE LAST OF US The latest game from the developers of the amazing Uncharted series; The Last of Us is as cinematic to watch as it is stunning to play. After an outbreak of a fungus that has killed millions, The Last of Us picks up 20 years later and follows two survivors, Joel and Ellie. Joel becomes the guardian of the 14-year-old Ellie after promising a friend he will get her away from the military and to the safety of a resistance group known as the Fireflies. Gameplay is fast and frantic in combat whilst being slow and suspenseful in other areas. Naughty Dog has developed a new AI system called ‘Balance of Power’ which allows enemies to react realistically to any actions the player takes. It’s a system that gives The Last of Us an original feel as well as being a stunning action game.
NEW SUPER LUIGI U I love Luigi and he will always be my favourite of the Mario Brothers, so it’s about time he finally gets his own addon to a Mario game, yay! Playing as Luigi, the DLC alters all the levels and reduces time limit to 100 seconds to keep that feeling of suspense alive. It’s a great little add-on that breathes more life into your Mario Bros U game and is also available as a separate game for those without the main title.
ALSO OUT THIS MONTH...
ALSO OUT THIS MONTH...
Out this month: DC’s Trinity War event kicks off, the final issue of Batman Inc hits the stores and Marvel’s Infinity crossover puts Thanos back at the front of the Marvel Universe.
Out this month: Saints Row 4, Lost Planet 3, Final Fantasy XIV Online and Payday 2 More reviews on Craig’s blog: www.redbarrels.net
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Drink Stones - cool drinks without dilution, £15.95 (Pussy, 3a Kensington Gardens, Brighton, 01273 604861)
Clipboard made from recycled circuitry, £8.95 (Eco Logic Cool, 46 Sydney Street, Brighton, 01273 606077)
Edison Light with changeable shade, £59 (Caz Systems, 17 Church Street, Brighton, 01273 326471) Handmade Ticket Cushion, £29.50 (Edited, 3 Gardner Street, Brighton, 01273 604006, editedbrighton.com)
Skull Teaspoons set of six, £13.99 (England at Home, 22b Ship Street, Brighton, 01273 205544) TABU (Eureka blu-ray). FW Murnau's last film is one of the great silent films, an operatic tragedy about forbidden love in the South Seas. A couple on an idyllic island fall foul of tribal elders who declare the woman a sacred virgin whose despoiling would anger the gods. Although the film focusses on a malefemale couple, the very labelling of their love as 'tabu' would obviously have resonances for the gay director. An early scene with half-clothed young men showering in a waterfall is one of cinema's great homoerotic images. It has the haunting quality of a dream, or perhaps a dark fairytale for adults. Eureka's exemplary presentation of the director's cut also includes an illuminating commentary, a documentary about Murnau and the film, outtakes and a 56-page booklet.
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CRAIG’S THOUGHTS LIVE & LEARN THE WRONG DECISION BY CRAIG HANLON-SMITH I know why I took the decision not to attend London Pride this year. PRIDE (the event) can cost a couple of hundred quid once you’ve added up lunch, dinner, train tickets, shoved a couple of bottles of champagne down your trouser legs to sneak into Trafalgar Square, and indulged in general flash cash Harry debauchery for a good twelve hours. And this year there’s a once in a lifetime holiday looming that is costing more than I thought, the bathroom needs work and will cost more than I had thought and the living room needed decorating and if we didn’t block out that weekend to do it, we’d wait another month yadda yadda yadda. And so when colleagues from work were arranging to meet up to watch the Parade on the final Saturday in June (changing the date threw me – another excuse), in my solid reliable single minded fashion I stood firm and thought of the chipped paintwork on my fireplace. As I hurtled southwards on the Friday evening and began to scroll through the pre-meet tweets of thousands PRIDE-bound, I totted up the accumulating builders’ fees for the bathroom to justify my own PRIDE austerity measures. As I dined with a friend on the Friday evening, who was clearly surprised we were not trekking ‘up West’ as the ‘Enders used to say for Gay Christmas (sorry baby Jesus), I promptly skipped to my local sandpit, and dug a hole into which I practiced a headstand. Single minded-ness is all well and good until of course you make the wrong decision.
So what’s to mourn? I’ve attended every London Pride event in some shape or form since 1994 and this would have been my twentieth consecutive participation. I’ve observed, marched, waved, shouted, danced, worn lycra hot pants, waterproof hoodies, sun block and wellies; I’ve been to the park, the pub, the square, the marshes, the Royal parks and the oval; I’ve done a 24 hours, 12 hours and a paltry two; I’ve been drunk, sober, elated, miserable; I’ve been part of a crowd one-hundred strong overtaking a tube carriage en route to Clapham or Finsbury Park collectively singing ABBA songs – most notably Does Your Mother Know That You’re ‘Out’? I’ve never blown a whistle, I’ve been pierced in a tent, I’ve seen God awful entertainment from an inexperienced Girls Aloud to Tight Fit; I met the man who would become my husband in a pub that’s since been pulled down and I have never missed a year. Until now.
Sure; the builder is booked, the holiday accommodation paid for and the living room looks great – but by the Monday morning following this year’s event I was overcome with a tsunami of sadness so strong, it felt as though I had arrived at the delivery ward an hour late for the birth of my first child, only to find my frowning mother-in-law sat on the end of the bed refusing to let me have a cuddle and to inform me that the child wasn’t mine anyway. Devastated. Whilst criticisms of PRIDE as a party, organisation, and general freefor-all abound, it feels more than ever an absolute necessity in demonstrating how far we have come in the last 40 years, but also how much more there is to achieve – not least of all in the quest for equality in marriage, the theme of this year’s London event. There have been a series of vicious and violent attacks on gay couples across the UK this year; I stress the term couples as these are not solitary vulnerable looking figures who have lost their way and crossed the road into less than salubrious areas, but gay men and women demonstrating a common right to be partnered – a domestic norm that so many of us have evolved from during our life-times and yet in Brighton, London, Sunderland; locations up and down the country these gay men and women have been badly beaten and hospitalised for demonstrating a love for another human being. I have said it before and here it comes again: whilst there is an inequality in the representation of our basic rights in the British legal system, we give the common man in the street a justification for acting upon these inequalities and the law inadvertently supports this violence. State sponsored beatings of you and I. That we still live in a country where democratically elected politicians are prepared to stand up in a televised parliamentary debate and explain why we, the gay community, should not be equal in law is a shameful disgrace and rotten stain upon our position on the world stage. And these politicians are from all corners of the political spectrum.
“PRIDE the event is a statement of community, solidarity and a mission that will not die” In the run-up to London Pride and in preparation for this edition of Gscene, I tweeted a request for shared thoughts of ‘what PRIDE means to me’. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of the thoughts of one lengthy response from a local gentleman, Christian, from Kemptown: “The most important aspect of the weekend [for me] is the Parade. I love to see the diverse mixture of people including the local police. I recall the year the IPCC received complaints that the Chief Inspector lead his force in the Parade. They complained that he shouldn’t be making a political statement or words to that effect – well I watched with respect and admiration. My most memorable experience, having managed to [unintentionally] split up from my friends, was to get caught up with the protestors on the corner of the park with their religious placards when the most amazing thing happened. The PRIDE crowd burst into a song of All Things Brighton Beautiful. A peaceful protest on one side of the street and a monumental point made on the other. For me that is what PRIDE is about.” To pay or not to pay, to park or not to park, to dip in and out whether for an hour or 12, to dress in a sensible crisply ironed shirt or fluorescent wig: PRIDE the event is a statement of community, solidarity and a mission that will not die. This year will always be the year I didn’t go to London but we live and learn. My presence shall be felt in Brighton on August 3 – and whatever the outcome of our equality progression – as I live and breathe, I won’t ever miss another one. What have you done today to make you feel proud? You can follow Craig on Twitter @CHanlonSmith; Christian our guest contributor @brightongaytory
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WALL’S
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GAY
WISDOM
BY MIKE WALL
BY GAY SOCRATES
ROLEPLAY
DOWN WITH PRIDE! UP WITH PASSION!
A couple of years ago I was having some drinks with a straight friend and she asked me; “Do gay couples adopt a male/female role in their relationships?” I was a little taken aback by this question. I immediately said “no”. She delved further and asked if in my relationship with my partner, did one of us do the more stereotypical female chores, such as cooking, cleaning, ironing etc, while the other did the home maintenance, gardening - basically the butch stuff? My partner and I were a little shocked by this question. I don’t think we ever discussed who did what, we just did whatever needed doing. The conversation had hurt me a little as I’d never felt that gay couples assumed certain roles. My friend did apologise for the question and seemed honestly embarrassed for raising this. We had another few glasses of wine and moved on to other topics of discussion. I soon forgot about the whole thing.
I feel Pride bursting my heart as I inhale; I feel shame twist my insides as I exhale
Just the other day I saw a lesbian couple walking down the street and I was reminded of the conversation I’d had with my friend. This couple appeared to me to have adopted the stereotypical roles. One was very femme while the other quite butch. Now, I don’t know them so I can’t really say that I know that this is the case, but I had come to the same conclusion that my friend had expressed. I was now guilty of labelling two people in the same way that had made me feel so uncomfortable just a few years ago. I started thinking about all the couples I know, both gay and straight. I know straight couples where the man does the cooking; I know straight couples where the woman does the DIY. I cannot think of any gay couples where I would say that one fulfils a male or female role.
“Men and women are individuals. We are not defined by our gender or for that matter by our sexual orientation. We are who we are” Men and women are individuals. We are not defined by our gender or for that matter by our sexual orientation. We are who we are. Men can hate sport, enjoy classical music and do the cooking. Women can run businesses, hate cooking and love sports. The new ‘norm’ may soon be that we are all a little bit more androgynous. Children can be raised to learn that these old stereotypes are outdated. A few weeks ago while on holiday in France, we were staying in a small Bed & Breakfast run by a young family. In the morning after breakfast, the little three year-old son, walked over to my partner and asked, “Where is the lady?” His father rather than getting embarrassed just said, “There is no lady, these are two men”. His son shrugged his shoulders and went off to play in the garden. If only everyone could have the same healthy, accepting attitude as a three year-old. I think the world has moved on a lot in the last few decades. These stereotypical male/female roles are now blurred. I don’t think we have to worry so much about who does what. Generally speaking most people don’t care. Happy Pride.
If Gay Pride marches started as a defiant gesture towards our emotionally abusive nurturing networks, as a refusal to allow a minority socio-biologically determined feature to mark us out as pariahs, then maybe we need to explore the impact of historical societal unpleasantness on the stymieing of the spirit of joy and playfulness in our Faerie natures. For most of us we’ve had to brazen out the discomfort of a constant backdrop of presumed social approbation. My own response was to pull away from family and frien-emies. I numbed my sensitivities to seem like I didn’t give a shit. I anaesthetised my intuition and creative instincts. I stifled my feminine-sissy nature. She had already been battered and bruised over the years by the invalidation of others’ embarrassment, disapproval, and ridicule. Distancing myself also meant ripping myself away from the wonderfully assuring imagery, stories and understandings of a stabilising yet homophobic religious community, who had provided a basic framework around which my early spiritual growth had been flourishing. As I came out to a more accepting chosen family, I sensed that my male-loving masculine gender was nicely privileged. However my maleloving feminine nature was shunned. My first gay community had not only unknowingly internalised its own homophobia but was also largely unaware of its patriarchally imposed misogyny. For lots of understandable reasons it was a spiritual wilderness too.
“My first gay community had not only unknowingly internalised its own homophobia but was largely unaware of its patriarchally imposed misogyny” As I identified a lack of spirit in my life I began to search for an accepting spiritual home. Wherever I looked, there would always be a problem with queerness. I concluded ultimately that I would need to become the spiritual home I was searching for. I started reading daily from the book The Essential Gay Mystics by Andrew Harvey and slowly but gradually began the work (and play) of constructing a truly personal spiritual life where my soul would be free to dance, laugh and sing! In this new life I’m encouraged to pursue my sexual desires and to satisfy my sexual appetites as a truly spiritual practice. My masculine-ness is honoured, as is my feminineness in a beautifully androgynous balance! By cultivating my spiritual/sexual nature I’m able to honour the 'wholeness of me' in the context of the cosmos. I can attune to the unassailable forces of inevitability. Rather than allowing ‘shame aversion’ to guide my actions I can now allow myself to be whole-heartedly ethically shameless following instead the discernment arising from a respect for my nature, the love of others and a joy for life. The Faeries like this! In Faerie community my wholeness is honoured and enjoyed. I’m invited to explore my response to acceptance in social space. Do I choose to be selfish or am I generous and self-sacrificial? I learn that I’m allowed to take the love I need and that I’m happy to allow others to feed on the love I have to give. I’ve said goodbye to the Gay Pride/Shame binary. I’ve left it behind in exchange for Queer Sacred Passion. It’s a much more sustaining paradigm!
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SHARP WORDS TUNING IN DEL SHARP DIGS UP THE DIRT ONLINE AND MEETS A NEW, REMOTE-CONTROLLED, BFF Sharp Words from time to time enjoys tapping a few random words into Google like everyone does just to see what comes up, and it just so happens that the latest words from my slightly agitated fingertips were ‘prostitutes for lesbians Brighton’. Just off the top of my head of course. I could have looked for anything, it just came out of nowhere honestly. But then I thought about it and considered that there must be such a thing, surely? We have every other kind of service, plumbers and decorators and stuff. Well it’s not that different really - you want something doing, never get around to it or you can’t do it very well and it doesn’t last for long and then end up having to pay to have it done or hope for someone to do it for you out of plain good will. The nearest thing I could find was thinly disguised as an introduction service that caters for the ‘ladies who want to have experiences with other ladies’. It was stressed that the ones on offer are truly lesbians or bi. I read with fascination that these women will also really ‘delight in the experience’. How gratifying. At £350 an hour I too would express enjoyment at most experiences, but this does seem a bit steep for 60 minutes of promised pleasure with the incredibly glamorous and thin Chelsea, Kasey, Lacey et al; though I still don’t get that lingerie with the high heels business.
have gr8 timz luv an lol’. There are groups of course to interact with people but if you’re not sporty, keen on dancing, dining or yawn... into networking, you might find yourself at a loss. Sometimes you need to do simple unorganised activities in the hope of seeing other lesbian human beings. For instance I just went to a pub popular with the girls one evening and found it empty. Completely empty and looking like a dog’s playground. And I still had to wait for the barchick to finish her texting before I got served. Suddenly an evening in a busy online chatroom with the insane seemed like quite a good idea, and probably where everyone else was. Brighton Pride is coming up and there’s an excuse to start the day by drinking at breakfast (yeah I know there have been others, but I won’t talk about that now) and it’s actually acceptable to smile and kiss strangers. It’s a rare chance to be surrounded by loads of hot chicks, (hopefully wearing beer goggles if they look my way) but I’m not sure I can bear to go out of the flat. I’ve suddenly acquired a new best friend which I have proudly installed in a corner of the living room and which is taking up all my attention. My big new shiny television is rapidly becoming my ideal companion. I’m so thrilled with its sleek eye catching form I keep leaving the room just so I can come back in and marvel at it yet again, and that’s before I’ve even switched it on.
“I keep leaving the room just so I can come back in and marvel at it yet again... and that’s before I’ve even switched it on”
Actually, if one of those young women turned up like that at my litter strewn doorstep (you wouldn’t believe that I really do sweep it), then came into my little hovel, l might be more inclined to offer slippers, cardigan and a sandwich followed by a possible “Do your nails come off” ice breaking line. And if they displayed any moment of pleasure after an hour of being with someone old enough to be their... er older sister… I’d be handing them an Oscar as well as a month’s mortgage. I’d probably fret about how they got home afterwards too. Not that I’d ever do such a thing though mainly because I have some vague scrapings of morals but also because I can’t afford it.
“Suddenly an evening in a busy online chatroom with the insane seemed like quite a good idea” So where do 40-something year-old lesbians go when they would like a relationship that lasts for longer than an hour? Beats me! Possibly online dating? Although a brief dip in those particular shark infested waters indicates strongly that the websites are full of crazy deluded people, often pictured with their pets, and all apparently wanting a cosy night in snuggling on the sofa with a DVD. Sounds appealing really, until you realise it’s the pet they would rather be snuggled up with. Anyone describing themselves as having a ‘bubbly personality’ can swiftly be clicked away from. As can anybody who is ‘up 4 fun and to
I’m not really a big watcher but I think that was because I’ve had the same little portable for 20 years. Suddenly I feel like I’ve got a new pair of eyes and now I’m eagerly scanning TV guides in the hope of finding something I might actually like. Then I can switch it on and sigh over the crisp colours and bright detail. And if there’s nothing on there’s a complete set of The L Word to get through. I’m just so excited with my many inches of pleasure. It’s the only screen for me from now on. The laptop lid is firmly down. I have finally found a reason to snuggle on the sofa and I’m not leaving it. Not even for Pride. Not even for imagined kisses or phone numbers… well maybe I could just pop out to see the Parade but not for long I’ve got a life to get home to.
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SAM THE
BY NICK DOUGLAS
BY DR SAMUEL JAMES HALL
SCRIBE
TRANSMAN
PRIDE, A TRULY DEEPER LOVE
SUN, SEA AND HEADS IN THE SAND
Pride, I love it all: the tacky, camp, schmaltzy, messy, cruisy, noisy, inconvenient, hedonistic chaos of it. It hasn’t always been so but when you claim membership of two marginalised identities within the Queer Rainbow (bisexual and trans) Pride starts to mean an awful lot. But this year I’m furious. Some people have come to believe that Pride is something that they own. And worse, because they own it, they can sell it. Worst of all, if you can’t afford to pay the price they ask, they can withhold it from you. I say b******s to that because Pride isn’t a commodity. It’s a fundamental principle of human rights. LGBT Pride specifically isn’t in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (probably because no-one asked LGBT people what they thought in 1948) but human rights principle it surely is. So what is this principle? Well, there is the internal, psychological sense of inner acceptance and self-respect but that’s not really what I’m concerned with. It’s also that all human beings have the inalienable right to freely publicly express their sexual identity or gender identity without discrimination or interference by the state or anyone else. We LGBT people choose one day of the year to do this communally and we call it Pride. This cannot be bought and sold because it is an aspect of free human expression. That’s what the early organisers of Pride knew and understood. They were harnessing a force that already existed within people and communities, not marketing a product to be consumed. Did you know that a pivotal member of the Pride movement, known as the ‘Mother of Pride’ was a bisexual woman? Not the young, affluent-looking, gym-bodied, gay, white, male, which seems to be the marketed face of Pride now. Check the Wikipedia entry for Brenda Howard. Strangely, I don’t think I’ve seen her featured much in any Pride publicity.
The eldest of four children in a devout Catholic family, my arrival in the world was a welcome one. I am sure my parents were delighted with their new baby daughter. However, by the time I was 18 months old, it had become obvious that I did not see myself as a little girl. “Tomboy” they called me, to excuse the fact that I refused to wear a dress, a skirt, anything flowery or frilly, or indeed do anything that might lead people to mistake me for a girl. But tomboys don’t put pebbles down the front of their swimming trunks, or scream for hours about being forced to dress as a girl. Tomboys are girls who like doing boy things, but don’t mind being girls. I was a boy, being forced to do girl things, and I minded very much.
“Pride is the people who make it... and without all of us, there is no Pride event worth the name”
The word “transgender” didn’t exist in the 1970s. If it had crossed my parents’ radar screen to seek help or support, surely the advice they would have received would have been to persist with the coercion and persuasion. To encourage me to wear the “right “ clothes and play with the “right” toys. I’m glad they didn’t get help, because although they were deeply in denial about the fact that their daughter was in reality a son, they were really very tolerant of my boysiness in the privacy of our home. I was Action Man to my sister’s Barbie, and was largely left to my own devices until we had to interface with the wider world once again.
Undoubtedly, Pride events must be organised and cost money. They don’t spring out of thin air and are unquestionably damn hard work to organise. However, in my view there is a public contract between those who organise Pride and LGBT people and it is this: we (LGBT people) grant you (the organisers of Pride) the use of our human rights principle for the day in order to create a safe, enjoyable, inclusive, celebration. We grant you the right to use our Pride to create an economically viable event and to be appropriately financially rewarded for your labours. However, we grant you this with the proviso that you respect the diversity in our communities and make it fair and accessible, recognising that social and economic injustice means that it is harder for some of us to participate than others. We also require you to be properly inclusive of our LGBT community groups, often unsung heroes who help create the very communities we are coming together to celebrate. That is the quid pro quo. If you wish to organise an open-air dance party for affluent, white, gay men (or whatever is your chosen target market) that is your prerogative in a capitalist democracy, but you may not use our collective human rights principle to market your party. And remember, if you choose not to honour our trust and faith in you, we can just as easily take it back. Our community organisations can refuse to participate. We can refuse to buy the tickets that are needed to generate the revenue to support it. We can organise boycotts, protests and alternative Pride events that are in keeping with our values for an event that elevates and celebrates all LGBT people. Remember, Pride is the people who make it, nothing more, nothing less and without all of us, there is no Pride event worth the name. Nick Douglas writes this column in a personal capacity.
There was no world wide web back then, no shared resources or reference points for my parents to seek help or support. We lived in the Middle East until I was 8 years old, so I got away with wearing shorts and T-shirts, and my family were able to bury their heads in the sand for the most part. However, there were days that were excruciating. Formal events; birthday parties, family gatherings back in the UK, weddings and the like - on these occasions I was shoehorned into a dress and paraded as the little girl I was supposed to be. The most poignant of these was my First Holy Communion, a day so traumatic, I have successfully blotted it completely from my memory. All I have to remind me is a photo of a little boy in drag. I think there was a hope that I would one day surely snap out of it, face reality and get on with being a woman.
“I think there was a hope that I would one day surely snap out of it, face reality and get on with being a woman” A move to the Netherlands in 1978 soon put a stop to my innocence. For the first time I was obliged to wear a school uniform, and use the right toilets. I remember returning to the classroom once with a wet skirt, because I had not known that when sitting to pee, you could pull a skirt up round your waist. I had dropped mine into an unpleasant puddle on the toilet floor, which led to humiliation and embarrassment in the classroom for the rest of the day. In the playground I was confused. Excluded from the boys’ games, and bewildered by the girls’ ones, I was something of a loner. I lacked the physical strength of boys, and longed to be able to join in. Later, when kisses were shared behind the bike sheds I was totally at a loss as to why, when and in whom I should be interested. This kind of confusion followed me into puberty, but by then the biological inevitability of a developing female form took a firm hold, and I started to shut myself away. TBC..
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HEART & SOLE BE PROUD! THE ESSENCE OF PRIDE BY DARREN SOLE It was foghorn-lunged honker Heather Small, who famously parped out the modern legend ‘What have you done today to make you feel proud?’ An idiom, which I know we all try to live our lives by, each and every day. Yesterday for instance, I managed not to look at ANY Internet pornography. For at least three hours. And if on August 3, as a LGBTXYZ Brightonian, YOU’RE not being Proud and supporting our seaside brethren by either coughing up the measly entrance fee to access Preston Park’s inner sanctum or, at the very least, managing to get off your arse to line the streets of our camp hamlet to watch as our kith and kin sashay by, then you’ve not only let yourself down, but big-bunned M Person, Heather too. I’ve been Priding it at gay-for-a-day cities, up and down the country for 20 years with each summer bringing its own particular horrors and highlights. From my early years of indignation and wide-eyed excitement (marching through London in pink pyjamas, SO, ahem, outrageous), the too-cool-for-school blur of VIP backstage areas (AKA the ‘glamour’ of canapés, chemicals and C-List boy bands), to oldenough-to-know-better-flashbacks of late (black vomiting behind a wheely bin in St James’ Street - not a good look), I can certainly say I’ve experienced the Pride phenomenon from many angles.
“When else do we get the chance to come together for a day of noholds-barred fun and witness all the colours of our collective rainbow?”
to escape his dog-eared thong, from the top of an open-topped double decker that’s snaking past Aldi on London Road, the attempted illusion of a sizzling Rio spectacle, has not realistically been met. But capturing that very essence that you’re free enough to express your inner-self, face the world with confidence or, if you really want to, be able to act like a loon is surely the whole point of the day. Prides are a barometer of how present day gay Britain is faring; you only have to watch fantastic footage of the political, anarchic and archaic Brighton Pride of 1994 to see how far we’ve come. Prides may have become less political and more commercial but they’re also more confident and celebratory, and the reason that I choose to support Pride is the fact that we’re fortunate enough to live in a country where such a day like this CAN happen. While we in Britain are finally making meaningful steps towards being treated as human beings, there are plenty of places around the world in 2013, where this isn’t the case. What with the Russians passing a bill that bans the so-called ‘propaganda’ of providing information about LGBT issues to youngsters and the violence that shadows their gay rallies, Zimbabwe’s Mugabe promising ‘hell for gays and lesbians’ by vowing to amend laws that would make ‘offenders’ (that’s men who hold hands, to you and me) rot in jail for life, and the delightful Republic of Belarus which plans to be the first European country to recriminalize same-sex acts, with up to five years imprisonment, we should march, parade and party for all those in the world who can’t. And let’s not forget about being proud of our fantastic city. Brighton, like anywhere else, has its problems, but think of all our visitors from monochrome towns across the land who’ll visit us this August, knowing that OUR kind of day would be unimaginable around their neck of the woods. So here’s to everyone in our community who play their part, big or small, in our big day; the charity workers, lesbian footballers, union reps, dancing groups, fundraising bears, queer choirs, emergency services and bars, pubs and clubs who organise, stitch, paint, make and sew throughout the year, to guarantee that Brighton Pride is a brilliant day for our fantastic city. Oh, and if you bump into Hazell Dean, which I’m sure you will, give her a bear hug from me. Darren Sole is a freelance TV Producer. @DarrenSole
Yes, our behaviours change throughout the years, and so do our responses to spending the day ‘trapped’ in a gayground, rubbing shoulderpads with thousands of other queers. So I understand that, for some, the notion of a day’s enforced whistles-and-WKD fun may make some flee for the South Downs but when else do we get the chance to come together for a day of no-holds-barred fun and witness all the colours of our collective rainbow? It’s certainly a heady mix; from the prowling chapped-up leather queens who emerge from their sweaty caves to blink in the light of the midday sun, the troops (is troop the correct collective noun for lesbians?) of on-a-mission, up-for-it, tinnie-carrying butches and femmes, and all of those ex-partners, ex-shags and ex-what-in-god’sname-was-I-thinking’s that you spend the day trying to dodge/avoid/ bump into, while desperately trying to remember what the hell their name is. Oh and of course, not forgetting on stage, the omnipresence of 1980s chanteuse, Pride stalwart and pop starlet Hazell Dean (she’s ALWAYS there). Some Prides drop the ‘gay’ and daub themselves ‘Mardi Gras’, in an attempt to make the days’ festivities, no doubt, more palatable to wavering sponsors or to present the impression that the day’s festivities will capture all the sophistication and fervour of a South American carnival. But I’m glad Brighton has managed to resist this untenable moniker though, because at the moment on a dank Pride Saturday when an all but naked, pissed-up portly-forty bootyshakes to Born This Way so frenetically hard, that his lolloping genitals threaten
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CHOIR
BOYS BY PETE BOON
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU FELT PROUD?
FEELING PROUD?
Personally, I don’t feel particularly respectful of myself for abandoning God; sticking my c**k up countless people’s holes which were designed for dumping waste products; sucking thousands of c**ks and drinking myself into many moments of unconsciousness. All my diseases have been brought on by myself. I wasn’t born with missing limbs, motor neuron disease or leukaemia. In fact, now in my mid-forties, I am still free of any aches and pains, cancer cells and have a steady set of heart and lungs. I don’t even need glasses: perfect 20–20 vision. No, in fact if I hadn’t been so addicted to c**k and booze I would be perfectly healthy.
‘What have you done today to make you feel proud?’ the Heather Small song asks us. I’ve been considering this recently whilst we all excitedly get ready for Brighton Pride. From my experiences of Manchester for many years and now Brighton, I know that Pride always brings the LGBT community together – particularly the big weekend events which round off most cities’ Pride seasons. But is Pride something we celebrate once a year or should it be close to our hearts all year round? Is it enough to turn up every August and party with everyone else, or do we have to earn our right to gay pride through our actions over the rest of the year? As Ms Small says, what have we done today to feel proud?
So, am I proud of still living and now working a full life with HIV and Hepatitis C? Maybe. Perhaps I should be off sobbing somewhere in a corner, shying away from others? I do this sometimes but it never lasts long. I am proud of my relationship and friendships. Been with the same guy for nine years now and still one of my closest friends is a person I have known since we were eight years old. But I am not proud at sometimes getting caught up in other people’s negativity and taking it out on myself or others.
After all, there is still much to fight for. My Facebook friends forever seem to be posting links to news reports about yet more homophobic injustice in other countries. Even in the UK, we’re still not fully there yet and won’t be until gay marriage is finally made legal.
“This is surely the point of Pride; a chance to celebrate all that we’re thankful for and all that we’re proud of”
I think the Pride Parade is fantastic. It represents some of the more positive aspects of our community: colour, equality, respect and artistic flair. However, I’m not sure that paying to go into the park, popping pills, dancing in frenzy and inevitably shitting my shorts later makes me feel particularly proud. It sure is bloody good fun though and keeps my washing machine well serviced. Before I form any concrete conclusions on this notion, I think it’s time to consult my trusted Oxford Illustrated Dictionary. ‘Pride n. Unduly high opinion of one’s own qualities, merits, etc, considered the first of the seven deadly sins.’ Oh, I wasn’t expecting that to be honest. Perhaps, then, we all have an unnaturally inflated idea of ourselves, based on our sexual behaviours and community involvement? Certainly, I have been guilty of this at times. And of course, like most things we revel in, it has to be classified as a sodding sin. I hope in the next life that eating chocolate makes you thin, drinking beer gives you a rigid six pack and bareback sex keeps you young.
“I’m not sure that paying to go into the park, popping pills, dancing in frenzy and inevitably shitting my shorts later makes me feel particularly proud” I think it’s time to abandon Pride. Keep the parade and party in the park but call it Mardi Gras. This isn’t listed in my dictionary but according to Wikipedia: ‘Mardi Gras n. Carnival Season - popular practices include wearing masks and costumes, overturning social conventions, dancing, parades.’ This sounds far more like it. However, a day of sin is sounding increasingly good.
As a member of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus, I’m often made to feel very proud indeed. Our single last year You Make Me Proud, written by Howie Alexander, first came about as an international project to raise awareness of homophobia across the world. I remember hearing the lyrics for the first time and feeling moved after applying them to my own life and the people who’ve given me love and support over the years. And this is surely the point of Pride; a chance to celebrate all that we’re thankful for and all that we’re proud of. Yes, there is still a long way to go the world over, and for many of us Pride is also about reflecting on some of the issues that gay people all over the world still face. As for how we apply Pride to our own day-to-day lives, I think that’s up to each of us. Pride may be something we celebrate in a park with thousands of others, but really it’s something that we should celebrate personally. For me, nine years after I came out at the age of 25, I’m proud to be an openly gay man, proud to be in a happy relationship, proud to be a role model to young people as a teacher and proud to be a member of Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus, where we can celebrate music, celebrate our sexualities and raise money for other charities. So, in between dancing away watching the main stage at Pride, take a private moment to think: What are YOU proud of?
If you'd like more information about the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus, view: www.brightongmc.org
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CHARLIE SAYS MISTAKEN IDENTITY BIG SISSY IS WATCHING YOU SAYS CHARLIE BAUER PhD So the truth is finally out - we’re all being watched. Some time ago I covered online identities including shagsites like Grindr, but the very notion of this most recent internet profiling is making me feel a bit queazy. Either way, I can’t help thinking that all this Ed Snowden stuff is really just the tip of the slippery iceberg. All this surveillance makes me wonder how they are ever going to get us to behave ourselves. We’re all free and well out of our closets and we all know our rights. And we’re not doing anything illegal, are we? What we do in bed is (now) our own business as long as it doesn’t constitute any form of involuntary force over another. Correct? And we can also perve away across the internet, because we see this as free information, and delude ourselves that we are still operating within the law. Even if we don’t know what the law is. The thing about this profiling is that it is now the single most profitable activity in the modern world. I’ve already had a taste of the creepies - doing a Google search for a dentist, then local dentists adverts appearing in the sidebar when you log onto Facebook. I’ve bashed on about the fact that the iPhone contains everything about yourself in a neat little package – your information then being sold back to you by the crypto-hippies at the Apple store. Most people I talk to about my concerns tell me they have nothing to hide, ‘Whoever they are, they can’t spy on everything we get up to online. Can they?’ Well, I’ve just scrawled down my two-day web search history and it’s actually embarrassing. I stopped scrolling at the query Yellow pus – Ear - Pain. What is my personal profile going to be if I’m banking search results like that?
“They can’t afford to police us anymore so they profile us instead – building up a contrived image of who we are via every activity we make on the internet, text, phone, Facebook, Grindr…” There are also those of us who say ‘they can look at whatever they want – I’m not hiding anything or breaking any laws…’ This is where we come unstuck. There was once a very important queer elder by the name of Michel Foucault who came up with the idea of surveillance which he based on old fashioned prisons called Panopticons. In the centre of these prisons was an observation tower with slit windows where the guards would sit. In a circle around these were the prison cells with railings on both sides so the guards could see through each cell at every prisoner. But here was the trick - the prisoners couldn’t tell if they were being observed or not because they couldn’t see through the slits in the tower at the guards. What the prisoners did, because they didn’t know if they were being watched, was regulate their own behaviour. In other words, they started to ‘behave’ themselves. This meant the job was done – and cheaply too because sometimes the central turrets had no guards in, but the prisoners didn’t know that and
so behaved themselves. This is becoming the same way with the internet but they can’t afford to police us anymore so they profile us instead – building up a contrived image of who we are via every activity we make on the internet, text, phone, Facebook, Grindr… So do we have to ‘Behave’ ourselves because they may be looking? It’s actually gone beyond that. We have to regulate our behaviour now because Ed Snowden informed us that they can go back at any point and put together a case based on hearsay from our own digital history. And we will not be able to defend this because they will carry all the so-called ‘evidence’. Whenever you complain about a politician shafting the economy or Murdoch using wealth to cover everything up, just remember that information is also designed to make you lose all faith in any system of order. So that when if it were all to break down, in that good old colonial way, the powers that be will stomp in with a new moral treaty in hand in order to ‘protect’ us from ourselves. Profiling is not only about ‘Targeting’ advertising at you via your online searches. They now know your all your sexual peccadillos by what porn you view – even how long it takes for you to orgasm as a result. Is that personal enough for you? As for ‘having nothing to hide’, your personal information may seem innocuous now, but think about some idiot invested with power at GCHQ compiling their tailored choice of profile based on carefully selected ‘real events’ from your online life. What about that time you and a mate stumbled on the How To Make A Nail Bomb website when you were drunk or having a disagreement. Or that time when you typed Sexy Boys into Google search when you really should have tapped in Sexy Men. All of this, as well as what you bought at the Tesco Metro yesterday, and your most recent STD information, is currently on a chip the size of your little toenail at a storage facility in F**khampton, Pennsylvania. And it’s not what you are doing now in your temporarily emancipated lives but what can be held against you from your digital past if someone decides you’ve suddenly stepped out of line. And they wont be favourable either. Even if you believe yourself to have a moral compass, they can shift the polarity of your identity to make you appear to be Josef Fritzl, if they so desire. What will happen is that we will enter a closet far colder than the one we’ve just broken out of. Of course we’ll all be equal - but we’ll all be stuck in there together. Relax - none of this is actually real. It’s only a profile of you that does not yet exist yet and will only ever really be a fragmented case, in a virtual court of law. charliebauerphd.blogspot.com
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LEST WE FORGET
BI-CURIOUS ME
My birth, in North London three weeks after D-Day, coincided exactly with the arrival of a V-1 flying bomb which landed 30 yards away and would have destroyed me, my mother and everyone else in the nursing home if it had exploded. The few moments between the engine noise stopping, when its fuel ran out, and the plane hitting the ground provided just enough time for the midwife to put a blanket over my mother and to shove me, red faced and whinging, under her bed and into the only available receptacle. Not an auspicious start to life, you might think, but better a whimper than a bang.
Bi-Curious Me (Channel 4, 4oD) – what exactly is this documentary documenting and should we have a problem with it? Channel 4 has done some riveting documentaries and docu-series’ recently – Bank of Dave was a breath of fresh air, The Girl Who Became Three Boys was a breath of fresh WTF?, and My Transsexual Summer introduced us to some nice people that most of us just wanted to hug. The Undateables sailed a bit close to the shores of exploitation, but most agree that it didn’t quite disembark.
BY DUNCAN STEWART
Bombing, deliberately targeted at civilians, destroyed more than two million homes, 60% of them in London. Families lost members, were dispersed and communities were shattered. In all, 70,000 thousand British civilians and over 380,000 combatants died in the war. Less well known is that for every one UK death one US serviceman died as did six Japanese, 12 Poles, 14 Germans, 35 Chinese and 65 Russians. A horrifying worldwide total of 63 million people, roughly the population of the UK today, died an unnatural death. Civilians accounted for more than half of this figure but in China civilians accounted for 75% of all who died and in Russia about 60%. The Nazis murdered almost six million Jews, half of whom were Polish.
“My father was posted to a searchlight unit, an odd decision for a man blind in one eye” Post-war Britain, bankrupted by the cost of the conflict, was the setting for a long period of austerity which affected virtually every citizen. Wartime rationing had been largely successful in its aim of distributing evenly the severely reduced supplies of almost everything households needed. The weekly allowance of butter and cheese was two ounces of each and only pregnant women and sick children got more than one egg per week. The war ended in 1945 but the rationing of bread continued until 1948. Clothing coupons ended a year later, petrol became ‘off ration’ in 1950 and meat not until 1954. Stories of my grandmother sitting in her Anderson Shelter, doing crochet by candlelight, while the Luftwaffe, twice, rearranged the tiles and brickwork of her modest house in Eltham were embedded in my memory. Uncles who had fought in the desert campaign, navigated fighter bombers or were landed on Normandy beaches yielded a few stories. My father was posted to a searchlight unit, an odd decision for a man blind in one eye as a result of childhood infection. By secondary school age, my friends had abandoned Wind in the Willows and Arthur Ransome and were more likely to be reading The Scourge Of The Swastika, The Knights Of Bushido, The Colditz Story or The Dam Busters. We were engrossed in a war which most of its survivors wanted to forget. Prominent among many who could not do so was Primo Levi who committed suicide in 1987, a victim of ‘survivor guilt’. My generation was extraordinarily fortunate. We grew up with good healthcare, fairly good education, a rising standard of living and never had to cope with the fear and brutality of war. It was only in my 40s that I learned that many V-1 bombs failed to explode because slave labourers from concentration and POW camps deliberately misassembled the detonators. If discovered they were shot instantly or hanged in the workplace. It could have been a Polish Jew, a Russian soldier or even a German communist who sabotaged my birthday present from Adolf. We are all indebted to many people for the quality of our lives but I may well owe my existence to an exceptionally brave person who most probably lost theirs. I think about this every day and am transfixed for a few seconds by feelings of intense gratitude.
BY MATT PHIL CARVER
Bi-Curious Me though, first broadcast on June 20, didn’t really do... anything. We met some nice people, I suppose. There was Hayley, who coaches personal freedom, human connection and self-expression, with some bisexual ‘adventures’ on the way. There was sweetheart Sophie, whose genuinely interesting inner-conflicts got barely any screen time, and that was it for the nice people. The third subject, 50-something Jill, cheated on her husband and then left him. The fact that her affair was with a woman was largely irrelevant and putting it on TV was, presumably, just one final act of recreational cruelty on her part. So C4 made one naff, easily-forgettable documentary – so what? Well, the problem here is that it wasn’t so easily forgettable. In fact, you may have found it jarring and uncomfortable. Several critics have, with good reason, flagged up an objection to Bi-Curious Me’s early statement that “it has never been more on-trend to have your first lesbian experience”. Presumably then, these women will resume their predilection for penis as soon as Vogue and Cosmo decree it, no? This was probably just a poor choice of words, as opposed to a genuine implication that a sexual orientation is something you can slip on with your heels as your cab pulls up outside. The accompanying visuals though, a boobs and bums burlesque show, begged the question: who exactly is the intended audience here? The following 40 minutes was arduous at best and had, in all honesty, a bit of a Marwell Zoo feel to it. A kind of, “Ladies and gentleman, to your left we have the emperor penguins, and on the right we have a fascinating breed of human females that mate with both males and females, ladies and gentleman, how about that?” Bi-Curious Me asked no questions, it just introduced these people and said “look at them” as though the novelty of bisexuality would have viewers adjusting their monocles and exclaiming “by Jove, surely not!”. If the message being portrayed here was “great news, social acceptance of bisexuality is advancing even faster than we thought, and here is our proof *ta-daa*” then it certainly wasn’t communicated effectively. The critical consensus has been that Bi-Curious Me was a bit flaccid and boring. Hayley Quinn, its primary subject, blogged on hayleyquinn.com about her reasons for participating. This blog post is arguably more interesting than the show itself. She says: “I decided I didn’t want to be part of the BS about how women/people are supposed to ‘behave’. I thought it was worth putting my (yes at times bikini clad) butt on the line so that other people felt it was okay to be liberal, open and free”. Perhaps they should have let her direct. It seems safe to assume that Bi-Curious Me didn’t come across quite as she’d hoped. Hayley is a professional dating coach with interesting things to say about confidence, sexual expression and questioning the fundamental aspects of dating culture. It seems Channel 4 though, just wanted to film her in a club, sucking faces with a pretty blonde (albeit with some quite exquisite lighting and camerawork). Is this just symptomatic of a slightly shallow, predictable documentary, or of something a bit more damaging?
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KEITH SHARPE
issue is the category itself and protection for people, even if it is only a few people. We need to protect them and this seems to be the right way of doing it.” If only Anthony Priddis showed such devout concern for protecting LGBT people in his own Diocese of Hereford.
OUT OF TOUCH
Priddis then went on to deliver a rambling and incoherent speech about conscience clauses for teachers as well as registrars who think God is against equal marriage. He fulminated against a statement issued by the National Panel of Registration, who represent registrars, which said they firmly opposed any opt-out conscience clauses. They had declared: “Allowing some registrars to opt-out of civil marriages for same-sex couples would be discriminatory and cause serious administrative difficulties in delivering services.”
A DEPRESSING SPECTACLE BY DR KEITH SHARPE FROM CHANGING ATTITUDE SUSSEX As I write, the Same-Sex Marriage Bill is being discussed in detail by their Lordships in the Upper Chamber. And some quite extraordinary goings-on have emerged.
Priddis did not believe that there would be any such administrative difficulties. He was however subsequently upstaged by a gay hero riding to the rescue. Step forward Lord Ali, openly gay muslim peer who intervened at this point. He essentially made two simple statements which surely none can disagree with (can they?!): 1. Nobody should be denied equal access to lawful services on discriminatory grounds; 2. Public servants should not be able to pick and choose which services they will choose to deliver.
And then there was an extraordinary speech by the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu. He peddled the well-worn complaint that the Bill 'redefines marriage', as though marriage has not been redefined many times in the past. He talks as though the idealised nuclear family of mum, dad, two point four children, a dog and a mortgage had existed for all time since the dawn of creation. Has the Archbishop ever read his Bible one wonders? For most of the Biblical era polygamy was the norm and widespread fornication was not only tolerated but expected. Has he forgotten about King Solomon's hundreds of wives and concubines? As an African, one might also have expected the Archbishop to remember the laws in many countries which forbade the marriage of white and black. Would His Grace have opposed the abolition of these laws on the grounds that marriage was being 'redefined'? Bizarrely, however, at the end of his speech the Archbishop went on to say “as with any aspect of Creation our interpretations of marriage are not final.” This seems to leave the door open to exactly the kind of redefinition which the rest of his speech condemned.
“Allowing some registrars to opt out of civil marriages for same-sex couples would be discriminatory and cause serious administrative difficulties in delivering services” National Panel Of Registration Similarly confused thinking also characterised the offering of the other Archbishop, Justin Welby, him of Canterbury. Basically he was contorting himself to say on the one hand that the C of E really does love LGBT people and wants to welcome them openly, but on the other hand he wanted to reassure conservatives that the Church's 'traditional and unchanging' teaching on homosexuality will be upheld. Of course this is Alice in Wonderland stuff. And then there was the Bishop of Hereford, Anthony Priddis. He wanted to support the changes proposed by Lady Cumberlege. She had tabled an amendment seeking protection for civil registrars who object to same-sex marriage on religious grounds. The Bishop said: “What is at
LORD ALI
First of all there was the attempted wrecking amendment by Lord Dear such a camp name, isn't it?! He used to be the Chief Constable of the West Midlands before being elevated. He's fundamentally opposed to gay marriage and he wanted to stop the Bill dead in its tracks, despite the fact that the democratically elected House of Commons had voted overwhelmingly in favour of it. I have to report that, disgracefully, nine bishops of the Church of England, who were elected by nobody, supported Lord Dear. Fortunately, this turned out to be a minority view, and the House of Lords threw out his amendment and voted 390 to 148 in favour of the Bill.
Having set out his stall, Lord Ali then went on to issue a challenge to the Bishop of Hereford. Why is it, he asked, that having a strong religious conviction against equal marriage should entitle you to an opt-out exemption from the law, when having the opposite strong religious conviction does not entitle you to opt-in? If the Bishop of Hereford is so concerned about conscience why is he not arguing for a clause which would allow Anglican priests who are also registrars to perform same-sex marriages on the grounds of their strong conscientious belief that gay people should be allowed to marry?
“Conscience is not a one-way street. It goes both ways. If you want to opt out, we must come back and question why we cannot opt in” Lord Ali Anthony Priddis at this point mumbled something obscure and so Lord Ali made his challenge explicit: “If a conscientious clause to allow registrars to opt out in civil marriage is so important, I will work with him to craft a similar clause to allow registrars in the Church of England to opt in. Conscience is not a one-way street. It goes both ways. If you want to opt out, we must come back and question why we cannot opt in. It is about more than just one conscience. We all have a conscience and mine tells me that this amendment is wrong in principle.” This time the Bishop remained utterly silent. I find all of this desperately depressing. I generally find that amongst the population at large there is still a deep well of benevolence and fondness for the Church of England. Even in these secular days it is still a fundamental point of reference for many people, particularly at times of life's milestones. But the constant anti-gay rhetoric of bishops and clerics does a disservice to the Church. Yet again the successors to Christ's apostles appear outdated, irrelevant and rather nasty. Goodwill is draining away. Things have got to change.
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Oh no, here we go again. My my how can I resist it? Pride’a Mania, here is comes again, I've been cheated by you since I don't know when, so I made up my mind, it must come to an end. Look at me now, will I ever learn? I don't know how but I suddenly lose control, there's a fire within my soul. Just one look and I can hear a bell ring, one more look and I forget everything, o-o-o-oh.
Lunch Positive regularly provides ‘pop-up’ cafés and food stalls alongside other groups events. Over recent years we’ve been privileged to provide our cafés at Pride on Preston Park, Bear Weekender Picnic and BLAGSS’ Take Part Sports Day.
Every year I say I won’t do it again, that I’m over it, too old, too worn out, too cool, done it too many times, bought the T-shift, hell collected a decades worth of T-shirts, cut the t-shirt down to a sluttish rag, did it in hell and high water, passed out, passed over, passed through it, lived it, and became a zombie more than once, but one more time, for the road, no! For love, Pah, get real! For old times’ sake, f**k no! Every year it seems further away from what it was, what it meant (Dear Reader it did once have meaning); more commercialised, less relevant, less about community and more about a party, less mixed, more middle-class, more middle of the road, less middle brow, less monobrow, more plucked brows and lashes you could flagellate with and what the cupcake does that have to do with me? I ask myself but I still hear the ancestral drums while I ache for silence to fall, they drum, they drum and they are the bored fingers of the drag queens in my soul who need their yearly fix of fat arsed mingers compressed into sequined frocks with make up like Artex. They tap tap tap their toes against the bomb proof vault inside me and gently scratch their long gilded talons against the laminated bullet proof glass, looking for a weak point, knowing that the ABBA will get me in the end, or an overheard snatch of Queen or even, god forbid, a treacherous wafted lyric of Tracy Chapman that unleashes the Fairy Furies within me just as I thought I’d made it through the year…
It’s great to be part of events that take place in the wider community – giving us a chance to meet and work with new people with varying interests, opportunity for our volunteers and members to get involved in different types of work and activities; and to demonstrate the impact of volunteering.
This year we’re over the moon to be able to stage our big Community Café at Pride on Preston Park – Saturday, August 3. Community activity at Pride is our largest event during the year, and staging the café involves upwards of 20 volunteers, giving over 140 hours in total. It’s a long day – but fun! We start setting up at the park from 6am and leave around 10pm! This year we’re in the Community Village area, and we’ll be selling healthy hot food, tasty cakes, hot and cold drinks. There’s a seating area provided and the café will be open from noon-5pm. Please come along, support us, relax - and get some enjoyable food!
Oh I’m so over the rainbow, and there’s no place like home; thank god! And when your home (yes your home) is this Twisted Gilded Ghetto by the sea with the walls of shinning fools’ gold and the dance floors paved with glitter and the fabulous rhinestone beach, where the lapping tears of a million disappointed size queens gently erodes the shore and reminds you that those dreams that you really dared to dream came true and turned to nightmares in front of you. Although your ice box sill kept a small bottle of hope, nicely chilled, Pandora’s Panacea, our own Ghetto Pride Vintage. Oh someday you’ll wish upon a star - let’s say Shirley Bassey - and wake up where the clouds are all behind you, probably in A&E after too much K in the dance tent slips ya into a Gay-Hole, where troubles melt like lemon drops, although I recall lemon drops went all catsick sticky and gather all the fluff and hair for miles till they end up like a cancerous Tribble impossible to remove; like real troubles. However back to the song; away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me. Gibbering and quaking and begging for it all to end, and then – in a flash of rainbow feathers and drooping leather Chap clad buttocks it will be, O.V.E.R. and I’ll be One Pride Older again, secretly wishing every day was like Pride and trying to be exquisite and never explain.
Lunch Positive is a lunch club for people with HIV which runs every Friday from Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Dorset Gardens, Brighton. To find out more about joining or becoming a volunteer visit • www.lunchpositive.org • or call 07846 464384.
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PRIDE IN OUR COMMUNITIES MindOut is immensely proud of Pride. As a ‘mental health’ event, what could be finer than a celebration of our lives, our difference, our contributions to the world, to Brighton & Hove, to each other. It’s a chance to show off, to get together, to be creative, to learn, to share and to belong. This may help make clear why MindOut has cared to get involved in debates about how Pride celebrations can be as inclusive as possible, which means including those of us who have less access to disposable income. By having to charge for entry to the park, the issue of whether each of us can afford to go creates a division between those for whom the price of a ticket is well within their means and those for whom it’s out of the question. If you have a relatively good income, an affordable home, your food bills and utility bills are taken care of regularly, not so much debt you can’t handle, then buying a ticket for Pride probably doesn’t present any problem at all. Those of us who are comfortable money-wise may well spend far more than the cost of a Pride ticket on all sorts of social, leisure, recreational pursuits daily. If you are unable to find work or unable to work then you may be living on approximately £70 a week, or £56 if you are aged under 25. These amounts are to cover food, fuel, transport, clothing etc. It’s too hard to live on that for any length of time, no-one would want to try it.
What we have tried to do this year is ensure that some people in Brighton & Hove’s LGBT communities who live on next to nothing have the opportunity to come to the Pride park festival. This is despite the fact that the Pride CIC has to make sure it covers costs and sells enough higher price tickets, no mean feat. There is no perfect way to make sure everyone who needs an affordable ticket gets one. With the support of Pride and the LGBT community groups and organisations we hope to get the tickets Pride has released to as many people as we can. None of this would matter if Pride was any other festival or any other show, and of course not everyone can afford to go to everything they would like to. The reason it matters is because of what Pride symbolises, because it has a history, because of the
politics of LGBT community development, because to feel included is good for your mental health and because too many of us are at risk of feeling the opposite, too many of us are socially isolated. MindOut would like to thank everyone who has helped make this happen, especially the Pride organisers. You have made Pride a more accessible, equal event, you have made sure that some of the disadvantaged people in our communities can participate, you have made sure that some of the people who are particularly socially isolated can chose to join in. That makes us proud of Pride.
MINDOUT AT PRIDE Look out for MindOut at Pride this year! We are running an anti-stigma pop up village in the park, complete with Lorraine Bowen, a cinema, cup cakes and popcorn.
MINDOUT SERVICES MindOut works to reduce social isolation, reduce the stigma associated with mental health and support people who have experience of mental health issues. We provide information and advice, we run an advocacy service, peer support group work, peer mentoring, activities, anti-stigma events, wellbeing courses and training for service providers. Our services are free, confidential, impartial and independent. All of our work is provided by and for LGBT people with experience of mental health issues. If you would like to know more: • see our website www.mindout.org.uk, • email us info@mindout.org.uk • or phone us on 01273 234839
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DIRECTORY LGBT SERVICES t ACCESS 4 ALL
LGBT disabled people’s forum. Safe, welcoming, support, activities, awareness. Tel: 07981 170071 or access4all@fsmail.net
t ANYTHING BUT…
Youth social support group for LGB or unsure under 26, every other Wed. Tel: 01424 724150 or 01424 447033
t ALLSORTS YOUTH PROJECT
Drop in for LGBT or unsure young people under 26, Tues 5.30-8.30pm. Tel: 01273 721211 or info@allsortsyouth.org.uk, www.allsortsyouth.org.uk
t BRIGHTON & HOVE POLICE
Report all homophobic and transphobic incidents to: • The Sussex Police 101 (for emergencies 999) email: LGBT@sussex.pnn.police.uk tweet: @policeLGBT • LGBT Officer PC Rich Bridger on 101 ext 50727 • LGBT caseworker Rory Smith on 101 ext 50727 • Facebook Brighton LGBT Police
t BRIGHTON & HOVE LGBT SAFETY FORUM Independent LGBT forum working with the Community to address and improve safety issues throughout Brighton & Hove. info@lgbt-safety-forum-brighton.com www.lgbt-safety-forum-brighton.com
t BRIGHTON & HOVE LGBT SWITCHBOARD
Tel Helpline, Hate Crime reporting, Counselling service, Proud2connect (relationship counselling in partnership with Brighton Relate). www.switchboard.org.uk/brighton • Helpline from 5pm daily: Tel: 01273 204050 • Services info 01273 234009 • email brighton.manager@switchboard.org.uk • or brighton.admin@switchboard.org.uk
t BRIGHTON OURSTORY PROJECT
Oral history projects including shows, exhibitions, books, support to researchers Tel: 01273 207757 or 01273 328592 or www.brightonourstory.co.uk
t BRIGHTON WOMEN’S CENTRE
Info, counselling, drop-in space, support groups. Tel: 01273 698036 or www.womenscentre.org.uk
t FTM BRIGHTON
Social/support group for all female-to-male trans people. Every 3rd Sat of the month, 6-8pm, THT Office, 61 Ship St, Brighton, BN1 1AE. For info visit: www.ftmbrighton.org.uk or contact info@ftmbrighton.org.uk
t GEMS (GAY ELDERLY MEN’S SOCIETY)
Twice monthly meeting for over 50s Tel: 01273 884285 or peterotto337@btinternet.com www.gems-bh.org.uk
t LESBIAN LINK BRIGHTON
Local social group offers friendship, social events, meets 1st Thursday at The Regency Tavern 7.30pm Tel: 07594 578035 (eve) www.lesbianlinkbrighton.co.uk
t LESBIAN & GAY AA
12 step self-help programme for alcohol addictions. Sun 7.30pm, Chapel Royal, North St, Btn (side entrance). Tel: 01273 203343 (general AA line)
t LGBT NA GROUP
Brighton based LGBT (welcomes others) Narcotics Anonymous group every Tue 6.30–8pm, Millwood Centre, Nelson Row, Kingswood St. Tel: NA Helpline 604604
t LGBT MEDITATION GROUP Meditation & discussion, every 2nd & 4th Thur, 5.30–7pm, Anahata Clinic, 119 Edward St, Brighton. Tel: 07789 861367 www.bodhitreebrighton.org.uk
t LUNCH POSITIVE
Lunch club for people with HIV to meet, make friends, find peer support in safe environment. Every Fri, noon–2.30pm, Community Room, Dorset Gdns Methodist Church, Dorset Gardens, Brighton. Lunch £1.50. Tel: 07846 464384 or www.lunchpositive.org
t MINDOUT
Independent, impartial info, guidance for LGBT people with mental health problems. 24 hr confidential answerphone: Tel: o1273 234839 or info@mindout.org.uk www.mindout.org.uk
t RAINBOW FAMILIES
Support group for lesbian and/or gay parents Tel: 07951 082013 or info@rainbowfamilies.org.uk www.rainbowfamilies.org.uk
t VICTIM SUPPORT
Practical, emotional support for victims of crime. Tel: Brighton 01273 234009 or Hove 01273 439942
HIV PREVENTION TREATMENT & CARE SERVICES t AVERT
Sussex HIV & AIDS info service, available by phone Tel: 01403 210202 or email confidential@avert.org
t BRIGHTON & HOVE CAB HIV PROJECT
Money, benefits, employment, housing, info, advocacy. Appointments: Tue-Thur 9am-4pm, Wed 9am-12.30pm Brighton & Hove Citizens Advice Bureau, 1 Tisbury Rd, Hove, Tel: 0845 1203710 www.brightonhovecab.org.uk
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Free confidential testing & treatment for STIs including HIV. Hep A & B vaccinations. Out Patients Dept of Royal Sussex County Hospital, Eastern Rd, from 6-8m. Tel: 01273 664721 www.brightonsexualhealth.com
t LAWSON UNIT
Medical advice, treatment for HIV+, specialist clinics, diet & welfare advice, drug trials. Tel: 01273 664722
t SUBSTANCE MISUSE SERVICE
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
t SUSSEX BEACON
24 hour nursing & medical care, day care. Tel: 01273 694222 or www.sussexbeacon.org.uk
• 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 wide-ranging 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 that may affect you. Advice line: Mon–Thur 1:30-2:30pm. 1-2-1 appointments for advice and workshops on key benefits. For more info about these FREE services go to the THT office, 61 Ship St, Btn, Mon–Fri, 9.30am–5.30pm Tel: 01273 764200 or info.brighton@tht.org.uk
t TERRENCE HIGGINS EASTBOURNE
Covering East Sussex, Services: Health Promotion Outreach, free condoms, lube, sexual health info & advice; HIV Health Coach, short term support for people living with HIV; counselling; Positive Grants; Face-2-Face 1-2-1 support & advice on sexual health, HIV; Condom Male: free condoms by post; Fastest: 1 hour HIV tests; Positively Social: group for people living with HIV; Volunteering. Dyke House, 110 South St, Eastbourne, BN21 4LZ, Tel: 01323 649927 or info.eastbourne@tht.org.uk
t WARREN BROWNE UNIT
Free confidential tests & treatment for STIs inc HIV. Hep A & B vaccinations. Shoreham based. Tel: 01273 461453
NATIONAL HELPLINES t BROKEN RAINBOW
LGBT Domestic Violence Helpline, Mon 2-8pm, Wed 10-1pm, Thur 2-8pm Tel: 08452 604460
t LONDON LESBIAN & GAY SWITCHBOARD
t TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST SERVICES
Tel: 02078 377324
• 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: 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.
Mon-Fri 11am-10pm, Sat & Sun 4-10pm Tel: 0800 1696806
t POSITIVELINE (EDDIE SURMAN TRUST) t MAINLINERS Tel: 02075 825226
t NATIONAL AIDS HELPLINE 08005 67123
t NATIONAL DRUGS HELPLINE 08007 76600 t THT AIDS TREATMENT PHONELINE Tel: 08459 470047
t THT DIRECT Tel: 0845 1221200
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