23/01/2018 – Scene Magazine – From the heart of LGBTQ+ Life

Manchester Pride event – How to have a one woman show

Posted on 23/01/2018 by Besi

Superbia curates unique celebration of women in performance.

Manchester Pride’s year round calendar of cultural events, Superbia, is holding a unique Q&A event with some of the city’s most talented female performers and theatre-makers.

2018 has already been dubbed by many as the year of the woman and on January 25 at the Royal Northern College of Music the city’s LGBT+ charity will bring together five creative women who are making diverse work for the stage. The show will find out what inspires them, how they made it, their successes and lessons along the way, what they really get out of performing, and what advice they would give to the up-and-coming makers of tomorrow.

The event will hosted by Kate O’Donnell (Big Girl’s Blouse; You’ve Changed) with special guests Cheryl Martin (Alaska; Who Wants To Live Forever?), Jackie Hagan (Some People Have Too Many Legs; Cosmic Scallies), Debs Gatenby (Hi, Anxiety; A Place Called Happiness) and Louise Wallwein (Glue; Skid 180).

Kate will speak about her own work and then interview each of the guests in turn, showing performance clips and asking probing questions. The audience will then have chance to ask their own questions to the performers.

The event will take place on Thursday, January 25, 2018 from 7pm till 11pm and tickets are priced at £6 for general admission and £4 concession.

To purchase tickets online, click here:

The Superbia website is a portal for everything that makes LGBT+ life special. It provides listings and information for events featuring debate, film, comedy, literature, music, sport, theatre, family and community-led projects all with the aim of encouraging engagement and well-being, and to culturally enhance the community.

LETTER TO EDITOR: Our Pride has a purpose

Posted on 23/01/201823/01/2018 by Contributor

Having had to resign from Pride as a content writer and curator late last year due to health reasons, I find myself in an interesting position today.

Enviously on the outside looking in at the exciting plans, knowing the hard work, dedication and passion that goes into making Brighton Pride the best in the UK. Knowing just how important individual and city-wide support is and the difference it makes – not only to those involved with Pride but those benefiting from its year on year record amounts of fundraising.

So to every naysayer deriding the choice of 2018 headliner I say this. Brighton Pride is Pride with a purpose, passionately fundraising for the Rainbow Fund and Social Impact Fund who in turn award grants to local LGBT+ organisations and charities including the LGBT Community Safety Forum, MindOut, Lunch Positive, Allsorts, Brighton Gems, The Clare Project, Rainbow Chorus, Older and Out, Sussex Beacon, Accessibility Matters, Whitehawk LGBT+ Support Group, Trans Alliance, Peer Action, B&H LGBT Switchboard and more.

Be we young, old, Trans, Queer, positive, lesbian, gay, bi, non-binary, regardless of race or religion, (or whatever our opinion about Britney!) these are organisations you and I and those we love may need to be there for us one day. Organisations that ensure every pound raised will make a real difference to LGBT+ lives in our city.

Not just on Pride day but every day. So if partying with Britney at Brighton Pride means that support can continue then oops let’s do it again..and again…and again

Kate Wildblood

Heroes Run returns this summer in aid of RISE

Posted on 23/01/201823/01/2018 by Besi

It’s back! Brighton’s much-loved HEROES RUN returns on Sunday, May 13 in aid of the children’s therapy service at local domestic abuse charity RISE.

Participants are encouraged to dress in their favourite hero costume and run along Hove seafront in aid of charity.

The event was started in 2005 by the charity Pass It On Africa and ran for thirteen fantastic years. This year Pass It On Africa is doing exactly that – passing on the event to RISE to continue the event’s charitable aims.

There are four races on the day: an adult’s 5K and 10K, a Youth Mile and Kids 500m Dash, with races starting from 10am.

RISE is offering all runners who enter between now and February 14, the chance to claim an early bird discount of 10% – simply enter the code ‘HEROESRISE’ when registering.

All money raised from the event will help RISE fund their children’s therapy service, which will help local children affected by domestic abuse.

Matt Lambert, co-founder of Pass It On Africa, said: “We’ve done great things together since the beginning in 2005 but now feel it’s time to hand the baton and HEROES legacy to RISE, our great local domestic abuse charity. They do fantastic work, and always supported us, freely sharing resources and experience. Their focus for HEROES RUN is child mental health – a cause I’m sure people will champion.”

Jo Gough, CEO at RISE, added: “We’re delighted to take on the mantle of the HEROES RUN this year. All the money raised from the run will go directly to the RISE Therapy Team to help fund our much-needed children’s counselling service. Seeing, hearing and experiencing abuse can have a profound effect on children. 90% of them will be in the same or next room when something happens. They might be anxious and scared, wet the bed, be angry or depressed or find it hard to make friends. Children often don’t have the language to express what’s happening to them, what they’ve seen and how they feel, which is why they need specialist help. If every HERO raises just £20 RISE can fund a Child Psychotherapist for 2018/19.”

From seasoned runners to complete beginners, mini athletes to those who just fancy an excuse to dress as their favourite superhero, the event is open to everyone. So grab a mask and cape, put your pants over your trousers and be a HERO for domestic abuse.

To find out more about the race or register to enter, click here:

Take a queer bus tour at National Student Pride

Posted on 23/01/201823/01/2018 by Besi

National Student Pride, now in its thirteenth year returns to the University of Westminster’s Marylebone campus in London, from February 9-11.

The centre piece of the event for the 1,700 people attending will be the main daytime festival on Saturday, February 10 featuring discussion panels, performances and a careers fair.

The evening entertainment will be hosted by the infamous G-A-Y night clubs, culminating with a party at G-A-Y Heaven.

As the UK marks 30 years since the introduction of the of Section 28, which banned the promotion of queer lifestyles in schools – we should all be questioning how much we know about queer liberation history.

This year you can hop on board a queer bus tour of London hosted by a queer performer and experience the queerest tour of the capitol ever.

National Student Pride’s massively discounted bus tour is an exclusive – with the route being especially created for National Student Pride.

The tour will take students around important education and queer sex landmarks, whilst Dan de la Motte discusses how LGBT+ rights have progressed since on a fun but informative journey of the UK’s capital city’s queer culture.

Queer Tours of London – A Mince Through Time’s organiser and renowned sex activist Dan Glass says: “When we are growing up gay, confused, awkward and hormones a rush – the power of knowing that queer people exist is immeasurable. In an important anniversary year for Section 28 educating LGBT+ students about their history when they might still be questioning their identity, tells them that they is OK. That’s why we’re collaborating on the tour.”

The tour will tell the stories of London’s queer history, shedding light on the lives, spaces, identities, repression and resistance that form the backdrop of LGBT+ lives today.

Hatti Smart from National Student Pride, added: “We are really excited this year to be putting on a bus tour for students from all around the UK to explore their queer history and London. For many student’s this is the first time they’ve been to London or the only opportunity they get, so it will be great for them to see the LGBT+ history in the city.”

The tour, sets off from Baker Street on Sunday, February 11 at 11am, taking you all around London, from Baker Street to Buckingham Palace, pointing out the best queer safe spaces, venues and LGBT+ history that have taken place in the city.

Every stop will explore different aspects of our LGBT+ history including the origins of Pride in Trafalgar Square; the History of the HIV+ epidemic at former hospitals; resistance to Section 28 in the House of Lords; Queer Dance Halls of the 1930’s; legendary LGBT+ nightclubs of the 70’s (Club Bang); spaces for love and sex – from cottaging and cruising to underground lesbian bars, sites of resistance to oppression and how LGBT+ migrants fought in the House of Lords and Gay Liberation Front activists confronted the medical establishments’ homophobia – and so much more!

To purchase tickets for the bus tour online, click here:

Britney Spears to headline Brighton Pride

Posted on 23/01/201823/01/2018 by Besi

Megastar Britney Spears kicks off her European Tour by headlining the main stage at Brighton And Hove Pride on Pride Saturday, August 4, 2018.

Legendary pop icon Britney Spears, one of the most successful and celebrated entertainers in pop history with nearly 150 million records sales worldwide to her name, will be the headline act for Brighton and Hove Pride on Saturday, August 4 2018!

Brighton Pride will be the first place in Europe to see the global megastar on her 2018 tour performing complete her spectacular Las Vegas show ‘Britney – Piece of Me’.

Britney says: “I’m so excited to be kicking off my UK tour this summer at Brighton Pride! I guarantee it’s going to be a night to remember and can’t wait to sing and dance with all of my LGBT+ fans.”

The Grammy Award-winning superstar will perform the exclusive show at Brighton and Hove Pride following her record-breaking, four-year headlining Las Vegas residency Britney: Piece of Me at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

Britney will be performing in the UK for the first time since the residency’s completion in her only UK pride appearance!

Firmly established as the UK’s most popular international Pride Festival, Attitude magazine call Brighton Pride the “Gay Glastonbury”.

Alongside the smiles, sunshine and good times, Brighton Pride’s sole ethos through their inclusive events is to promote tolerance and diversity within all communities.

Supporting local charities and good causes through fundraising is the cornerstone of Brighton and Hove Pride, a ‘Pride with Purpose’ raising over £450,000 for local good causes in the last four years.

Pride organisers are urging local residents to purchase their tickets as soon as possible as tickets will sell very quickly.

To book your tickets to see Britney on August 4, click here:

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Day: January 23, 2018

Manchester Pride event – How to have a one woman show

Superbia curates unique celebration of women in performance.

LETTER TO EDITOR: Our Pride has a purpose

Having had to resign from Pride as a content writer and curator late last year due to health reasons, I find myself in an interesting position today.

Heroes Run returns this summer in aid of RISE

It’s back! Brighton’s much-loved HEROES RUN returns on Sunday, May 13 in aid of the children’s therapy service at local domestic abuse charity RISE.

Take a queer bus tour at National Student Pride

National Student Pride, now in its thirteenth year returns to the University of Westminster’s Marylebone campus in London, from February 9-11.

Britney Spears to headline Brighton Pride

Megastar Britney Spears kicks off her European Tour by headlining the main stage at Brighton And Hove Pride on Pride Saturday, August 4, 2018.

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Superbia curates unique celebration of women in performance.

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Having had to resign from Pride as a content writer and curator late last year due to health reasons, I find myself in an interesting position today.

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It’s back! Brighton’s much-loved HEROES RUN returns on Sunday, May 13 in aid of the children’s therapy service at local domestic abuse charity RISE.

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National Student Pride, now in its thirteenth year returns to the University of Westminster’s Marylebone campus in London, from February 9-11.

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Megastar Britney Spears kicks off her European Tour by headlining the main stage at Brighton And Hove Pride on Pride Saturday, August 4, 2018.

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