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COMPETITION: Win a pair of tickets for Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show

Gscene have a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for the Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show hosted by Christopher Howard in the Phil Starr Pavilion on Friday, February 16.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the campest cult classic of all time and now you can enjoy it like never before.

With Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror, you get on-screen lyrics and all the favourite sing-a-long-a features. It’s never been so much fun. Your live host West End Star Christopher Howard will lead you through a choral warm-up, judge the fancy dress competition and award prizes, but it is YOU, the audience, who are the stars as you howl the night away!

It’s packed full of terrific numbers including The Timewarp, Sweet Transvestite, There’s a Light, I’m Going Home, Whatever Happened To Saturday Night? and Science Fiction Double Feature.


To win a pair of tickets email: info@gscene.com the answer to the following question by Thursday, February 15 at noon.

Who played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 movie of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?


Event: Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show at the B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival

Where: Phil Starr Pavilion, New Steine Gardens, Brighton

When: Friday, February 17

Time: Door open 6.30pm, show starts at 7.30pm

Cost: £12 – £15

To book tickets online, click here:

B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: LGBT Restorative Circle

As part of the B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival, the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum (B&H LGBT CSF) present an LGBT Restorative Circle workshop in partnership with the Brighton & Hove City Council Workers Forum.

Part of Brighton’s LGBT History Month events, the workshop will take place in the Phil Starr Pavilion and be facilitated by the Brighton & Hove’s Partnership Community Safety Team with support from the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum.

Brighton & Hove aims to be a ‘Restorative City’ and is committed to meeting the needs of those harmed by crime and conflict, by ensuring safe, secure and effective restorative practices are embedded throughout the city.

Brighton & Hove’s Partnership Community Safety Team work to reduce barriers that our diverse communities may experience in reporting harassment or hate crime.

The Restorative Justice Council defines restorative practices as a range of various methods of bringing those harmed by crime or conflict and those responsible for harm, into communication, enabling everyone affected by a particular incident to play a part in repairing the harm and finding a positive way forward.

Organisers will be offering a ‘restorative circle’ workshop for LGBT+ people to share their personal experiences of the internal and external barriers that they may have to reporting harassment or crime. The intention is to offer a fair and equal space for people to speak as openly as they wish about these barriers with the intention of raising awareness for the organisers to address these barriers where possible.

This event is funded, supported and developed by the Brighton & Hove Council LGBT Workers Forum in working partnership with the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum.

The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival celebrates LGBT History Month, is organised by the Volunteers of the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and takes place at the Phil Starr Pavilion – a multi functional, fully accessible, heated performance, conference and community space with a licensed bar which is located on Victoria Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1WN.


Event: LGBTQ Restorative Circle

Where: Phil Starr Pavilion, Victoria Gardens, Brighton

When: Friday, February 16

Time: 1pm – 2.30pm

Cost: Free

LETTER TO EDITOR: Thank you Brighton Pride

This week sees the launch of the Rainbow Café, a new project of Switchboard.

Daniel Cheesman
Daniel Cheesman

Rainbow Café will support LGBTQ people living with memory loss and dementia, their friends, families and loved ones. This, much-needed, community service is made possible thanks to Brighton Pride and the funding received via the Rainbow Fund.

We are grateful that Brighton Pride, via the Rainbow Fund is able to redistribute money raised at Pride back into the local LGBTQ sector and fund many vital and unique community projects in the City.

This funding would not exist otherwise and with it we are able to support those more vulnerable within our communities.

We should all be under no illusion that without this support many LGBTQ and HIV+ projects and services that exist would be at real risk of closing and we cannot let this happen.

Switchboard thanks Pride for supporting all the local LGBTQ and HIV+ charities in the City and the Switchboard team will be marching with Pride this summer.

Daniel Cheesman, CEO Switchboard

Joiners Arms campaigners launch project to open London’s first community-run LGBT+ pub

Public meetings have been announced for Saturday, March 10 and Wednesday, March 14 to begin work on opening London’s first community-run LGBT+ pub.

Friends of Joiners Arms
Friends of Joiners Arms

The Friends of the Joiners Arms, who fought for 3 years to protect the legacy of the legendary Hackney Road LGBT+ pub, are holding public meetings to include everyone who wants to play a part in deciding how to create a radical, community-run venue on the site of the Joiners Arms.

This follows the trail-blazing decision by Tower Hamlets council to insist that a new development on this site must include an LGBT+ pub, with opening hours mirroring those of the original pub, a 25 year lease, and financial assistance for any operator.

Jon Ward from Friends of the Joiners Arms’ (FOTJA), said: “FOTJA is a testament to the power we have as queers unified against a common enemy: in a fight reminiscent of David vs. Goliath, the developers expected that they would be able to demolish the Joiners Arms and redevelop the site with one solitary goal – profit. That these plans did not succeed and that Tower Hamlets supported our protests in such groundbreaking fashion demonstrates our collective strength in fighting gentrification.

“Now is the time to build on this success and rethink what we want out of queer spaces: with particular attention paid to elevating those voices and needs which are usually marginalised, even within our own LGBT+ communities.”

FOTJA’s Amy Roberts added: “As excited as we were to have won planning protections for a like-for-like replacement of a late-license LGBT+ bar in the Hackney Road development, this victory only marked a successful end of ‘phase I’ – not the end of our journey.

“The doors of our beloved Joiners remain as closed as they first were in January 2015, and we are still without a vital queer space. Now we enter ‘phase II’: creating a radical organisation and working towards opening the doors of London’s first community-run LGBT+ bar. That first pint is going to be a good one.”

FOTJA’s Dan Glass, said: “There are already existing, successful models of community-run pubs such as the Antwerp Arms in Tottenham, or the Bevy in Brighton, and we want to use this model for the queer community, to fight back against the crisis of closures in London. We are hugely grateful to the support of the Plunkett Foundation as part of their ‘More Than A Pub’ programme which will give us the framework and assistance to create something radical, exciting and hugely necessary.”

The Friends of the Joiners Arms is a campaign group seeking to create London’s first community-run LGBT+ pub, building on the legacy of the legendary, radical pub on Hackney Road. In Oct 2017, the group secured protections from Tower Hamlets council covering the future redevelopment of the site.

The group intends to use the popular model of the community benefit society to open a new Joiners Arms as London’s only cooperatively owned and managed LGBT+ late-licence pub, whilst developing the community functions of the pub. This will be a space that provides vital facilities and support to all LGBT+ individuals and allies who wish to stand up for minority communities, support one another, and proactively engage in building a future free of hate and insecurity.

To acquire tickets online for one of the meetings. click here:

 

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