23/11/2019 – Scene Magazine – From the heart of LGBTQ+ Life

Manchester Pride to mark World AIDS Day 2019

Posted on 23/11/2019 by Gscene Editorial Team

Superbia, the team at Manchester Pride who organise a year-round calendar of cultural events, is curating an art-packed weekend to mark World AIDS Day in Greater Manchester.

Saturday, November 30 at Cotton Club, 42-44 Oldham St, Manchester M4 1LE from 5–11pm:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN by Jordan Roberts, a young gay artist living with HIV, features an exhibition of portraits taken by Jordan, talks, video art, a panel event of people living in Manchester with HIV, a flash-mob performance, local charity stalls and a collection of letters written by people living with HIV.

Guests can then dance the night away with a star-studded performance from Cheddar Gorgeous and Anna Phylactic, plus a live DJ set from Manchester’s very own RebeccaNeverBecky.

Free entry and no booking required.

Sunday, December 1 at CULTUREPLEX, Ground Floor, Warehouse, Ducie St, Manchester M1 2TP from 4pm:

STILL BEGINNING will be a screening of seven newly commissioned videos from Visual AIDS in New York that respond to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. The films, which cover subjects from anti-stigma work to public sex culture, highlighting pioneering activism and staging intergenerational conversations, films aim to resist narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of contemporary HIV/AIDS while revisiting resonant cultural histories.

The evening, which will be introduced by Greg Thorpe of Superbia, includes time for conversation and reflection afterwards.

Free entry, but booking essential. Tickets

Sunday, December 1 at CULTUREPLEX, Ground Floor, Warehouse, Ducie St, Manchester M1 2TP from 6.30pm:

READING THE EPIDEMIC: To mark World AIDS Day 2019, a collection of special guests will read aloud selections from diverse writing on HIV and AIDS. Bringing together memoir, poetry, educational literature, personal reflection, fiction, journalism and more, this will be a way to share, remember and inspire through the written and the spoken word.

The evening, which will be hosted by Greg Thorpe of Superbia, includes time for conversation and reflection afterwards.

Free entry, but booking essential. Tickets

Superbia supports, curates, funds and celebrates LGBTQ+ life across Greater Manchester all year round, to encourage engagement and wellbeing, and to reflect and culturally enhance LGBTQ+ life.

For more information, visit their website:

Mr Subline 2019 @ Subline Brighton – TONIGHT – Saturday, Nov 23

Posted on 23/11/2019 by Gscene Editorial Team

Subline, Brighton’s subterranean cruise bar, will bring you a feast of hotties at Mr Subline 2019 in association with Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) on Saturday, November 23 from 9pm with contestants showing you what they’ve got from 10.30pm.

Pop along to ogle the cream of Brighton (and further afield), who’ll be competing for the title and the glory. Hostess with the mostess Pat Clutcher will be putting contestants through their paces and there’ll be a massive THT raffle on the night. Last year the total raised was almost £1,700 – Subline want to smash that!

Admission £6 for Subline members, £8 for non members, all to THT.

Event: Mr Subline 2019.

When: Saturday, November 23 from 9pm.

Where: Subline, 129 St James’s St, Brighton BN2 1TH

For more info, check out their Facebook page

New club crest and website for Whitehawk FC

Posted on 23/11/201922/11/2019 by Gscene Editorial Team

WHITEHAWK FOOTBALL CLUB UNVEIL NEW CLUB CREST AND WEBSITE

Whitehawk Football Club begin the 2019/20 Bet Victor Isthmian League South Division campaign with a brand new club crest and website, as they look to regain their Isthmian Premier League status. The design, created in collaboration with design agency Pleece and Co, will roll out on all Hawk’s social media channels, and feature prominently on the new whitehawkfc.com website, designed by Henry Summers and the Hawks media team, led by Adam Hart.

Head of Commercial Kevin Miller said: “We’re very excited with the new design, and I’d like to thank Gary Pleece and his team at Pleece and Co who were brilliant in creating the brief. The new crest highlights a stronger, cleaner, more vibrant Hawks image, and is a platform for a new philosophy at the club that we’ll take into the new season and beyond, and something that we’ve been working on for most of the year.”

He added: “We’ve sharpened up the Hawk, and in deference to the history of the club, added the old ‘leather-style’ football. It’s a classic combination of looking to the future, but taking the history of the club forward with us. The new website is slicker, a lot easier to navigate, and will include more content for fans to interact with, including links to our new on-line ticket site and club shop, as well as the inspirational Hawks In The Community project.