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Equalities Minister, Stuart Andrew MP, visits Brighton for National HIV Testing Week to show how quick and easy it is to get tested

Graham Robson February 6, 2024

Lead pic: Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew MP, visits Jubilee Library’s HIV and STI test vending machines Today (Tuesday, February 6), Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew MP, visited Terrence Higgins Trust in Brighton to show how easy it is to test for HIV and see the city’s world-leading HIV and sexual health services to mark […]

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LGBTQ+ News

Seaside Sauce! Brighton & Hove to celebrate LGBT+ History Month with inclusive and educational events

Graham Robson February 1, 2024

  Today is the start of LGBT+ History Month, taking place every February in the UK. To celebrate LGBTQ+ lives in their full diversity, Brighton & Hove City Council will be flying the inclusive rainbow flags from Hove Town Hall, Brighton Town Hall and at Jubilee Library. LGBT+ History Month provides education and insight into […]

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Exhibitions

The Queer Beach: a mixed-media exhibition at Brighton’s Jubilee Library, curated by Socially Engaged Art Salon

Graham Robson January 24, 2024

The Queer Beach, a mixed-media exhibition curated by Socially Engaged Art Salon (SEAS), which explores the strong connection between queer people and culture and the seaside, is to show in Brighton’s Jubilee Library foyer gallery from Monday, January 29 – Sunday, February 11. The exhibition, which cruises to nearby places such as Brighton Naturist Beach […]

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Community News

Brighton & Hove residents invited to share their experiences with Brighton & Hove Libraries in new interactive installation

Graham Robson January 9, 2024

Brighton & Hove residents are invited to share their experiences with Brighton & Hove Libraries in an interactive installation at Jubilee Library, Brighton from Monday, January 15 to Sunday, January 28. From free books to study spaces to a great spot for catching up with friends, the library means different things for different people. The […]

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Community News

Standing strong with More to Me than HIV

October 25, 2023

More to Me than HIV is a grassroots community art initiative that aims to normalise people living with HIV through portraiture. We have nearly 30 people who have shown their faces publicly and shared the information that they are living with HIV. We have exhibited 24 large-scale portraits at Jubilee Library for World AIDS Day […]

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Pride

PRIDE AT 50: DARE TO BE DIFFERENT: Brighton & Hove Pride celebrates 50th Anniversary of Brighton’s First Pride March

Graham Robson July 25, 2023

With just under two weeks to go until this year’s event, Brighton & Hove Pride is celebrating a milestone 50th Anniversary of the first Pride march in the city with their Pride at 50 – Dare To Be Different campaign taking place on lampposts across the city and an exhibition at Brighton’s Jubilee Library.

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LGBTQ+ News

Brighton AIDS Memorial Project and Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ Switchboard to take part in Dying Matters Awareness Week at Jubilee Library

Graham Robson April 26, 2023

Brighton’s Jubilee Library is to host talks and exhibitions to help break the stigma surrounding death this Dying Matters Week, a campaign run by Hospice UK from Tuesday, May 9 to Sunday, May 14.

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Arts

Brighton & Hove Libraries announce events to mark LGBT+ History Month

Graham Robson February 3, 2023

February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK, which celebrates LGBTQ+ lives in their full diversity. Each year, Schools OUT sets a different theme and this year it’s Behind the Lens, celebrating LGBTQ+ people’s contribution to cinema and film from behind the lens. You are encouraged to look ‘Behind the Lens’ and listen to LGBTQ+ lived experience.

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Arts

Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club to explore Queers and Books at Brighton’s Jubilee Library on Sunday, February 26

Graham Robson February 2, 2023

Opening Pandora’s Box: queer dimensions of library legacies, struggles and hopes will see Alice Corble share stories from her career as a queer library user, worker, researcher and activist, reflecting on the spaces and communities of queer discovery and connection that libraries can foster, as well as institutional and societal constraints and conflicts that can limit such possibilities. The discussion will invite intergenerational lessons and longings for LGBTQ+ library lives.

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