Marlene Dietrich raised funds for the Sussex Beacon with a new show about her life which took a look at her lesbian exploits, her film career and her later success as a concert artist.
International Lesbian Day 2021
Designed to celebrate the history and achievements of the lesbian community, October 8 is International Lesbian Day 2021.
Fruitful Collective
Bitten Peach was formed with fellow performers on the cabaret scene. They sold out as soon as they announced shows. Was that because of the individual performers or the nature of the group? “I think it was the collective aspect… no one had really seen an all-Asian group. ShayShay has a good following, I have a good following and Evelyn was upcoming. I think it was mostly because people had never seen anything like it.”
Queer Connect online festival to help loneliness in LGBTQ+ people
Sappho Events has announced its Queer Connect festival; a series of online events for LGBTQ+ people including a queer film night.
REVIEW: Dumbledore Is So Gay @ The Pleasance
Brian Butler does a bit of queer time travelling with this Harry Potter-inspired dark comedy.
Happy Bi Visibility Day!
Created to celebrate the bisexual and queer community while also debunking myths surrounding bisexuality, September 23 is Bi Visibility Day.
Study: Young LGBTQ+ people avoiding sports due to fear of discrimination
A new study, released on Wednesday by the Trevor Project, has found only 1 in 3 young LGBTQ+ people in the US participate in sports.
Vintage Photo’s from Brighton Pride 1973
After Gay Brighton Past found a trove of never-used pictures from the original 1973 Gay Pride march in Brighton, Alf Le Flohic managed to track down some of the people involved and get their stories.
Born this binary, or am I an act of violence too?
The auteur of this social and sexual enlightenment is NEO 10Y, a self-defined spiritual revolutionary, artist and musician. Having perused the respective social media accounts and Youtube videos I really like what I see and will absolutely seek this artist out for the full live experience. NEO 10Y’s performance work looks genuinely exciting.
News From Nowhere exhibition
Walking through Brighton’s North Laine, if you look into one of the windows of the new LGBT+ Ledward Centre on Jubilee Street you’ll be confronted with Boris Johnson’s face staring out from the bum of a Leonardo de Vinci’s drawing
