The Turner in Brighton exhibition which runs at the Royal Pavilion until March 2 has just under a month to run.
The exhibition shows Brighton’s development as a seaside resort through the artist’s eyes, and brings together a range of his works, including watercolours, oil paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and prints. It also features works by Turner’s contemporaries, John Constable, William Daniell and John Nash.
The focus of the exhibition is a Turner watercolour, Brighthelmston, Sussex, bought in 2012 by the Royal Pavilion & Museums service – part of Brighton & Hove City Council – after being in private ownership for more than a century.
Brighton & Hove residents can enjoy half price admission to the Pavilion, which includes admission to the Turner exhibition, with up to four accompanying children free (take proof of residency, one item required per adult eg council tax or other utility bill).
Turner in Brighton is open daily from 10am to 5.15pm (last admission 4.30pm).
It runs at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, BN1 1EE, until March 2.
The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) Foundation appoint gay travel leaders Richard Gray and Ed Salvato to its board of directors.
The IGLTA Foundation is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) tourism globally.
Richard Gray
Richard Gray is the managing director of the LGBT market for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau and an advocate for gay travel for more than 20 years.He previously owned The Royal Palms Resort & Spa, which set new standards for LGBT accommodations in Fort Lauderdale and beyond and was the destination’s first gay guesthouse to achieve a five-star rating.
Ed SalvatoEd Salvato, editor in chief of the iPad-based gay travel magazine ManAboutWorld, has spent the past 14 years contributing to the world of LGBT tourism through editorial, marketing, communications, product development, sponsorships, and events.
Ed Salvato, editor in chief of the iPad-based gay travel magazine ManAboutWorld, has spent the past 14 years contributing to the world of LGBT tourism through editorial, marketing, communications, product development, sponsorships, and events.Prior to ManAboutWorld, he served as editor in chief for other top LGBT travel content providers, such as OUT&ABOUT, Out Traveler, and PlanetOut Travel.
Board Chair Charlie Rounds, said: “We are thrilled to have Ed Salvato and Richard Gray join the IGLTA Foundation Board of Directors.”
“They each bring unique skills that will allow us to better educate both travel professionals and the traveling public about the value of LGBT global travel.”The IGLTA Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association. Our mission is to use the power of LGBT travel to build bridges worldwide. Those bridges, in turn, enable understanding, awareness and commerce to flourish in diverse communities around the globe.
A protest on the eve of Putin’s Olympic opening, Thursday, February 6.
Vince Laws will be face painting 83 volunteers with the names of the 83 countries where homosexuality is illegal at Ku-Bar, London on February 6 at 7pm on the eve of the opening of the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. There will be a group photo opportunity at 8pm sharp.
To have your face painted and be part of this unique protest, email Vince on:vincelaws@googlemail.com or Facebook: Putin Human Rights First
Vince Laws and Trudy Howson will be performing poetry, song and art. Performers are welcome. If you want to perform contact Trudy at: www.facebook.com/trudy.howson?fref=ts
An event is being held to raise awareness among the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community of the life enhancing possibilities becoming a foster carer or adopting a child can offer.
The event is at the Jubilee Library in central Brighton on Tuesday, February 11, from 5-7pm.
It has been organised by Brighton & Hove City Council’s fostering and adoption teams, and timed to tie in with a series of cultural events at the library during February to mark national LGBT Month.
Cllr Sue Shanks
The chair of the council’s children and young people committee, Councillor Sue Shanks sits on the city’s adoption panel.
She said:“We welcome interest in fostering and adoption from all sections of the community.
“Our focus is on the needs of the children we look after who have had a very difficult start in life.
“From our point of view it’s really simple – if you think you could offer a child a loving and supportive home then we’d really like to talk to you.”
If you cannot make the event but would like to know more about fostering or adoption opportunities in Brighton & Hove:
FS magazine looks at promiscuity in the gay community.
Slut. It’s an insult that’s hurled around a lot in the gay community, but is there actually anything wrong with being a bit of a slut?
In fact what defines someone as slutty?
Is it purely a numbers game or is it the way you carry yourself off?
The latest issue of FS peeps under the bed sheets to try and figure out the ‘who, what and why’ of being a slut.
Back in 2010, The European MSM Internet Survey group (EMIS) asked gay men what they got up to sexually. The results showed a lot of variation in terms of how many guys you bonked in the last year. Just over half of the men who took part in the survey had between one and five partners but nearly a third had more than ten sexual partners, with 5% of men having notched up more than 50.
FS editor, Ian Howley, said:“Sex is a huge part of being a gay man. In many ways sex is how we explore who we are. Gay men tend to have more sexual partners than our straight brothers but at what point does a couple of one-night-stands become a problem and can gay men ever have sex with too many men?”
Matthew Hodson
Matthew Hodson, Chief Executive at GMFA, added:“I don’t think it’s up to health agencies to say ‘You should have so many partners and no more’. I do think we should point out that there are risks involved if you have lots of sexual partners though. The idea that we’re all out every night of the week bonking anything in trousers that moves is a fantasy. Most gay men have fewer than five partners in a year, and most gay men want to settle down with a long-term partner. Some gay men will have many more partners than that – and if that’s the choice that you make, you’re going to have to take greater care not to be involved in the transmission of STIs.”
You can read the ‘Slut – How many men is too many?’ feature in the latest issue of FS magazine, alongside other health related articles for gay men.
FS magazine is available for free in gay venues and GUM clinics in London, or can be viewed at www.fsmag.org.uk
FS magazine is now also available to download on your iPhone, iPad or Android device for free.
Search for ‘FS magazine UK’ in iTunes and Google Play.
GMFA is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to gay men’s health. Its mission is to improve gay men’s health by increasing the control they have over their own lives and the charity’s website at www.gmfa.org.uk receives over half a million visitors each year.
Brighton & Hove City Council will install the bins in 30 streets in Central Hove by the end of next week, Friday, February 14.
Residents can use the mixed recycling bins to recycle their plastic bottles, food and drink cans, cardboard and paper as soon as they arrive in their street.
The last black box collections will take place during the week beginning February 17. As the scheme ends, residents can choose to keep their boxes to store their recycling or leave the empty boxes outside for the council to collect and re-use in other parts of the city.
Most of the communal bins, which will be emptied at least three times a week, have been placed alongside existing communal refuse bins to avoid taking up parking spaces. Locations of the glass recycling bins have been chosen to minimise problems with noise.
Locations for the bins were decided following feedback from the public consultation and exhibitions last year.
Cllr Pete West
Cllr Pete West, chair of the environment, transport and sustainability committee said:“It’s great to see the new communal bins arriving in more areas of the city centre enabling many more residents to drop off their recycling whenever they like.”
He added that the new scheme will also see the end of black boxes cluttering pavements and doorsteps, and stop passers-by using them as bins, contaminating contents and causing wind-blown litter.
It is hoped the introduction of the scheme will bring big increases in recycling rates. A trial of over 3,000 homes in Brunswick and Adelaide during 2012, saw recycling rates rise from 12.5 per cent to 21 per cent.
The scheme is being funded with an £840,000 government grant to help councils improve waste collection and recycling services and is hoped to result in savings of approximately £500k over 6 years.
The communal bin roll-out will be completed by May this year and will eventually serve 32,000 city centre households from West Hove to East Brighton.
Sussex Police donates £300 to MindOut, the LGBT mental health project to help fund personal safety workshops.
MindOut will be running two half-day workshops that will equip people with the skills they need to feel assured whether in public or at home. The personal safety trainers specialise in working for groups with differing needs. A good sense of personal safety is an important aspect of someone’s wellbeing and can make a real difference for participation in city life.
Jason Saw
Jason Saw, Team Leader at MindOut said:“Many of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people who use our services talk to us about personal safety. Some worry about or have found themselves in situations where they feel unsafe, while others have been threatened or have experienced violence.
“The workshops aim to explore personal safety issues and concerns experienced by LGBT individuals and communities and will help participants improve self-confidence, assert personal boundaries, stay safe and manage threatening situations”
Rory Smith
Rory Smith, LGBT Liaison for Brighton Police, said:“I’m thrilled that Sussex Police can help support community initiatives like this. I hope this will go some way to help many LGBT people in the city to feel more confident in their daily lives.”
The first session will be held on Friday March 21 in central Brighton.
The workshops are free to participants, with a £10 deposit refundable on completion of the workshop.
Places are limited. If you would like to book a place or talk to MindOut about the workshops, or if you have any other concerns about your personal safety, telephone Jason on 01273 234 839 or EMAIL:
The donation comes from the Police Property Act Fund, which redistributes funds raised from the sale of lost and confiscated property to the communities of Sussex.
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