Brighton Trans*formed are presenting a Trans*Gender Awareness event for LGBT History Month, featuring international trans* artist Justin Vivian Bond’s new book, Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels.
THE event will be compered by comedian and broadcaster Claire Parker and will include live readings and recordings from QueenSpark Books’ groundbreaking Brighton Trans*formed.
Event:Trans*gender awareness event
Where: The Marlborough, 4 Prince’s St, Brighton BN2 1RD
When: Thursday, February 19
Time: 8 – 11 p.m.
Cost: Free entry to Brighton Trans*formed participants, others £5 entry redeemable if you buy a copy of the Brighton Trans*formed book.
Nancy Platts, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown calls on Brighton and Hove City Council and Lewes District Council to ensure access for disabled voters at the general election in May.
Nancy Platts: Labour parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven
NANCY has written to the chief executive of Brighton and Hove City Council and Lewes District Council asking what steps are being taken to ensure disabled voters are able to participate in the general election and exercise their right to vote.
Local authorities have a duty to ensure polling stations don’t disadvantage disabled voters. A range of measures is also available to support disabled voters, including large print versions of ballot papers and tactile voting devices. Election staff should be properly trained to meet the needs of disabled voters
Nancy has asked the councils for a report on access to polling stations in Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven constituency and what steps are being taken to inform disabled people of the different ways they can exercise their vote.
Nancy said:“Ensuring disabled people are able to exercise their vote is an essential part of a healthy democracy and fundamental to their rights. The Electoral Commission has issued guidance on making registration and voting accessible to disabled people. I’ve written to Brighton and Hove City Council and Lewes District Council council to ask for assurance that every disabled voter in the constituency will be able to get to a polling station and get the assistance they need if they want to vote in person, and to have information about alternative voting methods, such as by proxy or post.
“Disabled voters also need information about how to register to vote. If you want to register, or check whether you’re on the register, contact the Democratic Services team at your local council.”
Brighton’s most buxom DJing duo will be taking you on a rather pleasant aural ride of all things house, disco, queer-tech, electronica, and regal every month on Brighton’s award-winning community radio station Radio Reverb.
Kate Wildblood & Queen Joesphine
WILDBLOOD & Queenie’s Home Service is a celebration of the beats that make our souls grin, with upfront album cuts, must-hear new singles, charming disco edits, not-so-guilty pleasures, crackling vinyl joys and classic club wonders, delivering a suitably Brighton fabulous soundtrack.
Add guest DJ mini mixes, BrightonPride25, Wildblood & Queenie’s Gscene Magazine Wonders, club night recommendations, recipe of the month and, yes, plenty of Queenie’s camp bits. You are promised an hour of broadcasting unlike any other.
Queen Josephine said:“Since The Buggles sang of video killing the radio star I’ve been determined to get my regal voice on the airwaves. I’m looking forward to entertaining listeners with suitably Queenie and Wildblood moments, decent tunes and plenty of my regal leftovers. Thank you to Radio Reverb for making it so.”
Wildblood & Queenie’s Home Service is broadcast on the second Sunday of every month at 5 p.m. and repeated weekly on Radio Reverb.
RadioReverb is Brighton’s community radio station, broadcasting on 97.2 FM and online, entirely run by volunteers and firmly rooted in the city’s community.
It is a non-profit organisation that aims to produce the kind of programmes you won’t hear on mainstream radio.
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Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, this week attended the launch of the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home’s campaign to tackle backstreet breeding and show his support for the welfare of puppies and their mothers.
Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven
ON Monday, Mr Kirby was invited to attend the launch of the new campaign, which urges prospective dog owners to think twice about how they buy a dog, in an attempt to crack down on the horrific practice of backstreet dog breeding.
He has joined the charity in calling for a complete ban on the sale of puppies under eight weeks old and the introduction of a breeding licence requirement for any household producing two or more litters per year.
Mr Kirby said:“With backstreet breeding happening in neighbourhoods across the UK, it’s important we work hard to increase public awareness of this issue. Dogs used in backstreet breeding endure a miserable life, often producing countless litters before being turfed out on to the street once they have served their purpose. This needs to end.”
Following his attendance at the campaign launch on Monday, Mr Kirby arranged and attended a meeting with PupAid’s Marc Abraham and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for farming, food and marine environment George Eustice MP, to discuss how they can work to end the cruel and unnecessary practice of puppy farming.
Last year Mr Kirby spoke out strongly in support of this campaign in the House of Commons, and he arranged Tuesday’s meeting in order to make sure the issue remained firmly on the Government’s agenda.
Speaking after the meeting, Mr Kirby said:“I have been a strong and open supporter of the PupAid campaign from the start, and I am determined to work as hard as I can to see an end to this cruel practice.
“I am delighted with the progress that we have made on this so far, with last year’s debate in Parliament on it, and now the meeting earlier this week. I hope that we will continue to see more progress in the coming weeks and months, so that we can say goodbye to puppy farming once and for all.
“I am proud of my record on animal welfare and I hope that, through the work I have been involved with, we will begin to see improvements to the welfare of dogs and puppies all across the UK.”
THE event will be compered by comedian and broadcaster Claire Parker and will include live readings and recordings from QueenSpark Books’ groundbreaking Brighton Trans*formed.
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