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Day: May 16, 2015

Celebrate LGBT life today at IDAHOBiT

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Brighton and Hove will mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBiT), today, Sunday, May 17, with an event organised by the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum.

IDAHOBIT 2015

MAY 17 commemorates the day in 1990 the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.

In 86 countries globally, homosexual acts are illegal while in many countries lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and those who identify as trans are often murdered simply for their sexuality or gender identity.

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Join the Safety Forum at New Steine Gardens and celebrate LGBT lives around the globe.

An alfresco evening of LGBT excellence will include:

·        Procession of the Rainbow Flag

·        A performance by The Rainbow Chorus

·        Poetry from Alice Denny

·        Live music with AJ Paterson

·        A minute’s ‘noise’ to remember the international victims of homo, bi and transphobic violence; (so bring a whistle, horn, bell, tambourine, trombone etc to make some noise!).

Maria Baker
Maria Baker

Refreshments will be provided by the THT Outreach Service.

Maria Baker, BME rep for the LGBT Community Safety Forum, said: “It is important to keep staging this event every year, to remind and educate people of the hurt that is caused by not understanding and accepting people all over the world as they are, and allowing them to live their lives free of fear and discrimination.”

Event: IDAHOBiT 2015: A celebration of LGBT life

Where: New Steine Gardens, Kemptown, Brighton

When: Sunday, May 17

Time: 5pm-6pm

For more information and an updated list of guest performers click here:

For more information about the LGBT Community Safety Forum, click here:

Community activist supports youth project at her birthday party

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Maria Baker will be celebrating her birthday on Friday, June 12 at Envy above Charles Street Bar.

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She is inviting friends old and new to celebrate it with her and asks them to donate to the  BluePrint 22 youth project, who she is the Patron of, rather than bring her a present.

Blueprint 22 is a youth organisation working with young people aged 16-25 living in Brighton and along the coast to Bognor Regis. and gives young people the opportunity to shine by participating in projects that encourage them to take control of their lives.

Miller is just 17 and was homeless. Listen to what he has to say about how Blueprint 22 helped him:

Maria Baker is the Black and Ethnic Minorities representative on the committee of the Brighton and Hove, LGBT Community Safety Forum and also sits on the grants committee of the Rainbow Fund.

Maria Baker
Maria Baker

She is the former owner of the much missed Marilyns Bar in Providence Place and the Star Inn, on Manchester Street, both in Brighton.

Maria said: “Blueprint 22 do such wonderful work with young people, building their self-esteem and eventually giving them the confidence to move on with their lives.”

To donate to Blueprint 22, and help young people like Miller, click here:

Event: Maria Baker’s Golden Ticket Birthday Party

Where: Envy Nightclub above Charles Street Bar, 8-9 Marine Parade, Brighton

When: Friday, June 12

Time: From 9pm

Entry: Free. No presents make online donation to: Blueprint 22

Grrr! at Subline tonight

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Dance yer tits off for the Rainbow Fund.

 

Grrr!

BRIGHTON Bear Weekender hosts GRRR!! at Subline tonight, Saturday, May 16.  A night of dirty, sexy, funky house music is promised to make you wanna GRRRoove on the dance floor.

DJ Screwpulous provides funky house music, to kickstart the upcoming, fantastic Brighton Bearweekender main event in June.

Doors open 9pm, dance til 4am.. 50% of the door goes to the Rainbow Fund.  £3 members/£5 non-members.    GET DOWN AND DIRTY AT GRRR!!

Event: GRRR!!

Where: Subline, 129 Saint James’s Street, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1TH

When: Saturday, May 16

Time: 10pm

Ticket: £3 members – £5 non members

 

Brighton Wheel lights up for ME

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Brighton Wheel and the Sealife Centre were lit up blue on May 12 to mark International ME Awareness Day.

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During ME Awareness week (May 11-17), the Sussex ME Society marked the 10th anniversary of the establishment of a specialist NHS service in the county that has dealt with more referrals than any other local ME service in the UK.

The Sussex ME Society enjoys a good working relationship with the NHS Sussex ME/CFS Service team that continues to receive 40 referrals a month.

After assessment many of the mildly or moderately affected patients go on to take part in the popular illness management courses that the service staff provide at a number of sites in the county. The service team have also taken part in GP training at Sussex County Hospital.

The specialist centre was set up following a survey conducted in 1999 amongst people affected by Myalgic encephalopathy or Chronic fatigue syndrome along with GPs across Sussex who called for a specialist NHS service to be established.

The report was welcomed by the Sussex Health Authorities at the time who then invited representatives from the Sussex ME Society to meetings and had contact with medical advisors to the Sussex ME Society.

The Sussex ME Society went on  to help the authorities produce reports on ME/CFS that further highlighted the need for a specialist centre in Sussex. The Society attended dozens of meetings with Sussex Primary Care Trust officers who planned the service and successfully applied for a share of £8.5m made available at that time by the Department of Health for such UK centres.

The service was eventually set up in the Spring of 2005 and has since dealt with over 4,000 referrals. The multidisciplinary specialist team includes a specialist doctor, occupational therapists and physiotherapists along with a psychologist and administrator.

Colin Barton
Colin Barton

Colin Barton of the ME Society, said: “Even though they do not have all the answers to this complicated chronic illness the NHS service is helping many towards improved health”.

Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival 2015

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TLVFest’s will be celebrating their 10th anniversary at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque during Pride week in Tel Aviv from June 6 to June 15.

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THIS year’s festival features new movies starring James Franco, Robin Williams and Natasha Lyonne.

Special guests include: Queer icon Sherry Vine; Alanté Kavaïté, 2015 winner of Sundance’s Best Director; Luizo Vega, the “lost son” of Madonna; Angela Robinson, producer of True Blood; Jonathan King, producer of Lincoln and Dreamgirls; and Mark Christopher, director of 54 Director’s Cut…

TLVFest opens on June 6 with Fresno, a film directed by Jamie Babbit, last year’s TLVFest Honorary Award winner. This surprising black comedy stars Natasha Lyonne, Judy Greer and Aubrey Plaza, and was produced by Andrea Sperling (Transparent) and written by Karey Dornetto (The New Normal, Portlandia).

TLVFest will also screen 54: Director’s Cut with Ryan Philippe and Selma Hayek which just premiered at Berlinale 2015. Its director Mark Christopher and producer Jonathan King will attend the showing.

Likewise, Alanté Kavaïté, the director of The Summer of Sangaile, winner of the Best Director at Sundance 2015 will attend the Israeli premiere of her movie.

Luizo Vega will present his unique documentary, The Material Boy (2015), about creating art that breaks boundaries in a fascist country and his longing for his ‘mother’, the Queen of Pop, Madonna.

This year TLVFest’s Honorary Award will be presented to Angela Robinson who will show her cult lesbian spy comedy D.E.B.S. which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. Robinson joined the hit HBO series True Blood in 2012 as writer, producer and director. She was the first out lesbian and African American director of a Disney film, Herbie Fully Loaded, and produced and directed a number of episodes of the renowned lesbian TV series The L Word. Today, Robinson continues to break stereotypes as consulting producer of How to Get Away with Murder.

The Award Ceremony will feature Robin Williams’ last movie, Boulevard (2014), in which he portrays a 60-year-old man coming out of the closet. The Fourth Man Out (2015) directed by Andrew Nackman will celebrate its international premiere at TLVFest’s closing night on June 15. Evan Todd, the star of the movie will be in attendance.

For full information about events during the Festival, click here:

 

 

White-collar boxing for charity at the Grand Hotel

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Local boy about town, Liam Cottam will be boxing for charity at the Grand Hotel in July.

Liam Cottam
Liam Cottam

WHITE-collar boxing is a form of boxing in which men and women in white-collar professions train to fight at special charity events up and down the country.

Most have had no prior boxing experience and fight to raise money for charity.

Over the next eight weeks Liam will be undergoing intensive training to get him prepared to fight.

He said: “To my knowledge I’m the only gay person who has entered so there’s quite a bit of pride at stake as well as honouring the late memory of my grandmother who lost a long battle against cancer when I was a kiddy.

“I’ve raised money for charity before but never in such a challenging way. I’m looking for people to donate some money and a business to sponsor me. It will also be nice to see a few familiar faces in the crowd on the big night. 1000 people are expected in the audience making this one of the biggest white-collar boxing events ever.”

Ultra white-collar boxing organise events up and down the country and recently topped the one million pound mark for monies raised for cancer research uk.

To purchase tickets, click here:

If you wish to sponsor Liam, click here: 

Dresscode on the evening is very strict: Minimum shirt, tie, trousers and smart shoes for the Men. Evening dresses for ladies, or suitable trousers and a blouse.  No jeans, trainers, checked shirts or scruffs. Dress to Impress.

You must be 18 or over to enter and ID may be requested on the door.

Event: White-Collar Boxing Match

Where: Grand Hotel, 97-99 King’s Rd, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 2FW

When: Sunday, July 5, 2015

Time: 3pm – 9pm

Tickets: Standing Tickets are available at £20

Or VIP tables £500. VIP tables seats up to 10 people, includes 2 Course Dinner Waitress service and Ringside seats.

 

 

Stonewall forms ‘Human Rainbow’ to mark IDAHOBIT

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Stonewall staff, volunteers, friends and local area employees come together for equality.

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STONEWALL, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality charity, created a human rainbow in London’s Southbank to mark International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHOBiT).

The human rainbow was formed by Stonewall staff, friends, volunteers and employees from businesses based nearby including the Southbank Centre. The purpose was to send a positive message of equality in the run-up to IDAHOBiT on May 17.

Claire House, International Officer at Stonewall, stood above the group on Jubilee Bridge to assemble them and orchestrate a one minute cheer for equality, as well as a group stand up for LGBT youth.

Over the weekend, Barclays will be supporting Stonewall’s NoBystanders campaign across all its ATMs in the UK.

James Taylor, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Stonewall said: “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia brings the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community and its allies from around the world together with one clear message: equality. IDAHOBiT is a great chance not just to celebrate the progress that we’ve made towards LGBT equality but to also think about how much there is left to do both here and abroad”.

Stonewall will also be sharing quotes from young lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people and their allies – including its Young Campaigners of the Year Sirina-Monique and Christian Webb.

 

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