The Village Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) will celebrate Women’s History Month during March with a different woman speaking from the pulpit each Sunday, for the next five weeks.
The Village Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) will celebrate Women’s History Month during March with a different woman speaking from the pulpit each Sunday, for the next five weeks.
Latest TV, the UK-based TV channel continues their equalities and diversity mission with the creation of the UK’s first ever LGBT+ TV terrestrial channel! Broadcasting from February 2017, Latest LGBT+ TV will bring the best in LGBT news and entertainment to viewers’ TV screens on Freeview Channel 7 and Virgin Media 159 in the Greater Brighton area, as well as online globally.
The latest QTube Brighton Pride special will be broadcast on Thursday August 18 at 9pm and Saturday August 20 at 11pm on Latest TV Channel 7. Jonesy and Sophie take a look at Brighton Pride 2016 from the parade through the city to events in the park where they visit the Girls Dance Tent, Trans Tent, Wild Fruit Tent, reflect upon Orlando, check out the Cabaret Tent, Peter Tatchell, The Rainbow Fund and report on Doggy Pride which took place earlier in the month.
A recent conference in London reviewing how transgender people are affected by UK law has warned transgender people can face rape charges and potentially jail if they don’t reveal their gender history to a sexual partner.
Organisers of Brighton and Hove Triathlon announce first ever Diversity Triathlon. The fully inclusive LGBT Rainbow Triathlon, will celebrate the diverse culture in Brighton and Hove and promote the triathlon as a fully inclusive sport.
Latest TV the local community TV channel have appointed trans activist, Sophie Cook as an on-screen Newscaster and Head of Diversity at the Brighton based TV station.
Hove resident, Sophie Cook, the first transgender woman to work in the Premier League, has been nominated for the LGBT Role Model Award at The 2016 National Diversity Awards. The awards celebrate some of the excellent and inspiring achievements of positive role models and community organisations across the UK.
Hove based tranformational speaker Sophie Cook has been appointed the first trans patron at the sports campaign group, Just A Ball Game? (JBG?). JBG? campaigns to encourage and promote football, sport and healthy leisure activities among lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people (LGBT) regardless of race, religion, sex, age, physical ability, or disability and Sophie joins other Patrons including footballer Anton Hysen, captain of the GB Paralympic Sitting Volleyball Team, Claire Harvey, sports administrator, politician and equality campaigner Edward Lord OBE and Angela Eagle MP.
Last week, Germaine Greer was awarded the Iconoclast of the Year Award by The Oldie Magazine. Greer, 76, hit the headlines in October 2015 when she met with accusations of misogyny over comments about trans women after she’d been booked to speak at Cardiff University.
Transgender photographer and activist Sophie Cook calls for Jeremy Clarkson to apologise for recent transphobic remarks in the Sunday Times.
