Brighton and Hove Sea Serpents play their first match of the season tonight at Waterhall playing fields.
Brighton and Hove Sea Serpents play their first match of the season tonight at Waterhall playing fields.
Danny Dwyer staged his 41st community birthday party at Brighton Race Course on Saturday May 21. Danny asked the hundred who attended for no presents or birthday cards, but instead asked for people to donate towards Bear-Patrol’s new Garden Pergola project in order to replace the old summer house currently situated in their garden at the Sussex Beacon.
Brighton Bear Weekend team up with Brighton’s new gay rugby team, the Sea Serpents to raise money for the Rainbow Fund this summer.
Plans are afoot to form a new rugby club in Brighton and Hove to give gay and bisexual men the opportunity to play the sport in a more friendly and relaxed atmosphere. A meeting has been planned and organised at the Camelford Arms on November 4 at 7:30 pm, by Ian Chaplin, Byron Todd and Alan Ferry, who have been committee members, and players for rugby clubs elsewhere.
RUGBY has never had so many LGBT role models. A former Wales, British and Irish Lions captain in Gareth Thomas and a current top line referee in Nigel Owens to name but two. Then there are people like Ben Cohen, a World Cup winner who tirelessly supports the LGBT+ community. But whilst inclusive gay teams have popped up all across the world since the Kings Cross Steelers formation, in London in 1995, the south coast has seemed to lag behind.
