To mark this year’s Remembrance Day, the Royal British Legion has released a special poppy paired with the Progress Flag, which “symbolises support for our LGBTIQ+ community who are a vital part of our armed forces past and present”. The flag, which includes elements representing binary, intersex, trans, and other marginalised communities, was chosen due […]
Military and LGBTQ+ charities have joined forces to urge Keir Starmer to properly fund compensation for victims of the UK military’s ‘gay ban’, which existed until 2000 and saw personnel imprisoned, bullied and assaulted for revealing their sexuality. A letter signed by over 20 of the UK’s largest LGBTQ+ and veterans’ charities – including Fighting […]
Brighton & Hove Buses will once again be supporting Royal British Legion (RBL) by providing free travel to Poppy Collectors for the next six weeks, as well as embellishing the front of 80 buses with large Poppy stickers, designed by the RBL. For Remembrance Sunday (10 November) and Remembrance Day (11 November), Brighton & Hove […]
The Royal British Legion has apologised for past ‘discrimination’ against the LGBTQ+ community and LGBTQ+ war veterans, winning ‘praise and thanks’ for its decision and its new commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Put your flags out for VE Day 75th anniversary on 8 May
Royal British Legion to celebrate 5o years since the Stonewall riots, with two events at Bar Broadway in the run up to Brighton & Hove Pride.
Bar Broadway will host a special fundraising event for the Royal British Legion to mark Remembrance Sunday on November 11.
Four public spaces in Brighton & Hove designated as Centenary Fields as part of a national initiative to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1.
The strains of ‘Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag’ will echo around Hove on Thursday November 15 as locals gather to share their family memories and memorabilia of the First World War on board Brighton & Hove Buses’ Heritage Bus.
On August 8, 1928, a decade after the end of WW1, the British Legion (as it was then called) organised for veterans and war widows to visit the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres before marching to the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.
