Love is love is love is love. Regardless. And the rights of those to love whom they wish to without fear should be paramount in any modern society. Trans and non-binary people deserve respect, protection and equal rights. End of. Trans and non-binary people need protection in education and the workplace, to feel safe in their own home and be supported respectfully by housing services … Continue reading Take a stand for Trans Equality
So here we go. Brighton Pride 2017. If you are a visitor, welcome to our city, your about to fall in love! If you live here, well you the know the drill, time to feel prouder than ever of the amazing city we are lucky enough to call home. Brighton Pride is a weekend like no other when the rainbow flags fly high, freindships are … Continue reading For those about to party with Brighton Pride
50 years is such a short amount of time for us to come as far as we have today. And yet for the many gay men represented and interviewed in the moving BBC drama Against The Law it must of felt like an endless battle. A lifetime of bravery against fear, activism against unjust laws and hope against hatred. A lifetime of struggle that made … Continue reading Against The Law : Peter Wildeblood
“Dance music need salts in its wounds. Dance music needs women over the age of forty. Dance music needs breasting feeding DJs trying to get their kids to sleep before they get to play.” Simple words, so rarely heard. All hail The Black Madonna for being part of a growing band of fabulous women out there making waves in dance music. Sound principled waves. Listen … Continue reading The Black Madonna does us a service on BBC World Service
It is our city’s finest weekend. The proudest days of our year as our fabulous LGBTQIA community and allies come together for a Brighton Pride Carnival Of Diversity. Two days and nights filled with love and rainbows, its goosebumps all the way for us as we get to play the tunes we love at Brighton Pride Festival in Preston Park and Brighton’s finest fundraising Pride … Continue reading Brighton & Hove Pride 2017
Curating 2016’s Brighton Pride Uniting Nations exhibition was one of the most inspiring times of of my working life. Speaking to Pride activists across the world doing their thing to raise the rainbow flag and fight for equality in often the most challenging of regimes. Fighting back, fighting for love. Everyone of the countries I work with stayed with me. And always will. A post on … Continue reading Support PRiDe JA
“They started beating me with their fists and feet. They wanted to get names of my gay friends from me. Then, they tied wires to my hands and put metal clippers in my ears to electrocute me. They’ve got special equipment which is very powerful. When they shock you, you jump high above the ground.” – Testimony of a victim of Chechnya’s anti-gay purge 100 days … Continue reading Chechnya: The arrests have resumed – its time to take action
Following the horrific fire at the Grenfell Tower block in West London, British photographic artist Mark Vessey is holding a slient auction to raise money for the Family Action to help support those affected, and their families in the difficult weeks and months to come. i-D Magazines, Edition 25, C-Type Photograph 70cm x 70cm framed in a white box frame will be auctioned over a 48hr period ending at Midday on … Continue reading Mark Vessey’s i-D Magazine Silent Action – fundraising for Grenfell Tower Family Action Fund
Today I have hope. Hope that there will be brighter days. That the 48% will become the majority, that the left behind will be lifted up, that there will be change for the better. Today I’m voting for a progressive Britain. Bridges not walls, people not profit, hope not fear. Here’s to Brighter Days. Continue reading Perfect Distraction: Dreaming of Brighter Days
Tomorrow is the day to put yourselves in others shoes. The disabled facing devastating welfare cuts, the families who can’t make work pay, the students saddled with debt, the children living in poverty, the workers on zero hour contacts, the “freelancers” trying to make ends meet in the gig economy, the asylum seekers being charged for emails to the Home Office, the workers denied tribunals, … Continue reading This Election Day vote for change
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