February 2012 sees LGBT History Month launch across the UK.
Happy 2012 to everyone. Here is it, the first year for a one-stop shop to advertise your gig, show, match, club etc for LGBT History Month in Brighton & Hove. This is not a profit making site in any way, it's here for people to find you and you to find people.
Some of the events listed are taking place by happy coincidence in February so we've listed them too.
If you have any sort of audience need, drop us a line and we'll add your gig.
This is part of the National LGBT History month, check out:
http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/ This year Brighton & Hove will have the first ever centralised listings of events. It is free to list with us, just call Jane or email us.
Scroll down to see full details of this wonderful variety of events:
1st The Sound of Music with Gretl
4th Honey Hush - Frockabilly
5th Val Brown Films
6-8th Brighton Ourstory's exhibition Jubilee Library
7th Trouser-Wearing Characters - Rose Collis
10th FunnyGirls
10th Athena @ Psychosocial **music and dance - call it a disco, a club night but either way you'll dance**
10th ***every Friday*** Lunch Positive
10th-12th Vita & Virginia
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Special event - http://www.thel-project.com/
Watch it, buy it, share it
All for the greater good - seriously, it is fabulous
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11th Lez Artz' Valentine Massac-her
11th & 12th Pink Fringe (Lorraine Bowen)
12th Ronnie Rialto
11th & 25th Piers & Queers - Only in Brighton Tours
15th Swords & Ploughshares - a debate
17th & 18th Pink Fringe (Nightingale Theatre)
18th Garbo's Women Only night - Lancing
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21st Advance screening Lip service - season 2
23rd Trouser-Wearing Characters - Rose Collis
24th Transamerica showing and guest speakers Audrey Emerton Centre 24th Quekelele - fund raiser for the Women's Centre
25th LGSO (London Gay Symphony Orchestra)
24th-26th Student Pride
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final few days - your last chance to catch ....
28th Trouser-Wearing Characters - Rose Collis
and of course .... The History Ball
If you have any kind of LGBT event going on at all in February we will add it. Regular events such as choir rehearsals, walks, talks or shows will also have a listing so that anyone can take the brochure, check here or http://zhooshbrighton.co.uk/ all year round for things to do.
This is a work in progress and this is just a holding page at the moment but please feel free to email (hello@brightonlgbt-historymonth.co.uk) or call Jane on 07711 309893
Who are 'we'? We are Jane Wrin and Zhoosh.
Why are we doing this? LGBT History Month is often something of an non-event and yet there are usually many choices of individual events that have not been linked or even brought together under one cover. So we are hoping to remedy this. The idea came about when I was trying to find things to do last February and found that I had to call people, browse several sites, or go to pubs to find flyers.
Pride is the main LGBT focus for this and most cities. The activities around Pride are fun and it can be a trememdous weekend but recent debates have revelaed, among other things that we are a very diverse section of society and we want to do many things but we also want to keep it local. This all about local. It will make not a bean and any money it costs will come out of our own pockets. If anyone wants to throw a few pennies this way we won't say no and Susan will soon announce a sponsor for the printing costs.
How can you help? Easy - just let us know of any events you know are going on and we will contact the people involved.
There is no hidden agenda. This is for you guys out there to keep in touch, support and meet each other. It also for those who know little about the LGBT community to see that we are not just about 1 weekend a year, we do more than drink, dance and stay up all night.
More to follow - at the moment this is just a list but as dates and venue details come in this will grow and grow and grow!
Here are some actual times and dates Brought to you by Sussex Beacon
Wednesdsay 1st February 8pm
Sallis Benny Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton
Tickets £14 from www.brightonticketshop.com
'The Sound Of Music With Gretl' This fantastic show is a one off performance in Brighton.
The show tells the true story of how by a qurik of fate a little girl living on a farm became the original smallest Von Trapp!
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music Melanie Parr brings this evening of songs. laughter and theatrical anecdotes for one night only as a fundraiser for the Sussex Beacon.
This sell-out show has delighted audiences all over the UK ,
Tickets £14 available from Capricorn Hove 01273 502052, Sussex Beacon shops, and www.brightonticketshop.com
Special LGBT offer!- buy 2 tickets for £20.00 from Capricorn by phone or call into the Sussex Beacon shops
Saturday 4th February Event starts: 9pm Event ends: 2am
Admission: Free
Venue: A Bar, 11-12 Marine Parade, Brighton, BN2 1TL
Honey Hush - the new monthly night from Frockabilly! Free entry!
Ahoy there! The good ship ‘Honey Hush’ is pulling into harbour yet again, so climb aboard and make sure to hoist your mainsail!
The people behind Frockabilly (Brighton’s world-renowned 1950s-themed club night) now bring you ‘Honey Hush’, a monthly night of steamy rhythm & blues, rockabilly shenanigans and crazy rock ‘n’ roll, where you can wear what you like, dance how you like and kiss who you like!
On Saturday 4th February the A-Bar (previously The Amsterdam) will be transformed into a vintage oasis, complete with nautical visuals, sweet treats, and a range of unique cocktails, including the ‘Honey Hush’, a spiced honey rum concoction, created especially for the night by the experienced A-Bar mixologists.
So, whether you’re a big fat mama, a long-gone daddy, a filthy hound dog, a tiny little hopper or a great big bopper, shove on a doughboy hat and dance! Remember – everybody loves a sailor!
“Honey Hush sounds sweet!” (The Source Magazine)
“Frockabilly – a guaranteed good time!” (Curve Magazine)
Sunday 5th February 2012 11am at the Duke of York’s
BORN IN FLAMES (15)
A RARE SCREENING OF THE 1983 CULT FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Director: Lizzie Borden USA 86 minutes
Tickets £7 on the door and in advance (D of Y members concessions apply)
Contact for booking: Tel. 0871 704 2068 (10p a minute from a BT landline, but calls via other providers or mobile phones may cost more)
or www.picturehouses.co.uk Contact for information: Val 07788 980287 / 01273 328771
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6-8th February
For 3 days only - pop down to the Jubilee Library and revel in the exhibition of Gay Girls and Bachelor Boys! http://www.brightonourstory.co.uk/
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Trouser-Wearing Characters
Tuesday 7th February 7pm
Tickets £3
Shoreham Library, St Mary's Road, BN43 5ZA
Writer and alternative historian Rose Collis presents excerpts from her new one-woman musical show, ‘Trouser-Wearing Characters’, in advance of the 2012 Brighton Fringe Festival.
Every Friday 12-2.30pm £1.50 donation
As part of the 2011 World AIDS Day commemorations, with the help of members recollections and other website sources we started compiling a global timeline and a local history of HIV & AIDS.
We’re keen to expand the local history of HIV in Brighton & Hove; so if you have any recollections, experiences, or participation at events or within community services, please get in touch and we’ll aim to include those.
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The Short and Girlie Show
Improvised comedy sketches performed by eight women, think "Who's line is it anyway" but sexier. Three of the Short & Girlies also bring their own acts to the night. Expect a visit from a Cliff Richard obsessed fan, songs about dementia and a Suburban Dominatrix...
"One of the most genuinely cheerful & joyful nights in Brighton" **** Latest 7
Friday 10th February Doors 7.30pm Show 8.15pm
Caroline of Brunswick, The Level/Ditchling Road.
£5/£4 concessions.
PREVIOUS ACTS @ FUNNY GIRLS!! Hannah Brackenbury The Short & Girlie Show Julie Jepson Jaq Bayles Lara A King Sam Savage Alison Leitch Claire Parker Sasha Phillips Sarah Archer Suzi Payton Louise Hobbs Kerry Herbert Checkley & Bush Samantha Leverette VG Lee Sha Wylie Christine Bayliss Angela Barnes Rachel Parris Sara J Novak Qukulele Madge Hooks, VG Lee, Office Girls Go Crazy!, Mandy Woods ...
*** Are you a female comedy performer who would like a spot at Funny Girls?
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Vita and Virginia - A Love relationship in two acts http://www.iambicarts.com/vita-and-virginia/
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10-12 February
38 Regent Street, North Laine, BN1
Iambic is thrilled to be associated with the Players Collective in presenting this unusal dramatisation. A two women play about a relationship, influences and literary styles of aristocrat Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. As love stories go, this tale of Vita and Virginia was one of the most passionate in the literary world and spanned almost two decades; they nurtured their physical and literary love affair through their intimate correspondence.
This particular version was originally produced by The Players Collective in Lewes in September 2011 and played to critical acclaim.
Contact Iambic Arts on 01273 572101
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Psychosocial (Formerly Ocean Rooms), 1-2 Morely Street, Brighton
Athena@Psychosocial is for women by women and aims to unite women and provide something for everyone. It will showcase talented local women, giving something back to the community, but most of all, making it different!
On the ground floor is a chillout area for a quiet drink and a chat as well as Athena’s Hidden Market. So for those who may be less interested in the dancing, there is this other area if they want to come along, enjoy a pub atmosphere to hang out in and shop with their mates.
The Market is local artists and businesses as well as all the traders we love to see at events such as Pride, selling popular products such as “toys”, as well as hand-made and designed jewellery and clothes.
On two floors there will be different kinds of music: on the 1st floor Commercial, Rock, Pop, Funk, Soul, Reggae & 80’s etc; on the ground floor live acts plus House, Electro, Indie & R&B; The music floors are fronted by local resident myself, the Fondue Inferno and DJ Terri-Sian. Each floor will showcase guest DJ’s and new local talent each month.
Early bird tickets are £6 and on the door £7. Early Bird tickets are available on the Psychosocial web-site (www.psychosocialbrighton.com) available at The Marlborough on Princes Street and The Grosvenor on Western Street.
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Piers and Queers
Who passed as a man to become a pioneering surgeon? What’s the Brighton connection with The Importance of Being Earnest and 'the love that dare not speak its name'? Who came to Brighton to start a new life – and illegally marry – in a new gender? Which Brighton gal became an icon to gay men and lesbians alike? Who did Edward VII call ‘the most remarkable woman in the kingdom’? Which romantic hero spent a last summer of youth in Brighton? Whose diary has been called ‘The Rosetta Stone of lesbian history’? What’s the cross-gender connection between Brighton and the Venezuelan Revolution? Why has Brighton become such an LGBT-friendly city?
Find out the answers to these questions and much more with Ric Morris on his Piers and Queers Tours. His specially arranged LGBT History Month dates are:
Saturday 11th February - 11am - £5
Saturday 25th February - 11am - £5
With a buffett, fancy disco dancing and a murder to take up your evening of Gangster mystery you will have to pull a few strings to get tickets to this, Brighton & Hove's very own Lesbian Wedding Murder Mystery. Hosted in the brilliant theatre upstairs at the Marlborough, it is easy to find and hard to forget.
Brought to you by The Pink Fringe
Lorraine Bowen’s Comfort Zone The Nightingale Theatre
Saturday 11th February 8pm£9/7conc Sunday 12th February 8pm £9/7conc
Performance length 2 hrs
Join Lorraine Bowen for an interactive performance experience throughout the many rooms of the Nightingale Theatre as she explores what makes us truly comfortable
Ease yourself into a world of soothing sounds, soft furnishings, knitting ladies and Lorraine will treat you to roast potatoes and maybe a crumble...
With contributions from award winning author Mick Jackson, BAFTA nominated filmmaker Kate Sullivan and Jazz virtuoso
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Brought to you by the Brighton & Hove County Council LGBT Workers Forum ‘Swords to ploughshares’.
An LGTB history Month debate.
Us –versus- Them? Us as them? I am all of them.
Wednesday 15th February 6.30pm £0 free
Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton
The debate will be about building bridges between LGBT and faith communities, with a panel of progressive people representing all faiths and also prominent members of the LGBT community who will present their point of view and then all take questions from the floor.
The event is funded by the BHCC LGBT workers forum as a key event of LGBT history month.
The event’s focus is positive and constructive, to look at innovative ways of challenging extreme & prejudiced views in all minority communities (both faith and non-faith, including LGBT) and ways of building bridges and allies between communities in a time when there have been high profile legal challenges and clashes around the various faith and LGBT equalities agendas.
The event is fully accessible, sign language assisted and free to all.
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His Spread Legs - Work in progress
Nightingale Theatre (next to the train station)
Friday 17th February 8pm Saturday 18th February 8pm
Performance length 1 hour
A young man talks about love and loss in this poetic and political bedtime story.
Moving and funny in equal measure, this contemporary reworking of the ancient Song of Songs is the second part of Risking Enchantment’s The Well & Badly Loved trilogy. The trilogy explores loss and desire within the context of a rapidly changing world and can be seen at London’s Ovalhouse theatre in March 2012: www.ovalhouse.com
This is where we have always lived – in the waiting, the potential, between the cracks, love letters lost in a library book, messages through time. What do you remember?
“It’s amazingly tender; even when it takes you into the sadder parts of the affair it’s tender, piercingly and drowningly, and drummed all through with sex.” Nick Campbell (www.leaf-pile.blogspot.com)
Formed in 2008, Risking Enchantment is a theatre company dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of theatre art through collaborative effort. We want to touch people:www.riskingenchantment.com
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Brought to you DJ Lynn
Saturday 18
th February 2012 8.00– 11.45
GARBO’s
Women’s Disco
Lancing Parish Hall South Street Lancing West Sussex BN15 8AJ
DJ Lynn
Tickets on the door £6
Fully licenced bar info:
07541 056118
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Lip Service season 2
Sallis Benny Theatre
Tuesday 21st Feb
Doors 6.45pm
Show 7pm
FULLY BOOKED
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Trouser-Wearing Characters
Thursday 23rd February 7pm
The Marlborough
Entry - by donation
Writer and alternative historian Rose Collis presents excerpts from her new one-woman muscial show: 'Trouser-Wearing Characters', in advance of the 2012 Brighton Fringe Festival.
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Brought to you by Brighton & Sussex University hospital
Thursday 24th February
5pm-8pm
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgender Forum invite you to celebrate LGBT History Month.
The event will include a networking reception, guest speaker Alice Purnell OBE,
Chair of the Beaumont Trust, a collection of short films created in partnership with
artist Kim Pace and members of the Clare Project, funded by the
Arts Council of England, other guests, and a showing of the film TRANSAMERICA
Al Start + Qukulele (fundraiser for Brighton Women's Centre)
Friday 24th February, 8.30pm, free (pop a pound or two in the hat at the end?)
The Ranelagh, 2-3 High Street, Brighton
Guaranteed to put a smile on your face, this unique band of Ukelele outlaws will be brightening up The Ranelagh and hope to see you there, pennies (and pounds) in hand to throw some joy the Women's Centre way.
After the Oxford Brookes Christian Union’s talk on ‘Homosexuality and the Bible’ in2005 the Brookes LGBT society felt obliged to put the other side of the argument across to their fellow students but needed a larger audience to attract a well known panel of speakers. This coupled with Oxford moving their pride to July, when the students had gone home, resulted in National Student Pride!
2012is the biggest change to Student Pride in recent years, we are moving our venue to the Brighton Dome, the grade 1 listed concert and conference centre in the Centre of Brighton. This will allow the Under 18’s to attend the daytime festival for the first time, with FE students being a large part of the NUS membership this is an important step forward. The club night will also be at the Brighton Dome in the Corn Exchange, doubling our numbers to 1200 students for the club.
Why do we need National Student Pride?University and College is often the first time people come out and although there are many LGBT students who are comfortable with who they are, there are also a lot of students who are struggling to come to terms with their sexuality. This is why we at Student Pride believe it is important to have a presence on university campuses not only for them but also for the rest of our university communities, to see yes we are here and yes it is normal.
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