LGBTQ+ History Month: What’s on?
Read more about the incredible events which have taken place both on campus and in Brighton in celebration of LGBTQ+…
It’s Time To Talk About Biphobia
Biphobia is the prejudice against bisexual and pansexual individuals, and whilst this may exist amongst the heterosexuals it’s also very…
Gay Rights in the UK: Daniel Parker writes a brief history of a long struggle
The year was 2014. The month was March. And the vibes were very, very gay. Yes, it was 13th March…
National Student Pride brings students together
Last weekend, between 29 and 30 April, Brighton welcomed National Student Pride for the third time. The official pre-party was…
Think twice before you self-identify
Here at radical Sussex, racism, homophobia, sexism and other forms of bigotry and discrimination are rightly deplored. If I was…
Moving on the movement
As LGBT History Month begins, offering an opportunity to reflect on the LGBT movement, one student gives his perspective and…
Shame on the NUS after censure of black students’ officer
At this years NUS annual conference a motion to censure (a formal ‘slap on the wrist’) the Black Students’ Officer…
Flexing the gay body politic
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, far away from the rows of heart-covered cards in supermarkets, and depressing conversations…
Gay-friendly Christian group will rate churches in Sussex
A newly established gay Christian group, Changing Attitude Sussex, is aiming to make churches in the local community more gay-friendly.…
Gay is the new black: Why it is wrong to think BME and LGBT identities are mutually exclusive
This week is Diversity Week across campus and to mark it we are having our main event for Lesbian Gay…
The evolution of the Gay Soc at Sussex
I came to Sussex as an undergraduate in 1977 at a time when Gay Liberation in Britain was only a…
Why Sussex is supporting LGBT history month
Every February the UK marks and celebrates the contribution that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered individuals have made throughout history.…
Section 28: seven years on
This LGBT History Month marks the seventh anniversary of the abolition of Section 28, which prohibited schools from discussing LGBT…
Brighton and Hove boasts gay-friendly employers
The gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) rights advocacy group, Stonewall, released its yearly Workplace Equality Index earlier this month…
50ft lesbian is let loose in Brighton
There’s a new league of superheroes on the loose. Based in Brighton, this rainbow-coloured team of caped crime-fighters appears in…
Students protest gay blood ban
On Tuesday 27th October, a procession of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students descended on London in an NUS…
NUS protest against gay persecution in Uganda
NUS Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Trans-gender (LGBT) campaigners joined with other gay rights organizations on Tuesday 9 October in protest against…