Punk, poetry and performance: Thinking Queer Review
How do you imagine the contemplations of the Bloomsbury Group in a modern cultural climate? The Attenborough Centre for the…
Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group Preview
The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) will be hosting a discussion centring around the influential intellectuals of the…
Bent Double Preview
Sunday 5 November Komedia will be hosting monthly stand-up comedy night Bent Double. The show runs every first Sunday of…
Germaine Greer sparks controversy in Brighton
Content warning: article quotes transphobic views. Controversy sparked over an International Women’s Day talk at Brighton Dome by divisive feminist…
Pink Migration
Antonios Kotsonias, 3rd year studying Media Practice. Antonios is an amazing photographer studying here at Sussex. This series of…
Drinking and Drama: an interview with The Marlborough Pub and Theatre’s Abby Butcher
If you envisage culture and community as a sort of Matryoshka doll with the outermost one being the U.K., liberal…
Do history months promote recognition or exclusion?
This month is LGBTQ+ History month, and over twenty events are taking place at Sussex, making it the university’s biggest…
Sussex ‘Youth Stop AIDS’ distribute fake drug ‘baggies’
Sussex Stop AIDS members distributed ‘baggies’ filled with fake drugs to draw attention to World AIDS Day on 1st december.…
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…
Sussex student to wear fancy dress for a year
Second year Sussex student, Aaron Lawrence, has taken on the challenge of “wearing nothing but fancy dress for a whole…
LGBTQ+ first person account: I am Bisexual
Grace Kavanagh provides a personal account of her decision to ‘come out’ as bisexual, detailing her reception and anxieties surrounding…
Can we call LGBTQ* celebrities role-models?
Growing up, everybody has a role model. You haven’t really experienced being young if you haven’t, at some stage literally…
Exeter address cross-dressing
Students leaders at Exeter University have warned that dressing in drag could be deemed as being “as offensive as blacking…
LGBTQ Comment Series, part 3: Gender identity
In recent and recurring news, there have been parents choosing to raise their child without a specified gender, and with…
LGBTQ Comment Series, part 2: Gay is not a choice
Growing up as LGBTQ is not easy for any of us. We live in a world where it is expected…
LGBrighTon: acceptance and pride
Brighton has long been associated in my memory as the seaside town. My family would visit Brighton once or twice…
LGBTQ write to their schools
Sussex students have set up an initiative to help the schools they attended before university become more LGBT-friendly. The Lesbian,…
A Freshers Guide to the Student's Union
There are a million and one things going on during Freshers’ Week, and it’s all too easy to get caught…