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+ History Month, and find out what else is on!
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 common within the LGBTQ+ community itself. Bisexuality, pansexuality and general…
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 2014 and, in a historical moment, same-sex marriage was fully…
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 held at Revenge nightclub and warmed up students and locals…
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 to ask you now if you were pro-equality and opposed…
Moving on the movement
As LGBT History Month begins, offering an opportunity to reflect on the LGBT movement, one student gives his perspective and questions the reality of “gay equality” in modern Britain. As…
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 Bellavia Ribeiro-Addy was passed, while an identical motion against Daf…
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 between student singletons on nightbusses, you will undoubtedly be aware…
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. Changing Attitude claims they are: “Drawn by God’s love to…
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 Bisexual and Transgender History Month, “Invisible To Invincible”. This Thursday…
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 few years old. As an 18 year old I was…
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. In the fields of science, entertainment, literature, politics and many…
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 issues. This denotes a stark contrast to the climate today,…
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 showing Brighton and Hove City Council in the top five…
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 a comic called ‘Spandex’, by local artist Martin Eden. Characters…
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 protest against the National Blood Service’s (NBS) policy of refusing…
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 the alleged persecution, torture and arrest of lesbian, gay, bisexual…