The ultimate LGBTQ+ books guide this February
Throughout the month of February, LGBT History Month aims to promote tolerance and spread awareness of the historical and present-day prejudices faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. One…
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 Creative Arts (ACCA) achieved exactly that, showcasing four outstanding and…
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 Bloomsbury Group on Friday 10 November. In partnership with 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 the month and consists of 2 acts, a headliner and…
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 figure Germaine Greer. Several petitions were launched, urging organisers to…
Pink Migration
Antonios Kotsonias, 3rd year studying Media Practice. Antonios is an amazing photographer studying here at Sussex. This series of images is part of a documentary called ‘PINK MIGRATION’ created in…
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 Britain sitting inside it, and groups like the LGBTQ+ community…
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 LGBTQ+ History Month to date. This annual observance has only…
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. They have started a campiagn called Missing Medicines to lobby…
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…
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 year”. The challenge is in aid of raising money and…
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 it. I have recently come out as bisexual. Although there…
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 felt like someone famous is the greatest person on earth.…
Exeter address cross-dressing
Students leaders at Exeter University have warned that dressing in drag could be deemed as being “as offensive as blacking up”. Male students squeezed into borrowed women’s clothing with badly…
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 that have come many people who oppose it. The two…
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 for us to be heterosexual, and the gender we were…
LGBrighTon: acceptance and pride
Brighton has long been associated in my memory as the seaside town. My family would visit Brighton once or twice a year, since my early childhood. My earliest memory would…
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, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer Group (LGBTQ) launched the program…
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 up in the hype and forget that a lot of…