The power of pride

Brighton & Hove Pride weekend gets off to a camp start as Don’t Tell Mama takes over the iconic i360 Beach Terrace for one night only on Friday 1 August. With a seafront backdrop, open-air dancefloor

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‘WE DIDN’T CARE what they thought of us — we just wanted to help.” That’s how Mike Jackson, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), sums up the radical spirit behind one of the most

TEN YEARS AGO, I was on the French Riviera for the first Lou Queernaval, an evening LGBTQ+ parade that is now part of Nice Carnival’s two-week celebration every February. Nice has been making merry at

‘I DIDN’T HAVE a lot of hope before,” says Mohamed Ali Aguerbi, known to his friends as Dali. “Living in Malta gave me that. It gave me security and a glimpse of the future.” That glimmer of light was

Eleven years on from the ‘transgender tipping point’ — a term coined by Time magazine when it featured Laverne Cox on its cover, and a moment of self-visualisation and representation for many a trans