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4 DAILY NEWS UPDATES ON ) WWW.GSCENE.COM THE FABULOSO COUNTDOWN WAD 2019 FUNDRAISER TOTALS TO PRIDE 2020 BEGINS NOW! ) For the Martin Fisher Foundation , the WAD Service Brighton & Hove Pride 2020 marks 30 years of campaigning, raised £203 and the morning street flashmob raised £28.60 . protest and a celebration of diversity in Brighton & Hove. ) The Sussex Beacon collected £255 in their street collections during the day. ) The Terrance Higgins Trust fundraisers, held in LGBTQ+ venues in the gay village, raised the following: Charles Street Tap raised £791.75 ; Bar Revenge raised £386.77 ; Subline raised £2,618.80 and Legend s raised £134.86 . ) At the WAD Concert , this year organised by the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus , a truly impressive £4,682.14 was raised, which includes £1,587 from the refreshments sold on the night and £257.48 from the bucket collection. All monies from the WAD Concert go to support Lunch Positive , the HIV charity who run a weekly lunch club every Friday for people living with or ) 2020 is set to be a special year for Brighton & Pleasure Gardens at the Old Steine will open affected by HIV. Hove Pride , marking 30 years of campaigning, the weekend on Friday, July 31 offering an array protest and a celebration of diversity in Brighton & of free entertainment across the weekend. The Hove. This year, Pride have worked with local trans Pride Village Party in Kemptown also returns activist and artist Fox Fisher to create the branding with businesses coming together to celebrate WAD CHOIRS CONCERT for the FABULOSO weekend that incorporates Pride and raise additional funds for the Brighton ) For the 13th successive year, Brighton & Hove’s representation from all diverse communities. Rainbow Fund and Social Impact Fund . LGBTQ+ choirs and musicians joined forces for the FABULOSO is about celebrating YOU and a range Alongside the weekend festival, various events WAD Choirs Concert , which as ever was of the very of Pride related artwork will appear over the next will take place across the city in the lead up to highest quality. This annual event in St Mary’s Church , few months in the run up to this year’s festival. Brighton & Hove Pride including a 30 Years Of Kemptown, is an extraordinary coming together, an act Queer exhibition at Jubilee Library and a host of remembrance and awareness, as well as a of soon to be announced diverse cultural fundraiser for Lunch Positive , the Brighton HIV charity experiences, supported by the Pride Cultural who run a weekly lunch club every Friday for people Development Fund . The Pride Community living with or affected by HIV. Dog Show will also return in Preston Park in The atmosphere in the church was certainly one of the weeks leading up to the Pride weekend event. warmth and love and each performing group gave their FUNDRAISING all to engender that with outstanding moments Brighton & Hove Pride is a time to come together throughout the evening. Performing this year were to celebrate and embrace diversity and inclusion Actually Gay Men’s Chorus , Brighton Gay Men’s in our great city. Their sole ethos is to promote Chorus , Rainbow Chorus , Resound Male Voices , the respect within our community and support local Sweet Chilli Singers and Qukulele . The evening was charities and causes through fundraising. As hosted and compered by Juno Dawson , bestselling recently announced, Brighton and Hove Pride novelist, screenwriter, journalist and School Role Model 2019 raised £217,432.50 for local good causes. for Stonewall. As always the annual Pride LGBTQ+ Community This means that in the last six years, Pride has Parade , a much-loved, colourful carnival of Surprise guest singers were three MDs of some of the raised over £920,000 for neighbouring charities, diversity, will kick-start Saturday’s festivities and city’s choirs, Aneesa Chaudhry , Joe Paxton and projects and community groups through the lead the way to the main community fundraising Samuel Cousins , who were given a thunderous Brighton Rainbow Fund , Pride Social Impact event at Preston Park . The parade will continue to reception by an appreciative audience after joining Fund and Pride Cultural Development Fund . feature an array of city charities, community voices for stunning renditions of Karl Jenkins’ groups, local businesses, blue light services and TICKETS Benedictus and César Franck’s Panis Angelicus . The choirs returned to the stage to sing together and had official Brighton & Hove Pride partners. Tickets for Pride 2020 events are available now: chosen a rich melody of Bernstein’s Tonight and www.pride-tickets.org and Fabuloso on the For the third consecutive year, the park events will Somewhere , which closed the evening in suitable style Park on Sunday offers discounted community run over Saturday and Sunday, hosting main stage filling the huge acoustic vaults of St Mary’s with a tickets. For all info, visit www.brighton- artists as well as popular favourite attractions stunning rolling wave of sound and hope. Qukulele pride.org including: the Legends’ Cabaret Tent , Queer added a cheeky charm and campness to an exceptional Town , BAME Stage , dance tents and a host of Brighton & Hove Pride is the UK’s biggest Pride evening entertainingly held together by Juno Dawson. new, diverse and immersive experiences. Expect Festival operated by Brighton Pride CIC , a not The WAD Choirs Concert was a fundraiser for Lunch queer theatre, spoken word, political speakers’ for profit community organisation. All tickets Positive . A truly amazing amount of £4,682.14 was corner, pop and alternative cabaret, the Trans revenue raised goes directly to the operational raised and is testament to the hard work put in by many Fabuloso stage and Sunday community day with and running costs of producing the Pride Festival, people to ensure this event goes ahead each year. queer artists and performers who span the 30-year Pride LGBTQ+ Community Parade, Pride Village period since Brighton & Hove Pride began. Party and community fundraising. For more info visit: www.lunchpositive.org DAILY NEWS UPDATES ON GSCENE 5 5 WWW.GSCENE.COM ) BRIGHTON WAD MEMORIAL CANDLELIGHT VIGIL ) The annual World AIDS Day (WAD) Candlelight Vigil took place in New Steine Gardens in the shadow of the Brighton AIDS Memorial on Sunday , December 1 at 6pm , where the names of those lost to HIV/AIDS over the last 35 years were read out. This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the inauguration of the AIDS Memorial Statue ‘ TAY ’ and sculpture Romany Mark Bruce gave a moving speech about its creation and inspiration. Dr Gillian Dean from the Martin Fisher Foundation shared her insights into HIV care in the city and reaching the goals for zero transmissions; Rev Heather Leake Date then spoke of the impact, influence and legacy of James Ledward , Gscene editor, on the city’s HIV sector. Following the three speakers, the stand in Mayor of Brighton & Hove led representatives from over 30 Brighton & Hove community organisations, along with local MPs, in the reading of the names at the Brighton AIDS Memorial. There was a very large attendance at this year’s event with many people staying to place their candle of remembrance at the base of the Memorial. Dedicated volunteers from the Rainbow Hub helped set up in record time and Lunch Positive made sure that hot drinks and a warm space was available throughout the event and during the afternoon on the brisk but sunny Sunday. The event is organised by the Brighton & Hove WAD Partnership made up of Avert , Brighton & Hove City Council , Gscene , Lunch Positive, Sussex Beacon , the Sussex Community Foundation NHS Trust , Peer Action , B&H HIV Chaplaincy , Martin Fisher Foundation and the Rainbow Hub. All money donated at the Vigil goes to the Brighton Rainbow Fund who give grants to LGBTQ+/HIV organisations who deliver effective frontline services to LGBTQ+ people in the city. Photos: simonpepperphotography.com 6 DAILY NEWS UPDATES ON ) WWW.GSCENE.COM DECLINE IN HIV INFECTION ) Public Health England (PHE) earlier and immediate prescription of published its annual HIV report in antiretroviral drugs for those diagnosed, November and outlined a continuing and the dramatic success of pre- decline in the number of new HIV exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) largely diagnoses in the UK. The report available from late 2015. outlines a 29% decline from the PHE also reported that people living diagnoses reported in 2015 and a 6% with HIV who are diagnosed late, have decline relative to those in 2017. This been unaware of their HIV infection for overall decline is driven by the trend in around three to five years, as a result new HIV diagnoses among gay, have a 10-fold greater risk of dying bisexual and other men who have sex within a year compared to those with men, which have decreased by diagnosed promptly. Furthermore there 39% since the 2015 peak. During the is the potential for increasing the risk of same period, the number of new HIV onward transmission. Sixty per-cent of diagnoses have also declined by 24% the late diagnosis population are among people who acquired HIV heterosexual men and 59% are aged 50 through heterosexual contact and older. While the decrease in new diagnoses While the proportion of people living has been observed among all gay and with HIV and diagnosed late has reduced bisexual men, the steepest declines by almost 10% in all areas of the UK have been observed in gay and bisexual over the past decade, considerable men who are aged between 15-24 opportunity for improvement remains. (47% decrease) and resident in London PHE reported the drop in new infections (50% decrease). Outside London, large and also those diagnosed late is greater declines were also seen in both the in urban metropolitan areas, particularly West and East Midlands and Scotland. London. Again in heterosexual adults the steepest recent declines have been In 2018 the UK continued to achieve the seen in adults resident in London, a UNAIDS 90-90-90 target with 93% of 40% decrease from 2015 to 2018 those living with HIV diagnosed, 97% of RECORD NUMBER FOR WORLD although the figures have plateaued those on HIV treatment and 97% of them since 2017. living with a viral load defined as AIDS DAY COMMUNITY LUNCH! undetectable. The ageing nature of the The range of a combination of HIV population continues to be an area ) Lunch Positive hosted a Community Lunch on World AIDS Day , bringing prevention strategies has been critical people together to share friendship and a supportive time together. The lunch was of interest for PHE with more than 40% to the decline in HIV infection since of people receiving specialist HIV care held at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church and was put together by the entire 2012 including recommendations for Lunch Positive volunteer team of over 30 people. now aged 50 or over, compared to less very frequent HIV testing for those than 20% in 2007. Volunteers prepared and cooked a traditional Sunday roast dinner which was having unprotected sex, a shift to enjoyed by over 150 diners. Local politicians, including Lloyd Russell-Moyle , Caroline Lucas , Phelim Mac Cafferty and Alex Philips , all attended and spent time with members and volunteers. Volunteers and participants of local community ANGELICA’S 85TH BIRTHDAY BASH groups and charities also came along and joined in the event. The lunch also ) Local scene personality Angelica celebrated their 85th Birthday Bash at marked the 10th anniversary of Lunch Positive in the community, having the Amsterdam Bar & Kitchen , Brighton on Saturday , November 23 with supported hundreds of people with HIV and volunteers having given over 60,000 cabaret from Stephanie Von Clitz and tunes courtesy of DJ Linda Bacardi . hours of time to support their peers. The World AIDS Day Community Lunch will become a regular annual event, repeated this year on Sunday, November 29 when the entire local community will be invited to go along, commemorate, and celebrate the lives of people with HIV. Gary Pargeter , Lunch Positive Service Manager, said: “Thank you to everyone who came along and supported this community event and the amazing contributions of our volunteers who gave so much to make it a success. Lunch Positive is based on community support, and the record numbers that turned out, shared conversation, made new acquaintances and friendships was truly inspiring. The feedback we received was wonderful, all reflecting the contributions of people with and affected by HIV in our community. We look forward to seeing everyone again this year as part of the important and meaningful World AIDS Day activities. Thank you everyone, so much!” Lunch Positive are looking for kitchen volunteers, so if you’re interested please contact Gary on 07846 464384 or email [email protected] For more info about Lunch Positive visit: www.lunchpositive.org Photos: simonpepperphotography.com

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JESS WOOD MBE RETIRES AFTER GRIEF ENCOUNTERS LGBTQ+ 20 IMPACTFUL YEARS AT ALLSORTS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT PROJECT ) November 2019 saw the retirement of Allsorts Youth Project ’s co-founder, of wives, husbands and partners, can Jess Wood MBE, following 20 years of listening to, supporting and connecting also include parents, family members, children and young people who are LGBTQ+ or unsure of their gender identity friends and colleagues. At a time when and/or sexual orientation. Awarded the MBE in the 2012 New Year’s Honours so many people in our local LGBTQ+ List for services to LGBTQ+ young people, Jess has made a lasting impact on communities have experienced a great LGBTQ+ communities locally, regionally, and nationally. Since co-founding loss, it’s important to recognise the Allsorts in 1999 , alongside James Newton, Jess has guided the organisation from importance of looking after ourselves, strength to strength in her position as Director. looking after one another, and seeking ) Following a successful pilot last year, help and support to enable us to do so. James Newton said: “There’ve been few people I’ve ever met who were able to the Brighton Rainbow Fund has Grief can affect us in unexpected ways employ logic and reason so effectively. Jess’s been one of the most wonderful, supported Switchboard to continue their and at different times. It can be funny, creative, determined and energetic people I’ve ever known.” Grief Encounters peer support group for unpredictable and sometimes hard to LGBTQ+ people who have experienced a recognise. It can hit us all at once, bereavement. unfold piece by piece or sneak up on us Grief can affect LGBTQ+ communities in after time has passed and life has moved more complex ways, as they face a forward. number of additional challenges when it Groups start in January , May and comes to bereavement in addition to September 2020 , run for six weeks, are universal experiences of grief, pain and led by experienced LGBTQ+ E B sadness. This can include discrimination, practitioners and provide a confidential, M

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BEAR-PATROL CHRISTMAS JUMPER PARTY FUNDRAISER ) The Bear-Patrol held their annual Christmas Party at the Camelford Arms on Sunday, December 8, 2019 . There was a competition for Best Christmas Jumper followed by a secret raffle supporting Sussex Beacon and the Brighton Rainbow Fund . For more info about future Bear-Patrol events visit: www.bearpatrol.org.uk

BBW RAISE FUNDS FOR BRIGHTON RAINBOW FUND ) Bear-a-oke at Bar Broadway and Santa's Coming at Subline kicked off the Christmas festivities for the Brighton Bear Weekend (BBW) team last month, raising funds for the Brighton Rainbow Fund in the process! Drag superstar, Candy Rell , hosted the wannabe singers for an evening of fun and song in the ever-friendly Bar Broadway. Graham Munday , Y A

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SUBLINE QUIZ NIGHT RAISES £565 FOR THT ) Open to all genders, Subline’s first batter you into submission with his ever Quiz Night was hosted by one- trivia questions, while Steven will offer time Mr Subline, Ian Sinclair , and it relative succour with picture and music was the perfect opportunity to get rounds. Even if they prove too people bidding for the final top prizes; challenging, you can at least enjoy the and Subline were thrilled to garner halftime sandwiches! Each month’s another £565 for THT . Steven Lee , quiz winners be get to nominate the owner of Subline, says: “Pooling it all charity for the following month. together across the two nights, we're Subline’s Monthly Quiz Night for the delighted to donate £2,526 to THT - I James Ledward Memorial Fund , can’t offer enough thanks to EVERYONE part of Brighton Rainbow Fund , at who contributed a prize, their time, or Subline , 129 St James's St, Brighton their money to help us get there.” BN2 1TH on Monday , January 6 , At the next Subline Quiz Night on 7pm , quiz 8pm , £2 per player goes MR SUBLINE 2019 WINNER PAUL AUSTIN Monday , January 6 , there will be a into the prize fund, and the winning prize draw for the James Ledward team gets a chance to claim the cash Memorial Fund , part of the Brighton pot in a final test: fail, and it rolls over MR SUBLINE 2019 Rainbow Fund and ring-fenced to aid for next month (and they receive a homelessness charities. Host Ian will consolation bottle). ) Each year, Subline , the subterranean club, invites the bold and the beautiful of Brighton (and surrounding areas) to step up and compete for the crown of Mr Subline . This year, nine contestants were put through their paces by Pat Clutcher ; Narcis and former Subline barman David lip-sync battled for third RAILWAY CLUB RAISE £336 FOR ONE SIGHT place, George from Affinity Bar took second place, and Paul Austin won the ) Railway Club Brighton raised dedicated to eradicating the global coveted title so fame and fortune awaits! £336 for One Sight , an independent vision care crisis, at their Christmas The serious side to all this frivolity is that, with great pride, Subline use the night non-profit organisation, which is Quiz last month. The event, which to collect for Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), whose important work on HIV and was in partnership with Sunglasses sexual health benefits many people in the community. When Subline asked for Hut, saw people battle it out for donations to the Prize Pool for Mr Subline, the response from local businesses sacks of prizes, including designer and individuals was so overwhelming that they also had enough prizes to hold a sunglasses for the overall winners. raffle on the night; and between the door money and raffle tickets almost £2,000 Extra points were given for those went into the kitty. wearing Christmas jumpers and the festive frolics helped to get people in Steven Lee , owner of Subline, says: “After Mr Subline, we still had a handful of the Christmas spirit! the most outstanding prizes 'in the bank' - artwork from Sid Spencer, a deep- cleaning day from Danny Dwyer, a musical-chef-experience from Jason Thorpe, For more info: www.onesight.org and an amazing meal and champagne (anywhere) offer from Peter Shapcott - so I decided that we would auction these off at our first ever Subline Quiz Night on December 2.” LAUREN HARRIES LIVE AT LE VILLAGE ) The iconic Lauren Harries will be the unexpected at what is going to be a performing at Le Village , Brighton's camp show with Lauren's chart songs. newest LGBTQ+ hotspot, on Sunday , Arrive early as it's going to be busy!” January 26 from 10pm . Lauren, best Lauren Harries live at Le Village , 2- known as the child star with an eye for 3 High St, Brighton, BN2 1RP on an antique on the Terry Wogan Show , Sunday , January 26 from 10pm . and more recently for her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother , will be tearing up the Le Village stage with songs, including her own hits I Am Woman and Upadoo . Lee Cockshot , owner of Le Village Brighton, says: “We are pleased to be able to bring Lauren to Brighton! Expect to be entertained but most of all expect

the City Council, which prompted him to JAMES HENRY LEDWARD found Gscene in 1995 and successfully attempt to redress the balance. His efforts September 5, 1954 –October 3, 2019 won him fifth place on the So Brighton & Hove Power List in 2010, one place ahead of Green Party doyenne Caroline Lucas, with the magazine also citing his work with Sussex ) How better to remember James than through snippets from the eulogy compiled by Police in creating the Anti-Victimisation Unit. the experiences of his family, friends and some Michael Hydes, Village MCC Pastor. of the many people he helped, supported and The following highlights the diversity of Just to provide context on James’ life in encouraged over his years at the vanguard of James’s reach in the community, his ability to Brighton for those who may not already be LGBTQ+ campaigning? Over the next few pages, communicate and negotiate with aware, he moved here in 1984 and discovered tributes to James have been collated in groups organisations at all levels and his warmth and over the ensuing decade that there was little to reflect his life and work, as prefaced with kindness as a friend. or no funding for LGBTQ+ organisations from

JAMES’ FAMILY this role but I have nothing but fond memories On one particular visit James introduced Besi. ) On September 5, 1954, Vera and Percy of my time spent in London, going to When I met Besi I immediately realised that Ledward rushed to the Sefton general hospital restaurants, theatres and concerts. Frankly, James had found his love and his soul mate. on Smithdown Road in Liverpool and James as a teenager, these were all the things I really I am grateful for the time they had together. didn’t want to do, but as I look back I realise was welcomed into the world. He had an elder I can tell you that as recently as September, on how lucky I was. I spent a number of school half-brother, Leslie, and a younger sister, our last holiday together (the week before he holidays following him around, doing odd jobs Rosalyn (Roz). When asked what James was like passed away), he told me by way of casual around his printing company. as an older brother, Roz said: “He was very comment that he had refused to be recommended bossy, and he was a dreadful torment. At James was always, as he continued throughout for an honour from the Queen. He told me that he Christmas he used to steal all the Bar Sixes out his life, a very generous person. He never could never accept anything like this as it might of my selection boxes.” When Roz was a appeared to be driven or influenced by money. impact on people’s perception of his impartiality. teenager she was often sent to stay with her I always felt from a young age that helping This was a classic James view of life and his role. brother because he was the only one who could people was his goal. He was a big man with a When I attended his funeral and heard so many control her, and he'd take her to parties and big heart who had a big appetite for life, for stories of James’ impact on the gay and trans the theatre. James was never closeted, even in people and good food. the 1970s, and Roz always deeply respected communities, both locally and further afield, I him for that. With James what you saw was As far back as I remember James was openly was delighted but not surprised. His capacity to what you got, a deeply caring man who knew gay. This was a brave and potentially dangerous see a problem and get involved to try to help how to party. lifestyle choice but again James never backed solve it was James all over. I am so very proud away from doing the right thing. I always of him, his achievements and his legacy through Rosalyn Thomas respected him for this. Over the years his Gscene and the many other projects he helped (James’ Sister) decision to support the underdog/the establish to assist the gay community. ) James was born on a Sunday and, as the oppressed/the bullied has led to assault, James will be greatly missed by his family, nursery rhyme says, “...the child who is born on threats and verbal abuse. He has challenged friends and everyone whose life he touched. the Sabbath Day is bonny and blithe, merry and government ministers, local government With much love from your sister Rosalyn xx gay”. Never was a truer word spoken – he was officials, senior police officers and other groups handsome, merry and definitely gay. when he felt there had been an injustice. E D I

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JAMES’ EARLY MUSIC CAREER unfairness so anywhere children couldn't computers was so high all of those years ago and As James grew up he attended what is now the access sheet music he sent it free of charge. they could do so little compared to today. Over the years thousands of children learned St Margaret's Church of England Academy. The printing press was an ancient Heidelberg, music through the gifts that James gave. He became a Cross Guild choirboy and since the it printed from negative plates and most of the school was affiliated with the Cathedral, James At this point James decided to leave London world at that time had switched to positive. I've became a part of the Cathedral Choir. They sang and make Brighton his home. got a 'job bag' containing these huge A2 metal everywhere from high mass to old people's plates up in my loft of one of the magazines. homes and it's here that his love for music was Liz Goodwin I remember well Robin and James having to run born. As soon as he left school James applied (Flutewise Magazine) the press all night on more than one occasion to to the Royal College of Music in London. James ) It was with great sadness I learnt of the print music when we had those huge Barbican loved London. He lived in Tooting for a while, death of my friend and most amazing mentor, events in the 1990s. Happy days. and then bought a place on Streatham Hill. James Ledward. James played a huge role in the life of Flutewise during all of the years we There were lots of scary days too in the Anne Aylor produced a magazine and I think it is fair to production of the Flutewise magazine – the day (Musica Rara Colleague) say he taught me virtually everything I know we forgot to put a date on the cover, the time a ) I considered James Ledward to be much about printing, publishing and marketing. 'spot colour' looked like it hadn't printed, one more than a friend. I met him in London in time when I opened an inspection copy and 1975 when I worked at Musica Rara, a bow- James studied oboe and conducting at the found the wrong photos (that was James winding fronted shop on Great Marlborough Street that London College of Music and the Royal Academy me up with a rogue copy), the time the Post sold brass and wind music of the 17th and of Music and when I first met him he had a Office lost an entire print run... I could go on. 18th centuries. I was a secretary and he was flourishing music publishing and printing James gently supported me through it all and the part-time packer while he attended the business in Hove. I was introduced to him by each time we produced a magazine I learnt a bit London School of Music studying the oboe. our mutual friend, Simon Hunt, a flute player more. We soon bonded over our despair over our and publisher. This was over 30 years ago when James went on to produce Impact and Gscene impossible employer. James made going into I was setting up Flutewise . Simon insisted on magazines and he was a leading figure in the the Dickensian shop fun with his irrepressible taking me to the print works in Goldsmid Mews, Brighton LGBTQ+ community, respected and humour. When Musica Rara was full of Farm Road, Hove, as he said if I just went there loved by many, he did so much good work. musicians buying sheet music by Couperin and on my own I would never cross the threshold. Boccherini, to the delight of the customers he He was right. It looked like, and was, organised He was a good friend away from publishing. would sweep me into a back-bending kiss chaos. I met James and his small team – Robin It was thanks to him we got our beautiful cat, behind the counter. Our hated employer was who worked the printing press, Julian who was Doppy. I remember after an education show in frequently abroad. Because James was so in charge of cutting and folding and Duncan London, James was too tired to drive and talented and had such a business sense, he was who did arranging and later typesetting. insisted I took over the wheel of this ancient quickly promoted to manager to run the This was before the technology we have now. van. I couldn’t move the gear stick – it was a publishing house. Whenever the boss headed Words and music were typeset, I used to have stressful and at the same time hilarious journey. off on his travels, we'd celebrate with sparkling to prepare everything using printed out sheets I will also never forget the day my husband and wine from M&S and Viennese Fancies – biscuits from a typewriter and then cut and paste them I were celebrating a wedding anniversary. I had that James insisted on calling ‘fannies’. With together in a draft of what I wanted things to insisted on having a big party. My husband was his Liverpudlian sense of humour, he'd ride into look like, leaving room for photos and drawings. not happy, he said no one would come. The very work on a scooter with an enormous stuffed We used lots of drawings in those days as they first person to turn up, very early, was James bear strapped to his waist. Once, he barked at were easier to print than photos. Once I with the biggest bouquet of flowers I have ever a traffic policemen and was given a ticket. produced my draft, James would take over and seen, he could hardly get them through the door. It was the start of a lovely celebration. I lost touch with James after he left London get it ready on huge negative plates for and spoke of relocating to Venezuela, then I printing after I had proof read it. Life got a There are so many memories and so much to be discovered a few years ago that he was in little easier with the arrival of the first grateful for. I was talking to Robin who said he Hove. Although we didn't see each other often, Macintosh computer in my life, a Macintosh expected James to always be there. We always I kept up with him on Facebook. I was shocked Plus (it cost £1,066 and the following week we expected everyone to be there in our lives to learn of his death. From his funeral pictures, had to go back and spend £465 on a hard drive always, but sadly, this isn't true. I am just so I witnessed what a huge impact he had on the as it was operated by floppy disks – look that thankful and happy to have had James in my lives of so many. In the words of the writer one up – and took forever to load). We couldn't life, without him I doubt Flutewise magazine Peter Hoeg, James Ledward was “a star, a afford a laser printer, the first one we bought a would have developed. northern light, a column of energy in the few years down the line cost almost £3,000, universe” . I will always miss you, my beloved but James was always so generous and would Thanks to James for everything. brother. bring his to my house when a magazine was ready so we could print it all out. The cost of FROM MUSICIAN TO PUBLISHER James was a concert-level oboe player and pianist, and a fair hand as a conductor too – you can imagine the doors that opened for him. Life was good. But then tragedy struck and, aged just 32, James had a stroke. A career playing the oboe and piano at concert level was over just as it was beginning. Such a setback would destroy lesser men but James didn’t give up. He loved music and was determined to share that passion with others, so he started the Nova Music Company, editing and printing sheet music. He probably gave away as much as he sold. He couldn't abide 16 GSCENE

proud to have you at. We will all love and miss on in gay Brighton. He was passionate about you forever. countering all forms of injustice and taking to task those who weren't acting in the Big-Daddy hugs and kisses from us all, until community's best interests. But his good work we see your wonderful mischievous smile wasn't all about politics and righting again. Goodnight, god bless James Henry institutional wrongs. A year or so ago he had a Ledward. letter from an older gay man in Eastbourne who wrote to the magazine asking if there was any Jaq Bayles service to help people such as himself (Gscene Contributor) experiencing social isolation. He didn't simply ) One of my most enduring memories of James get a letter explaining what was – or, as it is of him turning up at my home with an happened, wasn't – available. James drove to unfeasibly large bunch of flowers following the Eastbourne a number of times to visit him and death of my first dog. His visit was totally try to get some kind of support set up. The fact unexpected, massively appreciated and serves that a man as busy as James could take the time as a reminder of what an empathic, caring and and trouble to help one person shows the S

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A James was a true force of nature. M and Doris in the early years I knew him, back GSCENE MAGAZINE in the 1990s in the Portland Road office. I had left work to go to university and responded to Michèle Allardyce In the near 25 years of Gscene ’s existence, an ad for a freelance sub-editor at Gscene as I (Gscene Designer) James nurtured many aspiring writers, always was looking for some paid gigs to help me ) Long before I knew James I’d pick up copies being a willing ear to ideas and happy to give through the study. He duly called me up and of Gscene to read his editorials. I admired his people a forum to express their views from invited me to an interview. By the time I left, forthright campaigning style and grew to respect within the LGBTQ+ community. Here some of having been genially ‘insulted’ several times by his opinions and through him I felt more the many people who worked for or have this big bear of a man, I had agreed to be engaged with the politics of Brighton’s LGBTQ+ graced the pages of this magazine offer their volunteer women’s editor – James had an communities. Then along came an opportunity to thoughts on and memories of the big man. astonishing ability to bring people round to work for James as a designer for Gscene. “It’s not Maria Kinsey his way of thinking and make them see the very glamorous here,” he said at my interview, (Your Little Rottweiler) benefit of giving back to the community in probably thinking I wouldn’t last more than a ) As the cheeky Mr Ledward would say I’ve whatever way best served them and it. From few months after having previously worked in been lucky to work with him for the last 21 that day on he was never less than a pillar of London for a club music magazine. The Gscene years. Starting at Portland Road – a delightful support, as well as a kind and gentle friend. office was in an old factory building on Portland workplace with icicles hanging from the trees He was a lifeline to many and a champion of Road at the time – trees growing through the and plants that had pushed their way through everything that meant something to the roof, no heating, a herd of unhouse-trained the roof in parts. We were joined on occasion LGBTQ+ community. His wit, charm, hilarious dogs, ancient computers and long hours for not by other ‘colourful characters’ and we all tales and intelligent conversation will be much pay. But I didn’t care because I really liked collated and printed Gscene and James’ music missed by everyone who knew him. He was one working for such an inspiring editor as, I soon books. Never a dull moment is a good of a kind. discovered, did many others. description. I moved from the igloo to become He was passionate about community politics and James’ ‘Little Rottweiler’ (his words), basically Michael Hootman a master of the long game. For 18 years I chasing money owed for Gscene adverts to pay overheard tantalising snippets of gossip and the bills, which I’m still doing. (Gscene Arts Editor) ) About quarter of a century ago I turned up intriguing phone calls as he selected his targets Printing ceased at Portland Road and along at the Gscene office clutching a film review I'd and plotted his course, chuckling to himself as with Michele and Vince [now replaced by bashed out on an old typewriter. James gave it he thought of awkward freedom of information Graham] and James’ dogs, we moved to a a quick read, took the cigar out of his mouth questions to ask the council, holding to account basement in Hove. This office, in contrast, and said: “Well kid, you've certainly got moxie, the police or statutory organisations who he had no air con at first and unexpected visitors I'll give you that.” Thus began my career as an didn’t think were fulfilling their duties. trotting down the stairs were often treated to arts journalist, though it's possible my memory James had an incredibly sharp intellect but the vision of a topless James sat at his has slightly romanticised our initial encounter. lacked short-term memory due to having had a computer. Visitors ranged from high-profile Over the last few years I saw him on a monthly stroke. This gave him licence to make things up people to others maybe down on their luck, basis when he'd fill me in on the latest goings- as he went along. Often he really didn’t looking for a friendly face, for a chat, advice, remember, but sometimes he used it as a or even a bit of money to get by, and they mischievous strategy to wrong foot you with a knew if James was there he would help. spectacular exaggeration, presented with such Working alongside James you quickly realised charm that you’d never dream of challenging it. what a gifted, special person he was, juggling Anyone who crossed swords with James usually so many plates at once, spreading himself so lost because he championed the underdog and thinly at times it was hard, but he was always campaigned without ego for what he felt was there for everyone, whoever you were. right. “They just don’t get it,” he would say of anyone who disagreed and more often than not James (Dad), thank you for giving yourself to he was right. Things changed for the good in E

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James was eternally young in spirit and he loved a good party – his face would sparkle when food and drinks were served by Butlers With Bums. He enjoyed socialising and had techniques for handling people in any circumstances, which were fascinating to observe. High principles taught by his family made James so respected in our city. He could not be corrupted and those who tried discovered quickly what a mistake that was. Nothing he did was money oriented but driven by the human will to help. James was loyal to everyone who had earned his trust, and valued honesty above all. His dedication to our communities was incredible to witness. He always had time for anyone in need and he loved helping people, even when he was on holiday. James would N

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Now James has left us, who am I cared deeply for our LGBTQ+ communities; a passing has left an enormous hole in my life. going to ask for advice and how will I know man laced with integrity; a man with a huge about all the latest gossip, none of which could heart, infectious laugh and a twinkle in his ever be published? James came to my house for eye. Over the years I got to know James BRIGHTON FRIENDS a chat just a week before he died – he was his better; he was someone I looked up to for & COLLEAGUES usual caustic, witty self although I realised that honest advice and support, and was the things were not good. Of course I feel the loss beating heart of the LGBTQ+ communities. Peter Storrow of both James and my beloved Michael extremely Simply irreplaceable. I’ll miss you, James – (Business Partner) deeply, but their love lives on. sleep well. x x x ) To lose my pal after so many years is serious grief indeed, particularly considering the Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the splendid association he had with his partner love you want to give, but can’t. All that unspent Mr Masey Besi, with whom he made the legal tie, which love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the (Former Gscene Contributor) I was most happy to see happen. Apart from lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of ) Many years ago I wrote to James about my family there are only three people I would your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go. something I had read in Gscene which I fly back from the Far East for, James was one. disagreed with. He offered to meet me, which The accolades for a gracious, kind, thoughtful Michael James I thought was quite amazing. When we met he and always hard-working person will, I am ) James gently wove himself into the fabric of asked me if I would like to put my views across sure, be many, however I am not mindful to my life like the finest of healing gold threads. and write for Gscene as a regular contributor, add to the long list such as I would be able to. Through the tangled, knotted mass of bruised which I also thought was amazing. It helped Sufficient to say, a sad loss. hopes and dreams he invisibly spread his magic. me to become a contributor to many I was unaware at first. In the early days he was publications since. James was a very generous that lovely man who tirelessly delivered Gscene man – always happy to help, always looking to Roger Wheeler to the local hotels from his van. We came see how things could be improved for people, (Friend and Gscene Contributor) together during the terrible pre-Pride era when always happy to stand up for those without a ) I met James in 1984 in a rather notorious he fought off all those commercial control freaks voice. And he was never afraid to challenge gym called Shape in Devonshire Place, who were ripping the life and soul out of our anyone. He was a fantastic human being. xxx Brighton – it’s long gone now. We were sitting in the Jacuzzi, which James called the Queen Gay Pride annual festivities. Sadly we lost the of Soups as it was men-only day and there word ‘gay’ at that time. However, we were left Sid were quite a few gentlemen sitting very close with the word ‘pride’. And pride is what I feel (Former Gscene Contributor) to each other. James was the original fun guy knowing this wonderful, tireless human being. ) I met James about six years ago just as and a great party animal; all this was long I watched from the sidelines on many an myself and my husband Kevin adopted our two before he became the great campaigner for our occasion where, like the Lone Warrior, he kids. He sat laughing at the stories I told and community and Gscene . James became a very launched into battle on behalf of our community. suggested I write for Gscene . I was nervous, good personal friend; Besi’s arrival in his life He understood I was on my own path to recovery I'd never written for a magazine before but he was fantastic and made James a very happy and could only offer him help when I was feeling encouraged me and gave me a full page every man. When you experience real love you know it. better. And so gently, imperceptibly over the month to share my stories of becoming Dad & My wonderful husband, Mike Wall, died exactly years we bonded. I began to trust once more. Daddy. I miss having James at the end of a eight weeks before James, which makes this all I trusted him and his judgements. Whenever I phone or email. He was helping me with a new the more poignant for me. We both enjoyed could, I gave him my backing. Over time I came idea before he passed, which I will continue in the New Year in his honour. God Bless you James, you kind and gentle man. x Q B B

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As as many a person in authority can attest to. individuals we can be inspired to be kind and One of our earliest official meetings was over a He openly challenged all forms of homophobia respectful, be inspired to speak truth to power. drink in Farm Road, close to his business. There from wherever it came – the council, the police, Those who have the privilege of financial had been an unfortunate incident and I was the local paper or any religious organisation. stability can be inspired to donate, or asked to pop over and try to clear things up. Particularly those within the gay community fundraise. Those with the privilege of time can It was easily resolved and it was my first who put their commercial concerns above all be inspired to volunteer. Be inspired to use experience of James the ambassador. Two pints else. the privilege of a skill or talent to mentor, later and we had the issue sorted. James was the once in a lifetime champion of support and encourage, to benefit those who From then on we became both friends and allies our local community. We can best honour his need it. Reach out to those within our and, through our roles with local magazines, we achievements by now supporting those who communities who are lonely and isolated. would soon enjoy a series of adventures that have to take up the job of guiding us through James achieved much by bringing people, became legendary in Brighton media circles. what might well be some of the worst years yet. organisations, businesses, politicians, Yes I'm talking about the incredible Holiday On I look forward to seeing the James Ledward together, so be inspired to work together. Ice press trips. These were wonderful jaunts to name on my local bus and a huge pink plaque the continent where we would watch the shows, somewhere in a very visible public space. It takes a village... interview the skaters and... well hit the town. We are James’ greatest legacy, and the On one particular trip to Rotterdam the Chris Gull greatest tribute we can give to him is to carry schedule was so packed that somehow the PR (Brighton Rainbow Fund Chair) on, and build on that legacy. team forgot to feed us. Late one night James ) James and I were friends for more than 30 left us at the hotel reception and went in years, and in almost daily contact over the last Paul Kemp search of food. The next morning at breakfast six years because we ‘ran’ the Brighton Rainbow he looked exhausted and when quizzed he (Brighton & Hove Pride Managing Director) Fund, which he co-founded 10 years ago, as explained why. Having set off from the hotel he ) I first met James almost 30 years ago, back trustees. I moved to Valencia nearly four years soon spotted the iconic Golden Arches that in in the days of Club Shame at the Zap and Wild ago, so most of those chats were via video his mind spelled ‘burger’. But as he reached his Fruit, and James certainly loved to party. messaging. Fun fact, for most of the year goal he couldn’t find his Maccy D. He set off James worked in his office topless and no, I As a huge supporter of Pride since I took the again and spotted another, but again it was a never asked why. reins in 2013, he was instrumental in the fail, the signage had led him astray. networking conversations necessary for It happened a few more times and eventually he I was honoured to have been asked to talk commitment-to-community fundraising for our gave up. It was only the following morning that about his immense contribution to our LGBTQ+ local LGBTQ+ groups through the Brighton he realised the signs he had followed were not communities at his packed funeral, and what Rainbow Fund. Over the years Pride has grown McDonald’s but the Rotterdam Metro. He made follows is most of what I said then. and continues to face many challenges and up for it at the breakfast buffet, but later that How to sum up James’ achievements in a short James was always there with words of advice, morning when we were offered a boat trip space? Well here are a few milestones, some of support and a wise, sympathetic ear. James around the container port he stood his ground which go back to the 1990s: Project Zorro, really did have the interests of our community and refused, insisting that we were fed instead. setting up and chairing the original LGBT at heart and I'd often call him several times a We went on many of those trips. In Dublin we Community Safety Forum, Gscene , the Golden week to get an opinion or community feedback decided to do the Guinness experience and Handbags, the AIDS memorial, and of course – and some gossip of course. ended up in the restaurant where we started the Brighton Rainbow Fund. There are plenty with a dozen oysters each followed by the steak of other projects that he was instrumental in and Guinness pie. When the blue-eyed colleen seeing through to fruition, by encouragement came to ask for our dessert order James, and putting the right people in touch with without pause for breath, ordered another each other. From his early days in Brighton he dozen oysters. was able to see what needed to be done, and wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power. Over the years I have, as I am sure most of you have, enjoyed some of the best nights out, best So who can replace him? The answer is, thanks meals, best parties and concerts and chats and to James, simple. You. Well more precisely…

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His working relationship with politicians and Brighton. James told me how funding had been slashed across the board for the LGBTQ+ James would always take the short cuts and the police was a godsend to Brighton’s scene back roads. These would generally take twice as and he fought tooth and nail to try to make community and that they were struggling to keep charities afloat. Since that first meeting long as the normal route but the journey sure we weren’t short changed in the service reflected James’ ability to weave in and out of we received from them. Each UK city and in his car, parked on Palmeira Square in Hove, we’ve raised £8,500 with three paintings. various situations, problems and confrontations town’s LGBTQ+ scene flourishes from certain and arrive at a successful conclusion, still with people’s presence, and James was Brighton’s James was one of those extraordinary people those twinkling eyes and that cheeky grin. jewel. who never ceased to amaze me; his endless energy and passionate conviction for all things James first honoured me by inviting me to I owe him an enormous debt, as Stephen and design the lighting at last year’s Golden Lola, for his friendship and all that he taught gay and glittery. His wicked sense of humour was infectious, as was his smile that could Handbags, but the ultimate honour was, two me. I shall miss that mischievous twinkle in days before he passed, he made sure I visited his eye and that sly grin as he told me some light up a room. I knew he wasn’t well, he struggled with his health, and I’d feel helpless the hospital so he could ask me face to face scandalous gossip. I will remember his (through the tears) to oversee the funeral. He determination and passion to make a situation when he’d tell of his latest visit to the hospital. This never curtailed his determination just sent me five song titles and told me who he work for an individual or a group. And I, like wanted to sing what. Typically, he very cleverly all of us in Brighton, will never forget him. to sort out the endless problems, deadlines or meetings he’d have, in fact I think, on gave me information and had given additional reflection, it kept him going. detailed info to Chris Sarson of the Co-op Graham Munday Funeral Group, Father Andrew, Rev Michael, et In the spring of this year I was violently al. We had to get together, communicate our (Brighton Bear Weekend Chair) attacked in broad daylight, by a man who’d info and work as a team to make the event the ) James was a close friend. I’m sure others been stalking me. James was the first one to very best we could. So typical of James to give will tell you about his great achievements, the contact me offering support, he was incredibly us all a little piece of the jigsaw and place us in projects he started, the people he helped and upset and asked if it was related to my a situation so we had to work alongside each lives he changed, but to me he was just a sexuality. He gave me advice and directed me other to achieve the end result. friend with a car full of half-empty cardboard to someone who would advise me through the boxes, a beautiful husband and a dog with long process of bringing the attacker to court. I, like everyone, miss him so much but we will separation anxiety issues. I always looked up to James as a father figure, endeavour to be kind and non-judgemental as you encouraged us to be. RIP dear man. We’d meet for lunch once a month normally, in fact my secret nickname for him was ‘Big just after the magazine had gone online. He’d Daddy’. I felt safe with James Ledward. pick me up, even though I’m only five minutes Gscene outlived all contenders over the years, Wendy Walton from the scene, and we’d eat in one of the bringing glitz and glamour, as well as offering (Brighton Centre former Head of Marketing) advertisers venues to show support. We’d ) I first met James in the early 1990s when I munch away and catch up on all the gossip was head of marketing at the Brighton Centre. from the scene and beyond. Afterwards, he’d James was one of the first, and most drive me home and we’d sit in the car for just enthusiastic, attendees on what became an as long, sharing all those worries that we annual press jaunt to visit Holiday On Ice in couldn't talk about in a bar and with other Europe, in advance of its arrival in Brighton. people.

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But James, who didn't believe in omnipresent when it came to attending the activist, selfless, supportive, caring and above organised religion, did believe that Brighton important events and, indeed, was the all my friend. James was all of these things, needed an LGBTQ+ focused church. He offered architect of the Golden Handbag Awards, and more. Brighton, not just the LGBTQ+ help, advice, and introduced me to community recognising achievements in the field, whether community, will miss his witty and cheeky members who would offer support. The Village as individuals or as part of a greater group. sense of humour and his tireless commitment MCC was born and, five years later, has more to fighting for what's right. I have had the than doubled in size. I was humbled when James Colin Barton privilege of working closely with James over asked if I would deliver his Eulogy, and I'm sad (Sussex ME Society Chairman) the years. I for one will really miss him. ) We are so sorry about the sudden passing of that we didn't get more time. It was James who James who was an important part of our taught me that Brighton's LGBTQ+ community is community and a friend to many. I well Steve Ashfield full of politics, but if you hold to your truth, no remember after I was diagnosed with ME in (Brighton GEMS) matter how inconvenient, you can't go too far the 1980s and decided with my partner David ) James will be remembered as someone who wrong. I miss him so very much. that we wanted to do something as there was was always prepared to help individuals and little in the way of understanding of the support/social groups. I remember a Bank Revd Heather Leake Date illness or professional help available. I called Holiday Monday when he could easily have (Sussex Ecumenical HIV Chaplaincy) James and we had a number of discussions been at home resting. Instead, he was ) James was a tremendous support to many of about how we could get dialogue going with contacting me asking for an update on the organisations with which I'm involved, the health authorities in a similar way to Brighton GEMS. He was so knowledgeable including the HIV Chaplaincy, Lunch Positive, those working on behalf of people affected by about the scene and determined to find the Martin Fisher Foundation, HIV & Sexual HIV. James was a great help and continued answers to problems. Where he saw something Health services, and the World AIDS Day over the years to support our organisation and was wrong, James was willing to try to help Community Partnership. He wielded his influence assist with ME awareness through Gscene put things right. We all owe him so much for and power constructively, fairly and for the magazine. We will miss him. all his hard work. When we walk down St benefit of the community, enabling a huge James' Street, I know who we should be diversity of voices to be heard and championed. thinking about. Finola Brophy A warm, funny, caring, committed activist, and (Rainbow Chorus Trustees Chair) an entrepreneur with a passion for social justice, ) James Ledward was extraordinary and gave Jenni Tellyn James always sought to include everyone, to so much to the LGBTQ+ community. He edited (Rainbow Families) support and work with allies, to build bridges, Gscene , created and was Trustee of the ) I’ve been involved with Rainbow Families in and to reconcile groups. Thank you, James, for Brighton Rainbow Fund and more. James loved Brighton for some years and I wanted to share the pleasure and privilege of knowing you. music and avidly supported all the LGBTQ+ with you a picture taken at our Christmas party choirs in the city. While I was Chair of the in 2015. James kindly agreed to be Father Gary Pargeter Rainbow Chorus we became good friends. He Christmas for us and even had his own outfit. (Lunch Positive Service Manager) came to most performances, especially our Here he is holding my littlest, Bibi (Tellyn- ) There’s so much that I could say about James. community ones. We shared a passion for Clarke,) who was his little elf helper on the I hope that most will have been said while he day. I love the picture as it sums up his great was living, and will continue to as time moves big heart, his kindness and community spirit. on. I’ll recount just a simple conversation we shared about Brighton, the gay scene and how things had changed, as they do with the passage of time. We talked about the ‘glamour’ and the 7 1 0

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everything in such a calm way but never gap in terms of the lack of support for older sugar-coating any opinion, but that was all LGBTQ+ people and encouraged Switchboard overlaid with his kindness, love and along with others to provide services to meet compassion to everyone he met. those needs. James was a real advocate for the LGBTQ+ voluntary sector, a critic at times, but more importantly a friend and supporter – he Sussex Beacon will be missed. ) James was a long-term supporter of the E N E

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After licking my and opportunities for our LGBTQ+ youth; “We wounds, eventually we met and spoke about how must support that to its fullest!” I was Lyndsay MacAdam we could work together better with a joint inspired, and I hope we will… (Switchboard CEO) ambition to improve services for LGBTQ+ people. ) We’re deeply saddened at Switchboard by the Over the following couple of years the work we passing of James. He was a central figure in the achieved was recognised internationally as we Richard Jeneway Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ community, through were invited by the US Government Aid agency (Lunch Positive Trustee) his work at Gscene and the Brighton Rainbow to help drive similar ambitions in South America, ) Since James passed away I’ve read many Fund, and also as a key voice standing up for which I was fortunate to do. As well as this, outstanding tributes spoken from the heart LGBTQ+ rights and a staunch supporter of the James helped the police on countless occasions and reflected at the funeral, which was truly work of our voluntary and community sector. regarding other crime matters against LGBT an emotional service. I had the pleasure of He’s been a great friend to Switchboard for people and how we could work together as a knowing James for 10 years. He was drawn to many years and he will be very sorely missed. community to support communities. James never my guide dog at an event in Brighton and In the few short months I’ve been in post, it gave up on this issue, not just from a policing from there we met to talk about an idea I and was immediately clear to me what an important perspective but across the statutory community. some others had for a new community advocate and friend of the community James He was always close by to be a ‘critical friend’ wellbeing service for people with HIV, which was. I saw him working tirelessly at Pride and and, despite advising the police, he was never would include yoga and therapy events along Trans Pride over the summer, taking photos and afraid to say what he thought if it meant others with some social events, but aimed specifically chatting to everyone and then reporting it all would benefit. The supportive role he played at the HIV community. I’m proud to say James in Gscene , and again playing such an important allowed me and my teams to provide a better, gave this his support, but not lightly – he role in the Brighton Rainbow Fund grants more educated, informed service and therefore spoke honestly and plainly while encouraging process, without which so many vital services benefited communities and the police. the project to grow. could not exist. He was obviously so loved and James was everywhere in the LGBTQ+ community James visited us in Rottingdean, often mainly respected, and not afraid to stand up and voice and he did this without appearing oppressive. to sample cakes fresh from the oven. We sat his opinions in order to improve the lives of His nature was always kind, caring, with a for many hours deep in discussion about a people in our communities. I don't know what primary ambition to help anyone he could, range of matters, some serious but James was the community is going to do without him, his especially those without a voice. Over the years gifted with a fantastic sense of humour. James loss is going to be felt far and wide for a very James became a friend and his presence and first visited here with Kevin, his little dog. long time to come. My heart is with his family advice will be greatly missed. I can only describe the situation looking back and his many friends. as funny but also eccentric. He sat on our front doorstep having taken an armchair from Rory Finn the living room, eating cake and consuming Daniel Cheesman (Trans Can Sport) large amounts of tea, with Kevin at his feet to (Switchboard former CEO) ) I’m not sure when I first met James. Certainly hold court with me and those in our street ) I was really sad to hear about the death of his reputation preceded him by a long mile, and who were passing by. Why didn’t he come in? James. During my time at Switchboard I I have to confess I had strong opinions about Because he was concerned Kevin might be developed a relationship with him that was him despite not having met him in person. I overwhelmed by our three dogs, who he later built on both trust and respect. James regarded him as a powerful man who could make discovered loved his visits with Kevin because supported Switchboard’s rebrand and or break people. I knew that forming a good of extra treats. development of new services and he saw the working relationship with him would be key to Over the years his visits offered me much support and personal encouragement

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He did so much good in the said: “If she says yes then we can run the colour the community’s. I would nervously read world and will be very sadly missed. interview.” A project of my own. I spoke to Bev through every issue for any articles about the James represented the whole of our and got the interview published – he was so police. After a time James agreed we could community, which is why I chose to use Gscene proud of me as it was all done by myself without have a regular police column to communicate cuttings to make an A1 poster for every year help. Then he asked me to write a story about my community safety information. When a former since 1998. I was in a copy of Gscene in July mental health in last month’s edition. I didn’t Brighton Commander wanted to know the 2012 when James came to my flat to see my even have to think about it – I wanted to tell backstory of the LGBTQ+ community and posters. I started to do the posters as I was people my story and was honoured that James Brighton Police, it was to James I turned. He housebound for years. When James came to had approached me. very kindly left me alone in a room stacked full see me I was very unwell and he spent three I’ll always treasure James and what he has done of Gscene back issues to get the perspective I hours with me having a good old chat about for me and our community. He’s gone from being needed. our LGBTQ+ community. I’m now much more a guardian angel on earth to a guardian angel in Towards the end of my time working for the healthy thanks to the NHS and LGBTQ+ charity the sky. He will be forever in my thoughts. police James would call me up. I’d nervously organisations that helped me. The posters return his call, expecting a grilling about filled my time with happy memories. I’ll be something, but instead he’d pick my brains making the 2019 poster as a tribute to James Alice Denny: Cup Of Joe about the trans and wider LGBTQ+ community once the January 2020 Gscene is published so I (Poet, Activist & Friend) and who was causing what nuisance and to can include that. The posters list the good ) That familiar cheerful walk I used to take from whom. I realised that after all this time, I’d times, the sad times and show how the LGBTQ+ my flat’s flaking pink back door come to respect and like James and I sensed community has changed. But they also show along the path past George’s Cup of Joe, he felt the same way about me too. the great work James did at Gscene the cafe in St George Street where you so often sat representing our LGBTQ+ community. taking time to meet a friend or two to chew the fat or contented on you own to think, AJ Paterson to wave and smile to please delighted passers-by ) I’ll never ever forget James giving me a Dean Pender can never be the same now that I know. voice to share my story in Gscene , The Pain of ) In 2011 I moved to Brighton from London And anyway, Prayer . Because of James, who listened, and due to domestic violence. An LGBTQ+ housing (Things change) the lovely journalist who interviewed me, I’ve officer at Brighton & Hove Council accused me since I left the town some time ago continued to heal. So James, thank you for of coming here to stay in a free hotel for my door’s been painted sort of muddy grey your kindness. Pride. I was gobsmacked as they were aware (How strange) from the police that I would be coming to get and ‘though I rarely get the chance to pass there away for my safety. I got thrown from hostel anymore Mark R Machan to hostel and denied any further help from once not long ago, visiting, I did ) I’m so grateful to James, who I asked earlier Brighton & Hove Council. and there as large as life you sat in the year for a piece to be written on the I told James my story, which he published in I might have guessed late film director Derek Jarman. He kindly Gscene back in 2011. He was disgusted with at your usual pavement table in the sunlit patch arranged a feature to be written on Derek’s life, the way I was treated and went to the top of with which you and Cup of Joe seemed always which was cut short by HIV in 1994. I helped the council to get me help and placed in blessed to arrange with English Heritage for Derek to accommodation that caters for my mental offering the warmest hug and kindest smile be awarded a blue plaque on his previous home health needs. He got me into Rise (domestic of welcome for me as so many times before in Butler’s Wharf, Bankside, London, with the violence group) and MindOut, went out of his to tempt me to an unplanned Cup of Joe, help of Peter Tatchell back in February, to way to help me feel welcome into the LGBTQ+ to laugh, to chat, to rest a while coincide with the 25th anniversary of Derek’s community and taught me that we all stand watch seagulls soar, sad passing. It was a real pleasure to work together and help one another. As years went beneath our hallowed Kemptown sky. with James on marking this anniversary, I am by, James would check in on me, he always We said farewell that day, yet still forever grateful for all his help. 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JANUARY LISTINGS

AFFINITY BAR AMSTERDAM BAR & KITCHEN l 129 St James’s St, BN2 1TH, Tel 01273 567935 www.affinitygaybar.com l 11-12 Marine Parade, BN2 1TL, Tel: 01273 670976, F Affinity Bar Brighton. Text Alerts: text ‘Affinity’ to 88802 . www.amsterdambrighton.com l OPEN daily from 12pm –12am , NYE from 12pm –3am , New Year’s Day l OPEN daily from 11am –late including New Year. from 12pm –1am . l FOOD Mon -Fri from 11am –8pm ; Sat from 10.30am –8pm ; Sunday roasts l DRINK PROMOS Thirsty Thursday specials all day: £3.50 drinks including (incl veggie/vegan options) from 12.30pm till they run out, booking recommended: Fosters, double house gin/vodka/rum and house wine. 01273 670 976 . Full tea and coffee menu available. DRINK PROMOS pint Pravha £4, select bottles of beer £3.50, house spirit & NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec NYE PARTY with Vicki Vivacious and Lovinia Belle l l house mixer £3 single, or £5 double, 2 cocktails for £15, bottle house wine £11.90. dragging you into 2020 from 8pm , party on till 3am . l Wednesday (1): New Year’s Day Karaoke with Tommy Tanker aka Pat Clutcher at 8pm . l NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the NYE PARTY from 9pm . l ONE FOR THE DIARY Thursday is now CABARET l ONE FOR THE DIARY Saturday (25 ) BURNS NIGHT with the raucous Dave Lynn , guests and games at 9pm . SPECIAL with haggis, neeps & tatties, Scottish whiskies, and a free shot of single malt for anyone wearing a kilt! l REGULARS Monday: ALL DAY KARAOKE from

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BAR BROADWAY l 10 Steine Street, BN2 1TE, Tel: 01273 609777, www.barbroadway.co.uk l OPEN Mon –Thur from 6pm –1am , Fri from 5pm –3am , Sat from 4pm –3am , Sun from 4pm –1am .

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l MARINE TAVERN Throwback Thursday 80s Night 8pm FRIDAY 3 AFFINITY BAR Wigs & Beads PARIS HOUSE World Music: Tres l l Karaoke with drag hostess 8pm Amigos 8pm ALL NEW BULLDOG Fri Night Live: QUEEN’S ARMS Leading Ladies l l camp karaoke DJ Glyn-Sing 9pm ; Show cabaret: Vicki Vivacious 10pm Time: Domina Tryx 11pm ; karaoke till 3am REGENCY TAVERN Open mic 8pm l AMSTERDAM cabaret: Miss Jason THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live l l 9.30pm football: Liverpool v Sheffield Utd 8pm BAR 7 @CRAWLEY TGIF Madness: LE VILLAGE Themed Nights - see l l resident/guest DJs 7pm Facebook for info 9pm l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 5pm 30 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT PICS FROM BAR 7 + THE BULLDOG

JANUARY LISTINGS

BAR 7 CRAWLEY ALL NEW BULLDOG l 7 Pegler Way, Crawley, RH11 7AG, Tel: 01293 511177, www.7crawley.co.uk l 31 St James’s Street, Brighton, BN2 1RF, tel 01273 696996 , #BulldogBTN l OPEN daily from 6pm , extended opening hours on NYE , closed New Year’s Day. l OPEN Mon from 4pm -midnight , Tue –Thur from 3pm –midnight , Fri & Sat l DRINK PROMOS Tue , Wed , Fri , Sa t & Sun drink deals all night from midday –3am , Sun from midday –midnight , NYE from 3pm –3am . DRINK PROMOS Mon –Fri from 4–7pm , Sun from 12 –4pm . Wed Green Light NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the BLACK & WHITE NYE l l drink promos when the lights go green and a specified artist plays on the screens. PARTY with merriment till midnight and after. NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the all new BULLDOG NYE EXTRAVAGANZA with ONE FOR THE DIARY Saturday (1) Feb live l l karaoke from 9pm till 3am . Wed (1) is the GREEN LIGHT CRUISE NIGHT New CABARET with the sensational Sandra on stage at 9pm . l

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CAMELFORD ARMS Friday Club Ruby Murry 10pm ; DJ 11pm H l T THURSDAYS with The Macarena and Sam Pink bringing 6pm ZONE cabaret: Chris Hide 10pm l camp, karaoke, queens from 8pm . FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE with camp karaoke and CHARLES ST TAP Fabulous Friday: l l party faves from DJ Glynn-Sing at 9pm ; then SHOWTIME with Domina Tryx at DJ Morgan Fabulous 9pm SATURDAY 4 11pm followed by karaoke till 3am . l Saturday is Wonda Starr’s QWEEN OF l GROSVENOR BAR cabaret: Davina l AFFINITY BAR camp cabaret: Miss THE NIGHT with outrageous 1, fab prizes and all your favourite party tunes/floor fillers Sparkle 9.30pm Jason 6.30pm ; karaoke 9pm LEGENDS BAR Brighton Belles: local from 9pm .l ALL NEW SUNDAY FUNDAY from 12pm : camp karaoke from Mandy l l ALL NEW BULLDOG Wonda Starr’s cabaret stars & guests 9pm at 5pm . l Monday GLITTER BALL: classic camp videos from 1970s–00s at 4pm . Qween of the Night: camp karaoke with All new Bulldog say: “It's time to start all over again with Monday Glitter Ball! Expect all l MARINE TAVERN Jukebox Disco 9pm prizes 9pm PARIS HOUSE DJ Havoxx 9pm your favourite music videos through the decades and a few camptastic faves playing all l l AMSTERDAM Karaoke 9.30pm QUEEN’S ARMS Big Friday Cabaret: the way till midnight! It's another #getinvolvedsue in the heart of Gay Brighton.” l l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Party Night: alternate DJs 7pm l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 4pm BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS l l SUBLINE Men’s Room 10pm l AMSTERDAM cabaret: Jason Lee Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Pre 5pm ; roasts 12pm-till gone CHARLES ST TAP Fierce DJ 9pm l home match warm-up: pie & pint deal: l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY karaoke 6pm GROSVENOR BAR cabaret: Pooh La l Brighton v Sheffield Weds 12pm ; live l BAR BROADWAY Fireplace Sessions May 9.30pm football: Rochdale or Boston v Newcastle present Ella 8.30pm LEGENDS BAR Pre-club DJ 7pm l 12.30pm , Wolves v Man Utd 5.30pm l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS MARINE TAVERN Candi Rell’s l l LE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; Glitter Curious: sing-along party with Karaoke & Cabaret Party 9pm Scandalous: DJ Stephanie Starlet 10pm Patrick Cawley & Maria Gardner 11pm PARIS HOUSE All That Jazz: Jorges l l ZONE cabaret: Davina Sparkle 10pm l CAMELFORD ARMS Bear Bash: free Hot Club 4pm ; Andy the Dandy DJ 9pm food/raffle 5pm ; roasts/select menu l QUEEN’S ARMS QA Triple cabaret: 12pm – till gone Poppycock 6pm , Betty Swollocks 8pm , SUNDAY 5 CHARLES ST TAP cabaret: host Sally AFFINITY BAR cabaret: see l Lola Lasagne & Mrs Moore perform at l Vate & Davina Sparkle 7.30pm ; Sally’s Facebook for act 5pm Alex’s 30th Birthday Party 10pm Rock & Roll Bingo 8.30pm ; roasts 12pm ALL NEW BULLDOG Sunday Funday l REGENCY TAVERN cabaret: Ruby l LEGENDS BAR cabaret: Dave Lynn 12pm ; karaoke with Mandy 5pm l Murry 9pm 3.30pm ; roasts 12.30 –4pm GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 31 32 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT PICS FROM CAMELFORD ARMS + CHARLES STREET TAP

JANUARY LISTINGS

CAMELFORD ARMS CHARLES STREET TAP l 30-31 Camelford St, BN2 1TQ, Tel: 01273 622386, www.camelfordarms.com l 8 Marine Parade, BN2 1TA, Tel: 01273 624091, www.charles-street.com l OPEN daily from 12pm . NYE till late, New Year’s Day from 12pm . l OPEN daily from 10am , New Year’s Day from 11am . l FOOD Mon –Sat 12 –9pm ; seniors’ lunch Wed 2 –3.30pm , 2 courses £9.50 ; l FOOD served daily from 10am –10pm , including: breakfasts from 10am (New Sunday roasts and select menu served from 12pm –till gone . NYE from 12 –6pm , Years Day from 11am) ; Tue: 4 chicken wings or vegan cauliflower wings £1; Wed : New Year’s Day from 12 –9pm . Sat (25 ) haggis neeps & tatties from 12pm. The build your own burger from £5 – beef, chicken or vegan; homemade Sunday roasts Camelford is dog friendly. for £9 from 12pm : hand carved roasts: beef, turkey, pork with crackling, nut roast, roast lamb shank £11 . NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is NYE LATE NIGHT PARTY l DRINK PROMOS In January, it’s all about the discounting with all cocktails from 8pm , free entry. Wed (1) NEW YEAR HANGOVER l £4.95 Mon –Thur 5 –8pm , £4 a pint of craft beer and spritz long drinks all night from PARTY from 12pm . Bloody Mary anyone? 5pm on Mon , 50ml Gin of the Month & fever tonic £5 all day on Thur , bottles of l ONE FOR THE DIARY Saturday (25 ) is the BURNS Prosecco £15 all night & half price drinks 5–9pm on Fri , Sunday Craft Club : any NIGHT SPECIAL with haggis, neeps, tatties and regular two craft cans or bottles £6 from 5pm . menu from 12pm . l NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the BLACK TIE & TIARAS l REGULARS Thursday : the BIG CASH QUIZ with a £300 cash prize, free NYE PARTY , a fabulous night of glitter and glam decadence sarnies and great atmosphere from 9pm . l Kick the weekend off at FRIDAY CLUB with the regal Joan Bond on hosting duties, the best chart & from 6pm . l Sun : the BEAR BASH with free food and a raffle at 5pm . dance anthems, and generous giveaways galore from 8pm , D

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A l O J Day breakfasts from 11am . l MARINE TAVERN roasts 12 -5pm Solberg-Mick Hamer Trio 2pm ; the Alex l PARIS HOUSE live music: Lo Bondonno Trio 8pm l ONE FOR THE DIARY SUNDAY CABARET with host Polodoro 6pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Sally’s Social Sally Vate , Mrs Moore (26 ), from 7.30pm : Davina

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REGENCY TAVERN roasts 12-6pm raising funds for James Ledward D l & ROLL BINGO straight after! A L l SUBLINE Guilt-Free tunes 9pm Memorial Fund 7pm REGULARS Monday : come in from the cold and geek out at GAYMERS NIGHT l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live l football: Middlesbrough v Spurs 2pm , football: Arsenal v Leeds 7.55pm with Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox retro video game goodness, plus everything from Liverpool v Everton 4pm l LE VILLAGE karaoke/open mic with board games, card games and tournaments, from 8.30pm . Charles Street Tap say: l LE VILLAGE Stephanie Von Clitz’s George Martin Marino 8.30pm “Everyone welcome and if you’ve got a game you want to play bring it along – it’s all Drag Open Mic 8.30pm ; cabaret: Electric about the fun!” l THROWBACK THURSDAY : pull shapes to 00s guilty pleasures and 90s retro anthems from 9pm . Saturday is FIERCE with top award-winning Blue 10pm ; stripper/DJ midnight ; roasts TUESDAY 7 l 12-6pm DJs spinning your favourite dance and house anthems on rotation from 9pm . l AFFINITY BAR Free Jukebox 12pm l ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve MONDAY 6 Tuesday: Macarena & Sam Pink bring l AFFINITY BAR all day karaoke camp, karaoke & queens 8pm 12pm ; karaoke with Tommy Tanker (aka l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Crewsday 7pm Fuller 11pm WEDNESDAY 8 LEGENDS BAR A Bit of Midweek Pat Clutcher) 7pm l BAR BROADWAY Piano Singalong 9pm AFFINITY BAR Karaoke with Tommy l l Sparkle: Davina Sparkle & friends 9.30pm l ALL NEW BULLDOG Monday Glitter l MARINE TAVERN Curry & Quiz with Tanker (aka Pat Clutcher) 7pm MARINE TAVERN Pink Pound 7pm Ball: 70s-00s tunes 4pm Nat 7.30pm ALL NEW BULLDOG Green Light l l PARIS HOUSE Paris House Jazz Jam l BAR BROADWAY Jam Away the l PARIS HOUSE live blues: Yellow Cruise Night 8pm l Session 8pm Monday Blues 9pm Funk Machine 8pm BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Midweek Chill 7pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Kara Van Park’s l CHARLES ST TAP Gaymers Night: l QUEEN’S ARMS QA’s Got Talent: BAR BROADWAY It’s All Fun & l l West End Wednesdays 10pm consoles/board games 8.30pm Poppycock & guest judges 9.30pm Games with Sally Vate 9.30pm SUBLINE Hump Day 9pm l LEGENDS BAR Miss Jason’s Mad l RAILWAY CLUB Lindy hop 7pm BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS Now l l LE VILLAGE Dave Lynn & guest Mondays 9.30pm l LE VILLAGE Switch with Kryan That’s What I Call Legends: DJ Claire l l PARIS HOUSE live jazz: Nils Shayne & guest 10pm 10pm

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FALLEN ANGEL THE GROSVENOR BAR l 24 Grafton Street, Kemptown BN2 1AQ Tel: 07949 590 001 l 16 Western Street, Hove, BN1 2PG, www.thegrosvenorbar.com l OPEN Tue –Fri from 4pm , Sat from 3pm , Sun from 2pm , closed New Year’s l OPEN daily from 1pm –late . Day. Welcoming to everybody, Fallen Angel is a quirky little pub in the heart of l DRINK PROMOS Mon –Fri from 1–6pm on all pints, house doubles and Kemptown. Expect a chilled, relaxed and cosy atmosphere, friendly staff and chic, bottles of wine. classy décor. Fallen Angel is a dog friendly pub. NYE Tue (31 ) Dec is the NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY FOOD Get food delivered to the pub from Curry Leaf Kemptown with 10% l l with Davina Sparkle at 9pm . discount on all orders, or Alforno Pizza Kemptown . E L K l REGULARS Thursday is CAMP BINGO at 8.30pm . R l NYE Tue (31 ) Dec is the NYE PARTY from 4pm . A P The Grosvenor say: “Come along and join the fun on S

A N I Thursday nights at the Grosvenor Bar! Hope to see you here V A D for a drink or three.” l Friday CABARET with drag l QUEEN’S ARMS Leading Ladies superstars taking to the stage at 9.30pm : Davina Sparkle (3), Lavinia Belle (10 ), THURSDAY 9 cabaret: Spice 10pm AFFINITY BAR Dave Lynn, guests & Jason Lee (17 ) and Sally Vate (24 ). l Saturday is top CABARET with stars of l REGENCY TAVERN Open mic 8pm games 9pm l the scene at 9.30pm : Pooh La May (4), Terry Tour (11 ), Davina Sparkle and SUBLINE Brace Yourself 9pm ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve l Robert’s birthday bash ( 18 ) and Miss Jason (25 ). Don’t miss Miss Terry Tour l LE VILLAGE Themed Nights - see Thursday: camp karaoke & queens with l (11 ) who’ll be bringing comedy sketches, songs and laughs in her own unique way Facebook for info 9pm Macarena & Sam Pink 8pm to the Grosvenor stage. Bring your sense of humour; it’s not for the easily offended! l BAR BROADWAY Ross Cameron’s Big Quiz: cash/boozy prizes 8pm FRIDAY 10 l CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash l AFFINITY BAR Wigs & Beads Quiz 9pm Karaoke with drag hostess 8pm l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live l QUEEN’S ARMS QA Triple cabaret: l CHARLES ST TAP Throwback l ALL NEW BULLDOG Fri Night Live: football: Sheffield Utd v West Ham 8pm Poppycock 6pm , Betty Swollocks 8pm , Thursday 9pm camp karaoke DJ Glyn-Sing 9pm ; Show l THE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; cabaret: Miss Jason 10pm l GROSVENOR BAR Camp Bingo Time: Domina Tryx 11pm ; karaoke till 3am Trudy Styles 10pm ; DJ 11pm l REGENCY TAVERN cabaret: Spice 8.30pm l AMSTERDAM cabaret: Spice l ZONE cabaret: Topsie Redfern 10pm 9pm l MARINE TAVERN Throwback 9.30pm l SUBLINE Men’s Room 10pm Thursday 80s Night 8pm l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY TGIF Madness: l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live l PARIS HOUSE World Music: Son resident/guest DJs 7pm SATURDAY 11 football: Crystal Palace v Arsenal AFFINITY BAR camp cabaret: Pat Guaranchando 8pm l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 5pm l 12.30pm , Spurs v Liverpool 5.30pm Clutcher 6.30pm ; karaoke 9pm l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS LE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; ALL NEW BULLDOG Wonda Starr’s l Night Shift: DJ David Noakes 11pm l Scandalous: DJ Stephanie Starlet 10pm Qween of the Night: camp karaoke with l CAMELFORD ARMS Friday Club l ZONE cabaret: Sally Vate 10pm 6pm prizes 9pm AMSTERDAM Karaoke 9.30pm l CHARLES ST TAP Fabulous Friday: l DJ Morgan Fabulous 9pm l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Party Night: SUNDAY 12 alternate DJs 7pm AFFINITY BAR Double Cabaret l GROSVENOR BAR cabaret: Lavinia l Belle 9.30pm l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 4pm Extravaganza: Dave Lynn 5pm , Spice 9pm BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS ALL NEW BULLDOG Sunday Funday l LEGENDS BAR Brighton Belles: local l l cabaret stars & guests 9pm Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm 12pm ; Mandy’s karaoke 5pm CHARLES ST TAP Fierce DJs 9pm AMSTERDAM cabaret: Jamie Watson l MARINE TAVERN Jukebox Disco 9pm l l GROSVENOR BAR cabaret: Terry Tour 5pm ; roasts 12pm-till gone l PARIS HOUSE DJ Havoxx 9pm l 9.30pm BAR 7 @CRAWLEY karaoke 6pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Big Friday Cabaret: l Miss Penny double show 8pm & 10pm l LEGENDS BAR Pre-club DJ 7pm l BAR BROADWAY Fireplace Sessions MARINE TAVERN Candi Rell’s pres Chris Hibbert’s Brighton Swansong l REGENCY TAVERN CABA Regency l 8.30pm Karaoke & Cabaret Party 9pm 8.30pm PARIS HOUSE All That Jazz: Monday BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS l SUBLINE Dirty Tackle sportskit night l l 10pm Boys Trio 4pm ; Andy the Dandy DJ 9pm Glitter Curious: sing-along party with Patrick Cawley & Maria Gardner 11pm

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LEGENDS BAR LEGENDS BASEMENT CLUB l 31-34 Marine Parade, BN2 1TR, T: 01273 624462, www.legendsbrighton.com l 31-34 Marine Parade, BN2 1TR, T: 01273 624462, www.legendsbrighton.com l OPEN daily from 11 –5am , including New Year. l OPEN Free entry all night: Wed –Sun & Thur (30 ) at 11pm , NYE from 9pm , l FOOD breakfasts & lunch served Mon –Sat from 11am –5pm ; breakfasts New Year’s Day from 11pm . from 11am on Sunday , then lunch 12.30 –4pm : choose from beef, belly pork, l DRINK PROMOS Mon & Fri drinks from £2, Wed & Sun various deals on. chicken supreme or nut roast served with roast potatoes, veg, homemade Yorkshire Drink deals may differ over New Year. pud and real stock gravy. Make sure you leave room for dessert! NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the NYE PARTY with DJs Claire Fuller & Peter DRINK PROMOS Mon –Fri 12 –11pm buy one bottle of wine and get the l l Castle over two floors from 9pm , £5 entry. Wednesday (1) is NEW YEAR’S second bottle half price; Winter Promo : double-up on house spirit & mixer for £1. l DAY NOW! THAT’S WHAT I CALL LEGENDS with DJ Claire pulling you out of the l NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the NYE PARTY over two post-NYE blues. Basement Club say: “Recover from NYE with DJ Claire takes you on a floors with DJs Claire Fuller & Peter Castle dragging journey through the decades!” you into a new decade with the best tracks of 2019, £5 . l

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C Dave Lynn (5), the Charlie Hides Show (12 ), Miss performances, giveaways and more from 11pm , free entry. Jason (19 ) and Pat Clutcher (26 ). Glitter Curious is a non-pretentious queer pop sing-along bringing together scene icons, industry workers, and students REGULARS Friday is THE BRIGHTON BELLES at l to create a new sense of community and responsible 9.30pm . Saturday : Pre-Club DJs from 7pm . l l clubbing with a spontaneous anything goes feel! Expect an amazing safe space venue, Monday is the return of Miss Jason’s MONDAY a glorious hostess and super popular DJ playing everything from Ariana to ABBA,

MADNESS at 9.30pm . l Wednesday is now A BIT OF N O Beyonce to Bowie, and Calvin to Christina! Patrick Cawley says: “Glitter Curious is an S A

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S LGBTQ+ community event; a non-pretentious, camp and sexy pop night! We want to S 9.30pm . I M bring together every iconic pop moment and all of the camp classics with a burst of fresh new pop talent all presented in their purest most sing along original glory!” REGULARS Saturday is FUSION with DJ Peter CAMELFORD ARMS Bear Bash: free roasts 12-6pm l l Castle spinning chart /club remixes. Wednesday is food/raffle 5pm ; roasts/select menu l NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LEGENDS with DJ Claire R

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MONDAY 13 Fuller taking you on a journey through the decades. L CHARLES ST TAP cabaret: host Sally l U l F AFFINITY BAR all day karaoke l Thursday (30 ) is ULTRA – UV PARTY with DJ Claire E R Vate & Pat Clutcher 7.30pm ; Sally’s I 12pm ; karaoke with Tommy Tanker (aka A L

Fuller playing tracks to make you GLOW. Basement Club C Rock & Roll Bingo 8.30pm ; roasts 12pm Pat Clutcher) 7pm J say: “Our big once a month UV party! Come dressed in your D l LEGENDS BAR cabaret: Charlie Hides ALL NEW BULLDOG Monday Glitter l glow in the dark clothes and get your face painted with UV paint for a night of ULTRA Show 3.30pm ; roasts 12.30 –4pm Ball: 70s-00s tunes 4pm fun! Gonna be fun!” Friday is NIGHT SHIFT with superstar DJ David Noakes & l MARINE TAVERN roasts 12 -5pm BAR BROADWAY Jam Away the l l guest DJ Trick spinning pop/dance tracks. l PARIS HOUSE live music: Sam Monday Blues 9pm Chara & band 6pm l CHARLES ST TAP Gaymers Night: l QUEEN’S ARMS Sunday Funday consoles/board games 8.30pm cabaret: Martha D’Arthur performs at LEGENDS BAR Miss Jason’s Mad l MARINE TAVERN Curry & Quiz with Sid’s Birthday Party 6.30pm & 10pm Mondays 9.30pm l TUESDAY 14 Nat 7.30pm l REGENCY TAVERN roasts 12-6pm PARIS HOUSE live jazz: Nils AFFINITY BAR Free Jukebox 12pm l l PARIS HOUSE live blues: Smoke l SUBLINE Guilt-Free tunes 9pm Solberg-Mick Hamer Trio 2pm ; Geoff ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve l l Stack 8pm l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live Simkins Trio 8pm Tuesday: Macarena & Sam Pink bring QUEEN’S ARMS QA’s Got Talent: football: Bournemouth v Watford 2pm , QUEEN’S ARMS Sally’s Social camp, karaoke & queens 8pm l l Poppycock & guest judges 9.30pm Aston Villa v Man City 4.30pm Mondays 9pm BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Crewsday 7pm l RAILWAY CLUB Lindy hop 7pm l LE VILLAGE Stephanie Von Clitz’s LE VILLAGE karaoke/open mic with BAR BROADWAY Piano Singalong l l l LE VILLAGE Switch with Kryan Drag Open Mic 8.30pm ; cabaret: Topsie George Martin Marino 8.30pm 9pm l Redfern 10pm ; stripper/DJ midnight ; Shayne & guest 10pm PICS FROM LEGENDS BAR & BASEMENT CLUB + THE MARINE TAVERN GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 37

MARINE TAVERN l 13 Broad St, BN2 1TJ, Tel: 01273 905578, www.marinetavern.co.uk l OPEN daily from 12pm . l FOOD daily from 12 –9pm : Curry & Quiz with Nat £1 on Tue from 7.30pm (quiz starts 9pm ), roasts £8 each Sunday 12 –5pm , booking advised. l DRINK PROMOS Wed from 7pm : Pink Pound Night with drinks from £1 and free raffle .

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C 9pm . RAILWAY CLUB ... BRIGHTON ... Quiz 9pm WEDNESDAY 15 CHARLES ST TAP Throwback AFFINITY BAR Karaoke with Tommy l 4 Belmont, Dyke Rd, Brighton BN1 3TF Tel 01273 328682 l Thursday 9pm Tanker (aka Pat Clutcher) 7pm GROSVENOR BAR Camp Bingo ALL NEW BULLDOG Green Light l l 8.30pm Cruise Night 8pm MARINE TAVERN Throwback SATURDAY 18 TH JANUARY BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Midweek Chill l l Thursday 80s Night 8pm 7pm PARIS HOUSE World Music: BAR BROADWAY It’s All Fun & l BIRTHDAY PARTY l Abraham de Vega & Babou 8pm Games with Sally Vate 9.30pm QUEEN’S ARMS Leading Ladies For Our President’s BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS Now l l cabaret: Pat Clutcher 10pm That’s What I Call Legends: DJ Claire REGENCY TAVERN Open mic 8pm Fuller 11pm l SUBLINE Brace Yourself 9pm LEGENDS BAR A Bit of Midweek l l LE VILLAGE Themed Nights - see Sparkle: Davina Sparkle & friends 9.30pm l Facebook for info 9pm l MARINE TAVERN Pink Pound 7pm l PARIS HOUSE live jazz: Paul Richards Trio 8pm FRIDAY 17 l QUEEN’S ARMS Kara Van Park’s l AFFINITY BAR Wigs & Beads West End Wednesdays 10pm Karaoke with drag hostess 8pm l SUBLINE Hump Day 9pm l ALL NEW BULLDOG Fri Night Live: l LE VILLAGE Dave Lynn & guest 10pm camp karaoke DJ Glyn-Sing 9pm ; Show Time: Domina Tryx 11pm ; karaoke till 3am THURSDAY 16 AMSTERDAM cabaret: Davina ALL WELCOME AFFINITY BAR Dave Lynn, guests & l EVERY l Sparkle 9.30pm To Celebrate This Milestone games 9pm TUESDAY BAR 7 @CRAWLEY TGIF Madness: ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve l FREE ENTRY • DISCO l resident/guest DJs 7pm LINDY Thursday: camp karaoke & queens with BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 5pm Macarena & Sam Pink 8pm l HOPPERS BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS BAR BROADWAY Ross Cameron’s l 7pm –10pm NEW MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME l Night Shift: DJ David Noakes 11pm Big Quiz: cash/boozy prizes 8pm Membership for 2020 being taken now l CAMELFORD ARMS Fri Club 6pm l CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash 38 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT PICS FROM THE QUEENS ARMS

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PARIS HOUSE THE QUEENS ARMS l 21 Western Rd, BN3 1AF, T: 01273 724195, www.parishousebrighton.com l 7 George St, BN2 1RH, T: 01273 696873, www.theqabrighton.com l OPEN daily from 12pm ; closed New Year’s Day. l OPEN Mon –Fri from 5pm , Sat & Sun from 2pm , NYE from 5pm . l FOOD served daily from 12pm –close. l DRINK PROMOS Mon –Fri from 5–9pm , Sat & Sun from 2–6pm . l NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the NYE ROARING 20S SPECIAL with live music l NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the NYE PARTY from 5pm with Kara Van Park on from Sam Chara and Marilyn du Sax at 8pm ; Andy the Dandy DJ takes you into stage at 10pm & 11.45pm , free entry all night. l Wednesday (1) is Sally Vate’s 2020 with top tunes from midnight till late. HANGOVER SHOW from 10pm . l ONE FOR THE DIARY Saturday is AND ALL THAT JAZZ with live jazz at l ONE FOR THE DIARY Tuesday is QA’S GOT TALENT 4pm : Jorges Hot Club Trio (4), Monday Boys Trio (11 ), Lawrence Jones (18 ), with host Poppycock and guest judges from 9.30pm , pop Gabriel Garrick & band ( 25 ); Andy the Dandy DJ at 9pm , free entry. into the bar or visit www.theqabrighton.com to apply. Don’t

K miss the GRAND FINAL on Tue (28 ) to see who’ll receive C l REGULARS FREE LIVE MUSIC EVERY NIGHT: l Sun at 6pm : Lo Polodoro O C the crown, £500 cash, a gig at the QA and the chance to Y

(5), Sam Chara & band ( 12 ), Marilyn du Sax (19 ) and Dave Williams & band P P

O perform at the QA’s Pride Street Party. (26 ). l Mon : JAZZ with the Nils Solberg-Mick Hamer Trio at 2pm ; then at P 8pm : the Alex Bondonno Trio (6), Geoff Simkins Trio (13 ), Oli Howe Trio (20 ) l REGULARS New for Monday is Sally’s SOCIAL and Chris Coull & band ( 27 ). Tue at 8pm : Yellow Funk Machine (7), Smoke MONDAYS with Sally Vate from 9pm . l Wednesday is new

Stack (14 ), Triveversion (21 ) and Jazz & Blues Open Mic (28 ). Wed at Kara Van Park’s WEST END WEDNESDAYS from 10pm . K l l R A P 8pm : Paris House Jazz Session (8), Paul Richards Trio (15 ), Sam Carlese & Thursday is cabaret with LEADING LADIES at 10pm : Vicky N A V band ( 22 ) and Christian Brewer & band ( 29 ). Thur WORLD MUSIC at 8pm : Vivacious (2), Spice (9), Pat Clutcher (16 ), Davina l A R A

Son Guaranchando (9), Abraham de Vega & Babou (16 ), Trio Cubana (23 ) Sparkle (23 ) and Drag With No Name (30 ). Brighton’s K and Pollito Booglaoo (30 ). l Fri : PARTY TIME with DJ Havoxx at 9pm . misleading lady, Pat Clutcher (16 ) brings you a heady mix of showtunes, pop, banter and more! The QA say: “It’s Sunderland’s 300th best export! Pat Clutcher takes to our stage and hopefully stays on it for the duration of her show. She’s here to entertain and spread salacious gossip - how delightful!” l QA BIG FRIDAY CABARET with acts at l CHARLES ST TAP Fabulous Friday: l AMSTERDAM Karaoke 9.30pm 10pm : Son of a Tutu (3), a double show from Miss Penny at 8pm & 10pm (10 ), DJ Morgan Fabulous 9pm l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Party Night: Sandra (17 ), Topsie Redfern (24 ) and Cherry Liquor (31 ). Sat is QA TRIPLE l GROSVENOR BAR cabaret: Jason alternate DJs 7pm CABARET with a triptych of top acts on stage: every week it’s Poppycock at 6pm , Lee 9.30pm l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 4pm Betty Swollocks at 8pm , then different acts every week at 10pm : Lola Lasagne & LEGENDS BAR Brighton Belles: local BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS l l Mrs Moore perform at Alex’s 30th Birthday Party (4), Miss Jason (11 ), Dr cabaret stars & guests 9pm Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm Beverly Ballcrusher (18 ) and Dave Lynn (25 ). SUNDAY FUNDAY CABARET MARINE TAVERN Jukebox Disco 9pm CHARLES ST TAP Fierce DJs 9pm l l l with lashings of top acts at 6.30pm & 10pm : Poppycock (5), Martha D’Arthur l PARIS HOUSE DJ Havoxx 9pm l GROSVENOR BAR Robert’s Birthday performing at Sid’s Birthday Party (12 ), Fanny Burns (19 ) and Cosmic (26 ). l QUEEN’S ARMS Big Friday Cabaret: Bash with Davina Sparkle 9.30pm Sandra 10pm l LEGENDS BAR Pre-club DJ 7pm l REGENCY TAVERN CABA Regency l MARINE TAVERN Candi Rell’s 8.30pm Karaoke & Cabaret Party 9pm home match warm-up: pie & pint deal: Parrish 5pm ; roasts 12pm-till gone l SUBLINE Filth Full Fetish party: all l PARIS HOUSE All That Jazz: Brighton v Aston Villa 12pm ; live football: l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY karaoke 6pm genders welcome 10pm Lawrence Jones 4pm ; Andy the Dandy DJ Newcastle v Chelsea 5.30pm l BAR BROADWAY Fireplace Sessions l THE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; cabaret: 9pm l LE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; pres Paul Middleton 8.30pm Candi Rell 10pm ; DJ 11pm l QUEEN’S ARMS QA Triple cabaret: Scandalous: DJ Stephanie Starlet 10pm l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS l ZONE cabaret: Pat Clutcher 10pm Poppycock 6pm , Betty Swollocks 8pm , l ZONE cabaret: JP Christian 10pm Glitter Curious: sing-along party with Dr Beverly Ballcrusher 10pm Patrick Cawley & Maria Gardner 11pm l RAILWAY CLUB Railway Club l CAMELFORD ARMS Bear Bash: free SATURDAY 18 President’s 100th Birthday Party 7pm SUNDAY 19 AFFINITY BAR camp cabaret: Pat AFFINITY BAR cabaret: Kara Van Park food/raffle 5pm ; roasts/select menu l REGENCY TAVERN cabaret: Kara Van l Clutcher 6.30pm ; karaoke 9pm l 5pm 12pm – till gone Park 9pm ALL NEW BULLDOG Wonda Starr’s ALL NEW BULLDOG Sunday Funday l CHARLES ST TAP cabaret: host Sally l SUBLINE Men’s Room 10pm l Qween of the Night: camp karaoke with l 12pm ; camp karaoke with Mandy 5pm Vate & Lady Imelda 7.30pm ; Sally’s Rock l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS Pre & Roll Bingo 8.30pm ; roasts 12pm prizes 9pm l AMSTERDAM cabaret: Gabriella 7 GEORGE STREET BRIGHTON 01273 696873 www.theqabrighton.com

UN FROM 2PM OPEN MON - FRI FROM 5PM • SAT & S S • 2PM-6PM WEEKENDS HAPPY HOURS: 5PM-9PM WEEKDAY

MONDAY 9PM NEW QA BIG FRIDAYS 10 PM 3JAN SON OF A TUTU SALLY’S ––––––––––––– ------––––––––––– 10 JAN MISS PENNY 8PM & 10 PM SOCIAL MONDAYS ––––––––––––– ------––––––––––– 17 JAN SANDRA ––––––––––––– ------––––––––––– 24 JAN TOPSIE REDFERN PM ––––––––––––– ------––––––––––– TUESDAY 9.30 31 JAN CHERRY LIQUOR QA' S GOT TALENT HOSTED BY POPPYCOCK –––––––––––––------– ––––––––– TUE 28P M GRAND FINAL SATURDAY QA TRIPLE 6PM POPPYCOCK 8PM BETTY SWOLLOCKS WEDNESDAY 10 PM NEW FOLLOWED BY 10 PM SHOW 4JAN LOLA LASAGNE KARA VAN PARK’S + MRS MOORE WESTEND WEDNESDAY (ALEX 30TH B'DAY PARTY) ––––––––––––– ------–––––––––– ––J–A–N ––––––––– ------––––––––––– EXCEPT NEW YEAR’S DAY 1ST 1–1–––––M––I–S––S– –J-A---S---O---N––––––––––– SALLY VATE HANGOVER SHOW JAN 1–8–––––D––R–B––E–V– - -B---A---L--L–C––R–U––S–H––E–R– 25 JAN DAVE LYNN THURSDAY 10 PM LEADING LADIES JAN SUNDAY FUN DAY 2––––––V––I–C–K––Y– - -V---I--V---A––C––IO––U––S ––– SHOWS AT 6.30 PM & 10 PM 9JAN SPICE 5JAN POPPY COCK –––JA–N––––––––– ------––––––––––– ––––––––––––– ------––––––––––– 16 PAT CLUTCHER 12 JAN MARTHA D’ARTHUR –––J–A–N –––––––– ------––––––––––– ––––––––––––– ------––––––––––– 23 DAVINA SPARKLE 19 JAN FANNY BURNS –––J–A–N –––––––– ------––––––––––– ––––––––––––– ------––––––––––– 30 DRAG WITH NO NAME 26 JAN COSMIC 40 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT PICS FROM THE REGENCY TAVERN JANUARY LISTINGS

THE RAILWAY CLUB THE REGENCY TAVERN l 4 Belmont, Dyke Road, BN1 3TF, Tel: 01273 328682 l 32-34 Russell Sq, BN1 2EF T: 01273 325 652, www.regencytavern.co.uk l OPEN Mon –Wed from 5–11pm , Thur from 11am –11pm , Fri from 3–11pm , l OPEN Sun –Wed from 12 –11pm , Thur from 12pm –12am , Fri & Sat from Sat from 12 –11pm (or till midnight for special events). 12pm –1am , New Year’s Day from 12 –6pm . l MEMBERSHIP The Railway Club is a welcoming members’ club with snooker, l FOOD Mon –Fri from 12 –3pm & 5–9pm , Sat & Sun from 12 –9pm ; Wed from billiards, darts and table tennis all available to members. Perfect for groups, parties 12 –6pm it’s 2 PieMinister pies for £10 ; Sun from 12 –6pm two roasts for £19.95 , or meetings, the Railway Club is friendly and spacious so pop in and join up! booking recommended. Bookings now being taken for parties in 2020, contact the club for more info. l DRINK PROMOS Tue from 6–9pm 20% off selected drinks. l DRINK PROMOS every Fri & Sat . l NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the NYE MASQUERADE PARTY with host Stephanie l NYE Tuesday (31 ) Dec is the NYE PARTY with a DJ Von Clitz from 8.30pm . from 8pm . l ONE FOR THE DIARY Wednesday (22 ) is the SMUTS l ONE FOR THE DIARY Saturday (18 ): the Railway (Sussex Musical Theatre Society) take over from 8pm .

Club are holding a birthday party for their PRESIDENT’S Y Regency Tavern say: “This incredibly talented group of R R

100TH BIRTHDAY from 7pm , all welcome to celebrate U performers are gracing our stage at the Regency for a whole M

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this milestone. B evening of Musical Theatre, Disney and much, much more.” U R l REGULARS Tuesday : Swing into the Railway Club for LINDY HOP from 7pm . l REGULARS Thursday is OPEN MIC KARAOKE at 8pm . l Friday (10 & 24 ) is CABA-REGENCY from 8.30pm . l Saturday CABARET with top acts on stage at 9pm : Ruby Murry (4), Spice (11 ), Kara Van Park (18 ) and Davina Sparkle (25 ). l LEGENDS BAR cabaret: Miss Jason l LEGENDS BAR Miss Jason’s Mad 3.30pm ; roasts 12.30 –4pm Mondays 9.30pm l MARINE TAVERN roasts 12 -5pm l PARIS HOUSE live jazz: Nils l LE VILLAGE Switch with Kryan l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live l PARIS HOUSE live music: Marilyn du Solberg-Mick Hamer Trio 2pm ; Oli Howe Shayne & guest 10pm football: Leicester v West Ham 7.30pm , Sax 6pm Trio 8pm Man Utd v Burnley 8.15pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Sunday Funday l QUEEN’S ARMS Sally’s Social l LE VILLAGE Dave Lynn & guest 10pm cabaret: Fanny Burns 6.30pm & 10pm Mondays 9pm WEDNESDAY 22 l AFFINITY BAR Karaoke with Tommy l REGENCY TAVERN roasts 12-6pm l LE VILLAGE karaoke/open mic with Tanker (aka Pat Clutcher) 7pm l SUBLINE Guilt-free tunes 9pm George Martin Marino 8.30pm THURSDAY 23 l ALL NEW BULLDOG Green Light l AFFINITY BAR Dave Lynn, guests & l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live Cruise Night 8pm games 9pm football: Burnley v Leicester 2pm , BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Midweek Chill ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve Liverpool v Man Utd 4.30pm TUESDAY 21 l l l AFFINITY BAR Free Jukebox 12pm 7pm Thursday: camp karaoke & queens with l LE VILLAGE Stephanie Von Clitz’s ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve BAR BROADWAY It’s All Fun & Macarena & Sam Pink 8pm Drag Open Mic 8.30pm ; cabaret: Vicki l l Tuesday: Macarena & Sam Pink bring Games with Sally Vate 9.30pm BAR BROADWAY Ross Cameron’s Vivacious 10pm ; stripper/DJ midnight ; l camp, karaoke & queens 8pm BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS Now Big Quiz: cash/boozy prizes 8pm roasts 12-6pm l l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Crewsday 7pm That’s What I Call Legends: DJ Claire l CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash l BAR BROADWAY Piano Sing-Along Fuller 11pm Quiz 9pm MONDAY 20 9pm l LEGENDS BAR A Bit of Midweek l CHARLES ST TAP Throwback l AFFINITY BAR all day karaoke l MARINE TAVERN Curry & Quiz with Sparkle: Davina Sparkle & friends 9.30pm Thursday 9pm 12pm ; karaoke with Tommy Tanker (aka Nat 7.30pm l MARINE TAVERN Pink Pound 7pm l GROSVENOR BAR Camp Bingo Pat Clutcher) 7pm l PARIS HOUSE live funk: Triveversion l PARIS HOUSE live jazz: Sam Carlese 8.30pm l ALL NEW BULLDOG Monday Glitter 8pm & band 8pm l MARINE TAVERN Throwback Ball: 70s-00s tunes 4pm l QUEEN’S ARMS QA’s Got Talent: l QUEEN’S ARMS Kara Van Park’s Thursday 80s Night 8pm l BAR BROADWAY Jam Away the Poppycock & guest judges 9.30pm West End Wednesdays 10pm l PARIS HOUSE World Music: Trio Monday Blues 9pm l RAILWAY CLUB Lindy hop 7pm l REGENCY TAVERN SMUTS takeover Cubana 8pm l CHARLES ST TAP Gaymers Night: l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live 8pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Leading Ladies consoles/board games 8.30pm football: Sheffield Utd v Man City l SUBLINE Hump Day 9pm cabaret: Davina Sparkle 10pm 7.30pm , Chelsea v Arsenal 8.15pm GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 41

2-3 High St, Brighton, BN2 1RP Open: Mon-Thur noon-1.30am • Fri-Sun 11am-2.30am Luxury Beer Garden • Dog Friendly NOW SERVING FOOD DURING THE WEEK

MONDAY 8.30 PM KARAOK E & OPEN MIC WITH GEORGE MARTIN MARIO ...... TUESDAY SWITCH 10 PM KRYAN SHAYNE & GUEST ...... WEDNESDAY 10 PM

& GUESTS ..D...A...V...E.. ..L.Y...N...N...... THURSDAY THEME NIGHT 9 PM GIRLS/CHAVS/BEARS/T PARTY SEE OUR FACEBOOK PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS ...... FABULOUS FRIDAYS KARAOKE 8PM • CABARET 10 PM • DJ TILL CLOSE 3RD RUBY MURRY 10 TH TRUDI STYLES 17 TH CANDI RELL 24 TH DAVINA SPARKLE 31 TH SALLY VATE ...... SATURDAY 10 PM -2 AM KARAOKE FROM 8PM • DJ TILL CLOSE SCANDALOUS WITH DJ STEPHANIE STARLET ...... SUNDAY ROASTS 12-6 PM £10 DRAG OPEN MIC STEPHANIE VON CLITZ 8PM STRIPPER @ MIDNIGHT • DJ TILL CLOSE 5TH ELECTRIC BLUE 12 TH TOPSIE REDFERN 19 TH VICKY VIVACIOUS 26 TH LAUREEN HARRIS 42 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT PICS FROM SUBLINE

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SUBLINE THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS 129 St James' St, BN2 1TH, T: 01273 624100, www.sublinebrighton.co.uk l l 59 North Rd, BN1 1YD, Tel: 01273 608571, www.3jollybutchers.com OPEN Sun , Wed & Thur from 9pm , 10pm Fri & Sat , closed Wed 1 Jan & l l OPEN dail y from 12pm . NYE open till 7.30pm , closed New Year’s Day. Thur 2 Jan . l FOOD Thai food now served Tue –Sat 1 –3pm & 6–9pm . Pre Home Match l DRINK PROMOS Wed: all draught beers £1 off, 2 cocktails for £12. Warm-up Pie & Pint Match Deal from 12pm on Sat (4 & 18 ). LIVE SPORT Live football on the big screens - see listings for fixtures. l NYE Tue (31 ) Dec is a NEW YEAR SHINDIG , advance tickets now £6 or £8 l on the door.

l ONE FOR THE DIARY Mon (6) is the second instalment of the SUBLINE QUIZ NIGHT with host Mr Ian l MARINE TAVERN Jukebox Disco Poppycock 6pm , Betty Swollocks 8pm , T Sinclair , cash & booze prizes, and a raffle raising funds H 9pm Dave Lynn 10pm G I N

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Z PARIS HOUSE DJ Havoxx 9pm REGENCY TAVERN cabaret: Davina I l l U Q Brighton Rainbow Fund , from 7pm , £2 per person, all QUEEN’S ARMS Big Friday Cabaret: Sparkle 9pm E l N I L welcome! Subline say: “It’s going to be a regular fixture, Topsie Redfern 10pm SUBLINE Men’s Room 10pm B l U S held on the first Monday each month, with fundraising, half- l REGENCY TAVERN CABA Regency l LE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; time sarnies, music and picture rounds, spot prizes, and a final test for the victorious 8.30pm Scandalous: DJ Stephanie Starlet 10pm team to decide whether the cash pot is theirs, or if it rolls over. The winning team will l SUBLINE Steam 10pm l ZONE cabaret: Sally Vate 10pm also have the honour of nominating the charity for next month's quiz...” l THE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; cabaret: Davina Sparkle 10pm ; DJ 11pm l REGULARS Wed is HUMP DAY , all welcome & free entry for members! l SUNDAY 26 l ZONE cabaret: Stone & Street 10pm AFFINITY BAR cabaret: Son of a Thur is BRACE YOURSELF men’s night, free entry. l Fri events: kick-start the l weekend at STEAM from 10pm , £3 /£5 entry; DIRTY TACKLE (10 ) is sports kit Tutu 5pm night, free entry in kit or £5 ; FILTH FULL FETISH PARTY (17 ) is for all genders, SATURDAY 25 l ALL NEW BULLDOG Sunday Funday AFFINITY BAR camp cabaret: Pat 12pm ; camp karaoke with Mandy 5pm advance tickets recommended. The Filth Full Fetish Party is the party your mother l Clutcher 6.30pm ; karaoke 9pm AMSTERDAM guest singer 5pm ; warned you about - something darker, more raw... filthier. The organisers say: “We l ALL NEW BULLDOG Wonda Starr’s roasts 12pm-till gone hope to send you on a sensation overdrive every time you come to our night. We l Qween of the Night Burns Night Special: l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY karaoke 6pm want to be there when you fulfil your life long fantasies, sate your creative drive, camp karaoke with prizes 9pm l BAR BROADWAY Fireplace Sessions evolve your sexuality and realise new desires over and over again...” Sat : turn up l l AMSTERDAM Burns Night Supper: pres MTH Musical Therapy 8.30pm the heat at MEN’S ROOM , £3 /£5 entry. Sun is GUILT FREE PLEASURES , free l haggis, neeps & tatties, Scottish whiskies l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS for members or £5 . CUM IN YOUR PANTS on Sun (26 ) at Subline’s monthly & free shot of single malt for anyone Glitter Curious: sing-along party with underwear party, £3 members or £5 . wearing a kilt 6pm Patrick Cawley & Maria Gardner 11pm l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Party Night: l CAMELFORD ARMS Bear Bash: free alternate DJs 7pm food/raffle 5pm ; roasts/select menu l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 4pm 12pm – till gone l REGENCY TAVERN Open mic 8pm l AMSTERDAM cabaret: Drag With No l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS l CHARLES ST TAP cabaret: host Mrs l SUBLINE Brace Yourself 9pm Name 9.30pm Fusion: DJ Peter Castle 11pm Moore & Lola Lasagne 7.30pm ; Sally’s l THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS live l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY TGIF Madness: l CAMELFORD ARMS Burns Night: Rock & Roll Bingo 8.30pm ; roasts football: Wolves v Liverpool 8pm resident/guest DJs 7pm haggis, neeps & tatties 12pm 12pm l LE VILLAGE Themed Nights - see l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 5pm l CHARLES ST TAP Fierce DJs 9pm l LEGENDS BAR cabaret: Pat Clutcher Facebook for info 9pm l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS l GROSVENOR BAR cabaret: Miss 3.30pm ; roasts 12.30 –4pm Night Shift: DJ David Noakes 11pm Jason 9.30pm l MARINE TAVERN roasts 12 -5pm l CAMELFORD ARMS Friday Club 6pm l LEGENDS BAR Pre-club DJ 7pm l PARIS HOUSE World Music: Dave FRIDAY 24 CHARLES ST TAP Fabulous Friday: Williams & band 6pm AFFINITY BAR Wigs & Beads l l MARINE TAVERN Candi Rell’s l DJ Morgan Fabulous 9pm QUEEN’S ARMS Sunday Funday Karaoke with drag hostess 8pm Karaoke & Cabaret Party 9pm l GROSVENOR BAR cabaret: Sally cabaret: Cosmic 6.30pm & 10pm ALL NEW BULLDOG Fri Night Live: l l PARIS HOUSE All That Jazz: Gabriel l Vate 9.30pm REGENCY TAVERN roasts 12-6pm camp karaoke DJ Glyn-Sing 9pm ; Show Garrick & band 4pm ; Andy the Dandy DJ l LEGENDS BAR Brighton Belles: local SUBLINE Cum in Your Pants Time: Domina Tryx 11pm ; karaoke till l 9pm l cabaret stars & guests 9pm underwear party 9pm 3am l QUEEN’S ARMS QA Triple cabaret: PICS FROM VELVET JACKS GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 43

VELVET JACKS l 50 Norfolk Sq, BN1 2PA, Tel: 07720 661290 F velvetjacksbrighton/ l OPEN Tue –Thur from 4pm , Sat from 3pm , Sun from 2pm , closed New Year’s Day. l FOOD pizza served all day , every day. l DRINK PROMOS Tue –Fri from 4–7pm : Orangeboom £4 a pint, 2 cocktails for £12.

l NYE Tue (31 ) Dec is the NYE FANCY DRESS PARTY with lots of shots, prizes and nibbles!

l LE VILLAGE Stephanie Von Clitz’s Solberg-Mick Hamer Trio 2pm ; Chris Drag Open Mic 8.30pm ; cabaret: Lauren Coull & band 8pm Harries 10pm ; stripper/DJ midnight ; l QUEEN’S ARMS Sally’s Social roasts 12-6pm Mondays 9pm l LE VILLAGE karaoke/open mic with MONDAY 27 George Martin Marino 8.30pm l AFFINITY BAR all day karaoke 12pm ; karaoke with Tommy Tanker (aka TUESDAY 28 Pat Clutcher) 7pm l AFFINITY BAR Free Jukebox 12pm ALL NEW BULLDOG Monday Glitter l l ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve Ball: 70s-00s tunes 4pm Tuesday: Macarena & Sam Pink bring l BAR BROADWAY Jam Away the camp, karaoke & queens 8pm Monday Blues 9pm l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Crewsday 9pm CHARLES ST TAP Gaymers Night: l l BAR BROADWAY Piano Sing-Along consoles/board games 8.30pm 9pm LEGENDS BAR Miss Jason’s Mad l l MARINE TAVERN Curry & Quiz with Mondays 9.30pm Nat 7.30pm PARIS HOUSE live jazz: Nils l l PARIS HOUSE Jazz & Blues Open Mic Night 8pm l QUEEN’S ARMS QA’s Got Talent: Poppycock & guest judges 9.30pm l RAILWAY CLUB Lindy hop 7pm l LE VILLAGE Switch with Kryan Shayne & guest 10pm

WEDNESDAY 29 l AFFINITY BAR karaoke with Tommy Tanker (aka Pat Clutcher) 8pm l ALL NEW BULLDOG Green Light Cruise Night 8pm l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY Midweek Chill 7pm l BAR BROADWAY It’s All Fun & Games with Sally Vate 9.30pm 44 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT PICS FROM LE VILLAGE + THE ZONE

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LE VILLAGE THE ZONE l 2-3 High Street, Brighton, BN2 1RP, Tel: 01273 681634 l 33 St James’ St, BN2 1RF, Tel: 01273 682249, www.zonebrighton.co.uk l OPEN Mon –Thur from noon –1.30am , Fri –Sun from 11am –2.30am . l OPEN Sun –Thur from 11am , Fri & Sat from 10am , NYE till 2.30am . l FOOD served all week including Sunday roasts from 12 –6pm : chicken, beef, l DRINK PROMOS every day, excluding Fri & Sat from 7pm –close . pork and nut roast, with all the trimmings. Ask at the bar for dessert of the day! NYE Tue (31 ) Dec is Sally Vate’s NYE PARTY from 9pm till 2.30am , free DRINK PROMOS Monday Madness with selected drinks 99p all day. l l entry. Sally Vate the Northern bird with the liver of a house brick, says: “‘Tis the l NEW YEAR Wed (1) New Year’s Day CABARET with a top act at 9pm . season to be jolly, and what better place to be jolly and full of festive merriment than joining me to see the year out and welcome 2020 in? Expect the usual uplifting ONE FOR THE DIARY Sunday is DRAG OPEN MIC l humour and songs to get you into the party mood!” with Stephanie Von Clitz at 8.30pm , then CABARET at 10pm : Electric Blue (5), Topsie Redfern (12 ), Vicki S l ONE FOR THE DIARY Saturday CABARET with E I R

R Vivacious (19 ) and Lauren Harries (26 ). Stay put for a sensational acts at 10pm : Davina Sparkle (4), Sally Vate A H

N stripper at midnight , then a DJ till close! (11 ), JP Christian (18 ) and Sally Vate (25 ). E R U N A A L REGULARS Mon: KARAOKE & OPEN MIC hosted by I l T l REGULARS Friday with top CABARET at 10pm : S I George Martin Marino from 8.30pm . Tue is SWITCH with Kryan Shayne & R l H Chris Hide (3), Topsie Redfern (10 ), Pat Clutcher (17 ), C

P guest at 10pm . l Wed is CABARET with the doyenne of drag Dave Lynn and J Stone & Street (24 ) and Billie Gold (31 ). guests at 10pm . l Thur is THEMED NIGHT, from girls, chavs, bears, trans – see Facebook for more info. l Fri KARAOKE from 8pm , then CABARET at 10pm : Ruby Murry (3), Trudi Styles (10 ), Candi Rell (17 ), Davina Sparkle (24 ) and Sally Vate (31 ). Stick around for tunes till close! l Sat KARAOKE from 8pm , then l AMSTERDAM cabaret: Kara Van Park l LEGENDS BAR Brighton Belles: local it’s SCANDALOUS with DJ Stephanie Starlet from 10pm . 9.30pm cabaret stars & guests 9pm l BAR 7 @CRAWLEY TGIF Madness: l MARINE TAVERN Jukebox Disco 9pm resident/guest DJs 7pm l PARIS HOUSE DJ Havoxx 9pm l BAR BROADWAY Jukebox 5pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Big Friday Cabaret: BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS Cherry Liquor 10pm l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS Now l CAMELFORD ARMS £300 Big Cash l That’s What I Call Legends: DJ Claire Quiz 9pm Night Shift: DJ David Noakes 11pm l SUBLINE Steam 10pm CAMELFORD ARMS Friday Club 6pm LE VILLAGE karaoke 8pm ; cabaret: Fuller 11pm l CHARLES ST TAP Throwback l l CHARLES ST TAP Fabulous Friday: Sally Vate 10pm ; DJ 11pm l LEGENDS BAR A Bit of Midweek Thursday 9pm l DJ Morgan Fabulous 9pm ZONE cabaret: Billie Gold 10pm Sparkle: Davina Sparkle & friends 9.30pm l GROSVENOR BAR Camp Bingo l GROSVENOR BAR cabaret 9.30pm l MARINE TAVERN Pink Pound 7pm 8.30pm l l PARIS HOUSE live music: Christian l MARINE TAVERN Throwback Brewer & band 8pm Thursday 80s Night 8pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Kara Van Park’s l PARIS HOUSE World Music: Polllito West End Wednesdays 10pm Boogaloo 8pm l SUBLINE Hump Day 9pm l QUEEN’S ARMS Leading Ladies l LE VILLAGE Dave Lynn & guest 10pm cabaret: Drag With No Name 10pm l REGENCY TAVERN Open mic 8pm l SUBLINE Brace Yourself 9pm THURSDAY 30 LE VILLAGE Themed Nights - see AFFINITY BAR Dave Lynn, guests & l l Facebook for info 9pm games 9pm l ALL NEW BULLDOG #Transvolve Thursday: camp karaoke & queens with FRIDAY 31 Macarena & Sam Pink 8pm l AFFINITY BAR Wigs & Beads l BAR BROADWAY Ross Cameron’s Karaoke with drag hostess 8pm Big Quiz: cash/boozy prizes 8pm l ALL NEW BULLDOG Fri Night Live: l BASEMENT CLUB @LEGENDS Ultra camp karaoke DJ Glyn-Sing 9pm ; Show UV Party: DJ Claire Fuller 11pm Time: Domina Tryx 11pm ; karaoke till 3am PICS FROM EDGE & BOX BAR, SOUTHAMPTON GSCENE OUT & ABOUT 45

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SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH SOUTHAMPTON l EDGE Aura Jay’s Karaoke 10pm l BOX BAR Quiz Queens: drag hosts Aura l HAMPSHIRE BOULEVARD l BOX BAR & EDGE Compton Walk, Jay & Bella Black 8pm 1 Hampshire Terrace, Southsea SO14 0BH, TEL: 023 8036 6163 MONDAY 6 l EDGE Get Dirty: DJ Liam Searle 10pm TEL: 0 2392 297509 www.theedgesouthampton.com PORTSMOUTH OPEN: Sun & Mon 9pm-2.30am, Wed & BOX BAR OPEN: daily at 4pm l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Student Mondays FRIDAY 10 Thurs 7pm-2.30am, Fri & Sat 7pm-3am HAPPY HOURS: 4–6pm & 6-10pm daily with Bella Black, DJs & giveaways 9pm PORTSMOUTH HAPPY HOURS: Sun all night, Wed & Thur FOOD: 4–10pm daily SOUTHAMPTON l HAMPSHIRE BLVD We Love Fridays: DJ 7pm-12am, Fri & Sat 7-10pm EDGE OPEN: Sun, Tue & Thurs 11pm-4am: l EDGE Mates Rates: DJ Darcy Buckland Toby Lawrence 9pm Wed 10.30pm-4am: Fri & Sat 11pm-5am 10pm SOUTHAMPTON l BOX BAR Haus of Edge DJs 7pm EDGE Haus of Edge: DJs Craig Law & KT EDGE Get Dirty: DJ Liam Searle 10pm TUESDAY 7 l TUESDAY 31 DEC l PORTSMOUTH + win £50 bar tab 10pm PORTSMOUTH l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Cherry’s Bingo & l HAMPSHIRE BLVD NYE Party with DJ FRIDAY 3 cabaret 7pm PORTSMOUTH SATURDAY 11 Luke Ennor & drag hosts 9pm SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH HAMPSHIRE BLVD We Love Fridays: DJ SOUTHAMPTON l BOX BAR Candy Floss DJs 11pm HAMPSHIRE BLVD Blank: DJs Missy B Toby Lawrence 9pm l l l BOX BAR NYE Party: DJs Miss B, KT & EDGE Candy Floss: DJ Audio K9 11pm & Rob Davis 9pm SOUTHAMPTON l Darcy Buckland 7pm SOUTHAMPTON EDGE NYE Party: DJs Miss B, KT & Darcy l BOX BAR Haus of Edge DJs 7pm l l BOX BAR The Big One 7pm Buckland 7pm EDGE Haus of Edge: DJs Craig Law & KT WEDNESDAY 8 l PORTSMOUTH EDGE The Big One: DJs Rob Davies & KT + win £50 bar tab 10pm l l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Big Navy Night Out 10pm WEDNESDAY 1 with Aura Jay’s karaoke 9pm PORTSMOUTH SATURDAY 4 SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH SUNDAY 12 l HAMPSHIRE BLVD closed BOX BAR Beauty and the Balls Bingo: PORTSMOUTH HAMPSHIRE BLVD Blank: DJs Missy B l SOUTHAMPTON l host Miss Disney & prizes 8pm ; Bella Black’s HAMPSHIRE BLVD 90s-Now 9pm & Rob Davis 9pm l l BOX BAR closed karaoke 10.30pm SOUTHAMPTON EDGE closed SOUTHAMPTON l l EDGE Bar 150: DJs Missy B & Lee Harris l EDGE Aura Jay’s Karaoke 10pm l BOX BAR The Big One 7pm 10pm THURSDAY 2 l EDGE The Big One: DJs Morgan Fabulous & Trick 10pm MONDAY 13 PORTSMOUTH THURSDAY 9 PORTSMOUTH HAMPSHIRE BLVD Night on the Lashes: l PORTSMOUTH l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Student Mondays Lucinda Lashes, karaoke & tunes 9pm SUNDAY 5 HAMPSHIRE BLVD Night on the Lashes: with Bella Black, DJs & giveaways 9pm PORTSMOUTH l SOUTHAMPTON Lucinda Lashes karaoke & tunes 9pm SOUTHAMPTON BOX BAR Quiz Queens: drag hosts Aura l HAMPSHIRE BLVD 90s-Now 9pm l l EDGE Mates Rates: DJ Darcy Buckland 10pm Jay & Bella Black 8pm 46 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT PICS FROM THE EDGE & BOX BAR SOUTHAMPTON + HAMPSHIRE BOULEVARD, PORTSMOUTH

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THE EDGE & BOX BAR HAMPSHIRE BOULEVARD SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH Hampshire Terrace, Southsea, PO1 2QN , Tel : 02392 297509 l Compton Walk, SO14 0BH, Tel: 023 8036 6163, www.theedgesouthampton.com l OPEN Sun & Mon 9pm , Tue –Sat 7pm . l OPEN The Edge: daily from 10pm , closed New Year’s Day. The Box Bar: l Tue –Sat from 7pm , closed New Year’s Day. l DRINK DEALS Sun various deals; Mon £1.50 drinks & £2 Jagerbombs. DRINK DEALS The Box Bar: daily from 7pm –midnight (till 8pm on Wed ) 2-4-1 l l NYE Tue (31 ) HB’S NYE PARTY with DJ Luke Ennor and drag hosts, £10 in advance cocktails; The Edge: Mon £1.50 shots & £2 house doubles, Tue 2 candyfloss or £12 on the door. HB say: “Let’s end the year like we start it… Partying!” cocktails £6, Wed £1.50 drinks, Thur half price drinks till midnight, Fri cocktails from £5, Sun £1.50 singles/£3 l REGULARS WE LOVE FRIDAYS with DJ Toby Lawrence , £3 b4 10pm /£5 after. doubles. l Sat: BLANK with DJs Rob Davis & Missy B chart remixes 9pm . l Sun: 90S–NOW ,

D free . l STUDENT MONDAYS with drag host Bella Black , giveaways and DJs, £5 . N

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C THE LASHES with the legendary Lucinda Lashes hosting karaoke 9pm , free . R l ONE FOR THE DIARY Monday is MATES RATES in the A D Box Bar with DJ Darcy Buckland , free entry. Edge say: “We’re turning our least favourite day into the best, with Mates Rates deals on a load of drinks! We’ve also got DJ Audio K9 playing everyone’s favourite dance-floor bops!” SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON l BOX BAR Candy Floss DJs 11pm l EDGE Aura Jay’s Karaoke 10pm l REGULARS Sun: KARAOKE with drag host Aura Jay . l Tue: CANDY FLOSS l EDGE Candy Floss: DJ Audio K9 11pm with DJ Audio K9 pop classics. l Wed: BEAUTY & THE BALLS BINGO with host MONDAY 27 Miss Disney prizes every round in the Box Bar at 8pm ; BAR 150 with DJs Missy B , WEDNESDAY 22 PORTSMOUTH & Lee Harris at 10pm ; KARAOKE with Bella Black at 10.30pm . l Thur: QUIZ PORTSMOUTH l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Student Mondays QUEENS with drag host duo Aura Jay & Bella Black at 8pm , then GET DIRTY with l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Big Navy Night Out with Bella Black, DJs & giveaways 9pm DJ Liam Searle in the club. l Fri: HAUS OF EDGE regular theme night, DJs Craig with Aura Jay’s karaoke 9pm SOUTHAMPTON Law & KT and £50 bar tab giveaway; ( 24 ) is NON-STOP NICKI MINAJ l Sat: THE SOUTHAMPTON l EDGE Mates Rates: DJ Darcy Buckland 10pm BIG ONE from 10pm with 3 bars, 2 dancefloors & DJs: Morgan Fabulous & Trick (4), l BOX BAR Beauty and the Balls Bingo: Rob Davies & KT (11 ), Forse & Neil Sackley (18 ) and Claire Fuller & Trick (25 ). host Miss Disney & prizes 8pm ; Bella Black’s TUESDAY 28 karaoke 10.30pm PORTSMOUTH l EDGE Bar 150: DJs Missy B & Lee Harris l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Cherry’s Bingo & 10pm cabaret 7pm Toby Lawrence 9pm SOUTHAMPTON TUESDAY 14 SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH BOX BAR Candy Floss DJs 11pm BOX BAR Haus of Edge DJs 7pm THURSDAY 23 l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Cherry’s Bingo & l PORTSMOUTH EDGE Candy Floss: DJ Audio K9 11pm l EDGE Haus of Edge: DJs Craig Law & KT l cabaret 7pm l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Night on the Lashes: + win £50 bar tab 10pm l SOUTHAMPTON Lucinda Lashes, karaoke & tunes 9pm WEDNESDAY 29 l BOX BAR Candy Floss DJs 11pm SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH l EDGE Candy Floss: DJ Audio K9 11pm SATURDAY 18 l BOX BAR Quiz Queens: drag hosts Aura HAMPSHIRE BLVD Big Navy Night Out PORTSMOUTH l Jay & Bella Black + cash prize 8pm with Aura Jay’s karaoke 9pm HAMPSHIRE BLVD Blank: DJs Missy B l l EDGE Get Dirty: DJ Liam Searle 10pm SOUTHAMPTON WEDNESDAY 15 & Rob Davis 9pm PORTSMOUTH BOX BAR Beauty and the Balls Bingo: SOUTHAMPTON l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Big Navy Night Out host Miss Disney & prizes 8pm ; Bella Black’s l BOX BAR The Big One 7pm FRIDAY 24 with Aura Jay’s karaoke 9pm l PORTSMOUTH karaoke 10.30pm EDGE The Big One: DJs Forse & Neil SOUTHAMPTON l HAMPSHIRE BLVD We Love Fridays: DJ EDGE Bar 150: DJs Missy B & Lee Harris Sackley 10pm l l l BOX BAR Beauty and the Balls Bingo: Toby Lawrence 9pm 10pm host Miss Disney & prizes 8pm ; Bella SOUTHAMPTON Black’s karaoke 10.30pm SUNDAY 19 l BOX BAR Haus of Edge DJs 7pm PORTSMOUTH THURSDAY 30 l EDGE Bar 150: DJs Missy B & Lee Harris l EDGE Haus of Edge Non-Stop Nicki PORTSMOUTH HAMPSHIRE BLVD 90s-Now 9pm 10pm l Minaj: DJs Craig Law & KT + win £50 bar HAMPSHIRE BLVD Night on the Lashes: SOUTHAMPTON l tab 10pm Lucinda Lashes, karaoke & tunes 9pm EDGE Aura Jay’s Karaoke 10pm THURSDAY 16 l SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH SATURDAY 25 l BOX BAR Quiz Queens: drag hosts Aura l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Night on the Lashes: MONDAY 20 PORTSMOUTH Jay & Bella Black + cash prize 8pm PORTSMOUTH Lucinda Lashes, karaoke & tunes 9pm l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Blank: DJs Missy B l EDGE Get Dirty: DJ Liam Searle 10pm SOUTHAMPTON l HAMPSHIRE BLVD Student Mondays & Rob Davis 9pm with Bella Black, DJs & giveaways 9pm l BOX BAR Quiz Queens: drag hosts Aura SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON FRIDAY 31 Jay & Bella Black 8pm l BOX BAR The Big One 7pm PORTSMOUTH l EDGE Mates Rates: DJ Darcy Buckland 10pm l EDGE Get Dirty: DJ Liam Searle 10pm l EDGE The Big One: DJs Claire Fuller & l HAMPSHIRE BLVD We Love Fridays: DJ Trick 10pm Toby Lawrence 9pm FRIDAY 17 TUESDAY 21 SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH PORTSMOUTH SUNDAY 26 BOX BAR Haus of Edge DJs 7pm HAMPSHIRE BLVD Cherry’s Bingo & l l HAMPSHIRE BLVD We Love Fridays: DJ l PORTSMOUTH EDGE Haus of Edge: DJs Craig Law & KT cabaret 7pm l l HAMPSHIRE BLVD 90s-Now 9pm + win £50 bar tab 10pm GSCENE 47 ARTS ART MATTERS BY MICHAEL HOOTMAN BY ENZO MARRA

JOHN GRANT James Ledward by Enzo Mara Attenborough Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Box office: attenboroughcentre.com ) JOHN GRANT (Tue 28). Across four albums: Queen of Denmark in 2010, 2013’s Pale Green Ghosts , 2015’s Grey Tickles, Black Pressure and his fourth solo album Love is Magic , John Grant has established himself as “a unique songwriting talent” The Guardian . From this turbulent life he’s forged a collection of often brutal diatribes and confessionals, where humour, fear, anxiety and anger overlap as Grant, with trademark candour, exposes the recesses of his soul.

KOMEDIA Gardner St, Brighton Box office: 0845 293 8480 ) BENT DOUBLE (Sun 5). A gay- friendly, irreverent night of fun and frolics hosted by Jen Brister ‘Brister uses anger to quite stunning comedic effect’ Skinny) ; featuring headliner Ninia T R A

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beautifully rich, essentially a short swirls of watery running scales set of variations, whereas Dukas’ from the piano under slow moving, CLASSICAL NOTES Prélude élégiaque is sensuously lumbering strings and slippery BY NICK BOSTON liquid, and Gavri ’s touch is woodwind, creating a very striking delicate and warmć in both, and in atmosphere from the outset. The write a piano concerto using a the brief but delightful Menuet sur pace quickens, as the floodwaters REVIEWS Bosnian folk song, this time le nom d’Haydn by Ravel which rise, before the sun breaks through ) IVANA GAVRI THE definitely an authentic tune, the follows. Frances-Hoad’s sparky at the end. The central scherzando SOUTHBANK SINćFO &N IA HAYDN’S unofficial anthem of Sarajevo Stolen Rhythm follows, and has great quirky energy, with more PIANO CONCERTO NO. 11 (where Gavri was born), ‘Kad ja although again brief, it has an than a whiff of Shostakovich in its (Rubicon RCD1038 ). Pianist po oh na Bećntbašu’. First Gavri energetic drive, exploiting the dancing forward propulsion. The Ivana Gavri gives a sprightly incđludes six French pieces writtećn extremes of the keyboard in its slow finale presents that Bosnian performanceć of Haydn’s Piano to mark the 100th anniversary of continuous rhythmic pulse. Gavri theme in moving simplicity, passed Concerto No. 11, with the Haydn’s death, as well as Frances- returns to the French set, with ć around the orchestra, with the Southbank Sinfonia, conducted by Hoad’s Stolen Rhythm, written a d’Indy’s relatively straightforward piano’s interjections building in Karin Hendrickson. Her opening further 100 years later, in 2009. Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn intensity and urgency, ending with Vivace is full of energy, the slow Debussy’s Hommage à Haydn is followed by Hahn’s Thème varié an impassioned candenza, movement has delightful grace sur le nom de Haydn, a typically performed with incredible intensity and a sensitive touch, and the deft miniature, and Widor’s lively here by Gavri . The Bosnian finale is lively, played with great Fugue sur le nom d’Haydn to finish theme’s poignćant simplicity brings poise and wit. Gavri was inspired the set. Gavri brings out the this beautifully constructed by the possibility thćat this finale varied charactćer of these pieces programme to a suitably sensitive might have been based on a with great attention to detail, and conclusion. Highly recommended. Bosnian folk melody. The melody’s the placing of Frances-Hoad’s origins may in fact be less contribution in the middle creates Reviews, comments and events: authentic than we might hope, a great set up for ‘Between the v nicks-classical- but nevertheless this led Gavri to Skies, the River and the Hills’, a notes.blogspot.co.uk approach friend and collaboratćor three movement piano concerto. t @nickb86uk Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b.1980) to The opening movement has great ) [email protected]

JAMES LEDWARD CINEMA ) I first met James in 2001 when I began managing Open Door. ) Puccini ’s La Bohème (Wed Relatively new to Brighton, I had arrived at Open Door at a difficult 29), with Sonya Yoncheva and time in its history, and James was immediately supportive at the same Charles Castronovo , is showing time as passionate that such community-based HIV services be live from the Royal Opera House . preserved. He was always ready to offer an ear, as well as strong opinions about how services N E

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It was only much later that I learned about James’ own musical W Brahms . background, and I wish I’d talked more with him about this. But I can In a range of local cinemas, only thank him for leading me back music, to what’s once again become including: Duke’s at the a central part of my life. I’d always been so impressed by James’ mission Komedia /Duke of York’s , with Gscene to show the breadth of LGBTQ+ life, our communities and T

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ABBA: SUPER TROUPERS ) ABBA: SUPER TROUPERS THE EXHIBITION (until August 31, 2020). In association with ABBA: The Museum in Stockholm, the immersive exhibition at The O2 brings to life the world of chart-topping Swedish pop sensation ABBA: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid ‘Frida’ Lyngstad. It charts their music, lyrics, creative process and influence as one of the most iconic pop bands of the modern age. The exhibition has been conceptualised and curated by Jude Kelly CBE, renowned theatre director and former artistic director at the Southbank Centre and has the approval of all four members of ABBA. ABBA burst onto the UK music scene with a dazzling win on April 6, 1974 at the Eurovision Song Contest at the Brighton Dome, with the irresistible Waterloo that became their first UK chart-topper. ABBA: Super Troupers THE VOICE OF BROADWAY The Exhibition examines ABBA’s rise to global superstardom through a series of atmospheric rooms, exploring each of ABBA’s eight multi-million ) Bar Broadway hosted the final of Voice of Broadway last month selling albums, alongside the band’s personal and public journey. This where five amazing vocalists battled it out to snatch the crown and innovative take on the ABBA story includes theatrical staging recreation the glory. George Martin Marino hosted proceedings and atmosphere of the Eurovision Song Contest stage at the Brighton Dome, where, from in the bar was electric with folk eager to support their favourite lush deep theatre seats, fans will watch the performance before singer. Rhys-Christian Mobsby was the outright winner and thanked experiencing the excitement of the vote reveal. ABBA’s Frida Lyngstad the crowd before belting out a soaring rendition of Don't Stop says: “ We’re delighted to support ABBA: Super Troupers The Exhibition at Believing , Jennie came second and Willow came third. The O2 following the overwhelming response to our earlier exhibitions in Rhys said of his Voice of Broadway experience: “When I entered the London. From our Eurovision Song Contest win in Brighton in 1974 to the Voice of Broadway competition, I did so not really knowing what to present day, the UK has long held a special place in ABBA’s heart, and expect. I knew one of the other contestants, Jennie, so the very first we’ve always strongly felt the love of our British fans.” week I went on my own with the intention of having some fun and Tickets and opening times available at www.abbasupertroupers.com or seeing an old friend. I grew up listening to old school soul/r&b, and by calling 08442 491 000 . my influences are singers like JoJo and Tori Kelly, so I wasn't sure how my voice would work out in the competition! “Taking part in Voice of Broadway quickly became the highlight of my SAPPHIC VOICES week, and it was so refreshing to get to sing with 10 other people, ) Radio Reverb , the local radio station serving Brighton & Hove, has including the host of the night George, all of whom are insanely launched a new show, Sapphic Voices , which aims to give a voice to talented but have no egos or nastiness - everyone was there to queer creative women in Brighton and beyond. Hosted by Leanne support each other and have a little fun and do what they love McKenzie and sidekick and wife, Katie Lambert , the programme will be doing. broadcast from 9pm on Sunday , “After the first week, I invited anyone and everyone who enjoyed January 19 and then the third music, and a few very close friends literally came every single week Sunday of the month. It will (I'm looking at you, Alice and Naomi!), because Bar Broadway has feature queer and non-queer such a wonderfully inviting atmosphere that it's hard to turn down creatives sharing their passion, spending your evenings there; especially if there is a performance skills and knowledge in friendly taking place - what's not to love? interviews. Each show will follow a theme, such as women loving “I never imagined I'd win the competition if I'm honest. It was women representation in film and anyone's game, right from the start to the final three. You had television. Programmes will Willow, who quite frankly should be on the West End in Waitress feature segments reviewing and commenting on films, exploring creative already (did I mention she's only 18 as well?) and Jennie, who is an courses in Brighton & Hove, highlighting women loving women tropes, absolutely flawless performer, so it really could have been anyone's telling stories, singing songs (if listeners are particularly unlucky!) and win! I'm beyond grateful to anyone who came down, supported having long, meaningful discussions on long, meaningful subjects. And, myself and the other incredibly talented performers and had a great of course, there'll be plenty of your hosts’ favourite tunes - most often time with us!” female singers from the 1980s and 1990s woven in! 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rightly made Picano’s reputation. generational gender tumbling It’s got a twist ending, around us, and adds energy to PAGE’S PAGES consistently shocks and keeps you those dismantling them. In this BOOK REVIEWS BY ERIC PAGE gripped. If you’re a fan of classic radical and emotionally raw book, gay literature, written with a Juno Roche pushes the furious pace and style, then check boundaries of trans representation ) AMROU AL-KADHI UNICORN: THE MEMOIR OF A MUSLIM DRAG this out. The Lure is the second by redefining 'trans' as an identity QUEEN (Fourth Estate) A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir about book in Muswell Press’s currently with its own power and strength, the author’s journey from a God-fearing Muslim boy to a proud, queer running ‘rediscovering LGBTQ that goes beyond the gender drag queen. Amrou Al-Kadhi by day, Glamrou at night; an empowered, classics’ list. binary. confident and acerbic drag queen who wears seven-inch heels and says the things that nobody else dares to. The first-person narrative ) JUNO ROCHE TRANS POWER: ) KRISTEN ARNETT MOSTLY gives us an intimate portrait OWN YOUR GENDER (Jessica DEAD THINGS (Corsair) A family- of growing up in a strict Kingsley Publishers). The seriously owned taxidermy shop in sunny Iraqi-British Muslim strong point of this book is Florida may not seem like the household. When 10 years Roche’s capturing, via interview, most conventional setting for a old he announced to his of such a wide range of authentic meditation on grief and family that he was in love lived experience, with an heartbreak, but Kristen Arnett with Macaulay Culkin in intersectional perspective that isn’t exactly a conventional Home Alone. The resultant not only allows us to understand author. Morbid, strange, and very fallout might best be queer, Arnett’s debut novel is a described as something like sort of coming-of-age story for an the Iraqi version of Jeremy entire family: When Jessa-Lynn Kyle. We learn about a Morton discovers her father dead teenage obsession with by suicide, she steps up to take marine biology, and how fluid over his struggling taxidermy aquatic life gave an business as the rest of their understanding to non-binary household falls to pieces around gender identity. Amrou’s her. As her family implodes and scholarship at Eton college, grasps for meaning, Jessa-Lynn attempting to forge a new grabs the reigns and pulls things identity as a British together, then Lucinda Rex, a aristocrat and his discovery of the transformative powers of drag gallery owner compelled by Lynn’s while at Cambridge university leads to a massive breakdown and years mothers wild erotic art, arrives in of rage towards Islam before learning to approach his faith in a new, her life, breathing love and queer way and how costumes and fierce style were the unlikely route passion back into her, and to embracing his heritage. changing everything, again. Her Amrou takes time to introduce us to his mother, a beautiful and ardent sex scenes give lesbian glamorous woman, the unknowing inspiration for his career as a drag romantic fiction a seriously new queen – and a fierce, vociferous critic of anything that transgresses how life is lived today for many passionate contender leaving you normal gender boundaries. It’s about how they lost and found each trans and queer folk but also tells, panting with a sheen of sweat. other, about forgiveness, understanding, hope – and the life-long time and time again, of the She’s filthy gorgeous. Arnett’s plot search for belonging. shared experiences which define meanders, slowly taking and connect. The book, like everything in, pausing, lifting, Roche, is forthright, candid and rolling things over. It’s a novel of blunt, exploring sex, passion, observation and her drawing of ) FELICE PICANO THE LURE bodies and desire with a frankness Florida and its damp oppressive (Muswell Press). In 1979, Felice which is both refreshing and heat feels suffocating real. I Picano rocketed to fame with the relentless. The book is packed loved this book, it felt like a publication of this shocking (for with Roche’s opinions as well, lesbian Six Feet Under but with its time), controversial thriller. presented directly and meticulous, and ridiculously It’s a splendid capturing of the occasionally without subtle described stuffed animals. gay drugged out sexual subculture explanation and, although of the era, just before AIDS and provocative, this distracted me. the plot is slightly nuts. The book It’s also filled with good humour, follows the action of its delicate moments of breath-taking (apparently straight) main honesty which illuminate character, Noel, who after lifetimes with the clarity of a witnessing a brutal murder, is lightning strike, shares advice recruited to assist the police by from people hard won and points acting as the lure for a killer who at deep themes which echo across has been targeting gay men. all of these and our lives. Then we Undercover, Noel moves deeper get back to Juno, again. This is and deeper into the dark side of an interesting book about the Manhattan's gay life that stirs his future and present state of gender own secret desires - until he tensions, solid narrative beat and and another solid addition to the forgets he is only playing a role. rising psychological peril, this cannon of trans voices. 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Mostly Dead Things refuses to fit archive, takes us behind the neatly into any boxes; it’s a facade of a glittering public beautiful mediation on grief, existence. Hartnell suffered ALL THAT JAZZ making it a perfect read for the privately from his hidden gay BY SIMON ADAMS start of the year and celebrating lifestyle, the pressures and yourself for who you are. difficulties eventually led to a mixture of personal HOW I FIRST MET JAMES misjudgements and remarkable When I first moved to Brighton some four years ago, I knew almost management crises that often no-one. I needed to make some new friends and contacts, so, having plunged his House to the brink of once worked for the much-loved Pink Paper in London, I got in touch financial ruin. Pick has that good with Gscene to see if they would like a regular jazz column. James biographer’s eye, laying out quickly got back in touch, and we arranged to detail, highlighting connections, meet up for a coffee at Cup of Joe in pointing out contradictions and Kemptown, his and Besi’s favourite Saturday bringing small moments to our breakfast café. James had a background in attention which then spin out music performance and publishing, me in jazz across Hartnells' life bringing reviewing for Jazz Journal for many years as change, opportunity and ruin. well as a stint editing the twice-yearly From his working class roots in a programme for the Spitalfields Festival in south London pub, where as a London, which featured the early music James child he redesigns the hideous had previously published. We hit it off, I brown cow wallpaper in his wrote my regular columns, teased him about bedroom, to his 30 year business ) PAUL FREEMAN LARRIKIN the fact he always hid my monthly voluminous sack of fan mail (dream partnership with George LADS (Paul Freeman Publishing) on!) and got to know and admire him as a friend and a community Mitchison who seems to have This fourth book from Freeman in champion in Brighton. Alas, my friendship with him was all too short, had some hold over Hartnell, his ‘Larrikin’ series, Lads , is but I will always have the fondest memories of him. What a man, what their relationship reads as co- photographed mainly in England a larger than life personality. I am so glad I met him. dependent as Mitchison exploits and focuses on superbly thick and and mismanages Hartnells’ muscled working men, who are success, we see a warts and all werking it. Here they are depicted examination rising to his REVIEWS toiling and cavorting in eroticised pinnacle of designing the semi-rural, semi-industrial ) AHMAD JAMAL BALLADES (Jazz Village). It’s pianist Ahmad Jamal Queen's coronation dress. The environments, used skilfully to again, for which I make no apologies whatsoever, given his personal exploration of Hartnell emphasise visceral masculinity importance to jazz and his own, exposed wearing his own and stoicism, but also to unique style. After a series of beautifully embroidered clothes, accentuate vulnerabilities, oh and quartet releases, Jamal, now a and meeting violently rough with perfectly styled hair. The remarkable 89, is flying solo, with trade for sex, while dressed as accompanying text tells us the only bassist James Cammack to ‘Miss Kitty’ certainly gives real ‘happy perseverance of men accompany him on three pieces. insight into this shy, fastidious, amongst the dirt is, along with The mood is reflective and largely their unashamed nakedness, one subdued, although Marseille , the of the signature Freeman eulogies title track from his 2017 set, fits to male beauty, strength and in some of that city’s ebullience. sensuality.’ I’m too kind to argue Predictably there is another with that and I’m glad I noticed reworked version of Poinciana , it as there was a lot of prime which made his name when he first recorded it at the Pershing Hotel polished beefcake to distract me. in Chicago in 1958, but also the remarkable Because I Love You , an This full colour photo book is a achingly beautiful piece, which was composed on the spot as it was superb addition to anyone’s being recorded in the studio last January in Paris, a testimony to coffee table collection of tasty Jamal’s continuing ability to conjure up enduring melodies. Bass nudie buff blokes. player Cammack makes his mark, but this is Jamal’s gig, which he performs with every trick in his still considerable pianistic armoury. ) MICHAEL PICK NORMAN HARTNELL: THE BIOGRAPHY ) JOE ARMON-JONES TURN TO CLEAR VIEW (Brownswood). (Zuleika). Sir Norman Hartnell, Keyboardist and synth player Joe Armon-Jones is a mainstay of the leading British fashion designer current young London jazz scene, best known for dressing three Brownswood the achingly hip nu- Queens, the ladies of the British jazz label run by DJ Gilles upper classes, but who also Peterson. Predictably, they have designed the uniforms for the first highly talented man and the produced a set that blends jazz, Brighton Police ladies, is explored tensions between his private life funk, club grooves, dub and here in comprehensive detail by and his highly public socialite electronica into a seamless, Michael Pick. He had world-wide life. Pick explores this with sometimes psychedelic, space- fame and influence, twice honest sensitivity although agey whole. Strong on vocals, but changing the silhouette of decided that Hartnells’ fetishistic with some fine instrumental work women's fashions when such private life, which lasted almost from tenor saxophonist Nubya things were the essence of high to his death, and bad choices in Garcia in particular, and a fashion. Biographer Pick, working the men he trusted, was the root collection of intriguing melodies that sweep and swoosh around in a from a treasure trove of Hartnell's cause of his ultimate business hazy shimmer, this set is as up to the minute as it gets, and all the own previously unexplored failure. better for it. 52 GSCENE SHOPPING WITH MICHAEL HOOTMAN

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2013, as he gently persuaded local businesses (with his usual Ledward insistence) to finance a Brighton Community Pride Parade placard campaign. And of course, it was James who ensured Pride was held to account during its mid-life crisis years, demanding transparency, a return to a fundraising ethos and community diversity inclusion. Pivotal in ensuring Pride became a Pride with purpose again, without James Brighton Pride would never have shone so bright, raised so much for the Brighton Rainbow Fund or had the sustainable future it now enjoys. And for those of us determined to put the past in the present, James was an unrivalled archive. Not only of gossip (oh how I loved the tales he could tell) but of unique documentary and photographic evidence. Whilst not the tidiest or most understandable of bibliographic records (thanks to Michele for the translations) when you dug deep into James’ collection of Gscene issues and WILDBLOOD & QUEENIE photographs his content ensured the exhibitions I curated, including Those bloody lesbians are at it again . BrightonPride25 and Strike A Brighton Pose, were a joy for all to enjoy. A gossip jolting, By Kate Wildblood storytelling joy. wildbloodandqueenie.com Just weeks before his untimely death last year plans were being made for our latest historical queer adventure as we look to celebrate the ) Finding the words for the man who always the headlines regardless of trending topics, 30th anniversary of Brighton Pride. The course found space for mine isn’t easy. Finding the 240 character limits and baffling hashtags and may still be set for 2020 but as we continue words for a man who always entertained mine, allowing us to connect in-depth to our sailing those seas of past Pride glories, the no matter what the subject, daydream or community. journey will be a lonelier one without him. occasional rant, isn’t what I ever wanted to A community he changed forever when co- As I write this tribute to the man I am still do. But here I am, with you, paying tribute to founding the Brighton Rainbow Fund. A fund unable to believe I will never bump into James Ledward. The scaffold for so much of so many, including myself, have benefited again, I picture this. Somewhere up there in my writing and campaigning life, the directly from through the services of Blueprint the ultimate nightclub called Heaven sits Mr foundations for our city’s LGBTQ+ community. 22 Youth Project, Brighton GEMS, Clare Ledward, with Besi and his beloved four- Queenie and I first found ourselves on the Project, Lunch Positive, MindOut, Older & Out, legged family by his side, best floral shirt pages of Gscene in 2001 when Paul Lillie Peer Action, RadioReverb, Rainbow Families, displayed, a favourite drink in hand. It’s the interviewed us. We were, as we have been ever Sussex Beacon, Trans Alliance and many more Glory Be Golden Handbags and he is the guest since, thankful for the support James and the voluntary sector community groups across our of honour. The combined LGBTQ+ choirs of Gscene team gave our DJ adventures (and glorious city. Brighton & Hove (84,000 members and occasional disco dramas) even if he would counting apparently) are singing his favourite A community connection he ensured was more often greet us with the words “those bloody Eurovision medley, a drag cabaret of lifelong than just personal as he embraced campaign lesbians are at it again”. Which to be honest friends are telling his favourite filthy jokes after campaign, be it local, national or we usually were. and the fundraiser is totalling a world record international. It was James that gave Queen amount. Finally, after a long queue of well- 2002 saw me join the magazine as a Josephine’s Ouch House 200 a chance to wishers, I’ve managed to grab a moment with contributor and soon James was allowing me fundraise for the Sussex Beacon, who him. He looks at me with that twinkle you to do more than wax lyrical about my favoured encouraged us to keep it Decent, and who, knew only meant mischief, and once again 12” but on subjects and editorial themes as alongside Paul Kemp at Brighton Pride, calls Queenie and me “Those bloody lesbians”. broad-ranging as hobbies, ageing, racism, encouraged and supported Karol Michalec and Two bloody lesbians who will be forever proud fashion, trans issues, bears, sport, civil I as we took our Brighton Supports LGBT to call themselves friends of James Ledward. partnerships, HIV & AIDS, recreational drug Russia blog and artwork to a national level in use in gay clubland and the joys of winter (it’s all about those mittens on elastic don’t you know). “And of course, it was James who He also gave this Asperger’s lass (years before my diagnosis in 2016) the space to write, ensured Pride was held to account during often a little too honestly, about my struggles with mental health. Be it living with chronic its mid-life crisis years, demanding depression or the Queenie drawn tales of my life with BPD, James provided me, alongside transparency, a return to a fundraising so many others, the opportunity to be real, to tell our stories. To bring out the lives behind ethos and community diversity inclusion ” 54 GSCENE

and an internal investigation began. James helped to make that happen. Thanks to James the Chief Inspector of the British Transport Police was shitting himself. James was of course much more than the doom and gloom of LGBTQ+ oppression. He championed community members and invited us as writers to engage with local artists, drag queens, photographers, musicians, and across the spectrum of ages. James had a watchful eye on the changing gender demographic of how a younger community member may define themselves and made sure we were engaging with those artists. Fresh voices for a new generation. He made sure we celebrated anniversaries of long-established drag performers but that we introduced the CRAIG’S THOUGHTS fledgling steps of 20-something newcomers. He was a supporter of older members of our Always Right. The James I Knew . community, both professionally and personally, and made sure we celebrated their By Craig Hanlon-Smith work as we would a new and emerging @craigscontinuum creative. Most notably he asked me to cover art exhibitions and career reflections for Lez Ingham and Mackenzie Bell, both in the later stages of their creative careers. Meeting ) We had agreed to meet in Charles Street James would often call with interviews and people like this, and listening to them talk Tap. I would quickly learn that when arranging stories he wanted me to pursue and all of about their lives and careers, in turn enriched to meet James he would always suggest an them with a common thread - to expose mine. In the spirit of James and his legacy, in LGBTQ+ local venue. He was a great believer in injustices in our country against all people the February edition of Gscene we will run an supporting our community venues but more identifying as LGBTQ+ and those who support interview with Michael James, who at 79 has importantly the people who worked in them, us. He would undertake thorough background published his first novel. James knew that and he was right to do so. checks of anyone with a story to ensure it was sharing stories was a force for good and that genuine as the authenticity of the magazine’s Over 15 years ago I had sent James a piece the magazine had the platform to share those reporting was of paramount importance to written in response to my experience at the that may otherwise be forgotten or by-passed. him. But it wasn’t just about the magazine. hands of life insurers. Having been quoted a James held these ideals in life and fought on It was this connection to people from every monthly premium of £13 for 25 years, upon behalf of our community members every day walk of life that for me makes James and the discovering that I was gay, the insurance of every week. memory of him so special. He would give company informed me that it was now £30 anyone a chance, an opportunity and a and welcomed me to the impaired life register. My husband and I had a homophobic platform to share their ideas and to have their experience on a train to Manchester, which “We have got to tell people these stories,” he voice heard. It doesn’t matter who you are or lasted 90 minutes. The police were called, the said, “They simply do not know. And I want what your individual experience, we all have a perpetrators went to court, one case was you to do it.” He then dropped the bombshell story to tell. thrown out and the other found not guilty. that I needed to cut at least a thousand words James asked me to write about it for the James was a particular champion of opinion from the piece and in his company I politely magazine. I found it an almost impossible columnists in Gscene and in recent years agreed. Some days later and by email, I began task. I tried to make it funny, angry, creative, began to share these articles online alongside my arguments for the validity of a longer sympathy inducing, in short I couldn’t write news and reviews. He would defend the right article for the magazine. James was quick and it. James coached me through it. “This isn’t of opinion as fundamental to our civilised clear. “You can cut it or not dear but If you about people feeling sorry for you,” he said, communities. Whilst not necessarily agreeing don’t no one will read it. I shall make sure of “It’s about exposing the system that failed to with the content, in actively listening to the that.” I did as I was told. do its job and about exposing those people who voices of others we would ourselves become There would be many conversations over those are paid to help you, but they did not. Just tell better people and a tighter stronger range of 15 years where I would push back at James’ the story. And then make it shorter.” communities. I know he took some flak for me professional expertise, it’s a trait of mine. I as he did for other Gscene writers alike. In That article was more widely shared across caved every time, and on each occasion he defending the freedom of thought and social media platforms than anything else I was right. I admired that about him. He just expression through this magazine for the have written in these 15 years at Gscene . The knew. communities he loved, he was without Chief Inspector of British Transport Police question, right. Every time. I phoned him in July of this year to tell him a phoned me at home on a number of occasions photo of me in a Boris Johnson Bum Boy T- shirt had gone viral and was being used in an online campaign I had not endorsed. After much wisdom and practical support, I “James knew that sharing stories was remember the end of the call clearly: “And a force for good and that the magazine another thing, Doris. When someone you don’t know asks if they can have a photo with you had the platform to share those that may put your ego in your pocket and do what I do. Say NO!” He was of course right again. otherwise be forgotten or by-passed ” GSCENE 55 HOMELY HOMILY DUNCAN’S DOMAIN BY GLENN STEVENS BY DUNCAN STEWART

JAMES THE CHANGEMAKER A BEAR WITH THE HEART OF A LION ) Having attended James Funeral in October, it didn’t surprise me at ) I can’t claim to have known James well but some people don’t need all that the church was packed with well wishers, literally standing in to be encountered frequently for them to make a big impression and the church doorway to show their respect to a man who made it his James was one such. We first met, not long after my retirement from mission to make sure things got done. General Practice, at a birthday party given by Roger Wheeler. We were discussing his proposal that I should write for Gscene . I suggested This was brought home from the many speeches that were given there were a couple of obstacles; firstly that I would not relish doing during the service about the lifelong campaigning James did and set any sort of medical problem page and secondly that I was not gay. himself for the good of the LGBTQ+ community in Brighton. The thing From across the room came “No problem, we’ve all considered you an with James was he got things moving, he got things done. This was honorary poof for years.” So there I was with a Queen’s birthday either through his own hard work or by getting many of his friends honour – Duncan Stewart Hon P and Gscene columnist. and colleagues on board for the many brilliant projects that are part of the mainstream now. I was quite touched by this accolade but any opportunity to savour the pleasurable feeling of acceptance was “The thing with James was he got immediately displaced by a ribald conversation about what I might have things moving, he got things done” done, and with whom, had I ever crossed the road and befriended Dorothy.

It was James who, through Gscene, spoke out about Pride being Many people are better placed than me mismanaged which after a time led to Brighton Pride being one of the to assess the importance James’ most popular Prides in the UK as we as being a mass profit making courageous support of the LGBTQ+ machine for the Brighton Rainbow Fund who in turn ensure many of community but I do know that he was a the smaller LGBTQ+ projects are able to get off the ground and thrive. formidable negotiator. Policemen, civil servants and politicians soon realised that they were not going to change the mind of this highly The Golden Handbag Awards are also brilliant concept of James’s that intelligent man who was rightly convinced that he was fighting for a give the LGBTQ+ community the opportunity to champion the just cause. Behind that smiling face there lurked a steely individuals who work so hard to make the scene a vibrant one. determination to achieve justice and equality. James recognised talent and encouraged those he knew to put that talent to the best use for the wider community. A prime example of this came about when Gscene put the word out that Brighton was to “Behind that smiling face there have its own AIDS Memorial. After bumping into Brighton lurked a steely determination to artist Romany Mark Bruce, achieve justice and equality” James asked if he would enter an idea into the competition which would then go to a public James was unashamedly hedonistic and had an existential attitude vote. From there, Romany was hardly surprising in someone who at the age of 33 had been forced to voted in with task to create his abandon a career as a top-level concert musician by the damage to his bronze statue, TAY, which has dexterity caused by a stroke. become an important focal James deservedly achieved the status of godfather to the whole point for everyone infected and Brighton LGBTQ+ community and it was no surprise at his funeral to affected by HIV and AIDS. find the church packed to capacity inside and many sombre mourners It is these projects that James outside on the pavement listening to the eulogies. instigated and others made It was not only his drive and commitment that made James an happen that continue to make a positive impact on many, many irreplaceable figure in local gay politics but also his being part of that Brighton residents and will continue to do so for a long time to come. now dwindling community who spent their early teenage years coping For me, I will always be grateful to James for giving me my own with the humiliation of being told that their sexual preferences were column in Gscene . I had always been an avid reader of Gscene , a repugnant and could lead to imprisonment. project that James started up as a simple listings pamphlet that This experience, coupled with his having witnessed the horrendous would go on to be a very important free magazine filled with suffering of AIDS patients prior to the discovery of effective therapy, information. generated in James the same level of compassion and an appetite for I loved the scene photos, news section but most of all it was the change that energised some of our more altruistic post-war politicians monthly writers I liked the most, with Rita’s Snatches being my in their efforts to improve the lot of those members of our society favourite. who were badly housed, poor and medically neglected. A process which, sadly, has faltered because most current MPs haven’t witnessed And so I got to write and develop my own style of writing, forming the tragedy of war and poverty. ideas from designer Michele who, along with James, ensured Gscene continued to get published each month. Association with momentous events and real hardship concentrated minds on making big fundamental changes in social care and James James’s untimely death has hit us all hard and he will be missed, but with his drive, humour and compassion achieved lasting beneficial with the many positive things that James created for Brighton, changes for our gay community. He is truly irreplaceable and will be memories of him will never fade. greatly missed. 56 GSCENE

Los Angeles about all things gay, begging with the station head to be sent to Russia to cover the Sochi Olympics and the latent homophobia surrounding it. Getting real interviews from queers on a live cam and blasting them out to the world. The station said they would not sanction me going. “They’ll throw you in jail,” they responded. “So what... ” I replied, and a boardroom stared at me in disbelief. James wouldn’t have had a problem with that, he knew he would get good copy. So, I wrote a love letter to Russia Queer which was read during the Olympics, I like to think just before the shotput. I wrote articles from all over the world looking for all things queer and it became the greatest CHARLIE SAYS adventure of my tawdry little life. Michele’s admiration of me for living such an intrepid and King Edward. tough existence, yet meeting every column deadline with days to spare. Forwarding only the By Charlie Bauer Phd love letters and not the trolling hate mail from http://charliebauerphd.blogspot.co.uk national journalists who wanted my sweet blood. I remember when James asked me about my ) Everyone will talk about the first time they one of my articles in greater detail - taking childhood during that meeting. I told him I was met you, as I will too. But in a different way. two lines of my Gscene text and spending a a street-boy who went a to dead-end school that Of course there was the time you asked me to semester deconstructing it within the halls of didn’t believe in qualifications. It was there I write for the magazine 10 years ago. In your the Ivy League? watched five years of rough trade turn into office. Not the Anne Frank like secret dungeon football hooligan men. The object of my desire. Then the complaint letters from world behind a travel brochure rack in a Hove cellar. But during the same five years, my bus to governments asking me to follow up on the But his other office, Charles Street Tap. school, the 82c, went through a posh part of accusations of lies and corruption I constantly town and at one point the posh boys from a I suspect then, as I do now, that he was trying threw at them. Working effortlessly to raise school called Saint Margaret’s got on. They were to seduce me with the crashing waves and the funds for the Gscene legal fund for all the clever lads and had conversations about things infinity of the sea. We talked of being close to incoming bills as right-wing pundits and left- other than football. water if I remember, and the importance of wing misogynists rain salvos of cease and such proximities. He spoke of the importance desist letters from across the world. What And they were impeccable. I imagined their of the free gay press. Sod emancipation, there about the global-right tracking my phone and teachers giving a shit about their futures. For will always be fights to be had. I told him I finding all my porn links? me it was sad but aspirational for this 13 year was a drug addled academic who might not be old to eavesdrop on their conversations about And the endless support from the community up to the job, he told me I was a perfect fit. I physics and other things I would never when I am finally incarcerated in Hove jail, all told him I sometimes walked around with a understand. Of musical instruments that Saint that banner-carrying outside the local travel target on my back, he told me to never take it Margaret’s were encouraging them to play, of agents. He told me that Michele will take them off but keep telling the truth. school bands with like-minded boys, national all on for me. And she protected me from the finals, without all the piss-taking and I remember we talked of music and politics swarms of red-necks wanting my blood. “She patronising I had to look forward to at the dark and some ideas I might have. I reeled off an ain’t meek,” James said in closing. side of my journey on the 82c. entire list of my gripes not only of the world I wrote the column from around the world. at large but at the community itself, its A 13-year-old looking at sexy posh fifth-formers And that time when my academic peers who I apathy sometimes translating into complicity. from the other side of the tracks. The one boy in thought loved me, (until I took tenure) and About the fact that we’ve martyred ourselves the spotless uniform and blue kagool who often arranged for a sabbatical in Dunedin, on our history. “Well you may have,” came the sat alone staring at the city streets before he Scotland. They even got me drunk and gave reply. took the stop just after Otterspool Prom. me drugs at the airport to say goodbye. When We talked of various medical conditions that I woke up in New Zealand I was alone with no “Yeah, that one was probably me,” said James. we shared and how we navigate health in our money. I made my way back to Brighton, was For one night only, Charlie Bauer Phd will be big gay worlds. “‘It could always be worse,” he offered shelter by Maori Fa’afafine and writing returning to the Catalyst Club in Brighton, in a said, and I knew it. He shut me up and offered articles about trans people standing next to one-night residency as part of his world tour of me the column, but I had concerns. Sometimes warriors on battlefields. Doing radio shows in Southern England in April 2020. I write stuff when I’m shitfaced and resend it the next day. A bit like shag/shame texting etc. He told me not to read it. “I told him I was a drug addled academic who How could Michele deal with the fan mail and correspondences from international might not be up to the job, he told me I was a universities asking me to give key-note speeches on all things queer? Last minute perfect fit. I told him I sometimes walked conference invitations from Judith Butler and around with a target on my back, he told me Eve Sedgwick begging me to take the next first-class flight to Berkeley or Duke to explain to never take it off but keep telling the truth. ” GSCENE 57 NETTY’S WORLD STRIP SERVICE BY NETTY WENDT BY QUEEN JOSEPHINE

THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT ) We first encountered James Ledward when we moved to Brighton in the late 1990s. He took our picture and told us we would be in Gscene next month. We were over the moon, what a fabulous welcome! Nowadays with legal equality, it’s hard to overstate the importance of James and his camera, reporting a scene that so many would deny an existence to. A few years later, when my partner approached him and asked if he could feature more women in the magazine, he didn’t laugh or make excuses. He took a chance on me, an unknown who’d never written anything. For that much alone I will never forget him. I have so many lovely memories of James. An animal-lover, he used to have a clutch of little dogs who often accompanied him in the van when he was out delivering Gscene . I giggled at the sight of his 7am ‘walkies’ along Hove Lawns with them following behind like a mother with her ducklings. He regularly shouted “Oi! Lezzers!” to us from his van, before pulling over for a gossip. James LOVED gossip, never mean or nasty, just the funny stuff that makes up life in this unique city of ours. As lesbians, James was our friend in high places. If there was a problem, he was always at the end of the phone, happy to help. Our last call pertained to a lesbian friend who was being homophobically harassed and threatened with eviction, he knew exactly the course of action and went into battle for her. When my dad died last year, I couldn’t write my regular column due to grief, James met me on the terrace at Legends with a massive hug, and healing words. For someone so big, he was always so gentle. My most abiding memory of James is at our civil partnership back in 2007. Firstly, the generosity of his financial gift took our breath away. Later I noticed him looking smiley and teary-eyed throughout the ceremony, but it was when we were serenaded by the Gay Men’s Choir singing Once I Had a Secret Love I saw him crying. Of course, his soul was moved by music, I had no idea back then of his own musical talents. The beauty of that day was something he waxed lyrical about for years to come. This picture from our civil partnership is the only one we have of him, bit ironic considering how many he’s taken of us these 20 odd years. James Ledward was the glue that kept our community together; I don’t know what we’ll do without him. Darling James, if there’s a light that never goes out, it’s in those lives you’ve touched along the way, so you’re gonna live forever, you big-hearted lovely man.

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with a form of therapy. A monthly opportunity to inspect myself, explore my beliefs, share my SAM TRANS MAN fears, my pain, and the deep sense of calm that my transition has given me, I owe James Dr Samuel Hall on James’ desire an eternal debt of gratitude for those column to engage with and understand inches, and for the things he taught me about trans lives. our queer history. Little did I realise at first how much James was learning from me in return. He looked at trans ) When I first arrived in Brighton I was him into the trans community, especially in and non-binary issues through the lens I was terrified of transitioning. I yearned to be seen the voluntary sector, which is where James’s able to hold up for him, and made wise and as male but baulked at the thought of passion lay, and where I was getting involved fair decisions as a result. Trans groups began undergoing treatment involving hormones and in running the Clare Project. to participate more and more at LGBTQ+ surgery. Yet even then, a decade ago, I knew fundraising events and other community As far as he was concerned, the small groups that I was going to have to do this. I knew celebrations. James’ advocacy was foundational and larger organisations who stood to benefit that I was really not okay, not functioning in in our engagement with the wider community, from his tenacity and perseverance in terms of my personal or professional life, and hadn’t and allowed trans people to emerge from the support, both financially and politically, were been for quite some time. My gender dysphoria shadows. We needed each other, and those to include trans people. James encouraged me was wrecking my life; transition was the only, lunches continued a couple of times a year to step forward and apply for funding, to stand and correct, treatment. until he died. up for our community. At a time when As a doctor myself, I was reluctant to set foot Stonewall wouldn’t and others didn’t, James James had suffered coming out in a different down this path, hating the thought of life- pushed for us to take a seat at the table in the era. And had been younger. I was trans, a long reliance on medication, and painful wider LGBTQ+ sector in Brighton & Hove. So different tale altogether, but somehow we operations on the horizon. But each step of we did. shared an experience. The legacy and fallout of the way, as I took a breath and plunged in, I having found ourselves completely unable to found that I was getting better. In a way I conform to expected norms. Both societal and couldn’t have imagined. A sense of “At a time when Stonewall personal expectations have to be shattered and congruence about my being, not just my body, wouldn’t and others didn’t, rearranged to accommodate a change in my entire self. Ultimately, my decision to understanding of ourselves which in turns transition was a decision to live my best life. James pushed for us to allows us to live our lives freely. James saw take a seat at the table in and understood that battle for freedom I met James early on in my transition. happening in my life, and he recognised our Possibly even before I had started any the wider LGBTQ+ sector in similarities, not our differences. treatment. It was the end of a round of Brighton & Hove” introductions that were made for me as I James was my first and most useful cisgender found my feet in town. X wanted me to meet ally. He spoke for, and with, trans people in his tireless efforts to include us, even though this Y, who thought that I should have a There was over a decade between us in age, sometimes meant educating his peers about conversation with Z, who turned out to be James and I, and a lifetime of difference in their privilege and blindness to inequality. At James. We sat outside the Amsterdam for a LGBTQ+ awareness, politics, activism, inside the same time James occasionally displayed a sunny lunchtime beer, and found lots of knowledge and knowhow. James gave me a wilful ignorance of his own privilege, needing common ground, which was strange really. A crash course in local LGBTQ+ politics, showed to be reminded that valid voices are cis gay man and a newly out trans guy who me the landscape of the voluntary sector, everywhere, and a terrible habit of had been living a very heteronormative life steered me through the Rainbow Fund misgendering, for which he was always until just a year or two earlier, we shared a application, and invited me to write a column apologetic, and easy to forgive. Christian upbringing, which gave us a bond of for Gscene . He encouraged me to write my mutual respect from the outset. story, to share my experiences of transition, He had a way of using his position to gain James was intriguingly open and honest that my thoughts and feelings. I have been writing favour, and often used his powers of first time we met. His obvious desire to this column for over five years now, and can persuasion and logic to steer the conversation engage with and understand trans lives was truly say that it’s given me more than I ever to a conclusion that was beneficial to all generous and important to our communities could have anticipated. Not only do I have a parties. He was a skilled diplomat, and has left here in Brighton. 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THE MAN THAT GAVE ME MY VOICE IS GONE STEPPING UP ) Since moving to Brighton a couple years ago, I would always run ) It was hard to miss James Ledward. He was always there. A into James at almost every single LGBTQ+ community event that there presence at any event, opening, concert, show, march, run, anything was. He was always there with his camera, capturing the events of the that was happening really. day, to report and promote everything our community had to say. Be He came to the shows that the Brighton Gay Men's Chorus put on and it a concert, a fundraiser, a quiz, Pride, Trans Pride, Bear Weekend, you was always there in the front row, looking like he was having a grand name it, James was there with a massive smile and his eagerness to old time. I used to wonder how much time he got off from 'being educate people who didn't know what was happening. James Ledward' and whether he was content with what his role in our When I finally had the pleasure to meet and chat with James, I community had become. thought of La Superba, Montserrat Caballé. I was privileged enough Hearing the stories at his funeral of to meet this legend of the operatic world about 30 years ago and just the love and joy he brought, I'd like like Montserrat, James oozed class and graciousness. Both their to think that he was. presence would change the atmosphere of the room and add glamour to wherever they went. I'd met him at the concerts a couple of times, never quite knowing what to say to him and hoping anything I did “Just like Montserrat, James oozed say would be suitably sparkly and class and graciousness. Both their original. I met up with him properly at Amsterdam Bar & Kitchen where we presence would change the discussed my writing and where it atmosphere of the room and add could take me and what I could do to push it ahead. It was very useful. We glamour to wherever they went” talked about various ideas, the result of one of them being that he gave me this column. I will always be grateful to him for that. After that day, I would always notice that every time James would His passing has gotten me thinking about volunteering, of putting speak, either in a room of five people or in a function with hundreds, your hand up, of giving of your gifts and your time, something that everyone would automatically be quiet and pay attention to what he James did constantly. In the course of my 40 (cough) years on this had to say. And he did have a lot to say. He would always talk about glorious planet, I've found that there will always be those who will do the community, the inclusiveness, the rights, the news and updates, things and there will adversely always be those who won't step up. the struggles, the past, the present and the future. It's just the way of things. There's that phrase 'If you want something James was an amazing ally of trans rights. He knew everything about doing, ask a busy person to do it', and it rings true in all of the trans activists and influencers around the world. He knew about the organisations I've been part of. Many's the time I've stood in front of struggles that we face and he wanted to help fight inequality and a sea of blank faces asking for help with some task or another and bring us up to speed with everyone else in the LGB community. He received even blanker responses. wanted us all to be equal and safe. Less than two months before he passed away, James and I met after “His passing has gotten me thinking he invited me to join him for a cup of tea and a chat. Little did I know that this would be the first and last time we would enjoy a about volunteering, of putting your chat without other people vying for his attention. It was a lovely sunny day in a café in Hove, where we both sat outside and enjoyed hand up, of giving of your gifts and some peppermint tea. James asked me to tell him about myself and your time, something that James without any hesitation or holding back, I gave him a quick synopsis of my journey in life with such ease, just like I would if I was talking did constantly ” to someone I knew all my life. After I finished my life story, I surprised James by asking for his. I I know there's a view that if you are part of an organisation that can only assume that as an editor and a talented writer and reporter, relies of volunteering that you should be immediately put into some he was accustomed to interviewing rather than being interviewed. His team within that set up. That you're part of the admin team, the PR life story was as unique and as exciting as one would expect. Having team, the bobsled team, the flowers team, the whatever else it is James allow me a small peak into his past, prior to Gscene , was a team... I don't agree with this. I think that if you force people to do privilege and very welcomed surprise. Majority of his achievements things, the upshot of doing that means that you end up with stuff are thankfully documented online for everyone to read. done shoddily and you have to do it all over again. James then said he would like to give me a voice. He enjoyed my I'd like to think that if you join a group, a chorus, a church, a sports positive attitude in a life full of struggles and he wanted one more group, a Su Pollard fan club or whatever it is, that you'd be happy to voice from the trans community to take space in his magazine. do something to aid your cause, to get something done, to move Without any hesitations he gave me a monthly column and told me things forward. It would be great that that would be part of James how he wanted to raise awareness about our community even more Ledward's legacy. That people who would normally sit back and let than he was already doing. I never saw James again. others get on with things would perhaps sit up, put their hand up and say 'Yeah, I can help with that'. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you. I thank you for everything you have done and all your achievements in life. I thank you for That'd be nice. believing in people and I thank you for fighting for people. Thank [email protected] you for being you. We will all miss you immensely. Rest In Peace. prevention and understood all too well how real and urgent an issue this is for all of us. James also supported numerous individuals with their mental health issues, many times he told me about taking people to GPs and to A&E, raising issues with local councillors, health and social care services and MPs. He both cared about wider issues and he cared about what happened to the people. He recognised that MindOut’s work is something special, that we are very fortunate to have a dedicated mental health service. He also recognised the passion and commitment of the individuals who make up MindOut. He gave special awards to Rose Hall, Arthur Law, Jason Saw and Helen Jones. We used to badger James from time to time to put us on the cover of Gscene , mostly it was a no, but he did relent - five times! James was a great sounding board, if you had MINDOUT a concern or question he either already knew what was going on, or he would find out. He James was immensely supportive of was a great influencer – many times he argued mental health, he cared about all the for more investment in community groups, for example, with both the council and with local health inequalities facing LGBTQ+ NHS commissioners. That was so helpful for people, and understood how important making sure that public funds get spent on mental health is. MindOut would not be where it is LGBTQ+ needs. today without James’s support, foresight and help. By James was nobody’s fool. He wasn’t right about everything but he knew when people Helen Jones, Mindout CEO. were insincere and he certainly knew where the power lay. He appreciated people’s talents and skills. ) James gave us space in Gscene to write The Golden Handbags was a great way to James had a massive heart, he was tireless in about mental health. Fifteen years ago it was highlight what is so good about Brighton & building community, helpful and a radical step to devote monthly space to such Hove’s communities as a whole, a great way knowledgeable, inspirational and kind. He left an ‘unpopular’ topic, and James and I were to celebrate what works well, what people a massive legacy to all of us, especially to surprised by how well the MindOut column and like. He was, of course, central to this, as he MindOut. We are very lucky to have had his then page, went down with the readership. was to so much. support, we are very grateful to have known James really got how important it is to He was incredibly helpful when MindOut was him. normalise mental health, to get people to considering independence. I rang him up for understand that mental health issues affect us some advice and he was emphatic in his all, it’s not a thing that happens to ‘other insistence that we fight the splitting up of people over there’. He and I worked hard on our services, insistent that we make sure that MINDOUT INFO bringing mental health into the mainstream. MindOut stayed intact. He gave us a massive If you would like to talk to someone in One of his ambitions was to get people in bars boost of confidence that this was the right confidence about anything connected to and clubs talking about mental health, he was way forward. He also got stuck in and mental health, please do contact MindOut. delighted that he achieved it. negotiated on our behalf. I got the impression that this consisted of threatening We offer a range of support including Another thing James worked tirelessly on was the wrath of the LGBTQ+ community – not a advice & information, advocacy, crisis bringing businesses and community groups pleasant prospect – and opposition caved in! support, a low cost counselling service, together. I remember years ago getting an peer mentoring, peer support groups, invitation to the LGBT business forum, thanks James was properly interested in what the key suicide prevention, anti-stigma campaigns, to James. This was one of the purposes of the issues are for LGBTQ+ people and what we training for mental health service providers Golden Handbags as well, a way to highlight could collectively do about it. He backed the and an out of hours online instant chat both commercial, voluntary sector and Count Me In and Count Me In Too research service. community groups all in one setting. projects. He cared about the need for suicide ) See our website: www.mindout.org.uk ) Call: 01273 234839 “He was a great influencer – many times he argued ) Email: [email protected] . All our services are independent, impartial for more investment in community groups, for and non-judgemental. example, with both the council and with local NHS Our online support service is open most commissioners. That was so helpful for making evenings and weekends, see our website for opening times. sure that public funds get spent on LGBTQ needs ” GSCENE 61 TWISTED GILDED GHETTO CLASSIFIEDS BY ERIC PAGE EMAIL [email protected] BY 10TH JAN TO GUARANTEE PLACEMENT

FAREWELL CAPTAIN BOB ELECTRICIANS / THE VILLAGE ) James had a vicious and surprisingly crude sense of humour, always PLUMBERS/ DECORATING METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH managing to get under my skin, he relished making my claws come out, he was playful, queer sparing, no malice. When I told him that he Rooted in and serving reminded me of Robert Maxwell, (Captain Bob) he laughed calling me LGBTQ communities Meeting at The Somerset Day Centre cold-blooded. I felt a warm working class Queer connection to Captain 62 St James St, Brighton BN2 1PR Bob and being part of his jolly Gscene crew has given me the adventures Sundays at 6pm and opportunities, from inadvertently setting off the thunderous bells of Tel: 07476 667 353 • thevillagemcc.org St Martin’s Cathedral in Utrecht whilst on a press trip to being able to review and enjoy some of the best operas in the world. I have a huge GARAGE / MOT fondness for James, he was the first person who published my endless SERVICES metaphorical muses and handed me a faith in my writing by doing so. I will miss him, I will miss climbing into his mobile midden of a car, stuffed with gnarly toothed dogs, coffee cups, bizarre queer media freebies, scrunched up letters and boxes of Gscene . I’d be collecting books to review, exchanging gossips at a furious pace, piecing bits of intelligence together to get a bigger picture and sharing useful dainties A DAVIES of info which James knew that I knew that he knew would be useful. Our ––––––––––––– ethical compasses were aligned, although James was far, far kinder than I D E C O R A T I N G am, and although he had issue with me working for a statutory agency, he knew the importance of working within organisations to change them.

“He was one of the most generous people ANDREW DAVIES I knew... with his time, his publishing space, his compassion and his advice” M: 07843 085 191 E: [email protected] W: adaviesdecorating.uk He was one of the most generous people I knew, in many ways, with his time, his publishing space, his compassion and his advice. How he loved to give that, but then in his unique position in the city, an all seeing eye For all your gifted with the ability to talk truth to power, to yank chains hard. His Plumbing, Heating & Gas Installations keen eye for bullshit or twisty lies allowing him to flench people’s ego from their substance and reveal them. He played the long game, investing in folk, sowing the seeds of future forests, knowing he’d not be SWAYNE LTD around to enjoy their sweet bowers or shade. He understood that our Queer community was an ongoing construction project and a generational • All Plumbing Jobs Undertaken -- Big & Small. • Gas -- Servicing, Safety Checks & Landlords one. We’ve lost so much, but then James knew he would go, eventually, • All Pipework Types -- Repaired, Altered Certificates. and had been threatening to retire for ages, although he never quite & Installed. • Small Building Works, Tiling, Plastering managed to. I feel that he mentored me, like a naggy aunt, who only • New Bathrooms / Kitchens -- Installed. & Electrical Work Undertaken. • Old Bathrooms / Kitchens -- Repaired or Altered. • £2M Insurance Cover, With 30 Years Experience. wants the best for their brood, and sees what they are capable of. James • Boiler / Heating System -- Repairs, Upgrades, • Clean, Tidy & Punctual. knew ‘we are the dreamers of dreams’. He did that with all of us, in Alterations & Installs. • Domestic & Commercial Gas Qualified. different ways, raising an army of interconnected, interdependent LGBTQ+ allies, so we could, as in the words of the hymn he chose for his funeral, Contact: Andy 07388 045 424 ‘Not cease from mental fight, nor sword sleep in our hands, until we have [email protected] built our Gilded Queer Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land.’ “More and more...” he would say before grumbling about the state of services, meetings, pushy privilege or greed in the city, but then would WHILST EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO ENSURE THE ACCURACY OF STATEMENTS IN THIS MAGAZINE WE find the right people, and connect them up. Fire them up, charm, flatter CANNOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE VIEWS OF CONTRIBUTORS, ERRORS, OR OMMISIONS, OR FOR or threaten them to effect change, proper change, embedded change. MATTERS ARISING FROM CLERICAL OR PRINTERS ERRORS, OR AN ADVERTISER NOT COMPLETING A CONTRACT Always keeping his beady eye on things and checking up. How he found the time to live such a varied and full life astonishes me. I’m glad I was a small part of it. MASSAGE/ So farewell Captain Bob, O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. TREATMENTS One last metaphor before I throw the flaming allegorical brand onto the pyre and turn my face into the wind, it’s just strong enough to catch my tears and they hiss as they hit the flames. I smile and think of the Wicked Witch of the West, another name you had for yourself and how you’ve gone over our rainbow singing Elphaba’s ditty: “So if you care to find me, Look to the western sky, as someone told me lately, everyone deserves a chance to fly.” James, thank you, now you’ll forever be exquisite and never explain. 62 GSCENE

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