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WELCOME TO OUR SECOND ONLINE ISSUE – FROM THE SAFETY OF YOUR SOFA MAY 2020 CONTENTS GSCENE magazine LEGENDS www.gscene.com ZONE @gscene GScene.Brighton PUBLISHER Gscene Magazine CIC TEL 01273 749 947 EDITORIAL [email protected] ADS+ARTWORK [email protected] EDITORIAL TEAM Jaq Bayles, Rory Finn, Craig Hanlon- Smith, Graham Robson ARTS EDITOR Michael Hootman SUB EDITOR Graham Robson DESIGN Michèle Allardyce FRONT COVER MODEL Karl Baralover PHOTOGRAPHER Nick Ford Photography,19 Oxford Street Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4LA N 07834 912247 FEATURES I @nickfordphotography D www.nickfordphotography.co.uk 16 THE VIEW FROM PARLIAMENT How are Brighton & Hove’s three MPs handling business in the wake of CONTRIBUTORS the coronavirus pandemic? Simon Adams, Steve Ashfield, Jaq Bayles, Jo Bourne, Nick Boston, Matt Boyles, Brian Butler, Billie Gold, 18 GROWING OLD GRATEFULLY Richard Jeneway, Craig Hanlon-Smith, Jane Traies talks about the trials and tribulations of growing up lesbian Samuel Hall, Frances Hubbard, Laurie Lavender, Enzo Marra, Eric Page, 19 WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE... Emma Rylands, Gay Socrates, Hanni Pidduck on what she thought she saw coming Michael Steinhage, Glen Stevens, CAMELFORD Duncan Stewart, Paul Thomas, Netty Wendt, Roger Wheeler, 20 THE AGES OF MAN Finn reflects on how transitioning can mess with chronological time Kate Wildblood NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS 21 DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT LIVES 3 News Creag Aaro, Steven Chantrey, Nick Change has been a theme throughout writer Freiya Benson’s life to date Ford, Jack Lynn, Manel Ortega, Simon Pepper ARTS 22 BRIDGING THE GENERATION GAP Lee Smith from Hear Us Out on a rich diversity of experiences 60 Classical Notes 61 Art Matters 23 THE NEW AGE Persia West on reaching a time of balance and contentment 61 All That Jazz 62 Page’s Pages 24 FIGHTING HIV STIGMA Baroness Joyce Gould of Potternewton talks about changing attitudes © GSCENE 2020 towards HIV and her work with the Martin Fisher Foundation REGULARS All work appearing in Gscene Ltd is copyright. 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But it’s not just about Europe 69 Queenie’s Strip Service 31 CHOIRS IN LOCKDOWN Four of Brighton’s local choir music directors, Sam Cousins, Joe Paxton, INFORMATION Stefan Holmstrom and Aneesa Chaudhry, on how they fill their time 70 Services Directory 71 Classifieds 32 SCENE FROM THE SOFA Performers and DJs from Brighton’s LGBTQ+ venues reveal how they’ve 72 Advertisers’ Map been spending their time and plans for when COVID is COV-er... CHARLES STREET DAILY NEWS UPDATES ON 3 WWW.GSCENE.COM ) BRIGHTON & HOVE PRIDE PRIDE POSTPONEMENT’S #ALLINTHISTOGETHER WIDE RAMIFICATIONS ) Since the announcement that this year’s Brighton & Hove Pride 30th anniversary celebration has been Brighton & Hove Pride and the Brighton Rainbow Fund organisers have spoken out postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the about how the postponement of this year’s event will have ramifications that “will be organisers have been in discussion with artists about the rescheduled dates and will relaunch the 2021 felt throughout the LGBTQ+ community as well as across the whole of the city”. festival and tickets later in the year. Existing ticket holders do not need to do anything – their tickets will be honoured and rolled over to the rescheduled event Rainbow Fund, Pride Social Impact Fund and on August 7-8, 2021, subject to landlord’s consent. Pride Cultural Development Fund, which “has In a statement the organisers said: “As a Pride with made a fundamental difference to the lives of purpose whose sole aim is to provide benefit to the thousands of people in our communities”. community or to trade with a ‘social purpose’, we’re Kemp added: “Clearly there’s going to be an impact overwhelmed that so many ticket holders have chosen on this year’s Pride fundraising, but we are exploring to retain their tickets for next year’s events or donated ideas with our community partners on how we might them back to support Pride going forward and our do something in August to help raise additional much essential fundraising for local community needed community funds.” organisations.” Pride is the biggest fundraiser for the Brighton Many local charities and community organisations Rainbow Fund, which is a central distribution point rely on Pride for fundraising to get them through the ) Paul Kemp, Pride managing director, said: “For for grants to 23 local LGBTQ+ and HIV projects. year. If you are able to donate your ticket from this many LGBTQ+ people, Pride is the only time they year’s event to support Pride going forward and its Chris Gull, chair of the Brighton essential community fundraising, visit: come together and feel part of a community. It is a Rainbow Fund, said: “It is these time to connect with other marginalised groups to projects, and the people they www.brighton-pride.org/donate-your-ticket-to- CHRIS GULL give as well as receive support.” support, that will notice the effects help-prides-community-fundraising/ It was announced last month that the 30th anniversary of reduced fundraising this year, As a thank you, those who donate their tickets from Fabuloso Pride would not be going ahead this year not just from the cancellation of this year's Pride will receive priority purchasing in light of the coronavirus pandemic, with the event Pride, but also other fundraisers such as Brighton options in next year’s pre-release ticket sale. joining other major local and UK casualties, including Bear Weekend, and the closure of venues that have If you would like to support the the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals. The celebration been important to our fundraising, both by organising essential work of local community will now be held over the weekend of August 7-8, events and by hosting our collection tins. We also rely organisations, you can donate to the 2021, subject to landlord’s consent. on individual donors, who may be affected by the , which upcoming ‘downturn’. Brighton Rainbow Fund “Organising Pride is a year-round gives grants to local LGBTQ+/HIV endeavour and we have already “Like everybody else we have no idea how much we groups who deliver effective frontline paid out on things like artists’ will have to distribute in October, but we do know that services to people in the city. To deposits, contractors’ deposits we’ll have to make some tough decisions. donate, visit: www.rainbow- and fees, press and marketing, “Pride is our biggest fundraiser and looking beyond fund.org/donations/ PAUL KEMP staff costs and infrastructure,” the short term it’s important that it survives to Brighton Rainbow Fund said: “Under the current said Kemp. “The pandemic is devastating for the continue raising funds for our community stewardship, since 2013, the annual event has raised whole leisure and events industry and the jobs of organisations for many years to come. To that end just under a million pounds for good causes in suppliers and contractors where the majority of we’re asking everybody who would have attended Brighton & Hove, the vast majority of it distributed income comes during the summer months. It's Pride this year, and helped to raise funds through through the Brighton Rainbow Fund to local LGBTQ+ becoming inevitable that insurance and suppliers’ their attendance, to consider donating some of the specific projects, which make a fundamental costs for all major events will increase. money they’d have spent that weekend directly to the difference to the lives of hundreds of people in our “Our priority right now is to ensure we are in a fit state Brighton Rainbow Fund using the donate button on communities. On behalf of the projects we support, going forward to deliver an event next year while the website www.rainbow-fund.org” and the people they support, we’re asking ticket holders to consider the option of not claiming a continuing to support the Brighton Rainbow Fund and Both Pride and the Brighton Rainbow Fund are calling refund… in effect making a donation to allow them to our community organisations. There are real on those who had already bought tickets to consider continue their valuable work for another year.” challenges ahead, but with support from our partner the option of ‘donating’ the ticket price by not agencies, council and the community, we are claiming a refund. Pride will give anyone who does In a statement, the Pride Social confident we’ll get through this crisis.