MAR 2017 CONTENTS GSCENE magazine ) www.gscene.com SUBLINE t @gscene f GScene.Brighton PUBLISHER Peter Storrow TEL 01273 749 947 EDITORIAL [email protected] ADS+ARTWORK [email protected] EDITORIAL TEAM James Ledward, Graham Robson, Sarah Green, Gary Hart, Alice Blezard SPORTS EDITOR Paul Gustafson ARTS EDITOR Michael Hootman SUB EDITOR Graham Robson DESIGN Michèle Allardyce FRONT COVER MODEL Maisie Trollette/David Raven PHOTOGRAPHER Hugo Michiels JOHN HAMILTON'S 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY CONTRIBUTORS Simon Adams, Jaq Bayles, Jo Bourne, Nick Boston, Suchi Chatterjee, NEWS Craig Hanlon-Smith, Samuel Hall, Enzo Marra, Carl Oprey, Eric Page, 6 News Del Sharp, Gay Socrates, Syd Spencer, Brian Stacey, Michael Steinhage, Sugar Swan, Glen Stevens, Duncan SCENE LISTINGS Stewart, Craig Storrie, Mike Wall, Netty Wendt, Roger Wheeler 30 Gscene Out & About 32 Brighton & Hove PHOTOGRAPHERS Alice Blezard, Jack Lynn, 46 Solent James Ledward, Graham Hobson @captaincockroachphotographer Hugo Michiels, Stella Pix ARTS 48 Arts News DOCTOR BRIGHTONS 49 Art Matters 50 Classical Notes 51 All That Jazz © GSCENE 2017 REGULARS All work appearing in Gscene Ltd is copyright. It is to be assumed that the 29 Dance Music copyright for material rests with the magazine unless otherwise stated on the 29 DJ Profile: Oli Leslie page concerned. 47 Shopping No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in an electronic or other retrieval system, transmitted in any 52 Geek Scene form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or 53 Craig’s Thoughts otherwise without the prior knowledge and consent of the publishers. 54 Charlie Says The appearance of any person or any organisation in Gscene is not to be 55 Hydes’ Hopes construed as an implication of the sexual MARINE TAVERN orientation or political persuasion of such 55 Duncan’s Domain persons or organisations. 56 Sharp Words FEATURES 57 Netty’s World L L A 57 Queenie’s Strip Service H N 25 DAVID RAVEN W 58 Ms Sugar Swan O T James Ledward touches base with the man behind drag N O T legend Maisie Trollette 59 Sam Trans Man H G I R B 60 MindOut T A T O 26 B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL N K E Photos from B RIGHT ON LGBT Festival at Phil Starr Pavilion H INFORMATION T D E I T 61 Services Directory E E L 28 MEN TALK HEALTH & 62 Classifieds N Damian Friel and Davey Shields chat to Craig Hanlon-Smith W O 63 Advertisers’ Map R about their new mental health venture for men B Y R A G 6 DAILY NEWS UPDATES ON ) WWW.GSCENE.COM GATWICK AIRPORT SPONSORS BRIGHTON PRIDE COMMUNITY PARADE 2017 Gatwick Airport, the UK's second largest airport, partners with Brighton BRIGHTON PRIDE Pride Festival 2017 to be the first ever sponsor of the event’s biggest ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL: attraction, the Brighton Pride Community Parade. SUMMER OF LOVE EXHIBITION first ever Community Parade sponsor. Gatwick enjoys close links with the Brighton community and has been ) 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the a strong supporter of the Pride event. partial decriminalisation of homosexuality for men in England and Wales. For more “With the airport just 30 minutes away by rail, we look than 80 years this Victorian piece of forward to welcoming many of the international visitors legislation forced gay men to live their lives who will once again be flying into Gatwick from the closeted and in the shadows. Meeting more than 220 destinations Gatwick serves.” potential partners or even just meeting with Last year's Brighton Pride Festival raised £100,000 friends socially was fraught with danger as N vigilante queer bashers or the risk of O for good causes bringing the total raised over the past S P prosecution and imprisonment by the police E J four years for LGBT and HIV organisations and good S I posed a constant threat. R causes across the city to £310,000 . Beneficiaries of H C Y grants have included Allsorts Youth Project , Blue B In 1967, thanks to the Wolfenden Report C I P Print 22 , Lunch Positive , LGBT Community Safety and campaigning by the Homosexual Law Forum , MindOut , Peer Action , Sussex Beacon and Reform Society , the law was finally ) Brighton Pride Festival takes place from August Clare Project . repealed and the Gay Liberation Front and 4-6, 2017 , with the parade taking place on Saturday , Gay Pride movement were established. August 5 . This premier LGBT+ community event has Paul Kemp , Brighton Pride become the UK's biggest Pride festival with over Community Interest Company, Finally, gay men emerged from the 300,000 people participating in the celebrations across said: “We’re delighted that Gatwick shadows and began the long journey to P the city last year. M Airport has once again partnered acceptance and full equality for LGBT+ E K L with Brighton & Hove Pride. Pride U communities everywhere. This year’s event, themed Summer of Love , will A P has evolved over the years with celebrate the 50th anniversary of the partial more communities coming together to celebrate the To celebrate this landmark anniversary, decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and diversity of our city. Many of our international visitors Brighton Pride are looking for a few good Wales. It is expected to a attract huge numbers of will fly into the event through Gatwick and, with grant men to take part in their Summer of participants, spectators and visitors from across Sussex funding no longer in existence, their support for the Love exhibition . and further afield for what Tourism South East says Community Parade is essential in enabling even more Curated by well-known photographer Chris is, "the biggest event and tourist attraction in Brighton" . community groups to participate in Sussex and Jepson MA ARPS, working alongside A spokesperson for Gatwick Airport said: “As a Brighton's biggest single event.” researcher and co-curator Kate Wildblood , partner of Brighton Pride, Gatwick is proud to be To purchase tickets online for Pride 2017, view: the exhibition will feature some of the brave leading this year's parade with our branded bus, as the www.brighton-pride.org men who lived through those early dark years, whose only chance of social contact with other gay men was at underground clubs where the risk of discovery and BRIGHTON PRIDE CALLS FOR IDEAS TO CELEBRATE imprisonment were ever-present. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT 1967 A celebration of their lives, battles and Young people’s charity, The Budding Foundation , In the first instance please email Chris at: victories, Summer of Love will connect us have been donated a bag of 580 mint uncirculated old [email protected] to the reality of life before decriminalisation pennies from 1967, the year the sexual offences law and reflect upon the rewards we all now changed. They are looking for an artist to use them for enjoy because of their fight for LGBT+ a piece to display as part of the Brighton Pride Arts equality. & Film Festival in July , to celebrate the 50th It won’t take a lot of your time. Chris will anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which meet you at a location convenient to you or decriminalised homosexual acts between two men a venue that holds particular memories to The coins could be used to clad a 3D sculpture, take portraits, chat and possibly take a welded together to create a structure, set in clear video. acrylic to make a picture or something else. Proposals If you would like to participate, or would are invited from local artists. like more details, please email The Budding Foundation accept donations of items to [email protected] or call: 07885 be sold on or used to raise funds for the charity and 958 953 any funds raised by this project would be designated For more information about the exhibition, for use locally in Brighton. view: http://SummerOfLove.co.uk DAILY NEWS UPDATES ON 7 WWW.GSCENE.COM ) THOUSANDS PARDONED THANKS OLDER & OUT GEMS LUNCH TO LIB DEM 'TURING LAW' ) Members from Older & Out and GEMS enjoyed a New Year’s lunch together at Pinocchios Restaurant on New Road in Brighton. ) The Government has posthumously pardon thousands of gay and bisexual men in England and Wales convicted of decades-old sexual offences. The so- called Alan Turing Law means about 49,000 men, who were found guilty of committing now-abolished offences while in consensual relationships, will be cleared. The pardons, first announced last year, have now been officially rubber- stamped after receiving Royal Assent in the Policing and Crime Bill . Sam Gyimah , Justice Minister, said: "We can never undo the hurt caused, but we have apologised and taken action to right these wrongs." Mathematician Alan Turing received a Royal Pardon in 2013, nearly 60 years after his suicide in 1954 following a conviction for gross indecency, after which he was G N I chemically castrated. The pardon followed a public campaign R U T which came to a climax in 2009 with former Prime Minister N A L A Gordon Brown apologising for Mr Turing's treatment. Turing's relatives later mounted a high-profile campaign to secure pardons for other men similarly convicted under the same historic indecency laws. John Sharkey , Liberal Democrat peer, whose original Private Members’ Bill was instrumental in securing a pardon for Alan Turing, reached an agreement with the Government in November 2016 to grant a posthumous pardon to thousands of gay and bisexual men convicted under long-abolished sexual offence laws. This followed a long-fought campaign by the Liberal Democrats who first raised the issue in Parliament in the early days of the Coalition Government.