Out In Brighton With Kathy Caton

Welcome to February and LGBT History Month - and with it, Brighton’s first B Right On festival. We’ve a run down of the first batch of events and bio drag queen Stella Pint - aka Ali Hendry-Ballard - is in to talk about the event she’s compering, and why LGBT History Month matters - Latest TV’s Sophie Cook is in for her first Out In Brighton visit - we’ll be talking about her experiences in premiership football, and the big plans she’s got for boosting LGBTQ visibility on screen - And our soundtrack through the hour will be provided by the frankly brilliant Frankie Furlow, live in session

If you’ve made it this far in Dry January, I salute you - or if it’s all caught up with you and you’re riddled with cold (as I am) - I salute you, too. This week, we’ll be hearing from the Latest TV’s creative director Andrew Kay, who’s in with exciting news about what the channel is planning in terms of LGBTQ coverage. We’ll also be looking at his writing career and having a bit of a general purpose gossip There’s a stellar line up coming to the Komedia on the 29th with Broken Biscuits featuring Joanne Neary, Mr B the gentleman rhymer and our very own Lorraine Bowen - event organiser Idle Eye will be in to tell all And it’s nearly time for the B Right On festival to celebrate LGBT History Month in February - Billie Lewis will be here, and to round you up to the celebration show!

It’s our first show of 2017, and as we merrily wash our hands of the last year, there’s plenty to look forwards to in the year ahead:- - Brighton is getting its first LGBT History Month festival - Billie Lewis of the Community Safety Forum give us the lowdown on the B Right On festival. Get your diary out! - And keep your diary out as Roni Guetta of Traumfrau will be in with the rundown of the events they’re planning over coming months, including the return of the Lesbian Lives conference to Brighton and plans for International Women's Day - And we’re joined by Out In Brighton sponsor Brian Warren of Quick HR to hear about what they do - and why...

We look back on the year many will be glad to say good riddance to - Sussex Police's LGBG Liaison Rory Finn and G Scene editor James Ledward look back at some of the major LGBT events of 2016, acknowledge those we've lost and salute some of our local heroes too.

We look back at the highs - and undeniable lows - of 2016 with Rory Finn, Sussex LGBT Liaison and Trans Can Sport activist, and James Ledward, editor of G Scene Magazine and photographer at large. And we salute the work of Billie Lewis, Jo Rowland-Stuart, Professor Kath Browne, Paul Kemp, Dulcie Weaver, Aaron Lawrence aka Spice, and remembering Gonul Zeki and Chris Cooke too.

- Shock news of the threatened closure of the Sussex Beacon in what will be its 25th year of operation - Simon Dowe and Jason Warriner discuss possible - The divine David Sheppeard of the Marlborough pub and theatre looks back on a vintage year for the Marly, and tells us how you can sign up as a Marly mate - Brighton Bear Weekend’s Graham Munday on their Camelford Christmas Quiz and a look ahead to 2017 - And the return of Brighton’s drag king night Kingdom - Rosie Blackwell-Sutton gives us the low down, joined by George Michelle and Max Legroom

- In the week of World Aids Day, we mark this global event with exclusive excerpts from HIV Happy Hour’s special programme - Jacob Engelberg of Eyes Wide Open Cinema talks about their special screening for WAD and looks forward over their programming for the next few months - And Martin Chatfield, the presenter of the groundbreaking HIV Happy Hour - talks to us about the UK’s first regular radio show by and for those living with HIV

In this week’s show, we turn the whole thing over to Sound Women of Brighton - we’re celebrating Reverb’s female broadcasters, the voices from the LGBT spectrum that we get on air - and also marking and looking back at the work of Sound Women, the nationwide organisation for women working in audio - and asking what next for it? We hear from Charlotte Petts, Lulu Baker, Kelly Westlake, Tracey Allen, Ellie Dobing and Melita Dennett

- We celebrate Reverb’s female broadcasters at the next Sound Women Brighton meet-up - Reverb director and particularly sound woman Ellie Dobing is in - Kat Clifford and the LGBTQ punk band Floating Palace of Sin are in - and we air their new single Xena Made Me Gay - and LGBT literary events at the library

We’ve got a special for you this week - it’s a new era for the Clare Project - I’m joined by Dr Sam Hall, chair of the Clare Project, and Trustee D Humphreys - with a full update on everything that’s going on at the Clare Project, and we’ll be looking too at the wider landscape and at some of the current news issues, including the backlash against the BBC for its children’s drama Just A Girl

- Graham Munday of the Brighton Bear Weekend is in with a seasonal update and a look ahead to all things Bear Shaped - A day in the lift of an adventurer - we’ll be joined by the winter sports specialist Floss from Freefloski about what she does, why she does it - and the adrenaline highs and lows - and also to talk about European Snowpride - And the Black British LGBT classic The Passion of Rememberance is screened at the Duke of York’s cinema

- We’re taking an academic bent this week, as we welcome in to the studio Kath Browne, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton, ahead of her inaugural public lecture - Andrea Francisco Amat, visiting researcher on the Empower! Collective LGBTQ+ Diary project - Laura Poch, educational worker from the NGO Enruta't - The ‘Alan Turing’ law sees the pardoning of convictions of thousands of men penalised for same-sex relationships - but does it go far enough?

- The divine, decadent, gin-soaked troubadour Mister Joe Black - There’s a plethora of queer delights as the Brighton Photo Biennial continues - And we have an exclusive, extended interview with the author and Polari literary salon host Paul Burston - we’ll be talking activism, this year’s Polari First Book Prize, what it’s like to see your book in the top ten on the high street, and will it all be in the memoirs, darling?

- David Sheppeard, of the Marlborough Pub and Theatre and the Pink Fringe, is in with a full update on what you can expect from them over the autumn - plus how you can get involved in their queer history project, and big news on an Arts Council front too - It’s your last call for Bear Patrol Hibernation tickets - And we’ve an exclusive for you as Dr Nick McGlynn of the LGBTQ Liveable Lives project brings his project partners from Kolkata in to the studio - we’ll be hearing from Sappho for Equality - the only lesbian, bi women and trans men organisation in Eastern India.

- The Women Over Fifty Film Festival returns, double in size - we hear from festival director Nuala O’Sullivan - Alan Cumming sings sappy songs at the Brighton Dome - Dr Nick McGlyn from the University of Brighton has a full update on the LGBTQ Liveable Lives project - Jack Nuns, director of acclaimed short the Female Masculinity Appreciation Society - the inimitable Emma Inch, aka DJ Lonesome M, presenter of the Frockabilly radio show and Fermentation Radio Show too. bonanza! - And Simon Dowe with some very exciting news from the Sussex Beacon...

Archive podcast from 30th June - - the Pride Diversity Games are back - Steve Ashfield from BLAGSS has the details - Trans Pride Brighton is back - with a new location and running over 3 days - committee member Steph Scott will give us the look-ahead and Traumfrau’s Roni Guetta has the details of the Saturday night party - And Aaron Lawrence’s continues his year-long spectacular fundraising effort for MindOut with his My Costume Drama project - a year in fancy dress - we’re not sure what guise he’ll be turning up in today - and we’ll find out how he’s getting on in his quest to raise £15,000 for Brighton’s LGBTQ mental health project

We're off down the summercamp indie disco, looking back on some of our favourite tracks of the year so far, including a double dose of local heroes Seabed - catch them quick before they go stellar... Featuring:- Teleman; Seabed; John Grant; Pet Shop Boys; Cassius feat Cat Power; Miri; Riton; Fat White Family; Ghosts Of The Social Network; Nzca Lines; Tame Impala; The War On Drugs

It is very much *not* business as usual this week as the world-wide LGBTQ community continues to feel the aftershocks of the terrible events in Orlando. Joining Kathy Caton to reflect and discuss:- - Rory Smith, LGBT Liaison / Hate Crime Co-ordinator at Sussex Police - Jamed Ledward, editor of GScene magazine - The human geographer Professor Kath Browne, who specialises in place, gender and sexuality - Tarik Elmoutawakil of the Pink Fringe and queer venue The Marlborough Pub & Theatre

- Simon Dowe and Jason Warriner of the Sussex Beacon are in with a fundraising updated, and also to discuss the implications of the NHS announcement about PrEP - The Golden Handbags are here again - James Ledward, editor of GScene, is in with the full low down on the Handbags - and why they matter - The Brighton Bear Weekend is nearly here - we’ve your full cut out and keep guide to the weekend’s events with Graham Munday, Matt Brooks, and DJ Bozzy Bear - and Lunch Positive are inviting you to their 7th birthday lunch - Gary Pargeter with the details on that, and also to tell us about the difference that the funds raised by the Bear Weekend - and donated by the Rainbow Fund - make to them

- In an exclusive interview, we’re joined by the University of Brighton’s first out Vice Chancellor, Professor Debra Humphris, and by the human geographer Professor Kath Browne, in conversation about their experiences. - In another exclusive Professor Humphris will be giving this year’s LGBTQ Research Hub’s final year dissertation award - and we’ll hear from the recipient about their work, and what it means to them. - It’s the final week of the 2016 Brighton Fringe - Tarik Elmoutawakil rounds up the last of the shows at the the Marlborough Theatre. - And immersive, subversive artistic activities at Club Silencio at Subline - details on Brighton’s darkest cabaret night from DJ Juno and Ralph ThunderBear.