Poetry gets a bad rep; the poems we do at GCSE rarely connect us to the author. Whilst I read incredible works of poetic fiction, they always left 16-year-old me feeling distanced from the page. That was, until I watched spoken word performances, and later read the writings of Andrea […]
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The Verse’s Lynsey Downie reviews Pride, which took place in Brighton on 4th August 2018. The parade, colours, dancing, Britney. As always Pride came back a winner. With three hundred thousand people showing up for the weekend’s festivities, Pride was pretty hard to miss, as always. The festival started off […]
The Verse’s Alex Staddon headed down to the launch of the UK’s very first LGBT TV channel – Latest LGBT + … After twenty-five years of projects, crowd and self-funding and scrupulous planning, Brighton’s local television company Latest are bringing forth a new channel: Latest LGBT +. Twenty-five years. That’s a […]
The goal of Stonewall’s Equality Walk is to fundraise £40,000 to send role models into schools to share their personal stories with thousands of students and teachers. Why is this important? Being an LGBT child or teenager is not easy, and coming out in a mainly heterosexual world is even more difficult, […]
Germaine Greer’s recent award from Oldie magazine as Iconoclast of the Year has been met with some speculation, especially from that of the transgender community after her award was won because of her comments against them. To be an iconoclast is to be a person who attacks or criticises cherished […]
