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In Terra Aliena: Utopia Ensemble
Finding home on foreign ground On the last Saturday of BREMF, St Martin’s Church became a place of hush. Belgium’s Utopia Ensemble closed the festival with In Terra Aliena, an evening of sixteenth-century polyphony about leaving one place and searching for another. The music is five centuries old, the feeling is not. For anyone who has packed a bag to become themselves somewhere new, it spoke with a tenderness that was almost uncomfortable.
Lunaris at St Nicholas: BREMF
At BREMF on Sunday, 18 October, Anna Stegmannand Jorge Jiménez stepped in at short notice and gave one of the festival’s most absorbing evenings. Their programme follows the moon through new, crescent, full and eclipse, and uses the cycle to link medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and modern music. The moon is the sky’s great shapeshifter, a symbol of transformation, longing and renewal, and the evening treated the borders between eras and styles as porous rather than fixed.
REVIEW: The Haunting of Hill House @ Theatre Royal Brighton
Shirley Jackson’s Eleanor Vance has long been something of a patron saint for queer readers: a lonely woman desperate to be chosen, and the magnetic, bohemian Theodora who becomes the object of her fixation. In the novel that bond is the emotional core, with Eleanor’s lukewarm interest in Luke fading beside her devotion to Theo. Jackson was sly about it, too.
The Original Evil Lesbian: Why 'Regiment of Women' deserves her comeback
The Original Evil Lesbian: Why 'Regiment of Women' deserves her comeback Rediscovering Clare Hartill now, over a century on, feels less like unearthing a curiosity and more like finally getting the context for every glamorous, terrifying queer woman who came after her.
Angel's Bone @ ENO
Du Yun’s Pulitzer-winning Angel’s Bone at ENO is a relentless, interval-free fable of trafficking, voyeurism and fame. Revolving sets, live video and a fearless score implicate us all. Flawed in places, but brave, unsettling and unforgettable.
Review: Natural Behaviour by Thick & Tight
Part variety night, part biology lecture sprung to life, part clarion call of UK biodiversity loss, Thick & Tight’s award-winning Natural Behaviour is a gallery of performed portraits of human and non-human creatures. At the Corn Exchange it asked a deceptively simple question, what counts as natural, and answered it by celebrating the diversity that all life depends on. Its queer perspective is focused, 360° and 20/20.
A Rare Chance to Stand Before the Quilt
Five blocks of the UK AIDS Quilt will be on display to the public until Sunday 18 October at the Meeting House on the University of Sussex campus, as part of the Coast is Queer literary festival. There are exhibitions you visit and exhibitions that visit you. The UK AIDS Quilt belongs firmly to the second kind.
Early Music, Fresh Voices: BREMF’s Emerging Artists shine at St Paul’s
BREMF’s Emerging Artists Showcase, a fixture of the festival calendar, filled St Paul’s on 10 October with four young ensembles and left me buoyant. Photo credit Les Acolytes Les Acolytes opened with a sweep through the French Baroque, taking in Boismortier’s pastoral opera Daphnis et Chloé, Couperin and Leclair. These four friends feel French repertoire is sorely neglected in concert programming, and they made a persuasive case.
Around the World with Dibbles: a global adventure for Photo Fringe
Dibbles is a small bear and the mascot of theGay Men’s Chorus. He set sail on a world cruise with photographer Nick Ford on the MV Aurora. Over the voyage he crossed the equator, the international date line and every time zone, hopping in and out of camera bags along the way. He visited far-flung continents, made friends wherever he went, and may well be the only bear to have travelled through both the Panama and Suez Canals.
The Fairy Queen Purcell @ BREMF
Purcell’s fairies hold court in Kemp Town Few rooms could suit Purcell’s The Fairy Queen as well as St George’s Church, where Brighton Early Music Festival presented the 1692 semi-opera on Friday night. The high vaults and clean Georgian lines lent the music a crisp, detailed elegance, as though the building had been drawn to the score’s measure. Its Kemp Town setting, in Brighton’s queer heartland, felt apt for a work devoted to enchantment, disguise and desire.
Coast is Queer: Some highlights to look forward to
Forget the seafront: this year’s Coast is Queer docks a short hop up the 25 bus at ACCA, on the University of Sussex campus. From 16 to 18 October, writers, thinkers and delightful troublemakers sail in to talk bodies, history, family and fame. Hoist your tote bag, because here are some highlights to look forward to.
Spiritato's The Planets: A baroque voyage through the heavens
Some concerts quietly rearrange the furniture of your imagination. Spiritato's The Planets, heard at St Martin's Church on 3 October did that. Led by violinist Kinga Ujszászi, the ensemble asks what a planetary suite might have sounded like had it appeared two centuries before Holst, and answers by stitching one together from 17th- and 18th-century gems. The outcome is inventive, sparkling and wonderfully joyful, an evening that sends you back into the Brighton night humming.
Queer, Loud and Proud: Brighton Dome's autumn season Is unmissable
Kicking things off in the Corn Exchange, Thick & Tight bring their acclaimed Natural Behaviour to Brighton on 13 October, gloriously unclassifiable work. Part dance piece, part theatrical lecture, part fever dream, the show flings itself between species and genres, asking pointed, funny questions about what "natural" even means.
What Is Your Body to You?
We asked four queer people, from four different decades of life What Is Your Body to You? Samson, 20’s. Gay, Trans guy, doctor of dirty drawings Ade, 30’s Gay, feeling like my life just started Billie, 40’s Gay, neuroatypical, living with chronic physical and neurological conditions, still showing up Finola, 70’s Irish, lesbian, mother, grandmother, disabled woman When did you first notice your body was being watched Finola: “Age 5, at RC school, taught by Sisters of Mercy.
Crowd Voltage by John McCullough
There's a reason "finding your people" functions as something close to queer scripture. We've all lived the before-and-after of it: the long, singular years, and then the sudden plural — the moment a lone pronoun finds its crowd and gets to multiply. You become one of the cool kids, finally granted the dignity of we. John McCullough's fifth collection, out now from Bloodaxe, takes that founding myth and runs a current through it, title and all.
The Queerest of Folk by Russell T Davies
Darlings, get the kettle on and clear an evening, because Russell T Davies has finally sat down to tell us how the sausage, sorry, the drama, gets made, and it is every bit as fizzy, filthy and heart-cracking as you'd hope. For five decades now, this proudly Welsh writer has been quietly (and not so quietly) rewiring British telly from the inside, splitting his time between Cardiff and Manchester and never letting either place stop shaping his voice.
REVIEW: 'The Ayatollah's Gaze' by Majid Parsa
There is a specific ache that comes from growing up between two versions of yourself, and Majid Parsa's debut memoir, The Ayatollah's Gaze, sits squarely inside that ache and makes something luminous out of it. The call to dawn prayer drifting over rooftops as worshippers head to the mosque, while elsewhere in the same city, that same sound is the cue for a different kind of gathering to disperse.
REVIEW: Queerphoria: VERVE Voices
Four housemates welcome the reader into their home for a birthday party. An elderly widow visits her first queer bar, beneath the flat she shared with her husband. A couple invite a shipwrecked sailor into their isolated lighthouse on the stormy night of their thirtieth anniversary. A single woman embarks on a romantic relationship with a sex robot. A married couple secretly prepare for their baby's arrival in a world where procreation is controlled by the Establishment.
Highlights from BREMF 2026: Bringers of dreams
Booking has opened for Brighton Early Music Festival's 2026 season, here's a closer look at what's on offer, from this superb programme that showcases just how much range early music can cover, from grand orchestral reimaginings to intimate late-night song. Pre-festival: 19–27 September The season opens gently with a free Polyphony Crawl on 19 September, short performances by the BREMF Consort of Voices staged across four churches in the city.
Queer Bloomsbury: a celebration of queer imagination, art and community at Charleston
From radical conversations and drag-infused performance to live art, cabaret spirit and a midsummer dancefloor, Queer Bloomsbury 2026 is set to transform Charleston House and Gardens into a vibrant showcase of LGBTQ+ creativity on 15 August.
Brighton Early Music Festival returns with a world-class season of dreams
Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) has opened its priority booking window, giving members of its Festival Friends scheme first access to tickets for the 2026 programme, themed Bringers of Dreams. General booking opens on Monday, 3 August.
REVIEW: 'Our Shadow Selves' by VG Lee
VG Lee's Our Shadow Selves is a slow-burn, seaside-gothic thriller that creeps rather than crashes. Artist Shona Blake moves in with Richard, the man who once exploited her darkest history, and old wounds reopen fast. The pair share a crumbling house in Hawksbridge, a town so atmospherically decayed it functions almost as its own character. Together they cling, seeking some kind of hetro sanctury but thier hearts toll queer.
Dying to Live by Shell Rowe
Dear readers, gather round, because this one comes with a warning: you may finish it and immediately do something reckless, like booking that trip, texting your ex a healthy goodbye, or finally dyeing your hair the colour you've been Pinterest-boarding since 2019. Shell Rowe is not a stranger to a comeback.
Abigail's Party @ Theatre Royal Brighton
There's a particular strangeness in watching a piece of queer-adjacent camp iconography turn into comfort food. Abigail's Party has long occupied a funny corner of gay cultural memory; Beverly Moss as accidental drag icon, that swaying dance to Demis Roussos passed round at parties for decades, the cheese-and-pineapple hospitality of hell quoted back and forth like scripture.
Review: Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter
Charlie Porter's debut novel arrives with a deceptively quiet premise. Johnny is 19 when he meets Jerry, who is 45 and HIV positive, in early 1990s London. They fall in love, make a home together in a council flat in the East End, and build a life on their own terms. Then Jerry dies quickly in the summer of 1995, just months before combination therapies transformed HIV from a death sentence into a manageable condition. The timing is devastating, and Porter knows exactly what to do with it.
Review: Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
P.J. Vernon'sdebut thriller is an unflinching piece of queer fiction that explores the messy, complicated, fully human interior life of queer/gay men navigating desire, secrecy, and the terrifying distance between who we are and who we've promised to be. At its heart, Bath Haus is a love story gone wrong in the most visceral way possible.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert @ Theatre Royal Brighton
There's a difference between a show that's queer and a show that's selling queerness, and somewhere on the road from Sydney drag bar to West End jukebox musical, Priscilla lost track of which one it is. This touring revival is glossy, loud, and relentlessly, exhaustingly fabulous, and from where I sat, it felt less like a celebration of our community than a polished product wearing our colours to sell tickets.
Elton, Reimagined: Jess Robinson brings her joyous Cabinet of Voices to Old Market
There are few artists whose catalogues feel more inherently queer than Elton John's. From the glittering excess of his stage persona to decades of outspoken activism, from Rocket Man's barely-coded longing to his friendship with Diana, his fundraising for HIV charities, and his long marriage to David Furnish, Elton has always belonged, at least in part, to us.
Becoming George by Fiona Sampson
"My friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress... So take me for a man or a woman as you wish." These words, written by Aurore Dupin; the woman the world would come to know as George Sand, carry across two centuries with startling freshness. They read like a declaration still being made on dancefloors, in courtrooms, and in the pages of contemporary queer fiction.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo Theatre Royal Brighton
There are productions that reach inside you and send you back out into the night a slightly different person. The Beekeeper of Aleppo is one of these. Adapted by Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler, the dramatist who gave us The Kite Runner, from Christy Lefteri's internationally bestselling novel, this is a story that may be new to many audiences. It asks only that you show up and allow yourself to feel. Nuri is a Syrian beekeeper; Afra, his wife, a gifted artist.
'Love Has No Gender.' Daividh Campbell, singer and radio DJ
A hat-trick on the LGBTQ+ Music Chart, a neurodivergent artist who'd rather make a noise than make a scene, and one of this summer's most quietly radical Pride anthems. We sat down with Daividh Campbell. There's a track climbing the LGBTQ+ Music Chart right now Love Has No Gender by Strange World Music feat. Daividh Campbell. Brighton-based singer and Trans Radio UK presenter Daividh Campbell has form here.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Theatre Royal Brighton
Brighton knows a thing or two about double lives. About the performative and the hidden, the public face and the private truth. This quietly accomplished production of David Eldridge's adaptation of John le Carré's classic Cold War novel echo's here, in a city built on the idea that identity is layered, and that survival often demands concealment. Le Carré's world is one where nobody is entirely who they claim to be, where allegiance is a costume and ideology a disguise.
Watch LIVE: Air attack underway on brush fire burning in Ramona
Seven acres of brush burned around midday in Ramona on Monday. A large plume of smoke was visible for miles from the flames burning north of state Route 67 at Rancho Maria Lane, officals said. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7. The so-called Main Fire burned in an area of light, flashy fuels, authorities said. At least three aircraft were involved in the fire fight and were spotted dropping retardant.
CRUDI DENCH: SOMEONE HELP HER! WundaBarn @ Brighton Fringe
There is a particular kind of drag that operates like a heat-seeking missile locked onto joy, loud, shameless, gloriously weaponised warmth and Crudi Dench has it in abundance.
Sister Roma: Nearly Half a Century in the Habit
How did you first find the Sisters and your way into the habit? I moved to San Francisco and lived hedonistically for the first two years. Then I met the Sisters through my friend Norman, who was Sister Luscious Lashes. I was at the Midnight Sun when she walked in, a gorgeous clown showgirl nun. I learned about the activism and the HIV and AIDS work the Sisters were doing and started volunteering as my secular self. I was immediately impressed by their bravery and compassion.
ALL MY EX LOVERS ARE DEAD Brighton Fringe
There is a passage in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, that fever-dream prose poem of devastating romantic obsession, where the narrator describes love not as arrival but as permanent, irreversible alteration: to have loved is to have been geologically changed, the landscape of the self rearranged without consent and without possibility of restoration.
Twins - A Split Bill @ Brighton Fringe
Standing on a stage beside the person who shares your DNA and saying look how differently we turned out is the animating logic behind Twins – A Split Bill, the joint venture from brothers Chris and Matthew Ali. The billing promises two individual sets followed by a double-act section, and the first half delivers; both men working their own material with genuine assurance.
GODZ: Brighton Fringe. Head First Acrobats
Let's be honest: Head First Acrobats always know exactly who fills their seats. They've been returning to Brighton Fringe for years now, touring the world in between, collecting awards like Hercules collects admirers, effortlessly and in abundance. And with GODZ, their riotous, gloriously sweaty romp through the pleasures of Mount Olympus, they don't just know their audience. They worship us right back. With interest.
The Shape of Things Undone Audio monologue @ Brighton Fringe
There are moments in performance when the world outside ceases to exist, when whatever patch of pavement you happen to be standing on, whatever kitchen you are drifting through, becomes unexpectedly, the only room that matters. Lita Doolan's The Shape of Things Undone does exactly that. I listened walking along the seafront, wind in my ears, and within minutes I had forgotten the sea entirely.
All Star Circus: Head First Spiegel Gardens, Fringe
Brighton Fringe never has a shortage of circus on offer, All Star Circus from the multi-award-winning Head First Acrobats earns its place at the top of the pile for families looking for something genuinely exciting. The Spiegeltent is an experience. Its mirrored interior and circus-tent canopy carry an atmosphere that whispers of a long tradition of travelling performers, outsiders, and artists who have always made space for anyone.
SADOMUSICAL @ The Actors Theatre
Let's get one thing straight, although in Brighton, very little is. Sadomusical is the kind of show that grabs you, ties you down, and absolutely refuses to let you leave without a grin stapled to your face. From Similar River part of the award-winning team behind CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation,Lee Apsey and Jayda Fogel arrive at The Actors Theatre armed with electric shock prods, mousetraps, bamboo canes, elastic bands, and reckless creative ambition that ought to come with a safe word.
Family of one of Islamic Center shooters breaks silence, releases statement
One of the teen gunmen who killed three people earlier this week at San Diego's largest mosque has released a statement in which, among other things, they condemn the violence and extend condolences to the victims of the hate-fueled attack. A fourth man, an unidentified landscaper who was shot at as the killers fled the scene, was unharmed. The shooters killed themselves a short while later, according to police. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7.
Live updates: Maya Millete's father to resume testifying following courtoom chaos
May "Maya" Millete was last seen on Jan. 7, 2021, at her Chula Vista home Maya's disappearance occurred days before the family was to travel to Big Bear for her daughter’s birthday. Maya's sister called Chula Vista police on Jan. 9 to report her missing Larry was arrested in October of that year and was charged with murder in the first degree, as well as a weapons charge connected to a gun found during one of multiple searches of their home.
Live updates: Witness testimony begins at Millete murder trial
May "Maya" Millete was last seen on Jan. 7, 2021, at her Chula Vista home Maya's disappearance occurred days before the family was to travel to Big Bear for her daughter’s birthday. Maya's sister called Chula Vista police on Jan. 9 to report her missing Larry was arrested in October of that year and was charged with murder in the first degree, as well as a weapons charge connected to a gun found during one of multiple searches of their home.
Bed Bath & Beyond coming back to San Diego — sort of
Locals who may recall with sadness the day back in January 2023 when the home-goods destination Bed Bath & Beyond announced it was shuttering its two San Diego locations will likely find some retail therapy in Thursday's announcement by the chain that returning to America's Finest City, at least in part.
Watch LIVE — Mountain climbers on El Cap call for rescue
Three mountain climbers stuck on the face of El Capitan in El Monte Park in Lakeside put out a call for help on Monday afternoon. First-responders said one of the climbers called 911 for a rescue at the county park. The trio is currently stuck about 100 feet from the base of El Cap. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7. The county's ASTREA chopper, which arrived on scene around 2:45 p.m. and lowered a rescuer to the ground, then went to refuel.
Smoking weed as a teen might change your life for the worse — UC San Diego study
Researchers at UC San Diego have confirmed something that has long been suspected anecdotally: Those stoned kids in high school just don't keep up. According to a recently released study involving more than 11,000 teens who were tracked from the age of 9-10 until they were 16-17, "cannabis use [is] tied to slower gains in memory, focus and thinking speed, as well as worse memory over time during key years of brain development." Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7.
Dead woman found floating near Coronado Yacht Club
A screen grab of the Coronado Yacht Club from Glorietta Bay. First responders were called out Wednesday morning in Coronado after a witness reported spotting a body floating offshore. Coronado police officers were called out a little after 11:30 a.m. to investigate the incident in Glorietta Bay. According to investigators, passers-by spotted a woman, who was unconscious, in the water and pulled her to the dock at the Coronado Yacht Club.
Trump endorses Desmond in 48th Congressional District race
President Donald Trump jumped into one of San Diego's local races on Tuesday, endorsing Jim Desmond's bid for the redrawn 48th Congressional District. In a post to the Truth social media platform, Trump said that Desmond, who is currently on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors representing District 5 in North and East County, has his "complete and total endorsement." Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7.
Homicide investigation underway near Fashion Valley mall after body found
NBC 7 San Diego police are searching for a suspect after a body was found near the Fashion Valley Mall Trolley Station overnight Wednesday, police said. An anonymous caller reported around 12:30 a.m. a body with injuries to the upper body at a park near Fashion Valley Road and Riverwalk Drive, adjacent to the Metropolitan Transit System's stop, San Diego police said.
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