Love on Parade
By Emma Joliffe As we enter Hastings Pride month, a must-see LGBT-themed exhibition comes to Hastings seafront. It revisits celebrated photographer Richard Ansett’s seminal series, Ron & Roger, 2001. This was a fascinating documentary of the first same-sex couples to…
Time To Show Hastings Rocks
BEN CORNWELL discovers that Hastings’ Fat Tuesday organisers are getting involved in a raft of new events over the coming months. You remember that feeling of the bass hitting your body like a wave upon the rocks? The thunderous roar…
A Summer of Queer Arts
By Emma Joliffe Queer arts have always enabled LGBTQ+ communities to deal with the particular bigotry of the age, either by creating visible, joyful acts of resistance or work which interrogates and challenges that bigotry. And in Hastings, with its…
COMMUNITY LEDGE #4: Alan Turing
This month we are honouring Alan Turing as our Community Ledge. Although he has won many plaudits, including BBC2’s ‘Greatest man of the 20th Century’, fewer people are aware of his early life in St Leonards. The interview is of…
Hastings Pride, Hastings Heroes
Hastings Pride is returning for a third year on Sunday 25th August with a colourful parade in the town centre and an afternoon and evening of music at the Oval. The theme is Heroes and that includes the whole of…
Pride versus The Egg: A Meaningful Vote
Hastings Pride, the LGBT+ celebration parade that will march through town on Sunday 25th August (the Bank Holiday weekend), has been short-listed for an award of up to £50,000 from the National Lottery. So has the Eggtooth Project, a Hastings-based…
Hastings Pride 2018
By Natasha Scott This year’s theme of Space & Aliens may seem a little bit out there, literally, but there is an underlying important reason. In the last twelve months, we have seen a rise in hate crime along with…
Hastings Pride Wants You
Artwork by Andre Pejic This year’s Hastings Pride is celebrating the Summer of Love; it’s been 50 years since people donned their flairs, dropped their weapons and celebrated love. It has also been fifty years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality:…
Hastings Pride: News, Updates, Wanting to Help and Everything Else
By Natasha Scott Anyone who wants to help in any way we would all very much love to hear from you to make what I hope becomes the Pride of Hastings. Our first meeting is going to be held: 7th…