The Return of Queer on the Pier
By Emma Joliffe Like A Pier A pier is a structure that shouldn’t really exist. Rusting metal legs, extending into the sea - it’s a completely mad Victorian invention, and the beautifully rich history of ‘end of the pier’ variety helps…
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…