Proem: 'ngs was FAB...' - by Luc

'ngs was FAB …'

 facilitator  acquaintances  buddies

 ( fundamentally Anthony’s baby )

freely appropriating Bowie

Fox’y-artful bounty

flattery – albeit banterish

flaming auburn beauty

 French adventure Biker…

= fostering amicable bonds

   funding & budget

  falldowns & backups

+ flexibility  and  – boundaries

fibromyalgic, Aspergic, bi-polar’d

femme–andro–boyish

fifties ‘adolescent’ = bewilderment,

   fugitive – acting bandit –

  feisty,  ( also bothersome )

   fetching  &  borrowing

  fettling  &  busying

f ‘ ing and blinding…

frivolity, angst, boredom

f***ing awesome brownies !

Funky artsy Brighton’s

Fotos-automatic-Booth

‘fame’  ·  autobiography  ·  ‘blagging’

Facebook and Blogger

( Fotobook:  Albelli,  Blurb ?? )

frequenting accessible ‘bogs’

filing,  albumising,  blogs

flora,  architecture,  bus-rides,

fooderies and beverages:

framed and boxed

 fearsome ‘assel-blad:

flash-fed as batteries-bled

flotsam-astray beaches

February awash: battered

  

fotopostering about Brighton

fallen,  awry,  binned:

fear-some?  awe-some?  bother-some?

furthering  &  bettering:

futile?  fascinating?

articulate?  anodyne?

banal?  brave?

finite analysis bafflesome…

finally…    

(flags & banners  •  flowers & badges)

… actualised book

= FAB !!

©  Luc(e) Raesmith

 with thanks to Pringle-jumper'd Shaun Levin for encouraging and

 editing creative writing for Queer in Brighton

re frequenting accessible ‘bogs’ - see the transgenderqueer space fotovideo 
in homage to the accessible public convenience at:
http://offthetrolleyproductions.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/transgenderqueerspace/

Live... by Edward

After all the weeks of work we put into creating our portraits, it was pretty exciting to finally see them, in all their giantness, up on the walls around brighton.

 

I was kinda surprised that when I found my poster I actually felt very self conscious. There are perhaps levels of being out.

 

Being out as trans to your friends and families is one thing, being out as T in a room of LGBT people who assume you're G is another thing. Having your face on the wall facing the seafront, identifying yourself as queer - thats a whole new world of out.

Taking part in the project was sometimes difficult for me, but only because I was unsure of how I fit the word 'queer' into my life, and how to find images that showed that. I didn't find the idea of being out as queer difficult, until I was on the side of a building.

Not that I regret doing it. I am just extremely lucky, that I have not faced intimidation on a regular basis because of my identity. I came out at my own pace, in my own time. I am unused to feeling exposed.

Queer in Brighton anthology featuring not going shopping launches tonight at Jubilee Library