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Golden Handbag Awards

Golden Handbag Awards

The Golden Handbag Awards has become Brighton's very own gay Oscars, raising money for good causes and recognising people and organisations within the Brighton LGBT scene.

Established in 1995 by Gscene's James Ledward, the annual event has now raised over £100,000 - making it the largest single fundraiser for LGBT causes in Brighton. Whilst the evening is intended, first and foremost, as a fundraiser it's perhaps unsurprising that the way there is often fierce campaigning to canvass votes in some of the categories.

REALBrighton has been supporting the awards for the last seven years by photographing, running the online voting and supporting the event on the day with an increasingly fabulous screenshow!

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Voting Now Open!

Thursday, 12th May 11

Voting the for Golden Handbags is now open... So sit down, grab a nice mug of tea and mull over all the lovely people, places and organisations that make the Brighton scene special for you... and then put virtual pen to paper at:

www.realbrighton.com/awards/goldenhandbags

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RT @djalexbaker: If you love Brighton's gay scene then please vote in the @goldenhandbags at http://t.co/KhR19TKs :-)About 3 days ago
RT @djalexbaker: Go out in Brighton? Please vote in the @GoldenHandbags - raising money for charity and celebrating the people who make ...About 5 days ago
How is the campaigning going? It's early still, not too late to start. What's the most shameless campaigning for votes you have seen so far?About 7 days ago
@AllanJay101 @djalexbaker We have indeed. I set it up to tweet the results as they happened. All Oscar-stylee. Hopefully same this year. :)About 17 days ago
RT @djalexbaker: Brighton's Gay Oscars, the @GoldenHandbags have joined the Twitter world!About 17 days ago
RT @Gscene: Tickets go on sale for Pride 2012: http://t.co/X9czRzXs http://t.co/VQqTwwVyAbout 19 days ago
Voting now open at http://t.co/jcPGz14I ...use the #goldenhandbags hash tag to shamelessly plug yourself!About 19 days ago

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The REALBrighton Quiz Challenge 2012

The REALBrighton Quiz Challenge 2012
Tuesday, 1 May 2012

A record 25 teams arrived to battle it out at REALBrighton's fifth annual Big Quiz Challenge at Charles Street last night... The cast of Steel Magnolias joined Lola Lasagne to present the winning

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