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David

@davidbtn2.bsky.social
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Welsh, Brightonian, London librarian and writer (actively looking for a literary agent) The G & Q in LGBTQ+ (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 10h
Weak liberal jesus.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 4h
There’s so much I’ve had to let go but it’s good there’s so much creativity in the world by good people to counter that loss.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 4h
Series 2 was certainly variable. Great in places still tho. Series 1 was consistently hilarious 💕
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 4h
Same here. I taped it off the telly and almost wore the VHS out. Then I bought the box set on dvd but never watched it (cos of him). It’s a shame but I did watch it a lot 😂
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 7h
I think, now, it’s become logistically more complicated
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 7h
True, with two fewer venues on the front unlikely to be occupied by then, there'll only be the two queer venues there with a couple down side streets. Legends was so cishet for the 20 mins or so we endured the street party this year 😬
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 7h
I know what you mean about Hilton! And this year they're talking of JLo as headliner 🙄 I'm referring to the street party though and it's basically the sound systems and 'party in the street' atmosphere that attracts the cishets. It was always meant to be a queer social thing, not a club event.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 8h
We skipped the Saturday in the park this year but have to say, the Sunday was pretty good. Felt quieter but not quiet with only short queues, if any, for loos and the bar.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 8h
I think that's worth a go... I remember when it first started, they didn't have the huge sound systems blasting out music, it was just a day after main Pride where people gathered outside various pubs in the area. Maybe close a couple streets to traffic but that's all that's needed.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
We spent about the same amount of time. It was horrible. We went to a free Pride event down the road and it was so much nicer.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
And people like those in the KRA are just going to have to live with the mess that's been left behind. I guess this person can always get the council to pay for her to go away that weekend like they have done before 🙄
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
I think there's no point trying to fix the street party, it's been ruined by the cishets who took over, the cishets who campaigned to shut it down, and Brighton Pride. It's also no longer an LGBTQ+ pride event, it's a straight party. Smaller, free, locally run pride events have to be the future.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
change, you can't control what the change will be, especially when Brighton Pride think they can make a profit. So, the event that took place on two streets got shoved onto one with people still using the other street as well. This comment on the news site sums up the true motive...
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
down (even though many of us who actually live in the street affected want it). They have some legitimate concerns but there's no compromise as they say such events shouldn't be in residential areas (because no one lives in Notting Hill, Soho, Manchester etc 🙄). Thing is, when you push for a...
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
commercialisation of Brighton Pride. So what did Pride do? They took over, commercialised it and in doing so, it became over subscribed and created a cishet party. People like those in the KRA who live in the centre of one of the busiest and gayest places in the UK campaigned to shut this event...
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
I see the usual suspects of the Kemptown Resident's Association on FB are crowing about how they were right and this wouldn't work. No shit Sherlock 🙄 The Pride Village Party was a small, free event that began over a decade ago as an alternative to... www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/10/06/p...
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Pride Street Party’s move hasn’t worked, meeting told
Moving the Pride Street Party to Marine Parade has been a failed experiment, council and Pride bosses agreed at a
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
I really hope this link works cos there's the reveal... then there's the REVEAL! 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/Ddzd7Hp...
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 9h
Sue Perkins aside, that's the dinner table no one wants to be at. Utterly dreadful company 😂 A couple decades ago, I worked for a charity and we had Archer host an event for us... he turned up towards the end of the evening to give a speech that started with 'And what charity is this?' 😬
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 14h
George Fenton created some of the most beautiful, and at times peaceful, movie scores (Gandhi, Dangerous Liaisons, The Fisher King). My favourite has to be his score for 'Shadowlands'. RIP George. youtu.be/_O-UOFMvfyU?...
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Shadowlands - George Fenton - End Credits
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So, she didn't leave to spend more time with her kids. What a shocker! I'm guessing that Trump sticking her on a decoy plane while there was a serious threat might have sent her off to Fox 😬
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gorgeous light in Queen’s Park this morning 🌅
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I gave up on Big Brother years ago but it sounds like it's as unpleasant as ever with the latest being an anti-trans argument with Philip Regan (who seems to be a one-trick pony from Instagram or whatever). Ironically, he said 'you can't say anything anymore' while saying exactly what he wanted 🙄
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Almost a year after completing a final draft, I found an instance where I'd used 'quite' instead of 'quiet' 😬
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BearOfScots🎃🐾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @bearofscots.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eeek 4 weeks til Railroad Daddy is back in my life!🔥🍆💦
Cast poster for HBO’s “The Gilded Age” new season starting November 1 on HBO Max.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here are my 9 albums. I would have had 'Year One' by Sleeping at Last but it wasn't on the list and I didn't want to have more than 1 album for an artist or I would have included 'Both Sides Now' by Joni and 'Fumbling Towards Ecstasy' by Sarah.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AJ Pritchard
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How does someone go from being a professional dancer on Strictly to being a presenter on GB News? 😬
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That cat has the kind of face that wouldn’t surprise me if they started speaking 😂
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest review for @queerguru.bsky.social. The excellent 'Tuner' starring Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman. queerguru.com/queergurus-d...
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Queerguru's David Allen reviews Leo Woodall'S star turn with Dustin Hoffman in 'TUNER ' - QUEERGURU
The last time I saw Leo Woodall in anything, he was providing ‘services’ for his gay ‘uncle’ in the second season of ‘The White Lotus’ (that’s as queer-adjacent as this review gets, by the way).  In d...
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I thought you’d been quiet. Happiest of holidays Andy 💕
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’d no idea that this chap, Thom Higgins, the fella who pied Anita Bryant, also gave us the phrase ‘gay pride’ 🏳️‍🌈💕
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess they have a wet room so don’t need another shower.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We viewed a flat when looking for a current one and they had a half bath. It’s a space thing, and they can technically say it has a bath on the listing.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think the aliens’ head was modelled on a willy tbf so that figures
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tbf, I’m gay so what do I know? But I don’t think that’s what it looks like 😂
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Creative use of limited space, and I’m not opposed to colour but what’s the point of the (lime green) half-bath? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 for £485,000. Marketed by Mansell McTaggart, Brighton
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They're going for the folk who won't vote for Reform and Restore because they regard them as being too lefty liberal 😬
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tbf, I could have done that yesterday. I was waiting on the shoulder press and both were occupied by two guys who train together. They had really long rest times so could have easily used the same machine and if not, I could have asked to work in with one of them at least.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And because it's reached that point outside the station where it counts as having arrived on time, their appalling stats don't show how much shitter their service is. Also, if you're on the margins of 15 mins late, it won't count for delay repay 🙄
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
45 mins?! I’d ask how many he had left, and maybe if you can work in?
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hope you’re ok 🫂 Would you feel comfortable speaking to someone via a helpline?
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh it’s such a great movie, so well done. I could watch any of those leads in anything. If you get a chance, watch ‘Tony’ with Dominica Sessa in it. So good.
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking good Stephen! ❤️🎃
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Same here. Cool graphics! I checked a few other locations though and they all come out in an ocean somewhere. I wonder if any actually come out on land?
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And without a second thought, Bella’s colleagues refer to them as they. Then the penny drops in poor Julia’s peanut of a brain…
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Hades' Fiery Rage: What?!
ALT: Hades' Fiery Rage: What?!
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m going to have to use ‘I will organise the arrangements’ at work 😂
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More like this with me 😂
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Happ Y Birthday Old Lady
ALT: Happ Y Birthday Old Lady
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why do I never get the musicals kids? 😂
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Challenge for the day... If you have access to a Twitter account, do a search for 'Cornell' under any of the major gender critical accounts and see what they have to say about it... FWIW, Glinner is so busy calling people the 'r' word, he's forgotten to concern himself with VAWG this morning 🙄
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Tumbleweed Rolls Across Desert Highway
ALT: Tumbleweed Rolls Across Desert Highway
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So someone who only exposes herself to right-wing views, and in fact 'adores' them, asks people if they think she's right-wing? I'm loving that this bright spark calls her intelligent 😂
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