The Team

Lisa Bentley

Lisa is the Managing Editor for Different Scene. She also contributes to More Than The Music were she writes a weekly music news column. You can follow her on Twitter @ljbentley27. For any media enquiries please email her at lisajade@differentscene.co.uk.

Matt Phil Carver

Matt is a film, TV, sports and lifestyle writer with degrees in Film Studies and Creative Writing. His Twitter handle is @mattphilcarver and email is matt@differentscene.co.uk

David Duran

David Duran is an American LGBT focused freelance journalist who frequently contributes to publications such as Out Magazine, The Advocate, The Bay Area reporter and Huffington Post. His writing is equally diverse as he often writes news stories, entertainment interviews, reviews, travel features and personal opinion pieces. He also has a biweekly business column that features successful LGBT entrepreneurs.

www.facebook.com/DavidDuranJournalist
www.twitter.com/theemuki
https://mrdavidduran.contently.com/

Steve Partridge

Steve was born in Coventry in 1985 and studied Christian theology at King’s College London. He dabbled in neo-Paganism, Scientology and Spiritualism before coming to the study of Christianity.

He is the author of two books: a memoir recounting his experiences of being a gay Christian in what he hopes is the style of David Sedaris, a short eBook, Theologically Speaking, which will be released in Winter 2012and he’s currently working on a third book about chess in Russia. In 2012 Steve was shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Festival Writers Den competition.

He has previously written about books, art, culture and religion for a range of online and print publications.

After five years in London he can now be found living in abject poverty in Berlin, smoking their cheap fags and drinking their even cheaper booze.

Edward Bonilla

Edward Bonilla is a marketing executive by day. By night he writes about entertainment for Different Scene and he is the editor or Tomorrows News – www.tomorrows-news.com. You can follow him on Twitter @Edward_Bonilla.

Andy Love

Andy is a Journalism and Media student; he is heavily involved in social media and writing for various websites. He is currently helping produce a weekly radio programme.

You can follow Andy via Twitter @Andyluv