Tales of Brighton’s queer seaside to accompany SEAS exhibition ‘The Queer Beach’ 29 January–11 February 2024.
Author: alfleflo
In 2021, seven images of Brighton Gay Pride in 1973 were discovered. Having never been seen before, they are now permanently on public view in the city.
It may have been a club performance with no legal standing, but for Dario and Macker the wedding was real.
I asked members of the Sussex Gay Liberation Front what they thought about being photographed 50 years after the first Brighton Pride in 1973.
A memorable moment in the history of The Perfume Garden – Brighton’s polysexual hard house club of the early naughties.
The unusual tale of some gay mates turning the cafeteria of Bognor Regis zoo into a gay bar in 1983.
Some memories of the unique and wonderful Sylvester appearing in little old Brighton town.
A couple of short and juicy tales contributed to Brighton’s Seaside Stories, published in 2017 by QueenSpark Books.
Forty years after the first case of HIV in Brighton, we remember one brave man who welcomed the press to his hospital bedside in those early years.