April 2025 marks 50 years of Brighton LGBTQ+ Switchboard, AKA The Lavender Line, so I’ve looked into its origins.
Category: Events
We have new info about the Safari Bar! Brace yourself for small town gossip, the police, and an earlier opening date than we thought.
One little street in Torremolinos has a whole lot of LGBT history – from Spain’s first gay bar (probably), to mass arrests after a police raid.
Tales of Brighton’s queer seaside to accompany SEAS exhibition ‘The Queer Beach’ 29 January–11 February 2024.
It may have been a club performance with no legal standing, but for Dario and Macker the wedding was real.
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.
Brighton’s first Gay Pride in July 1973 was a week of events incorporating education, demonstration and celebration!
See Brighton Pride as you may never have seen it before, in some of the earliest known footage.