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Dirg and Ted’s Brighton Pride weekend

9 April 20262 May 2026 alfleflo

I was lucky enough to accompany Ted Brown and Dirg Aaab-Richards as they helped lead the parade at Brighton Pride in 2025.

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Sussex Lancers at Brighton Museum

15 February 202619 May 2026 alfleflo

An overview of the exhibition about Brighton’s gay bikers and leather enthusiasts, at Brighton Museum 31 January-26 April 2026.

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Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ Switchboard at 50

30 March 202512 January 2026 alfleflo

April 2025 marks 50 years of Brighton LGBTQ+ Switchboard, AKA The Lavender Line, so I’ve looked into its origins.

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Return to the Safari Bar

10 January 202510 January 2025 alfleflo

We have new info about the Safari Bar! Brace yourself for small town gossip, the police, and an earlier opening date than we thought.

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Pasaje Begoña (Begoña Passage) Torremolinos

5 January 20254 May 2025 alfleflo

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.

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Brighton’s queer seaside: a salty-sweet history

11 March 202412 March 2024 alfleflo

Tales of Brighton’s queer seaside to accompany SEAS exhibition ‘The Queer Beach’ 29 January–11 February 2024.

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Club Shame wedding 1991

13 February 202419 May 2026 alfleflo

It may have been a club performance with no legal standing, but for Dario and Macker the wedding was real.

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Bloomsbury and Sussex GLF

27 September 202325 February 2024 alfleflo

A rarely seen portrait of Tony Haynes by Duncan Grant features in one of the inaugural exhibitions at the new venue Charleston in Lewes.

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Seaside Stories: The Perfume Garden

10 July 202325 July 2023 alfleflo

A memorable moment in the history of The Perfume Garden – Brighton’s polysexual hard house club of the early naughties.

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An illustration of some animals and the words: The Safari Bar
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Bognor’s Safari Bar

27 January 202319 April 2024 alfleflo

The unusual tale of some gay mates turning the cafeteria of Bognor Regis zoo into a gay bar in 1983.

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