April 2025 marks 50 years of Brighton LGBTQ+ Switchboard, AKA The Lavender Line, so I’ve looked into its origins.
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I asked members of the Sussex Gay Liberation Front what they thought about being photographed 50 years after the first Brighton Pride in 1973.
Sussex GLF Secretary, Doug Coupe, shares some memories attached to the badges he has picked up over the years.
Brighton’s first Gay Pride in July 1973 was a week of events incorporating education, demonstration and celebration!
It turns out a fruit farm in a quiet Kent village is the perfect spot to host semi-secret gay discos 1977–86!
Historian to host reunion of Brighton’s ‘queer pioneers’ – Argus: 15 December 2021
Brighton’s first gay demonstration took place in October 1972, a Gay Day staged by the Sussex Gay Liberation Front.
A series of photographs taken on a demo with ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) PARIS on 4 April 1992.
You may not know the name, but from fashion to fetish, the Sussex Lancers left their mark on the Brighton scene.