April 2025 marks 50 years of Brighton LGBTQ+ Switchboard, AKA The Lavender Line, so I’ve looked into its origins.
Category: News
We have new info about the Safari Bar! Brace yourself for small town gossip, the police, and an earlier opening date than we thought.
Recently released footage of Sylvester appearing at Coasters in Brighton in 1984, along with a few choice memories of the evening…
I’ve written a book! It’s three tales of true-life queer spaces from the 1970s and 80s – the Hotel Roger Dee, the Magic Farm and the Safari Bar.
Tales of Brighton’s queer seaside to accompany SEAS exhibition ‘The Queer Beach’ 29 January–11 February 2024.
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.
It’s A Sin and HIV in 1980s Brighton: ‘We were undesirable’ – Argus 27 February 2021
Historian to host reunion of Brighton’s ‘queer pioneers’ – Argus: 15 December 2021