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Sylvester singing
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Sylvester on film in Brighton

23 November 20249 December 2024 alfleflo

Recently released footage of Sylvester appearing at Coasters in Brighton in 1984, along with a few choice memories of the evening…

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Graffiti showing two policeman kissing
Objects People

LGBT monuments and memorials

19 August 202411 February 2025 alfleflo

Given Brighton’s reputation as the UK’s gay capital, what statues, monuments, or other public markers exist to support that status?

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Two grooms kissing while confetti is thrown over them
Events People

Club Shame wedding 1991

13 February 202425 February 2024 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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Portrait of a black man with a colourful spotty background
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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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Portraits of Sussex GLF in large windows of Jubilee Library
Groups People

Sussex GLF photographs 1973–2023

11 August 202325 February 2024 alfleflo

I asked members of the Sussex Gay Liberation Front what they thought about being photographed 50 years after the first Brighton Pride in 1973.

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Sylvester singing
People

Sylvester in Brighton

22 December 202213 January 2025 alfleflo

Some memories of the unique and wonderful Sylvester appearing in little old Brighton town.

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Head and shoulders of Colin and Phil
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Fighting Spirit: an interview with Colin

20 October 202223 November 2024 alfleflo

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.

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David Mullen lying on a studio floor
People

Spotlight on David Watkin

14 August 20224 January 2025 alfleflo

What do the films Goldfinger, Catch 22, and Yentl have in common? Cinematographer and Kemptown resident David Watkin.

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Card advertising the Hotel Roger Dee with a picture of his Roger
People

The Hotel Roger Dee

4 July 202219 April 2024 alfleflo

Few people had seen the likes of the Hotel Roger Dee in 1972, especially in Angmering-on-Sea!

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Justin with walking stick at Regency Square by Kevin Weaver
People

Justin Fashanu: Brighton Memories

16 June 202223 November 2024 alfleflo

Justin played for Brighton & Hove Albion from 1985–87, and is remembered here by people who met him.

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