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Serial killer Colin Ireland

8 June 20254 January 2026 alfleflo

Thankfully all I picked up in the Colherne pub in the summer of 1993 was a flyer, and not the ‘Gay Slayer’ serial killer Colin Ireland.

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Sylvester singing
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Sylvester on film in Brighton

23 November 202415 February 2026 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
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LGBT monuments and memorials

19 August 20247 March 2026 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
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Sussex GLF photographs 1973–2023

11 August 202326 August 2025 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 202215 February 2026 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
News People

Fighting Spirit: an interview with Colin

20 October 202215 February 2026 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 202215 February 2026 alfleflo

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

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