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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 202417 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 copies of a book with the title: The Magic Farm and other queer tales
News Objects

Magic Farm: the book!

22 April 20245 May 2025 alfleflo

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.

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Events News

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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Three panels of black and white photos hanging in a gallery space
Objects

Photos of Brighton’s first Gay Pride

19 February 202414 August 2025 alfleflo

In 2021, seven images of Brighton Gay Pride in 1973 were discovered. Having never been seen before, they are now permanently on public view in the city.

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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 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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Three people dancing on a stage
Events Objects

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
Events

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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