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Stripey cover with the words: Paint It Pink!
Objects People

Painting It Pink!

1 June 202221 February 2024 alfleflo

A wee pink plaque guide to Brighton & Hove, only with very few actual plaques, and more than a few tenuous links.

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News

It’s A Sin

21 May 202215 February 2026 alfleflo

It’s A Sin and HIV in 1980s Brighton: ‘We were undesirable’ – Argus 27 February 2021

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Group of men sitting together on the grass
Groups News

Gay Lib get together

14 May 202215 February 2026 alfleflo

Historian to host reunion of Brighton’s ‘queer pioneers’ – Argus: 15 December 2021

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25 people with placards
Events Groups

The ‘Gay Day’ before Pride

13 May 202225 August 2022 alfleflo

Brighton’s first gay demonstration took place in October 1972, a Gay Day staged by the Sussex Gay Liberation Front.

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One man in shorts, another in army uniform
People

Let’s talk about Sydney

5 May 20221 June 2022 alfleflo

Val Miles and I made a film about her gay uncle Sydney, using photos and papers she discovered after his death.

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Crowd gathered outside the Louvre in Paris, with placards about AIDS
Events Groups

ACT UP PARIS, 1992

4 May 202215 February 2026 alfleflo

A series of photographs taken on a demo with ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) PARIS on 4 April 1992.

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The front of a march with a banner that says Queer Resistance
Events

Stand By Your Trans

2 May 20224 May 2025 alfleflo

A short film of Trans Pride in Brighton in 2015, featuring Kate O’Donnell singing Stand By Your Trans with the Rainbow Chorus.

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Waistcoat made of club flyers
Objects

Wild Fruit waistcoat

29 April 20223 May 2022 alfleflo

Last century nightclubs would advertise with flyers, and they were everywhere. Some ingenious soul made a fistful of Wild Fruit flyers into a waistcoat, obvs…

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Suit jacket with badges
Objects

Queer Looks at the Museum

27 April 20221 June 2022 alfleflo

There was definitely a protest uniform that many of us wore during the fight against Section 28. Here are a few details about mine.

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Two men sitting together
People

Edward Carpenter and homogenic love

25 April 20221 June 2022 alfleflo

He really should be way more famous than he is. Edward Carpenter and his partner George Merrill were inspirational revolutionaries.

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