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

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

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

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.

Brighton’s first Gay Pride in July 1973 was a week of events incorporating education, demonstration and celebration!

See Brighton Pride as you may never have seen it before, in some of the earliest known footage.

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

It turns out a fruit farm in a quiet Kent village is the perfect spot to host semi-secret gay discos 1977–86!

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