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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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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
News People

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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Newspaper cutting with title: Brighton Gay Pride Week
Events Groups

Brighton Gay Pride in 1973

25 August 202225 August 2022 alfleflo

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

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People with a banner: Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Pride
Events

Brighton Pride 1994

27 July 202227 July 2022 alfleflo

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

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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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Events Groups

The MAGIC Farm

30 June 202219 April 2024 alfleflo

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

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News

It’s A Sin

21 May 202223 November 2024 alfleflo

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

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Groups News

Gay Lib get together

14 May 202214 May 2022 alfleflo

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

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