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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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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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Photos of Brighton’s first Gay Pride

19 February 202425 February 2024 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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Sussex GLF photographs 1973–2023

11 August 202325 February 2024 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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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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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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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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Two men in leather with the words: Brighton Bound
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Leather, Love and the Sussex Lancers

21 April 20227 February 2025 alfleflo

You may not know the name, but from fashion to fetish, the Sussex Lancers left their mark on the Brighton scene.

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People with placards marching through Brighton
Events

Brighton Pride 1991 memories

17 April 202213 May 2022 alfleflo

Pride returned to Brighton in 1991, as a response to Section 28. The march through town was just one part of a four day festival of events.

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