Given Brighton’s reputation as the UK’s gay capital, what statues, monuments, or other public markers exist to support that status?
Tag: Brighton Pride
Tales of Brighton’s queer seaside to accompany SEAS exhibition ‘The Queer Beach’ 29 January–11 February 2024.
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.
I asked members of the Sussex Gay Liberation Front what they thought about being photographed 50 years after the first Brighton Pride in 1973.
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.
Historian to host reunion of Brighton’s ‘queer pioneers’ – Argus: 15 December 2021
Brighton’s first gay demonstration took place in October 1972, a Gay Day staged by the Sussex Gay Liberation Front.
You may not know the name, but from fashion to fetish, the Sussex Lancers left their mark on the Brighton scene.
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.