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Return to the Safari Bar

10 January 202510 January 2025 alfleflo

We have new info about the Safari Bar! Brace yourself for small town gossip, the police, and an earlier opening date than we thought.

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Events

Pasaje Begoña (Begoña Passage) Torremolinos

5 January 20254 May 2025 alfleflo

One little street in Torremolinos has a whole lot of LGBT history – from Spain’s first gay bar (probably), to mass arrests after a police raid.

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Sylvester singing
News People

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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Two grooms kissing while confetti is thrown over them
Events People

Club Shame wedding 1991

13 February 202425 February 2024 alfleflo

It may have been a club performance with no legal standing, but for Dario and Macker the wedding was real.

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Three people dancing on a stage
Events Objects

Seaside Stories: The Perfume Garden

10 July 202325 July 2023 alfleflo

A memorable moment in the history of The Perfume Garden – Brighton’s polysexual hard house club of the early naughties.

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Justin with walking stick at Regency Square by Kevin Weaver
People

Justin Fashanu: Brighton Memories

16 June 202223 November 2024 alfleflo

Justin played for Brighton & Hove Albion from 1985–87, and is remembered here by people who met him.

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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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Two men in leather with the words: Brighton Bound
Groups

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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