Our Revealing St James’s Street tours are BACK as part of Brighton Festival 2026.
A project about bringing the queer history that’s steeped into the very bricks of the venues and businesses of St James’s Street back to life through the voices of the community.
Join the tour: bit.ly/stjames-tour
Got a queer story worth preserving? Ever wanted to try your hand at archiving? Join us for our next Collecting Collective: Community collecting & digitising sessions this March!
Tickets free, booking essential. Find out more at www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
This LGBTQIA+ History Month, join Community Champion Kate Wildblood for a free, Queer Heritage South session on the Lesbian Strength movement in 90s Brighton!
Find out more, visit www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
💗 Boogaloo Stu: a true Brighton icon, who ran the ‘polysexual’ club night Dynamite Boogaloo from 1992 to 2009:
See the full collection: www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
Queer Heritage South is powered by Marlborough Productions and made possible thanks to National Lottery Heritage Fund.
🌈 Want to add your story to the Queer Heritage South website?
Here’s Roni to tell you how to do it!
Visit: www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
👉 Live performances by Eve Stainton and Florence Peake, Shelley Grotto aka The Drag Files, Cairo and Zaki Musa!
👉 Compered by Rhys Pieces!
👉 Wearable art fashion show by Odd Fabrication!
👉 Photobooth by @photoworks-uk.bsky.social
👉 Badge making with Rowan & Laurie
👉 Plus DJs, dancing + tours!
Coinciding with the opening of groundbreaking, new exhibitions Gender Stories + The Sussex Lancers: Tailor-made Leather Lovers, enjoy show-stopping performances, mind-bending live art, dazzling drag acts, an avant garde fashion show, and a lineup of DJs exploring the facets of gender expression.
This February, prepare for A Queer Night at the Museum, taking place from 7:30pm at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
📆 Friday 6thFebruary
⏰ 7:30pm - 11:00pm
🎟️ From £12
👉 Find out more: www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
Huge year for our work in #queerheritage and across @marlboroughprods.bsky.social diverse range of projects #queerculture #queerbrighton #lgbtqia #queerhistory
So much to look forward to in 2026!
The Queer Heritage South Live Archive is a pioneering digital community archive celebrating & preserving LGBTQIA+ life and culture in Brighton & Hove - and we want you to help shape it! Join our Archive Advisory Group today, visit www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
Do you remember the Candy Bar in #Brighton?
Our Community Champion Kate Wildblood, one half of legendary DJ duo Wildblood & Queenie has created a deep-dive into the story behind this much-loved club and venue over on the Queer Heritage South website: www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
We’ve got BIG NEWS!
🎉 We’ve been awarded £1.25 million in funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund towards our groundbreaking Queer Heritage South project!
Here’s David & Roni to tell you more…
Find out more and contribute to our growing digital archive: queerheritagesouth.co.uk
There’s a fantastic queer heritage programme with the festival this year…
Some really exciting roles on our project and the wider @marlboroughprods.bsky.social team 👀
Chris and Geoff: on follies, cherubs and living theatrically
The very first video edition of My Queer Museum is now LIVE!
Watch now: youtu.be/t_0piiMP9Zc
#Brighton #LGBTQHistory #QueerHeritage
Celebrate 50 years of Brighton Switchboard with the LGBTQ+ History Club in April!
Expect talks, reminiscing, and readings from the old call log books, plus some never-before-seen photographs.
📆 Sunday 27th April 2-4pm
📍Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/marlborough-...
Only got until Tues at midday to @biggive.bsky.social
@marlboroughprods.bsky.social are so close the target! 💜💛🖤💚
Nail biting stuff! Can you help @marlboroughprods.bsky.social reach their goal! Double donations this week with @biggive.bsky.social
We are a programme of @marlboroughprods.bsky.social if you value the work we do to share and preserve #lgbtqia+heritage consider donating and sharing 🖤💚🖤
#gayhistory #lesbianhistory #queerhistory #brightonheritage #brightonculture #thebiggive
Image 1: Tash Fairbanks, Jude Winter, Jane Boston and Deb Trethewey ‘queuing’ to get into the van, 1981
Image 2+4: Siren loading up the van after a performance, still wearing their costumes, 1981
Image 3: The photos show Siren members Jude Winter and Hilary Ramsden on-stage and off-stage.
In their own words, Siren “aimed their artistic expression at the twin enemies of the day – Margaret Thatcher’s conservatism and the sexist assumptions that were built deep into the social infrastructure.”
As part of #LGBTQHistoryMonth, we’re sharing some images contributed to our archive about Siren, an all-women lesbian band and theatre company formed in 1979. Siren is Jane Boston, Tash Fairbanks, Deb Trethewey and Jude Winter. 🧵
See the collection: www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
“Too many people from our communities are seen as less valid, less valued and, too often, dispensable.” 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
For LGBT+ History Month, Justin Bengry explains how understanding our queer history can help combat rising homophobia and transphobia. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4b3j2yO
Our Community Champion Kate spoke with @divamag.bsky.social about Brighton's first lesbian club night:
“I wanted something that was about music as much as it was about sex and sass... It was ours... We wanted to not be an afterthought.”
diva-magazine.com/2025/02/13/s...
Our Project Manager Roni and Community Archivist Rowan spoke with @divamag.bsky.social about the work we've done, what's on the horizon, and how we're all archivists really.
“Our history is so fragile. We have to fight for it. We have to record it.”
diva-magazine.com/2025/02/13/q...
A collection of black and white images scattered on a table, featuring the same protest as the others. These images are quite small, but show a group of people holding banners and placards, as they walk through Brighton.
You can view more memories from the time on our archive, through the link in our bio🌈
Images 1-5: Section 28 March 1988-89 Brighton & Hove. Courtesy of Sally Munt.
Image 6: Anti- Clause 28 march between the two town halls of Brighton and Hove, 1988. Courtesy of Paul Clift
A shot of the protest, featuring a different group. Their banners and placards are also obscured, though some say “Fight 28” and “Scrap the Section”. A police officer in hi-vis follows the group to the side.
The front of the protest, with the same pink, black and white banner. Two police officers stand in between the camera and the crowd, both in shirts, ties and caps.
A shot of the protest. A red and gold "Brighton Lesbians" banner is prominent amongst the other placards, which show the upside-down pink triangle of the Stop the Clause movement.
In Brighton, the community fought against Section 28, organising protests like the one featured here from 1988/9. The Brighton Area Action Against Section 28 was founded after the very successful first event hosted by Brighton Lesbian Action.
More on the Brighton Ourstory website (link in bio)↖️
An image of a protest on the main street of Brighton. At the front of the crowd is a large banner; a pink triangle overlays black and white writing, which reads “Stop The Clause”. Other signs further down the group include “Brighton Trade Unionists” and “Brighton Lesbian Action”, though these are partially obscured by people and smaller, indistinct placards.
![The group at this part of the protest has different banners that can be read more easily; the shot is taken from the middle of the group, rather than the side. Small placards feature an upside-down pink triangle and small black text. A black banner at the back reads “Brighton and Hove CND: Give Peace [a chance]”. The “Fight 28” banner is clearer, and features red text painted on white fabric. To the left at the back of the group is a “University of Sussex Lesbian [and Gay] Society” banner, also featuring an upside down pink triangle.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yiqounuwiaywslamxd7766j7/bafkreiekpd6pyaqtbi4bsxcr4rj5wdezl4gap4cb2udh7ms5qv3u7ecxtu)
The group at this part of the protest has different banners that can be read more easily; the shot is taken from the middle of the group, rather than the side. Small placards feature an upside-down pink triangle and small black text. A black banner at the back reads “Brighton and Hove CND: Give Peace [a chance]”. The “Fight 28” banner is clearer, and features red text painted on white fabric. To the left at the back of the group is a “University of Sussex Lesbian [and Gay] Society” banner, also featuring an upside down pink triangle.
As part of our #LGBTQHistoryMonth series, we’re sharing some images contributed to our archive about the fight against Section 28 in #Brighton.
🧵 Section 28 was a piece of legislation included in the Local Government Act 1988 that prohibited local authorities from “promoting” homosexuality.
Mr Blackpool (performed by Harry Clayton-Wright) towers over a model village wearing a large lilac feather headdress and bikini with see through shorts, all embellished with beads and rhinestones. Mr Blackpool, wearing glasses and with big black beard, has pale white skin with pink blush, purple lipstick, black smokey eyes with purple glitter and pencil thin eyebrows. Mr Blackpool’s large dusky pink heel steps on the roof of one of the small houses.
Mr Blackpool. A seaside rave at the end of the world.
My new show previews at ACCA in Brighton on Sat 1st March. A theatrical installation embedding the history of ‘end of the pier’ entertainment, variety, drag and dance music.
attenboroughcentre.com/events/5365/...
@marlboroughprods.bsky.social
Pride 1993/4
Brighton March against AIDS 1991
Pride 2000
Happy #LGBTQHistoryMonth! February is a time for remembering those that came before us and taking inspiration for the future.
You can view our queer community archive of #Brighton and #Hove via the link in our bio🌈
