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Queer Heritage South is a heritage learning project celebrating and promoting the rich cultural life of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQIA+) communities in Brighton & Hove. linktr.ee/QueerInBrighton

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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
👀👀👀 #trustee #charitygovernance #brightonculture
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Great opportunity here for new and experienced #trustees looking to shape queer culture and heritage 💜
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Join the fantastic folks on the @marlboroughprods.bsky.social board of trustees...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
💗 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.
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🌈 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...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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!
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
There’s a fantastic queer heritage programme with the festival this year…
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Some really exciting roles on our project and the wider @marlboroughprods.bsky.social team 👀
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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
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My Queer Museum - Chris & Geoff: on follies, cherubs and living theatrically
YouTube video by Marlborough Productions
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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-...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Only got until Tues at midday to @biggive.bsky.social @marlboroughprods.bsky.social are so close the target! 💜💛🖤💚
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Nail biting stuff! Can you help @marlboroughprods.bsky.social reach their goal! Double donations this week with @biggive.bsky.social
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 15/02/2025
“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. ⬇️ bit.ly/4b3j2yO
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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The incredible true story of how Brighton got its first lesbian house night
DIVA sat down with the co-creators of Shameless Hussies to find out how this history is being preserved
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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Meet the archive keeping queer history alive in Brighton
DIVA spoke to Roni Guetta and Rowan Rush-Morgan about the Queer Heritage South project
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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.
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.
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Harry Clayton-Wright @hclaytonwright.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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
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.
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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🌈
Pride 1993/4Brighton March against AIDS 1991Pride 2000
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Did you know we have a podcast? My Queer Museum is a collection of stories and objects that won't end up in a traditional museum, told through interviews with some of our favourite queer people in Brighton & Hove. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1725250
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My Queer Museum
A collection of stories and objects that won't end up in a traditional museum! David Sheppeard and Roni Guetta interview some of their favorite queer people in Brighton and Hove about the objects they...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📝New blog post! Nu, our Disability Community Champion, shares their thoughts on the project so far, what drew them to QHS, and what they want to do next! queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
Nu is a wheelchair user, who is wearing a wide brimmed hat and jumper. They are in front of a screen that reads "Contribute to the Archive".A wide shot of a room, which has tables and chairs sat in front of a large screen. People are sat at tables and in wheelchairs around the space.Two event attendees face each other; one on the left of the screen holds some badges in their hands that the one on the right is leaning over to look at.
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
📝New blog post! Rounding up the year, Kate, our older lesbian Community Champion, has shared photos from one of their 'Rebooting Our Archive' events. The series of events looked at the power of music and oral history. Read now via the link in our bio! 📸: Rosie Powell #QueerHeritage #Brighton
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
📝New blog post! To round up the year, our community champions are sharing their thoughts on the project so far, what drew them to QHS, and what they want to do next! Up first is Laura, our QTIBPoC Community Champion. queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"Love is life that lasts forever." To commemorate World AIDS Day, we're sharing the names and faces that are part of the Brighton AIDS Memorial Collection, hosted by Queer Heritage South. Take the time to view the stories and memories on our website. #Brighton #QueerHeritage #WorldAIDSDay
A photograph of a quilted patch, reading "Brighton AIDS Memorial" in multi-coloured fabricA black and white image of a protest, with text reading "AIDS Awareness Week March, 1st December 1991"
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Join Queer Heritage South and The Clare Project to explore the vibrant trans, non-binary and intersex history of Brighton & Hove and contribute to a growing digital community archive! Book your free ticket here: www.outsavvy.com/event/23537/... #Brighton #QueerHeritage
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
What's this? Another new blog post? PART 3: SHAMELESS HUSSIES GETS REGAL👑 Kate Wildblood introduces us to Brighton ‘royalty’ and we dive into the hedonism of the 1990s in their third blog post. You can read this one, and the first two, on our website. queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New blog now live!✨ We were lucky enough to chat with Harry Hillery, founder of the Brighton AIDS Memorial Project. Read our interview on our website here: queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
QHS featured in The Argus! www.theargus.co.uk/news/2474534...
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Community receive lottery funding for LGBTQ archiving project
An archiving community has received support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the development of the project archiving LGBTQ heritage in…
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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New blog post up on our website! The Bright Future of Queer Heritage, or the importance of working with projects and communities to preserve our histories queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
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