Queer the Pier

This community curated display peers into local LGBTIQA+ history. Celebrating the lives of the writers, artists, performers, activists and ordinary people who have made Brighton & Hove so fabulous, their stories are brought to life with film and photography, fashion and drag and oral histories.

Part of Be Bold, a series of collaborative exhibitions and events, programmed with Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQ communities.

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1896 Rejected illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for front cover of Yellow Book, Volume V. View: Rejected illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for front cover of Yellow Book, Volume V.
c1968-1969 Excerpt from 'Brighton Head and Freak' magazine. Issue number 3, 1968/9 View: Excerpt from 'Brighton Head and Freak' magazine. Issue number 3, 1968/9
c1965 "Boy in Black Jeans," by Roy Edwards. View: "Boy in Black Jeans," by Roy Edwards.
2020 Queer the Pier Exhibition Community Curators View: Queer the Pier Exhibition Community Curators
2019 Colin Lieven's Embroidered Denim Jacket & Skirt View: Colin Lieven's Embroidered Denim Jacket & Skirt
2019 QTIPOC the Pier View: QTIPOC the Pier
2020 Rotimi Fani Kayode Queer the Pier Zine 1 View: Rotimi Fani Kayode Queer the Pier Zine 1
c1970s Sussex branch of Gay Liberation Front outside war memorial on Steine View: Sussex branch of Gay Liberation Front outside war memorial on Steine
19th century Fortune Telling Machine View: Fortune Telling Machine
1988 Anti- Clause 28 march between the two town halls of Brighton and Hove, 1988 View: Anti- Clause 28 march between the two town halls of Brighton and Hove, 1988
2020 Queer the Pier Exhibition, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery View: Queer the Pier Exhibition, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
c1960s Peter Burton's ADLER typewriter, c1960s. View: Peter Burton's ADLER typewriter, c1960s.

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