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From community collecting and digitising sessions to parties, festivals and creative storytelling workshops, our events aim to bring people together.

You can meet new people, make connections with others interested in LGBTQIA+ history, and become part of the wider Queer Heritage South community.

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Nothing is in the diary at the moment. Everything we have run is below, and the newsletter carries new events as they are announced.

If you want to share your personal research at one of our LGBTIQ+ History Club events please contact info@queerinbrighton.co.uk

Past events

Radical Rhizomes x Queer Heritage South presents: QTIBPoC Zine Session

The Ledward Centre 6:15 pm, Tuesday 15th September 2026
The Collecting Collective: Heritage Open Day community collecting and digitizing session

The Art Room, Brighton Museum 1:00 pm, Sunday 13th September 2026
Queer Bloomsbury

Charleston Saturday 15th August 2026
Agents of Deterioration: Caring for Archive and Museum Collections

The Keep 1:00 pm, Thursday 13th August 2026
Your Lavender Life Part II: Secrets in the Woodwork

The Ledward Centre 6:00 pm, Thursday 23rd July 2026
Do you remember The Sussex Club? A Collecting and Reminiscing session

Museum Lab, Brighton and Hove Museums 5:30 pm, Wednesday 22nd July 2026
Life Before Pride: Prejudice, Protests, and Picnics

Ironworks Studios 7:00 pm, Thursday 9th July 2026
Make, Discuss, Preserve: QTIBPoC Brighton

The Ledward Centre 6:15 pm, Thursday 18th June 2026
Over 50s, Trans, Non-binary and Intersex (TNBI) Storytelling Session

The Old Courthouse, 118 Church St, Brighton 3:00 pm, Thursday 4th June 2026
Oral Histories & Trauma-informed Interviewing Session

The Ledward Centre, 14a Jubilee St, BN1 1GE 11:45 am, Sunday 31st May 2026
Revealing St James Street

Meet: Outside Pinocchio on New Road, BN1 1UF Saturday 9th May 2026
Revealing St James Street

Meet: Outside Pinocchio on New Road Saturday 2nd May 2026
“Grrrls, Guitars and Glory!” The Rise of the Women’s Performance Tent at Brighton Pride

The Lighthouse, Unit 3 Kensington Street 7:00 pm, Wednesday 15th April 2026
Your Lavender Life: Disability History, Activism & Intersectionality

Daltons, Brighton, BN2 1TB 6:00 pm, Monday 23rd March 2026
How to Collect Spoken Stories: A practical workshop with Aisha Kent

Afrori Books, Brighton Sunday 8th March 2026
Lesbian Strength: Lesbian campaigning and the role of lesbians in change

The Lighthouse, Brighton, BN1 4AJ 7:00 pm, Thursday 26th February 2026
Brewing Identities (A Queer Tea Party)

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 2:00 pm, Sunday 22nd February 2026
A Queer Night at the Museum

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 7:30 pm, Friday 6th February 2026
History Club: Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun at Charleston in Lewes

Charleston in Lewes, Lewes, BN7 1FB 2:00 pm, Sunday 1st February 2026
Odd Fabrication Costume workshop and Runway at A Queer Night at the Museum

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 2:00 pm, Sunday 1st February 2026
LGBTQ+ History Club: The Clare Project

The Old Courtroom, Brighton, BN1 1UD 2:00 pm, Sunday 28th September 2025
Revealing St James Street

Meeting Point: Pinocchio Restaurant, Brighton, BN1 1UF 6:30 pm, Tuesday 29th July 2025
Revealing St James Street

Meeting Point: Pinocchio Restaurant, Brighton, BN1 1UF 6:30 pm, Monday 28th July 2025
Revealing St James Street

Saturday 3rd May 2025
50 Years of Brighton Switchboard

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Sunday 27th April 2025
3000 Lesbians Go to York

Ironworks Studios, Brighton, BN1 4GD 2:00 pm, Saturday 29th March 2025
Film Heritage Volunteering opportunity: Before Stonewall an LGBT Oral History Project

The Old Courtroom, Brighton, BN1 1UD 12:00 pm, Sunday 23rd March 2025
Trans, Non-binary and Intersex Archiving Workshop (with The Clare Project)

Ironworks Studios, BN1 4GD Wednesday 4th December 2024
LGBTIQ+ History Club: Marking World AIDS Day 2024

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, BN1 1EE 2:00 pm, Sunday 1st December 2024
At the Rainbow’s End

The Old Courtroom, Brighton, 118 Church Street, BN1 1UD 2:00 pm, Sunday 24th November 2024
Revealing St James's St

Ironworks Brighton - Studio C 4:00 pm, Sunday 3rd November 2024
Re-booting our archive: Our tales of Lesbian Brighton & Hove

6:00 pm, Thursday 24th October 2024
Disability Histories in Queer Brighton & Hove

Ironworks Studios, Brighton, BN1 4GD 6:00 pm, Wednesday 23rd October 2024
Queer Heritage South: Community Archiving Workshop

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton, BN1 9RA 10:45 am, Sunday 13th October 2024
Queer Heritage South: Community Archiving Workshop at Coast Is Queer

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton, BN1 9RA 3:30 pm, Thursday 10th October 2024
Section 28 And Me

The Old Courtroom - 118 Church St, Brighton, BN1 1UD 4:00 pm, Sunday 22nd September 2024
Re-booting our archive: Our tales of Lesbian Brighton & Hove

Ironworks Studios, Brighton, BN1 4GD 6:00 pm, Wednesday 18th September 2024
The Magic Farm + Shadows of Empire : a Sunday at Preston Manor

Preston Manor, Brighton, BN1 6SD 12:00 pm, Sunday 1st September 2024
SHOW and (or) TELL

The Ledward Centre, Brighton, BN1 1GE 6:30 pm, Thursday 8th August 2024
A QUEER night at Hove Museum of Creativity

Hove Museum of Creativity 6:30 pm, Thursday 1st August 2024
Brighton Queer History Club

Museum Lab in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 3:00 pm, Sunday 30th October 2022
QUEER HISTORY CLUB(BING!) - Volume #1

Brighton Pride’s new Ironwork Studios 4:30 pm, Sunday 24th October 2021
History Club: Sue Lemos & Veronica McKenzie

Zoom 6:00 pm, Sunday 18th April 2021

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