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- GAY PRI BRIGHTON
- NEW BRIGHTON GAY FTIVAL LNCHED
- BRIGHTON PRI: UNSEEN IMAG OF 1973 GAY MARCH DISVERED
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
- NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
GAY PRI BRIGHTON
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Gay Pri Brighton starts 6 days! About Gay Pri Brighton. Brighton Gay Pri is a very popular gay pri event and one of the biggt the UK.
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There were also people wearg yellow and blue flags llg for peace them was the gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, who tweeted: “At @PriBrighton solidary wh #Ukrae agast Rsian aggrsn. ”He also spoke out agast the Commonwealth, which he said is a “bastn of homophobia”, llg for “an end to the crimalisatn of LGBTs 35 Commonwealth untri” up to First Edn, our ee daily newsletter – every weekday morng at 7am BSTAguilera, who also performed at Los Angel Pri June, is among dozens of acts who will take to the stage at Prton Park over the weekend for We are performers clu Ella Henrson, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Björn Aga and RuPl’s Drag Race UK stars Tia Kofi and Bimi.
NEW BRIGHTON GAY FTIVAL LNCHED
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This weekend also marks the 50th anniversary of the cy’s first march, anised by the Ssex Gay Liberatn Kemp, aniser of Pri, told the BBC: “It has been a very long wa but we’re fally here. People often talk about Gay Brighton but the cy is proud to be welg to the whole muny and every summer we have a Trans Pri Ftival – puttg the ‘T’ first. The tour reveals the history of Brighton om a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer perspective a lourful 90-mute walk along the beach and historic cy centre.
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Ask your smart-speaker to “play Gayd Brighton”. The latt England and Wal cens data revealed what many have known for many moons and rabows: Brighton and Hove is one the gayt plac the UK. Unsurprisgly, ’s here that the majory of the gay attractns ri: bars, clubs, rtrants, hotels, and beach areas are signated as primarily aimed at our LGBTQ+ cy is the midst of a wele urban regeneratn and new-opengs boom.
BRIGHTON PRI: UNSEEN IMAG OF 1973 GAY MARCH DISVERED
And, of urse, Brighton’s nudist beach (which attracts many a gay man) is jt a flip-flop skip away. Dpe all the rehments, echo of Brighton’s gay and lbian past are palpable.
Ftival at The Royal PavilnAlamyThe Queer QuarterBrighton’s gay village is ntled around Kemptown’s St.
A new venue, Glamoro Bar, is due to open on the se of Lé Village gay pub later 2023. Further to Kemptown, The Camelford Arms is metr om the sea and serv giant portns of pub gb bare brick, warm surroundgs; Fallen Angel is gay-owned and sy; and the new Malta-spired Arbaleno is on a missn to ‘refe queer culture’ (more on that a b)’s a ttament to the cy’s gay iendls that the venu oppose Brighton’s Gra I-listed Pier are floor-to-ceilg wdowed, out and proud and promently beach hut along the promena of Hove seaont, BrightonAlamyAnd there’s more, over towards Hove, where you’ll fd the sy Bedford Tavern, snug drag venue The Grosvenor (cue Sondheim and sequs! Addrs: Tutto, 20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton BN1 1UBWebse: bang the heart of St Jam’s Street, Block is Ben Gill and Kim Doherty’s ‘urban day club’ cked out wh pk furnure and walls, and artworks of gay ins, cludg Freddie Mercury and Grace Jon by The Postman.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
Although not strictly a gay bar, ’s the heart of the gay village and supports the LGBTQ+ muny wh regular donatns to lol chari. Addrs: Club Revenge, 32-34 Old Stee, Brighton BN1 1ELWebse: ParlourThe Plottg ParlourThis atmospheric, gothic-dream-dér speakeasy-style cktail bar is perfectly placed a si street near the entrance to the Gay Village for a fill of sensatnal, mixologist-signed drks. Follow the footsteps of the early Gay Liberatn Front members, stand where some of the first legal civil partnerships took place, and explore the oft-fotten stori of figur cludg thor Aubrey Beardsley, 19th-Century trans man Colonel Barker and Anne Lister, known as ‘the first morn lbian’.
Highlights clu the sty Adler typewrer on which the godfather of gay journalism Peter Burton documented s of queer history for Gay Tim and clothg worn by artist and genr-fluidy trailblazer Gluck. A short skip om the Gay Village, ’s where Kylie stays when she’s town and om where actor Cate Blanchett live-streamed her Osr acceptance speech 2005.
NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
Bettie’s Boudoir is Jackie Colls leopard prt ksch and dited to Amerin p-up Bettie Page; The Leigh Bowery room celebrat the gay performance artist’s image; and the Dollywould room immers you to a Ms Parton untry b, wh memorabilia plete wh oversized wigs and boots.
The tly unmissable weekend (ually the first Augt) starts wh an enormo para along the Regency seaont before snakg directly through the centre of the cy and ends wh street parti the gay AugtWebse:. The other party hot spot is Kemptown, Brighton’s gay neighborhood, where durg the village street party on Saturday and Sunday thoands celebrate the streets, DJs sp rerds outsi of bars and bartenrs mix drks right on the then there is the para, which was so lorful and vibrant that I never once got tired of watchg float after float go by.
While there was a number of floats that were all about beg jolly and celebratg how far the LGBT muny had e over the past 25 years sce the first small Pri March Brighton, there were also anizatns remdg that there are still 70 untri which homosexualy is a crime – not to mentn the five untri which homosexualy is punished wh ath range of floats was very divergent: polil anizatns mpaigng their purpos, fun floats cludg gay and lbian dance groups, cheerlears, LGBT divers, nners, etc., and the people who me out to watch the para were jt as diverse: fai, groups of iends, same-sex upl as well as straight upl – was amazg to see how many people (and dogs! Kemptown is where all of Brighton’s gay bars and clubs are loted, and plac like Revenge, the Terrace Bar, A Bar, Camelford Arms, Legends Bar, the Queens Arms and Charl Street Bar were all packed, wh people dancg si and spillg out onto the streets which had been blocked off for rs and limed for pestrians. As a ftival lover, I loved how much this weekend – pecially Saturday Prton Park – felt like a mic ftival, wh tens of thoands of mic lovers g together to dance, sg along, drk and celebrate, no matter if gay or straight.