The bt gay bars, gay dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas, gay beach and more Brighton, UK. Exclive reviews, maps & disunts.
Contents:
- A GLIMPSE TO THE MAKG OF GAY HISTORY
- GAY BRIGHTON
- WHY IS ROCHFORD ENGLAND’S STRAIGHTT PLACE AND BRIGHTON S GAY PAL?
A GLIMPSE TO THE MAKG OF GAY HISTORY
* gay history of brighton *
For a more tailed journey back through time, see A History of Lbian & Gay Brighton.
GAY BRIGHTON
The cens suggted people the Essex district were six tim ls likely to be gay than those the East Ssex cy * gay history of brighton *
When Brighton began to flourish as a pleasure rort at the end of the eighteenth century unr the patronage of the Prce of Wal, he nnot have imaged that the small fishg town would one day bee the Gay Capal of the South.
WHY IS ROCHFORD ENGLAND’S STRAIGHTT PLACE AND BRIGHTON S GAY PAL?
Pubs wh a lbian or gay clientele were flourishg - among the the Star of Bnswick Bnswick Street Wt and Pigott's bar at the St Jam Tavern Maira Place were pecially popular wh the boys and girls rpectively.
Women and men the forc who were away om home meetg other lbians and gay people for the first time their liv also heard about Brighton and s special pleasur - later they me om all over the untry to vis and many stayed to make their hom here and helped turn Brighton to a Shangri-La the post-war years. One gay man moved down om London jt after the war and ma his first gay iends on the newly-reopened men's beach Hove:.