- Title
- Interview with John Rosewarn for Queer in Brighton Oral History Project 2012-2014 (7 June 2013)
- Date
- 6/7/2013
- Publisher
- Queer in Brighton
- Contributor
- Interviewer: Unknown
- Interviewee: John Rosewarn
- Authors of metadata: "Lesley Wood and Kate O’Riordan
Rowan Briscoe
- Format
- wav files
- Creator
- Queer in Brighton
- Spatial Coverage
- London, UK
- Brighton, UK
- Spain
- Language
- English
- Rights Holder
- Queer in Brighton
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Temporal Coverage
- 1960s to 2014
Description:
"Interview with John Rosewarn for Queer in Brighton Oral History Project (28 May 2013), interviewed by ??.
Oral history interview collected as part of the Queer in Brighton project 2013-2014. Life history from Taunton to Brighton DOB 1944 circa - leaves home at 18 (gets thrown out by father after being caught in bed with dad’s best mate) goes to London -sex worker from 18 to 24 years of age 1961 to 1967 - moves to Brighton 1969. Trains as a nurse - lives in Brighton- work students in Hayward’s Heath. Moves to Spain from 1991-1999. Talks about sex work, cottaging and it’s demise in the early 1980s, celebrities, work as a nurse, homophobia, bars in Brighton, his relationship with older man - open relationship- promiscuity, first Pride, estrangement from parents, drag persona. "
John Rosewarn Sound
