Interview with Sarah Sarwar for Queer in Brighton, Oral History Project 2012 - 2014 (2nd Feb, 2013)

Title: Interview with Sarah Sarwar for Queer in Brighton, Oral History Project 2012 - 2014 (2nd Feb, 2013)
Date: 02/02/2012
Publisher: Queer in Brighton
Contributor: Interviewer: Ten Harber; Interviewee: Sarah Sawar; Authors of metadata: David Sheppeard Rowan Briscoe
Format: .wav
Type: Oral History
Creator: Queer in Brighton
Spatial Coverage: Brighton & Hove, UK; London, UK; Singapore
Language: English
Rights Holder: Queer in Brighton
Rights: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Temporal Coverage: 2000s

Description: "Sarah Sawar is interviewed in a cafe Figaro's (?) cafe in Brighton, she talks about her childhood in Hayward's Heath close to Brighton. Sarah talks about discovering the gay scene in Brighton, first visiting Dr Brighton and the ease of growing up in the gay capital Sarah came out to friends at 14 and family at 21 due to her guardian (her auntie) expressing unhappiness at the possibility. She was disowned for three years after coming out and recently reconciled with her guardian. She talks about her auntie knowing she was gay because she was 'tombiysh' and had the typical gay look. She has a half sister who is also gay, but was brought up separately who she first met when they were 16 in Singapore. They have a close relationship and have similar tasted in music. Sarah talks in more detail about coming out to her sister who pointed out the risk of ending up alone. She talks about thinking about moving back to Singapore, but felt like they missed the UK and their friends.

Sarah talks about training to be a paediatric nurse and her career aspirations.

Subject: Queer in Brighton

Sara Sarwar Audio 1

Sara Sarwar Audio 2

Interview with Sarah Sarwar for Queer in Brighton, Oral History Project 2012 - 2014 (2nd Feb, 2013)

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