Housewife’s Choice
Saturday 21st January 1995
Queen Josephine presents Jacksons Wig World (Jackson the Barber)
The Loft, 11 Dyke Road, Brighton (members only – membership available on 0273 325491)
10pm-2am £3.50 b4 11, £4.50 after. £1 discount for wig wearers
Music policy – wig wobbling house and girlie garage
DJs X Kitten (Zap Club) Meesh Mash, KTB.
Mixed gay
Bring your own carmen rollers and hairspray
Housewife’s Choice
Saturday 26th November 1994
The Loft, 11 Dyke Road, Brighton (members only – membership available on 0273 325491)
10pm-2am £3.50 b4 11, £4.50 after
Music policy – groovy house, tough handbag and girlie garage
DJs Gordon Lovetrain a.k.a. Sex Kitten (Zap Club) Meesh Mash, KTB.
Mixed gay
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Impact Magazine Cover - Jan 1997
Cover from January ’97 but the photo was taken in 1994. The photographer’s name was Amanda (surname not available). It was taken in her studio (part of her house) in Greenwich. Stu is wearing a knitted twinset of knickers and waistcoat which he made himself.
This looks like an Impact Magazine listings. No idea what year it would be, but it’s around 1995 or 1996 I reckon as we were at the Joint from 1995 onwards and the description of wedding dresses worn with cardigans suggest we were all dressing like Debut-era Bjork.
Elle Kennedy is interviewed by Ten Harber. She speaks about coming to Brighton for university in 2010 and choosing it as a place to transition. She speaks about nightclubs such as Legends, The Queens Arms and Revenge, and the issue of unisex toilets in club spaces. She speaks further about passing and dating as a transwoman, including the challenges of being translesbian in women’s spaces.
Elle also talks about straight people attending Pride and how it brings a higher security risk. The Clare Project is mentioned as a space to meet and speak to other trans women, also noting The Marlborough and The Zone as trans-friendly spaces. Though self-identifying as right of Labour, she does support Caroline Lucas and the Green party in Brighton.
Brighton is mentioned as a place that introduced Elle to gender beyond the binary, now regarding the term queer as a ‘conciousness’ rather than as a sexual preference.
Elle speaks about transitioning and how Brighton uniquely helped with that.
Roni is interviewed by Ten Harber. Roni moved to Brighton in 2009 from Rome after previously visiting Brighton Pride. She speaks about the origin of Tramfrau as a response to Brighton’s nightlife being primarily geared towards students. She talks about how an activity space was included in the event to encourage interaction and socialising beyond the dancefloor. She talks about the risks taken to include different types of performance and music and how that has been unappreciated or misunderstood. Feedback is an important part of the process and has shaped how this event has changed over time.
As the night became more successful it moved to a larger venue and some measures were taken to counteract antisocial behaviour, such as through the marketing of the event as well as featuring politics as part of the decor. She speaks further about the sensitivities around the language used to describe and conceptualise the night and how this has evolved alongside the event itself.
Kathy tells Roni and David which are the objects that would best tell her personal queer story.
Quite literally the queer voice of Brighton, Kathy Caton is broadcaster at BBC and Radio Reverb, as well as a woman pioneering in the world of gin making!
In her interview Kathy talks about the buildings that hold our community together, how we need spaces and places to come together and to thrive.
Recorded on October 19, 2020, at The Spire, Brighton, as part of the My Queer Museum podcast
Interview by: Roni Guetta and David Sheppeard
Editing and original music by Olive Mondegreen
Pop Ahoy! article
Argus supplement I think - this would be from 2006.
Article by David McNamee
The photo in the article is by Toby Amies from 2002, and was taken at Lighthouse Studios on Middle Street in Brighton