This t-shirt was bought by my mum at a retail store. I came out to her a few years previously and randomly one day she gifted me this t-shirt. We never had a specific conversation about the random present. She's the type of person to see something that she thinks someone else would like and then buys it 'just because'. The first few years after coming out was quite tumultuous so it meant a lot at the time. I don't wear it because it doesn't fit me but I can't throw it away, so it stays hanging on the clothing rail

Wednesday Holmes is a Non-binary, Lesbian Illustrator and Author living in Brighton. They designed this top in 2024 to raise funds for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Due to the first fundraiser gaining so much interest, Wednesday has done multiple fundraisers with the same design since. I bought this t-shirt during the 2nd fundraiser.

Article from Gscene Magazine February 2007 JOLLY HOCKEY STICKS! The Brighton Honeybees Hockey Club have been going strong for well over ten years. They're a self run community team attracting players with a wide range of ages, backgrounds and skills, with the emphasis on having fun and keeping fit. Long standing player and vice captain Vic Finnimore explains: “The Bees were founded by ladies Whopps and Serbiton, along with other disillusioned women who were unhappy playing for their existing or previous clubs as they were felt to be too stuffy and competitive, and not particularly gay-friendly. We didn’t set out to be a lesbian team – it just kind of happened!” This year the Honeybees home ground is up at the Stanley Deason Leisure Centre, Wilson Avenue, Brighton where they play home games on Saturday mornings and train on Wednesday evenings from 6-7pm. They play in Division 2 of the Sussex Ladies League and are currently 9th in the table. They've also reached the semi finals of the Sussex Shield and will play against South Saxons 2s on 31 March. The Honeybees are a friendly sociable team and always looking for supporters and new players so if you fancy going along to watch or joining them on the pitch contact them.

Blair Imani Ali is writer, mental health advocate and historian living at the intersections of Black, Queer and Muslim. She sold this t-shirt in 2021 based on a the post she made on Instagram in August 2020. I have been a long-time follower of Blair Imani Ali, as someone who is a LGBTQ+ British Indian who was brought up Catholic

Sunshine Sisters were a lesbian acapella duo from Brighton comprising of Kia Hunter and Jo Bourne. We performed in London, Brighton and Belgium between 1991 and 1992, and this cassette features three of our own compositions. recorded on Alan Way's four track in Kemptown Brighton.

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 For up to date information and recipe line ring 0273 731170

Housewife’s Choice Opening night Saturday 24th September 1994 The Loft (previously The Asylum and downbeat) 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 For queers, drag queens, extroverts, clubbers, girlies, dollies, fag hags, bisexuals, trollops, groovers, tarts, funky mothers, housewives, glamour pussies Inspiration Queer Nation in Covent Garden London and Vague in Leeds. For up-to-date information and recipe line ring 0273 731170

The shoestring budget and DIY ethos meant the LGBTQI+ club night Housewife's Choice was a cheap date - decor created from the begged, borrowed and nicked. Painted in our flat at Wilbury Road by Queenie and Michele the bedsheets were transformed to keep the 50s Housewife ideal alive.

Housewife's Choice 1994-95

Flyer for a month of Friday nights at The Lift, Queens Road, Brighton, February 1995. Sarah Schulman, Julia Grant, Loaded Magazine, Santa Diamanda.

Pride float 2023. To commemorate the 50 years since the very first Brighton Pride, Alf Le Flohic and I recreated some placards we had seen the Sussex GLF carrying on some of their protest marches. Gomorrah is Hot was a bit of poetic licence to go with the one about Sodomy being cool, which is a slogan seen in one of the old photos. Also on the float was my friend Danny and several fellow community curators from the Queer the Pier Exhibition at Brighton Museum.

Monopoly style money handed out at several of the infamous weekly club nights. Taking place weekly at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London, the club did popped up in Brighton on several occaisons. This one is perhaps from the Mods vs Rockers event at the Brighton Dome around 2006.

Gary and Diane lying on beach in front of West Pier before it burnt down.

Me and Jane, sitting on beach to left of Palace Pier in early 90s.