Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2012 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
A Right Pair - Bette Bourne & Paul Shaw
Trouser Wearing Characters - Rose Collis
Mae-Day: I'm Not Waving I'm Drowning - Mae Martin
Rachael's Café - Little Fly Theatre
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2013 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ highlights include:
Adventure Misdaventure - Nick Field
A Right Pair - Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw
Night After Night by Neil Bartlett and Nicholas Bloomfield - performed by Paul Shaw Nicholas Bloomfield
Sister Acts - Mzz Kimberley and Son of a Tutu
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2015 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Big Girl's Blouse - Kate O'Donnell
Miss Behave's Gameshow - Miss Behave with Harry Clayton-Wright
Hard Graft - David Sheppeard
Chisteene Machine
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2016 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Naked Boys Reading
Sissy's Progress - Nando Messias
Break Yourself - Ira Brand
Funeral Doom Spiritual For Male Soprano Piano & Electronics - M Lamar
Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous - Alfie Ordinary
King of the Fringe
Joan - Milk Presents
Stud - Ivor McAskill
The Daily Grind - Laurie Brown
Women's Hour - Sh!t Theatre
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2017 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Triple Threat - Lucy McCormick
Makin in Rain - Nicole Henriksen
The Comforter - Stacy Makishi
OUT - Rachael Young
Gypsy Queen - Hope Theatre Company
The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) - Holly Hughes
Sex Education - Harry Clayton-Wright
Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt
The Girl From Oz - Courtney Act
Maurice’s story - 19 December 1987
‘I developed swellings in my glands and my bowel movements became difficult. I told my doctor, whose reaction was “glands, that’s nothing - feel mine. I hope you’re not becoming obsessed with your bowels.” I was sent for a blood test, but as there was no HIV test in 1982, I was told that I must have picked up a virus which had now gone. But I think that it could have been HIV as two years ago I was diagnosed as being antibody positive. Since that day, I have to thank the Sussex AIDS Helpline, from whom I had support from the first moment of the shock of my diagnosis. I very soon joined the Helpline myself - it was the only way I could cope with everything. I had to know as much as I could about AIDS. After a while I realised I wanted to work with people with AIDS, so I did a course in massage techniques, so I could offer something useful to the people I worked with.
Because I have had a full life, I can’t be too sad, though I’m not ready to go yet and I’m going to put up a fight. The people I feel sorry for are the young ones who thought they had a full life to lead, and now live in fear and doubt.
Today at St. Peter’s Church, I witnessed the most beautiful service of my life – a memorial to those in Sussex who have died of AIDS. Bless whoever in the Helpline who first thought of this. I shall remember it for the rest of my life, however long that might be, and I shall remember my departed friends.’
Maurice died on the 12 January 1988, quite suddenly but peacefully.
National AIDS Memorial Quilt
On the 14 March 1992, Our House Body Positive & Pink Parasol held their first support group to encourage Brighton contributions to the National AIDS Memorial quilt at the Morley Street Family Centre. At this first session the film ‘Common Threads – Stories from the Quilt’ was shown, and this inspired me to create a quilt panel for my friend Andrea Philippe Regard.
A series of exhibitions of the completed 6’ x 3’ panels celebrating the lives of people who died was arranged as part of the 1992 Brighton Lesbian and Gay Pride. On the 17th May (then known as Lesbian & Gay Remembrance Day - now International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) some of the quilt panels were displayed in the Brighton Museum, and then between the 19th and 21st May the whole National AIDS Memorial Quilt was laid out at the Holy Trinity Church, Ship Street - now the home of the Fabrica Gallery.
The quilt which my ex-partner Alf Le Flohic and his friend John Twoomey helped me to make, was also displayed at the Brighton Gay and Lesbian Pride celebration in Preston Park that year.