Peter Burton, The Godfather of Gay Journalism - One of the main writers on Spartacus, the UK’s first gay magazine run from a guesthouse in Preston Street, Brighton in the late 1960s, Peter Burton (1945-2011) went on to become Literary and Features editor on Gay News and Gay Times for over three decades. Living in Brighton for almost 40 years, Burton interviewed some of the most famous gay people in the world. Gay Times, 1992.

Philip’s panel was part of the AIDS Memorial Quilt display in Washington in October 1992, and I went with mum and the UK gang for a week. His panel came up on CNN news later that day picked out from thousands. Philip was from Bootle in Liverpool, and we started going out when I was 17 and he was 21. He was insulting, cheeky and funny, blind in one eye, five foot one with size 3 feet, but his mouth made up for his stature. I am always intrigued by people who take the mick out of me so I was hooked. We moved to London in 1978, and he worked at the post office on the King’s Road. He was diagnosed HIV+ in 1985 and with full blown AIDS in 1987. Australia was our last chance of a holiday together as he was beginning to get weaker. He loved music, especially Philadelphia soul and Helen Reddy. He loved laughing and would tell people their friends had died for a laugh - weeks later they'd bump into them on the tube...ha, he was a monkey. Him and my family got on great and he was my first proper bloke to go out with. We had a beautiful Dr in Hackney called Dr Feder. He tried all kinds to help at a time when hospital staff treated us like the plague. I used to tell people he had cancer when they asked, because it seemed mild in comparison. It all seems another life away, but it's always just under the surface because it was a massive thing for us to go through. I was 24 when he was diagnosed and it took me about five years after Philip died to feel something like me again, but I'm sure he’s fine now in Oz. He's had a quilt panel, a painting and Australia - that's your bloody lot...ha xxx Words by Gary Sollars 'My partner Philip Munro. Died 13.1.89. Aged 34' a painting by Gary Sollars On a hospital bed bathed in an ethereal light lies a man who has just died. Weeping by his side are two women. Another man is kneeling with his arms stretched across the mattress. Two more men, their bodies naked stride away. From the hand of one of them flutters a red ribbon, the symbol of AIDS awareness. The painting earned Gary Sollars the overall prize for outstanding work at the Sussex Open art competition of 1996. It’s a deeply personal work which Gary saw as a final stage to the sorrow he experienced after losing Philip to AIDS after 13 years together. “The bed scene kept coming up in my head,” he said. “I wanted to do something about being gay, and the obvious subject was the loss.” The first stage of Gary’s grieving process was to scatter Philip’s ashes over Ayers Rock in Australia. “We went on holiday to Sydney in 1987, and coming back we had to choose between seeing Disneyland or Ayers Rock. We went to Disneyland - I wanted Philip to have had the experience of being in both places.” Gary went on to make a panel for the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt which depicts Ayers Rock with footsteps leading the way. It was exhibited alongside other local panels during Brighton Lesbian & Gay Pride in 1992. “You don’t realise it, but the bereavement process takes a long time. You’re think you’re OK for a while, and then something triggers it off again.”

This review was done after a performance of ‘Pulp’ at the Premises, Norwich Arts Centre. "Siren, here acting women with 'pasts'...will, without a doubt, make it even bigger in the future."

This Phone was bought from The Only Samsung Store In Barbados (After i dropped my old one in the pool, whoops!), A Country that as Of Writing (December 2024) Is Illegal to Be Transgender thanks to a Law Left Over from British Colonial Times that Hasn't Been Changed, Despite Homosexuality Being Legalised there in 2021.

Seven images of Brighton Pride event at the Level in 1994

Photos of Brighton Pride Park event 1995

Photos of Brighton Pride Parade 2000

11 photographs of Brighton Pride celebrations in 1993 or 1994

Promotional photoshoot for dance theatre performance 'New Ways of Living' choreographed by Gary Clarke. The photos feature performer Eleanor Perry with makeup inspired by The Bloolips. The photoshoot took place on St James St int he Morrisons lift and carpark, outside the former One Stop Travel Shop and in the electrical retailer Deans. Photo credit Katariina Jarvinen / Light Trick Photography

Photo Album: Queer in Brighton Anthology Launch (2014)

Queer in Brighton Launch Event taking place at Red Roaster in November 2012 featuring performance, readings and interactive installations. Queer in Brighton Launch Event 1. Neil Bartlett, Mark Whitelaw and Marco Nardi Queer in Brighton Launch Event 2. Stacy Makishi Queer in Brighton Launch Event 3. John McCullough Queer in Brighton Launch Event 4. Rose Collis Queer in Brighton Launch Event 5. Marco Nardi Queer in Brighton Launch Event 6. Neil Bartlett Queer in Brighton Launch Event 7. Neil Bartlett & James Gardiner Queer in Brighton Launch Event 8. Vick Ryder Queer in Brighton Launch Event 9. David Sheppeard Queer in Brighton Launch Event 10. Mark Whitelaw Queer in Brighton Launch Event 11. Mark Whitelaw Queer in Brighton Launch Event 12. Audience Queer in Brighton Launch Event 13. Neil Bartlett & John McCullough Queer in Brighton Launch Event 14. Crowd Queer in Brighton Launch Event 15. Chris Taylor (New Writing South) Queer in Brighton Launch Event 16. Unknown Queer in Brighton Launch Event 17. Audience Queer in Brighton Launch Event 18. Audience Queer in Brighton Launch Event 19. Audience Queer in Brighton Launch Event 20. Audience Queer in Brighton Launch Event 21. Audience Queer in Brighton Launch Event 22. Audience

Section 28 Protest March 1988-89 Brighton & Hove, 13 x photographs

Images of the Harlequin club in London Road area of Brighton

This shows Jude Winter and Jane Boston in ‘Les Les’.

This shows a photo of all of Siren members; Jude Winter, Deb Trethewey, Tash Fairbanks, Hilary Ramsden and Jane Boston.