Flyer detailing an event for Brighton Trans Club, for the 15 March 2025.

Marching along Brighton seafront at Brighton Trans Pride 2018, featuring various flags (including bi and trans pride flags), signs and hair colours.

This HLF-funded Brighton project by QueenSpark Books changed the face of the trans community in our city. We plastered the side of the wall of the pub with photocopies of our faces and all came out to the local community walking past. We projected huge images of our faces onto the side of a church in the busiest part of town. And we found each other, and worked together, and listened to each other’s stories

Created by queer black and brown folks with disabilities, Brownton Abbey is a transcendental mash-up of performance and party that centres intersectionally marginalised identities. Since 2018, the Brownton Abbey collective has been taking over venues across the UK and internationally, including London’s Southbank Centre, Brighton Dome, Glasgow School of Art, and Toronto’s Harbour Front Centre.

Me and Diane on Palace Pier in mid-90s. Note the jacket from MauMau - a popular fashion outlet in the North Laine.

This is a ring sold as merchandise at CAMP gay bar in Margate, where I work. The ring is a replica of the bars logo, made by SNASH JEWELRY. I wore it to 'The Coast is Queer' Literary festival on Saturday 12 October 2024 and uploaded it at the Queer Heritage South's Community Archiving Workshop.

Card game from Candy Bar Candy Bar was a lesbian bar that ran from 2000-2004 and was situated in St James Street, Brighton. Cards include instructions and game on one side, the other detailing regular events happening in Candy Bar in Brighton as well as its sister location in Soho London (1996-2014).

The following items have been donated to the archive by Carl Boardman. 1. This image is a digital reproduction of a white badge from Florida in 1990, it reads 'THE GAY 90'S are back!' in pink yellow and green. 2. This photograph depicts Miss Martinie L'More pouring cups of tea at the LLGC Tea Dance in 1989.

The following items have been donated to the archive by Carl Boardman. 1. This is a digital reproduction of a flyer for a cabaret and choral performance at The Old Market as part of a collaboration between The Rainbow Chorus and The Accidental Theatre company. The performance was held on the 4th December 1999 in aid of The Sussex Beacon, who specialise in the care and support of those living with HIV. 2. This is a digital reproduction of a flyer for 'A Requiem for Those Who Die Young', a collaboration between Joshua Mills-O'Connor and The Accidental Theatre Company. The performance was held on the evening of the 5th December 1998 at The Brighthelm Centre in aid of the World Aids Day Fund in Brighton.

A3 poster for Xmas & NYE parties at Transister, The Beachcomber 24–31 December 1995. For gay boys & girls, trannies, inbetweenies and friends.

Christine Burns MBE, campaigner and writer, takes us on a journey through the history of trans activism. Rich with anecdotes and stories from her personal journey as an early trans activist, this talk is inspiring, uplifting, and just what we need to end this strange 2020. A reminder that change is always possible. This event was recorded as part of Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club, and is supported by Brighton Museums and National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This shows the cover of City Limits magazine, with the listings showing Siren presenting the play ‘Curfew’ at The Oval House theatre in London. It also shows a review of ‘Curfew’ by Carole Woddis in the centre of the first column. Siren shows were regularly reviewed very positively by City Limits (a rival to Time Out magazine and far more alternative at the time).

Digital reproduction of the cover of City Limits magazine, with a review of Siren's play ‘From the Divine', which was performed at Hoxton Hall and Jackson’s Lane theatres, London.

This shows a review of the play ‘ Hotel Destiny’ which was performed at The Oval House Theatre. The review is generally positive, with some negative remarks, but states that the performance "is an evening of lesbian affirmation with mixed pleasures - ingenious, gently laconic without being fully satisfying, subversive without truly detonating."

The review was written after a performance at the Drill Hall in London. Bardsley writes that "Siren have always been mesmerised by the idea of time travel, they move their performances through both past and future and around a central theme of DANGER: the danger of lesbian sexuality (and of any kind of 'otherness') to straight society."