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• David Hoyle Ends LGBT History (Month) Poster (2015)
  
  A promotional poster for David Hoyle's performance 'David Hoyle Ends LGBT History (Month)' taking place at the Marlborough Pub & Theatre on February 27th & 28th, 2015. The performance featured a guest spot from Brighton & Hove based cabaret performer Alfie Ordinary.
• David Waghorn
  
  David Waghorn David was born in Andover in 1965. When we met in 1999, many of our friends were still unwell or dying despite recent improvements in Antivirals. David was well known on the scene thanks to working at the Aquarium Bar, Threshers on St James’ Street, and volunteering at Open Door where he did the cooking. Later he also volunteered at Terrence Higgins Trust and led on organising the World AIDS Day Vigil which back then took place on the Old Steine. David had also cared for his previous partner Vince who’d died from AIDS some years earlier, and he studied art at University of Brighton, although he’d have been first to admit his social life and fulfilment often came first! David’s interests were wide ranging, spanning clubs and bars, men and sex, art and reading, science fiction and Dr Who, music of all sorts (especially Bowie), excellent cookery, gardening, and his flat which was an inspiring, colourful and ornamental masterpiece. We often differed in outlook, so our relationship was rocky sometimes, but it was genuinely based on affection. We broke up after three years, but quickly became the best and closest of friends, with a trust, respect and intimacy that transcended our past. I haven’t had a more valued ‘best friend’ since. Sadly, in 2007 David was diagnosed with an advanced and aggressive cancer, common in people with HIV. Tragically, a pathway between the cancer and HIV had been missed, so I often wonder if David would have survived if that hadn’t happened. He wasn’t always confident dealing with health matters, but he rose spectacularly to the challenge presented by invasive operations, unmanageable pain, and a rapid decline in health. Despite everything being against him, he was brave, kind and still giving to others, battling on until his death just before Christmas in 2007. He was more resilient and braver in the face of adversity than I would have thought possible, and I will always remember our last kiss and precious quiet moments together before he died on the Howard 2 Ward, aged 42.  David was a man of many facets, unrecognised talents, humour, and a deep appreciation and love for life. When I look at his picture taken at Pride, I feel his inspiration and happiness. Gary Pargeter
• do tongues gender-quake
  
  Flyer for a month of Friday nights at The Lift, Queens Road, Brighton, February 1995. Sarah Schulman, Julia Grant, Loaded Magazine, Santa Diamanda.
• Documentation of the making of Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera, 2013 – 2014
  
  Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. Anthony collaborated with Queer in Brighton on our first commissioned project ‘Not Going Shopping’ to explore the lives of LGTBQ+ people in Brighton. Anthony invited eleven participants to meet him and bring photographs that told their story, and they were encouraged to consider what being queer means to them, and to photograph their experiences and the things they are interested in. The group met regularly to discuss their work and share photographs, and created self-portraits in a photo booth on the North Laine, which led to discussions about photography and identity. Anthony said of the project: “the prospect of creating this work seemed to me to offer a useful way to further my inquiry into participation and self-representation with groups of marginalized individuals, and at the same time provide an opportunity to confront my own views of queerness as a gay man… Images play a powerful role in the stories we tell about ourselves and the histories told about us. Not Going Shopping expresses the points of view of the participants and myself about what it is to be Queer in Brighton.” This collection of images documents the making of the exhibition and the processes Luvera and the participants used to create the work. 1. This image depicts Sarah Magdalena Love presenting her photography to the group on a laptop, with JB on the right. 2. This photograph depicts the group discussing different themes that they wanted to explore through the exhibition. 3. This image depicts one of the participants waiting to collect their photos from a photobooth in the North Laines. 4. This image portrays the group sorting through the photographs they have taken. 5. This image portrays JB behind the camera taking photos of other participants, with Luc Raesmith observing on the left and Harry Pygar on the right. 6. This image portrays Fox Fisher in front of the camera awaiting her picture to be taken. Edward Whelan is behind the camera whilst Matt Robinson adjusts the lighting and Harry Pygar observes. 7. This image portrays Edward Whelan and Anthony Luvera behind the camera, with Luvera adjusting the lighting. 8. This image depicts Edward Whelan taking a portrait of Sarah Magdalena Love. 9. This photograph is taken from the perspective of the subject of a portrait session, capturing Edward Whelan behind the camera and Matt Robinson adjusting the lighting. 10. This photograph depicts Anthony Luvera taking a portrait of Kate Turner on Brighton seafront. 11. This photograph is taken from the perspective of the photograper, capturing Sarah Magadalena Love on the screen. 12. This image depicts Anthony Luvera and Kelly McBride taking a portrait of Sarah Magadalena Love on Brighton seafront. 13. This image depicts Luc Raesmith being interviewed by ITV News for th Not Going Shopping Exhibition in Brighton.
• Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987)
  
  Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987) was a born performer. This early photograph shows the teenage Dougie ready to forge his professional career that would span over 70 years and see him perform in revues across the West End for the social elite including the Bright Young Things in Café de Paris in the 1920s, to right across the Fare East in WWII entertaining the troops.
• Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987)
  
  Dougie as Nell Gwynn with June and John Tilley.
• Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987) as “Camille”.
  
  Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987) as “Camille”. Dougie ‘Bawdy but British’ Byng was the UK’s notorious king of double entendre. His performance career as a cross-dressing society entertainer spanned film, stage, variety and cabaret for more than 70 years. Dougie dedicated himself to entertaining the troops throughout WWII in concerts as far afield as Myanmar, Singapore and India. The content of his shows was so risqué, he was repeatedly banned by the BBC. His act could be seen at West End venues including Café de Paris, the Celebrity Club and eventually at his own nightclub, The Kinde Dragon (off St Martin’s Lane in London). His friend Noël Coward described Dougie’s act as ‘the most refined vulgarity in London’. Pushing the envelope a little further in true Dougie style, he himself called it ‘refined filth’. Either way, his female impersonation was side-splittingly crude and clever in equal measure.
• Douglas (Dougie) Byng (1893 – 1987) in Andre Charlot's revue "Stop... Go" 1935
  
  From the Original West End production of the ANDRE CHARLOT musical revue "STOP ... GO!" at London's Vaudeville Theatre. (The production opened September 4th, 1935 and ran for three months, closing December 7th, 1935.) The revue starred MARY BRIAN, DOUGLAS BYNG and DOROTHY WARD and featured GEORGE BENSON, JACK CLEWES, DONALD STEWART, REGINALD SMITH, BERTIE HARE, SIMON CARNES, JACKIE MARCON, DOLORES DALGARNO, RICHARD MURDOCH, CYNTHIA STEVENS, PETER FARQUHARSON, GERTRUDE MUSGROVE, ROSALIE CORNEILLE, JOY WILLIAMS, PATRICIA LEONARD, ELSIE TEE, JOAN PLAYFAIR, OLIVE BARLI, GWEN BEDDOES, TRIXIE SCALES, KATHLEEN JOYCE, ROSALIND MELVILLE and ESME NEVILLE.
• Douglas Byng as General Melona and Lynn Kennington as Teresa and in The Maid of the Mountains (1964)
  
  This caricature features Douglas Byng as General Melona and Lynn Kennington as Teresa and in The Maid of the Mountains ( Oxford New Theatre, 1964). It was drawn by Gilbert Sommerlad (1904-1976), a rehearsal pianist and orchestra violinist at the Brighton Theatre Royal from 1932-1936. (Research and image courtesy of the V&A).
• Dr. Gordon McPhail
  
  Dr Gordon McPhail was a clinical medical doctor at the Claude Nichol Clinic, when it was located in the Royal York building on the Old Steine - now a YHA hostel. He looked after patients with HIV and AIDS at the clinic between 1988 and 1990 and was quoted as saying “I jumped in at the deep end and I’m still learning about AIDS, as we all are. AIDS was thrust upon us, and we have had to learn very quickly, but I am a far better doctor now than when I started.” Dr McPhail was also a trustee of the Sussex AIDS Trust, and in 1989 he helped launch a £2.5 million appeal to build a hospice on a disused hospital site in Bevendean with the motto ‘living with AIDS, not dying with it.’ He believed the facility was vital to provide convalescent care for AIDS patients, and respite for the people looking after them. His dream was realized when the Sussex Beacon opened its doors in 1992. Gordon died of bronchial pneumonia, an AIDS related illness, at his Brighton home on 31 October 1991 aged 34. Colleagues described him as an excellent doctor and a very caring man. He was also a devout Quaker, and asked that friends and colleagues attend any service they chose after his death. A memorial meeting was held for him at the Friends Meeting House in Ship Street at 2.30pm on 10 November 1991.
• Duckie Dollar
  
  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.
• Dynamite Boogaloo - Club Review (2007)
  
  Photos from Audio - downstairs club space (now Patterns). Pictures taken in 2007. Looks like The Source magazine. We attracted a young and beautiful student crowd at Audio. It wasn’t quite as alternative as it had been at the Joint.
• Dynamite Boogaloo club night flyers (1995-1998)
  
  1 - Flamingo Bar flyer dates from 1996. We tried Dynamite Boogaloo in London as a monthly event, although it didn’t last long. Flamingo Bar was previously known as Bar Industria which had quite a few queer nights. Flamingo Bar gave the space quite a posh makeover and the bartender was the amazing Dick Bradsell who was London’s top “mixologist” (he invented the Espresso Martini among other cocktails). 2 - Dynamite Boogaloo cartoon flyer. Dynamite Sal’s boyfriend Sean Longcroft drew these cartoons. It features me, Sal, Dolly Rocket and DJ Wanker (Richard Smith). I would date this to 1998. 3 - The Double Six Club this was at Jongleurs in Leicester where I was drafted in to DJ. I think this would be 1998 too. 4 - Dynamite Boogaloo photo flyer - the photo was taken by Amanda (surname missing). I think the flyer would date from 1995 when we went to the Joint. It features me, Dolly and Sal (l-r). 5 - Late Nights In Shoreditch this is from 1997, I was drafted in to DJ and do cabaret shows at weekends at 333. The venue was previously the London Apprentic (notorious sleazy gay hangout) and was (and still is) owned by the formidable Vicky Pengelly. This was literally when Shoreditch was starting to attract artists etc and was still really rundown…but it was getting that cool edge. The club itself was literally falling down, bits of masonry falling off the ceiling etc. 333 and The Bricklayers Arms (also owned by Vicky) were at the epicentre of all the action; I lived just around the corner for a few years so was involved a little bit but not by any means a big part of it.
• Eddie McInally
  
  Eddie and I met at Earls Court’s Club Copacabana on Tuesday 6 September 1983, when I accidentally tripped him up and spilt his drink. Mortified I bought him another one and we got chatting. I was a spikey haired post-punk/goth 18-year-old, and Eddie a stereotypical 1980’s clone. He invited me back to his flat in Chiswick and I stayed for 5 days, missing college. I told my parents I was staying with friends. Within a few months I left college and moved in. It was a gradual process, but Eddie knew I was serious when my record collection arrived. Eddie was born and brought up in Glasgow on the infamous Easterhouse estate. He was a proud working-class man and HGV driver who drove Adam & Ants and Jordan around Italy on their 1978 tour. Eddie tried in vain to turn me into a clone, by taking me to all the bars and leather clubs in London. It was around this time that we read about a disease largely affecting gay men in the States called GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency), later known as AIDS. It became all the talk in the gay press and bars. We volunteered to take part in early research conducted at Hammersmith Hospital and regularly had our bloods tested. We were together for 2 years, and remained close friends after we broke up. A few months later Eddie tested positive, and he joined the organisation Body Positive through which he found purpose, support and friendship. Pretty soon, he was the centre’s caretaker, one of the unseen heroes doing the unglamourous but much needed jobs. When Eddie became unwell, he decided not to go to the London Lighthouse, which was nearer to his home. Instead, he chose the Mildmay Mission in East London, because as a proud working-class man he felt more comfortable there. After Eddie died, I wanted to make a quilt panel for him, so I joined a quilt making workshop in Brighton run by Arthur Law. The panel I made for Eddie shows all the simple pleasures which made him happy. A mug of coffee, some hobnobs, a cigarette and the Evening Standard crossword. After completing the quilt panel, his death still felt too raw for me to show the piece in the 1993 Brighton Remembers, so I kept it at home, until now.
• Endorphine Visions
  
  Club flyer for 'endorphine visions' at The Royal Pavilion Tavern, 7–8 Castle Square in Brighton on Monday 14 April 1997. Djs: Sophie, Laylah, Lettuce. Fetish, leather, rubber, pvc, tv, fantasy, cyber, uniforms.