Brighton & Hove bus adverts featuring Boogaloo Stu and Dolly Rocket.
All photos were taken by Russ Bell - this was photographed and filmed in April 2010 and it was bloody freezing!!!
Maria Jastrzębska shares the powerful stories behind the three objects she is donating to our Queer Museum.
Polish-British poet, feminist, editor, translator and playwright, Maria has published three full-length volumes of poetry and two pamphlets. She is the co-founded Queer Writing South and South Pole.
In this interview Maria talks about being a girl scout, feminist activism and intersectionality, and the inherent queerness of poetry...
Recorded remotely on April 29, 2021
Interview by: Roni Guetta and David Sheppeard
Editing and original music by Olive Mondegreen
Original photogrpah of Boogaloo Stu (Stuart Alexander), his parents, Dolly Rocket and Gwendoline Christie
This was taken in Stu's flat on Donald Hall Road in Brighton, by Monica Curtin in 2003 or 2004. We did lots of photos in the other rooms, while my Mum and Dad sat having a cuppa in the lounge. Then Monica said that a group photo just had to happen…! Gwen was a really good friend of mine for many years but we’ve lost touch now.
For more than two years, a team of lcoal members from the community worked with Queer Curator E-J Scott to make the Queer the Pier exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. The ethos was that it was to be an exhibition about the community, by the community.
A 2004 article about Boogaloo Stu's debut album release. The album is titled The Glambassador. The picture in the article is by Toby Amies and was taken in 2002 taken Lighthouse Studios on Middle Street in Brighton.