Artist Delaine le Bas created a series of unique cards to be dispensed by the this arcade machine inspired by an LGBTIQ+ Roma, Gysepy and Traveller workshop held at Brighton Musuem & Art Gallery as part of the Queer the Pier exhibition making process. Participants viewed the machine and read copies of the original fortune telling cards. The produced responses through drawings and writings. Le Bas harnessed these contributions to design new cards. The positive messages are in response to the negative stereotypes of gypsy fortune telling as represented by this problematic machine. As Le Bas states "There should be no fixed lines to define us." By responding with creative collective action to this artefact, and inserting new interpretation into it, the Queer the Pier Roma project has "queered the past".

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 photographs were taken by Kate Turner, one of the respondents to Anthony's open call for submissions. 1. This photo depicts one of the benches along Brighton & Hove Seafront with the sun shining through the window next to it. 2. This image captures a range of books exploring gender studies and queer theory, including works by Judith Butler, Michel Foucault & Alan Sinfield. 3. This image depicts the Brighton & Hove Seafront and the adjacent walkway through a window.