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.