Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2013 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ highlights include:
Adventure Misdaventure - Nick Field
A Right Pair - Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw
Night After Night by Neil Bartlett and Nicholas Bloomfield - performed by Paul Shaw Nicholas Bloomfield
Sister Acts - Mzz Kimberley and Son of a Tutu
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2015 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Big Girl's Blouse - Kate O'Donnell
Miss Behave's Gameshow - Miss Behave with Harry Clayton-Wright
Hard Graft - David Sheppeard
Chisteene Machine
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2016 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Naked Boys Reading
Sissy's Progress - Nando Messias
Break Yourself - Ira Brand
Funeral Doom Spiritual For Male Soprano Piano & Electronics - M Lamar
Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous - Alfie Ordinary
King of the Fringe
Joan - Milk Presents
Stud - Ivor McAskill
The Daily Grind - Laurie Brown
Women's Hour - Sh!t Theatre
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2017 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Triple Threat - Lucy McCormick
Makin in Rain - Nicole Henriksen
The Comforter - Stacy Makishi
OUT - Rachael Young
Gypsy Queen - Hope Theatre Company
The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) - Holly Hughes
Sex Education - Harry Clayton-Wright
Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt
The Girl From Oz - Courtney Act
Maurice’s story - 19 December 1987
‘I developed swellings in my glands and my bowel movements became difficult. I told my doctor, whose reaction was “glands, that’s nothing - feel mine. I hope you’re not becoming obsessed with your bowels.” I was sent for a blood test, but as there was no HIV test in 1982, I was told that I must have picked up a virus which had now gone. But I think that it could have been HIV as two years ago I was diagnosed as being antibody positive. Since that day, I have to thank the Sussex AIDS Helpline, from whom I had support from the first moment of the shock of my diagnosis. I very soon joined the Helpline myself - it was the only way I could cope with everything. I had to know as much as I could about AIDS. After a while I realised I wanted to work with people with AIDS, so I did a course in massage techniques, so I could offer something useful to the people I worked with.
Because I have had a full life, I can’t be too sad, though I’m not ready to go yet and I’m going to put up a fight. The people I feel sorry for are the young ones who thought they had a full life to lead, and now live in fear and doubt.
Today at St. Peter’s Church, I witnessed the most beautiful service of my life – a memorial to those in Sussex who have died of AIDS. Bless whoever in the Helpline who first thought of this. I shall remember it for the rest of my life, however long that might be, and I shall remember my departed friends.’
Maurice died on the 12 January 1988, quite suddenly but peacefully.
National AIDS Memorial Quilt
On the 14 March 1992, Our House Body Positive & Pink Parasol held their first support group to encourage Brighton contributions to the National AIDS Memorial quilt at the Morley Street Family Centre. At this first session the film ‘Common Threads – Stories from the Quilt’ was shown, and this inspired me to create a quilt panel for my friend Andrea Philippe Regard.
A series of exhibitions of the completed 6’ x 3’ panels celebrating the lives of people who died was arranged as part of the 1992 Brighton Lesbian and Gay Pride. On the 17th May (then known as Lesbian & Gay Remembrance Day - now International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) some of the quilt panels were displayed in the Brighton Museum, and then between the 19th and 21st May the whole National AIDS Memorial Quilt was laid out at the Holy Trinity Church, Ship Street - now the home of the Fabrica Gallery.
The quilt which my ex-partner Alf Le Flohic and his friend John Twoomey helped me to make, was also displayed at the Brighton Gay and Lesbian Pride celebration in Preston Park that year.
Video documentation of the first New Queers on the Block performance a LGBTIQ+ focused touring project supported by Arts Council England.
The performance was compered by Ophelia Bitz and featured Marikiscrycrycry, Hester Chillingworth, Stacy Makishi, Rachael Young and Sea Sharp.
The video features interviews with Ema Boswood (Programme Coordinator), Subira Wahogo (Production Assistant) and Tarik Elmoutawakil (Creative Director)
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.”
1. This image depicts the front cover of the Malmo and Copenhagen edition of the Not Going Shopping Community Newspaper that accompanied the exhibition in 2015.
2. This image depicts two people reading the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera.
3 & 4. This image depicts an individual in a coffee shop reading the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera.
5. This image depicts another individual in a coffee shop reading the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera.
6. This image depicts the cover of the Not Going Shopping community newspaper, Malmö and Copenhagen edition, 2015 from Not Going Shopping by Anthony Luvera, displayed on some bins in the city centre.