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Are you interested in Brighton’s rich LGBT+ Heritage?

Besi Besemar March 25, 2019

Queer in Brighton, the heritage learning project are looking for people who want to be involved in a new and exciting Heritage project in the city.

THE 12 month Heritage Lottery funded project is aimed at developing heritage skills within the LGBT+ communities and creating a strategy for promoting and reclaiming our rich and diverse heritage.

They are looking for people who are interested in developing their heritage skills, sharing their interest, learning about museum practice, and being a part of a new organisation.

If you’d like to know more about the project and would like to get involved, email: info@queerinbrighton.co.uk

The next monthly LGBT+ History Club ‘Extraordinary Women of Sussex’ A celebration of the work of Val Brown will take place at Brighton Museum on Sunday march 31 from 3.20-4.30.

Val Brown was born in Oxford, lived for much of her life in London and moved to Brighton in 2001. Although she is now a well-established and well-known member of the local LGBT communities, her work as a historical researcher and writer is perhaps less well-known. This history club session will celebrate two of her achievements in that field:

The first is Val’s recently re-issue book about the Brighton and Hove Women’s Hospitals, and the extraordinary women – Helen Boyle, Mabel Jones, Louisa Martindale – who founded and ran them.

The second is her Life of Toupie Lowther – champion fencer and tennis player, lover of fast cars, WWI ambulance driver and friend of Radclyffe Hall.

Local history, women’s history and LGBT history meet and mingle in Val’s work. Go along and hear the stories, see the pictures and, perhaps, buy a book.

The presentation will be compered by Jane Traies, a historian and writer of lesbian history who, like Val, has lived in many places but has now found her place in the LGBT+ communities of Brighton & Hove.

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