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Brighton Ourstory was set up to collect and preserve our lesbian, gay and bisexual history. Our long term aim is to establish an archive in its own premises. We are a registered charity.
Holocaust Memorial Day
The Third Sex in the Third Reich
23–30 January 2012 at Jubilee Library, Brighton
An exhibition tracing how the Nazi Party changed the world for male and female homosexuals and transvestites, from the beginning of the reign to well beyond the end. It includes poems written by younger LGBT people with the help of Queer Writing South, inspired by First they came - Pastor Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the communists
And I did not speak out because I was not a communist
Then they came for the socialists
And I did not speak out because I was not a socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left to speak out for me...
The Eldorado nightclub in Berlin, a popular destination for lesbians, gay men and transvestites of both sexes, as it looked during its heyday around 1930.
Reproduced from Andreas Sternweiler, et al. (eds), Goodbye to Berlin? 100 Jahre Schwulenbewegung (Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 1997).
The Eldorado as it appeared around February-March 1933, after it was closed by the new Nazi government.
Reproduced from Claudia Schoppmann, Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).
LGBT History Month
Ourstory will be involved in a couple of events:
- 13 Feb – Linda will be presenting two films at Sussex Univerity LGBTQ Society
- 18 Feb – Linda and Alf will be in Hastings for the Hastings and Rother Rainbow Alliance Oral History Project: www.facebook.com/pages/HRRA-Oral-History-Project
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