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ourstory's history

2008

  • Promoting Ourselves: a bannerama special. A show for Winter Pride, recalling the fire and passion of Brighton's opposition to the infamous Section 28 twenty years on.

2007

  • OUT and OUT on Tuesday: screenings at Jubilee Library and at Pride for Brighton Pride 2007.

2006

  • Really Living: an hour of memories, music and film about lesbian and gay life in Brighton between the 1940s and the 1990s for Brighton Pride 2006.

2005

  • Meet Our Ancestors: exhibition at Brighton Pride 2005.

2004

  • Barely Legal: a video compilation shown at the LGBT History Conference at the London Metropolitan Archive.
  • Brighton Ourstory become a registered charity, number 1106242.

2003

  • Step Back in Time: a series of 3 events (guided walk, musical afternoon tea and the Lavender Lounge Bar) arranged for Brighton Pride 2003

2002

  • Images of Brighton: new exhibition area opened in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (BOP contributed)
  • Queer Nation O2: a photographic exhibition of gay and lesbian clubbing in post-war Britain (BOP contributed)

2001

  • Queer About Campus: forty years of lesbian and gay life at the University of Sussex and University of Brighton, Debating Chamber, Sussex University (Exhibition)
  • Brighton Ourstory website re-launched (www.brightonourstory.co.uk)
  • Queer About Campus: forty years of lesbian and gay life at the University of Sussex and University of Brighton, Fishing Museum, Kings Road, Brighton (Exhibition)

2000

  • Film showing of The Important Thing Is Love (1971 lesbian tv documentary) with speakers Maureen (appeared in film) and Pat (life changed by it)

1999

  • The Lavender Lounge Bar: recreating a queer drinking club of the 50s and 60s (Brighton Festival Show)
  • Just Take Your Frock Off: A Lesbian Life. Barbara Bell and Brighton Ourstory Project. (Publication) (Ourstory Books - still available at £7.99 (plus £1 postage) so contact us for a copy)

1998

  • Brighton Ourstory website launched (with Virtual Brighton)

1997

  • Gay Girls & Bachelor Boys: a mince down memory lane, Brighton Library (Exhibition)
  • Learning between the Lines (workshop for PGCE students) University of Sussex (Educational Workshop)

1996

  • Like Mills & Bleeding Boon (revised version), also toured to Bristol and Exeter (Brighton Festival Show)
  • Publish and be Damned: a short and partial history of the lesbian and gay book, Brighton Reference Library (Exhibition)
  • Learning between the Lines (workshop for PGCE students) University of Sussex (Educational Workshop)

1995

  • Learning between the Lines: amusing, amazing and heart-rending real-life stories of lesbian and gay schooldays (Brighton Festival Show)
  • Learning between the Lines: amusing, amazing and heart-rending real-life stories of lesbian and gay schooldays (Publication) (still available at £3.50 so contact us for a copy)
  • The Spice of Life (revised version), Brighton Library (Exhibition)
  • Anyone who had a heart [3 accounts of gay male drug use 1962-76] Gay Times, February (Publication)
  • Learning between the Lines (workshop for teachers) Sanctury Café, Hove (Educational Workshop)

1994

  • Dates with Destiny: turning points in lesbian and gay literature and life (Brighton Festival Show)
  • Notorious Conduct (with WiSEGUYS), Bulldog Tavern, St James Street, Brighton (Exhibition)
  • Schools Out: dykes behind the desk, Sussex Club, Regency Square, Brighton (Exhibition)
  • My Brighton (contribution by Ourstorian Linda Pointing to multi-media project) Brighton Museum, 1997 available on CD-ROM

1993

  • Like Mills & Bleeding Boon: romance in lesbian and gay literature and life (Brighton Festival Show)
  • The Spice of Life: a celebration of lesbian life in 1960s Brighton, Middle Street School, Brighton (Exhibition)

1992

  • Daring Hearts: lesbian and gay lives of 50s and 60s Brighton (Brighton Festival Show)
  • Daring Hearts: lesbian and gay lives of 50s and 60s Brighton, Brighton Library (Exhibition)
  • Daring Hearts: lesbian and gay lives of 50s and 60s Brighton, QueenSpark Books (Publication) (currently out of print)
  • Women's Hour, BBC Radio 4 (feature on Daring Hearts)

1991

  • One of the Girls (the life story of a 60s bar femme) Square Peg, No.30 (Publication)
  • A community hidden even from itself, History Workshop, Ruskin College, Oxford (Educational Workshop)
  • Lesbian and Gay Brighton (revised version of 1989 walking tour)

1990

  • Really Living: 150 years of lesbian and gay life (Brighton Festival Show)
  • Finding Our Past (researching lesbian and gay history) Gay Times, March (Publication)

1989

  • Lesbian and Gay Brighton: a guided tour on bus and foot of Brighton's lesbian and gay history

 


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