A5 flyer for Pink Fringe during Brighton Pride, between 2-4th August 2013. Folds out to show a selection of cabaret and theatre events at Marlborough Theatre and Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, including David Hoyle, Stacy Makishi, Dickie Beau, Boogaloo Stu, and Gary Clarke Dance Company.

A brochure of queer cultural events taking place from February 2014 - April 2014 in venues across Brighton & Hove supported by Arts Council England and Brighton & Hove City Council. The programme features: New Ways of Living by acclaimed choreographer Gary Clarke The Tammy Show by Lois Weaver from legendary lesbian theatre company Split Britches Women's House by Sh!t Theatre If You Want Bigger Yorkshire Puddings You Need A Bigger Tin by Lucy Hutson We Object by Figs in Wigs Ruff by Peggy Shaw / Split Britches Women's Day Spectacular co produced with Traumfrau Quit Playing With Yourself featuring new work from Ginger Johnson and Jo Bannon Hurt Me by David Hoyle Performr a new digital commission from Marlborough Productions

The booklet was informed by the ‘Pleasure Principle’ Conference, held in Sheffield on 14 September 2007, and advocates a more open and positive approach to sex and relationships education to promote better sexual health among young people.

Pop Ahoy! article Argus supplement I think - this would be from 2006. Article by David McNamee The photo in the article is by Toby Amies from 2002, and was taken at Lighthouse Studios on Middle Street in Brighton

Off-white chest binder with a zip up the front and a blood stain on the lower left side

Postcard showing archive materials from The Keep related to the Eurotour and UK tour against Section 28, including a campaign against the incarceration of three British lesbian musicians and Stop the Clause activists in a Stockholm prison, and the Never Going Underground campaign. Materials were provided by Melita Dennett. This postcard was produced as part of the Brighton Resists exhibition which ran between March 22nd and April 20th 2017.

Postcard showing archive materials from The Keep, including Promoting Ourselves and Brighton Area Action Against Section 28 Posters. Produced as part of the Brighton Resists exhibition which ran between March 22nd and April 20th 2017.

Postcard showing Stickers against Section 28 from The Keep's archive, contributed by Melita Dennett. Produced as part of the Brighton Resists exhibition which ran between March 22nd and April 20th 2017.

Pride 1992 was organised by a short-lived committee: Pink Parasol. The cheque stubs show its first and last payments, just a year apart. Wisely, Pink Parasol decided to register as a limited company, thus protecting its members from being held personally liable for the debts that remained after the Pride event was over. Pink Parasol was an attempt to broaden the appeal of Pride beyond the radical activists (including me) who had organised the first Pride weekend in 1991. It included some business people and, if I recall correctly, someone from the Metropolitan Community Church. But the commercial gay scene never really got involved and didn’t invest any substantial funds into the event. The committee also included some people with big ideas and grand plans. More and more attractions were booked for the march’s arrival in Preston Park – a stage, a funfair, numerous food and drink vendors, even fireworks! Tragically, we had gambled that the crowd would be bigger, and would spend more freely, than proved to be the case on the day. As treasurer, already aware of how badly things were heading into the red, I spent the afternoon attempting to extract the promised fees from disgruntled stallholders. As the day ended with a moving performance from Labi Siffre and a spectacular firework display, I remember feeling decidedly sick with dread. Somehow, all the big ideas people melted away and it was left to me and one other woman to close down the company and sign all the letters to our creditors explaining that we could only pay them 15% of what we owed them. Just as Pride was getting started, this was a major setback. But we picked up the pieces and moved on. These chequebooks are deposited at The Keep (East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office), as part of the Ourstory archive (Papers of Dani Ahrens, OUR 37/1/2).

Pride 1992 was both a triumph and a disaster. It was the biggest lesbian & gay event Brighton had ever seen, and it sent its organising committee immediately into bankruptcy. Brighton Council had given a grant of £5,000 to Lesbian Strength to support women’s participation in the celebrations, and this had proved extremely controversial, with Labour almost losing control of the council as a result. So organising Pride in 1993 was a hot potato that nobody wanted to pick up. Brighton OUTrights! (the renamed Section 28 campaign) took it on, but the group’s momentum was dissipating and the work of coordinating Pride fell mainly to two women – myself and Linda Pointing. Linda, in particular, was convinced that a 1993 event was vital if Pride was going to survive into the future. Despite being deeply exhausted by my experience with Pride 1992, I agreed to help make it happen. The first ideas meeting, in December 1992, envisaged about a dozen events over a 10 day period. My notes show responsibility for these ideas divided between the two of us. By February 1993 we had settled on a more realistic plan to organise just two events: a march ending with a low-key picnic in Queens Park and a public meeting. We would invite other groups to hold their own events in the 10 days leading up to the march and pull together a programme listing all of these plus anything vaguely lesbian or gay in the Brighton Festival. We rattled buckets, did a sponsored ballroom dance along Western Road, sent out press releases, made hundreds of phone calls and scribbled plans at late night meetings. Ten days before the march, our itinerary for the day still had some question marks on it, but it was basically there. The document lists the names of 16 volunteers: Susanne, Annette, Lisa, Linda, Helen, Karen, Ruth, Dani, Clare, Jude, Jamie, Steve, Brian, Maggie, Melita, and Jane. Altogether, I think there must have been a couple of dozen people, mostly women, all unpaid, whose efforts kept Pride going in that crucial moment. It was a heroic effort, and truly exhausting.

Social photos taken during Brighton Pride in Preston Park, 1995.

Social photos taken during Brighton Pride in Preston Park, 1996. These feature the Unison stall and line dancers in the Rawhide tent.

Social photos taken during Brighton Pride in Preston Park, 2003. The theme was "All the Fun of the Fair", photos show fortune telling in the library tent with Maria Jastrzebska (poet) and Caroline Halliday (artist and poet).

Social photos taken at Brighton Pride, 2004, in Preston Park. These feature the Unison stall and the Pavilion lit up pink to celebrate the event, and some members of the Polish women’s group (Polki feminiski)

Social photos taken at Brighton Pride, 2005, in Preston Park. Amnesty International brought a pink tank to the event.