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Our Survey Said… It Started With A Kiss… hirty years ago, come 30th January, Southern Television (the 1970’s equivalent of today’s ITV Meridian) broadcast a half-hour documentary about gay people in Brighton. Sadly, the pleasure Tand triumph that must have been felt by activists featured in the programme turned sour the next day, when one of them got sacked from his job. Protesters from all over the country converged on British Home Stores’ Oxford Street branch and local campaigners left the general public of Brighton and Worthing in no doubt as to their feelings. Tony Whitehead later became a founding father of the Terrence Higgins Trust. Our Survey Said…. his year’s Brighton Pride was, undoubtedly, one of the best ever for Ourstory. Set free from the experienced by three generations of lesbians confining shackles of the market area we were able to stretch our legs, and our new exhibition - and gay men in Brighton and Hove. Head down TMeet Our Ancestors - into a roomy tent, complete with working gramophone. Our larger space to the rather swish Joogleberry Playhouse just also meant many more people had the chance to browse our display, have a mooch and chat. As off St James St on Sat 11th Feb at 4pm (with the well as this, many of you took the time to fill in a special questionnaire designed to see if our long bar open from 3.15pm). Tickets £5/3.50 term plans - to have a permanent home for the archive - were what you wanted as well. available in advance. Happily, our survey revealed that this was an We’ve also been delighted to help and advise aim you agreed with. Of 93 respondents 92% Brighton & Hove Council’s LGBT Workers’ thought it very important to have an LGB Forum with their Winter Pride event History Centre in Brighton and would visit it. celebrating the Sussex Arts Balls, which took Two thirds of respondents were local, with a place in the years following World War II. In third from outside Sussex, while 54 women those days, prizes were awarded for the best took part, as compared to 37 men with one fancy dress costume. Grant, an Ourstory person m2f. contributor and regular at the balls, recalls “a unless otherwise stated. Registered charity no. 1106242. certain number of queens used to spend the whole of the summer sitting on the Men’s Above: The protest outside the Brighton branch of BHS in Xavier Mayne Beach, sewing sequins on the gowns”. 1976 by members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality In September, Tom - one of the group’s and University of Sussex Gay Soc. founders - gave an entertaining talk to the Of course, we couldn’t sign out without Right: How Gay News covered the story. Friends of Ourstory on one of the people mentioning the sad loss of entertainer Phil Left: A review of the upcoming programme in the Sunday highlighted in Meet Our Ancestors - Edward Above: Val winds up the gramaphone in the Ourstory Starr in October. We have fond memories of Times’ TV pages. Prime Stevenson. This globetrotting American tent at this year’s Pride. this kind and unpretentious man giving an opera queen from the turn of the century (who exquisite benefit performance in our Lavender also took the rather exotic name of Xavier add them to the collection. Thanks go to the Lounge Bar show in 1999. Read more about New in the archive Mayne) was author of many a groundbreaking archivists and conservator who’ve been Phil on page 3 gay book. guiding us through the rigours of caring for our collections to a professional standard, to Until 2006... We’re delighted that so many A Youth of Fourteen by (Julie Burchill's story of Archive catalogue training has been going the Ourstory volunteers who’ve worked so of you keep an eye out for Aubrey Fowkes and Finistere young lesbian love, filmed in apace and we’ve just completed the listing of hard during the training and to Global Grants things to give to the Ourstory by Fritz Peters. Nina has Brighton). Nina, Sally, Ben the Brighton Campaign for Homosexual for the money to do it. Many more collections to archive. Over the last few given us some more recent and Graeme have all Equality/Brighton Gay Community be catalogued during 2006. Death of months, LAGNA (Lesbian lesbian fiction, including donated contemporary press Organisation collection. We have lots of files, and Gay Newsmedia Archive) Sarah Waters' Tipping the cuttings, posters, flyers and newsletters, scripts for gay play readings and Winter Pride have sent us copies of their Velvet and Jackie Kay's magazines, while Veronica ongoing campaigns. Some correspondence a legend. press cutting collection for Trumpet. These will all grace has sent us a selection of needs to be kept confidential but otherwise the Winter Pride and LGBT History Month are East Sussex from the 1950s to the shelves alongside our lesbian and gay magazines files are now available - if you’d like to come turning into regular fixtures in the calendar - the present. Two lots of books existing library of about 300 from the 1970s-90s. Jean's and take a look, either for research or general and with a more cultural feel than summer’s We pay have come our way - Francis titles of interest to lesbian and photograph taken in Alciston interest, give us a call on Brighton 206655. hedonistic pleasures we feel we fit right in. brought in ten gay men's gay browsers. Graeme churchyard has inspired a bit This year we’re putting on Really Living, an tribute on books written in the 1950s persuaded a relative to make of delving and perhaps a If anyone out there has other official files for Ourstory production not seen for fifteen years. and '60s, including Song of us a DVD of the television piece for the next newsletter. these organisations that they would like to It's a moving performance with film and music the Loon by Richard Amory, drama series, Sugar Rush Thank-you all! pass on to us for safe keeping, we’d be glad to that evokes the challenges and delights page 3. Brighton Ourstory, PO Box 2861, Brighton BN1 1UN Tel: 01273 206655 Email: [email protected] Online: www.brightonourstory.co.uk Issue 18 • Winter 2005 Designed by Benedict Brook and Joyce Chester • Printed by Beaumont Schubert 01273 749947 • Text Copyright © 2005 Brighton Ourstory A Tribute to James Arthur Fuller Rookie to Raunchy (aka Phil Starr) his is the story of how Bubbles (Iris) Ashdown joined the Army and of bread and marg and Too obvious started her fifty year love affair with the Brighton gay scene. Taken jam and put them in Tfrom an interview conducted a few months before her death in 1993. my steel helmet. And “There weren’t many clubs at that f you’ve been living in Brighton these last few months you can’t then one day a new time, the Marine Hotel was the have failed to notice the impact the death of Phil Starr has had on “My date of birth was 25th June started asking questions, you see. officer came, a Miss main scene. Pigott’s was a pub in Ithe community. A female impersonator from the old school, his 1925 but according to the Army I So I thought the only answer was Peach, she was a St James’s Street. There’d be a career and life ended, not with a whimper, but while he was still was born 25th June 1923. I had to that May and I would join the second lieutenant. woman called Dolly that used to going strong. He had just taken over Starr’s Bar and Hotel on the add two years to join the Army. I Army so we both went up and In those days play the piano and it was queer, it New Steine, he was lined up as the lead in drag panto Babes in the had my first affair with a girl at volunteered at Waterloo Place. you weren’t was a queer pub, so I felt right Bushes and there was even talk of a BBC sitcom. twelve. Her name was May - I met Unfortunatley, May had been in under military there. her at school, she was a bit older the Territorials - she was ex- law so she fist drag act at Legends 14 years than me. My Grandfather put me service and it was my first time in, was called You used to get soldiers coming in previously, and now he bowed to quite a nice private school but so she never went to the same ‘Miss’ and and they used to start a fight with out with a rendition of Vera his seventies, he finally sold up in 1941 I decided there was no place as me. I went to Norton she was the queer boys. I remember some Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again. Sadly, and moved to the coast. But his future for me in Brighton because Barracks in Worcestershire and what was of the soldiers would come in we were not to meet Phil again. diary remained full not only by I was born illegitimate, which was then to Donnington on the Welsh called quite friendly, you know and of the sea, up in London and even very unfortunate, and everyone Borders. PAD course there was always a good Born in Croydon in 1932 Phil as far afield as Thailand. officer, sing-song night there. There was began his career in the RAF, which a girl called Laurie and Laurie stationed in Singapore.
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