Daring Hearts: Lesbian And Gay Lives Of 50s And 60s Brighton

This is a collection of life stories of people who are members of the gay and lesbian community in the Brighton area. The book is based on taped interviews with forty lesbian and gay men who spoke openly about their lives in and around Brighton. In the fifties and sixties the town enjoyed a national reputation as a haven for gay people and it was viewed as a relatively tolerant place for people to visit and live. Lesbians and gay men came from all over Britain for holidays and to settle down. Brighton was considered a type of ‘Eldorado’, a promised land, and this tradition remains today, where its thriving gay community is one of the largest in the country, outside London.

This wonderful work of oral history, first published in 1992, is now available as an e-book from QueenSpark Books.

Brighton Ourstory: The End Of History

We are sad to announce that, after twenty-four years of searching out and telling the stories of Brighton's lesbian, gay and bisexual communities and individuals, Brighton Ourstory is unable to continue in this work.
Just too tired to go on, we hope we have sown the seeds of interest for those who come after – there is plenty yet to do – and made a bit of history ourselves.
We would like to thank all those, too numerous to mention individually here, who have supported Ourstory's work and to apologise to those whom we have been unable to help over the last year, whilst this painful conclusion has been emerging.
We are currently making arrangements to re-home the items deposited in our archive. We hope to produce a last newsletter and will be writing to all our Friends individually soon. It seems likely that the website will continue, so carry on clicking.

Brighton Ourstory Project. 

Really sad to hear this news - BOP did so much great and truly groundbreaking work on uncovering and celebrating this city's remarkable queer history.
Thanks to Linda and Tom and everyone who got involved. 

PS Please have a look at their website. You don't have to be gay and to have lived and loved in Brighton etc etc.