Sunday 23
- Free LGBTQ+ film screenings, 1.30pm. A season of Queer themed films to mark LGBT+ History Month. Due to copyright reasons the film titles can’t be advertised, so look out for posters in the Library or call 01273 290800. Conference Room 2, Mezzanine Level, Jubilee Library, Brighton.
- The Exponent of breath, 9am–6pm, Mon 17–Sat 29. Exhibition of Herstory portraits of local LGBTQ+ creatives. Free. Jubilee Library
- Queer Night At the Museum, 7-11pm. Launch of the Queer The Pier exhibition and Outing The Past festival with DJ Affy (Go Bang) and performances by: Thick & Tight with dance, mime, theatre and drag; surrealist performer Bird LaBird, who puts the camp back in communism and the fun back in feminism; provocative performer Lasana Shabazz who says loud and clear #blacklivesmatter; open mic hosted by poet Sea Sharp; and live crafts with Boogaloo Stu️, Brighton queer nightlife legend! Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
Saturday 22
- Queer The Pier, from Sat 22, 2020 to Feb 2022, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery,
- Snow Q, 4pm. Poet Maria Jastrzębska has reimagined Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen combining poetry performed by Rita Suszek and Maria Ziółkowska, with original music by Peter Copley and visuals by Wendy Pye. Advance tickets £8 / £10 on door. The Spire, Eastern Road, Brighton
- Outing the Past: Obscured Histories, timings approximate and subject to change on the day. Free events but tickets must be booked in advance. For more info, check Facebook. Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
– Josh Rivers, Busy Being Black: Archiving Our Futures, 12.25pm. Busy Being Black ‘a podcast and archival project that takes an ice pick to the dominant narrative and monolithic portrayals of queer Black people’ speaks with writer and activist Kuchenga Shenje, who looks at the LGBTQ+, BAME and literary figures who helped and inspired her as a black transsexual feminist writer.
– The Special Problem: Construction And Treatment Of Female Homosexuality In England, 1947-1977, 1.45pm. As part of studies on the theme of Sexualities & Health funded by the Wellcome Trust, Dr Sarah Carr & Dr Helen Spandler made an archival study of women’s and LGBTQ+ archives in England. Hidden From History? investigated what happened to same-sex attracted women in the mental health system from 1950s until 1970s.
– Famine, War & Kindertransport: 100 Years of Quaker Lesbian Pride & Awe – Dr Hilda Clark & Edith Pye LH OBE, with Clare B Dimyon MBE, 3.05pm. In 1919 Dr Hilda Clark, a member of the Friends’ War Victims Relief Committee, arrived to assess a famine in Vienna, joined by her life-long companion Edith Pye, a nurse and midwife. Throughout the war they worked to save lives and relieve suffering in a way consistent with their pacifist Quaker beliefs.
– Fighting With Pride with Caroline Paige, 3.35pm. A collection of 10 stories of LGBTQ+ servicemen and women from the Royal Navy, the British Army and the Royal Air Force, captured in a book marking the 20th anniversary of the lifting of the British Armed Forces’ ‘gay ban’.
Sunday 23
- Outing the Past: On the Front Lines of Revolution, timings approximate and subject to change. Free events but tickets must be booked in advance. For more info, check Facebook. Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.
– Gay Liberation: 50 Years Of History In The Making, 12.25pm. 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in London. Stuart Feather looks at the achievements of GLF and its legacy of LGBTQ+ activism, from the response to the AIDS crisis and Section 28 to the activism of today, and how its brand of LGBTQ+ activism has its roots in this 500-year struggle against racism.
– Space Invaders – Queer Representations in Videogames throughout History, 1.45pm. Videogame fanatic, escape room designer, and queer historian Sacha Coward examines collections, historical records, research and testimony from LGBTQ+ video game designers and players, looking at the community’s engagement with and representation by the gaming industry.
– A Brief Encounter With Non-Binary History, 3.05pm, Leo Adams of Non-Binary Leeds explores material produced by members of the local Leeds non-binary community for a History Zine project, including Jewish Rabbinical literature, artists Claude Cahun and Marlow Moss, the lives of individuals from distant times, and participants’ personal histories.
– Stormé DeLarverie: The Forgotten Heroine Of The Stonewall Riots, 3.35pm. Stormé was an androgynous bi-racial lesbian, male impersonator and ‘Guardian of the Lesbians’ of Greenwich Village. She was likely the person who initiated the Stonewall Riots of 1969 but her involvement is disputed and she’s been essentially erased from LGBTQ+ history. Deirdre Swain looks at DeLarverie’s life and career and what drove her to fight injustices against the LGBTQ+ community.
