You can’t keep a good man down – it was only a matter of time before Barry Nelson would surface again and he is back managing and cooking in the kitchen of a new Burger Bar upstairs at Bar Revenge called Burgershack.
You can’t keep a good man down – it was only a matter of time before Barry Nelson would surface again and he is back managing and cooking in the kitchen of a new Burger Bar upstairs at Bar Revenge called Burgershack.
Friends and colleagues of Michael ‘Mouse’ Burton and Gary ‘Gloria’ Swan gathered under cloudy skies in New Steine Gardens, on Sunday (July 23) to dedicate two memorial benches in both their names. Both Michael and Gary who died unexpectedly towards the end of 2016 were very popular on the commercial LGBT+ scene, having worked at different times over the years at Revenge, Bar Revenge, Legends, The Star and Charles Street.
A pair of benches will be named after two popular former employees who worked on the LGBT+ commercial scene for many years, today at 2.30pm in New Steine Gardens in the shadow of the Aids Memorial.At the end of March some of Brighton’s LGBT+ venues came together to raise money to purchase two memorial benches for Michael ‘Mouse’ Burton and Gary ‘Gloria’ Swan in New Steine Gardens.
From Friday, June 8, Bar and Club Revenge will be stepping up their security policies with extra door staff, more searches and new hand-held security metal detectors on entry to both venues.
The first person many LGBT+people meet when they first arrive in the city is the bar person at their local LGBT+ venue. These ‘gatekeepers’ to the community provide an important role both befriending and signposting new arrivals. Over the coming months we will be finding out a little more about them and what makes them tick.
A partnership of LGBT+ venues have raised £2,186.30 to purchase memorial benches in memory of two former employees.
Managers at Bar Revenge, Charles Street, Legends, Revenge and Queens Arms came together from March 30 – April 2 for a UNITY Fundraiser Weekend in memory of Gary ‘Gloria’, Swan who worked over the years on door security at Bar Revenge, Legends and Revenge and Michael ‘Mouse’ Burton who worked as a barman at Charles Street.
Anyone who has supported the Brighton commercial scene over the last 30 years will probably at some point have had contact with Gary either as a friend or a customer at one of the many venues he worked at. The majority of us knew him as Gloria.
For those of you that don’t know Carl… he’s the jolly bouncer with the wonderful beard who guards the gates at Revenge and Subline. Well… he’s still wonderful but the beard is now gone!
Revenge raise £1257.60 for Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) at their World AIDS Day benefit event on Sunday, November 29 at Bar Revenge. The money was raised by auctioning the staff at Revenge and Bar Revenge, a raffle, bucket collections and sales of Red Ribbons and money put in the THT collection tins over the period preceding WAD.
Bar Revenge will stage their annual fundraiser for World AIDS Day on Sunday, November 29 from 7pm. Highlight will be a staff auction and raffle to raise funds for Terrence Higgins Trust (THT).
