Outstory's history
Meet Our Ancestors
LGBT history month event on Friday 25 February 2011 at the Audrey Emerton Building, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton.
Brighton Pride exhibition on Saturday 6 August 2005 at Preston Park, Brighton.
Two hundred years of lesbian and gay history in Brighton and Hove - and thereabouts.
Exhibition for LGBT history month in 2011.
In 2011 this exhibition was accompanied by a free talk at 5pm from Ron Strank, about life as the first male matron in Brighton and Hove (worked Bevendean Hospital 1968-72).
You can see photos and read more about the event on the realbrighton.com website.
Our Regency Story
1800–1840
- William Pitt
- Sake Dean Mahomed
- Frances Power-Cobb
- John Nash
- Angela Burdett-Coutts and Hannah Meredith
- Horace Walpole
- Anne Lister
Our Victorian Story
1840–1900
- Charlotte Mew
- Eric Stenbock
- Amy Levy
- Oscar Wilde
- Edward Prime-Stevenson
- The Bachelor Duke (6th Duke of Devonshire)
- Edward Carpenter
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Our Edwardian Story
1900–1918
- Ronald Firbank
- Frances Wolseley
- Louisa Martindale
- Edward Perry Warren
- Helen Boyle and Mabel Jones
- Toupie Lowther
Our Between the World Wars Story
1918–1939
- Radclyffe Hall
- Zena Dell
- Berto Pasuka
- Quentin Crisp
- Peter Coats
- Rose Allatini
- Hilda Matheson
- Naomi Jacob
- Billy Milton
Val winds up the gramaphone in the Ourstory tent at Pride in 2005.