Piers and Queers: a tour of Brighton’s LGBTQ past
‘Ah, dear Brighton. Piers, queers and racketeers’ – Noel Coward
Join this tour of Brighton for LGBT History Month 2015. The tour is from a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer perspective, taking in over 200 years of history in a colourful 80-minute walk along the beach and historic centre of one of Europe’s queerest cities.
Follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde and Dusty Springfield…see where England’s first Civil Partnerships were celebrated…and discover some extraordinary unsung heroes, including a pioneering doctor who passed as man decades before women were allowed to practice medicine, a 19th-century lesbian diarist, and a same-sex marriage – back in 1923!
Tour date:
Sunday February 22nd 12:00
No need to book
Meet: Regency Square, by War Memorial Statue, opposite the old West Pier
Meet: Regency Square, by War Memorial Statue, opposite the old West Pier