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LGBT Brighton & Hove is an exploration of the development of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender community from its earliest accessible beginnings. As well as the personal memories & experience of local LGBT people, the book
Includes:: accounts from the History Centres comprehensive archives while literature is used to inform a representative sample of stories of the areas prominent LGBT writers, artists, musicians & philanthropists from the nineteenth & twentieth centuries to the present day.
There are accounts of prominent court cases, of wartime, & of mid & late twentieth century events, memories & personal experience. The book shows how LGBT people strove to make change happen both individually & through forming organisations for mutual support & with specific aims.
Later chapters draw on the personal stories of local people, including Coming Out, Civil Marriages & the progress of Brighton Pride from its difficult, political beginnings in the early nineties, to the celebration of today, attracting both goodwill & visitors from all over the world. There is still some way to go for LGBT people & the issues that still affect them
- even in Brighton & Hove
- but this book is an encouraging reflection on the change & progress that has already been achieved.
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This paperback book measures: 23.5 x 16.6 x 1.2cm.