LGBT Brighton and Hove
Cameron, Janet
ISBN 10: 1848687176 / ISBN 13: 9781848687172
Published by Amberley Publishing, 2009
Bibliographic Details
Title: LGBT Brighton and Hove
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
About this title
Synopsis:
LGBT Brighton & Hove is an exploration of the development of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community from its earliest accessible
beginnings. As well as the personal memories and experience of local LGBT people, the book includes accounts from the History Centre's comprehensive
archives while literature is used to inform a representative sample of stories of the area's prominent LGBT writers, artists, musicians and philanthropists
from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the present day. There are accounts of prominent court cases, of wartime, and of mid and late twentieth
century events, memories and personal experience. The book shows how LGBT people strove to 'make change happen' both individually and through
forming organisations for mutual support and with specific aims. Later chapters draw on the personal stories of local people, including 'Coming Out',
'Civil Marriages' and the progress of 'Brighton Pride' from its difficult, political beginnings in the early nineties, to the celebration of today, attracting
both goodwill and visitors from all over the world. There is still some way to go for LGBT people and the issues that still affect them - even in Brighton
and Hove - but this book is an encouraging reflection on the change and progress that has already been achieved.
From the Author:
Janet Cameron is a prolific author who has published ten books, two of which were widely translated. Her work has also appeared in Today, Daily
Express, Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Post, The Observer, The Examiner, Writing in Education, Writers Forum and Mslexia. She was first prize-
winner in 2007 of the Society of Women Writers & Journalist's 'Clemence Dane Cup' for a monologue. Recently retired from her post as lecturer in
creative writing at the University of Kent she now lives in Hove.
