Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club is back, join us for an evening of stories, talks, and local(ish) history!

We took a lil' break in March, and having missed our favourite celebration of the year - International Women's Day of course! - we are delighted to come back this April with an amazing double bill!

Sue Lemos:

Sue Lemos is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Her research uses oral history and community archives to historicise queer Black community spaces and politics in late twentieth century Britain. She was awarded the departmental ‘MA Dissertation Prize’ for her study on the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre in London, from 1985-1995. Recently she contributed to the Haringey Vanguard, a community project on BAME LGBTQ+ history. In queer/disrupt she co-organises events on queer topics and in the Warwick Black Studies Reading Group she co-convenes a space for critical engagement with Black intellectual production.

Veronica McKenzie:

Veronica is a writer, director and budding historian, with work including 'UNDER YOUR NOSE' (2017) about UK black LGBTQ+ history, FINDING HOME about LGBTQ+ Asylum seekers, and MONICA LOOSE ON A CRUISE which was a BFI Flare 2019 selection. Veronica produced and directed debut feature 'NINE NIGHTS' which won the Pan African Film Festival Narrative Feature Director Award 2019 and is currently on Amazon. Veronica is currently working with the London Metropolitan Archives on Haringey Vanguard a BAME LGBTQ+ history project. Her talk is titled: A timeline of our Dissent. How Black Queer communities impacted the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights.

The event will take place on Zoom.

Upon booking you will receive your Zoom link, which you will be able to use on the night.

We will also be sending you some goodies in the post, so please make sure you provide us with your full address when booking.

The event is totally FREE, but as always, please feel free to make a donation if you like!

The event will be live captioned. If you have any access needs, or require any help with zoom, please do not heasitate contact us.