The Candy Bar Brighton 2000-2004 33 St James Street, Brighton Door Policy: All welcome but respecting women a must Music Policy: House / disco / indie / alt / R’n’B DJs: Kate Wildblood & Queen Josephine, DJ Rocket, Ms Annik, Darren Skene, Dulcie Danger, Hollie, DJ Slamma, DJ Philly, DJ Minx and many, many more Co-founders and promoters: Kim Lucas and Rachael Venia Woodgate Flyer Design: Jo Gell & Rachael Venia Woodgate

Wildblood and Queenie: The Candy Bar, 129 St James Street 2004-2008

The Candy Bar at Brighton Pride. On the Pride Parade, on Preston Park, on point.

The Queen's Head pub in Steine Street, with its Freddie Mercury pub sign

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations visited Brighton on the 9th September 2021. She is a passionate and longstanding champion of social justice and gender equality, and leads the United Nations’ efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Ms Byanyima believes that health care is a human right and was an early champion of a People’s Vaccine against the coronavirus that is available and free of charge to everyone, everywhere.

World AIDS Day 1996 – Brighton You can still see a World AIDS Day memorial in Brighthelm Gardens. It’s positioned at the base of a silver birch tree adjacent to the entrance doors on the North Road side. The plaque was unveiled on the 01 December 1996, in the presence of people with and affected by HIV, and representatives from local community groups and charities.

Nu McAdam (he/they) & Suchi Chatterjee (she/they) presented ‘Your Lavender Life: Disability History, Activism & Intersectionality' at Daltons, Brighton on 23 March 2026. Featuring guest speaker Isaac Samuels OBE. At this event we talked about how important it is to archive personal queer and disabled histories in the local area. Recent years have taught us how much of our rights and autonomy is being taken away. In order to reverse this, a small step we can take is to keep our queer history safe. Filmed by Lucy Le Brocq