Peter Burton's ADLER typewriter, c1960s.

Title: Peter Burton's ADLER typewriter, c1960s.
Date: c1960s
Publisher: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Contributor: Daren Kay, with the permission of Torsten Hojer
Format: JPEG
Type: Object
Creator: Zoltan Photography
Spatial Coverage: Brighton
Language: English
Rights: Image owned by Daren Kay, consent from Torsten Hojer on file; Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Alternative Title: Peter Burton
Identifier: EXLOA000166.6

Description: Peter Burton, The Godfather of Gay Journalism - One of the main writers on Spartacus, the UK’s first gay magazine run from a guesthouse in Preston Street, Brighton in the late 1960s, Peter Burton (1945-2011) went on to become Literary and Features editor on Gay News and Gay Times for over three decades.

Living in Brighton for almost 40 years, Burton interviewed some of the most famous gay people in the world. Gay Times, 1992.

Subject: Pink press; gay journalism; Peter Burton; Godfather of Gay Journalism; Gay Times; Queer the Pier; Brighton Museum; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; Queer In Brighton

Peter Burton's ADLER typewriter, c1960s.

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