Part of the 15 years of Marlborough Exhibition at Brighton Jubilee Library February 2025. The exhibition text reads: 15 Years of Marlborough Productions: A Journey of Queer Creativity and Community Since 2008, Marlborough Productions has been at the heart of Brighton’s art scene, championing intersectional LGBTQIA+ culture and fostering a vibrant community of artists and audiences. From our beginnings at The Marlborough Pub & Theatre to our current role as a national and internationally recognised company, this exhibition celebrates our history. It features just a small selection of the extraordinary people, performances and places that have contributed to our story – we only had ten panels to fill and we needed about a hundred! Images: 1. Brownton Abbey at Brighton Festival 2018, Ray Young - by Vic Frankowski We brought our Afro-futurist space church to Brighton Festival, led by a heavenly constellation of Queer Artists of Colour. 2. Brownton Abbey at ANTI Festival 2024 - TJ 2 - by Akseli Muraja Tina Hyena beams on stage as the crowd goes wild at ANTI Festival in Kuopio, Finland as part of Brownton Abbey the afrofuturistic space church themed performance party celebrating and elevating queer disabled artists of colour. 3. Lydia L’Scabies, A Queer Night at the Museum (2020) by Rosie Powell Freelance Drag artist Lydia L’Scabies captivates the room at A Queer Night at the Museum, a Queer Heritage South event at Brighton Museum.

Bi Curious George and Other Sidekicks

Images from Brighton Reists, an exhibtion curated by Queer In Brighton, and showing at the Marlborough Pub and theatre from March 27 2017 for two weeks. This exhibition was the culmination of the first 6 months of running Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club, and was developed collectively using archival material from the keep. Brighton Resists uses the Section 28 campaign as a starting point to look at the history of LGBTQ+ activism in our city. Using collections at The Keep (University of Sussex) and from the Queer in Brighton archive, as well as pictures from Melita Dennett's personal collection, this exhibition gives snapshots of when our communities have come together to resist oppressive legislation, harassment and invisibility.

Poster for trans pride season featuring Alok Vaid-Menon at the Marlborough Pub & Theatre in July 2018 Image of poet & performer Alok Vaid-Menon