iPhone app Brighton Pink Plaques

Brighton Pink Plaques is your convenient personal tour guide to Brightons LGBT past and an especially appropriate companion during Brightons LGBT History Month in February.

Do you live in Brighton or are planning a trip soon?

Do you enjoy learning about social history?

Would you like to discover some of the LGBT stories of the City of Brighton & Hove?

Brighton Pink Plaques isnt only an engaging treat for anyone interested in the LGBT history of the UKs queerest city.
It is full of delightful stories of excitement, subterfuge, fun, protest and love - providing an unusual, affordable and rewarding way to enrich your experience of this vibrant city.

If you have walked down its streets today then you will know that theres plenty to see but theres a rich history below the surface and Brighton Pink Plaques will help you uncover it for less than the cost of a cappuccino.

The app is packed with stories, photos and facts from the Walkie Talkie tours of Brighton-based author and local historian Rose Collis.
Since 1985, her features, interviews and reviews have appeared in over 30 publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Independent, The Times, TV Times, The Bookseller, Time Out, City Limits and Tribune.
Her tours have featured in a number of festivals and annual events, including

The Brighton Fringe Festival

Brighton & Hove Open Door 2009 & 2010

Winter Pride

The Word

Brighton Libraries series of Encyclopaedic Knowledge local history events in 2010

Events for JourneyOn and VisitBrighton.com.

After downloading Brighton Pink Plaques you will know the hotel where Anne Lister had a dirty weekend, the pub at which a certain pop groups manager, Brian Epstein, quaffed and which gay bookstore owner was prosecuted for stocking obscene material.
Its even possible if, unfortunately, you live far from this exciting city.

Brighton Pink Plaques features:

three themed tours written by acclaimed writer Rose Collis

73 virtual plaques across the city

text, address, photograph and web site (if appropriate) for each plaque

each plaque location displayed on the apps map

create personal tours by grouping existing plaques to suit your interests

sort the tours by theme or estimated duration

configure your walking speed and time spent at each plaque

get walking directions via Apple Maps integration

respects your preferred font size

supports landscape orientation

enlarge photographs for more detail

VoiceOver integration

`Rose has provided three tours; Hotels, Cafes and Shops and Pubs and Clubs.
The information for some plaques may simply be factual, but many have intriguing and frequently surprising and occasionally hilarious anecdotes about the lives of the citys famous residents and visitors and the places at which they stayed - and who they stayed with!` +

Using the app, you can set off along the citys pavements taking in all a tours sights (stopping now and then for refreshment of course!), perhaps using any accompanying website link to see what happens there now, rather than 60 or more years ago and wonder at the lives of people laughing, protesting, working and loving all those years ago.

In the UK, Blue Plaques on a building denote a historical significance.
We felt that these virtual Pink Plaques would be a great way of commemorating the wonderful LGBT history of Brighton.
Maybe one day there will be physical ones too .

If you enjoy using Brighton Pink Plaques then please leave a review; if not, contact me! Thanks.,

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