The Ledward Centre is Brighton's first dedicated LGBTQ+ community and cultural centre, on Jubilee Street next to the library and a few minutes from the Lanes. It opened as a permanent home for the things the city's scene had always had to borrow rooms for.
It is a sober space, which matters in a city where almost everything else queer happens in a bar. Inside there is a cafe, a gallery, a small cinema and rooms used for workshops, exhibitions, support groups and community meetings. The programme is run for the LGBTQ+ communities and their allies.
For a visitor it is the easiest place in Brighton to find out what is actually happening, and somewhere to sit that does not involve a drink. The centre is named in memory of a Brighton journalist who spent decades reporting on the city's queer life.
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