Latest.
Queer Lives, Queer Objects
25 February 2025
Join the Hastings Queer History Collective to uncover how personal objects can reveal queer stories and connect to wider LGBTQIA+ histories.
A Captured Moment: Dawn and John-Paul
Friday 15 November 2024
An event uncovering the remarkable story behind the photograph of Dawn and John-Paul Simmons' marriage blessing in Hastings in 1969.
Hastings’ Queer Places and Spaces
Join the Hastings Queer History Collective on their journey to uncover the hidden stories and significance of past LGBTQIA+ sites in Hastings.
Queer History Trail Map: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Get ready for an unforgettable journey through LGBTQIA+ history with the Queer History Trail Map, produced and curated by the Hastings Queer History Collective.
Queer Tour of Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Saturday 19 August 2023. Join the Hastings Queer History Collective once again as they bring back their hugely popular museum tours, exclusively for Hastings Pride 2023.
Join the Queer History Collective
Are you passionate about celebrating and preserving the rich history of the LGBTQIA+ community in Hastings? Do you want to make a meaningful impact by sharing the stories of our vibrant and diverse community? If so, the Hastings Queer History Collective needs you!
Queer History Collective: Artist Commission
The Hastings Queer History Collective is seeking to commission an LGBTQIA+ artist based in Hastings and Rother to create a bespoke artwork inspired by the following entry in queer activist and film-maker Derek Jarman’s diary Smiling in Slow Motion: Journals, 1991–1994.
Join Hastings Queer History Collective
Join the Hastings Queer History Collective on their journey to uncover the hidden stories and significance of past LGBTQIA+ sites in Hastings.
Duckie presents ‘Queer History Club: Hastings’
Duckie are taking queer history out of the museum and back to the pub where it belongs. Join EJ Scott and Duckie’s Queer Volunteers in the bar of the Stables Theatre as they explore queer life in the 18th century.
We’re here. We’re queer. Exhibition
The Hastings Queer History Collective was formed in early 2020 to explore and document the experiences of LGBTIQA+ individuals living in and around Hastings.
Queer History Collective
We are thrilled to be working with Hastings Museum & Art Gallery to support 10 queer local history curators to choose an object and story to enrich its social history collection.
