Historian Alf Le Flohic has been using his time in lockdown to video interview people who used to be members of the Sussex Lancers – the Brighton-based gay leather motorbike club, 1980-2001.
Here is his feature from the June issue of Gscene.Once upon a time there were some very naughty boys… Phil Green and Ken Burton were tailors and partners, known to their friends as Aunt Rose and Aunt Esmé.
They ran a fashion business at 31 Bond Street in Brighton, called Filk’n Casuals (say that carefully). Some of their clothing was considered rather daring and attracted a certain type of gentleman.
Opening in 1960, it was soon considered ‘the most notorious outfitters outside of London’ (British Queer History, Brian Lewis). ‘It was said that if you.