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# Desperately seeking Gscenes
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/desperately-seeking-gscenes/
- Published: 2025-08-18T12:22:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-18T12:22:10.000Z
- Author: Alf Le Flohic

Are you a secret hoarder (in a good way)? We’re looking for early issues of *Gscene*, from when it was a printed magazine found in every self-respecting LGBTQ+ club and bar in the Brighton area.

It’s hard to believe but *Gscene*, now *Scene* magazine, is 30 years old this year. The brainchild of **James Ledward** in 1995, it provided local listings and community chat that was sorely needed. The impact of *Gscene* on our gay scene (see what I did there), has been significant and deserves a proper appreciation. That’s not what we’re doing here though – we’re trying to gather a complete set of the magazine, and we’re almost there.

Thanks to co-ordinated efforts from the **Bishopsgate Institute** in London and **The Keep** at Falmer, we need fewer than ten issues for a complete run from 1995-2020\. The missing issues are all from the period 1995-2000 and[ are listed here ](https://gayhistory.co.uk/desperately-seeking-gscenes/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)\- this will be updated as we receive donations. 

We’re also looking for *The Queer Guide* 1994-95, the short-lived prototype for *Gscene*, when Brighton wasn’t quite ready to embrace the Q word.

Donations for the missing issues (please check which ones we need), can be deposited at **Jubilee Library** in Brighton. Once we have a full set they will be taken to the Bishopsgate Institute where they will be scanned, and a digital copy sent to the Keep, who sadly don’t have room for the physical copies.

Please help if you can. It’s a fitting legacy to James Ledward. That and I sort of promised him I’d make sure it happened. So, open those attics, and venture into your velvet vaults, you never know what you might find! Thanks.