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# PICTURE DIARY: LGBT people remembered at War Memorial ceremony
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/picture-diary-lgbt-people-remembered-at-war-memorial-ceremony/
- Published: 2015-11-09T10:11:23.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-09T10:11:23.000Z
- Description: Billie Lewis, the elected chair of the Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum laid a wreath at the annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the Old Steine yesterday, November 8 to mark the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people tortured and murdered during the Second World War.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: In The South, News, Billie Lewis, Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum, Remembrance Sunday

## The lives of LGBT and disabled people were marked yesterday at Brighton Remembrance Day ceremony.

![Billie Lewis and Joanna Rowland Stuart](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/web-600-26.jpg)

Billie Lewis and Joanna Rowland Stuart from Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum

**Billie Lewis, the elected chair** of the Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum laid a wreath at the annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the Old Steine yesterday, November 8 to mark the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people tortured and murdered during the Second World War.

**The message on the wreath read:** *“In remembrance of the tens of thousands of LGBT men and women who were persecuted, tortured and murdered in concentration camps throughout Europe by Nazi Germany.*

*“In remembrance too of LGBT persons who have served and died for their country past and present.*

*“We will remember them.”*

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Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum committee member, **Joanna Rowland Stuart** laid a wreath to remember disabled people who suffered the same fate at the hands of the Nazis.

**The message on the wreath read:** *“In remembrance of the tens of thousands of disabled men, women and children who were persecuted and murdered in concentration camps throughout Europe by Nazi Germany.*

*“In remembrance too of disabled persons who have served and died for their country past and present.*

*“We will remember them.”*

The event was attended by the Mayor of Brighton and Hove, **Cllr Lynda Hyde** and wreaths were laid by the Leader of the Council, **Cllr Warren Morgan** and **Caroline Lucas MP** for Brighton Pavilion among others.

The ceremony was interrupted for a moment when the bugler fainted, but someone from the Salvation Army band quickly took over and finished playing the last post.

![Billie Lewis and Joanna Rowland Stuart](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/web-600-58.jpg "Billie Lewis and Joanna Rowland Stuart") 

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