to be offended that all my friends and DHs mates are laughing at me...please tell me I am not the only person who did not know this??

[GhostOfPsychomum5]

I went to brighton last weekend. was a fab place, really enjoyed it, met with the fab MN crowd, shopped, generally had a Very Good Time HOWEVER

I seem to have missed the memo telling me that it is the gay capital of the world....didn;t phaze me, I was just completely stunned......never actaully knew there was such a place where people (and I mean everyone in this, it was so relaxing and friendly there) could be so open. and dress how they want...etc.

DH has taken my innocence to mean that everyone can pick on me and laugh at me.............it IS meant in the nicest possible way, and I am laughing too (while feeling a tad silly), but when his best mate ring up this morning, and chortles down the phone at me about it, then yells to his wife and I hear HER laughing............well, I feel a teeny bit sorry for myself now that I am clearly a person to be made fun of just cos I am that innocent.

please tell me I am not the only person tho that really is that dim that I really didn;t know........I think a whole world of knowledge is simply passing me by now simply to give people a giggle

x-posts with harobomummy.....I am not the only one then

well, me, you and nighbynigh.

Psycho: I didnt know that about Brighton!

I have never been there but like the idea of sitting in a train with loads of nice smelling young men .

I knew that Brighton had a reputation for its gay population but have never been and so probably would be fairly surprised myself (I live in a pit village oop north ) Don't think it's hilarious, particularly

ok. Manchester v Brighton. Handbags at dawn.

psycho- you are such an innocent!

it's quite sweet really. ((hug))

and try and find something your dh believes to be true and rip it to shreds as revenge.

..ok. Manchester v Brighton. Handbags at dawn.

Told you, first response in Manchester is a challenge followed by a fight.
Come down here for a good meal, a good club and a chat instead.

pan, do you really want to go there.......

yay, mrsweasly come and join my club.....and lets sit on a nice fragranced train together

stealth, you would love brighton......and probably be told to shut your mouth from gawping, like I did.

well, not gawping so much, just wonderment and surprise.

no, I'd just hold people's pashmeena's.

diff, I am w/reaking(sp?) revenge as we speak.....

asked him to go to tesco for a few bits before he went (he was going for beers to take to said party anyway), as the girls are in a show tomorrow and so need lots of food as it is an all-day thing.

I wrote....lunch box bits for the girls and plenty to drink.

he said that I have left him a hole to fall into as I am so unspecific, it means that when he comes back I can moan at him for getting the wrong thing.

me....leaving him a hole to fall so I can moan, nah, not me

I could have understood if you had come on the first weeked in august(gay pride)

I like the fact that you can be different in Brighton without attracting unwanted attention. You can be a Goth, a hippy, a gay, an ordinary run-of-the-mill or like my son be an Aspie with recognisable traits that mark him out as different and he doesn't get beaten up or made afraid by other people's responses.
It's a liberal and open-minded place with a huge variety of entertainment, from The Grand to the pier and a fantastic Arts culture.
And yes, the eyecandy is top notch too.

Ghost - I didn't know anything about any meet-ups! Have only really started using MN recently ... joined 2 or 3 years ago but was a very spasmodic user until recently ... how does one go about finding out about who is meeting, and where/when??

Well, I knew Brighton had a large gay community, but I lived just outside it for 5 years and I can't say I ever particularly was overwhelmed by the sight of people being openly gay. Where on earth did you go in Brighton?

Aww, you silly thing. I thought everyone knew that. At least you didn't start chatting up nice-looking yuong men or asking if they were brothers.

and 'sheesh, relax' at people over-reacting and thinking it's about the gay thing when it's obviously about Psycho not knowing something that everyone knows. Like that Christmas Day and New Year's Day are always on the same day of the week, that kind of thing.

..Well, I knew Brighton had a large gay community, but I lived just outside it for 5 years and I can't say I ever particularly was overwhelmed by the sight of people being openly gay. Where on earth did you go in Brighton?

It's all comparative. I lived in a pit town in Yorkshire for 8 years, the gay culture was completely invisible in the whole of West Yorkshire at that time!

A Brighton meetup?

Brighton isn't the 'gay capital' - there is no 'gay capital' that's just silly. Brighton is a place where people can walk around looking like whatever they want, snog whoever they want and live however they want without public ridicule. It's hardly surprising that lots of gay people like it, but that doesn't make it a gay capital. Sorry, I find that a bit annoying because of the stupid comments you sometimes get. Someone told me it was good I BF my son because 'growing up in Brighton....' and [puke]

That Christmas day / New Years day thing has stopped me in my tracks Trillian. HOW did I NEVER realise that???

mummydragon, look out on the meet-ups threads.....we pop up on there occasionally (should do it more often in fact me thinks, we don;t managed it as often as we should).

DG......stayed in a hotel on the road going right at the top of kemp town, so was pretty muhc in the heart of it

trillian, that is it exactly....they are laughing at my dimness. doesn;t bother me in the slightest, and I really loved it there (wanna go back too), tis just that I am very easy to wind up anyway, plus very gullable..........and yet, mum of five, in my 30's, some things I should know by now surely

I knew that would flush out some people. It's even better than the Feb/March dates being on the same day because it happenes every year.

yes Kat there is a broghton meet up regularly - if you live in broghton come along, we'd love to meet you.

just done a quick google and i would say that the consensus is that brighton is the gay capital of the uk rather than manchester.

imo the manc scene is rough seedy and gauche.

custy.

profiterol, lol, would love to see his face if I said that

I honestly can't understand why your friends/whoever are falling about laughing. I'm surprised you didn't know about Brighton's reputation for being gay-friendly, but I'm not laughing all over my face about it.

And it doesn't define Brighton. Many different stereotypes are very at home there too; vegetarians, for example, and arty types, because of the Brighton Festival and the Open Houses programme.

with MoChan - Brighton used to be known as one of the clubbing capitals of the UK. Think fat boy slim on the beach ...etc

But i hear the clubs aren't what they used to be .

Sun Sea.... use your imagination go have funa nd bring back a few good stories to shut them up

I went to a pub once with a friend is a girl. After a while I noticed all the couples were same sex. No clue at all. We left soon after, too shy to stay.