‘Community Spirit’ from Brighton Gin

Craft distillery Brighton Gin has announced its latest Artist’s Edition Pride limited release. Every year since 2016 the distillery collaborates with an LGBTQ+ artist to not only platform their work, but to raise money for Brighton Rainbow Fund.

This year, Brighton Gin has collaborated with Brighton-based multidisciplinary artist and LGBTQ+ advocate Fox Fisher. For this year’s release, Fox has chosen to make four separate but themed artworks, inspired by and celebrating queer lives hidden from history. Released as an initial run of four x 100 bottles in each design, and individually signed and numbered by the artist, each one is a unique artwork in miniature.

Fox Fisher

Fox said: “Brighton is a place I navigated to; a place where I could truly be myself. Being able to explore myself through many incarnations, from being young queer working in the bars and clubs, to a drag king packing and posing, to a trans activist co-founding Trans Pride has been quite the journey. I’m proud of this city, which has been transitioning too.

“It’s important for people to have the space to explore their gender and sexuality and, for me, Brighton has been the perfect place for this. There’s something special about this evolving city, and I wanted to pay homage to the queer people who lived and loved before me, during Regency times.”

Through its Community Spirit initiative, Brighton Gin has supported many hundreds of community organisations and charities across the city and beyond, and has donated thousands of bottles of hand sanitiser throughout the Covid pandemic.

Kathy Caton, founder of Brighton Gin, said: “With so many of the fundraising events that would usually support Brighton Rainbow Fund having been cancelled, we’re really pleased to support them. We’re long-standing admirers of Fox’s work as an artist and as a campaigner and it’s a dream to be working with them!”

Kathy Caton

Chris Gull, chair of Brighton Rainbow Fund, said: “Thank you so much for raising funds, yet again, with these beautiful limited edition Pride bottles. All the money raised will be distributed as grants to the local LGBTQ+ and HIV projects that we support. It’s a tough year for all of them, trying to continue to support hundreds of LGBTQ+ people in Brighton & Hove between them who require these vital frontline services”.

Chris Gull

Bottles can be bought directly from www.brightongin.com and from independent stockists Quaff and Good News. Recognising what a challenging year it will be for raising funds, 9% from each bottle will be donated to Brighton Rainbow Fund.

For more info on Brighton Rainbow Fund, visit: www.rainbow-fund.org