Meet the Team

Chris Gull ~ Chair

Chris has been about a bit. He qualified as a Dentist at Sheffield Uni in 1976 and moved to Brighton. In 1980, with the arrogance of youth, he started his own practice at the age of 28 and – in the 30 years to 2010, when he retired from Dentistry – he started and sold on four practices, was awarded the 2002 UK Dental Practice of the Year award, and the BAHBA (Brighton & Hove Business Awards) first-ever Best Customer Service Award.

He joined the committee of Brighton Cares in 1991 (a hardship fund for people affected by HIV/AIDS which raised funds through entertainment events) and was Chair from 1993 to 2000. In 2010 James Ledward invited Chris to join the grants panel of The Rainbow Fund, and he has Chaired since 2013. In that role, he facilitated the acquisition of the lease for what is now the Rainbow Hub on St James’s Street and guided it through to charitable status as Chair of Trustees, a role he has just relinquished.

Since James Ledward’s death last year, Chris has guided Gscene magazine through to CIC status and volunteers as Administrative Director.

Chris moved – with his partner – to Valencia in 2016, after 40 years in Brighton. The climate is better, and his pension goes further. But he is still intimately involved with LGBTQ+ Brighton & Hove and spends most of his day in Zoom meetings. For the last four years, he has been living by his school motto “pavlatim ergo certe” (slowly therefore surely) as he and James sought to make an LGBTQ+ centre for Brighton a reality.