The city is convenient for London, and increasingly popular with media and music types who don't want to live in the capital. It is sometimes called "London-by-the-Sea" for this reason.Brighton is probably the gay capital of Britain. There is a significant gay district in Kemp Town which adds to the Bohemian atmosphere of the city.It is home to two universities, University of Sussex
http://www.sussex.ac.uk and University of Brighton
http://www.brighton.ac.uk (situated on the edge of the city at Falmer), but is most famous for its Pavilion, an extravagant Regency building by John Nash. http://wikitravel.org/en/Brighton (England)