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[[File:Rose-collis.jpg|thumb|Rose Collis]]'''Rose Collis''' (born 1959)<ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3413800065.html</ref> is a multi-media writer, alternative historian and performer.

She was born in [[Wimbledon]] and has lived and worked in [[Brighton]] since 1997. 
Rose was a key project member in ''Framed Youth - the revenge of the teenage perverts'', a film produced by the Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project in 1983 <ref> The film won the 1983 British Film Institute Grierson Award for Best Documentary. It was broadcast on Channel 4 in December 1986. see Clifford Williams (2021) ''Courage to Be: Gay Youth in England 1967-1990'' (Book Guild Ltd.) </ref>.

She was a member of the world’s first gay ceilidh group, and performs with the [[Rainbow Chorus]]. In 2006, she wrote and researched online content for the  Icons Project,  a national web project on British culture, commissioned by Culture Online.  In 2007, she contributed to the online exhibition and website dedicated to the life and works of [[Joe Orton]].<ref>http://www.rosecollis.com/about</ref>

Her books include:

*''Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment: A Tale of Female Husbandry'' (Virago 2000 & 2001)
*''A Trouser-Wearing Character: The Life and Times of [[Nancy Spain]]'' (Cassell 1997 & 1999)
*''Portraits To The Wall'',  a celebration of lesbian lives hitherto concealed by history (Cassell 1994).
*''The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica'' (2000)
*''The New Encyclopaedia of Brighton'' (2010)

With [[Stephen Watson]] she created the [[Brighton Pink Plaques (app)|Brighton Pink Plaques]] mobile phone app. 

In 2021 Collis published a video film 'The Boy and the Bear' <ref> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3pNXvMSlRM&feature=youtu.be </ref>.

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