Queer artist Leigh Bowery fed New Romanticism and the look of gay culture 1980s London.
Contents:
- HOW LEIGH BOWERY DEFED THE LOOK OF GAY CULTURE 1980S LONDON
- REMEMBERG THE 1980S UK LBIAN AND GAY CENTER THAT DIED TOO SOON
- IT'S A S IS AN EMOTNAL TALE OF GAY '80S LONDON: REVIEW
- GAY MEN LONDON, OM PERSECUTN TO PRI
HOW LEIGH BOWERY DEFED THE LOOK OF GAY CULTURE 1980S LONDON
Lookg through our llectn for signs of the long stggle for gay rights. * gay london 1980s *
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In the 18th and 19th century, certa London pubs and ffeeho beme popular gay meetg plac, known as "Molly-ho". The 18th century book Pla Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy England attributed a supposed crease homosexualy to men's drs.
The thor claimed gay men wanted to drs like women: "they would appear as soft as possible to each other, any Thg of Manls beg diametrilly oppose to such unnatural Practic. It was not until the 1960s that gay men's flamboyant drs styl fluenced mastream fashn, makg more lourful and adventuro.
REMEMBERG THE 1980S UK LBIAN AND GAY CENTER THAT DIED TOO SOON
* gay london 1980s *
More evince of historil homosexualy our llectns om a grimmer source: rerds of the prosecutns, and sometim executns, of men who had sex wh men. This right-hand figure this prt is Samuel Drybutter, a bookseller Wtmster Hall, who was a public figure 18th century London, famo for his flamboyant drs and supposed homosexualy.
Official magaze of Gay Pri, London 2007 143 pag cludg articl and listgs of events. Gay Pri events are now mon ci across the world, public celebratns of equal rights for people of all orientatns and sexuali.
IT'S A S IS AN EMOTNAL TALE OF GAY '80S LONDON: REVIEW
From Derek Jarman and Gilbert and Gee to Maggi Hamblg and Cerh Wyn Evans, David Gwnutt photographed a generatn of young gay artists as they transformed film, fashn and patg * gay london 1980s *
But they began as tensely polil events, challeng to a world where homosexual activi were first Gay Pri march took place London on 1 July 1972, spired by the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York. The were triggered by police harassment at the Stonewall Inn, a bar terg to New York's gay, lbian, transgenr and crossdrsg muny.
The bar's patrons fought back, strikg a symbolic blow for gay liberatn. The leaflet om Gay Pri Week 1978 mentns creasg attacks on gay people over the past year, cludg the attack on the Royal Vxhall Tavern by the Natnal Front. Wh the slogan 'Lbians and Gay Men Come Out On the Streets', Pri was an opportuny for LGBT Londoners to show their strength and numbers, and show "the posive si of the beg gay: GAY IS FUN; GAY IS PROUD; GAY IS BEAUTIFUL!
GAY MEN LONDON, OM PERSECUTN TO PRI
Gay pri lapel badg, 1978-88. Gay Pri '78, pk triangle badg & "Scrap the sectn! 'Z' uld explore gay issu ignored by mastream media.
The badg celebratg Pri and gay activism were created durg the 1970s and 80s, when wearg them on the streets was a powerful and dangero polil statement, sometim met wh abe or vlence. The pk triangle badg are a reference to the cloth badg that gay prisoners were forced to wear Nazi ncentratn mps. Gay victims of Nazism were not eed by the Allied occupiers of Germany 1945, but were forced to serve out remag prison sentenc for their "crim".