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FIVE PIEC OF GAY ART AT THE BRISH MM
Homosexualy was illegal England and Wal until July 1967. In recent tim Sat Sebastian has bee a gay in spirg filmmakers, wrers and artists.
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In a way, the spiratn for the LGBTQ tours me om the Brish Mm, via the publitn of A Ltle Gay History by Richard B Parkson. It clus the ancient Roman sculpture of the Disbol, an almost 4, 000-year-old Babylonian pictn of the Queen of the Night, a stele erected for Hor and Suty – two high ernment officials ancient Egypt, as well the glor 'holy grail of homosexualy', the Warren Cup – a Roman drkg cup, rated wh explic imag of male lovers.