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'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
Lookg through our llectn for signs of the long stggle for gay rights. * lgbt museum london *
In 2013, the Uned Natns Human Rights Office lnched the UN Free and Equal iative, a global mpaign agast homophobia and transphobia. While progrs has been ma many untri to advance civil liberti and eedoms, promotg equal rights and fair treatment of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people remas a global challenge. As Conor Clark reports for Gay Tim, the mm will feature four galleri, a workshop, a gift shop, offic for staff and an tn space.
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Director and -founr Joseph Galliano, a former edor of Gay Tim, tells Robert Dex of the Eveng Standard that the exhibns will feature loans om other mms. As Gareth Harris reports for the Art Newspaper, Bishopsgate boasts a vast archive of gay and lbian news media. Queer Bra’s own archiv clu a 2019 seri of photographic portras of transgenr and nonbary people created by photographer Allie Crew; a rabow-ged jacket worn by sger Olly Alexanr of the band Years and Years; and the foundg documents of Stonewall, an anti-homophobia anizatn found by actor Ian wants a sneak peek of our new home?
But the 1980s and 1990s, the district was a poor neighborhood home to a rowdy queer nightlife scene that centered around gay and lbian bar The Bell and other tablishments. It is ltle over half a century sce homosexualy was partially crimalised England and Wal, and ’s a perd fed by both progrs and trma. When Lord Arran -sponsored the bill that end the total crimalisatn of same-sex relatns between men – after his gay brother had killed himself – his preamble was bleak.
“Let me remd them that no amount of legislatn will prevent homosexuals om beg the subject of dislike and risn, or at bt of py, ”After the Sexual Offenc Act was passed 1967, nvictns of gay men for gross cency actually creased, and gay people were still characterised as would-be sexual predators and threats to children. The 1980s HIV/Aids panmic, ravaged a generatn of gay and bisexual men, attus towards gay people harned and a moral panic culmated the passg of sectn 28, banng the “promotn” of homosexualy schools: the first anti-gay legislatn passed sce 1885. Neverthels, this perd LGBTQ+ people flourished culturally and artistilly, while om the 90s onwards, hostile public attus cmbled precipoly as anti-gay laws were stck om statute as a remr that progrs is far om lear, Bra is the grip of another moral panic, this time directed at transgenr people.
Fd out about Queer Bra, the UK’s first mm dited to LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bi, trans, queer) history and culture. * lgbt museum london *
And while today’s LGBTQ+ muni are more uned fiance of ernment policy that any time sce sectn 28 (more than 80 anisatns pulled out of a ernment nference over s refal to ban trans nversn “therapy”), Stonewall, the untry’s ma LGBTQ+ civil rights anisatn, fds self unr siege, while homophobic and transphobic hate crim are surgg. Trailblazg Labour MP Mreen Colquhoun wh the Gay Defence Commtee 1977.
As a former edor of Gay Tim, he tapped to his extensive nnectns wh LGBTQ+ anisatns and queer activists and artists, and when he spoke to potential funrs, Galliano met nstant astonishment that such a mm did not already exist or even been attempted s own right before. Photograph: Jt Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagBra’s often tortured stggle for LGBTQ+ rights is reflected many of the photographs, such as the flamboyantly drsed yet straight Jewish Labour MP Leo Abse, who succsfully phed for the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy om the backbench. Mreen Colquhoun – the first openly lbian MP who died last year – fiantly holds a plard emblazoned wh “THE MPS MUST COME OUT”, while ’s difficult not to feel a pang of sadns at a photo of Jt Fashanu flexg his mcl: he was, of urse, Bra’s first and still only out gay male profsnal footballer who killed himself 1998.