Fd out about Queer Bra, the UK’s first mm dited to LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bi, trans, queer) history and culture.
Contents:
- FIVE PIEC OF GAY ART AT THE BRISH MM
- THE GAYER-ANRSON T
- COSMIC STONEHENGE SECRETS, AI WEIWEI LOOKS BACK, AND GAY SEX 11,000 YEARS AGO – THE WEEK ART
FIVE PIEC OF GAY ART AT THE BRISH MM
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Jo our volunteer-led tour and disver a fascatg selectn of objects wh LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer) nnectns.
It's easy to suppose this homoerotic terpretatn of such a sensuo object appealed to gay 18th-century llectors. Allow me to reveal to you s LGBTQ nnectn, highlighted by former Brish Mm curator Profsor Richard B Parkson his book A Ltle Gay History.
In 1841 he was forced to flee England after beg mted for trial for 'that ttable & abomable crime (amongst Christians not to be named) lled Buggery…' – Bank was gay, and mted the crime of gettg ught. Fashanu was the first profsnal footballer England to e out as gay and to this day is the only Brish male profsnal player to have done so.
THE GAYER-ANRSON T
View a 3D mol of the Gayer-Anrson t and disver why is one of the Brish Mm's masterpiec. * british museum gay *
The objects were chosen for cln the Dire, Love, Inty exhibn by Norfolk Herage Centre's young Communy Curators group bee of the challeng faced by Fashanu as a gay, Black profsnal footballer, and his spirg legacy.
COSMIC STONEHENGE SECRETS, AI WEIWEI LOOKS BACK, AND GAY SEX 11,000 YEARS AGO – THE WEEK ART
Tours will take objects such as Warren Cup, seen as ‘holy grail’ of gay history * british museum gay *
In October 1990 Fashanu me out as gay an terview wh The Sun newspaper, after which he suffered homophobic backlash. The team was created by the Jt Campaign, which is a mpaign agast homophobia football and promot the cln of openly gay footballers.