Tours will take objects such as Warren Cup, seen as ‘holy grail’ of gay history
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 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. 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.
THE GAYER-ANRSON T
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News of the group spread around Bra and the Uned Stat, and s work began to win, enpassg such figur as wrer and mpaigner for homosexual equaly Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), and Kathare Glasier (1867–1950), a founr member of the Inpennt Labour Party. This year the Mm will take this ia one step further and start to share some of those stori as lnch volunteer-led LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer) tours which will unver non-heteronormative and non-bary stori wh the Mm’s rich llectn. 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.
COSMIC STONEHENGE SECRETS, AI WEIWEI LOOKS BACK, AND GAY SEX 11,000 YEARS AGO – THE WEEK ART
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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.
I took special note of Lord Wolfenn who, addn to beg Director of the Mm, was chairman of the Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn. It was this mtee’s famo report that helped pave the way for the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy England and Wal 1967. Wter mand to be seen by the mtee and when granted an dience, he beme – an astoundg act of bravery – one of only three men who intified as homosexual to ttify.