Five piec of gay art at the Brish Mm – LGBT – Time Out London

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

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.

THE GAYER-ANRSON T

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.

COSMIC STONEHENGE SECRETS, AI WEIWEI LOOKS BACK, AND GAY SEX 11,000 YEARS AGO – THE WEEK ART

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.