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Contents:
- LBIAN AND GAY NEWSMEDIA ARCHIVE
- GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
- BLACK LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE
- BISHOPSGATE INSTUTE: 50 YEARS OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT
LBIAN AND GAY NEWSMEDIA ARCHIVE
Jo Dan Glass, the thor of 'Uned Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberatn Front to the Queers of Tomorrow', for this urse explorg over five d * bishopsgate institute gay *
It vers the late neteenth century llectns enpass LGBTQIA+ history polics and culture, wh archiv om Stonewall, Swchboard, GMFA/The Gay Men's Health Chary, Outrage! We also hold rerds of dividuals cludg Paris Le, Sue Sanrs/Schools Out/LGBT History Month and many othersWe’re proud to be ctodians of the Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA). From plards rried at monstratns to never-seen-before photographs documentg London’s gay scene over the past 40 years, the ems drawn om Bishopsgate Instute’s extensive Special Collectns and Archiv prent the stori of dividuals, llectiv and anisatns who fought for social, polil and cultural change.
Prott banners ed their mpaign agast Sectn 28 and a tncheon seized at a monstratn by Mark Ashton, the founr of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers.
The exhibn celebrat ems, photographs, artefacts, media and artwork om dividuals and anisatns cludg the Swchboard, Terrence Higgs Tst, GMFA: the Gay Men's Health Chary, the London Lbian and Gay Centre, Ivan Cartwright, Duckie, OutRage!, Stonewall FC, Transfabulo, the London Gay Men's Chos, photographers Robert Workman and Gordon Rasford, and many more.
GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
Bishopsgate Instute has been documentg the history and liv of the LGBT+ Communy the UK sce 2011 when beme home to the Lbian and Gay Newsme * bishopsgate institute gay *
To plement the exhibn The Curve, Barbin Cema will prent a rare screeng of the landmark gay sex ed documentary, The Gay Man’s Gui to Safer Sex (UK, 1992, dir David Lewis) on 1 March followed by a ScreenTalk wh producer Tony Carne and film curator Sela Robson, who will discs the film’s legacy.
BLACK LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE
Ma associatn wh the Terrence Higgs Tst, when the age of nsent for gay and bi men was 21, The Gay Man’s Gui to Safer Sex was a val sex tnal doc that offered safe sex advice an artistic and unashamedly erotic piece of cema.
BISHOPSGATE INSTUTE: 50 YEARS OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT
Participants will clu E-J Stt of the Mm of Transology; Tash Walker of LGBT+ phone helple Swchboard; Sue Sanrs of the ternatnal Ftival of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans History Outg the Past; and LGBTQ+ activists Dan Glass and Faizan of Imaan.
Found 1894 as a place for learng, they offer a bewilrg array of urs and events to get people spired and cur about the world, om history to performg and creative arts, languag and also hold one of the UK’s largt llectns of LGBTQ+ archiv, brgg together hundreds and thoands of lerature and ems om gay history.