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Fd out about Queer Bra, the UK’s first mm dited to LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bi, trans, queer) history and culture. * london gay museum *
In May 2021, Queer Bra, the UK’s first mm dited to LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bi, trans, queer) history and culture, opened the Kg’s Cross area of London. And ’s not before time: same-sex marriag were celebrated here om 2014, gay puter scientist Alan Turg featur on our £50 note, and many mms and attractns London have LGBTQ+ themed events, trails, and exhibs. NOTE: The word ‘queer, ’ once a homophobic term, has a rich recent history of beg ed posively, particularly for younger generatns, as an umbrella term to refer to non-straight and non-genr-nformg inti.
Lookg through our llectn for signs of the long stggle for gay rights. * london gay museum *
Lus (1926-2014) – civil servant by day and chronicler of London’s gay unrworld by night. As the exhibn marks the 50th anniversary of London’s first Gay Pri march (as was lled then) 1972, there are photos and memori of early pris. You n read books the small library, curated by Gay’s The Word, Bra’s olst LGBTQ+ bookshop based nearby Bloomsbury.
I’ll fish wh a quote om London’s first openly-gay celebry, Quent Crisp:. 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.
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From 1533 England, homosexual activi between men were a crime punishable by ath. In the 18th and 19th century, certa London pubs and ffeeho beme popular gay meetg plac, known as "Molly-ho".
The 18th century book Pla Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy England attributed a supposed crease homosexualy to men's drs. The thor claimed gay men wanted to drs like women: "they would appear as soft as possible to each other, any Thg of Manls beg diametrilly oppose to such unnatural Practic. It was not until the 1960s that gay men's flamboyant drs styl fluenced mastream fashn, makg more lourful and adventuro.
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More evince of historil homosexualy our llectns om a grimmer source: rerds of the prosecutns, and sometim executns, of men who had sex wh men.