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GAY UK: LOVE, LAW AND LIBERTY
Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty explor gay liv through personal ttimony, cultural exprsn and legal reform, om the 1895 trial of Osr Wil * gay uk love law and liberty *
A new exhibn, Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty, ns at the Brish Library om 2 June – 19 September 2017.
Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty explor gay liv through personal ttimony, cultural exprsn and legal reform, om the 1895 trial of Osr Wil to the posthumo pardong of historil homosexual offenc this year.
The ee exhibn, hosted the Library’s Entrance Hall Gallery, marks the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which enacted the partial crimalisatn of male homosexualy England and Wal. Spanng a century of social and legislative change Bra, Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty nsirs how gay men and women have been reprented and how they have sought to scribe and fe themselv, om the reprsive s of the first half of the twentieth century to the on-gog mpaign for full equaly which ntu today.
BRISH LIBRARY EXPLOR CHANGG ATTUS TO GAY LOVE EXHIBN
Origal mpaign material, journals and posters om groups such as the Gay Liberatn Front, Lbians and Gays Support the Mers and Outrage!
Commissned film by performer and artist Dickie Be explorg the crimalisatn of homosexualy. Rachel Foss, Lead Curator of Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty at the Brish Library, says:.