Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty explor gay liv through personal ttimony, cultural exprsn and legal reform, om the 1895 trial of Osr Wil
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GAY UK: LOVE, LAW AND LIBERTY
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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. 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:. “Sce the passg of the Sexual Offenc Act fifty years ago, there has been a transformatn society’s attus towards gay love and exprsn.
BRISH LIBRARY EXPLOR CHANGG ATTUS TO GAY LOVE EXHIBN
Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty tells this story through objects and documents that are inic, public, personal or seemgly ephemeral. The history of gay culture the UK, om s reprsn to s celebratn the past 100 years, is to be displayed for the first time an exhibn at the Brish Library, which marks the 50th anniversary of the crimalisatn of homosexualy.
Origal lerary mancripts and rare prts of newspapers and novels are to go on show at the London venue to mark the “transformatn society’s attus towards gay love and exprsn”, curators at the library said. Displayg the fay of Elton John and David Furnish on the ver, the exhibn Gay UK: Love, Law and Liberty picts a natn’s evolvg attus towards homosexualy.
Photograph: The Brish Library BoardAmong the ems on show is a memo om the lord chamberla’s office October 1958, proposg margally greater eedom for gay playwrights. “For some time the subject of homosexualy has been so wily bated, wrten about and talked about, that is no longer jtifiable to ntue the strict excln of this subject om the stage, ” the memo says. ”Other works on display are a manifto om the Gay Liberatn Front, notebooks and journals om wrers cludg Sarah Waters, Kenh Williams and WH Aun, a never-before-seen annotated script by Hanif Kureishi for the Osr-nomated film My Betiful Lndrette, and the first edn of Virgia Woolf’s Orlando, as well as a new missned film by the performer and artist Dickie Be.