The Ballad of Captain Rigby
08 May 2012
Write Queer London 2012 saw poet Peter Daniels enter the Metropolitan Archives to uncover LGBT history amongst their stacks wherein he made the acqaintance of our tale's hero, the indefatigable Captain Rigby.
Captain Edward Rigby was tried for sodomy in 1698, after falling foul of
The Secret Lives of Shirts by Elizabeth (Buffy) Noble - Winning Poetry entry Write Queer London 2012
14 February 2012
The secret lives of shirts
I am flattened,
And again flattened.
I am forced.
I am heavy as a man,
hanging
I am heavy as a day.
I am made straight.
but
I have been silk, undone, wettened
I have been lovingly dangled
I have
The Pankratiasts by James Duncan- overall winning entry for Write Queer London 2012
14 February 2012
Squat down, pulling the back of my head onto his bare chest, Erasmus has pushed his left leg between mine. The inside of his thigh is touching the back of my balls. My sturdy left leg knots around his sturdier right.
He has
Write Queer London Festival has landed
02 December 2011
Discovering gay histories across London museums
The Museum of London’s Write Queer London festival, which begins in December, brings together writers, poets and LGBT history in London museums for a fourth year. Curator talks, gallery tours, poetry commissions, a writing competition and creative
Write Queer London 2012 is on its way
29 November 2011
We are really pleased that Write Queer London is back for a fourth year.
The recipe goes like this:
- Take five or six London museums, with interesting LGBT collections or stories
- Add a knowledgeable curator to explain and answer questions
- Bring in
Gay history: now in verse
14 November 2011
As part of this year's Write Queer London we've commissioned three poets to search the collections of three London museums, choose an object or a theme and write a poem. All three poets have just begun their commissions now, and we wait
Write Queer London 2012: How to enter
08 November 2011
RULES:
Entries in all categories must relate to an aspect of historical or modern Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender London - or objects held in London museums. We will interpret this fairly broadly, but won't consider entries, however good, which are simply 'gay stories
Traders unpacked: a history of the East India Company at the National Maritime Museum this autumn
12 October 2011
This autumn the National Maritime museum opens a new gallery, dedicated to the story of British traders with the East who made Britain one of the richest nations in the world and laid the foundations of colonialism.
Traders unpacked is a wide-ranging festival of music,
Jews and the Great Exhibition
12 October 2011
On the evening of the opening of the Great Exhibition, the 1st of May 1851, a vote was held in the House of Commons on whether to allow Jews to take a seat in Parliament without reciting the required oath, which included the words ‘on
Ars Homo Erotica in Warsaw
26 September 2011
National museums staging major exhibitions on LGBT themes are still a rarity, and Poland is among the more conservative countries in Europe in approaching the subject. So, at least in the gay press, it was international news when last year the National Museum in
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