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The Secret Lives of Shirts by Elizabeth (Buffy) Noble - Winning Poetry entry Write Queer London 2012

14 February 2012

Yellow Morphy Richards iron from Geffrye Museum handling collectioncollection
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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

by: Elizabeth (Buffy) Noble

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The Pankratiasts by James Duncan- overall winning entry for Write Queer London 2012

14 February 2012

Pankration scene: the pankriatiast on the right tries to gouge his opponent's eye; the umpire is about to strike him for this foul. Detail from an Attic red-figure kylix, 490-480 BC. From Vulci, Italy.
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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

by: James Duncan

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Write Queer London Festival has landed

02 December 2011

Write Queer London flyer
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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

profile picture of Babs Guthrie Posted by: Babs Guthrie

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Write Queer London 2012 is on its way

29 November 2011

Write Queer London flyer
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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

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Gay history: now in verse

14 November 2011

Black and white photo shows head and shoulders of poet John McCullough
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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

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Write Queer London 2012: How to enter

08 November 2011

Write Queer London flyer
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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

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Traders unpacked: a history of the East India Company at the National Maritime Museum this autumn

12 October 2011

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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,

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Jews and the Great Exhibition

12 October 2011

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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

by: Sam Warshaw

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Ars Homo Erotica in Warsaw

26 September 2011

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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

Posted by: Kate Smith

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Muslim Film Festival: Winds of Change sweeps the ICA

17 September 2011

CGI Photo shows young muslim men and women holding a vigil with candles and placards from The Green Wave, Dir Ali Samadi Ahadi, Iran, 2010 courtesy of the ICA
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A Palestinian exile’s return home and the temptations of a deeply devout Muslim are two of the stories depicted in a new film season beginning in London next week. Winds of Change: Cinema from Muslim Societies aims to challenge the “highly distortive

profile picture of Herpreet Kaur Grewal Posted by: Herpreet Kaur Grewal

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