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
Download Stories of the World Young Londoner Museum Trail For Free
22 March 2011
Follow young Londoners through time at local London museums....
What follows is a text version of the trail, scroll to the bottom for pdf download.
What would life have been like as a teenager or young adult in London across time?
Sometimes filled with freedom
Queer eye for the Collections at the Museum of London
15 March 2011
As part of the Write Queer London event "LGBT blogging at the Museum of London", Kate Smith did some research to inspire our workshoppers and uncover some LGBT objects hidden in plain sight. From the Emperor Hadrian to Big Brother, we have reproduced her
Get our free LGBT trail of the British Museum
17 February 2011
Our fold-out trail of LGBT objects at the British Museum has just been launched.
It features 21 objects ranging through 4,000 years of history from ancient Babylon and Egypt to the Classical world, Maori and Native American culture, Japan and Western Europe.
You can get a
Write Queer London 2011 - free workshops in gay history writing
09 November 2010
The Write Queer London competition is now in its third year. Explore LGBT London past or present in fact, fiction and poetry to win one of our prizes. We are offering a series of free talks and workshops in London museums throughout the winter.
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