Write Queer London 2012 is on its way

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

Gay history: now in verse

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

Write Queer London 2012: How to enter

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

Ars Homo Erotica in Warsaw

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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

Download Stories of the World Young Londoner Museum Trail For Free

Stories of the World History of London Youth
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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
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Queer eye for the Collections at the Museum of London

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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

LGBT objects at the British Museum
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 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
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Write Queer London 2011 - free workshops in gay history writing

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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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Queer plays: do history and theatre mix?

queer plays London
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A round up of autumn new LGBT plays and revivals in London Gay culture has long proven itself rich subject matter for playwrights: Jonathan Harvey, Mark Ravenhill and Martin Sherman all come to mind. What fascinates me is that thousands of pages of reading and
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Feet First: Finding Guided and Self-Led Walks to Gay London

A plaque near Dean Street
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London is a complicated city: streets mesh tightly into each other, Georgian buildings rest against Victorian, Tudor pubs nestle amongst post-war tower blocks. History is everywhere, but the present constantly gets in the way. What better way to explore than on foot with a guided
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Articles By:
Kate Smith

Kate Smith is a writer and cultural project manager who founded untoldLondon while working for the Museum of London.  She has sifted through the collections of about a hundred London museums looking for the hidden, the forgotten and the secret.

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Tours of London's untold (oh my gosh, untold!) slavery past...... http://t.co/lsXhD1rI

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Tonight on the Southbank poet Peter Daniels will release The Ballad of Captain Rigby at Polari - London's premier... http://t.co/DW9sIta1

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