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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

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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

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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

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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

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Download Stories of the World Young Londoner Museum Trail For Free

22 March 2011

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

15 March 2011

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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

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Get our free LGBT trail of the British Museum

17 February 2011

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

09 November 2010

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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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Written on the Body - Finding Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender history in London

25 January 2008

marble coffin statue on a London street
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As LGBT history month begins, Kate Smith takes a fresh look at the capital and explores some of the museums and galleries where gay life has written itself onto the body of the city. AMake a pilgrimage to the statue of Oscar Wilde in South

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Ancient Egypt To Japan - An LGBT Trail Round The British Museum

22 July 2007

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In celebration of LGBT History Month, Kate Smith walked through the galleries of the British Museum looking for objects and stories that trace the history of the gay experience. Taking the long view reminds us that although there's been same-sex desire in every culture,

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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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