The London-based artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan is making new works for her opening solo show, Let Me Hold You, with wall reliefs, ceramics and a painted environment welcoming visitors. Queercircle’s purpose-built space will have a main gallery, a library and project spaces. The organisation’s structure is “less traditional” than a museum, according to its founder Ashley Joiner, who instead describes it as “an LGBTQ art space”. Then on 9 June the charity Queercircle will open a permanent venue dedicated to queer artists in the new Design District in Greenwich, south of the river. Queercicle is an LGBTQ+ led charity in the heart of London’s new Design District on Greenwich Peninsula. The exhibition’s curator, Matthew Storey, who currently serves as a curator at Historic Royal Palaces, says that he hopes the displays “reflect the rich diversity of the LGBTQ+ community past and present, as we look to the future of this important new museum”. The inaugural show, Welcome to Queer Britain, displays works and artefacts from the museum’s growing collection, including photographs by Allie Crewe and Robert Taylor as well as portraits by Sadie Lee and Paul Hartfleet, winners of Queer Britain’s first Madame F Award for queer creativity. The organisers hope to move to a more permanent home after the first two years. The free-entry space, which was previously occupied by the House of Illustration, includes four galleries, workshop and education spaces, a shop and offices. It takes over the ground floor of a building in King’s Cross owned by the Art Fund charity, which has granted Queer Britain a two-year lease to deliver a programme of exhibitions. Opening on 5 May is Queer Britain, founded by the eponymous charity, billed as “the UK’s first national LGBTQ+ museum”. BUt as the first paragraph made clear, he had no intentions of being historian.Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the UK’s inaugural Gay Pride march, two cultural institutions focused on the LGBTQ+ community will launch in London this spring, the first of their kind in Britain. Such limitations prevented most “amateur phot5ographers” from accurately reflecting reality unless s/he made an extraordinary effect to do so. In other words, photography was used sparingly. And once exposed, you can’t erase and re-use a frame. Do you seriously think these mostly beefcake and celebratory photos reflect gay life and activism in the 80s/90’s?įInally, these pre-date digital photography, Unlike today’s flash memory, a roll of 35mm film generally held no more than 24 photos. Gays were still kicked out of the military, and gay marriage was not yet on any activists’ roster. The SCOTUS ruled against gays in Bowers v Hardwicke.
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Third, where do you see activism in these photos? So how exactly can you infer anything about gay activism throughout the decades from a few irrelevant photos of the 80’s and 90’s? Looking at these photos, you’d think being gay was carefree - when in fact, AIDS was still decimating the community. Are you saying that you can infer things about the 1960’s civil rights movement from my photos of diners?
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I recently took some dining photos in Harlem, NY. He was merely an “amateur photographer.” As such, why would you even assume that you can extrapolate anything about gay history from the images?
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Second, the photographer never pretended to be a journalist or chronicler of gay history. Can you rule out that he was simply interested in “mostly gay white men? In no way can you conclude that these were an objective reflection of the time. In other words, these were simply scenes that piqued the photographer’s interest. Ummmm Yeah: Er, how are these photos proof of anything?įirst of all, photographs are taken at the whim of the photographer.