Campaign calls for national museum to celebrate LGBTQ+ history and gather storiesA campaign to create a fresh national museum,called Queer Britain, which would celebrate the richness and diversity of the nations LGBTQ+ inheritance, and is being launched in London today.“It is a necessary and long overdue resource,” said Joe Galliano, a former editor of homosexual Times, or leader of the campaign. “We don’t underestimate the challenge,but artefacts and people’s stories are being lost every day and we need to save them. Already many of the people – inevitably mainly men – who directly experienced the situation before the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967, are no longer with us.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk