Event Information
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Wed14Feb2018
Travelling Queer People's History show @ LSE
6.30pm-8pmShaw library,
London School of Economics (LSE)
6th Floor, Old building,Campus map. Entrance via Aldwych
Bird la Bird’s Travelling Queer People’s History Show will showcase hidden queer histories of some of the UK’s best known museums and galleries. Bird will present material from her tours exploring sexuality, colonialism, incarceration and working class histories.
Join Bird as she explores the lives, loves and crimes of queer convicts in “Going Down” created for Tate Britain in 2017. “Who Created the Crime?” written in collaboration with Dr Rohit K Dasgupta uncovers the startling link between the National Portrait Gallery and the British colonial laws which outlawed queer sex across the British Empire. The same laws are still on the statute books in over 30 Commonwealth countries.
Booking
LSE Shaw library
The Shaw library is an amazing old fashioned room with comfy armchairs, old books and portraits of the LSE great and good. Take this opportunity to get a really comfy seat.
Accessibility
- Live captioning for deaf and hard of hearing audiences
- Wheelchair accessible