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The Gay Museum
Jeremy Eaton: I&#;m so thrilled to have the opportunity to talk about your project The Gay Museum, shown at the Museum of Western Australia. In recent years there has been a proliferation of exhibitions that speak to queer history, and The Gay Museum, which was shown nearly twenty years ago has become an crucial precedent for how people navigate queer history in institutional contexts. Your project was cited in QUEER: Stores from the NGV exhibition catalogue by Maura Riley and the publication Queering the Museum by Nikki Sullivan and Craig Middleton, where it was a central case study. It is remarkable to think how strategies you were using twenty years ago are only now being adopted by institutions and cited in academic contexts.
Jo Darbyshire: I&#;m thrilled that there are more exhibitions about queer, gay and lesbian history now. But it is even more exciting that QUEER at the NGV employed some strategies from the visual arts, which arose from projects like mine. These strategies open-up discussions and allow institutions to be cr
ICOM Voices A Strange Queer Body: the Museum of Sexual Diversity in São Paulo, Brazil
Keywords: LGBT; LGBTQI+; Sexual Diversity; Human Rights; Activism.
For this fortnight’s ICOM Voices article, we are delighted to share with you an extract from the opening article of the latest issue of Museum International, on LGBTQI+ Museums. In his contribution, ‘A Strange Queer Body: the Museum of Sexual Diversity in São Paulo, Brazil’, Franco Reinaudo takes us on an inspiring journey of LGBTQI+ activism in his native São Paulo, Brazil, from the s to today. From its oppressive beginnings marked by hostile governments and the AIDS epidemic, to the organising of a first Pride Parade and LGBT Archive, culminating in the opening of the Museum of Sexual Diversity in and several successful exhibitions, the author gives a personal account of the highs and lows of that journey, and the vision that drove him, together with the local LGBTQI+ community, to aspire for greater diversity, inclusion and human rights in Brazil’s largest city.
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The American LGBTQ+ Museum is a new collaboration dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing LGBTQ+ history and culture.
We are in the initial stages of developing a partnership with The New York Historical, and will create inaugural programming and exhibitions while incubating there.
Building Pride | American LGBTQ+ Museum Groundbreaking Celebration
On December 3, , the American LGBTQ+ Museum celebrated the start of construction at its new home at The Fresh York Historical with over supporters and a powerful program featuring remarks from activists, artists, and elected officials.
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American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson ( ‑ ), wearing headband, and an unidentified woman in facepaint, on 7th Avenue South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the second annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberation Day), later known as Gay Pride, Adj York, New York, June 21, (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
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The American LGBTQ+ Museum will reveal our evolving histories in our own voices, as
The V&A's LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) Working Group is comprised of Museum staff with an interest in using the V&A’s collections to explore issues of gender, sexuality and identity.
We look to unearth previously secret or unknown LGBTQ histories in the collections and aim to facilitate understanding of LGBTQ identities and histories through research, universal programming, discussion and debate. We also consider the ways in which visitors themselves interpret and make sense of museum objects on the basis of their own identities and experiences.
Investigation into these subjects can be heartfelt, throw up many questions and provide only partial answers. We aim to progress these issues through future projects and events.
The V&A's collections contain a vast range of objects that relate to LGBTQ histories and concerns. Objects may be considered LGBTQ-related for a variety of reasons, including: individuals associated with the object (artist, sitter, maker, owner, etc.); the content or 'message' of the object; and current or historic connotati