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Green lesbian feminist ‘leftie’ gives it to them with both barrels in New Zealand

Posted on: February 15th, 2012 by History Month
Taking her place in the New Zealand House of Representatives, the NZ parliament’s third out lesbian Jan Logie opened her ‘maiden’ speech by saying “I stand here as a leftie, feminist lesbian.” The 42 year old with a background in social work then went on to assert the endemic nature...

Queer Poetry Evening at Gays the Word

Posted on: May 15th, 2011 by History Month
Gays the Word hosts a Queer Poetry Evening on May 23rd which will include the launch of The Frost Fairs by John McCullough and The Private Parts of Girls by Sophie Mayer (both from Salt Publishing, 2011).  Chroma’s Andra Simons will round off the evening with a lyrical extravaganza....
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Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton at the Drill Hall

Posted on: February 18th, 2010 by History Month
>Throughout February The Drill Hall is exhibiting a display of the work of the two UK pioneers in queer cartoons. The work of Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton can be seen in the basement of the nation’s most loved queer theatre venue for the rest of the month of...
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Michelangelo’s Dreams of Male Muse Go on Show at Courtauld

Posted on: February 17th, 2010 by History Month
>London gallery displays finest of Renaissance artist’s drawings for his friends, with loans from the Vatican and the Queen. Some of the most magnificent drawings ever executed – physical manifestations of Michelangelo’s love and infatuation for a handsome and intelligent teenage boy – will on Thursday go on display...
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SHOUT in Birmingham

Posted on: October 19th, 2009 by History Month
>A new LGBT arts festival starts in Birmingham this autumn. Called SHOUT, the festival starts on October 30th and runs through November in a range of venues. It includes an evening with Peter Tatchell, Della Grace, Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray (and Swan Lake!) and a host of other goodies....
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Tatchell to Open Dorian Aroyo Show at the Menier Gallery

Posted on: September 21st, 2009 by History Month
>Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell will open gay painter Dorian Aroyo’s latest portrait show at Menier Gallery in Southwark, on Tuesday 22nd September 2009 at 7pm. The exhibition is open to the public. All welcome. Mr Tatchell is one of the featured subjects in the exhibition, which also includes...
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Exhibition: Ethnic Minorities Coming Out

Posted on: September 7th, 2009 by History Month
>Coming out can be painless for some but stressful and even traumatic for others, including friends and family. A new exhibition to open in East London documents the experiences of ethnic minority individuals coming out, allowing them to express their experiences and difficulties with culture and traditions through the...
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Merce Cunningham Dies

Posted on: July 27th, 2009 by History Month
> Merce Cunningham 1919 – 2009 Pioneering choreographer, Merce Cunningham, has died aged 90. Obituary:- Revolutionary choreographer Merce Cunningham dies at 90, LA Times- Merce Cunningham on Wikipedia
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Gfest 08

Posted on: November 5th, 2008 by History Month
>see email from wisetniranhttp://www.gaywisefestival.org.uk/10 – 28 nov
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Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life

Posted on: October 17th, 2008 by History Month
> A new exhibitions opened yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery until 1 February 2009. Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 includes over 150 photographs by the celebrated lesbian photographer, encompassing well-known work made on editorial assignment as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. “I...
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Lagos / London 2008 – Andrew Esiebo and Nilu Izadi

Posted on: October 7th, 2008 by History Month
>Lagos / London 2008 – Photographers Andrew Esiebo and Nilu Izadi in conversation about their recent work Wednesday, 8 October, 3.30 pm – 5 pm, Goldsmiths University, RHB 139 (aka Main Building) Andrew Esiebo is a photographer working in Ibadan and Lagos, Nigeria, and a member of the Black...
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Submissions Wanted for the Queer Writing Competition

Posted on: June 25th, 2008 by History Month
>The second International Queer Writing Competition organised by queer literary journal, Chroma, will be taking place this autumn. Artists are being invited to submit their work for the two categories of the prize (short story and poetry). Entries are also being accepted for two separate prizes: The Transfabulous Prize...
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Fédéric Mitterand Named Director of the Villa Medici

Posted on: June 9th, 2008 by History Month
>Rome’s newly elected right-wing mayor, former neo-fascist Gianni Alemanno, will probably not be best pleased by the French Président’s nomination, last week, of an openly gay man at the head of the prestigious French Academy in Rome. “I respect homosexual people, I know a few and I am not...
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Third Transfabulous Festival

Posted on: June 5th, 2008 by History Month
>The third Transfabulous Festival will be taking place in London on 13, 14 and 15th June featuring performances and art by a varied group of trans artists, workshops and a picnic. Find out more by clicking on the picture above.
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Robert Rauschenberg Dies

Posted on: May 16th, 2008 by History Month
> Robert Rauschenberg1925 – 2008 The art critic Robert Hughes once described the influencial and controversial american artist Robert Rauschenbergas “a protean genius who showed America that all of life could be open to art.” Adding that his “taste was always facile, omnivorous, and hit-or-miss, yet he had a...
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Hockney Donates His Biggest Painting to Tate

Posted on: April 11th, 2008 by History Month
>David Hockney, one of Britain’s leading contemporary artist, has donated one of his latest works to the Tate Gallery. The painting, which represents a winter landscape in the North of England, is itself composed of 50 smaller canvases and at 4.6 by 12.2 meters (15 by 40 feet) is...
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Brutal Beauty: Derek Jarman

Posted on: March 19th, 2008 by History Month
>The Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, London is hosting a selection of work by the leading British film-maker of his generation. Curated by artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, it will highlight Jarman’s work in film and painting, including his presentation of the moving image within the gallery context. Jarman...
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Rare Portrait of Playwright Saved

Posted on: February 13th, 2008 by History Month
>In November last year, we mentioned on this blog that the National Portrait Gallery was launching a public appeal for the purchase of a portrait of Elizabethan playwright John Fletcher. The appeal to raise £218,000 has been successful and the Gallery will now be able to add the painting...
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Francis Bacon Painting Sold for Over £26m.

Posted on: February 7th, 2008 by History Month
>Triptych 1974-77 was sold today at Christie’s as it appeared at auction for the first time for £26,340,500. The paintings are the last in the series that Bacon painted in response to the suicide of his lover George Dyer in 1971 and only just failed to set a new...
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Funding Cut Threatens the Drill Hall

Posted on: December 19th, 2007 by History Month
>The Drill Hall, the UK’s leading producer and presenter of lesbian, gay and queer performance, is to appeal against the Arts Council’s decision to stop its funding from April 2008. The cut comes as part of a review of its funding activities by the Arts Council. 200 arts organisations...
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Appeal to Buy Unique John Fletcher Portrait

Posted on: November 27th, 2007 by History Month
>The National Portrait Gallery has launched an appeal to save the only known portrait from life of the playwright John Fletcher. Fletcher lived close to the Globe Theatre in Park Street, Southwark, sharing his life with fellow playwright Francis Beaumont. The unknown artist shows Fletcher as a prosperous and...
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First London Lesbian Art Festival

Posted on: November 24th, 2007 by History Month
>The first London Lesbian Art Festival wil open on 30th November at the Pierre Garroudi Gallery. Whole festival is devoted entirely to the contemporary art by lesbian artists. It includes both English and international well-established and known artists like Caroline Halliday, Irene Waters, Ewa Podles or Lauren Dresher as...
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GayWise Festival

Posted on: November 7th, 2007 by History Month
>GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival will take place between 14th and 20th November in London. The festival showcases Queer/LGBT Arts created by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) artists and practitioners from diverse backgrounds. Events include screenings of short films, performances, exhibitions and workshops. For more information, visit...
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Arte E Omosessualit

Posted on: October 29th, 2007 by History Month
>The exhibition Art and Homosexuality, from Van Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles opened last Saturday in Florence, Italy. Until 6 January 2008, 220 works by 150 artists will be on display in the Royal Palace. The exhibition, originally organized for another city, Milan, and another venue, Palazzo della Ragione,...
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Celebrating a Lesbian Life

Posted on: October 25th, 2007 by History Month
>This exhibition, created by Val Dunn, is an extrodinary example of the inspirational work that can be done for an event during February’s LGBT History Month. “For this exhibition I have selected people and events that have shaped my life as a lesbian. The Bin represents things gladly rejected...
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York Lesbian Arts Festival

Posted on: October 22nd, 2007 by History Month
>The York Lesbian Arts Festival, comprising three events, will be taking place on 27-28th October . The Book Festival will run from 9:30am to 5:30pm at York Racecourse and will feature authors and artists from the UK and USA. Guests include: Val McDermid, Stella Duffy, Rhona Cameron, Manda Scott,...
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Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now

Posted on: October 19th, 2007 by History Month
>Seduced explores the representation of sex in art through the ages. Featuring over 300 works spanning 2000 years, it brings together Roman sculptures, Indian manuscripts, Japanese prints, Chinese watercolours, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and 19th century photography with modern and contemporary art. Seduced presents the work of around 70...
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Love, Sex and Metaphor: A Queer Gaze

Posted on: October 18th, 2007 by History Month
>What makes a picture queer? What happens to a painting when confronted with the private (queer) imagination? Sadie Lee, artist, and Shaun Levin, writer and editor of Chroma Journal, explore the portraits they fancy and the paintings that inspire them. For the second time this year, artist Sadie Lee...
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Kissing Policemen Banned by Russia

Posted on: October 17th, 2007 by History Month
>Kissing Policemen (An Epoch of Clemency) by Blue Noses The above photography has been banned together with 16 other works from appearing in a Paris exhibition on contemporary Russian art. “If this exhibition appears it will bring shame on Russia. In this case, all of us will...
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Rebound: 20 Years of HIV in London

Posted on: October 7th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>’Rebound’, the UK’s first exhibition examining the changing perception of HIV in London over the last 20 years, will be shown at Wellcome Collection – a new cultural venue on London’s Euston Road – between 11 and 28 October, and will reveal the sketches and diary notes of artist...
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And Then He Was a She

Posted on: September 25th, 2007 by History Month
>Holly Woodlawn painted by Sadie Lee. Holly came from Miami, FLA Hitchhiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs, and then he was a she She said, “Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.” Lou Reed The Drill Hall is...
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Renaissance Literary Lovers Exhumed

Posted on: September 7th, 2007 by History Month
>The bodies of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 -November 17, 1494) and classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, best known as Poliziano (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) were recently exhumed from St. Mark’s Basilica in Florence. The two men, who died a...
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Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years

Posted on: August 29th, 2007 by History Month
>June 2007 marked two remarkable 30 year anniversaries: the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and the release of the Sex Pistols’ irreverent God Save the Queen with its infamous single cover by Jamie Reid. To coincide with these landmark events, Barbican Art Gallery is staging Panic Attack! Art in the Punk...
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Andy Warhol in Edinburgh

Posted on: August 28th, 2007 by History Month
>Andy Warhol died on 22 February 1987. To mark the twentieth anniversary of his death, the National Gallery of Scotland is holding the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work ever shown in Scotland. Andy Warhol, A Celebration of Life… and Death aims to show how a life/death duality...
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