Getting politicians and the public to take notice is hard work. But queer activists know how to get attention. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is an international activist movement originally founded in New York in 1987. By the 1990s, it was active in Manchester …
The name Terence Higgins sits on queer people's lips with both pride and poignancy. Terence’s biography as a House of Commons Hansard reporter, barman and DJ is largely overshadowed by him being one of the first people in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness …
Antinous was the so-called ‘favourite’ of Roman Emperor Hadrian. But we know it was more than just favouritism. You don’t turn your best friend into a god, create a cult in their name and make a statue like this, shown here as Dionysus, the god of wine. They were lovers ...
Museums can be so straight at first sight. But it doesn’t take too long looking at these characters to realise that the one in a dress has rather impressive sideburns, mutton chops even. Subverting and celebrating at the same time ...
“Seeing two men being intimate was something I never saw growing up in small town UK. I was 18 before I saw two men kissing, that was on TV and was just the briefest of pecks” writes a participant in a Queer interpretation project at the Whitworth …
During the miners’ strike of 1984–85, an alliance was formed between mining families and queer activists. Tins like this were used by gay men and women to collect money on behalf of mining communities, eventually collecting £20,000 …
