Museum of weird gay people
The American LGBTQ+ Museum is a new collaboration consecrated to preserving, researching, and sharing LGBTQ+ history and culture.
We are in the soon stages of developing a partnership with The Brand-new York Historical, and will create inaugural programming and exhibitions while incubating there.
Building Lgbtq+ fest | American LGBTQ+ Museum Groundbreaking Celebration
On December 3, 2024, the American Gay Museum celebrated the commence of construction at its new home at The New York Historical with over 450 supporters and a powerful program featuring remarks from activists, artists, and elected officials.
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American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 ‑ 1992), wearing headband, and an unidentified woman in facepaint, on 7th Way South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the second annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberation Day), later known as Male lover Pride, New York, Recent York, June 21, 1971. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
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The American LGBTQ+ Museum will tell our evolving histories in our retain voices, as we envision a world in which all people work toward and experience the happiness of
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 participate with you an extract from the opening article of the latest issue of Museum International, on LGBTQI+ Museums. In his contribution, ‘A Strange Homosexual Body: the Museum of Sexual Diversity in São Paulo, Brazil’, Franco Reinaudo takes us on an inspiring journey of LGBTQI+ advocacy in his native São Paulo, Brazil, from the 1960s to today. From its oppressive beginnings marked by unwelcoming governments and the AIDS epidemic, to the organising of a first Event Parade and LGBT Archive, culminating in the opening of the Museum of Sexual Diversity in 2012 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 try for greater diversity, inclusion and human rights in Brazil’s largest city.
The complete article is free-to-access for a limited period for the general public, in English, French an
The V&A's LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-curious, 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 veiled 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 feeling, 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 immense 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 connotations and connections.
Our guide, Out On Display, features 30 objects which possess a variety of
For as long as humans have walked the earth, a broad spectrum of sexual desires, taboos and cultural norms has existed. And after the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, societies started to document, in museums and exhibits around the globe, the ever-changing, often weird and wonderful character of human sexuality.
Seeking to challenge traditional attitudes to sex and sexuality, sex museums such as London’s Vagina Museum or Las Vegas’ Erotic Heritage Museum have helped to normalise and document subjects once considered taboo, such as homosexuality, sex operate and contraception. Equally, sites with unrestrained and wacky exhibits, such as Seoul’s Love Museum, are hugely entertaining and educational in identical measure.
Here’s our grab of 8 unmissable sex museums around the world.
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1. Red Light Secrets, Amsterdam
In a 17th-century former brothel in the Red Illuminated District in Amsterdam, where selling sex has been legal since 2000, is the world’s only museum dedicated to sex work.
Inside, you can trace the history of the Red Light District from the 1500s up to the present, sit in a window w