BRITISH MUSEUM GOES HOMO
Theatre, What's on by HOMOVISION on December 3, 2009 at 11:45 am
The British Museum is holding a tour this Friday 4th December to explore same-sex desire and gender identity. Should be a good one.
The blurb says:
The evidence for same-sex desire has often been overlooked in the past, but museums and their collections can allow us to look back and see the diversity of human desire and gender throughout history.
‘Homosexuality’ as a way to describe a single category of behaviour is a modern European term, but same-sex desire is not a modern western invention (as has sometimes been claimed).
The British Museum has a large number of objects that provide evidence that desire between members of the same sex and fluid ideas of gender have always been aspects of human existence and experience, although they are culturally constructed in a variety of ways.
Much of the historical evidence is centred around men and their concerns and often what survives is partial, fragmentary or ambiguous. This is even true of evidence from modern times. Such things have often been hidden in history, and obscured by censorship, but now we realise the past is much ‘queerer’ than we have often thought.”
So there.
Guided tour is on Friday December 4, 2pm.
Admission free.
Meet inside Museum front entrance by statue of Hadrian.
Read more here.
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Tags: British Museum, Gender identity, History, Human sexual behavior, Modern history, Museum, Sexuality, Tour guide
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