Out and About! Archiving LGBTQ+ History

Taking over The Barbican’s Curve gallery as part of the London institution’s fortieth birthday season, this installation highlight 40 key moments in London’s queer history over the last 40 years through objects and media sourced from the Bishopsgate Institute’s vast collections. The exhibition focuses on protest, so you can check out artefacts ranging from OutRage! banners opposing Section 28 to a truncheon seized at a demonstration by gay rights activist Mark Ashton, who founded Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. And there’s also a packed programme of events coinciding with the exhibition, including a screening of seminal sex education documentary ‘The Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex’, a Young Barbican Night titled ‘The Archive is Permanently Under Construction’ and talks with Switchboard Co-Chair Tash Walker, activist Dan Glass and Bishopsgate Archives Manager Stef Dickers.