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LGBTQ+ Research Seminar Series: Bridging Gaps and Building Community Bridges
Februar 14, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Kostenlos
This research seminar series explores LGBTQ+ stories in the Science Museum Group’s collection, UK cultural institutions and beyond. It has been curated by a colleague network at the Science Museum that focuses on gender and sexuality.
Many UK collections have historically excluded LGBTQ+ stories. For this series, the gender and sexuality network has invited scholars, community builders and SMG representatives to showcase their work, discuss opportunities and challenges faced inside and outside of the museum setting. Our objective is to create a discursive environment and look to future practical activities.
There will be stories of how queerness is lived in a variety of communities as well as the intersection of science, technology and LGBTQ+ history. There will be an exploration of who is represented in galleries and the role of social media as a way to transcend the ‘gallery’, to tell otherwise untold stories. Research will also be showcased—into a queer cataloguing project and a toolkit that uncovers hidden gendered and/or queer stories in museum collections.
SEMINARS
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Tuesday 14 February, 13:00-14:00
- Marc Thompson (he/him) is a creative, an activist, health promotion specialist and podcaster, who has been at the forefront of HIV activism and education since his own diagnosis 1986. Marc is currently the co-director of The Love Tank CIC, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the health and wellbeing of under-served communities through education, capacity building and research. Marc has co-founded and developed a range of movements, groups and activities for Black, queer and HIV communities over the past ten years including Prepster and Blackout UK. Marc curated the digital archive and podcast series ‘Black and Gay, Back in the Day’ documenting Black LGBT life in Britain since the 1970s, launched his podcast series We Were Always Here, telling the story of the UK HIV epidemic through unheard voices, featured in the BBC2 series ‚Saved by a Stranger‘, Sky TV documentary ‚Positive‘ and The Guardians ‚Outspoken‘ series and ‚Freddie Mercury: The Final Act‘.
- Nicola Minney (she/her) is a collections researcher for the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). As part of the Arts Council Funded ‘Building Connections’ Project she has explored themes of decolonisation, migration and LGBTQ+ stories in rural collections. Her talk will cover the exhibition ‚Queer Constellations‘ which explores how museum collections and archives were used to tell the previously untold stories of gay men in rural England. The exhibition also featured LGBTQ+ artists from rural areas, whose work was displayed alongside historical objects.