Exhibition: Southampton's Queer Stories
Community, Exhibitions, Free, In Person
Friday 23rd August – Sunday 27th October 2024
God's House Tower, Town Quay Road, Southampton, SO14 2NY
Southampton’s Queer Stories is a contextual heritage exhibition that celebrates significant moments in Southampton’s LGBTQIA+ history from the 1970s onwards.
In the Barker-Mill project space, extracts from newspapers and pamphlets are exhibited alongside video clips of local news reports and more personal oral histories and photographs. This exhibition will not only celebrate the queer history of Southampton and the hard-won fight for LGBTQIA+ rights, but will also preserve the legacy of queer people in the area by forming a new collection to be deposited in the City Council’s Museum and Archive collection.
This exhibition was developed to accompany a new ‘a space’ arts commission by Ian Giles called Everyone Involved which you can read more about HERE.
With thanks to: Bishopsgate Institute, the Hall-Carpenter Archives at London School of Economics, Hampshire Record Office, Mark Ovenden, Merseyside Maritime Museum, People’s History Museum, Southampton City Art Gallery, Alexandra Lyons, Maria Newbery and Joanne Smith at Southampton City Council’s Museum and Archive collection, Wessex Film and Sound Archive, Clifford Williams and Y Services (Voices for Heritage project).