“The people who were part of the early waves of the recent queer liberation movement are hitting an age where they’re thinking about legacy,” said Ben Garcia, executive director of the forthcoming American LGBTQ+ Museum.
LONDON — “It feels like a religious object,” said Joseph Galliano-Doig, director of Queer Britain, a new museum here, gesturing toward a heavy oak door in the main exhibition room.
In under five years, Queer Britain grew from a concept to a bricks-and-mortar home, spearheaded by Galliano-Doig, a former editor of Gay Times magazine, alongside a diverse group of board members and trustees. The museum’s inaugural exhibition, which is free to enter, celebrates 50 years since the first London Pride parade in 1972.
Queer Britain’s early antecedents were the institutions that opened in the 1980s as a response to the AIDS crisis. “People started to get sick and die, so there was a sudden need to document these histories which looked to be slipping away very quickly,” Ben Miller, a writer and historian who co-hosts the “Bad Gays” podcast, said in a recent video interview. This led to the founding of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco and the Schwules Museum in Berlin, both in 1985.
Galliano-Doig points to increased visibility. “There’s a flowering of people coming out these days,” he said. “It becomes impossible not to recognize that we’re embedded in the community.” This has come in tandem with advances in LGBTQ rights across Europe and the United States over the past two decades, including same-sex marriage and gender recognition acts. This also means there is more support and funding available for specialist institutions such as these museums.
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