A Queer History of the World: 10 objects in the British Museum
Join us for a fascinating and entertaining online Zoom LGBTQ tour of the British Museum, revealing LGBTQ history and culture across the ages
Cost: $10. Please note that this fee helps keep our small business going during the crisis so we can get up and running right away when it is safe to bring people together again in person.
The British Museum, as the museum's only openly gay director Neil McGregor once said, is a museum of the world, for the world. It is home to around 8 million objects, including some of the most iconic artefacts in the world. On this virtual, online Zoom tour we will be exploring 10 LGBTQ related objects in the museum's collection that give an overview of queer history. We will look at the objects in depth to understand how LGBTQ lives have been a part of all cultures celebrated in the museum and how their stories have come down through the ages, and what this means for LGBTQ people today.
Join museum educator and LGBTQ historian Jack Shoulder on an hour long Zoom tour as he shares these histories and discusses some of the museum's most well-known objects with some surprised along the way. We will see:
Hadrian and Antinous: and we will discuss how they have become the poster boys for LGBTQ history
The world-famous Rosetta Stone (the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics) and its queer connections
An LGBTQ object that's about 11,000 years old
And a whole lot more!
The history of the world is much queer than you might have thought.
More about our speaker:
Jack Shoulder is an LGBTQ Historian, researching at the Goldsmith's Centre for Queer History, London. Jack is passionate about LGBTQ history and works hard to share these often overlooked and under represented histories at V&A and the British Museum.
Previously, Jack worked at the British Museum as an educator in the Samsung Digital Discover Centre where he designed and delivered learning experiences for families. Jack now works at English Heritage, working at sites all over the country to develop their offer for schools.