Date Range: 22/07/2017 - 21/10/2017
Date/Time Summary: The museum is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 10am to 5pm
Booking Required: No
Venue: Islington Museum
The Sexual Offences Act was passed on the 27 July 1967. Islington’s most (in)famous gay couple, playwright Joe Orton and his partner, collage artist Kenneth Halliwell, died just two weeks later. Men have always had sex with other men but, how this has been viewed, both by society and the men themselves, has changed greatly over time. Up Against It explores the stories of well-known gay men living in Islington before and after the act, which decriminalized homosexual acts between men aged 21 years or over in private. On display together for the first time are collaged public library book covers created by Orton and Halliwell, a Halliwell collage and his ‘World of Cats’ screen newly acquired by Islington Heritage.
Categories: Arts, music, dance, drama, media, culture,Exhibition,Local history
Age Ranges: Young People (12+),Adults
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