Billed as ‘the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art’, Tate Britain's brand new show, which covers gay art from 1861 to 1967, joins a host of other galleries and museums celebrating the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, that partially decriminalised male homosexuality Galleries and museums across Britain are marking the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, the legislation that partially decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales. The National Portrait Gallery recently opened an exhibition exploring London’s gay scene in the 1980s, hot on the heels of its Speak Its Name show; while the British Museum’s Desire Love Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories opens in May; in Manchester the People’s History Museum is documenting 200 years of activism in Never Going Underground: the Fight for LGBT+ Rights; while Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery will showcase how artists responded to decriminalisation in Coming Out: Art and Culture 1967-2017, opening in July.

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