Happy #BookshopDay, everyone! Go buy things from your local indie bookshop 😁
If those things happen to be Museum Bums and Hotties in Art, that'd be lovely 😎
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📸/museums/🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Co-writer and co-curator of @museumbums.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 I do the paperwork for the psychopomps and the storks. Bristol, UK
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October 10 (1990)
After writing a letter to management of London bar of Brief Encounters in September, asking them to rethink the "no gay kissing" policy, which was ignored, activist group Outrage hold a kiss in in protest.
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@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialEeeeeee! It's @jackshoulder.bsky.social 's #Bristol book launch 🥳🥳🥳 at Waterstones Bristol
I'm so proud of him and the colossal amount of work he's put into "Hotties in Art" 🩷💙
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialI mean, the rest of you is also absolutely gorgeous ☺️😉
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialAbsolute stunner 😍
@museumbums.bsky.socialReposted by @thehistoryboy.bsky.socialIf any Museum Bums lovers are near Belfast, come and say hi :)
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October 8 (1971)
Campaign Against Moral Persecution (or CAMP) held Australia's first Gay Rights rally outside the Liberal Party's HQ in Sydney.
They were supporting Tom Hughes who has spoken in favour of reforming law, one banner said these reforms "might help.".
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialI'm so invested in this high street. I keep checking back 😁
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialAaaaargh 🫠🫠🫠
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialit's a hollowed out husk of a derelict building that says "woman" on it, next to a phallic object that everyone is doing everything they can to protect from harm. 🫠
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialSo ... The old Bank of England building in Bristol had a mural covering two sides saying "I'm Every Woman", it was a funded thing about female empowerment and looking after each other on nights out. But now ...
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialCongratulations you two 🥰🥰🥰
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Oct 7 (2020)
Pussy Riot, the Russian Feminist Punk Collective hung Pride Flags from government buildings in Moscow. They said "the flags are our gift to Putin as a symbol of missing love and freedom" for queer people.
The activists were arrested and fined for their actions.
@jackshoulder.bsky.socialReposted by @thehistoryboy.bsky.socialThis Friday I'll be launching Hotties in Art in Bristol, at my local Waterstones. There will be chat and together we will be filling the store with art inspired by your favourite Hotties in art. You can get tickets at the link in bio.
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialI like how they try and hide the bonkers in the middle of all the normal 🤣
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Oct 5 (1994)
Sandi Toksvig is the definition of cosy TV & Radio. After coming out, not just as a lesbian AND a Mum, she was dropped by charities Save the Children and the Children's Society as a host for an event. The Lesbian Avengers protested #OTD & the charities apologised .
@thehistoryboy.bsky.social"As the season is tilting slowly spook-ward" 😁🥰👻 I love this man so much ❤️
@kanaratron.bsky.socialReposted by @thehistoryboy.bsky.socialHeads up for UK folks, The Substance just got added to BBC iPlayer.
@thehistoryboy.bsky.socialThanks lovely 😁