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Conserving a Piece of Queer Heritage
While interning at the National Railway Museum in York, I had the opportunity to conserve and research this “Gentlemen” toilet sign. The object first caught my attention after making its way into the conservation lab. Following an audit of one of the museum’s storage warehouses. Being LGBT+ History month, I jumped at the chance to […]
The sanitizing of queer icons
Jasmine Allum discusses the recent integration of gay culture into the mainstream, and how the representations of infamous queer icons have been affected by this movement.
