Manchester’s LGBTQ+ community will be celebrated in a new exhibition focusing on two iconic moments of the city-region’s history.
The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel’s ‘Together As One – A celebration of Manchester’s LGBTQIA+’ exhibition at The Refuge will feature 90s pictures taken at legendary club night Flesh and photos from Manchester’s Section 28 protests in 1988.
As part of a collaboration with the British Culture Archive, the exhibition - which will launch on July 28 - will celebrate the two moments which have played a key role in the changing face of LGBTQ+ rights, culture and acceptance in the UK. READ MORE: New ‘sun trap wine terrace’ opens with views across Canal Street Photographer Peter J Walsh, who worked at Manchester’s City Life Magazine in the late eighties, captured the anti-Clause 28 protest in the city centre on February 20, 1988.
The event was held against Clause 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which sought to make it illegal for bodies, such as councils, to ‘promote’ homosexuality, including a ban on schools teaching the ‘acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’.
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