Never going underground: LGBT+ history on display at Manchester’s People’s History Museum
National Treasures
Along the great stone corridors, Romanesque courts and octagonal towers of Britain’s national museums sit priceless treasures exhibited for the public’s viewing pleasure. Visitors pass by, idly leafing through the pages of their guidebooks; not noticing, perhaps, the image of two men entwined on a Roman silver cup, same-sex slogans scrawled in bubble writing across colour-pop badges, or acts of autofellatio etched on funeral papyrus.