LGBT people existed long before 1967 – as the British Museum reveals

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LGBT people existed long before 1967 – as the British Museum reveals

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/20/lbgt-people-1967-british-museum?CMP=twt_gu
6/20/13
Andrew Dobbin

Gender variance and same-sex desire has always existed, in all times and in all places.

For many people, me included, this is a given. LGBT people didn't magically shimmy over the rainbow in 1967 when Lord Wolfenden's findings were finally put on the statute books. But for others, the thought of homosexuality and a spectrum of gender identity that is natural is enough to make them clutch feverishly at their pearls.

So let me take them on a tour around the British Museum and explore the theme of same-sex desire and gender through the objects displayed there, and perhaps buy them a copy of the book A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by Richard B Parkinson. Those objects date back more than 2,500 years.