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A request! Curious to hear from you about the monuments and memorials you know of in London that commemorate LGBTIQA+ people.
Also would like to know if the statue or plaque states that the person is LGBTIQA+ and the wording used.
Here's an example, but please send more!
Also would like to know if the statue or plaque states that the person is LGBTIQA+ and the wording used.
Here's an example, but please send more!
Ah the Marchmont Association have a few blue plaques, well remembered @TonyBirdLondon, and itâs reminded me of their Kenneth Williams one too diagonally opposite Gayâs The Word. Need to look for that Joe Orton one! https://twitter.com/tonybirdlondon/status/1334085981427933185
I'll also take streets named after LGBTIQA+ people, like this one in Hounslow, which was unveiled during LGBT+ History Month this year, attended by @Gunnersbury1, which places the World Zoroastrian Organisation at No. 1 Freddie Mercury Close, connecting with his family's faith.
Another good suggestion, you can take a seat with Alan Turing, as suggested by @WemblyStiggs not sure if said statue would pass the Turing test though... 
https://twitter.com/wemblystiggs/status/1334089700517310464?s=20
https://twitter.com/wemblystiggs/status/1334089700517310464?s=20
Need to balance things out a bit too, so here's a bust of Virginia Woolf in Tavistock Square. Locally are blue and brown plaques too which commemorates the Bloomsbury Group including Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Adrian Stephen...
There is National Transgender Memorial in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, do you know if there is anything like that in London?
We have a plaque in London, while in Paris there is a garden named after Mark Ashton, the 'Jardin de l'HĂ´tel-Lamoignon - Mark-Ashton' a public space in the center of Le Marais which is also recognised as a memorial for people who died of HIV / AIDS https://twitter.com/MarinaSpiteri2/status/1334086647005274112?s=20
Reported by @DIVAmagazine Prof Kate Williams said of Amanda Cotton sculpture âMary Read and Anne Bonny were... famed pirates in the 18th C... they broke gender boundaries... itâs imperative that we continue to unearth the hidden voices, histories of many women and LGBTQ+ personsâ
Ah yes, the thespians always come up with the goods! https://twitter.com/AmoAmmo/status/1334105477538570241?s=20
Self described as "lesbionic", by my reckoning Maggi Hambling makes this sculpture of LGBTIQA+ significance too. https://twitter.com/hannah_rfh/status/1334104990550552576?s=20
On the Burdett Coutts Memorial Sundial on the 'Morning' side, second name down is the Chevelier D'eon. You can find this monument in the Old St Pancras churchyard.
Ah there's a pic of it on the London Remembers website. Exactly one month and one day before I was... oh nevermind. https://twitter.com/WardlawSteve/status/1334167635479687171?s=20
