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Dear All Please find information for the annual Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual History and Archives Conference 2009. Flights of Fancy Saturday 5 December 2009 9.30am - 4.30pm £10 / £7.50 London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, EC1R 0HB Booking / Further Information: Call on 020 7332 3851 email [log in to unmask] The arts provide a powerful means of celebration, protest, being present, self-expression, informing others and challenging convention. Join us to explore some history and to hear about current projects and issues. Programme includes The First Gay Kiss? Sex, Scholars and Ancient Egypt. Dr Richard Parkinson, British Museum Richard Parkinson will discuss controversial images of men kissing from Ancient Egypt and how they have been used in studies of ancient sexuality. He'll consider how Ancient Egypt has featured in gay works of art and how ancient same sex desire can be presented in Museum displays, drawing on the British Museum's recently launched webtrail. The Coming Out of Comics Paul Gravett, author, curator, lecturer and director of the Comica Festival, London LGBT comics creators have traditionally been published episodically, producing newspaper strips in the LGBT press, short pieces in pornographic magazines and in sporadic fanzines and underground anthologies. Graphic novels offer an exciting platform through bookshops and libraries for extended, complete strip narratives in book form. This select survey will consider the distinct qualities, techniques and contents of six key contemporary international graphic novelists who have developed long-form "literary" comics: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, USA), Ralf König (Maybe, Maybe Not, Germany), Ariel Schrag (Potential/Likewise, USA), Kiriko Nananan (Blue, Japan), Fabrice Neaud (Journal, France), and Alison Bechdel (Fun Home, USA). National Gay Icons Professor Richard Dyer, King's College, London Recently the National Portrait Gallery held a well mounted exhibition entitled 'Gay Icons', the first of its kind anywhere in the world. What did they have in mind? What is a gay icon? This presentation will look at a wide range of images of people who were and were not chosen for the show. Richard Dyer teaches Film Studies at King's College London. The Creation and Reception of 'Victim'. Brian Robinson Senior Programmer, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival The BFI National Archive owns Dirk Bogarde's personal collection of scripts which includes a heavily annotated script of 'Victim'(1961)and the film is available at the BFI Mediatheque alongside some key BBC documentaries of the period. This presentation explores the context of the campaign forlaw reform, other Basil Dearden social issue films, the impact of 'Victim' and its marketing campaign. Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community Dr Catherine Silverstone - Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Queen Mary, University of London From the mid-1970s to the late-1990s Gay Sweatshop produced a substantial body of work including plays, readings, workshops, pantomimes, cabarets, and performance clubs. In this paper Catherine will consider elements of Gay Sweatshop's archive of their 1988 production This Island's Mine, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, in relation to Section 28, homophobia and community. LGBT Art and Protest in Scotland (Title tbc) Dianne Barry - Filmmaker, photographer and digital artist Plus practical workshops and discussion groups. Workshops and discussion groups This year we are joined by Poet and Musician Nick Field who will perform a selection from his repertoire Nick is a produced playwright, harpist and spoken word artist. 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