Exhibition Closing event | ‘Out in the World:’ Ireland's LGBTQ+ Diaspora.
In collaboration with Irish Arts Foundation and Leeds Irish Health & Homes.
9th July2025, 6-8pm, Closing event for the "Out in the World" art exhibition,showing a short documentary about the hidden stories of Irelands LGBTQ+emigrants. In collaboration with Leeds Irish Health and Homes and the Embassyof Ireland in London.
Across the generations, Irish LGBTQ+ people have emigrated and found opportunities to live and love openly. Yet this journey was rarely a simple transition from anoppressive island to a liberal wider world. Irish LGBTQ+ emigrants often faced prejudice abroad. The island of Ireland, once a place of shame and silence,could also become a welcoming site of return. This exhibition, on loan from the Irish Embassy in London, highlights twelve stories from the largely untold history of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ diaspora.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, in partnership with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, are proud to have played a pivotal role in illuminating this hidden history of Irish emigration.
Across six themes – exclusion, community, love, defiance, solidarity and return- the exhibition also features an artwork by award winning Irish designer and multi-disciplinary artist Richard Malone.
The exhibition will be open to the public at Left Bank Leeds from Wednesday 4th June until Thursday 10th July.
https://outintheworld.ie/
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