In this episode of our A Walk in the Park Podcast we are introduced to the ‘Queering the Whitworth’ project led by the Visitor Team staff member Dominic Bilton. ‘Queering the Whitworth’ started as an online project, via social media, in the summer of 2018. The project examined works of art from the Whitworth’s Collection that have an LGBTQ+ connection. The Whitworth’s collection spans centuries and is prime placed to tell the history of the LGBTQ+ community through history.
The project was then developed into a tour which expanded into curated tours including, one for LGBT History Month which showed a chronological sequence of artworks from the Renaissance to the present day. Since then, the gallery has conducted over 10 specific queer tours of the collection, which are currently on display.
Queering The Whitworth 