This challenging exhibition will publicly commemorate people and events important to the black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. It will celebrate its achievements and highlight the issues it has faced in the past and still faces today.

The exhibition will document the emergence of the black LGBT community from the 1970s and demonstrate its contribution to campaigns for fair representation and against homophobia, while also celebrating the vibrant black LGBT cultural, club and music scene.

Outside Edge will be an indispensable exploration of the first and subsequent turning points that have shaped the black LGBT experiences within contemporary London. It will make visible the black LGBT presence and will by its very existence challenge the silences, omissions and the narrow cultural definitions of heritage, histories, identities and community from within the black community, wider gay community and within our own black LGBT communities.

The exhibition is being curated by Ajamu, co-founder of the rukus! Federation, which supports the work of black LGBT artists and other cultural producers in the UK and abroad. rukus! is also creating an important archive of material relating to the black LGBT community. If you would like to contribute, please contact rukus!.

Date: 7 February - 4 April 2008
Study Day: 23 February 2008

Museum in Docklands website

Alongside the exhibition, the Museum in Docklands and rukus! are holding a study day on 23 February 2008. Full details of the study day will be available here soon.