Just as I arrive at Queer Britain, the National LGBTQ+ Museum in King’s Cross, an eager bandof school children arrive too. They are ushered in quickly, presumably so that they might be pacified out of any tiring rigmarole. But they block the door. It’s refreshing to see young people engage when 30 years ago it would have been unheard of.
The museum isn’t large, instead a single, white room without windows, cool as museums are and should be and filled with all manner of historic artefacts dating back to long before homosexuality was made legal in 1967. It was then that the Sexual Offences Act was passed, legalising same sex relations in those over 21. It wasn’t until 1994 that the age of consent was lowered to 18 in England and Wales; it was reduced to 16, in line with heterosexual activity, in 2000.
