ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a 2017 exhibition put on at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, UK, called Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender & Identity. It is an essential example of the English exhibitions put on in honour of the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. Its curatorial tactics - including a community-centred gallery, the exhibition’s atemporal organisation and the political tone of both the wall text and the work - mark both creative and important queer museum practice. The museum’s emphasis on queer community and politics are discussed as innovative curatorial practice in the face of oppression and historical silences. Finally, through a discussion of the display’s atemporality, the ideas of queer and ecstatic time are explored.
