Velvet-Club Connecting Lesbians & Bi-women around the World

Join us for a weekend of events which contextualize Hockneys early works considering aspects of gay life in the 1950s and 1960s. In partnership with National Museums Liverpool Pre-booking essential. Book at the Walker welcome desk or call 0151 478 4199. Put on your Sunday best for an illuminating talk on male physique photography. British gay culture went deep underground after the Second World War. A secretive network grew up around the boom in bodybuilding and physique magazines, which became a covert gay press, supplying British men with erotic images, contacts and a sense of belonging at a time of vicious legal persecution. Rupert Smith uncovers a vibrant, erotic gay visual culture in magazines like Mans World, Health and Strength and Man Alive, illustrated with work by the brave, eccentric photographers and models who created some of the most striking images of gay desire in the 50s and 60s.

Tickets : £ Free Tickets

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Telephone : 0151 478 4199