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shocking.</p> <p>“Even though homosexuality is legal now our history is still being locked away in cabinets and it feels very, very temporary.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">Andrew & Elisa at 43 King St, headquarters of the Gay Liberation Front <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750/https://twitter.com/pink_cabinets">@pink_cabinets</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750/https://twitter.com/hashtag/queermuseum?src=hash">#queermuseum</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750/https://t.co/1sq1203GF8">pic.twitter.com/1sq1203GF8</a></p> — Lucy Warin (@lucywarin) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750/https://twitter.com/lucywarin/status/799585331028889600">November 18, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161119132750js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>“I think it’s really, really important to make our histories and collective memory accessible – especially for young people because the fight is nowhere near over.</p> <p>“And I think it’s really important that young people recognise the fact that the privilege that we enjoy today didn’t come from the government, it came from the grassroots and the activists.”</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750im_/https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/18/16/protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-00-17-10.still004.jpg" width="564" height="317" alt="protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-00-17-10.still004.jpg" title="protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-00-17-10.still004.jpg"/></div></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper">Campaigner Nadia Asri: 'Our history is still being locked away in cabinets' (London 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from.”</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750im_/https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/18/16/protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-01-01-22.still003.jpg" width="564" height="317" alt="protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-01-01-22.still003.jpg" title="protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-01-01-22.still003.jpg"/></div></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper">Campaigner Selma Tiff at the protest (London Live)</div></div> <p>Campaigner Stuart Feather said the government’s recent offer to apply for a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/thousands-of-deceased-gay-men-to-be-pardoned-for-historic-offences-a3373856.html">formal pardon to all those convicted of consensual same-sex relationships</a> before they were legalised in 1967 is ‘humiliating’.</p> <p>Stuart told London Live: “The rather sad thing about the pardon for all the people who were imprisoned [for being gay] is that it means absolutely nothing because those people are all dead.</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161119132750im_/https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/18/16/protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-01-29-09.still002.jpg" width="564" height="317" alt="protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-01-29-09.still002.jpg" title="protest-to-get-london-a-queer-history-museum.00-01-29-09.still002.jpg"/></div></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper">Campaigner Stuart Feather (London Live)</div></div> <p>“And for the people who are alive, they have to apply to the Home Office, which is just so humiliating so we don’t want that.</p> 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