The Ain Sakhri sculpture at the British Museum is considered the oldest known sculpture of two lovers

Visit the LGBT+ Objects website to access the free resources.

Resources from the past for discussing gender and sexual diversity today.

Across the UK, museums and archives hold many objects which reveal to us the diversity of ideas about gender and sexuality throughout world history.

From an 11,000 year old sculpture to modern day pin badges, our new website showcases just some of this incredible material, together with free lesson ideas for using each object as the basis of LGBT+ focused discussions within Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE), other school subjects, or out-of-school youth activities.

This harnesses the Sex & History methodology which has found that objects from the past have a powerful way of creating distance from contemporary concerns and at the same time providing an important critical perspective on today’s attitudes and assumptions.

Visit the LGBT+ Objects website to access the free resources.

The website was developed in
response to the theme ‘Citizenship, PSHE and Law’ for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month 2017, from Schools OUT UK.

This project is generously funded by Schools OUT UK and Wellcome.