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National Portrait Gallery – Speak Its Name from ‘I am the Love that dare not speak its name’

2017 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967. This display features seven portraits and quotations selected from more than 150 that are included in Speak its Name!, a new book that marks the anniversary. Illustrated with portraits from the Gallerys Collection, the publication brings together a selection of moving, amusing and inspirational quotations by and about prominent gay people of the past and present from King James I to Sandi Toksvig celebrating the advances in LGBT rights over the last half-century and a demonstrating of the battle against oppression and prejudice that led to them. The sitters featured in the display discuss their own experience of coming out to friends and family or to an audience of fans and media just one of several LGBT-related issues, including equality, bullying, homophobia, love, sex and marriage, explored in the book. The title of the book and the display is derived from I am the Love that dare not speak its name, the last line of a poem by Lord Alfred Douglas that was quoted as evidence of gross indecency at the trial of his lover Oscar Wilde in 1895. ,

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  • 01 Apr – Phillip Schofield (1962–), English TV presenter
  • 02 Apr – Paul Gambaccini (1949–), American-British radio/TV presenter and author in the UK, known as the β€œPop Professor” or the β€œGreat Gambo”
  • 03 Apr – David Hyde Pierce (1959–), American actor
  • 04 Apr – Graham Norton (1963–), Irish actor, author, comedian, commentator, and presenter; five-time BAFTA Award winner for The Graham Norton Show
  • 04 Apr – Robert Bauman (1937–1981), American politician and author, former Republican congressman (Maryland)
  • 04 Apr – Clive Davis (1932–), American record producer and music industry executive
  • 04 Apr – Anthony Perkins (1932–1992), American actor
  • 05 Apr – Nigel Hawthorne (1929–2001), British actor
  • 05 Apr – Thomas Hitzlsperger (1982–), German retired soccer player
  • 07 Apr – Harry Hay (1912–2002), American labour advocate, teacher, and LGBT rights activist
  • 07 Apr – Duncan James (1978–), English singer, actor, and TV presenter; member of boy band Blue
  • 08 Apr – Evan Davis (1962–), English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC
  • 09 Apr – Marc Jacobs (1963–), American fashion designer
  • 09 Apr – Harris Wofford (1926–2019), American attorney and politician, U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania (1991–1995)
  • 10 Apr – Tom Spencer (1948–2023), British politician and former Member of the European Parliament
  • 11 Apr – Glenway Wescott (1901–1987), American writer
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  • 15 Apr – Luke Evans (1979–), Welsh actor and singer
  • 15 Apr – George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), American fashion photographer
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  • 19 Apr – Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834–1901), French aristocrat and composer
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