60 years of gay ephemera go on display at the Barbican

Rarely seen leaflets, posters, placards and banners are currently filling part of the Barbican as the Bishopsgate Institute brings out some of its archive of gay ephemera for public display.
Much of the archive is made up of rare survivors of documents that were not designed to last — leaflets and flyers handed out at protests and clubs, to be read and discarded, yet some survived.
It’s thematic as a display, from the nightclub flyers to AIDS awareness campaigns and memories of peopl