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# New exhibition to launch this Pride Month to celebrate ’50 LGBTQI+ Who Changed the World’
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/new-exhibition-to-launch-this-pride-month-to-celebrate-50-lgbtqi-who-changed-the-world/
- Published: 2023-06-07T12:06:20.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-07T12:08:03.000Z
- Description: 50 LGBTQI+ Who Changed the World pays tribute in 50 portraits to the activists, personalities, writersand artists who have advanced the LGBTQ+ movement and celebrates those who have fought tocreate a more inclusive and tolerant world.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Exhibitions

**Aurora Metro** arts & media charity is launching a new touring exhibition for **Pride Month**, ***50 LGBTQI+ Who Changed the World***, which will show from **18-30 June** at **Strawberry Hill House**, **Twickenham** and then tour for several months around various arts spaces in and around London.

A book with the same title is being published by sister company **Aurora Metro Books** to accompany the exhibition. The book includes an overview of LGBTQ+ history from academic, playwright and comedian **Clare Summerskill**.

*50 LGBTQI+ Who Changed the World* pays tribute in 50 portraits to the activists, personalities, writersand artists who have advanced the LGBTQ+ movement and celebrates those who have fought tocreate a more inclusive and tolerant world.

The project showcases the work of **Florent Manelli**, a French LGBTQ+ artist who launched the exhibition tour and book in France. “It is very important for a community to have role models…thefight for equal rights has only just begun.” – the LGBT centre of Touraine. Explaining why he started this project, Manelli explained: “It’s not just about individual stories…it’s about how we can respect everyone in this society.”

The UK project includes notable British figures, including: **Olly Alexander**, **Mark Ashton**, **Michael Cashman**,**Peter Tatchell**, **Alan Turing**, and **Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah** (Lady Phyl).