London’s Tate Gallery has just announced a major new exhibition planned for 2017 called Queer British Art.  The first of it’s kind from the prestigious Institution that houses the country’s national collection of British art,  and it will mark the 50th Anniversary of the de-criminalization of (male) homosexuality in England & Wales.  

The show will be at the Tate Britain next April, and will feature the work of artists like Gluck, John Singer Sargent, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, David Hockney and Francis Bacon. According to the show’s press release, the work will span “the period from the abolition of the death penalty for buggery” in 1861 to full decriminalization in 1967. Together, these works helped to shape new forms of identity and community and explore how seismic shifts in gender and sexuality found expression in the arts.

This will follow the Hockney Exhibition (previously announced) to mark the artist’s 80th birthday.  This extensive retrospective that is set to be the largest one in his career will open in February 2017 and will cover six decades of the artist’s work from early homoerotic paintings to recent LA pieces.  It will later be transferred  to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.