The @nhm-london.bsky.social 's human evolution exhibition, includes models of a neanderthal and homosapien looking at each other, like dads comparing barbecue-ing techniques 🥰👍🏛️🍑🍖 #MuseumBums Thanks @thelabandfield.bsky.social for directing us to the rare humanish bums in a natural history museum ❤️

Shocked to discover the @nhm-london.bsky.social has a whole store of genies, but never exhibits them!! 😱

Here's 2 ideas for you, lads. 1️⃣ Tax the rich 2️⃣ Don't blow billions of pounds on warmed-over ID cards plans that won't achieve any of your aims but would hand dangerous potential to authoritarian governments (future or present)

*£83 Stupid tired Mark

I'm only £93 away from my target for fundraising to run the Athens Marathon in November! Chuck us a few quid and I'll stop going on about it 😁 www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...

It's giving

I love mushrooms - like, what are they? Funky lil dudes with a million genders who defy all categorisation, taste delicious, and sometimes kill you horribly? Amazing. I'm so on board. Tell me more.

You know those photos from messy nights out that look like art? Here's an art that looks like a messy night out! 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Drunken Faun, 1826, by John Hogan, from @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social 😁

Another extraordinary win today - don't let our natural negativity bias let the recognition of these miracles slip away

Just thought of the funniest joke about Athena. It popped into my head fully formed.

I have a joke about Sisyphus, but it's an uphill struggle

Men.

We're not *saying* we should unroyal the royal family and give their massive hoards of wealth and culture to the people... We're just subtly implying it. 😋

I would like to see James Masters and James Marsden kissing... How do we make that happen? 🤔

Jack has at some points literally been holding my hand through this 😁 I love him so much 🥰

These legs are made for running, and that's just what they'll do! One of these days (Sunday 9th Nov) these legs are gonna run all 42km (of the Athens Marathon) 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ Help me along here: www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...

When your partner opens the bedroom curtains unexpectedly, and you're just not ready for daylight yet 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Duncan Grant's "Nude Woman", c1913, from the V&A 😁

Sweaty face? Swoopy hair? It's another run as I train for the OG: the Athens Marathon 🇬🇷🏃‍♂️ I'm running for Freedom, a group that supports LGBTQIA+ young people. They need our help more than ever. It all adds up: £10 buys a book for our library £25 gets groceries www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...

Should I go blonde though? 🤔

Our book has a chapter "Beach Bums" specifically for when it's been drizzly 4 days in a row. You can teleport to a hot summer, the scent of SPF50 on the gentle breeze 🌞 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Henry Scott Tuke's "Lovers of the Sun", 1923 😁 Here's your ticket to summer: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...

It's got a Rizzle Kick *and* Tamzin Outhwaite in it!! 😁

I'm looking forward to seeing Entertaining Mr Sloane with @thehistoryboy.bsky.social soon. We might have a little pilgrimage to the library where Joe Orton defaced some books to really round out the trip. It's nice to have cultural things to look forward to. 🥰

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Any historians out there know *why* there was a Venus statue in the middle of the Monkey House at Alexandra Palace in c1906? 🤔 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Thanks @allypallymuseum for sharing 😁

#TodayInQueerHistory September 14 (1769) Scientific polymath whose name is writ large across nature (see penguins, lilys, hummingbirds, glaciers and mountains to name a few) Alexander Humboldt was born #OTD. Humboldt expressed his fervent love for other men, recorded in letters and diaries.

I miss Elaine Stritch 😥

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Our book is a toddler! 🤯😁🥰 Me and @jackshoulder.bsky.social wrote the best book we could ever have written, and it's still such a thrill seeing it in bookshops and on people's shelves 😁 Next year our Museum Bums bookshelf will be needing an extension! 👀👀👀👀👀

I'm so close to reaching my target! Can you help tip me over the £1k marker? www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru... 🏃‍♂️🏁🏅👟🎽

It's funny how the very first sin was about a woman who ate, woman who ate. Call her mother, the house down boots, Gaaaaawd 💃 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Jack's doing his #LGBTQIA tour of Bristol Museum again today, give us a wave if you see him 😁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Eve, by Edward Hodges Baily, 1822, at Bristol Museum

I'm so pleased that our @sallyhastingsart.bsky.social print has arrived all the way from Australia 😁🤩. @jackshoulder.bsky.social and I already know exactly where we're going to hang it 💚 Having seen the original Medusa painting in Florence, I definitely think this one's more delicious 😋🐍

I had a great time interviewing the lovely Dr Anthony Delaney at Waterstones, Bristol last night. We were discussing his new book Queer Georgians. It's a marvellous read!

Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

#TodayInQueerHistory September 10 (1926) Today I want to celebrate an artist that I (and as @museumbums.bsky.social) am very fond of: Beryl Cook who was born #OTD. Beryl was an ally, painting joy from her local queer venue, the Lockyer Tavern. She depicted our joy, shared by her queer friends.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

What're your plans for later? Oh, I was just going to pose absolutely deliciously with nothing but a bolt of fabric, you? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums An 18th C cameo, carved by Giuseppe Girometti in Rome, now at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social 😁

Who will be that person to tip me over £1200? I'm so close! www.justgiving.com/page/jack-sh...

#TodayInQueerHistory September 8 (1907) Lesbian power couple Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas meet in Paris for the first time. Establishing themselves as movers, shakers and taste-makers in the Parisian arts scene, the couple stayed together until Gertrude's death in 1946.

Part of the permanent exhibition at @queerbritain.bsky.social, this poster advocates for safe sex to diminish the spread of HIV AIDS #MuseumBums 😁 Queer Britain is the only dedicated permanent queer museum in the UK, it's free to visit but every little helps!👍🏛️🍑🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#TodayInQueerHistory September 7 (1914) Dr Flora Murray and her partner Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson established military hospitals in France as part of them founding the Women's Hospital Corps, working with the French Red Cross. Dr Flora Murray was appointed Chief Physician.

25k run round #Bristol with @jackshoulder.bsky.social today, this is my longest run so far training for the Athens Marathon! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️💑 www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru...

In just over 2 months, I run the original marathon in Athens for @switchboard.bsky.social Switchboard are the UK LGBT+ mental health helpline. If you know a queer person, there's a good chance they've been helped by Switchboard Help keep queer people alive? www.justgiving.com/page/keep-ru... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏃‍♂️

Gods I miss Alan Rickman 💔 (We're watching Galaxy Quest because we're both feeling a bit 🤧)

#TodayInQueerHistory September 6 (2018) The Supreme Court of India throws out Section 377, a law which criminalised same-sex relations and modelled on anti-gay laws from the UK. The Indian Supreme Court described the former law as "irrational, arbitrary and incomprehensible."

There are some lovely bums in our book. You should check them out 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse... 😁

#TodayInQueerHistory September 5 (1991) ACT UP, activists who put pressure on government to take action to help those with HIV/AIDS, unfurl a giant condom on the home of homophobic Senator Jesse Helms. The condom says "A CONDOM TO STOP UNSAFE POLITICS: HELMS IS DEADLIER THAN A VIRUS.”

Sarah-Jane McCarthy's work is GLORIOUS, and it's about WOMANHOOD and IDENTITY and EXPLORATION! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums And you should go see the exhibition at Kit Form 37, in Jamaica Street Studios, #Bristol right now 😁

#TodayInQueerHistory September 1 (2017) Model and activist Munroe Bergdorf is fired from L'Oréal after a private Facebook post in which she expressed her exhaustion from dealing with racial violence. In 2020, Bergdorf was appointed to the make-up brand's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory board.