Heteronormativity
Nov 3 2008, 5:51 AM EST
| Post edited: Nov 3 2008, 5:51 AM EST
This isn't the same thing as censorship directly, what a long time ago was called the social construction of reality, but there is an exhibition at the National Gallery in London on Renaissance Faces, and the leaflet handed out has a section in which it is most clearly asserted that all these faces are having heterosexual relations, and that none of them are same gender.
This makes a good case, for there will be a new gallery at the Victoria and Albert opening in 2009 on the Renaissance and Middle Ages, and I'd open a book on what pops up. The V&A has spent a million quid on a project on cultural diversity, and cultural diversity becomes the sort of topic with which censorship moves over into tacit and explicit understandings of history, to which I think young people should be introduced.
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