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Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner and Martin Firrell,
Gender Think-In,
2017, The Lloyd's building. Photographed by Yves Salmon, 29 June 2017.
The artist invited 200 senior leaders in business, culture and policy to a Think-In, designed to question traditional gender roles and modelled on the consciousness-raising think-ins pioneered by the Gay Liberation Front in the early 1970s.
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, the artist
covened leaders in the financial sector, insurance industry, women's groups and LGBT+ networks, as well as gender pioneers like Lanah Pillay.
NOTE
Lanah P (born 1959) is an LGBT+ English entertainer. Also styled as Alan Pellay, Al Pillay, Al-ana Pellay, and Lana Pellay. Pillay starred in
The Comic Strip Presents
and as Alex in the 1987 film
Eat the Rich.
Of gender, Lanah writes, 'I don’t feel like I have a gender. I’m agendered. Gender neutral. Non-binary. I always felt like that. And I always felt that their transexuality label was imposing their idea of respectability on me. You must be in this box because we don’t understand you if you aren’t. Well, if you’re that evolved why do you have to look between my legs — or anybody else’s — and decide how to treat them?'
Peter Tatchell
NOTE
Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-born British human rights campaigner, best known for a lifetime of campaigning for LGBT+ rights around the world.
acknowledged the pioneers of the early LGBT+ movement, and the achievements of the past 50 years, but also highlighted the inequalities that persist under British law.
The think-in invited participants to reflect on the impact of gender norms and the artist outlined the possibilities of a gender-free future.
Lanah Pillay, gender pioneer,
Gender Think-In,
2017, The Lloyd's building, 29 June 2017.
A gender ballot aimed to determine the extent to which current gender norms serve the majority of people.
The ballot paper asked participants to self-score their feminine and masculine sides and evaluate their sense of personal variance or conformity to gender norms as they understand them.
The results of the ballot were published as
The World Is Divided by a Gender War Designed to Keep Us at Loggerheads. Gender Is a Myth. It Does Not Really Exist.