In 1995 the gallery hosted a controversial retrospective of US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe which was seen by 45,000 people. The same year it hosted an exhibition of Pierre et Gilles which carried a censor's warning. In the mid 1980s, when the building was part of the public library, a lower ground-floor auditorium was used for community meetings to discuss homosexual law reform. In this recording Rod McLeod Morrison recounts one of those meetings.
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