The museum is one of a select group of national museums and galleries that benefit directly from Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport funding, receiving £20 million last year. The museum’s website also offers resources to make crafts, such as a “Merfolk Badge”, reading: “These mythological figures, are nowadays a strong icon for the Trans and LGBTQ+ community, because of their mutable nature, regardless of their gender.” Over the February half term, the National Maritime Museum will host several LGBTQ+ History Month events, including a “Penguin Pride” event at which children can learn about “same-sex behaviour” between birds. “For all that naval tradition was believed to have been ‘all rum, sodomy, and the lash’, the National Maritime Museum is doing itself no favours by concentrating quite so heavily on the second of those, with minimum historical evidence.” The ‘men who loved him’ did so because he was a quintessential military leader who fought actions of annihilation, not because they fancied him. “Admiral Nelson’s heterosexuality was so vigorous as to be a subject of intense discussion amongst everyone who knew him, so to try to drag him into a Queer History Night sounds bizarre. Lord Roberts, a historian whose book Leadership in War documents Nelson’s life, said: “This smacks of sheer desperation by the National Maritime Museum.
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