Glasgow’s sex and drugs row rumbles on

Guardian.co.uk – Charlotte Higgins

There has been a tremendous kerfuffle at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. Its current exhibition, sh[OUT] – which focuses on lesbian, gay, transgender and intersex life, and features, among others, work by Nan Goldin and David Hockney – has been the subject of a vitriolic campaign by the Daily Mail. The paper has branded it a “gay porn” show and even, bizarrely, managed to get the Vatican to condemn one exhibit, Made in God’s Image, in which visitors were invited to write comments on the pages of a Bible…