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In March 2019, Bolton Museum hosted the OUTing the Past Festival which featured talks and presentations on LGBT+ history and two performances of the "The Adhesion of Love", a dramatization of a visit by a member of the Eagle Street College to Walt Whitman in 1891. . In the Summer of 2019, the Bolton Museum hosted the British Museum touring exhibition "Desire Love Identity" exhibition in its renovated temporary exhibition space. The exhibition told the story of LGBT+ history in the UK and this iteration of the tour also featured several Bolton specific objects and documents to tell the story of local LGBT+ history in the context of the major national history.