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Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) has banned children from visiting an exhibition about LGBT rights, despite a police ruling that it did not contain obscene images.

GoMA’s latest exhibition Sh[OUT] was conceived with the aim of “raising the awareness of issues faced by lesbians, gay men, bisexual, transgender and intersex people” according to GoMA’s official website. It also claims that the gallery “has an outstanding reputation as a host of social justice programmes that tackle difficult themes.”

However, this reputation for tolerance has come under threat after it was revealed that children under 12 would not be welcome at the exhibition, and planned secondary school trips were cancelled.

In a further blow, artist Dani Marti withdrew his work from the show after GoMA refused to show two films, which discussed young men living with HIV, following a string of vitriolic articles in the Daily Mail.

Culture and Sport Glasgow, the Government department which funded the exhibition, claim that by refusing the exhibition’s more explicit content, they are merely safeguarding their “family audience”.

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