Queer Footprints Walking Tour with Dan Glass: Stories of Local LGBTQIA+ and Healthcare Activism

Stops on the walking tour - Disco balls not wrecking balls, Joyful Sinners, Remember the Dead to Fight for the Living and much more!  

Meet at Museum of the Home at 10.30am.

• Queer Night Pride on Kingsland Road 

• Disco balls not wrecking balls at The Joiners Arms 

• Mildmay Mission hospital

• Joyful Sinners at the George and Dragon Pub 

• Love, war and drag with Lil and Maisie at the Royal Oak Pub  

• East London Strippers Collective - The White Horse pub 

• Housing justice The Boundary Estate  

• The Society for the Reformation of Manners at The Common Press bookshop 

• Queer Love at Hunky Dory vintage shop 

• Gay Liberation Front at the Bethnal green Acid Drag Commune 

• Red Lesbian Brigade on Bethnal Green Road  

• Rainbow Tree and Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club  

 
There will be a reflection workshop after the walking tour on celebrating London's LGBTQIA+ heritage, spaces and places, and how to continue supporting the community with the infrastructure that is needed.

From the suffragettes to the socialists, from the Chartists to the trade unionists, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. 

Find out more here.

Accompanied by a chorus of voices of both iconic and unsung legends of the movement, readers can walk through parts of East, West, South and North London, dipping into beautifully illustrated maps and extraordinary tales of LGBTQIA+ solidarity, protest and pride. The shadows of gentrification, policing, homophobia and racism are time and again resisted.

Queer Tours of London - A Mince through Time (QTOL) - Queer Footprints was born out of QTOL that carries out site-specific theatrical tellings conceived to reveal hidden stories and untold oral histories of London neighbourhoods! QTOL shines a light on London’s rich LGBTQ+ history through creative and life-affirming interactive tours. They tell the stories of London’s queer history, shedding light on the lives, spaces, identities, repression, and resistance that form the backdrop of LGBTQ+ lives today.

See more in these articles here:

(1) ‘From Soho to Vauxhall: the man behind London’s first LGBTQ history tour’, Independent

(2) ‘Remembering London’s lost queers in a 1930s gay club’, Dazed & Confused 

Dan Glass is a multi-award-winning popular educator, author, performer, film presenter, ACT UP activist and sexual and healthcare freedom movement-builder. Activist of the Year, campaigning role model and BBC Greater Londoner, Dan founded ‘Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time’, Queer/Trans Muay Thai & Self Defence movement Bender Defenders, re-formed AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) London and founded This is My Culture (TIMC) protest-party. His books ‘United Queerdom from the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to the Queers of Tomorrow’ and Queer Footprints - A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History are used as roadmaps for freedom across the world. Dan is on the international committee of Training for Transformation and an artist with In Place of War. He is now writing 'This is Our Culture - The Revolutionary Legacy of George Michael.' 

Instagram: @danglassmincer