Queer Footprints Walking Tour with Dan Glass: A Summer of Queer Love
Join us on a walking tour led by Dan Glass, 'AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power' (ACT UP) activist and author of Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History, focusing on the early - current LGBTQIA+ Pride movements in the neighbourhood.
Queer Footprints A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History, a book by Dan Glass (Pluto Press)
Shoreditch and Whitechapel have a treasure chest of stories connecting across communities of class, religion, gender, and sexuality. For centuries, these communities have defied the knocks on our doors by authorities intent on rooting out public queer life. Don’t let the narrow streets in our pilgrimage give you the wrong impression – the impacts of queer life here are so huge, that they are felt across the world. Throughout the walking tour, you will explore key sections of both ‘Rebel Footprints’ by David Rosenberg and ‘Queer Footprints - A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History’ by Dan Glass - both published by Pluto Press.
Itinerary
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About
‘Rebel Footprints’
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.
‘Queer Footprints’
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
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
Date
Saturday 7 June 2025
Time
10.30am-12.30pm
& 2pm-4pm
Cost
£18 (£15 Concession)
Location
Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road E2 8EA