Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History

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Walkers will meet at the Statue of Eros (closest underground station Piccadilly Circus) for the walk of the queer history of the Piccadilly area and end at LSE Library (closest underground station Holborn) with a short viewing of LSE archives. Get your towel out, take to your garden, your favourite park or somewhere comfortable to read the book.While we take responsible measures to ensure accurate informaton is given here this event is ultimately the responsibility of the organisation presenting the event. Dan has been recognised as 'Activist of the Year' with the Sexual Freedom Awards and was announced a 'BBC Greater Londoner' for founding Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time.

Recognised as 'Activist of the Year' with the Sexual Freedom Awards and announced a 'BBC Greater Londoner' for founding ‘Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time’. Join them on a journey through the city's streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of its queer story.

It is for anyone who wants to explore how to navigate and interrogate a matrix of injustices and pierce through the web of inequality that faces us every time we walk out the door. Q: Throughout the book you highlight solidarity between different movements and the intersectional nature of struggle, such as challenging racism faced by queer people of colour or the solidarity of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). Q: In the book’s introduction you stress the importance of movement, walking and taking up the space, of engaging with history rather than just reading about it. In the spirit of the original aims of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), who started the modern Pride movement, it exists in the spirit of `Absolute Freedom for All’ and lives by the mantra of ‘All Injustices Are Connected.

You can get immediate notification on the availability of an event podcast by following LSE public lectures and events on Twitter, which will also inform you about the posting of transcripts and videos, the announcement of new events and other important event updates. United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow is a toolkit of case studies, strategies, philosophies, methodologies and tactics for LGBTQIA+ liberation. Glass: Love, power, fear, war, apartheid, peace, justice, freedom-fighting, education, emotions, Section 28, remembrance, amnesia, happiness, loneliness, AIDS, healthcare, abandonment, addiction, raves, ghosts, sex, friendship, creativity, local community building, global sex positive de-criminalisation, taking our purpose seriously as queers but not so seriously that we can’t laugh at ourselves. Every page is packed with inspiring, moving and downright hilarious secrets just itching to be uncovered, and with the riotously entertaining Dan Glass as your mincing tour guide, you’ll have an absolute blast as you do. Sitting around the dinner table surrounded by shelves of enormous books, with page after page of autobiographies connected by train tracks to Auschwitz, gas chambers, concentration camp inmates with ‘Juden’ signs, identity codes for the persecuted including yellow stars for Jews and pink triangles for homosexuals – my heart ached.

But also, all the incredible nooks and crannies (in London and far beyond) which we’ve been denied knowing about. Dan has been named one of Attitude Magazine’s campaigning role models for LGBT youth, GaydarRadio Heroes Awards for Gay Rights activism and a Guardian ‘UK youth climate leader’ for famously supergluing the Prime Minister. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of GCN.

I am also part of a very exciting legal initiative to build a case to take the government to court for the crime that was Section 28, for the harm done to every queer in Britain. Every step has taken me closer to deepening an understanding of what integration, connection and justice really looks like for our brilliant community. The curation of Queer Footprints reaffirmed my belief in the power of people’s (or ‘popular’) education, and I learnt many new storytelling tools to enable this.Dan Glass, author of Queer Footprints, meets up with Maz Islam from the Rainbow Tree to take the viewer on a guided tour of Whitechapel.