
Queer Footprints - Ladbroke Grove
Sun 17 Sept
|Ladbroke Grove, London, UK
WLQP is thrilled to be partnering with Dan Glass, author of Queer Footprints, to bring you this queer history tour of Ladbroke Grove. Meeting at 1pm outside Ladbroke Grove tube station.


Time & Location
17 Sept 2023, 13:00 – 15:00
Ladbroke Grove, London, UK
About the event
Highlights - if you came to find Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant smooching in a doorway, you’re on the wrong tour. An area so rich through its transformations, it is fundamental to the make-up of the UK. Here you will discover those living in the burgeoning queer communes, a flourishing trans community, life in the theatres, pissed-off police and coalition-building between black and queer communities who once locked po-faced authoritarian councillors in a church hall. Come and be inspired by voices and movements at the intersections of LGBTQIA+, racial and social justice including the ‘Universal Black Improvement Organisation’, Malcom X, Nina Simone, George Michael,‘Claudia Jones, Frank Crichlow, Bette Bourne, Nettie Pollard, Jackie Forster and the flourishing of ‘Sappho Magazine’. We will also explore critical moments that helped pave the way for freedom today such as ‘Princess Diana and the Handshake’, the Gay Liberation Front Communes and the occupation at ‘The…
Tickets
Queer Footprints
£10.00
+£0.25 ticket service fee
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