Gower St Freshers' Festival: Queer Footprints, The Walking Tour

Join us during our Freshers' Festival 2023 with author of Queer Footprints, Dan Glass, on a walking tour around King's Cross.

In this tour, ‘Queer Footprints - A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History' author, Dan Glass, will be your mincing guide.

Have you ever wondered how powerful the magic of the queer community really is? Have you ever wanted to know how to learn from the dead to fight for the living? Keen to work out how bigotry, transphobia, homophobia and all evils can be banished forever more? Welcome to the story and history of sweaty all-night raves, pumping tunes and powerful queer activism that all tell a very different story to the shiny King’s Cross we know today.

Highlights - stops include celebrating the founders and the activists in ‘Lesbians an Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) immortalised in the film ‘Pride,’ join Harry Potter and the ‘Pink Express Train’ at Kings Cross Station, dance at the ‘Famous Five raves’ and with the leather-studded activists at ‘The Bell’, enjoy hanky-panky at the Scala and the ‘faerie-run’ to Trade nightclub. Learn with the pioneers from trailblazing Black and Queer healthcare movements, the Camden Lesbian Centre, London Friend and LGBT+ Switchboard, Housmans Bookshop and last but not least we end up at ‘Gay’s the Word’, London’s legendary LGBT+ bookshop - just some of the many treasures in the fiery queer hearth of our alchemically powerful community here in King’s Cross. End the tour at Waterstones Gower Street!

Meeting Point: Housmans Bookshop N1 9DX

End Point: Waterstones Gower Street WC1E 6EQ

Join us for a post-prelambulatory drink at Waterstones Gower Street! Ticketholders will receive a 10% discount when purchasing a copy of Queer Footprints from us. We look forward to seeing you here!

Book early to avoid disappoinment.

Dan Glass is an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist, performer, presenter and writer. 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. His book United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow was Observer book of the week. Dan recently founded self-defence empowerment programme Bender Defenders and Queer Night Pride to confront rising hate crime. Follow him @danglassmincer.