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

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An illuminating and inspiring journey around the city of London; weaving together stories of resistance, care and the joy of collective trouble-making, and reminding us of the connectedness of our lives and struggles. In Queer Footprints , radical queer history is something that is constantly being made, not consigned to the past. This is a book that evokes many feelings – but above all, it provides us with the hope we need to act ' Save Footprints: Mayfair Founders Club to your collection. Share Footprints: Mayfair Founders Club with your friends. Save Fitness class for mums in beautiful pop-up tipi to your collection. Share Fitness class for mums in beautiful pop-up tipi with your friends. Dan Glass is an award-winning activist, mentor, performer and writer. He uses music, performance and protest to catalyse love, soul, revolution and justice in communities confronting injustice. Dan is an educator from Training for Transformation (TfT). 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. Dan was recently awarded the ‘activist of the year’ at the ‘Sexual Freedom Awards 2017’ for contributions to sex-positive, queer, healthcare and human rights movements for social justice. Glass: Ooooh controversial one. I left out a lot of movement tactics that relate to ‘identity politics.’ Not the kind of identity politics that results in positive affirmation of marginalised communities, but the kind of identity politics that result in a reductive ‘oppression olympics’, a race-to-the-bottom understanding of change-making whereby everyone ends up at a dead-end road.

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. Save Footprints Global 3 Day Family Office/UHNWI Summer Conference to your collection. Share Footprints Global 3 Day Family Office/UHNWI Summer Conference with your friends. So learning from history, or rather ‘herstory’, helps immensely. Change can happen and nothing is absolute. From coming out on Old Compton Street to soul-fire fights in Brixton, finding Heaven under the Arches to ACT UP protests in the streets, Dan Glass has curated a manifesto and maps for 'queerdos' across London. You will find freedom in these minces!' Author Dan Glass on the inspiration behind Queer Footprints, a guide to London’s fierce LGBTQ+ historyA personal and polemical guidebook … you can enjoy this book even if you’re straight, as it reveals the places and lives that help to make a great city what it is but tend to go unrecognised by official histories and blue plaques’ Note: This interview gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Review of Books blog, or of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The interview was conducted by Anna D’Alton, Managing Editor of the LSE Review of Books blog. Queer Footprints is a toolkit for LGBTQ+ people everywhere to elevate LGBTQ+ solidarity, protest and Pride in their communities. Save #SLACfest presents: 'In Conversation with the Artists’ to your collection. Share #SLACfest presents: 'In Conversation with the Artists’ with your friends.

I would really like to do Queer Footprints collaborations in countries where it’s more at the sharp end of the knife because if we’re looking at equalising liberation across the world, then we need to do more work with [those] communities. To be able to do this in Russia, for example, or Palestine or in Uganda with my friends there who are challenging the latest tyranny. A truly rewarding read, full of insights and knowledge and intertwined with anecdotes from those who were there. The book is a goldmine for those interested in finding out about the queer history of the streets of London 'NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. NOTCHES: This book engages with histories of sex and sexuality, but what other themes does it speak to? Queer Footprints is our invitation to take up space! Get your towel out, take to your garden, your favourite park or somewhere comfortable to read the book. 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. It may not be successful but it’s damn well worth a try. Because for fifty years the Gay Liberation Front have taught humankind this lesson in the most dazzling and spectacular fashion. Emerging from the Stonewall Uprisings in New York in 1969 it wasn’t long before they catalysed a movement here in Britain that lead to Pride today, but not as we know it. At the pumping heart of the GLF mission is the aim of ‘Absolute freedom for all’, a principled opposition against all oppression and to stand in solidarity with everyone everywhere facing discrimination and abuse.

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. Is that something you want readers to take from the book? Save AfroBeats In The City ~ Bold & Beautiful Party to your collection. Share AfroBeats In The City ~ Bold & Beautiful Party with your friends. Fast forward: in 2004 ‘Pride in London’ was officially changed from a protest to a parade, instantly de-politicising its purpose, as if there is nothing left to fight for. This is intentional. It is not helpful for people to question power. It is not helpful for ordinary people to be conscious. LSE Library organised a Picadilly walking tour and panel event on Friday 9 June 2023 to mark the book’s launch which featured a display of materials from LSE’s Hall-Carpenter Archives and panellists from the UK branch of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) , formed at LSE in 1970.

Share this event Save this event: Walking Tour - Diverse London - A walk on the wild side through queer Soho Save Footprints Property Chapter Networking Event to your collection. Share Footprints Property Chapter Networking Event with your friends. It is helpful, however, to question everything if you think that an injustice to one is an injustice to all. As the late great popular educator Paulo Freire said, we must ‘read our own reality and write our own history’ to transform the world around us. That hugely inspiring stories of queer love, connection and community power are everywhere. I am still buzzing from the Queer Footprints book launch and panel at the fab Outhouse in Dublin a few months ago.

Beautiful, heartbreaking and inspiring… A series of stories that honour, celebrate, uplift and credit the people who have contributed to our extraordinary community'A fascinating walk through the early years of Gay Liberation to the (partial) decriminalisation of Homosexuality in June 1967' Author Interview: Q and A with Dr Noni Stacey on Photography of Protest and Community: The Radical Collectives of the 1970s