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

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They have helped fight for, and won, PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) – medication taken to prevent HIV – to be mainstreamed and available and catalysing huge public awareness campaigns to destigmatise HIV across Ireland. Queer Footprints is also a celebration on the 50th anniversary of the first Pride protests in Britain.

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. And if you are in London or you plan to visit, take it into the streets, on your own or with friends, with strangers, whatever works for you. 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. Glass: Born of a long line of Jews, spanning Holland, Poland, Romania and Germany, my grandparents were hunted during the Nazi Holocaust. I wanted to include all the unfurling and unleashing that happened since then on the streets and raves and bedrooms across London, and also uncover icons throughout history and across the world who paved the way for the Gay Liberation Front.I was sick of the shallow, commercial, hypocritical and violent practices of the modern Pride in London, even though I appreciate that it is a gateway for many people into their own transformation, as it has been for myself. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as those who marched in London's first Pride parade in 1972 or witnessed the 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho. Dan Glass is an 'AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP); healthcare and human rights activist, performer, educator and author.

Dan Glass, author of Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History, is here to guide you. Event updates and other information about what's happening at LSE can be found on the LSE's Facebookpage. Glass: United Queerdom is primarily a practical resource designed to strengthen the confidence, competence and commitment of LGBTQIA+ people as they engage with one another across cultures.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. Being ‘unrooted’ because of Section 28 (Margaret Thatcher’s law that led to the ban on the promotion of homosexuality in public institutions between 1988-2003) has catalysed higher rates of anxiety, depression, mental health pathology and suicide in the LGBTQ+ community. 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. 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. Author Dan Glass on the inspiration behind Queer Footprints, a guide to London’s fierce LGBTQ+ history Author, activist and presenter Dan Glass talked to GCN about his new book Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History. Dan Glass, author of Queer Footprints, meets up with Andria Mordaunt from ACT UP to take the viewer on a guided tour of Trafalgar Square.The autobiographical elements came through speaking with my twin sister and finally allowing myself to remember what I went through as a child living under Section 28, the ruthless and barbaric legislation that wiped our identities as queers out of existence.