As the UK marks 30 years since the introduction of the of Section 28, which banned the promotion of queer lifestyles in schools – we should all be questioning how much we know about queer liberation history.
So, this year National Student Pride is taking students on a bus tour of London in the most glamorous way – hosted by a queer performer of course.
National Student Pride’s massively discounted bus tour is an exclusive – the route has been made especially for us.
With tickets for the tour only costing £4, there’s no reason why you wouldn’t want to hop on board.
The tour will take students around important education and queer sex landmarks. Whilst Dan de la Motte discusses how LGBT+ rights have progressed since on a fun but informative journey of the UK’s capital city’s queer culture.
Queer Tours of London – A Mince Through Time’s organiser and renowned sex activist Dan Glass says:
‘When we are growing up gay, confused, awkward and hormones a rush – the power of knowing that queer people exist is immeasurable. In an important anniversary year for Section 28 educating LGBTQ+ students about their history when they might still be questioning their identity, tells them that they is OK. That’s why we’re collaborating on the tour’
The tour will tell the stories of London’s queer history, shedding light on the lives, spaces, identities, repression and resistance that form the backdrop of LGBTQ+ lives today.
Hatti Smart from National Student Pride:
‘We are really excited this year to be putting on a bus tour for students from all around the UK to explore their queer history and London. For many student’s this is the first time they’ve been to London or the only opportunity they get, so it will be great for them to see the LGBT+ history in the city.’
The tour, on 11th with take off all around London pointing out the best queer safe spaces, venues and LGBT history that has taken place in the city.
Setting off at 11am Baker Street on Sun 11th the tour is set to be a great queer guide to London for visitors and students living in the city.
The tour will go all around central London, from Baker Street to Buckingham Palace. Every stop will explore different aspects of LGBT history like origins of Pride in Trafalgar Square, the History of the HIV+ epidemic at former hospitals, resistance to ‘Section 28’ in the House of Lords, Queer Dance Halls of the 1930’s, legendary LGBTQI+ nightclubs of the 70’s (Club Bang), spaces for love and sex – from cottaging and cruising to underground lesbian bars and sites of resistance to oppression – how LGBT+ migrants have fought in the House of Lords and ‘Gay Liberation Front’ activists have confronted the medical establishments homophobia – and so much more!
