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Events

Queer Footprints at LSE

Hosted by the LSE Library

LSE Library, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, United Kingdom

Speaker

Dan Glass

Author and activist

Chair

Wouter Den Haan

Professor of Economics, LSE

Join us for a day of events planned to celebrate Dan Glass’s new book, Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History, and the 50th Anniversary of Icebreakers — a radical gay group. 

FULLY BOOKED — Queer history walking tour — 9 June, 2pm to 4pm

Join us for a queer history walking tour of Piccadilly, led by Dan Glass. Walkers will meet at the Statue of Eros (closest underground station Piccadilly Circus) for the walk of the queer history of the Piccadilly area and end at LSE Library (closest underground station Holborn) with a short viewing of LSE archives.

SPACES AVAILABLE — Celebratory evening at LSE Library — 9 June, 6pm to 9pm

Join us for an evening of exploring the Hall-Carpenter Archives, a book reading with Dan Glass, and a panel discussion with key groups featured in the book including Gay Liberation Front (GLF), Switchboard, and more!

The celebratory evening will include:

  • Opportunities to explore a curated selection of items from the LSE Library's Hall-Carpenter Archive
  • Readings from Dan Glass, author of Queer Footprints
  • Short panel discussion and Q&A with members of GLF, LSE's Spectrum, and more!
  • Film screening of Naoise Murphy’s film on the GLF and Icebreakers
  • Sharings from Andrew Lumsden, GLF activist and original Gay News editor in tribute to Eric Thompson (1934-2022)
  • Books for sale

Panelists include:

Icebreakers are a radical gay group who created a phone service for LGBTQIA+ people to 'support the breakdown of a rigid gender division in order to liberate gay men and women and establish a new society.'

LSE Library has been home to the Hall-Carpenter Archives since 1988. It’s an extensive collection of archives, ephemera and printed material documenting the development of gay activism in the UK since the 1950s.

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.

Pre-order Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History.

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