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My main training is with Training for Transformation, an educational project born out of the marriage of the Black Consciousness movement in apartheid South Africa and Paulo Freire’s work around the P edagogy of the O ppressed [and popular education]. 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.
Years of experience as an LGBTQIA+ city tour guide show as Glass gleefully takes you from the sublime, to the ridiculous, from the shocking to the downright camp all in the space of a few streets (and pages). Recognised as 'Activist of the Year' with the Sexual Freedom Awards and announced a 'BBC Greater Londoner' for founding ‘Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time’. He has created London’s new essential anthology of heroic queer histories and the untold stories of queers who built the world's greatest city. 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. Queer Footprints is a toolkit for LGBTQ+ people everywhere to elevate LGBTQ+ solidarity, protest and Pride in their communities.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. One of the key tenets of the educational curriculum is ‘transformation starts with yourself, and then it role-models out’. United Queerdom is most effectively used through interactive participation and action-learning whereby readers are connected with movements outside on the ground.
Share Elodie Harper in conversation with Jennifer Saint at Waterstones Piccadilly with your friends. This is why I say ‘herstory’ because I want to centre a feminist perspective through human-centred stories, that spark the flames for mass transformation for all. It is a howl for retribution from the author’s soul against the institutionalised homophobia legislated in Section 28 that deprived a whole generation from the ability to be themselves.Reading it serves as a reminder that ordinary people do extraordinary things every day… A love letter to queer London reminds us that although we’re not always in the mainstream telling of history, we have always been here. As a grandchild of four Nazi Holocaust survivors I’ve spent my life trying to understand how we can overcome victimhood to generate deep empathy with everyone and the courage to continually fight the system rather than each other.
Join them on a journey through the city's streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of its queer story. It is helpful, however, to question everything if you think that an injustice to one is an injustice to all.
In the last five years alone LGBTQIA+ hate crime has doubled and all minorities are living in fear as BREXIT ushers in a fear-mongering culture of ‘the other’. Sitting around the dinner table surrounded by shelves of enormous books, with page after page of autobiographies connected by train tracks to Auschwitz, gas chambers, concentration camp inmates with ‘Juden’ signs, identity codes for the persecuted including yellow stars for Jews and pink triangles for homosexuals – my heart ached. This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London’s queerstory. It documents and honours extraordinary and everyday struggles for personal and collective freedom, in a city of dreams and nightmares but so many delights! Queer Tours of London started in the smoking area of the Joiner’s Arms club on Hackney Road when we found out it was going to be shut, and this was on top of the closure of Madame Jojo’s, the George and Dragon and the Black Cap and lots of spaces [ 58 percent of queer venues in London closed between 2006 and 2016 ] and we weren’t having it anymore.
War survivors often open up to their grandchildren first; only when they are old do they feel they can be released. My incredible friends Shaun Dunne and Robbie Lawlor inspired me and made me giggle so much during the Q+A, which was packed with pioneering change-makers. This is no self-important history lesson that starts somewhere in the past and leads you date by date to the present. This all leads back to Paulo Freire’s work, the author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed who conceptualised popular education into existence. It was a combination of 200 interviews, and through my activism I was already connected with a lot of the communities – I’ve been active in Aids Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), in the GLF, in the Sexual Avengers and various other movements.From the Brixton Fairies to the Pits and Perverts concert, Rebel Dykes to drag queen communes, Queer Footprints celebrates the hidden histories of struggle and joy. LSE aims to ensure that people have equal access to these public events, but please contact the event's organiser as far as possible in advance if you have any access requirements, so that arrangements, where possible, can be made. Readers will be taken through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London’s queerstory. My friend Ntombi Nyathi, who is at the heart of the popular education Training for Transformation movement, really helped me frame the book and ask critical questions – How do we speak our truths? 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.
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