Queer History walking tour of Abney Park
Join Queer Tours of London's Dan De La Motte and Unity Arts' Lil Warren for this Abney Park focussed LGBTQIA+ history tour to celebrate the eve of London Pride 2024 and the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in 1969.
About This Event
Discover the legendary residents of Abney Park Cemetery (location for Amy Winehouse's Back to Black video and the upcoming BBC adaptation of Bernadine Evaristo's Mr Loverman). The character s buried here include pioneering drag kings and other doyennes of Music Hall and a Harlem Renaissance writer who hung out with Langston Hughes. Learn about the secret codes within fan dancing and Polari (queer rhyming slang) and the all-important difference between cottaging and cruising. Learn the significance of Stokey Town Hall in relation to the ‘Pits and Perverts Support the Miners’ campaign in the 1980s, and the lesbian suffragettes associated with Stoke Newington Library. MEETING POINT: Stoke Newington Church Street entrance to Abney Park. You can book your ticket by clicking here or by visiting: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/abneyparktrust/1279811
Accessibility Information
This is an outdoor event. Please wear sensible footwear. Some of the terrain enroute might not be leveled.
