From Prejudice to Pride

This walk takes in London’s legacy of Molly Houses, Victorian cross-dressers and the notorious and much policed watering holes of the Bohemian demimonde of the 1920s and 30s. Learn about the theatre which was the vanguard of lesbian and gay drama and London’s only LGBT bookshop.  Hear about the long struggle against the notorious gross indecency laws. Meet the talented writers and artists of the Bloomsbury Set who challenged Victorian codes of behavior the great comic genius and master of Polari Kenneth Williams. Hear about how the LGBT community rallied together to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s.  Witness the struggle against the hated Section 28 and the site of Britain’s first Same Sex weddings.