Saturday 21st February 12-2pm - Celebrating The Food Chain - Honouring our HIV + AIDS ancestors to inspire us today on a walking tour of London.
Ever wanted to learn more about HIV activism? Keen to support and celebrate the movements pioneering healthcare, love and justice for all?
Dan Glass, author of ‘Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History' is here to guide you. For LGBTQIA+ History Month 2026 this special tour educates, informs, inspires and celebrates the amazing legacy and ongoing work of The Food Chain.
The Food Chain is the UK’s only HIV specialist nutrition charity who exist to ensure that people living with HIV can access the nutrition they need to get well, stay well and lead healthy, independent lives. The Food Chain delivers meals and groceries, offers nutrition education and communal eating opportunities to people living with HIV in London and their dependents.
There are very limited spaces so please book early. A table is booked for us at The Duke of Wellington Pub in Soho at the end of the tour :)
Prices: Solidarity £25; Regular ticket £12.50; unwaged/low income: £6. There will be an opportunity to donate more (cash or card) on the walk if people wish to.
PRAISE FOR QUEER FOOTPRINTS PUBLISHED BY PLUTO PRESS - Pre-order here
This electrifying book is an adventure book through London’s untold queer past. Every page is packed with inspiring, moving and downright hilarious secrets just itching to be uncovered - and with the riotously entertaining Dan Glass as your mincing tour guide - you’ll have an absolute blast as you do. A word of warning: after reading this, London will never seem the same again' - Sam Arbor, Film Director
Queer Footprints is your back pocket guide to our queer/LGBTQIA+ histories, full of joy and ammunition to claim without any shame our beautiful queer futures - Tash Walker, host of The Log Books podcast and Co-Chair of Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline (2018 - 2022).
Your guide - Dan Glass is a multi-award-winning popular educator, author, performer, film presenter, ACT UP activist and sexual and healthcare freedom movement-builder. Activist of the Year, campaigning role model and BBC Greater Londoner, Dan founded ‘Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time’, Queer/Trans Muay Thai & Self Defence movement Bender Defenders, re-formed AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) London and founded This is My Culture (TIMC) protest-party. @danglassmincer / alright@theglassishalffull.co.uk
Testimonials
"Dan Glass’ queer walking tour was the best I’ve been on, and a powerful example of what community-led, radical ‘history-telling’ can look like. The tour was politically queer in every sense: from the outset, Dan created a space that felt safe, open, and welcoming. Participants were actively encouraged to share their own experiences and questions, fostering a sense of connection across generations and backgrounds. Dan’s tour simultaneously felt like an act of queer care and resistance.
Dan’s tour balanced rigorous research with a clear passion for and personal investment in the stories he was telling. The tour wasn’t sanitised or superficial — Dan didn’t shy away from difficult questions, and created a space where complexity, emotion, and political urgency were welcomed. I learned so much. I could have spent the whole day walking and learning with Dan." Eleri Watson, Fellow in Queer Studies at Oxford University
