Our queer histories
Join Queer Tours of London's Dan de la Motte and Unity Arts' Lil Warren for this Abney Park focused LGBTQIA+ history tour coordinated by Fringe! to celebrate the stories of queer lives that kept East London alive. This free early afternoon tour will make the perfect prequel to our Fringe! film screenings.Discover the legendary residents of Abney Park Cemetery. The residents 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. Discover the part Stoke Newington played in queer history - 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. Hear about Stokey's contribution to alternative pop culture and new identities in the later part of the 20th Centuryaround Northwold Road (such as Glam Rock star Marc Bolan) and comparisons between the now lost and thankfully still thriving lesbian spaces such as Blush Bar and Vogue Fabrics.
Abney Park Cemetery Trust Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH
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