"Queer Footprints" by Dan Glass - Book Tour Berlin Date

About the book:

This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London’s queerstory. 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. Accompanied by a chorus of voices of both iconic and unsung legends of the movement, readers can walk through East, West, South and North London, dipping into beautifully illustrated maps and extraordinary tales of LGBTQIA+ solidarity, protest and pride. The shadows of gentrification, policing, homophobia and racism are time and again resisted. 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.

About the event:

Join author Dan Glass on the Berlin date of his 2023 book tour. Dan will read from the book & discuss it with Curious Fox's David Gordon & Szymon Adamczak of Make Poland Queer Again. Following this conversation, the floor will be open to questions from audience.

The event is free, but we will be collecting donations for Make Poland Queer Again.

https://makepolandqueeragain.wordpress.com/

As places are limited we ask interested parties to only reserve a free ticket if they are certain they will attend.

https://www.theglassishalffull.co.uk/activism

Dan will also be joined by Szymon Adamczak of "Make Poland Queer Again). Szymon (1991, he/his, PL/NL) is a queer dramaturg, writer, theatre and performance maker working across disciplines. He has a vital interest in HIV-related culture and transnational queer activism. Alum of DAS Theatre and a current fellow of THIRD, a program for artist-researchers offered by DAS Research. As a dramaturg he specializes in designing of artistic processes, non-verbal, intimate and documentary work. In his own creations, Szymon weaves poetic imagination, visual sensitivity, theory and physical performance. He works now as an artistic coordinator of IPOP, a practice-based, research and workshop oriented program fostering queer education at the Academy of Theatre and Dance inAmsterdam. Szymon lives in the Netherlands and volunteers for Hiv Vereniging.

Currently he is developing a body of research, workshops and lectures in relation to Bob Mellors, a co-founder of Gay Liberation Front UK, his life and activism, and ultimately tragic death in Warsaw in 1995. This project is supported by the City of Warsaw scholarship for 2023. First iteration of the project is a short film called “The Soldier’s Tale” presented within Queerstories program for Polish and Ukrainian queer artists.