Friends!
To mark LGBT History Month, THLP LGBT-Labour invites you to join us as we wander off the beaten track in search of lesser-known spaces of queer interest in and around Tower Hamlets. Come for an exploratory evening ramble through the east end, where we'll start off with some of the historic hostelries of Limehouse, before wending our way up through shimmering Shoreditch past queer haunts old and new, past and present, becoming and unbecoming, to end up who knows where.
The evening is ...
Friends!
To mark LGBT History Month, THLP LGBT-Labour invites you to join us as we wander off the beaten track in search of lesser-known spaces of queer interest in and around Tower Hamlets. Come for an exploratory evening ramble through the east end, where we'll start off with some of the historic hostelries of Limehouse, before wending our way up through shimmering Shoreditch past queer haunts old and new, past and present, becoming and unbecoming, to end up who knows where.
The evening is about connecting the LGBT community of Tower Hamlets (and their friends and admirers) to our latent, sometimes hidden, shared sociocultural history, by highlighting the physicality of that history - extant in the spaces and structures which both bound and facilitate the lived experience of community queerness - but also the liminality of that history in the face of social and economic forces which elide or repurpose queer spaces past and present and, by so doing, force us to unearth our own histories in the contested conjunctures of memory and the cityscape.
Join us to live that liminality and feel that physicality as we inhabit, encounter and assert queer space in Tower Hamlets together over the course of a fun and friendly Friday night on Feb 26th. The plan is to spend about an hour per venue, and there’ll be some walking and possibly DLR-ing. All welcome, bring a friend. There will be a voluntary donation of £5 per person, the proceeds of which will go to Tower Hamlets Labour Party in support of Sadiq Khan’s London Mayoral campaign.
The plan is as follows:
>7pm: MEET at Limehouse DLR station
>7ish to 8pm: The Grapes
>8-9pm: The Ship
>9-10pm: The White Swan
>10-11ish: Reminiscence ramble towards Shoreditch (stopping for swift halfs as required)
>11pm-12am: Mystery Venue
>Midnight: The Queen Adelaide
Come along at 7pm or join at any point in the night! For those who want to join later and need to find us you can call me on 07848 696953.
Owen
THLP LGBT Officer
