Best Gay Heritage in London

Alan Turing Blue Plaque (Warrington Crescent)

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Alan Turing Blue Plaque (Warrington Crescent)

Camden

Blue plaque at the Warrington Crescent flats where mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing was born in 1912 — a modest marker to the man whose 1952 gross-indecency conviction became the defining…

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A Conversation with Oscar Wilde

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A Conversation with Oscar Wilde

Soho

Maggi Hambling's 1998 bronze bench-sculpture of Oscar Wilde — the first public statue of a gay man in London, sited between St Martin-in-the-Fields and Trafalgar Square.

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Old Compton Street — Soho Queer Heartland

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Old Compton Street — Soho Queer Heartland

Soho

The Soho spine of London queer nightlife since the 1970s — pedestrianised, rainbow-crossings-marked, and still the site of the annual Pride march's Old Compton Street gathering.

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King´s Cross

The UK's oldest LGBTQ+ counselling and support charity — founded in 1971 out of the Gay Liberation Front, operating continuously ever since.

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Bishopsgate Institute — Hall-Carpenter Archives

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Bishopsgate Institute — Hall-Carpenter Archives

Shoreditch / East End

The largest LGBTQ+ archive in the UK — Hall-Carpenter Archives, held since 1982 at the Grade II-listed Bishopsgate Institute near Liverpool Street.

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Gay's the Word

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Gay's the Word

King´s Cross

The UK's oldest LGBTQ+ bookshop — open at 66 Marchmont Street since 1979, subject of the 1984-5 Operation Tiger customs raid and central to the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign…

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Radclyffe Hall's Grave — Highgate Cemetery

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Radclyffe Hall's Grave — Highgate Cemetery

Camden

The Grade I-listed Victorian cemetery where writer Radclyffe Hall (The Well of Loneliness, 1928) is buried in a mausoleum shared with her partner Mabel Batten.

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Highbury Fields — First UK Gay Rights Demonstration

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Highbury Fields — First UK Gay Rights Demonstration

King´s Cross

Site of Britain's first gay rights demonstration — the Gay Liberation Front's torchlight rally of November 27, 1970 — marked by a plaque since 2000.

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