© Bristol Archives ref. 45281
Joe and Nick of OutStories Bristol will take you on a walking tour of the city centre and tell you some 300+ years of its extraordinary queer history.
Stories include two men sentenced to death in 1753 for sex in the back room of a pub, a “female sailor boy” in the 1850s, lesbian suffragettes in the early 1900s, the pub that was frequented by gays from at least the 1930s, and the first person in the world to undergo full surgical transition from female to male in the 1940s.
Thursday 1st January 2026, 2pm
Starting from Brewdog Bristol,
58 Baldwin Street, BS1 1QW
Map
Meet at 2pm outside Brewdog. The walk is about one mile, includes going up Christmas Steps, and ends near Frogmore Street. It will take about two hours.
The tour is free but donations to OutStories will be appreciated.
For practical and road safety reasons, attendance is limited to 15 people. You must book your place on Eventbrite.
SORRY BUT THIS WALK IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
If you book and then decide to not come, please cancel your booking or let us know so someone else can take your place. contact@outstoriesbristol.org.uk. Thanks.
Image: poster for ‘Avon Pride’ in 1989, a forerunner of the current Bristol Pride.
Credit: Bristol Archives ref. 45281.