London · Walking tour

Chelsea & South Kensington – Against the Current

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These streets hold some of the most individual LGBT stories in London – a playwright who stayed when he should have run, a writer who never cleaned his flat, two artists who lived and worked together for half a century, and the most significant artistic space in twentieth-century British art. A walk through what it meant to live a queer life openly in one of London’s wealthiest neighbourhoods.

4 stops

• 1 34 Tite Street – Oscar Wilde’s House · 1884–1895
• 2 129 Beaufort Street – Quentin Crisp’s Flat · 1940–1981
• 3 The Vale – Ricketts and Shannon · 1880s–1931
• 4 7 Reece Mews – Francis Bacon’s Studio · 1961–1992

Part of LGBT History UK