London · Walking tour

LGBTQ+ Blue Plaques

London’s official blue plaques mark the homes and haunts of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people who shaped our culture – writers, artists, composers, codebreakers and performers. This trail gathers every plaque in English Heritage’s LGBTQ series, from Oscar Wilde’s Chelsea to Alan Turing’s Maida Vale, Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury and Freddie Mercury’s Feltham.

23 stops

1 John Gielgud · 1904–2000
2 Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson · 1892–1962 · 1886–1968
3 34 Tite Street – Oscar Wilde’s House · 1884–1895
4 Frederick Ashton · 1904–1988
5 Gateways Club · 1930s–1985
6 7 Reece Mews – Francis Bacon’s Studio · 1961–1992
7 Benjamin Britten · 1913–1976
8 Rudolf Nureyev · 1938–1993
9 Ivy Compton-Burnett · 1884–1969
10 Terence Rattigan · 1911–1977
11 Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson · 1862–1932
12 Radclyffe Hall
13 Siegfried Sassoon · 1886–1967
14 Lansdowne House · 1900s–
15 Alan Turing · 1912–1954
16 Kenneth Williams · 1926–1988
17 Virginia Woolf · 1882–1941
18 Charles Laughton · 1899–1962
19 Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant · 1879–1961 · 1885–1978
20 John Maynard Keynes · 1883–1946
21 Lytton Strachey’s Former Home · 1921–1932
22 Ivor Novello – 11 Aldwych · 1913–1951
23 W. Somerset Maugham · 1874–1965

Part of LGBT History UK