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# PREVIEW: Charleston launches Queer House Tours on Queens birthday
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/charleston-launches-queer-house-tours-on-queens-birthday/
- Published: 2019-05-02T13:28:30.000Z
- Updated: 2019-05-07T17:59:59.000Z
- Description: Charleston’s new Queer House Tours launch on Saturday, June 8, offering visitors the chance to discover Charleston’s groundbreaking queer history with an expert guide.
- Author: Besi

## [Charleston’s](http://www.charleston.org.uk/queerbloomsbury?ref=scenemag.co.uk) new *Queer House Tours* launch on Saturday, June 8, offering visitors the chance to discover Charleston’s groundbreaking queer history with an expert guide.

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**THE tours will** form part of an LGBT+ day of celebration – visitors are encouraged to bring a picnic and enjoy a range of free activities, as well as to explore the garden, café, galleries and walks in the surrounding area.

Visitors will also be invited to participate in a chaired discussion about developing a Queer Bloomsbury programme at [Charleston](http://www.charleston.org.uk/queerbloomsbury?ref=scenemag.co.uk) beginning with contributions from writers **Kuchenga**, **Jane Traies**, and performance artist **Nando Messias**, asking *What do our communities need now in terms of engaging with radical queer art? How do we inspire radical young queers, the Bloomsbury group of tomorrow?*

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Other activities on the day include Bloomsbury group inspired dressing up with **Gladrags**, live music by **Hannah Brackenbury**, and Queer Tours of Charleston’s current exhibition *In Colour – Sickert to Riley* led by curator **Dr Darren Clarke**.

[Charleston](http://www.charleston.org.uk/queerbloomsbury?ref=scenemag.co.uk) has an incredible LGBT+ history, having been home to the Bloomsbury group – a largely queer group of artists, writers and thinkers that included, among others, **Virginia Woolf**, **Duncan Grant** and **John Maynard Keynes**.

Together, the Bloomsbury group forged a new way of living at Charleston in the early 20th century, with the house acting as a space of freedom where love and friendship, pacifism, atheism, and other diverse ways of living were actively embraced.

Queer Tours will run every 15 minutes from 11.30am – 4.00pm on June 8.

After June 8, Queer Tours will be available to book as an extended House Tour.

Queer House Tours Ticket Price: £10

**To book online, click [here:](https://www.charleston.org.uk/event/queer-house-tours/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

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