Alex's Queer Lisbon History Tour – half-day walking tour: scene and history

Every Tuesday and Saturday (+ special Fri 13th June for EuroPride Lisbon 2025), this fun event gives you inside knowledge about Queer Lisbon with stories from the scandalous (sometimes bizarre!) queer history of the city.  The sociable half-day walking tour introduces you to a different side of Lisbon by visiting historic sites to hear stories from LGBTQ lives in the places where they happened.  You'll hear heart-warming and dramatic anecdotes from queer history, meet fellow-travellers, and pass many of today's scene venues as we tour through Lisbon's queer lives and loves - from the 16thCentury to today's active scene.  

Highlights include - 17thCentury cruising sites, plans for 'EuroPride 2025', how the Inquisition dealt with gay men, lesbians battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, why ‘Fado’ is a bit queer, how Portuguese Pride events are different, 1950s gay men dodging the police, how bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker was a spy in WWII, an 18thCentury Trans love story, 19thCentury lesbian nuns, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag shows started, gay writers, queer pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink.  And we pass by Lisbon’s main bars and clubs to hear about scene opening times, suggestions for days/nights out, women’s spaces, cabaret/drag venues, LGBT rights and drug laws in Portugal, saunas/sex venues etc, etc.

And get your free PDF copy of 'Alex's LONG LIST - Guide to LGBTQ Lisbon & Portugal' - over 120 pages of updated inside knowledge, as a downloadable PDF and readable on mobiles as a FlipBook.  (Lisbon’s LGBTQ venues, Map of LGBTQ Lisbon, Gay Beach Guide, Lisbon on a budget, Women’s groups, Trans-friendly spaces, Across Portugal (Porto, Algarve, Other cities), etc, etc   - everything you need to make the most of your time in Lisbon).

3.8km(2.3miles).  4 hours.  Age:16+.  Suitable for solo-travellers.  €40.  

Meeting point: (at 10:00) in the garden square of Principe Real; Outside number 18, Praça do Príncipe Real, 1200-230, Lisboa; by the children's play corner.    Googlemaps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/XAp899ch94EuBksA6

  We are easy to find – just look for the Rainbow Umbrella!

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'Alex's Lisbon Tours and Events' is insured and registered with Turismo de Portugal.

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