An Edinburgh-based tour company is making a significant shift this June by replacing its popular Harry Potter-themed walking tours with LGBTQ+ history tours in observance of Pride Month
I was in Edinburgh early june last year on honeymoon and me and my wife went to a special queer edition of the St Mary’s close tour for pride :) . It was so fun and the tour guide was just so lovely!!
Anyway at the end of the tour she told us that where the regular tours basically sell out every day, the they’ve never sold out a single timeslot for the pride edition in the years that they’ve been offering it.
She was really happy we (8 visitors on a max group size of 20) were there at all. Definitely made me a little sad to hear.
So yeah I’m happy to see this, the city definitely could use more gay shit
Honestly, as a queer person, I don’t know if I’d be excited for a queer tour. There’s enough queer oppression day to day. I don’t know if I’d be excited to hear about it on vacation too. I’m a firm believer in everything being political, but I think it’s ok and probably good to take a vacation from the news every once in a while. I don’t tour slave plantations when I go to Disney despite knowing FL was a slave state (I don’t go to Disney or FL anymore). I feel like it’s ok just to want to be for a bit.
Good on you for going though. Glad to hear it was fun!
Same, same, but different. When I was in Cambodia I skipped the killing fields tours my friends went on. I was on holiday, not looking for a grim tour of historical atrocities.
I get what you’re saying, and definitely to each their own.
In this case I felt like it was people trying to spotlight queer history rather than the regular hetero stories we see all around us every day, and I think that is definitely meaningful.
I was in Edinburgh early june last year on honeymoon and me and my wife went to a special queer edition of the St Mary’s close tour for pride :) . It was so fun and the tour guide was just so lovely!!
Anyway at the end of the tour she told us that where the regular tours basically sell out every day, the they’ve never sold out a single timeslot for the pride edition in the years that they’ve been offering it.
She was really happy we (8 visitors on a max group size of 20) were there at all. Definitely made me a little sad to hear.
So yeah I’m happy to see this, the city definitely could use more gay shit
Honestly, as a queer person, I don’t know if I’d be excited for a queer tour. There’s enough queer oppression day to day. I don’t know if I’d be excited to hear about it on vacation too. I’m a firm believer in everything being political, but I think it’s ok and probably good to take a vacation from the news every once in a while. I don’t tour slave plantations when I go to Disney despite knowing FL was a slave state (I don’t go to Disney or FL anymore). I feel like it’s ok just to want to be for a bit.
Good on you for going though. Glad to hear it was fun!
Same, same, but different. When I was in Cambodia I skipped the killing fields tours my friends went on. I was on holiday, not looking for a grim tour of historical atrocities.
I get what you’re saying, and definitely to each their own.
In this case I felt like it was people trying to spotlight queer history rather than the regular hetero stories we see all around us every day, and I think that is definitely meaningful.