Queer Heritage Walk

Join historian Ladislav Jackson from the Society for Queer Memory for a guided walk through Prague’s queer past. Following a route along Národní Avenue and Wenceslas Square, the tour explores sites connected to queer history from the nineteenth century to the year 2000.

Along the way, we will visit places linked to the lesbian festival Apriles of the 1990s, the first editorial office of Hlas sexuální menšiny (The Voice of the Sexual Minority), and the celebrated salon of queer designer Oldřich Rosenbaum. We will trace the footsteps of Allen Ginsberg during his 1965 visit to Prague, discover where Prague’s golden queer youth once gathered, and explore the locations of the legendary T-Club and the Rostov bar, which was monitored by the communist secret police.

The tour will also revisit the famous Šroubek/Europa café and hotel, which survived every regime change of the twentieth century, uncover the history of the Koruna Baths, and reveal the location of the notorious cruising spot known as the Red Devil.

Meeting point: Historic Building, Střelecký Island No. 336

Entrance fee – free

Accessibility – suitable also for teenagers, accessible with a dog, barrier-free

Vibe check – small event (approx. 30 people), quiet (no loud music, shouting, etc.), outdoors

Organized by – The Society for Queer Memory
The Society for Queer Memory is a non-governmental non-profit organisation dedicated to collecting, preserving, researching, and promoting the history of queer people in the Czech lands. Its collections comprise a museum with a unique archive of materials documenting queer lives (including an oral history collection), an archive of personal and organisational records, and a specialised library containing both contemporary literature and periodicals as well as valuable historical publications. The Society makes its collections, archives, and library accessible to researchers.