An evening with Dan Glass - hosted talk + social

For Pride Month 2024, KPMG have come together once again with Journey, the LGBTQ+ network for the transport industry, to host a social and networking event on Wednesday 12 June for LGBTQ+ colleagues working across the transport industry. This will be an opportunity to meet people from different organisations, socialise over a drink and hear from LGBTQ+ leaders across the sector – and while transport will be the focus, everyone is welcome.

After successful events about the trans experience of aviation and queer expression on the 1970s London underground, we will now be exploring LGBTQ+ history and activism both from and surrounding the transport industry in London. We will be welcoming Dan Glass, who will, through the lens of the writing within his book 'Queer Footprints - A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History', trace us through the footprints of local queer presence from past into present, looking at the ways in which local groups are now fighting to preserve community, and the significant challenges of carving out space for queer living in the future.

Dan Glass' Biography

Dan Glass is an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist, performer, presenter and writer. He has been recognised as Attitude Magazine’s 'campaigning role models for LGBTQI youth', a Guardian ‘UK youth climate leader’, 2017 'Activist of the Year' with the 'Sexual Freedom Awards' and was announced a 'BBC Greater Londoner' in 2019 for founding 'Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time.’ His book United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow was the Observer book of the week and new book Queer Footprints - a Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History is out now. As an artist and facilitator with the In Place of War global network he uses creativity in places of conflict as a tool for positive change and is an international trainer with Training for Transformation and Beautiful Trouble.