Please be prompt to meet up with the Tourguide.

Special group tours may be arranged at other times,
subject to the availability of a Tourguide

• the minimum number for a special tour is 10
• an advance payment is required, of £50
• groups of 15 or more get a £1 reduction per head (i.e. £4 per person)

  To arrange a special tour please contact us

Some of our current tour guides at KiS

If you are interested in Lesbian & Gay history come and join our team who show international tourists and locals the historic aspects of the queerest part of town.

As a volunteer tour guide you will:

• become part of a fun & friendly team
• learn loads of fascinating facts about lesbian & gay history
• meet interesting people from all over the world
• ensure that our history is not lost
• help raise funds for the work of Kairos in Soho

Recently I lead my first walking tour of Lesbian & Gay Soho. I had been supplied with a scripted route, but the strength of the walks is that each guide brings their personal style and interpretation.

As an experienced guide and avid researcher, expanding material on one of London's most vibrant - and gay - areas proved irresistible.

Learning about the lives of past gay Soho habitués, I soon realised that oppression could easily become the dominant force, therefore I wanted to include a balance of light heartedness and optimism. The group were amused to hear about, Geoffrey, receptionist and 'pot-man' at the 'A&B' - Arts and Battledress Club in Rupert Court, who through the 1960s and 70s entertained members with his collection of exotic hats.

They listened intently to the story of Hannah Gluckstein, openly lesbian daughter of the founding family of Lyons Corner House, who dressed as a man and styled simply as 'Gluck' was a successful painter in the 1930s. And they expressed their enjoyment at searching the mosaic floor laid by a protégé of the Bloomsbury Group in the entrance to the National Gallery, to find a reclining Greta Garbo as the 'Muse of Tragedy'.