WALKING TOUR
Evolution of the occupation of urban spaces by women and LGBTQIA+ people from the 1970s to today

HERITAGE DAYS – 14 & 15 SEPT. 2024
The guided tours link urban and gender issues with the specific experiences of women and LGBTQIA+ people. They show what spaces LGBTQI+ communities have occupied in cosmopolitan Brussels, how places of concentration have moved over time, and why.
The city center particularly rich in evocation allows us to travel through the three phases of displacement of the “rainbow village” from the 1970s to today, or rather the concentration of “lesbian” and “gay” places in the center-city or “queer”, following the evolution of its bars and cafes, or its collective places.
However, we’ll show why this jagged occupation of spaces in the city proved particularly unfavourable to women and other social groups in this 21st century.
We will discover the amplification of LGBTQIA+ urban monuments and symbols, while on the contrary, they remain fragmentary or normatively gendered when it comes to representing women.
Dates : Sat. at 13:00 and Sun. at 9:00 (EN) – (duration: 1 hour 30 minutes).
Also: Sat. at 9:00 and 15:00 and Sun. at 11:00 and 13:00 (FR), and Sat. at 11:00 and Sun. at 15:00 (NL)
Starting point : Galerie Bortier Galerij (entrance via Magdalenastreet) – 1000 Brussels.

Advance booking required (Up to 20 people per tour):
https://heritagedays.urban.brussels/en/programme/brussels/development-of-the-occupation-of-urban-spaces-by-women-and-lgbti-individuals-from-the-1970s-to-the-present-day/