GLUG seems to be quite popular of late as we’ve also been contacted by the London LGBT Tourist Information office who are opening just around the corner from a the Phoenix. GLUG has supplied promotional material so visitors will have our details made available to them. Below is their press release and a link has been added to our links page.

Mark
(Webmaster)

WHO WE ARE

The Gay Tourist Office will be the first and only, dedicated, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender visitor centre in London. It will also be a vital resource for London’s LGBT residents. We open on 22nd October 2009!

WHAT WE DO

• Friends faces: The centre will have a full and part time staff to guide, direct and advise all comers. They will receive training on LGBT issues, have first-hand experience of all the city has to offer and be able provide all the latest news and recommendations.
• Info: Visitors and residents alike can come into the office to find information. We will have info on hotels and travel services, LGBT magazines and brochures, news on nightlife around town, information on community events, charities and volunteering opportunities, sexual health info, arts and cultural events, relevant maps and guides.
• Services: Guests will be able to get online at our laptop hub and even get themselves a fresh, hot drink or cool beer from the bar.
• Consume: Customers will be able to buy tickets to events and activities, take advantage of theatre deals, enter competitions, pick up free entry flyers/queue jumps and many other perks especially for our visitors with the Visitor Cards.
• Further info: As well as all the latest on gay London we will have all general tourist information specific to London and supporting LGBT work around the country.

Whether you have been here a lifetime or have just stepped off the tube for the first time we will give you a hand on getting around.

We want to show that London’s exciting LGBT life is the best in the world. We will show off what our city has to offer to local, national and international visitors as well as to Londoners old and new.

The community has responded enthusiastically lauding the centre’s arrival. We have been too long without one.

WHY WE DO IT

Fantastic activities happen all year round including Pride London, The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, sports, arts, charity fundraisers, health courses, workshops and educational courses, shopping, leisure events and clubbing so we feel it is important for all the information to be found in one place.
In this way we provide a hub to support the LGBT community and focus the world’s eyes on our freedoms and the rich, diverse, deep and wide-ranging people, services and lifestyles to be found in the city.

Did you know that London has more LGBT visitors than any other city in the world and have more members of the LGBT community living here than anywhere else in Europe.

WHERE WE ARE

We are based in Soho at 30 Lisle Street, WC2H (above KuBar, behind the Vue Cinema and within view of the Leicester Square tube station).
We will be open Monday – Saturday from 12pm to 6pm.
Find out more by:

• Emailing
• Calling Project Manager – Shaun Newport on
• Or visiting our website www.gaytouristoffice.co.uk

WEBSITE

www.gaytouristoffice.co.uk will be a vital resource for anyone planning a trip to London and will also provide news and guidance on LGBT London for locals.
We are opening in challenging times and look forward to working together to maximize opportunities for everyone.
We will be developing and growing over time and will be happy to receive any proposals and initiatives.

LAUNCH NIGHT

We will have special guest at our opening night event with champagne and canapes.

All the best,
Shaun Newport.

GLUG has been contacted by pridelondon.org in relation to the recent, well publicised and fatal homophobic attack in Trafalgar Square.

In response to that incident, and others, pridelondon.org are organising a vigil in Trafalgar Square on Friday 30th October 2009 at 8pm. In addition there is a march through Soho, beginning at Soho Square at 7pm.

Below is the full content of the press release. All information in this post is being supplied as is and on an FYI basis and does not represent any form of official announcement from GLUG or its committee.

Mark