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This weekend when many would usually march through London for Pride in London, we're taking you on a virtual tour of London's Blue Plaques with a series of LGBTQ stories from history #Pride 
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A THREAD
#PrideInLondon #YouMeUsWe A THREAD
Virginia Woolf moved to Fitzrovia in 1907. 
Her daring but playful novel 'Orlando' unravelled socially accepted categories of gender and sexuality - and is dedicated to the writer Vita Sackville-West, with whom she had fallen in love three years earlier. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sbc0
Her daring but playful novel 'Orlando' unravelled socially accepted categories of gender and sexuality - and is dedicated to the writer Vita Sackville-West, with whom she had fallen in love three years earlier. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sbc0
Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West laid the foundation for their literary careers in Belgravia. Their marriage turned to one of affectionate companionship after numerous homosexual affairs. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9se3d
The influential economist John Maynard Keynes was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group. He met the painter Duncan Grant in 1908, leading to a passionate affair that lasted for several years. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9se8n
It was in Holland Park where novelist and poet Radclyffe Hall lived with her partner Una. When Radclyffe's lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was published, it caused a scandal and was quickly banned in Britain. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sebs
Novelist EM Forster lived in Turnham Green until his death in 1970. He was inspired to write 'Maurice', a novel about homosexual love, after visiting the early gay rights advocate Edward Carpenter and his partner George Merrill. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sedt
He was inspired to write 'Maurice', a novel about homosexual love, after visiting the early gay rights advocate Edward Carpenter and his partner George Merrill. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sedt
The writer and poet Siegfried Sassoon is commemorated with a blue plaque in Holland Park. 
He had come to understand his own sexuality partly from reading the book 'The Intermediate Sex', which made a case for social acceptance of same-sex relationships. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sef8
He had come to understand his own sexuality partly from reading the book 'The Intermediate Sex', which made a case for social acceptance of same-sex relationships. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sef8
To Covent Garden now, where composer Ivor Novello lived for 38 years above the Strand Theatre. 
One of his brilliant shows, 'King's Rhapsody', starred the actor Bobbie Andrews, his life partner, who he first met in 1916. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sev5
One of his brilliant shows, 'King's Rhapsody', starred the actor Bobbie Andrews, his life partner, who he first met in 1916. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sev5
A blue plaque commemorates the birthplace of codebreaker, Alan Turing, in Maida Vale. Unlike many gay men of the time, he was open about his sexuality. However, in 1952 he was prosecuted for his relationship with another man and later committed suicide. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sf3r
Across the river in Southwark, Derek Jarman is commemorated with a blue plaque. The film-maker and gay rights activist became a major cultural figure in the late 1980s - and was one of the first public figures to talk openly about being HIV positive. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sf6j
The composer Benjamin Britten is commemorated with a blue plaque in Kensington - though he is more readily associated with Suffolk, where he and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears lived together and created the famous music festival. https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sfu7
https://cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce53ymg8s/9sfu7
Read more LGBTQ stories associated with some of London's blue plaques. 
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/blue-plaque-stories/lgbtq-plaques/
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/blue-plaque-stories/lgbtq-plaques/
