Alex's Queer Lisbon History Tour - and 'Alex's LONG LIST' PDF guide.

Alex's Queer Lisbon History Tour - and 'Alex's LONG LIST' PDF guide. A fun walking tour through the sites and anecdotes of Lisbon's scandalous (sometimes bizarre - always entertaining) q***r history!

And 'Alex's LONG LIST' free PDF guide to LGBTQ Lisbon & Portugal. Hi there - I am a long-time lover of Lisbon, originally from the UK. I have a Master’s degree in LGBTQ cultural studies from the University of Sussex, I organise the ‘Portugal Hiking LGBTQ’ Meetup group in Lisbon, and I have a passion for the personal stories and anecdotes of historic cities. I first came to Lisbon in 1989 after rea

ding an article in ‘Christopher Street’ gay magazine about the 1974 revolution. The writer described his affair with a revolutionary soldier and he asked: 'Could this revolution also bring about a liberation of sexualities?' I had to come here and find out - and today Lisbon is my home! Let me share my experience of Lisbon with you - and ask me about the other urban and rural hikes I'm planning around Lisbon - there are so many fantastic stories to learn...

'Alex's LONG LIST guide to LGBTQ Lisbon & Portugal' has a new section this month (on page 2) , to help you see the new c...
01/03/2026

'Alex's LONG LIST guide to LGBTQ Lisbon & Portugal' has a new section this month (on page 2) , to help you see the new content, social groups and events that have been added this month.

Plus all the regular sections and essential info for q***r life in Portugal:
- Meeting People, Making Friends and Having Fun
- Googlemaps for LGBTQ Portugal
- Scene guide
- Lisbon on a Budget
- Health and Wellness
- Dedicated sections for Women, Trans/non-binary folk, and People of Colour
- Community Support
- Gay Beach Guide
- Literature, Film, Learning Portuguese, LGBTQ media, etc
…and much, much more!

You can read the latest monthly update of 'Alex's LONG LIST' on mobiles and other screens at the link below, or download it as a PDF from the same link (175 pages. 3.4MB)
Have fun with it - and feel free to share 'Alex's LONG LIST' widely.

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/f6351ffa61.html

With Instituto de História Contemporânea – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉
04/02/2026

With Instituto de História Contemporânea – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

Starting this month is a substantial 2026 update to the Free 'Alex's LONG LIST guide to LGBTQ Lisbon & Portugal...
02/02/2026

Starting this month is a substantial 2026 update to the Free
'Alex's LONG LIST guide to LGBTQ Lisbon & Portugal'.

New content (in Lisbon, Porto, and across Portugal) includes [in English]: new social groups, new venues, essential updates, and new events for 2026, including…
…the closure (and planned relocation) of Lisbon’s Shelter Bar; updated events calendar for the year ahead; February’s Carnival and Valentines Day parties/events; news about Lisbon’s new restrictions on street drinking; plus a new social group for ‘LGBTQ+ from Eastern Europe in Portugal‘; the date for June’s ‘Lisbon Pride March’; new content on LGBTQ social networks for people from South Asia; how/where to donate blood in Portugal; the ‘Euforia’ Trans/non-Binary film festival arrives in Portugal; ‘The Fabulous’ women and LGBTQ+ comedy on the first Wed of the month; ‘Factor Q’ is a new q***r feminist community in Margem Sul/Caparica; and, in Porto…...lots of new social activity in Porto, including: confirmed dates for ‘Porto Femme’ women's film festival; ‘Q***rnicPortugal’ for summer picnics in Porto; ‘Porto Connect’ is a new social group for the whole LGBTQIA+ community; ‘Q***r Agenda’ is a new FLINTA group for Porto; the first meeting of ‘Porto Q***r Book Club’ is already booked-up (look out for a parallel English language group coming soon); ‘Bottoms Club’ self-defence classes have a new location in Campanha on Sundays; and…...in other cities & regions of Portugal: ‘Madeira LGBTQIA’ is a brand new social group; ‘Minho Arco-Iris’ a new social group in Esposende; ‘Braga Fora do Armario’ now has two new WhatsApp groups.

Plus all the regular sections, maps and essential info for q***r life in Portugal:
- Meeting People, Making friends and Having Fun
- Googlemaps for LGBTQ Portugal
- Lisbon on a Budget
- Health and Wellness
- Dedicated sections for Women, Trans/Non-Binary folk, and People of Colour
- Community Support
- Gay Beach Guide
- Literature, Film, Learning Portuguese, LGBTQ media, etc...
…and much, much more!

You can read the latest monthly update of 'Alex's LONG LIST' on mobiles and other screens at the link below, or download it as a PDF from the same link (175 pages. 3.4MB).

Have fun with it - and feel free to share 'Alex's LONG LIST' .

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/f6351ffa61.html

TONIGHT (Thursday 22nd Jan), in Bairro Alto: "Entangled Tales, Liveable Lives: Making Q***r History Since the 1960s" - ...
22/01/2026

TONIGHT (Thursday 22nd Jan), in Bairro Alto: "Entangled Tales, Liveable Lives: Making Q***r History Since the 1960s" - Lecture by Prof. Matt Cook + conversation with Odete and André Murraças.
This lecture, aimed at the general public (in English), presents some of the methods, archives, and challenges of the social and cultural history of specific communities. Focusing on q***r, LGBTQIA+, and sexual and gender dissidence history in contemporary times, we propose a reflection on its circulation between memory, archives, academia, art, and public space. https://www.casadocomum.org/entangled-tales-liveable-lives-making-q***r-history-since-the-1960s-palestra-do-prof-matt-cook-conversa-com-odete-e-andre-murracas/

Josephine Baker - Bisexual jazz-legend, exotic dancer at the Follies-Bergère cabaret, World War II spy, hero of France! ...
28/12/2025

Josephine Baker - Bisexual jazz-legend, exotic dancer at the Follies-Bergère cabaret, World War II spy, hero of France!

Come see where the fabulous exotic dancer performed to a packed theatre in 1941, while while operating as a spy for the French and Americans! Lover of Frida Kahlo, the first Black female lead in a Hollywood film, civil rights activist, mother of 12 adopted children - wartime spy, hero of France!

Join 'Alex’s Q***r Lisbon History Tour', to learn more about Lisbon and its fascinating (sometimes bizarre!) q***r history and the people who were flying the rainbow flag before we got here.

A fun half-day walking tour that takes you to historic sites to hear stories that will bring you closer to the city: - 17thCentury cruising sites · Lisbon’s first le***an bar · the Inquisition arresting gay men in the 16thCentury · see where the first drag show started in the 1970s · le***ans battling 1960s censorship · why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r · how Lisbon Pride is different · stories from 19thCentury sex-work · bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker spying in WWII · gay men dodging 1950s crack-downs · 18thCentury le***an nuns · a 19thCentury Trans love story · how LGBT rights were established in Portugal · gay writers, disgraced politicians, q***r pop stars, straight censors... - all this and more!

Know the City!

Suitable for solo-travellers. 3.8km(2.3miles). 3.5 hours. Age:16+. €50.
💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

Maria Caxuxa (1942) 👸🏻💪 “[She is] as strong as an ox, with a moustache, a cigarette in her lips, a scarf tied to her hea...
28/12/2025

Maria Caxuxa (1942) 👸🏻💪
“[She is] as strong as an ox, with a moustache, a cigarette in her lips, a scarf tied to her head and dressed as a woman, but with a male voice, low, even brutal…with the ease and manners of a guy, rolling a cigarette like someone who does it every day… living free - like a man”.

The only woman in the male-dominated industry of the slaughter-house - Maria Caxuxa found a way to live life on her own terms - and she took no prisoners! 🙂‍💪🤦🏽💥

🏳️‍🌈 Learn more about this determined woman and see a new side of Lisbon on 🌈'Alex's Q***r Lisbon History Tour' - a fun walking tour through the sites and stories of the scandalous, sometimes bizarre, always entertaining q***r history! Heart-warming dramas, compelling tragedies, and surprising insights from LGBTQ lives & loves, from the 16thCentury to today.

💥 Highlights include : 17thCentury cruising sites, the Inquisition persecuting gay men, le***ans battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, le***an nuns, why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r, how Lisbon Pride is different, gay men dodging the 1950s police, bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker as a war-time spy, an 18thCentury Trans love story, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag venue opened, gay writers, q***r pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink! 3.8km(2.3miles). 4 hours. Age:16+. Suitable for solo-travellers. €50.

💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

National poet; Literary hero; Self-loathing q***r. 😥 Fernando Pessoa (died 1935) "Oh great pederast - I am one of yours"...
28/12/2025

National poet; Literary hero; Self-loathing q***r. 😥 Fernando Pessoa (died 1935) "Oh great pederast - I am one of yours".

'The Poem That Should Not Have been Written, but that was written'.
"...I love you because I love you, loathing
Myself, and that loathing wounds my love,
With a feeling so completely hurtful,
That the hurt, being a feeling and making me feel,
Yet more, increases the feeling of my wanting you,
Of my being unable to want to be able to have you”.

🏳️‍🌈 To learn more about this Portuguese national hero and his hidden poems of frustrated love for other men (and his hilariously disastrous advertising slogan that resulted in Coca-Cola being banned in Portugal!), join 🌈'Alex's Q***r Lisbon History Tour' - a fun walking tour through the sites and stories of the scandalous (sometimes bizarre), always entertaining q***r history! Heart-warming dramas, compelling tragedies, and surprising insights from LGBTQ lives & loves, from the 16thCentury to today.

💥 Highlights include : 17thCentury cruising sites, the Inquisition persecuting gay men, le***ans battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, le***an nuns, why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r, how Lisbon Pride is different, gay men dodging the 1950s police, bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker as a war-time spy, an 18thCentury Trans love story, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag venue opened, gay writers, q***r pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink!

3.8km(2.3miles). 4 hours. Age:16+. Suitable for solo-travellers. €50.

💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

The three 'species' of 'Fanchonos' in Lisbon's bordello's of the 1800s...👄 🤦🏽 💪 Hard-working male ‘Fanchonos’ in the bor...
28/12/2025

The three 'species' of 'Fanchonos' in Lisbon's bordello's of the 1800s...

👄 🤦🏽 💪 Hard-working male ‘Fanchonos’ in the bordellos (1860s): “Among us… we will only speak of these types: the fanchono by vocation, the fanchono by necessity, and the piggish fanchono”. Despite police raids and prison, nothing intimidated these guys and gals - and no one could stop them singing and partying in the cells! 👏👏❤️ 🎵 👀 💪

🏳️‍🌈 To hear stories from Lisbon’s 19thCentury q***r underworld of se*-work, scandal and resistance, join 🌈'Alex's Q***r Lisbon History Tour' - a fun walking tour through the sites and stories of the scandalous, sometimes bizarre, always entertaining q***r history! Heart-warming dramas, compelling tragedies, and surprising insights from LGBTQ lives & loves, from the 16thCentury to today.

💥 Highlights include : 17thCentury cruising sites, the Inquisition persecuting gay men, le***ans battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, le***an nuns, why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r, how Lisbon Pride is different, gay men dodging the 1950s police, bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker as a war-time spy, an 18thCentury Trans love story, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag venue opened, gay writers, q***r pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink! 3.8km(2.3miles). 4 hours. Age:16+. Suitable for solo-travellers. €50.

💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

'Le***an Games: or The Loves of Joanninha' (1877). A Trans love story with a happy-ever-after! 👸🏻 💪. ‘Os Jogos Lesbios...
28/12/2025

'Le***an Games: or The Loves of Joanninha' (1877). A Trans love story with a happy-ever-after!

👸🏻 💪. ‘Os Jogos Lesbios: ou Os Amores de Joanninha’ – Only a single copy of this novel from 1877 exists today, giving us a surprising story of F2M Trans defiance, self-determination, and ultimately, true love! 💝

🏳️‍🌈 To learn more about the surprising heroine/hero of this unique Portuguese novel, join 🌈'Alex's Q***r Lisbon History Tour' - a fun walking tour through the sites and stories of Lisbon’s scandalous, sometimes bizarre, always entertaining q***r history! Heart-warming dramas, compelling tragedies, and surprising insights from LGBTQ lives & loves, from the 16thCentury to today.

💥 Highlights include : 17thCentury cruising sites, the Inquisition persecuting gay men, le***ans battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, le***an nuns, why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r, how Lisbon Pride is different, gay men dodging the 1950s police, bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker as a war-time spy, an 18thCentury Trans love story, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag venue opened, gay writers, q***r pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink!

3.8km(2.3miles). 4 hours. Age:16+. Suitable for solo-travellers. €50.

💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

The 1974 Homosexual Manifesto. ‘Freedom for Sexual Minorities’ 💪 🏳️‍🌈 💥 ❤️ Initially dismissed by politicians as “...unp...
28/12/2025

The 1974 Homosexual Manifesto. ‘Freedom for Sexual Minorities’ 💪 🏳️‍🌈 💥 ❤️

Initially dismissed by politicians as “...unprecedented immorality in any country where the family and morals still exist as values… the 25th of April [revolution] was not made for prostitutes and homosexuals to claim!”. But this bold statement marks the birth of the modern LGBT-rights movement in Portugal.

🌈 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 To learn more about Portugal's progress in LGBTQ rights over the last 50 years - and how homosexuals (and prostitutes) did finally 'claim the revolution' - join 🌈'Alex's Q***r Lisbon History Tour'. A fun walking tour through the sites and stories of Lisbon’s scandalous (sometimes bizarre), always entertaining, q***r history! Heart-warming dramas, compelling tragedies, and surprising insights from LGBTQ lives & loves, from the 16thCentury to today.

💥 Highlights include : 17thCentury cruising sites, the Inquisition persecuting gay men, le***ans battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, le***an nuns, why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r, how Lisbon Pride is different, gay men dodging the 1950s police, bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker as a war-time spy, an 18thCentury Trans love story, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag venue opened, gay writers, q***r pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink!

3.8km(2.3miles). 4 hours. Age:16+. Suitable for solo-travellers. €50.

💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

Se*s in the shrubbery! Surviving the Dictatorship - with a little help from the unwitting 1950s police. 🍑 🍆 💥 💘 (1953...
28/12/2025

Se*s in the shrubbery! Surviving the Dictatorship - with a little help from the unwitting 1950s police.

🍑 🍆 💥 💘 (1953) Despite severe penalties during the brutal Dictatorship, cruising grounds were one of the few spaces where gay men managed to find each other – and the stupid police embarrassed themselves, while also providing a useful guide to cruising spots across the city! 🙂‍

🌈 ❤️ For more stories of q***r men and women surviving the dark years of the Dictatorship, join 🌈'Alex's Q***r Lisbon History Tour' - a fun walking tour through the sites and stories of Lisbon’s scandalous, sometimes bizarre, always entertaining q***r history! Heart-warming dramas, compelling tragedies, and surprising insights from LGBTQ lives & loves, from the 16thCentury to today.

💥 Highlights include : 17thCentury cruising sites, the Inquisition persecuting gay men, le***ans battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, le***an nuns, why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r, how Lisbon Pride is different, gay men dodging the 1950s police, bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker as a war-time spy, an 18thCentury Trans love story, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag venue opened, gay writers, q***r pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink!

3.8km(2.3miles). 4 hours. Age:16+. Suitable for solo-travellers. €50.

💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

Steamy se*🍆 on Trumpet Street; 'Mr Ganymedes'; and the 'Two Fernandes' --- Three stories of se*-scandal, secret love-nes...
28/12/2025

Steamy se*🍆 on Trumpet Street; 'Mr Ganymedes'; and the 'Two Fernandes' --- Three stories of se*-scandal, secret love-nests, and fun times – all in one Lisbon street! 🔑 🍑 🍆 💥

🌈 Bairro Alto’s ‘Rua do Trombeta’ [Trumpet Street] contains stories of 19th Century rent boys, was the setting of a scandalous q***r novel (1906), and is today the home of Lisbon's largest gay sauna!

🌈'Alex's Q***r Lisbon History Tour' takes you on a fun walking tour through the sites and stories of Lisbon’s scandalous, sometimes bizarre, always entertaining q***r history! Heart-warming dramas, compelling tragedies, and surprising insights from LGBTQ lives & loves, from the 16thCentury to today.

💥 Highlights include : 17thCentury cruising sites, the Inquisition persecuting gay men, le***ans battling 1960s censorship, stories from 19thCentury sex-work, le***an nuns, why ‘Fado’ is a bit q***r, how Lisbon Pride is different, gay men dodging the 1950s police, bisexual jazz-legend Josephine Baker as a war-time spy, an 18thCentury Trans love story, who were the ‘Two Fernandes’, how LGBT rights were established in Portugal, see where the first drag venue opened, gay writers, q***r pop stars, straight censors, disgraced politicians - all this and more until we end with a social drink!

3.8km(2.3miles). 4 hours. Age:16+. Suitable for solo-travellers. €50.

💝 For next dates and times, see :
www.tickettailor.com/events/alextoursevents

Endereço

Rua General Massano De Amorim, 11/3E
Lisbon
1300-322

Horário de Funcionamento

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Terça-feira 08:00 - 22:30
Quarta-feira 08:00 - 22:30
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