A Guide to Liverpool's LGBTQ+ Spaces

Queer Places: A Guide to Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ Spaces, Past, Present and Future is a creative, archival journey through the city’s rich and often overlooked queer history. Blending personal stories, community memory, historic research and artistic recreations of the spaces we have lost to history, the book maps the spaces where LGBTQ+ life has flourished, struggled, survived and celebrated. From vanished bars and grassroots venues to present-day safe spaces and imagined futures, Queer Places documents how queer people have shaped the city — not always by building, but by inhabiting, claiming and transforming space. Designed as both a guidebook and a call to action, this book invites readers to reflect on how our past informs our future — and how we can protect and reimagine the spaces we need to thrive.