Humanists UK:
Lead Me Into Temptation, Please: LGBT Summer Fair

Join us for a summery day of performances, workshops, talks, market stalls, an exhibition, and more! The historic spaces of Conway Hall will be transformed into an LGBT festival, inspired by the annual fairs hosted LGBT Humanists in the 1980s. Join us for music, art showcases, and a whole lot of fun!

Enjoy the brightest and best of the creative LGBT community in London, with activities throughout the day and night. From workshops to presentations, they will invite you to enjoy creativity and discussion, exploring how we can be inspired by our LGBT heritage, especially the examples of LGBT humanism found in our Picturing Nonconformity exhibition.

Performances will range from the London Humanist Choir’s rendition of LGBT non-religious music to a poet’s response to archival records of LGBT Humanists engaging in topics of race and international politics.

We will be celebrating the 45th anniversary of LGBT Humanists, whose bestselling t-shirts from the 1990s have inspired our fair’s title. In the 1980s, LGBT Humanists (then known as the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association) teamed up with the Campaign for Homosexual Equality to organise annual fairs at Conway Hall, complete with stalls, entertainments and refreshments. Now we return to Conway Hall with all these activities and more!

This event is organised as part of LGBT strands of the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project ‘Humanist Heritage: Doers, Dreamers, Place Makers’, coordinated by Humanists UK in partnership with Conway Hall.

Age Recommendation: All ages. Under 16s may need to be accompanied by an adult.

Price: Standard £3

Access Information

Due to the age and Grade Il listing of the building, there is no lift access to rooms above the ground floor.

All the ground-floor rooms are fully accessible by wheelchair. Main Hall (street access, step-free), Brockway Room (street access, step-free), Bertrand Russell Room (street access, shallow ramp), Hive Cafe (street access, step-free), There is also an accessible toilet on the ground floor opposite the Brockway Room.