I was in Edinburgh early june last year on honeymoon and me and my wife went to a special queer edition of the St Mary's close tour for pride :) . It was so fun and the tour guide was just so lovely!!

Anyway at the end of the tour she told us that where the regular tours basically sell out every day, the they've never sold out a single timeslot for the pride edition in the years that they've been offering it.

She was really happy we (8 visitors on a max group size of 20) were there at all. Definitely made me a little sad to hear.

So yeah I'm happy to see this, the city definitely could use more gay shit

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly, as a queer person, I don't know if I'd be excited for a queer tour. There's enough queer oppression day to day. I don't know if I'd be excited to hear about it on vacation too. I'm a firm believer in everything being political, but I think it's ok and probably good to take a vacation from the news every once in a while. I don't tour slave plantations when I go to Disney despite knowing FL was a slave state (I don't go to Disney or FL anymore). I feel like it's ok just to want to be for a bit.

Good on you for going though. Glad to hear it was fun!

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago

I get what you're saying, and definitely to each their own.

In this case I felt like it was people trying to spotlight queer history rather than the regular hetero stories we see all around us every day, and I think that is definitely meaningful.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same, same, but different. When I was in Cambodia I skipped the killing fields tours my friends went on. I was on holiday, not looking for a grim tour of historical atrocities.

[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

They're still considering starting them back up again after pride month.

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago

Apparently it's only during Pride Month: [t]he Harry Potter tours are set to resume after June (source: Pink News).

[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

Nice!

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

Haha, face those consequences Joanne.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

I mean it's just one tour company, but good to see that the winds are blowing in that direction finally.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago

Heinous loser stays losing

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Sometimes I fucking love my city.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

What's a Harry Potter connection in Edinburgh? The quiddich world cup?

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What a pity. The first book, and film, were great, mixing dark, fun, and morals. Somewhat in a Grimm Brothers way, somewhat in a magical way. How far has JKR fallen since 🙍

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In fairness its quite possible she hasn't fallen since. She could have always been this much of a miserable loser, just didn't have the platform or a vocal opposition

[–] irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, there are those that thought HP was dishwater from the jump...