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Edinburgh Tour Replacing Harry Potter Tours with LGBTQ+ History Walks Because of J.K. Rowling Comments (gayety.com)

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[-] bownage@beehaw.org 13 points 11 hours ago

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 4 points 9 hours ago

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!

[-] dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours 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.

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 16 hours ago

Based.

[-] germanatlas 29 points 16 hours ago

Lol

Lmao even

[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 9 points 13 hours ago

Haha, face those consequences Joanne.

[-] irotsoma 5 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] abbiistabbii 5 points 11 hours ago

Sometimes I fucking love my city.

[-] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 9 points 14 hours ago

Nice!

[-] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 18 points 13 hours ago

TERF Queen wrote the series in Edinburgh and is thought to be inspired by the local architecture in creating Hogwarts.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 12 hours ago

Does it seem that the more you learn about her and the series, the less creative she becomes? More and more it feels like the series became a hit over others out of pure dumb luck

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 12 hours ago

A lot of people get success through dumb luck.

She also wrote something that felt resonant and in a manner where the flawed logic of her universe doesn't make itself readily apparent, which takes some skill.

Part of the problem in creating a canonical universe over a piece of fiction is that it takes a lot more thought to create the world and few people who can create that world can write compelling stores in said world. She wrote a compelling story. That said, a lot of writers can compelling stores that don't get the kind of press that Harry Potter did.