7 clubs and groups you can join, with training nights, fees and the beginner route into each.
Two qualified Lambeth Tour Guides walking the borough's queer history: Brixton's heroes and villains, Vauxhall, Kennington's pride and protests, a Clapham Valentine's walk. Clare marched against Clause 28 and sat on the Pride organising committee; Adrian has lived the area's gay life for 35 years. £15 a walk.
Beginners
Running since 1994, with around a hundred member-led events a year since 1998, and the club says its membership grew to around 350 with almost equal numbers of men and women. £14 a year, £20 joint, £8 concession, by standing order from 1 August and pro rata by quarter mid-year. The dated calendar goes to members; the public 2026 list shows the South East months.
The London group of GOC, the national LGBTQI+ outdoors charity founded on 9 July 1974. Around 475 members, at least one walk a month, generally the third Saturday, with extra first-Saturday walks in summer and some shorter midweek ones. Every walk starts and finishes at a railway station and ends with tea and cake or a beer. Membership from £8.50 a year, and you need it to see the meeting points.
Sat · Beginners
Traces itself to the first walk for gay men and women in March 1972; the club as it exists now dates from December 1997. At least two walks a month, a half-day walk of 3 to 6 miles in a green part of Greater London and a full-day walk of 7 to 12 miles within about an hour's train ride, on Saturdays as well as Sundays. £12 a year, any age, and the meeting details come by email.
Free · Beginners
A charity running over 1,500 events a year for the gay, bi and trans community across the UK. Registering is free and puts two £12.50 coupons on your account, enough for two day walks; after that a day walk is £12.50 pay as you go or free with full membership at £65 a year. In London the fixture is weekly bouldering, Thursday evenings in Bermondsey and Saturday mornings in central London, with no event fee.
Thu, Sat, Sun · Free · Beginners
A free monthly walk inside London run by the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre on Hopton Street, usually the first Sunday. This year's routes have included the River Lea, Richmond Park and Epping Forest. The route and meeting spot arrive by Eventbrite email nearer the time, and the walk sets off no more than ten minutes after the start. Open to all.
Sun · Free · Beginners
Public walking tours of queer London by Nick Collinson, a City of London Guide who specialises in queer history: Soho's sex, scandal and subculture one month, Bloomsbury's art, affairs and arrests after dark the next. £25 a walk, booked on his site, with private walks for groups.
Beginners
New clubs, changed training nights, and the occasional weekend. No more than that.
A weekend away with a group of gay men, and nothing to prove.