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My Gay Tour in Dublin
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Dublin’s LGBTQ+ story runs deeper than most visitors expect. Ireland was the last country in Western Europe to decriminalise homosexuality - that happened in 1993 - and yet by 2015 it became the first in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote. The gap between those two dates is where the real story lives, and this private three-hour walking tour tells it with a guide who knows the city and its history from the inside.
You choose your route at booking. The Dublin Classic Tour takes you through the city’s contemporary queer scene and its deeper roots, finishing with entrance to the Guinness Storehouse - seven floors of brewing history that culminate in a pint at the Gravity Bar, 46 metres above the streets with a 360-degree panorama stretching to the Dublin Mountains and Howth Head.
The Gay Tour and Oscar Wilde’s Secrets follows a different thread. You’ll trace Wilde’s Dublin over three hours - from Merrion Square, where a colourful statue of him reclining on a rock was unveiled in 1997 near his childhood home at number 1, to the streets around Trinity College, where he studied as a young man. Your guide fills in what a plaque can’t: the lived context of Wilde’s city, his time at Trinity, and the world he eventually left behind. Entrance to Trinity College is included.
Both tours are private, conducted in English, and begin at 47-48 Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Dublin held its first Gay Pride march in 1983, a full decade before homosexuality was decriminalised here. That contradiction is part of what makes the city’s LGBTQ+ history so layered, and a guide who lived through that era brings context no guidebook can give you.
The George on South Great George’s Street opened in 1985, eight years before gay sex was legal in Ireland. It’s one of the oldest surviving gay bars in the city, and PantiBar on Capel Street - run by Panti Bliss, who became a nationally prominent voice during the marriage equality campaign - is the other essential address your guide will likely reference.
If you’re taking the Classic Tour, time the Guinness Storehouse for the morning. The Gravity Bar holds up to 500 people and gets busy by midday. The views to the Dublin Mountains and Howth Head are at their clearest in morning light.
The Oscar Wilde statue in Merrion Square is made from stones sourced across three continents, including green nephrite jade from Canada and pink thulite from Norway. It’s worth slowing down to look closely before your guide moves on - the detail in the figure is remarkable.
Temple Bar gets crowded quickly as the morning goes on, so meeting your guide early works in your favour. Dublin is a compact city and most of what this tour covers is walkable from the quays.