If you plan to attend a tour(s), purchase your ticket while registering for the SSSP Annual Meeting. If you have already registered and would like to purchase a ticket(s), contact the IT Specialist directly.

SSSP is pleased to offer two social justice themed walking tours in conjunction with Beyond the Bell Tours. Both tours are wheelchair accessible .

Beyond the Bell Tours is committed to putting the people back in people’s history. They have created inclusive historical tours of Philadelphia highlighting marginalized communities, peoples, and histories, with a strong emphasis on intersectionality. Their tours serve as a catalyst to tell stories of people in the community they have loved and admired, people who have shaped Philadelphia through movements, activism, and resistance. Emphasis is on social justice content (Beyond the Bell Tours | BTB).

Badass Women’s History Tour of Philadelphia 

Photo: Beyond the Bell Tours | BTB

Saturday, August 19
9:30am–12:30pm (Eastern Time) (estimated 30-minute commute each way)
Ticket Fee: $20
Limit: 40 people

Learn about the ways women have influenced and formed the city of Philadelphia. Uncover the incredible entrepreneurs, doctors, politicians, artists, and activists that have made Philadelphia what it is today. Hear stories you would not hear anywhere else.

Tour Includes

• Hannah Callowhill Penn, forgotten founder
• Ona Judge and her great escape from George Washington
• Barbara Gittings, lesbian pioneer
• Women in Medicine
• Women in Art: The Red Rose Girls
• LGBTQ leaders in the Gayborhood 

The tour group will meet at the SSSP Registration Desk at the Sheraton Hotel and will depart promptly at 9:30am. The tour will cover a 1.5-mile radius and will last approximately two hours.

Philly Gayborhood Tour: Telling LGBTQ Stories with Pride  

Photo: Beyond the Bell Tours | BTB

Sunday, August 20
11:30am–2:00pm (Eastern Time) (estimated 30-minute commute each way)
Ticket fee: $20
Limit: 40 people

We get our facts straight & our history QUEER on this walking tour through the historic home of the LGBTQ community. Get under the skin of queer Philly. Discover the controversies, paradoxes, and hidden histories of the only formalized Gayborhood in the country.

Tour Includes

• The evolution of Pride: from protest to parade
• Kiyoshi Kuromiya: Inventor, Architect, Activist
• The nation’s longest continuously operating LGBT-focused bookstore
• Barbara Gittings, LGBTQ Pioneer
• Controversies of Racism in the Gayborhood
• A tribute to Gloria Casarez

The tour group will meet at the SSSP Registration Desk at the Sheraton Hotel and will depart promptly at 11:30am. The tour will cover a 1-mile radius and will last approximately an hour and a half.