LGBT
Anthony Peppiatt: LGBT Activist
Anthony Peppiatt talks about how he was politicised through his involvement with Lancaster Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and radical gay politics, which began while he was an undergraduate at Lancaster University during the early 1970s....
Lancaster and Morecambe LGBT Social Life and Activism Since the Early 1970s
Zephyrine Barbarachild discusses, how LGBT activism in Lancaster and Morecambe has been firmly linked to the LGBT social scene since the early days. LGBT social spaces can be places to meet others, have fun and...
Lynne Braithwaite
Lynne Braithwaite was born Lawrence Braithwaite in the Lake District in 1934. After serving 40 years in the RAF, she retired as a flight sergeant in 1989 and shortly thereafter transitioned to female. ...
LGBT Rights: the Global Picture
While the UK has introduced legislation in recent years that protects the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people, in other parts of the world the law actively discriminates against members of the...
Humphry Berkeley 1926-94
Humphry Berkeley was Conservative MP for Lancaster between 1959-65, a period when male homosexual activity was still illegal in Britain and many men were being arrested, tried and imprisoned. Nick Beddoe describes Berkeley’s 1965 Parliamentary...
Isaac Hitchen’s House
In 1806, five men were tried and executed for ‘sodomy’ at Lancaster Castle, following a raid on the house of Isaac Hitchen in Warrington. Eleanor Levin has researched and written up this story into a...