Victoria Hotel
The Victoria Hotel was a regular and popular meeting place in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
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Alexandra Hotel
The Alexandra Hotel (now Bar Revolution) was a popular post-pub bar from the mid 1990s until it closed in 2003....
Bottleshop
PYRO (Proud Youth R Out) is an LGBT Youth Group run by Lancashire County Council's Wellbeing, Prevention and Early Help Service to offer information, advice and support to LGBT+ young people aged 12 – 19...
Queen’s Hotel
The Queen’s Hotel was a popular hotel from the late 1980s until it closed in the 2000s. Also known as Pacha’s, it was best known for drag acts....
Catholic Social Club
The Catholic Social Club (Alexandra Hall) was a popular venue for LGBTQ discos until 1976 when posters advertising a performance of a touring production by Gay Sweatshop theatre company at the Club attracted some negative...
Morecambe Pier
The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) held its first national conference on Central Pier in Morecambe (now demolished) in 1973. The event was not without some local controversy. CHE records and correspondence in the local...
Primrose Street
For a few years in the 1970s a house on Primrose Street operated as a Women’s Centre with the focus on women's liberation, providing information and 'consciousness raising’, and organising meetings and campaigns. Lesbian women...
Phoenix Working Men’s Club
During the 1990s, the Phoenix hosted major events for International Women’s Day, featuring performance poet Rosie Lugosi, ‘Manchester’s only lesbian vampire.’...