Farmers Arms
The Farmers Arms (now Toll Bar Inn) was a popular pub throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. There were lesbian discos in a private room above the pub once a month until around 2000....
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Ring O’ Bells Pub
The Ring o’ Bells was popular during the 1980s until it was leafleted about a Clause 28 protest scheduled to take place during a visit by Margaret Thatcher to the University. The pub banned the...
Gregson Community Centre
During the 2000s, the Gregson hosted meetings of the Lunettes, a local lesbian network, formed by two lesbians in a partnership who had moved to Lancaster from London. The Lunettes began in a small way,...
The Friends Meeting House
In 1988 the Quakers held an event to discuss attitudes to homosexuality, which was attended by several people from the Lancaster LGBTQ community. More recently, the Friends Meeting House has held meetings for commitment and...
Carpenter’s Arms
Now Three Mariners, this was a popular pub during the 1970s to early 1980s. Some of the early planning meetings for Lancaster Gay Switchboard were held there....
Kizzy’s Bar
When Kizzy’s Bar first opened in the early-mid 1990s it was located on Nip Hill, though after about a year it moved to a former snooker club, above what is now the Boar’s Head on...
British Home Stores (BHS)
In February 1976 local activists picketed the Lancaster branch of British Home Stores as part of a high profile national campaign in protest at the sacking of a gay BHS employee....
Lancaster University
Lancaster University was founded in 1964 and from its early days became a major focus for LGBTQ activism in the area, as many students and staff embraced the emerging liberation ideology of the period. Hundreds...
University of Cumbria
Lancaster Pride 2005 was organised mainly from what was then S. Martin’s College (now University of Cumbria). The programme included a lantern-lit session around the town centre, a performance of Faure’s Requiem in the Priory...