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The '''Bear's Paw''' was a gay club in [[Liverpool]] in the 1970s with a downstairs bar and and upstairs dance floor.
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The '''Bear's Paw''' was a gay club in [[Liverpool]] in the 1970s with a downstairs bar and and upstairs dance floor. It was located in Doran's Lane, of North John Street, and owned by Gorden Shearer.<ref>[[Paul O'Grady]], ''At my Mother's Knee... and other low joints'', Bantam Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-593-05925-8 Page 289</ref>
  
:The Bear's Paw attracted the 'better type of queen' [...] the rougher sort were not encouraged and went to Sadies's in Wood Street instead. [...] There was an unwritten law at the Bear's Paw that I was as yet ignorant of: it stated that if somebody offered to buy you a drink and you accepted, it went without saying that you had just agreed to sleep with them.<ref>Paul O'Grady, ''At my Mother's Knee... and other low joints'', Bantam Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-593-05925-8 Page 290</ref>
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:The Bear's Paw attracted the 'better type of queen' [...] the rougher sort were not encouraged and went to Sadies's in Wood Street instead. [...] There was an unwritten law at the Bear's Paw that I was as yet ignorant of: it stated that if somebody offered to buy you a drink and you accepted, it went without saying that you had just agreed to sleep with them.<ref>[[Paul O'Grady]], ''At my Mother's Knee... and other low joints'', Bantam Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-593-05925-8 Page 290</ref>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 18:08, 24 October 2012

The Bear's Paw was a gay club in Liverpool in the 1970s with a downstairs bar and and upstairs dance floor. It was located in Doran's Lane, of North John Street, and owned by Gorden Shearer.[1]

The Bear's Paw attracted the 'better type of queen' [...] the rougher sort were not encouraged and went to Sadies's in Wood Street instead. [...] There was an unwritten law at the Bear's Paw that I was as yet ignorant of: it stated that if somebody offered to buy you a drink and you accepted, it went without saying that you had just agreed to sleep with them.[2]

References

  1. Paul O'Grady, At my Mother's Knee... and other low joints, Bantam Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-593-05925-8 Page 289
  2. Paul O'Grady, At my Mother's Knee... and other low joints, Bantam Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-593-05925-8 Page 290