Lancaster
LGBT History
In 1806 and 1810 men were hanged at Lancaster Castle after being convicted of sodomy offences [1].
Lancaster GLF was listed in Gay News issue 1.
Humphry Berkeley Conservative M.P. for Lancaster (1959-1966) sponsored a Sexual Offences Bill in 1966 which sought to partially decriminalise homosexual acts. The Bill ran out of time before Parliament was dissolved and Berkeley lost his seat at the ensuing General Election [2].
Lancaster CHE Group was founded in Lancaster in the autumn of 1972, but never actually recognised as a CHE group.
Lancaster Gay Switchboard was launched in 1976. Staffed entirely by volunteers and dependent largely on funding from within the gay community, Lancaster Switchboard was able to run for some twenty years [3].
In 2009 the Lancaster District Local Strategic Partnership LGBT Community Focus Group published the results of research carried out by CN Research Ltd.[4]
The New Albert was established as a gay pub in 2012.[5]
Virtual Lancaster has a page listing LGBT resources[6]
External links
- http://www.documentingdissent.org.uk/?page_id=15349 stories of some of the people, places and events involved in Lancaster and Morecambe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history.
References
- ↑ Dr Colin Penny 'Gay Graffiti at Lancaster Castle' talk as part of LGBT History Month 11 Feb 2021
- ↑ Sexual Offences Bill 1966 Hansard HC Deb 11 February 1966 vol 724 cc782-874
- ↑ Homosexual? Lancaster Gay Switchboard and Local LGBT+ Culture EPOCH Jun 1, 2023 Peter Wade https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/homosexual-lancaster-gay-switchboard-and-local-lgbt-culture (accessed 12 July 2025)
- ↑ http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id=fAAzADIAMQA1AHwAfABUAHIAdQBlAHwAfAAwAHwA0 (PDF file)
- ↑ http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/the-new-albert-cabaret-and-fun-pub-lancaster. (version as at 22 October 2015 archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20151022170229/http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/the-new-albert-cabaret-and-fun-pub-lancaster)
- ↑ http://www.virtual-lancaster.net/lgbt/. (Version as at 23 August 2013 archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20130823104917/http://www.virtual-lancaster.net/lgbt/)
