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Through the back, two women are playing pool with their gay male friend. There is a hum of conversation, and quiet music in the background. At the bar, women are being served pints in pint glasses, no problem. A couple of younger men come in through the door and start distributing leaflets protesting about Clause Unnoticed by the customers the landlord picks one up off the bar and reads it.

He bangs a spoon against an ashtray for silence. Everyone turns and looks at him. All of you! And you! Obediently, we troop out into the street. We stand around discussing what has happened for a gay minutes, assuring the men who were giving out the leaflets of our support. We have no recourse but to leave it there and go home.

It is quite posh in an 80s kind of a way, below street level with cosy sofas. Lancaster walls are hung with her paintings and the bar is crowded with her friends, drinking wine and celebrating. No one is prepared to tell us why. Friday nights once a month Upstairs at the Yorkie. The tiny stage hosts a number of talented acts, and some not so hot, compered by women from WILD.

Wild nights indeed! In the following years we hold our social events, pies and pints, quizzes and auction nights and dance the small hours away, upstairs at the Bar Arms. Now it is the Penny Street Bridge Hotel, where unknowing guests sleep where once we bopped. If only they knew!

Then early in the s the Lunettes arrive at the Gregson: the core of lesbian social life here, meeting once a month at the Greggy and connecting us with lesbian networks in Cumbria and elsewhere.

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If you are new to Lancaster then it is easy to find the Lunettes. After the civil partnership and equalities legislation ofat last we can be out and about without being afraid. Recently I read an article in The Guardian asking if there was still a need for gay bars. In my view there is: progress has been phenomenal; however, we still carry our history, our political activism against deeply ingrained homophobia, and also our memories of great nights out against the odds.

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