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Lancashire's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT history has been mapped out on an interactive website. The Lancaster and Morecambe Town Trailexternal highlights a number of places that played a significant role, both nationally and locally, in the gay rights movement. We're standing on Morecambe seafront, looking across the bay as the sun rises behind us.

A quarter of a century ago, we'd have been able to walk out onto the Central Pier - famous for its all-nighters and known locally as "the home of Northern Soul". But its lesser-known claim to fame took lancaster inwhen it hosted the first national conference of the Gay for Homosexual Equality. After suffering sea and fire damage the pier was demolished in the early s, but the part it played in the national gay rights movement hasn't been forgotten.

As I follow the trail, both sides of society's struggle for equal rights become evident. We walk across the churchyard and perch on a wall, dwarfed gay both sides by two impressive Lancaster landmarks - the Priory and the Castle. Between andsix men were executed for sodomy at Lancaster Castle.

Anthony Peppiatt looks at the house on West Road, Lancaster which was a hub for campaigning for lesbian and gay rights. Anthony Peppiatt, a lifelong Lancaster resident who worked in the arts, asked me to meet him on West Road where we stood looking at what appears to be a typically Lancastrian terrace.

InAnthony lived here with another gay man and two lesbians. As housemates, they practised a lifestyle of total equality between men and women. By the early s, Lancaster had established a number of gay social meeting places including lancaster gay nights at local bars, the first of which was Kizzy's Bar on Castle Hill.

A support group at Lancaster University ensures issues facing LGBT students are brought to the attention of the university. Nowadays, the local gay scene has evolved rapidly and there are many gay and lesbian bars in this part of Lancashire. Lancaster University was known in the s as the "Queer University" after hundreds of students came out.

They protested homophobia and prejudice and started positive awareness campaigns. The students believe society still has some way to go to achieve total equality for the LGBT community. Women's Officer Anna said: "It's a great idea and I think looking at your bar history is so important so you can know what came before you and build on it.

The trail has been produced as part of Documenting Dissent, a community digital history project documenting the history of religious and political dissent in Lancaster. Transgender sitcom ushers in new bar.

Lancashire's LGBT history mapped out on interactive website

Heritage Lottery Fund. By Mike Stevens. Morecambe Central Pier. Lancaster Priory and Castle. West Road, Lancaster. Lancaster University.