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• EDBURGH POLICE PROBE CALTON HILL SER SEX ATTACK ON MAN, 25, AS RINTS RAISE NCERNS OVER 'GAY CISG'
• LOL HERO WHO TABLISHED EDBURGH'S FIRST GAY DISS 1970S
• SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
• GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW

EDBURGH POLICE PROBE CALTON HILL SER SEX ATTACK ON MAN, 25, AS RINTS RAISE NCERNS OVER 'GAY CISG'

Rob Gay. CrimeConcerned rints say gay cisg is out of ntrol on Calton Hill amid reports of a send sex attack at the popular landmark a said they are vtigatg a report that a 25-year-old man was the victim of a "ser sexual asslt" an area close to Regent Terrace. HomeEarly gay rights mpaigner led the way the 1970sA lol LGBT hero who ran the Capal’s first ever licensed gay diss and mpaigned heavily for law reform is the foc of a new podst reflectg on how life has changed for gay men Stland over the past 50 mark Pri Month, Gregan Crawford, 72, spoke wh Age Stland Conversatns, tailg the challeng he faced as a gay man livg Edburgh the 1970s and how he end up volved the fight for gay gay rights mpaigner Gregan Crawford pictured , who joed the Sttish Mori Group, then Stland’s ma gay rights anisatn, relled how there were no licensed diss for gay men at the time, while pubs still closed at 10pm.

LOL HERO WHO TABLISHED EDBURGH'S FIRST GAY DISS 1970S

Everythg changed after Gregan vised California wh s much more progrsive gay said: “In the summer of 1974, I went over to the US and I experienced the gay life there for a perd and I thought we uld wh somethg like this back home. ”Gregan started the first gay dis at Nicky Tam’s on Victoria Street, but a change of venue was required as the numbers soared. Tiffany's night club Stockbridge, which hosted popular gay dis nights for a spell the said: “By 1976, we’d graduated to much bigger diss at Tiffany’s St Stephen Street.

Morley’s directors cid they did not want to be associated wh the gay the proceeds om the diss, however, Gregan and many others tablished the cy’s first gay rights mpaign hub: The Gay Centre on Broughton said: “The money we raised allowed to do our polil mpaigng om the se. ”From the Gay Centre, Gregan and other mpaigners enlisted the help of leadg policians cludg Rob Cook and Mallm Rifkd to help ph the need for law reform, which would eventually e centre also offered a unsellg service for anyone seekg advice on their add: “It gave a public face, wh a shop ont and thgs the wdow that people uld see. There’s been a lot of chat about womanhood recently so I cid to look at how my genr and inty have been somethg that has taken me until now to unrstand – and that I’m a gay woman.

Even though I’ve been livg as a gay woman sce I was 17. “Don’t be too gay your material, men don’t like that.

SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’

” Heaven forbid they get a woman who’s gay on stage – this will throw men! ”As for all that tntg om the ether Drake mentned, that was probably the legns of fans who, for s, have been dissectg the homoerotic vib between Batman and Rob. Over at Slate, Glenn Weldon broke down the almost century-long disurse and poted out the serly gay energy of some of the earlit ics to feature 1942’s Batman No.

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GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

Tled, simply enough, Merry Men, the ic book is wrten and created by out wrer Robert Rodi, wh art by Jackie Lewis, and featur a bold new story that rests the faiar medieval characters as gay Men might sound at first like a lightfully mpy seri, but is que the oppose.

The ic is a ground, realistic look to a world where Rob Hood, still the faiar rogueish lear livg the woods wh his band of outlaws wh a good e, is now also a badass homosexual who ris up the face of discrimatn and opprsn. Rodi: I'm a history buff -- ancient and medieval pecially -- and I was lurkg around some webs when I me across the qutn "Was Rob Hood gay?

One of the tertg thgs you haven't seen yet, bee 's an upg issue, is the revelatn that our villa, Prce John, cis to e the oft-quoted passage Levic for polil reasons; 's a means of gettg at the gay alli of his brother, Kg Richard. One of the ways I'm tryg to be te to the perd is that the 12th century there was no ncept of homosexualy per se; the term self was hundreds of years om beg was same-sex activy, of urse, but that was seen as a behavral issue, not as an exprsn of inty. Acrdgly, some of the Merry Men are bisexual, others entirely gay, and there's one -- I won't say which right now -- who is actually straight, but who feels a sense of gratu and loyalty to another member of the group that manifts self as a kd of romantic love.

REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW

It was a liberate choice, and a b of a difficult one for me, bee I'm prcipally known as a satirist; my novels om the '90s -- Fag Hag, Closet Case, Kept Boy, and so on -- were all farcil tak on gay archetyp.

Also, my first ics seri was a spy spoof lled Coname: Knockout, whose heroe had a gay sikick named Go-Go Fias. So people generally expect that kd of thg om me, and, fact, when I tell people that my new ics seri is "gay Rob Hood, " their first reactn is to lgh and say what a hilar ia that is.

And then gets awkward bee I have to set them thg is, I've been atg for gay actn-adventure hero for years now. Bee may be the 12th century and they may be peril of their liv, but this is a still bunch of burly gay guys the woods.