Mol of the Gay Queen | Bute Mm & Natural History Society

Contents:

• MV GAY QUEEN
• GAY QUEEN AT ROTHAY
• THE 'GAY QUEEN' BOAT, ROTHAY, ISLE OF BUTE, STLAND POSTRD
• THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY
• FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
• CLY STEAMER 'JEANIE DEANS' (PADDLE STEAMER) AT ROTHAY WH 'GAY QUEEN' (MOTOR VSEL).
• ROTHAY WH CLY STEAMER 'ARRAN', 'BUTE' OR 'COWAL' AND 'GAY QUEEN' (MOTOR VSELS).

MV GAY QUEEN

Object: Mol of the Gay Queen.

Dcriptn: Mol of the motor ciser Gay Queen. Gay Queen. The Board of Tra would not allow the name and she was renamed, 'Gay Queen', origally cisg the Isle of Burte and Loch Striven om 1938 to 1940.

GAY QUEEN AT ROTHAY

Durg the 1960s 'Gay Queen' was sold to the US Navy base at Holy Loch.

In 1988 Rty Greensla purchased 'Gay Queen' and after changg her name to that of his granddghter, Alice-Marie, she ran a service om Poole Quay to Brownsea Island and Wareham Quay wh Poole Harbour. The Board of Tra would not allow the name and she was renamed 'Gay Queen', origally cisg the Isle of Bute and Loch Striven between 1938-1940. Tle: The 'Gay Queen' on a sunny day at Rothay, Bute, Augt 1983.

THE 'GAY QUEEN' BOAT, ROTHAY, ISLE OF BUTE, STLAND POSTRD

Gay Queen Rothay Bay. Aidan McIver and John Morris formed a partnership than ran the May Queen and later had her larger succsor Gay Queen built at Fraserburgh 1938.

The pany McIver & Morris Ltd., of 15 Argyle Place ran the Gay Queen until 1980 when she was sold to Mr. Gay Queen at her berth on the Road to Ardbeg. Gay Queen at her jetty the 1950s (Ralston).

THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY

Gay Queen around 1980. A ntemporary petor to the Gay Queen was the Maid of Bute, owned by Mr Knox. JigidiJigsaw Puzzle CategoriTransportatnGay Queen at Rothay.

The 'Gay Queen' Boat, Rothay, Isle of Bute Postrd. Whereas most of now wele and embrace lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, the Queen has never done I doubt that Elizabeth II is a ragg homophobe, she certaly don't appear to gay-iendly. Not once her 60-year reign has she publicly acknowledged the existence of the LGBT muny – or gay members of her own royal fay.

Astonishgly, sce she beme Queen 1952, the words "gay" and "lbian" have never publicly passed her lips.

FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

Even when she announced ernment plans for gay law reform her Queen's speech, she did not e the words lbian or gay. But never 60 years has she vised a gay chary or welfare agency. She has, for example, ignored servg gay chari like the Albert Kennedy Tst and Stonewall Hog, which support homels LGBT youth.

Although she is a patron of many good , none of them are gay or serve the gay muny. Defenrs of the monarchy pot out that many royal staff are gay men.

CLY STEAMER 'JEANIE DEANS' (PADDLE STEAMER) AT ROTHAY WH 'GAY QUEEN' (MOTOR VSEL).

Havg gay staff wa hand and foot on the Queen is proof of nothg, apart om the fact that she lik well-groomed male servants.

Gay staff the royal hoehold ed to be banned om brgg their partners to the annual Christmas ball at Buckgham Palace; whereas heterosexual staff were always ved to attend wh their partners.

ROTHAY WH CLY STEAMER 'ARRAN', 'BUTE' OR 'COWAL' AND 'GAY QUEEN' (MOTOR VSELS).

This homophobic discrimatn was exposed by the LGBT human rights group OutRage! This did not happen when neo-Nazi David Copeland bombed the Admiral Dunn gay pub Soho, London, 1999, killg three people and woundg 70 others. I asked them whether the Queen has ever uttered public the words gay or lbian?

Did she e the words any of her Queen's speech when announcg the ernment's gay equaly laws?