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Contents:

• COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
• STSGAY ISSUE 164 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• STSGAY ISSUE 111 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CENTRAL STLAND
• STSGAY ISSUE 90 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• ‘MARY QUEEN OF STS’ FACT CHECK: WAS THERE REALLY A GAY AFFAIR MARY’S COURT?
• STSGAY ISSUE 119 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• STSGAY
• STSGAY ISSUE 110 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?
• HEAVY ISSUE 62 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• HEAVY ISSUE 65 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• @STSGAYMAG STSGAYMAG SCOTSGAY ISSUE 173
• STSGAY ISSUE 130 - STSGAY MAGAZE
• STS GAY-CLIVE GBY CLUBS MPAIGN FOR SKILL OVER SEXUALY
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• STSGAY FTIVAL REVIEW TEAM 2015
• DUP'S ARLENE FOSTER ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO CURB STS' GAY MARRIAGE LAW

COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND

For many years Stland jt did not do gay. Homosexualy was dangero and taboo, and was actually agast the law right up to the 1980s. So how did a untry that seemed to take pri s prejudic end up wh the bt gay rights Europe?

"He says homosexualy was somethg fai, relig stutns, the medil profsn and society at large all chose to source, Elae LivgstoneImage ptn, San (left) and Gerrie Douglas-Stt had Nila Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie as wns at their weddg"Growg up queer post-war Stland is sentially occupyg a social and sexual wilrns, " Dr Meek of male homosexualy had been outlawed for centuri and were ma stricter the late 19th Century but same-sex ntact between women had never been targeted law and was not illegal. "Gay men were known to exist but they did not f the Sttish image of robt masculy.

Homosexual men were forced unrground to public toilets or illic Meek says: "The nsequenc of beg ught were signifint. You uld be sacked for a ht of homosexualy, never md a prosecutn. "Image source, Equaly Network/Same Love PhotographyImage ptn, Douglas Pretsell and Peter Gloster formalised their marriage SydneyPeople went to prison for sometim two years or were locked up psychiatric 1957, after a succsn of well-known men were nvicted of homosexual offenc, the Wolfenn report remend that "homosexual behavur between nsentg adults private should no longer be a crimal offence".

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"He saw homosexualy as the first step to moral turpu. "It took a for the remendatns of the Wolfenn report to be bee law England and Wal, crimalisg homosexualy for men over 21. But bee of Jam Adair, homosexualy Stland remaed illegal, classified as crimally-praved source, Getty ImagMany gay Sts had to rign themselv to a life the 1969, a brave group of gay Sts cid they uld not change their sexualy so they set out to change SMG (Sttish Mori Group) arranged diss and get-togethers for gay men and for lbian women.

The SMG started to make money and leased property Broughton Street Edburgh where set up the Gay Informatn Centre and operated a telephone, historian and gay activist Bob Cant says: "I thk the Sttish Mori Group serv an enormo amount of cred.

"Thirteen years after the law was reformed England, Labour MP Rob Cook lodged an amendment the Sttish Crimal Jtice Bill and homosexualy was fally crimalised Stland ptn, Leanne and Marie Banks were one of the first gay upl Stland to bee marriedThat saw an explosn of gay culture to the mastream. In Stland, the newly legalised gay men had a fantastic time. In Glasgow, the gay mec was mentator Damian Barr tells a BBC Stland documentary: "I uld not have imaged a place like this existed.

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I'd not even seen a gay club on film or on televisn. "Dpe the study relatg to dg addicts and the figur beg batable, homosexual sex was once aga portrayed as somethg to 1987 Margaret Thatcher's ernment went to war wh the gay source, Tged Memori / Equaly NetworkImage ptn, Joe Schofield (left) and partner Mallm Brown (right) were among the first to marry unr the new lawThe prime mister told the Tory nference: "Children who need to be tght the tradnal moral valu are beg tght that they have an alienable right to be gay. "Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988 prohibed "the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship".

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CENTRAL STLAND

"There was outrage and protts across the untry at this rollg back of the rights of gay people but the law stayed place until the re-tablishment of the Sttish Parliament of s first acts was to repeal Sectn 28 but had a battle on s hands. Journalist David Torrance says that spe beg very unpleasant at the time was a "thartic" experience that got Stland talkg about gay rights issu and fally swept away the old the Millennium, Sts attus to homosexualy have changed dramatilly. Surveys suggt that more than two thirds of Sts actively approve of gay marriage and is now homophobia that is 2005, civil partnerships were ma legal for gay upl and the followg year same-sex upl were able to year, as the Commonwealth Gam was beg shown around the world, Stland clared s new openns wh a kilted gay kiss as part of the openg year end wh gay marriage beg legal Stland and the lear of the Sttish Conservativ, a lbian, passnately supportg the move.

A queer tale Oot: The fabulo history of gay Stland is on BBC One Stland on Monday 30 November at on this storyAround the BBC. In 1975 bgrapher Antonia Fraser wr there is ‘no reason not to assume the obv, ’ namely that he was gay. 1957: the UK ernment create a Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn.

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Male homosexualy remas a crime Stland and Northern Ireland. It’s a self-help anisatn workg for the rights of homosexual men and women. They also hold the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs at Edburgh Universy Stunt’s Unn.

1975: Stland’s first Gay Centre opens at 60 Broughton Street, Edburgh.

‘MARY QUEEN OF STS’ FACT CHECK: WAS THERE REALLY A GAY AFFAIR MARY’S COURT?

1977: the Glasgow Gay Centre opens on Schiehall Street. 1980: Sttish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG) opens a Gay Club on Queens Crcent. 2002: The Homophobic Crime Le was started Glasgow.

2019: Stland’s Makar Jackie Kay (who has wrten of how she realised she was gay at 17, but felt unable to al wh this for some years after) pos a poem about Mary Queen of Sts givg birth for the new Edburgh Castle d gui. This post has been amend to reflect more of Glasgow’s LGBT+ history, wh thanks to David Thomas, Former Director of Glasgow LGBT Centre, Lbian & Gay Swchboard and Wt of Stland LGBT Fom.

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as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, straight,. gay edy’s more your thg, how about Cormac Friel’s.

month for StsGay’s reviews of shows, whether LGBTthemed or not. nome (who clu StsGay the Media Outlet of.

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Lbian & Gay Swchboard and s associated servic, Crosslynx and Icebreakers. backrooms of the 1980’s gay club scene.

The stori promised so far volve a sniper huntg gays. This wonrful, Edburgh born performer is back for her sophomore year to. Edburgh's Gay Real Ale Pub voted 2010 Edburgh Pub Of.

GATEWAY TO OTHER GAY SOLICITORS WHO CAN HELP. StsGay has been published Stland sce 1994, and ntu to be an sential ntact pot for a muny, that simply bee of the size and nature of Stland, is somewhat sttered, somewhat dissipated, and often the subject of a subtle homophobia that pays lip service to equaly, but often do not monstrate .

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For many reasons, homophobia tends to crease the further north and more remote you bee the Brish Isl, and so while there is a good foc on Edburgh and Glasgow StsGay, is brilliant to see regular featur and tails of the scene and of gay life plac like Aberen and Inverns, where attus are far om clear and tolerance is ls.

StsGay therefore pris self on verg the whole untry, and has regular lumns om Aberen (Andi Watson), the Highlands (Joanne Mackenzie-Wters), as well as news and lumns om the Central Belt where there are always a heap of fabulo and spirg entertaments, nights out and events to chose om.

GAY BOY SUTS? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BOYS?

It’s certa that all the issu of the day are gog to be vered Stsgay, whether s same sex marriage, and for listgs for helpl, partners, anisatns, and well, pretty much anythg else, n’t be beat. "We know of urse that same-sex attractn and romance go back to time immemorial, but the term "homosexual" is a morn phenomenon.

Queer historians by and large see the Victorian trial of Osr Wil for "gross cency, " and the way played out the media and public sphere, as the transformative moment whereby a person who engaged homosexual acts beme a homosexual person -- and that wasn't until three hundred years later after Mary. For that reason, addn to the difficulty of "provg" feelgs or sexual acts of the past, and society's long-entrenched culture of homophobia, historians have largely shied away om intifyg historil figur as anythg other than mak Guy's clear scriptn of Darnley strikg, but rerds reveal a number of his tractors rorted to thly-veiled homophobia to discred him.

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Mary says at one pot durg the film, as he’s drsed a drs pretendg to be one of her chambermaids, that she do not hold Rizz’s “nature” agast Read: 'Mary, Queen of Sts' Film Review: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie Make Worthy, Regal AdversariThe historil rerd is unclear, but Rourke told TheWrap, “There is strong evince to support that Rizz was gay and even intified as such then. ”Screenwrer Be Willimon, who wrote the script based on the work of Brish historian John Guy, told TheWrap that durg that era, there wasn’t the same notn of straight or gay and that there likely would not have been the same uproar then that would e later centuri for same-sex the film, Mary fds her newly married hband, Lord Darnley (Jack Lown) bed wh Rizz one morng after their weddg.

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“We do know that Darnley had sexual relatnships wh other men, but there was no notn of ‘gay’ or ‘straight’ the 16th century.

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Page 2: dùn eiann EDINBURGH Hey loveliPage 6: Margaret Cho dvd box set GLASGAPage 10: ntact ads are ee CONTACTS To rePage 14: *not StsGay available VENUES& show all. StsGay was a bi-monthly magaze published Stland for the lbian, gay and bisexual muny. StsGayEdorMart Walker (om 2006)Former edorsJohn He (1994–2006)Staff wrersAndi Watson David Jackson Stevie Hark[1]FrequencyBi-monthlyFounrJohn HeFirst issue1 December 1994; 28 years agoCountryStland, Uned KgdomBased.

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At this pot the magaze was put hiat after John He suffered a mor stroke; although the webse was subsequently updated wh promis of StsGay returng durg Summer 2017., [3] did not do so. StsGay is a monthly magaze published Stland for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny. Later, 2015, lifted s ban on gay sutmasters, spe the anizatn’s history of sexual abe by the same.

BSA Embrac Homosexual Suts and Sutmasters. In 1990, the BSA revoked Jam Dale’s volvement on the grounds that homosexuals were banned om membership.

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At the time, the BSA stated that havg gay Sutmasters ntradicted the Sut Oath keepg s members “morally straight. In 2013, the Boy Suts cid to adm openly gay Suts. In 2015, the ban on gay Sutmasters was lifted.

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In fact, BSA dit a whole paragraph s Sut or Sutmaster eligibily requirements to those who have homosexual clatns. In jt a ltle over a , BSA pletely reversed s valu regardg homosexual members. The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms homosexualy, the clatn of beg sexually attracted to the same sex, is herently disorred (CCC 2357).

The Boy Suts of Ameri, changg s polici to clu homosexuals, opened Pandora’s box. An all-male anizatn cludg gays should have secured the protectn and safety of the young Suts participatg the BSA.

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John was a equent poster to the bullet boards on Compulk, cludg the gay special tert group that I had kicked off. As publisher of StsGay he was a very vol member of the Frge Society and a wele faiar face as I found my own feet Edburgh’s Ftival ele.

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StsGay vered the ftivals, and as Broadway Baby grew the two publitns worked together on many projects and shared rourc often. Not least bee the events of 2020 meant I uld not have that fal pt wh him this year, but also bee John He was pneer of technology and gay rights Stland – and also an irascible bugger at tim. <strong>StsGay</strong> at the Edburgh ge ftival of Queer tert works, sgg, and tellg the life-stori, warts and all.

It’s difficult to prehend now how bravely this group stood agast the mastream, and the urage of someone like Gsberg beg openly and publicly gay at the time of McCarthyism. Danny’s talk about g out as gay was rather sympathetic, but I really uldn’t remend this as a good e of anyone’s time.

One of the bt thgs is the unforced and extremely natural behavur of the st regardg gay life, 16 (unlike some Frge Shows I uld mentn – “Dark Horse Indiana” to md, which seemed to be all reful posg and rhetoric.