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Contents:

• DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY
• GAY STLAND (UK) TRAVEL GUI
• GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• THE 5 BEST STLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS STLAND
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS STLAND
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CENTRAL STLAND
• COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
• THE BEST EDBURGH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDBURGH
• ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
• STLAND EMBRAC GAY POLICIANS A PROFOUND CULTURAL SHIFT
• STLAND RATED MOST 'GAY IENDLY' UNTRY EUROPE
• THE BEST GLASGOW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GLASGOW
• STLAND GAY MULTISPORT ADVENTURE TOUR
• GAY STLAND, GB
• 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
• STLAND’S FIRST GAY UPLE TO HAVE A BABY VIA NHS SURROGACY WANT OTHERS TO KNOW THERE IS ‘AN OPEN DOOR’
• GAY TOURS STLAND
• SAM HGHAN SHUT DOWN GAY MORS PAST BY ADDRSG WILD CLAIMS ABOUT SEXUALY
• GLASGOW GAY PRI

DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY

From the sparklg fairy pools of the Isle of Skye to the Sttish Highlands’ wild landsp, dive ep to the land of whiskey and bagpip wh our very own ten-day erary unleashg the bt of gay Stland. Some ral streets are que narrow, though they tend to be ls Dimri HouttemanPerched atop a seri of craggy hills overlookg the glterg sea, Edburgh mirrors s magnificent settg wh s bbled streets, spired skyle, and woodland landspeStland 10 Days IteraryNow that you’re ready for your ultimate gay Stland road trip erary, your next step is to ci where to land.

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The Kelvgrove Art Gallery and Mm, Glasgow Botanic Garns, and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall are all Edburgh and Aberen gay life tends to be most talked about, Glasgow is home to a thrivg gay muny, fluenced largely by the annual Glasgay Ftival. Whether ’s over a sy pt at the pub or via a fabulo allnighter on the dance floor, expect a thrivg gay Glasgow nightlife scene that promis a ltle somethg for everyone.

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800/448-8550 or 954/630-1637;) is the tra associatn for the gay and lbian travel dtry, and offers an onle directory of gay- and lbian-iendly travel bs; go to their webse and click on "Members. "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. "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".

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. "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. "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.

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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. 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. Gay and bisexual men and women were starved of acceptance and regnn and subjected to tense homophobia – as rerd a new BBC Stland/Hopstch Films documentary, Comg Oot: A Fabulo History of Gay Stland, for which I was a historil nsultant.

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Durg the 1960s “Frankie” was sent to a child psychiatrist, only to be psychologilly srred by warngs of paedophilia, and the vastatn that homosexualy would wreak upon his life and reer.

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In England, high-profile trials such as those volvg Peter Wilblood, Lord Montagu and Michael Pt-Rivers the 1950s enuraged bate about the legal stat of homosexuals.

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Image source, PAImage ptn, Gay Pri Edburgh 2016Stland pris self on beg one of the most progrsive untri Europe on issu of sexualy and genr inty but for gay men was not always such an open-md place. Nick explas his bsh wh the says: "I was so trated and lonely and isolated and all those thgs that sgle people go through, and more so when you feel you're outsi of society, that I did what many gay men have done and that is I ed to e toilets to try to fd some sort of ntact.

The Wolfenn Commtee Image ptn, Sir John Wolfenn on the BBC 1957Sir John Wolfenn was asked by the Home Office to form a mtee to advise on how laws around homosexualy might be reformed. Relig groups, legal reprentativ om the home natns, civic lears and legislators all gave evince to the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn Great Bra fally submted s report 1957.

"So there's also a strong sense that, whether or not gay people are beg apprehend, that actually we fundamentally don't want to publicly state that 's acceptable. " Jam Adair - voice of dissent A Sttish voice who opposed crimalisatn of homosexualy Stland was Jam Adair OBE, a former Procurator Fisl of Glasgow and sat on the Wolfenn mtee and formed the only dissentg voice.

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21st Century StlandImage ptn, Marchg at Edburgh's gay pri para 2016Dr Davis says that, MPs such as Rob Cook were fluential motivatg change Stland through the 1970s and 1980s.

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However is an unfortable fact that Stland did lag behd other parts of the UK que substantially on s legal posn on homosexualy - a stance which the Sttish ernment now scrib as discrimatn. "Image source, GPAImage ptn, Police Stland are the top twenty of Stonewall's equali x and march regularly gay pri events StlandThe Sttish ernment has plans to troduce a scheme which would allow some gay men to have historil nvictns, no longer nsired illegal, to be removed om crimal rerds.

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Image ptn, Dan Harry om Coatbridge was a nttant on BBC Three's "I kissed a Boy"A nttant who appeared on the UK's first gay datg show is takg part a new HIV vacce trial. "The trial, EHVA PO1, is beg n by specialists London at the St Stephen's Centre and Wtmster Hospal as well as wh partner s source, Dan HarryImage ptn, Dan Harry marched wh Terrence Higgs tst at London pri this year to raise awarens of their work to end HIVMr Harry said that due to the lack of tn school he was left anx about HIV and left him sred to e out as gay.

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About the llectn: “Wh 24 piec that as a whole provi an important snapshot of gay wrg the 21st century, this is a five anthology of prose wrg om Stland’s leadg and emergg gay wrers. Homosexualy was illegal Stland until 1980 — England was crimalized 1967 — and as recently as 2000, billboards fanced by a Christian lnaire mpaigng to uphold a ban on schools’ talkg about homosexualy urged Sts to “Protect Our Children. ”Today, addn to the lears of three of the five major polil parti Stland, four misters the Sttish ernment are openly gay, as is the secretary of state for Stland Bra’s Conservative ernment.

Inpennce Party Stland is gay, Nun dos Santos for The New York TimOf the 129 members of the Sttish Parliament, a legislative assembly wh far-reachg tonomy om London, 10, or nearly 8 percent, intify as gay, lbian or bisexual, by one tally the hight known proportn for a natnal legislature anywhere. “Stland has the gayt Parliament the world, ” said Andrew Reynolds, a profsor at the Universy of North Carola at Chapel Hill who keeps track of the polil reprentatn of those who intify publicly as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, or L.

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” Nun dos Santos for The New York TimNow they are the third-largt party the Brish Parliament London, and eight of their 56 members of Parliament are openly gay, bisexual or lbian, a higher proportn than the other ma parti. “I’m very proud to be the lear of the gayt parliamentary group the world, ” Ang Robertson, the (straight) puty lear of the Sttish Natnal Party, clared this month. Advocy group, although that also reflects the fact that reportg rat have the chang polics, policy and culture have been of the first thgs lawmakers did after the creatn of the Sttish Parliament 1999 was to repeal legislatn barrg schools om “promotg homosexualy, ” a law that had effectively muffled any discsn of L.

It was an ugly fight, wh homophobic slogans splashed across ont pag and billboards as parts of the natnal prs teamed up wh the Roman Catholic church and Brian Souter, a wealthy Sttish bsman, to fight the repeal. But the end, they Nun dos Santos for The New York Tim“It was the last gasp of nservative Stland, ” said David Torrance, an thor and journalist, who is a rpected polil mentator and also then, Stland has legalized civil partnerships, gay adoptn and, 2014, same-sex marriage (known Stland as “equal marriage” bee allows for entirely genr-ntral ceremoni).

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“It’s extraordary: We have started a nversatn about a genrls society, ” said Bob Orr, 66, who 1982 -opened Edburgh’s first lbian and gay bookshop, Lavenr bookshop closed years ago, as have several gay bars. ”Ined, one of Stland’s most proment gay rights mpaigners is straight: Liam Stevenson, a 38-year-old tck driver wh a shaved head and soccer tattoo, led this year’s Pri Para Glasgow for Time for Inclive Edutn, a mpaign for L. -clive tn that he found wh a gay Nun dos Santos for The New York TimWhen their Parliament was created, 48 percent of Sts thought same-sex relatnships were always or mostly wrong, acrdg to the ernment’s social attus survey.

Andrew Brown, a gay weddg planner Glasgow, said more gay upl om abroad were g to Stland to get helps that the paperwork is so simple: “Stland is a b like Vegas, ” said Mr. They were among the first gay Sts to marry unr Sttish law, but not necsarily the first; several upl have claims to that we handle rrectnsFollow Katr Bennhold on Twter @kbennholdA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: Sts Embrace a Diversy Once Shunned. A survey measurg equaly and human rights found that Stland would top a European league table after meetg 90% of the 52 creria looked at by the advocy group Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn-Europe, better known as Rabow Inx, piled each year, placed the entire Uned Kgdom  third place at 81% behd Malta at 88% and Belgium at 82%, mostly bee of Northern Ireland's refal to adopt same-sex marriage laws.

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In the sgle digs were Azerbaijan at 5%, Armenia and Rsia at 7% and Turkey at ma to the top after srg 77% 2015 when enacted a number of laws favorable to gays, lbians, bisexuals, transgenr and tersex people  the past year. The Uned Kgdom as a whole was first place last year wh an 86% ratg, and Belgium was at 's undiplomatic dis of Che rells past royal remarksHowever, the report also found that more need to be done Stland to achieve full equaly, such as better legislatn to protect the rights of tersex people, those born wh reproductive ans and anatomy that may be a batn of male and x measur the impact of laws and polici on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people six tegori: equaly and non-discrimatn, fay, bias-motivated speech or vlence, legal genr regnn, eedom of assembly, associatn and exprsn, and 2010, a number of anti-discrimatn laws were brought to force to protect the rights of LGBT people Stland, and same-sex marriage was legalized 2014. 3% of members openly lbian, gay or of the ma party lears, Conservative Ruth Davidson and Labour's Kezia Dugdale, are openly gay while the Green Party's Patrick Harvie is Coburn, Stland's U.

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The Annual Review of Human Rights Suatn of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People Europe, published by ILGA Europe (2016), ranks the UK as third Europe for LGBT rights wh a sre of 81 per cent followg Malta (88 per cent) and Belgium (82 per cent) - see the Rabow Map (Figure 7) [12] for untry parisons.

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This may e as a surprise om a untry where male homosexualy was illegal until as recently as 1967, and where gay marriage ntu to ffle right-wgers, swivel-eyed or otherwise.

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We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mentn mt go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharg (1969), a swgg slice of the 60s that hted at terracial homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release list should really be a Top 11 – the omissn of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the first Brish film to feature a gay kiss, is borrle excable.

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Tom Shkolnik’s betifully observed The Comedian (2012), which a possibly gay, possibly bi thirtysomethg (Edward Hogg) tri to make as a standup the pal, also narrowly missed cln.

A few d homosexuals n be found  Aled Hchck’s early work (check out the swishy drsmaker 1925’s The Pleasure Garn), while Ivor Novello’s films play up the flamboyant star’s androgyny, playg very odd, allegedly heterosexual men  The Lodger (1926) and The Man whout Dire (1923).

Victim (1961)Dirk Bogar, an actor who never acknowledged the mours of his homosexualy durg his lifetime, took a real reer risk playg a lawyer who, followg a strg of blackmail attempts agast gay men, begs to realise his own sexualy.

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It took another 10 years before partial crimalisatn took effect wh the Sexual Offenc act 1967, which allowed homosexual acts, private, between two men over the age of 21 – many feel Basil Dearn’s film helped liberalise attus and pave the way towards tolerance towards gay people.