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- ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
- COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
- GAY EDBURGH, STLAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
- TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS STLAND
- DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY
- STLAND IS NOW A PLACE WHERE YOU N BE GLAD TO BE GAY
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ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
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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. England and Wal n now mark 50 years sce the historic reforms which partially crimalised homosexualy between two nsentg men private over 21 years of age.
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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.
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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. Sttish opposn Media ptn, "There's a lot of ristance to Wolfenn Stland"Dr Gayle Davis is a social historian om the Universy of Edburgh. "It's actually much more difficult to be prosecuted for homosexualy Stland than is England and Wal and therefore let's not touch .
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Around the same perd 1957 a poll nducted by the Daily Mirror, south of the borr, showed a much more even spl where 51% opposed crimalisg homosexualy. Dr Davis adds: "Then also 's seen as, well we know Sttish people jt don't approve of homosexualy, that's what the church keep tellg .
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"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. " Durg her rearch Dr Davis learned about some of the therapi beg ed to treat gay men nvicted of homosexual crim.
" 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. The Assembly's firm opposn warned that legislatn which sought to legimise homosexualy would only crease "this grave evil". 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. "Progrs still to be maImage ptn, A Stonewall T-shirt worn at Glasgow Pri 2014Stonewall Stland mpaigns for equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
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Life for LGBT+ young people Stland is “worse now than has been for a long time”, acrdg to a report that highlights growg ncerns about homophobia public spac, bullyg schools and transphobic media five-yearly report om the mpaigng and advocy group LGBT Youth Stland found a sharp crease rponnts who believe that Stland is a good place for LGBTI young people to live, fallg om 81% 2017 to 65% 2022 and the first drop the figure for 15 was also a signifint crease those who believe that homophobia and transphobia is a “big problem” Stland sce the last survey was unrtaken 2017 – risg om 11% to 25% and 49% to 69% Life Stland report, first veloped 2007 and fund by the Sttish ernment, offers a snapshot of how young LGBT+ Sts experience a range of issu and servic, and this year showed an pecially strong reprentatn of participants who intify as transgenr.