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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE SCOTLAND
•  REAL LIFE WEDDGS
• COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
• GAY MARRIAGE
• HIRE GAY WEDDG VENU EDBURGH, CY OF EDBURGH

GAY MARRIAGE SCOTLAND

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 REAL LIFE WEDDGS

Fd out more hereLet's ConnectSee More of Our FayWe look to promote only 100% gay iendly bs to our muny. Image source, Elae LivgstoneImage ptn, San (left) and Gerrie Douglas-Stt had Nila Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie as wns at their weddgStland's first same-sex weddgs have taken Schofield and Mallm Brown tied the knot at a humanist ceremony at the Tras Hall Glasgow, while San and Gerrie Douglas-Stt married private the new law on gay marriage me to effect Stland earlier this month and the first weddgs were held at 00:01 on upl were joed by guts cludg the first Sturgeon and Sttish Green Party -nvener Patrick Harvie MSP acted as wns at the marriage of San and Gerrie, while Stland's natnal poet Liz Lochhead and Sttish ernment mister Mar Biagi MSP attend the ceremony for Mr Schofield and Mr Brown.

'Big day'Tom French, om the Equaly Network chary - which mpaigns for the rights of Stland's lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muni - said: "It was an honour to be ved to one of Stland's first same-sex weddgs, which really showed what this new law is all about - love, fay and equaly. "While there is still lots to do before the lived day-to-day experience of many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is tly equal Stland, this is a day of celebratn and what better way to celebrate Hogmanay by sayg I do to equal marriage. 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?

COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND

"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".

"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.

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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.

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.

HIRE GAY WEDDG VENU EDBURGH, CY OF EDBURGH

"Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988 prohibed "the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship". "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.