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Contents:

• KILTG IT UP GAY STLAND – THE NOMADIC BOYS
• THE GAELIC FOR “GAY”
• COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
• ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
• DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

KILTG IT UP GAY STLAND – THE NOMADIC BOYS

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. But polil engagement remaed extremely high: 94% of those eligible to vote said they did up to First Edn, our ee daily newsletter – every weekday morng at 7amPrentg the rults, Dr Kathleen Cronie, rearch officer for LGBT Youth Stland, said: “Rpons dite that homophobia and transphobia are on the rise and that biphobia remas a problem, for example wh upl holdg hands public attractg star and ments, feelg unsafe public areas like public transport, and the difficulty faced navigatg a plex onle environment. "When I was younger I thought I was straight, bee I was more attracted to women, and I didn't know there were more optns bis gay and straight.

THE GAELIC FOR “GAY”

In a now-leted tweet that was screenshotted by celebry gossip and news se The Jasme Brand and posted to Instagram, the 45-year-old crooner, who is bt known for his early '90s classics like "Can We Talk" and "I'm Ready, " reportedly nfirmed that he is gay to a fan. "My mom keeps tellg me Luther Vandross, Teddy Penrgrass, and Tev Campbell were gay, " the fan's tweet read, to which Campbell simply quote-tweeted and said, "Tev is, " acpanied by the rabow flag and sunglass emojis.

Then Augt, durg an terview wh People Magaze's Every Day podst, the R&B star remisced about his s-long reer the mic/entertament dtry so far, while also givg listeners a rare glimpse to his personal life and nfirmg that he do intify as a gay man. The popular and credibly private vio game streamer, who is most known for playg Mecraft and for streamg on Twch, me out an April Twter Q&A wh his followers when he was asked by a fan what his favore moment the gay, romantic, teen Netflix seri Heartstopper was. ""For those nfed basilly I gus I am technilly unlabeled as the way I have kda always gone around life jt beg attracted to whoever I am attracted to jt so happens that most of them le up wh a 'certa type' you uld say, " he later clarified, sayg that he is "okay wh the gay label.

COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND

Vcent Wang -- the popular, UK-based League of Legends ports player better known by his streamg name Bost -- publicly me out as gay a May Twter statement. Though the pop sger has been open about her sexualy for years ( 2019 she told Attu that she was bisexual and an open relatnship), she took to Instagram June to celebrate Pri Month and to talk even further about her sexualy, remdg everyone that she is, fact, a queer in who is "not gay and not straight. "Now is a good time for me bee the Commonwealth Gam is a month's time, and there's gog to be a lot of people watchg that, and there are so many untri the Commonwealth where beg gay is illegal.

The 25-year-old athlete and former Richmond Flyg Squirrels player revealed to his fans and followers that while he is no longer playg for the team, which is part of the San Francis Giants system, he is thankful for the time he had and isn't givg up on his love of baseball, pecially as an out, gay man. The Asie Olympic gold medalist and gby player me out as a trans man an Augt vio for the Bgham Cup's Internatnal Summ Tacklg Transphobia and Homophobia Sport event. The Sttish pro footballer and Gala Fairyan Rovers player publicly me out as gay a September terview posted to his football club's official webse.

FOLLOWING Holyrood’s historic cisn this month to pass the Equal Marriage Act, Stland on Sunday has drawn up the Pk Stland List markg the ntributn ma by lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people to the cultural, polil and public life of the such list is subjective, but we have chosen people who are makg an impact through excellence their own profsns and/or by virtue of their mpaigng on LGBT issu. 3 DEREK OGG QCAdvoteOne of the untry’s top legal mds, Derek Ogg was at the foreont of the mpaign to legalise homosexualy Stland the 1970s.

ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY

CLAIRE BLACK Newspaper lumnist, Stland on SundayStland’s first openly gay newspaper lumnist, Black wr on social issu and popular culture and is a powerful voice on genr, sexualy and domtic vlence. SCOTT RENNIE Church of Stland misterWhen Rennie was appoted to Queen’s Cross Church Aberen 2009, he beme the Kirk’s first actively gay mister charge of a ngregatn, a move which igned an tense row over homosexual clergy.

DISVER THE ULTIMATE GAY STLAND 10 DAYS ERARY

JAMES CLARK Former ambassadorEx-diplomat Clark’s appotment as Brish ambassador to Luxembourg 2004 was groundbreakg as he and his partner beme the first gay ambassadorial uple to have an dience wh the Queen. SUSAN CALMANComedianThe ic who once scribed growg up gay Glasgow as beg “as easy as beg a vegan abattoir worker” chucked her job as a rporate lawyer to do stand-up at 30. The rector and provost of the Cathedral of St Mary Virg Glasgow, he once ed ntroversy by vg pro-gay Catholics to worship at his church.

RHONA CAMERONComedianHavg e to promence through the stand-up circu, Cameron was one of the first openly gay edians to be make regular appearanc on Brish televisn and took part the first seri of I’m A Celebry …Get Me Out Of Here! Wh landsp full of drama and wonr, accents so heavy and thick they sent rippl down our sp, and geo men who go full mando unr their kilts, is any wonr gay Stland will always have our hearts?

” Meek, thor of Queer Voic Post-War Stland, says homosexualy was somethg fai, relig stutns, the medil profsn and society at large all chose to ignore: “Growg up queer post-war Stland [was] sentially occupyg a social and sexual wilrns. Jt like the rt of Stland, om at least the 1500s until 1980 the Gàidhealtachd was nstcted as a muny that admted no cultural or iologil room for gay inti. Most likely, practic now lled homosexual were occurrg all along, however, closeted silence at the risk of arrt, imprisonment, vlence, faial and social excln, or scerely anticipated damnatn.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Durg this stretch of history, the only historilly documented gay Gaelic speaker who has been intified is the plited figure of Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald (1853-1903), reputed to be the Highlanr on the Camp Coffee label. The anti-gay posns of the largt Christian nomatns Stland have historilly shaped the treatment and experienc of LGBT+ people Sttish muni, although the Church of Stland has been gradually changg s stance.