We take a look back on the story of the powr-faced, stylishly drsed gang of male prostut and the hidn liv of gay men who lived, loved, cised and partied Glasgow the early 20th century.
Contents:
- COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
- ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
- HIDN GAY HISTORI OF NATNAL LLECTN TREASUR REVEALED STTISH TRAIL
- QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- GAY STLAND
- IS SAM HGHAN GAY? HERE IS THE OUTLANR STAR'S DATG HISTORY
- 'MEET ME AT THE KNOB' – RELLG GLASGOW'S FOTTEN GAY SCENE AND THE NOTOR WHE HATSWE TAKE A LOOK BACK ON THE STORY OF THE POWR-FACED, STYLISHLY DRSED GANG OF MALE PROSTUT AND THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN WHO LIVED, LOVED, CISED AND PARTIED GLASGOW THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.GLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCHRISTA O'NEILLDIGAL JOURNALIST14:20, 2 FEB 2021UPDATED16:19, 26 JAN 2023BOOKMARKTHE WHE HATS ARE SAID TO HAVE LED THE BROOMIELAW THE 1920S. PICTURE: SUBMTED.GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
- GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
How did a untry that seemed to take pri s prejudic end up wh the bt gay rights Europe? * scotland gay history *
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. "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.
ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
The hidn gay histori behd a number of treasur held the natnal mm llectn have been revealed. * scotland gay history *
"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.
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.
HIDN GAY HISTORI OF NATNAL LLECTN TREASUR REVEALED STTISH TRAIL
The sexualy of Kg Jam VI of Stland & I of England has been long bated by historians. He is long held as an example of an openly gay kg paradg his lovers for all the urt to see. Meanwhile, his passnate love letters to his ‘male favour’ are held up by those who disagree… * scotland gay history *
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. Leaf through Edw Man’s scrapbooks(this will open a new wdow) and read the poem he wrote for the openg of the Glasgow Gay and Lbian Centre(this will open a new wdow) 1995. Perhaps you lived near the Sttish munist journalist who fend homosexualy to Stal, or close to the se where farmers rallied their tractors to protect their transgenr neighbour om nosy reporters.
From readg some of the letters sent to the SMG after the airg of the programme, seems many gay people were not aware of the existence of such anisatns and many wrote to the SMG requtg membership tails. The thors predomantly lived Stland, but as the programme was shown across the UK, there were rrponnts om England too, seekg advice on g out, how to obta gay publitns and askg if there were siar anisatns near them. ‘I realise that I am not the only isolated homosexual […] I was moved, pecially by what seemed to be a liberate attempt to prent homosexuals as ordary HUMAN begs’.
QUEER KGS & QUEENS: WAS JAM I & VI GAY?
Renewshire, LGBT, LGBT+, gay, lbian, bisexual, tran, transexual, Stland, history, pri, Paisley, johnstone, erske, Renew, RYV * scotland gay history *
Up until the 1970s, the mastream media had reprented the LGBT+ muny by way of a limed number of stereotyp, focg on gay men as overtly mp or effemate. Plete absence of the “twee” typ was a pulsive argument for the equaly you are seekg, as ferred by one of your visors who thought every homosexual had a limp wrist, […] this is how most of my iends regard gays. ‘After seeg a Programme on televisn, (open door) approximately two-weeks ago, on gay people, terted me tremendoly, as i am the same suatn, + do have difficulty meetg people bee of my gaiety, which realy get’s [sic] me down + mak me stay doors, bee i feel ashamed of beg what i am’.
I am wrg once aga to let you know that I have ma one more approach to the Lord Advote askg when we might expect the law Stland relatg to homosexuals to be put on a par wh that England.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport * scotland gay history *
They go on to say they had always known they were not heterosexual but ‘I was not like the type of persons portrayed plays, films etc… who are supposed to reprent homosexuals. At this pot I saw your programme on televisn + saw that there were homosexuals who were ‘normal’ + went to London + purchased a py of Gay News, + wh help of London ‘Friend’ + the Albany Tst am still alive. – I have still to live happily ever after’ – is not easy startg life aga at my age after beg screwed up for so many years – but I now associate wh many gay people + feel much more at ease their pany + take an active tert the CHE [Campaign for Homosexual Equaly] movement lolly.
‘I feel very strongly that so much more needs to be done to help people who are gay to e to terms wh themselv + society + that facili for meetg each other relaxed iendly surroundgs are pathetilly aquate. 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.
GAY STLAND
The bt gay bars & dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas and cise clubs Stland. Reviews, maps & disunts. * scotland gay history *
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. 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.
IS SAM HGHAN GAY? HERE IS THE OUTLANR STAR'S DATG HISTORY
Is Sam Hghan gay? Sam's sexualy has attracted the attentn of his fans followg his gay role Plague Over England. Lear about his datg history now. * scotland gay history *
"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. 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. 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. This would seem to be evince enough that Jam uldn’t possibly have been volved homosexual relatns, but rts heavily on the assumptn that a relatnship between two men trsilly volved perative sex.
'MEET ME AT THE KNOB' – RELLG GLASGOW'S FOTTEN GAY SCENE AND THE NOTOR WHE HATSWE TAKE A LOOK BACK ON THE STORY OF THE POWR-FACED, STYLISHLY DRSED GANG OF MALE PROSTUT AND THE HIDN LIV OF GAY MEN WHO LIVED, LOVED, CISED AND PARTIED GLASGOW THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.GLASGOWLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCHRISTA O'NEILLDIGAL JOURNALIST14:20, 2 FEB 2021UPDATED16:19, 26 JAN 2023BOOKMARKTHE WHE HATS ARE SAID TO HAVE LED THE BROOMIELAW THE 1920S. PICTURE: SUBMTED.GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT NOSTALGIA FEATUR AND PHOTO STORI OM GLASGOW STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
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Regardls of whether you nsir Jam I & VI gay, bisexual, or anythg on the LGBTQ+ rabow, the double standard when lookg at his ncrete relatnships wh men vers a potential reference to Anne Murray is obv.
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
As a history graduate, I naturally wanted to nvey how far Sttish society has e terms of s attu towards homosexualy whilst regnisg the work those have done before to get to this pot.
Not only this but my knowledge and unrstandg of Sttish gay history is limed to the extent vered by my studi, which foced only on gay and bisexual men.
For many people, young or old, who live and work urban Stland the sex of those who they love no longer weighs as heavily on the mds of gay and bisexual men. We are fortunate to live a untry where our recent history 3 out of the 5 elected lears of the polil parti wh the Sttish Parliament intified as eher homosexual or bisexual. Wh such reprentatn of LGB dividuals at senr levels of Sttish polics perhaps may be no surprise that Stland was ranked the most clive Europe for LGBT+ equaly and human rights legislatn, meetg 92% of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatns 42-pot creria.
GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
Whilst homosexual relatns rried out private between two nsentg men was ma legal England and Wal 1967 via the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, Stland found self omted om this piece of progrsive? Not only did the failure 1967 to crimalise homosexual acts Stland mata the illegaly of homosexualy but also prolonged a culture of severe and acute isolatn.