Many Brons have changed their mds on gay marriage

Contents:

• COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
• STTISH EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE SCOTLAND
• GAY MARRIAGE LAW TO EFFECT STLAND

COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND

While clergy will not be required to marry same-sex upl, the move mak the mory who oppose the natnal church’s volvement gay marriage worried about further divisn. "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. Homosexual men were forced unrground to public toilets or illic Meek says: "The nsequenc of beg ught were signifint.

"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". "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.

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 Glasgow, the gay mec was mentator Damian Barr tells a BBC Stland documentary: "I uld not have imaged a place like this existed.

STTISH EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE

"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.

"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.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

A queer tale Oot: The fabulo history of gay Stland is on BBC One Stland on Monday 30 November at on this storyAround the BBC.

GAY MARRIAGE SCOTLAND

Image source, Getty ImagThe Sttish Epispal Church has voted to allow gay upl to marry mak the first major Christian church the UK to allow same-sex vote to amend non law on marriage, removg the stipulatn that is between a man and a woman, was rried by the Synod means that gay Christians om any Anglin Church n now ask to be married a Sttish Epispal who wish to officiate at gay marriag will have to "opt-" church said this meant that those who disagreed wh gay marriage would be protected and not have to act agast their Epispal Church's Bishop of Edburgh, The Right Reverend Dr John Arm, said: "I am very pleased for the upl who n now have their relatnships regnised by the church and blsed by God.

"Media ptn, Sttish Epispal Church allows gay church marriageThe vote to allow same-sex marriage - which required the backg of at least two thirds of each hoe of Bishops, Clergy and Lay - has left the church at odds wh most of the rt of the worldwi Anglin Communn.

GAY MARRIAGE LAW TO EFFECT STLAND

A group of global Anglin tradnalists have now announced that they will appot a missnary bishop "to serve the needs of those who oppose gay marriage". Only Aberen and Orkney voted agast the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby is the Anglin Communn's spirual headAnalysis by BBC Stland rrponnt John McManThis vote to change non law, openg marriage to same sex upl, isn't jt the latt skirmish the relig war between tradnalist Christians and those of a more liberal will have profound nsequenc, bee the issue of gay relatnships has bee a touchstone for those who believe that the Anglin Church has lost s way, and needs to be Christians who live the global south, where the 80-pl ln Anglin Communn is at s strongt, look wh horror at what they see as mov to legimise gay relatnships and liftyl.