Heavy Issue 67 - ScotsGay Magazine

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Scene Around 

in Aberdeen 

Dundee 

Edinburgh & 

Glasgow 

Exclusive - Otton Uncut! 

LGBT History y Month 

Ren’s s Story y - Young Y 

TransexualT 

Tony Challis on Idaho East 

Rex Wockner’s s WorldW 

Bound & Gagged 

Mistress Vanessa’s s Agony 

News, Contacts & Listings

Old Git Writes 

Editorial 

Such is the pace of life at ScotsGay 

Towers that we often miss our own anniversaries. 

Not this year. 

The sight and sound of two of our rats 

leaving the sinking ship - Otton off to sun 

himself in Spain and Tivoli off to freeze into 

obscurity in Aberdeen warmed only by 

Cutearse - has reminded us of the frailty of 

the whole enterprise. 

Then there's the rat who missed the 

boat entirely this month - no names, no pack 

drill, but cuteness is no excuse especially at 

his age. Anyway, next time we see him, it's 

into the sack and dispose of humanely (to 

the sack). 

The organ in your paws is the first 

issue of our twelfth year of continuous publication 

and by golly does it show. 

The careful design and craftspersonship 

that went into our first few issues has given 

way to something that's carelessly thrown 

together in a spare hour or so when we're 

not all drinking the magazine's vast profits in 

the Regent. (Oi! don’t upset the designer - 

check out the banner headline - Martin.) 

And the journalism has got more careless 

too - even to the extent of the magazine 

being excluded from the New Town by Ray 

and Andy for not mentioning them enough (I 

blamed a rat but Ray wasn't having any). A 

far cry from the carefully measured words of 

yore which got us turfed out of Bennets, 

Demonica's and the Polo. 

But behind all this false modesty, there 

is a hard working team - depleted tho' it may 

be after this month - which somehow manages 

to get the mag out, generally within a 

few days of the unadvertised date. Where 

would we be without them? 

Thanks. Sincerely. 

The festive season approaches - so 

spare a thought for all the poor buggers on 

their own - be it as a result of lack of partner 

and friends or of absence of partner and 

friends who have chosen to fuck off to the 

parents without them. 

As any real lesbian knows, the answer 

to this hole at Xmas (and any other time of 

the year) is Felix Domesticus - preferably 

several of them. 

There are many animal charities who 

will be glad to help (especially in the New 

Year when the kids are tired of the kittens - 

personally, I'd hand the kids into the Social 

Work Department, but there you are). 

But this isn't really the time of the year 

to be rude or unduly offensive to pissing 

children, passing homophobes or pausing 

ScotsGay readers - so, may all your 

Partnerships be Civil. And have a Guid New 

Year - when it comes. Or you do. 

John Hein 

E-mail: editorial@scotsgay.co.uk 

THIS ISSUE 

Edited by John Hein 

Designed by Martin Walker 

ON THE COVER 

Peter Davison, Charlie Ross and the Daleks 

Photo by Sandy Nelson 

WRITERS 

Daniel, Ren, Tony, Martin, Anya, Criz, Beth, 

Tivoli, Gary, Rex, Malcolm, Dirk, John, 

Jessica and Vanessa 

Civil Partnership Act Becomes Law 

On 5th December 2005, the Civil 

Partnership Act, which received Royal Assent 

on 18th November 2004, became law. 

On 1st October, 1989, two Danes 

became the first couple to enter a same-sex 

civil union, registreret partnerskab. In the 

sixteen years since then, over 22 countries, 

including the UK, have taken the step of providing 

legal and formal recognition to samesex 

relationships: eight in the decade following 

Denmark’s change to the law, as many 

again in the first five years of the 21st century, 

and half a dozen more in 2005 alone. Of 

the 25 countries in the European Union, 

nearly half now offer some legal recognition 

to same-sex couples, ranging from full civil 

marriage in Belgium, the Netherlands, and 

Spain, to domestic partnerships in Portugal 

and Slovenia. 

It must be remembered what an 

extraordinary change this is. Until 1981, sex 

between men was illegal in Scotland, even in 

private: Section 28 of the Local Government 

Act, forbidding 'promotion of homosexuality', 

and calling same-sex couples and their 

children 'pretended family units', was not 

repealed until 2000, despite a campaign in 

its support that was ugly in its public homophobia. 

Discrimination at work on the 

grounds of sexual orientation was legal in 

the UK until 2003. Even today, it is still legal 

to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation 

in provision of goods and services, 

though this may change with the passing of 

the Equality Bill. 

Civil partnership in the UK makes samesex 

couples legally each other’s next of kin, 

requires the couple to provide for each other 

and support each other and each other’s 

children. LGBT relationships were, until 5th 

December, virtually invisible to the law: from 

5th December, this invisibility is lifted. 

Cohabiting same-sex couples will find their 

relationship recognised as 'living together as 

civil partners'. Equality under the law brings 

new responsibilities and costs as well as 

benefits. But it is still a change worth celebrating. 

Civil Partnership - Summary 

The Equality Network’s leaflet, Civil 

Partnership in Scotland, has been made 

available to registry offices and public 

libraries throughou Scotland. You can also 

find out more about civil partnership at their 

Civil Partnership website, http://www.civilpartners.org/ 

'Scotland will be stronger and more 

successful if we celebrate diversity and the 

ways in which different cultures, ideas and 

experiences enrich Scottish life.' Malcolm 

Chisholm, Communities Minister, in 

response to the Civil Partnership Act becoming 

law. 

A civil partnership is registered by a 

local registration office, and the ceremony is 

carried out by a public registrar licensed to 

perform civil partnerships. Once legally registered, 

a civil partnership is binding for life, 

unless dissolved by a court action. 

(Dissolution of a civil partnership is as 

expensive and time-consuming as divorce.) 

Civil partnership gives same-sex couples 

the same rights and responsibilities with 

regard to property, tax, employment, inheritance, 

and housing, as married couples have 

always had. Civil partners can have the same 

rights as spouses (or widowers, for survivor 

benefits) with regard to pensions, though it 

is always safest to contact the pension 

provider and ask. 

Civil partnership also gives same-sex 

couples the right of recognition for immigration 

and nationality purposes, protection 

from domestic violence, exemption from testifying 

against each other in court, recognition 

as each other’s next of kin, and the right 

and responsibility to support and provide for 

each other and each other’s children. 

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Lost and Found 

Nine 'lost' Edinburgh panels from the 

famous AIDS Memorial Quilt have been 

returned to the capital. 

The Quilt was first conceived 20 years 

ago this year when a group of gay men in San 

Francisco got together and made plans for a 

memorial to the 1000 people from that city 

who had at that time been lost to HIV. By 

1992, the AIDS Memorial Quilt included 

panels from 28 countries including Britain, 

and today there are thought to be over 44,000 

individual panels of the Quilt, each remembering 

an individual who died of an AIDS related 

illness. 

The returned Edinburgh panels are 

thought to have been 'lost' over seven years 

ago when they were loaned to an HIV support 

charity in Wales for an educational and commemorative 

exhibition there. But the person 

who arranged the loan, a man with Edinburgh 

connections, left the Welsh organisation soon 

after the Quilts arrived there. Voluntary HIV 

support worker Frances Elliston, who lost her 

own son to the disease in the early 1990s, has 

been storing the Edinburgh panels in a box in 

her front room ever since, 'The Edinburgh guy 

just left. He never said a word. He left in a bit 

of a hurry. We couldn’t understand. ' 

Without a forwarding address for her 

former colleague, Frances tried for many 

years to get in touch with another contact she 

had in Edinburgh, "Honestly, we spent many, 

many hours trying to contact a guy I knew in 

Edinburgh called Ian - I can’t remember his 

second name - I only met him a few times 

when he was down here visiting - Oh, the 

times I’ve written to him, phoned him, but it 

was either an answering machine or no 

answer at all."! 

What Frances didn’t realise was that her 

friend in Scotland, Ian Dunn, a veteran gay 

rights campaigner, had died suddenly of a 

heart attack in March 1998. That was the reason 

he wasn’t answering her letters and 

phone calls; that was the reason she couldn’t 

return the quilts. 

And so the nine Edinburgh quilt panels 

remained in a box in her front room for over 

seven years. Until, that is, last summer. Then, 

Frances’ friend Greg travelled from Wales to 

Edinburgh to take part in the Pride Scotia gay 

LETTERS 

The Edinburgh 

Evening News 

recently published 

an article about gay 

police which upset 

Lothian and 

Borders Chief 

Constable Paddy 

Tomkins so much that he not only wrote to 

the Evening News but also asked us to publish 

his response as well. 

I refer to the article by your columnist Helen 

Martin on Monday this week which attempted 

to belittle the work of the Scottish police service 

in our engagement with the communities 

we serve, while managing simultaneously to 

insult many of my colleagues of all ranks, gay 

and straight, who were quick to contact me to 

express their outrage. 

Ms Martin suggests that the police service 

should recruit a “quota” of staff from minority 

communities so long as we can see that 

they are visibly different but we shouldn’t 

bother with the lesbian, gay bisexual or transgender 

community because they are just like 

us, unless they are “behaving in a homosexual 

manner”. 

pride march and celebrations that were taking 

place in the city over the weekend of the 25th 

of June. While there, he picked up a flyer 

advertising an exhibition of panels from the 

AIDS Memorial Quilt, an event also organised 

by Pride Scotia in association with the 

George House Trust, an HIV support group in 

Manchester. The exhibition poignantly ran 

through the period of the G8 summit, where 

the problem of HIV and AIDS in Africa was 

being discussed. 

'Greg showed me the flyer and I thought: 

‘At last! I’ve got an address I can write to that 

might work’. 'Frances sent the panels, at her 

own expense, to St Georges West Church, 

where the exhibition was taking place. 

Exhibition organisers Pride Scotia have now 

found a permanent home for the returned 

Quilts at the Waverley Care Trust. 

Names on the Quilts: 

David Andrew Fernley, 11 May 1966 - 20 

July 93 

David G. Smith, 15 March 1957 - 22 March 

1993 

Rob Walsh, undated 

Margaret McKenzie, 1963 to 1995 

Fen, undated 

Pip, 1972 - 1996 

Crispin, undated 

Michael Oxley, 1953 - 1992 

A ninth panel is anonymous. 

Frances Elliston is pleased the quilt panels 

have finally found their way home, 

"They’re back where they belong. That’s the 

way I feel about it. The loved ones of these 

people worked so hard to make these panels. 

There’s real love in these quilts. They’re 

so precious. And they’re back in Scotland 

where they belong." 

Perhaps we could apply this thinking to our 

Catholic staff or possibly those with a disability 

that is not visible: out of sight out of mind? 

I think the Scottish public have a greater level 

of sophistication than she credits them with. 

Ms Martin then states that she cannot imagine 

any area of sexual orientation other than 

“rent boy activity” which should concern the 

police. Perhaps she is unaware of the hate 

crime nail bombing of the “Admiral Duncan” 

public house which killed three people and 

maimed 139 other patrons solely on the basis 

of their sexual orientation. Equally, the recent 

brutal murder of Jody Dobrowski in London, 

the most recent in a line of innocents kicked 

to death for the entertainment of thugs who 

were only too interested in his sexual orientation. 

I agree that sexual orientation is an 

intensely private matter but I would contend 

there are still too many people who have a 

malicious interest in such matters and it is 

our duty to safeguard all members of our 

community. 

If any of your readers doubt the need for positive 

measures to tackle homophobia they 

should consider whether such bigoted stereotypes 

would have been printed if they had 

related to issues of race. 

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Up And Away 

James Longworth, well kent Eton Slut and 

promoter of a number of notorious Edinburgh 

club nights, has qualified as an airline pilot. 

Old Boys Network 

Caffmos, the Internet based group for older 

men and their admirers, will be having their 

next Edinburgh social in Habana from 2pm on 

Mon 16th Jan. 

Kirk On HIV/AIDS 

The Church of Scotland has added their support 

to the National AIDS Trust’s campaign to 

make employers aware that it has become 

illegal to discriminate against people living 

with HIV in the workplace. 

The Disability Discrimination Act has been 

extended to include HIV from the moment of 

diagnosis. So it is best practice for employers 

to have an HIV and AIDS policy in place to 

address issues which might arise, especially 

stigma and discrimination. 

The Kirk’s HIV/AIDS Project Co-ordinator, 

Nigel Pounde, said, "HIV and AIDS-related 

stigma arises mostly from fear and ignorance 

about the disease. 

It may be further fuelled by hostility and existing 

prejudices towards the groups most 

affected. It becomes discrimination when 

people are unfairly treated in the workplace on 

the basis of their actual or suspected HIV status." 

Police Together 

Over 100 police officers and LGBT community 

leaders took part in a seminar hosted by the 

Association of Chief Police Officers in 

Scotland at the Scottish Police Training 

College at Tulliallan. "An Age of Consent - 

Policing the LGBT Community" was the culmination 

of several years of work by the ACPOS 

LGBT Reference Group in changing attitudes 

to the LGBT communities within the Scottish 

Police Service. 

Police Together 


News 

Dumfries 

A new club night for LGBT people and their 

friends from Dumfries and Galloway will have 

its next outing at the 102 Club in English 

Street on Fri 20th Jan. Thereafter, it will be 

held on the last Fri of each month. 

Blue Bonnets 

Moist/Ballisticz, the friendly clothing and 

paraphenalia shop in Galashiels, has been 

attacked by local churches following their 

application for permission to sell mucky 

videos (they already stock ScotsGay). 

Over 60 objections have been made to the 

local council - most of these are pretty silly eg 

"there is a pedestrian crossing outside the 

shop". 

Shona Jackson told ScotsGay, "We received 

copies of the objections today, and were fairly 

insulted as to the attitude of a lot of the 

church goers comments - it appears that we 

are encouraging pædophiles and sex offenders 

by having our shop - one million miles 

away from the main customer demographic 

of our actual customers who are middle aged 

married and gay couples!" 

"I think a lot of work still has to be done in the 

Borders to disperse a lot of the stigma surrounding 

people's sexual orientation, especially 

as we are promoting sexual health, and 

find it digusting that myself who is also a 

youth worker and Helen who works for 

Barnardo's should be put in the same paragraph 

as pædophiles (all of these comments 

were made by people who attend churches)." 

Xmas Cheer 

Edinburgh's annual LGBT Community Carol 

Service takes place on Sun 18th Dec at 6pm 

at Augustine United Church 41 George IV 

Bridge,Edinburgh. 

Organised by Metropolitan Community 

Church of Edinburgh and featuring a special 

performance by Edinburgh's LGBT Choir 

"Loud & Proud", all are welcome to this special 

festive event irrespective of faith background, 

sexuality or gender identity. 

A collection will be taken which will be shared 

equally between Waverley Care, Edinburgh's 

local HIV support organisation, and the 

Mother of Peace Orphanage in Zimbabwe 

which works with children who have lost their 

parents to HIV. 

Aberdeen College 

A new LGBT group is being set up in the 

Students Association. It meets each Mon at 

4.30pm in the SA, Gallowgate. 

Paddy Tomkins 

Chief Constable 

Lothian and Borders Police

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender 

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Coverage is currently restricted to the front room of 

Sala and the main meeting room downstairs, but 

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LGBT HISTORY MONTH by Daniel Donaldson 

February 2006 will see LGBT History 

tions to fashion shows, workshops to music 

Alan was 

Month return to Scotland. 

events and will feature a Ministerial Reception 

also gay but 

February has been designated LGBT 

to be hosted by the Scottish Executive. 

his 

achieve- 

History Month throughout the UK. Building on 

LGBT history month not only illuminates 

ments 

are 

the success of last year’s events, LGBT 

the hidden histories of those, who would 

l a r g e l y 

History Month aims to illuminate the hidden 

probably today identify as Lesbian, Gay, 

unknown, like 

histories of those, who would probably today 

Bisexual or Trans but is also is an opportuni- 

so many oth- 

identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Trans 

ty for all of us to learn more about their lives 

ers. 

(LGBT). 

and celebrate their contribution to society. 

On 

a 

LGBT Youth Scotland the national LGBT 

Richard Holloway, a friend of the LGBT com- 

more local level, 

serv- 

Youth agency will be hosting a number of 

munity in Scotland and a patron of LGBT 

community activists such as Steve Retson 

ices. 

projects across Scotland. Events are planned 

Youth said: “LGBT history month throws a 

and Ian Dunn are names that are rarely heard 

FUSION, the LGBT Youth volunteer 

for Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow with 

light back onto the hidden histories of men 

of outside their circle of friends. 

group are actively involved in History Month. 

others in the pipeline. 

and women in the past who would today iden- 

While LGBT equality has come a long 

The group is planning a variety perform- 

Commenting on the proposed events 

tify themselves as LGBT. LGBT History Month 

way in the past 20 years, it is important to 

ance to take place in the Assembly Rooms, 

Sean Green (18) of Edinburgh said: “Young 

is an opportunity for all of us to learn more 

remember that until recently couples of the 

Edinburgh in February. Glasgow Caledonian 

people don’t know how different life is for gay 

about their lives and celebrate their contribu- 

same-sex could not have a legally recognised 

University LGBT Society has planned a series 

folk now than say, 10 or 20 years ago. 15 

tion to society.” 

relationship, and at this time, it is still legal to 

of workshops on sexual health and drug use 

years ago, my boyfriend and I could have 

Unfortunately, many of the LGBT per- 

discriminate against LGBT persons in the pro- 

while also running several presentations and 

been arrested for something as simple as 

sons throughout history are selectively 

vision of both goods and services. It was only 

other events. LGBT Youth will be working 

kissing, and the word transgender didn’t even 

ignored or their achievements only mildly 

through the successful campaigning of the 

together with VIVID Youth and LIPS pulling 

exist. 

accredited. Alan Turing is such an example. 

LGBT community that same-sex civil partner- 

together a project in Glasgow and the 

“When you think of it like that, you can 

Alan Turing, who is widely acknowledges to 

ships have come into being and likewise, the 

Aberdeen LGBT Society and Youth Council 

see why LGBT History is important to remem- 

have been the father of all computers, sub- 

Government at Westminster has announced 

with a Project in the Granite City. 

ber.” LGBT History Month will be community 

stantially helped the war effort by assisting in 

that it intends to legislate to outlaw discrimi- 

Daniel 

focused. Events will range from art installa- 

the cracking of the Enigma code. 

nation in the provision of both goods and 

E-mail: daniel.donaldson@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

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Ren’sstory 

so far... 

WORDS 

Ren 

My name is Ren. I was born a boy and 

it wasn't until I was 18 I found the label 

transgender, although I realised I was different 

when I hit puberty. Up until I was 15 I 

just felt like a kid, my parents didn't raise me 

to do laddish things but I don't think that 

effects who you grow up to be. I didn't tell 

my friends or family straightaway but started 

to tell girlfriends from 18 onwards once I 

started having more serious relationships. It 

didn't go down well, a few said they wouldn't 

mind if I took hormones but no-one was 

comfortable with the idea of me getting surgery. 

I've always hated this because apart 

from a few straight girls, who perhaps 

understandably felt awkward, the majority of 

girls I dated were bisexual and I couldn't see 

why they had a problem with it. 

I've learned over the years that being 

transgender is easier for me to deal with 

than other people, even though I'm the one 

going through it. I'm not getting a different 

personality, I might look different but I'll still 

be the same person. People think that some 

transgender people change personally 

because they feel they have to act very 

manly before they start transitioning, but 

then feel like they should act stereotypically 

feminine. 

I wanted to talk to a doctor from the 

age of 18 but didn't till I was 21, in Jan 

2005. I wish I had gone earlier but they 

probably would have thought I was too 

young. I still get told that I'm very young just 

now at 22 - to be so sure of doing something 

which will dramatically affect my life. 

I have a lot of people backing me up 

now and they all say they think I'm doing 

what's right. Ten months later in Nov 2005, I 

got to speak to a general Psychologist. Apart 

from when I get told I'll be on a waiting list 

to get surgery, this was probably the longest 

ten months I think I'll ever remember. 

Seeing the psychologist wasn't scary at 

all compared to telling my doctor earlier in 

Jan, as she didn't seem to think I knew what 

I was talking about. She asked me if I wore 

girls clothes and why my hairstyle was boyish. 

I did want to point out that walking 

around dressed as a girl might well make me 

liable to getting my head kicked in, but a 

mixture of fear and common sense made me 

keep my mouth shut. 

Once you tell one person, you find it 

easier every time anyone questions you. The 

Psychologist asked lots of questions but told 

me he could see no reason why I should 

need to worry. That was the best news anyone 

has ever told me. I was worried I'd get 

told I wouldn't be able to get treatment, but 

the Psychologist said it was up to me what 

happened. Now even though I know I'll have 

to talk to a gender psychologist before I can 

start hormones, which take years to take full 

effect and then wait even longer before I can 

get surgery, I feel like I'm finally getting 

somewhere. I'm seeing a gender psychologist 

this month, so I'm hoping I can start 

hormone treatment early in 2006. 

The hardest thing I find about being 

transgender isn't the hormones and surgery. 

The hardest thing is trying to get close to 

people hoping they'll accept me for who I 

want to be, not who I am. 

How will I get on? I'll let you know. 

Ren 

tc 

WORDS 

Tony 

Challis 

Imagine you live with and love another 

man. You hear the news that your lover has 

been knocked down and killed. The driver 

was obviously drunk, but the driver was a 

policeman. What would you reaction be? 

Now, imagine you are living in a country 

where gay sex is illegal and where popular 

homophobia is rife. This is a state where 

authority does not like to be questioned, and 

where 'trouble-makers' are frequently arrested 

and not gently treated. What would you 

do then? How will you focus and express 

your distress? 

I know a man who had just this experience 

in a part of what was the Soviet Union. 

There are numerous countries where such a 

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situation is quite possible today. 

This is what makes 'IDAHO' really valuable 

and significant. No not the rather thinly 

populated American state, but the 

International Day Against Homophobia. 

Never heard of it? Well, it's a very recent 

innovation. 

In 2006, it will be focusing on Moscow, 

where the first ever Gay Pride and 

Conference will be held on Sat 27th May. 

European Members of Parliament are due to 

attend this. 

On the Thu 25 and Fri 26 May preceding 

the march, there will be a celebration of 

Scandinavian and Russian Homoculture. (Big 

contrast there! Though there was quite a 

flowering of Russian gay culture in the early 

years of the twentieth century). An Oscar 

Wilde event is also planned. 

More can be found out about IDAHO on 

Fri 7th April at 7:30pm at Conway Hall in 

London, where Louis-Georges Tin, the 

founder of IDAHO will be talking at a GALHA 

(Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association) 

meeting. People from all LGBT groups and 

non will be welcome, it is hoped that Ken 

Livingstone and a representative of an 

Iranian gay group will be there. 

Further details of all the above can be 

obtained from Derek Lennard at E-mail: 

dmlennard@blueyonder.co.uk if you wish to 

attend the Moscow event Derek would be 

delighted to hear from you. 

I have yet to hear of an IDAHO related 

meeting in Scotland, but watch this space in 

case one is mooted. 

We all know how lucky we are to live in 

a society as tolerant as ours at present, even 

though there is still a long way to go. There 

remain many people here who would and do 

happily spread antigay propaganda. Regular 

readers of Gary Otton's column will be well 

aware of that. The existence of extensive gay 

apprehension in many other countries is 

something that only emboldens such people 

and let's them think they can call us 'abnormal' 

and 'unnatural'. 

Therefore it is in our own interests to 

support attempts to obtain gay rights in 

those countries where such rights do not 

exist. We know about the purges on British 

gays as recently as the 1950's, the amount 

of entrapment that has occurred more 

recently, the homophobic bullying that still 

goes on in our schools, and the people who 

still legally speak hatred against us. It might 

be nice to see an Incitement to Homophobic 

Hatred Bill in Parliament. Therefore, we can 

feel for those who suffer much greater 

apprehension abroad. 

If each of us makes a stand we can 

make a difference. 

Tony 

E-mail: tony_challis@hotmail.com 

Tony writes for the Gay and Lesbian 

Humanist

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WORDS 

Martin 

Walker 

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scotsgay 

doctor who 

"Breath in deep… You feel that pounding 

in your heart, that tightness in the pit of 

your stomach, the blood rushing to your 

head? Do you know what that is? That's 

adventure. The thrill and the fear and the joy 

of stepping into the unknown. That's why 

we're all here and that's why we're alive!" 

Dr Who first appeared on television on 

23 November 1963. And it's had a troubled 

history. Axed in 1989, brought back for a 

one off TV film in 1996, axed again, and then 

finally re-resurrected in 2005 by the openly 

gay Queer as Folk writer Russell T Davies. 

But, back up. Before the latest incarnation 

of Dr Who hit our screens - during its 

long hiatus - old episodes were repeated 

every weekend on UKTV Gold, a library of 

new adventures were published by Virgin 

books, endless comic book stories were produced 

and a wealth of fan fiction grew and 

grew. The show never died in the eyes of the 

public. "Dr Who fans," ninth Doctor 

Christopher Eccleston, recently observed, 

"are legion." 

So back in 1999, to satisfy demand, Big 

Finish Productions, were given a licence by 

the BBC to produce new Dr Who fiction in 

audio. The first story, The Sirens of Time, 

featured Peter Davison, Colin Baker and the 

Dunoon born actor Sylvester McCoy (the 

fifth, sixth and seventh Doctors.) The story 

was greeted with critical acclaim, and the 

audio adventures have continued to be produced 

and enjoyed ever since. Guest stars 

have included Stephen Fry, Stuart Lee, Mark 

Gattis (The League of Gentleman), Matt 

Lucas (Little Britain), David Soul, James Fox, 

Melvyn Hayes and David Benson, as well as 

many actors who played assistants, companions 

and enemies in the classic series. 

The Doctor Dances (episode 10) 

Now, in 2006, the openly gay 

Glaswegian comedian Charlie Ross has 

become the latest famous fan to join the Dr 

Who Big Finish universe. He plays a baddie 

who is pit against the eighth Doctor, Paul 

McGann, in a brand new story by Eddie 

Robson, called Memory Lane. 

"It's a dark, comic piece with a twist" 

enthuses Charlie, "It's a traditional Dr Who 

story of the best kind. Good writing, great 

acting, solid storytelling." 

Charlie has been a Dr Who fan his 

whole life. He grew up watching Tom Baker 

and Peter Davison "Who I've been lucky 

enough to meet" and often includes Dr Who 

material in his stand up act. 

"In the latest classic DVD release, The 

City of Death, the Doctor and his assistant, 

Romana, are forced by an evil alien into 

making a time machine. So we cut to 

Romana wiring a domestic plug!" Charlie 

grins. "It's like, where do we plug this time 

machine in? What's worse is that the story 

is set in France and the plug is a British 

three pin…" 

I point out that I thought - as Dickens 

might say - he was a fan? 

"That's the beauty of Dr Who. Fans see 

the errors, the weaknesses and the 

strengths. As well as regular stand up gigs I 

perform Dr Who gags at SF and Who conventions. 

The beauty of performing at conventions 

is that you need very little time to 

set the joke up - in fact they can tell you 

almost instantly the exact date and time that 

the episode you are talking about was transmitted. 

Fans are not precious about the 

show… they are affectionate." 

Carry out a cursory online Google 

Search of Dr Who groups and it quickly 

The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack realise they must pass the 

army guardsman - Algie, to get to the bombsite. 

Rose: Are the words "distract the guard" heading in my general 

direction? 

Captain Jack: I don't think that's such a good idea. 

Rose: Don't worry I can handle it. 

Captain Jack: Trust me, I've gotten to know Algie quite well since 

I've been here. You're not his type. I'll distract him. Don't wait up! 

Rose looks put out. Captain Jack had been flirting with her - now 

he is making his moves on a man. 

The Doctor: Don't worry, he's a 51st century guy - he's just a little 

more flexible when it comes to dancing. 

Rose: What do you mean? 

The Doctor: Well by his time you lot are spread over half the 

galaxy. 

Rose: Meaning? 

The Doctor: So many species, so little time. 

becomes apparent that more than a fair 

share of the show's fan base is gay. Indeed, 

there are gay men at every level of Dr Who 

fandom, be it the local Edinburgh group, or 

the guy currently in charge of the TV series. 

Top 6 Websites: 

Gay Dr Who group 

http://www.tv.groups.yahoo.com/ 

group/gaywhovians/ 

Edinburgh Dr Who group 

http://www.edinburghwho.co.uk/ 

Big Finish Audio website 

http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/ 

The best Dr Who fan site 

http://www.gallifreyone.com/ 

Charlie Ross official website 

http://www.charlieross.co.uk/ 

Dr Who official website 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/ 

"There is no question that there are 

many, many gay Dr Who fans out there. The 

Doctor is not the traditional hero. He doesn't 

carry a gun, and would rather use his intelligence 

than his machismo to get out of problems. 

Despite having endless attractive 

female assistants, he never seems to notice 

them in a sexual way. In fact he doesn't 

seem the least bit interested in sex at all. 

When you're growing up gay, you can identify 

with an asexual man much more than with 

a macho heterosexual one. 

"Add to that the pure escapism of it all. 

The Doctor can step into a cupboard (the 

TARDIS) and go anywhere in the universe, in 

any time. Surely that has to be the ultimate 

fantasy?" 

I wonder what I'd do with such a 

machine? Find out how the dinosaurs were 

wiped out? Repair an old damaged relationship? 

Get next Saturday's lottery numbers? 

"That's just it… the possibilities with a 

time machine are endless… the show was 

only ever held back by its own budgetary 

limitations." 

These limitations however, did not 

apply to the new series. The 2005 television 

version of Dr Who quickly became a huge 

success. Millions tuned in every week - not 

even Ant and Dec or the new Star Wars film 

could compete in the ratings. 

"I missed episode 2 - The End of the 

World," laments Charlie, "I was away skiing. 

Set my timer to record the show but forgot 

about the clocks going forward. Ironic, to 

miss the Time Lord over a problem with 

time." 

And the new series pushed the boundaries 

further than Dr Who ever had before. 

Delightfully, Davies slipped a brief gay reference 

into practically every episode - right 

from the season opener. Then in episode 9, 

The Empty Child, the implicit gay references 

became explicit with the introduction of the 

first pre-watershed non soap character that 

was openly and obviously bisexual. 

Captain Jack Harkness (played by 

Glasgow born gay actor, John Barrowman) 

debuted in a world war two scene dressed in 

an Air Force uniform spying Rose (Billie 

Piper) hanging from a rope attached to an air 

balloon. After commenting "Nice bottom," he 

goes to rescue her, but not before slapping a 

male soldier (Robert Sands) on the arse and 

commenting "You have a nice bottom too." 

Captain Jack goes on to flirt with both 

male and female guest characters throughout 

the series until, in the last episode; he 

kisses both Rose and The Doctor on the lips. 

For those who remember the fuss surrounding 

the gay kiss in Coronation Street, the fact 

that an openly bisexual male could be seen 

on screen kissing a woman, then a man, in a 

family drama, without fuss from public or 

media, was a huge breakthrough. 

Now Captain Jack will have his own 

post watershed series in Torchwood, again 

devised by Russell T Davies, which will air in 

the autumn of 2006. Davies promises that 

Torchwood will be "sexy and action packed" 

and explore themes that "will be suitable for 

a post watershed drama." 

In the meantime, while you wait, catch 

the tenth Doctor, portrayed by Paisley born, 

David Tennant (himself a frequent guest 

actor on Big Finish audios and co-star of the 

latest Harry Potter film) in The Christmas 

Invasion at 7pm on BBC1 on 25th December. 

Encouragingly, in a recent Radio 4 interview, 

Tennant hinted that the Doctors own sexuality 

will be "gently probed" over the actor's 

first season in the role. 

"I saw David Tennant as The Doctor for 

the first time on the Children in Need special 

he did with Billie." Grins Charlie, "It was only 

a brief five-minute episode, but it was 

enough to convince me that the Scots lad is 

going to make a really great Doctor." 

Fantastic. 

Martin Walker 

E-mail: mgwuk@hotmail.com

ScotsGayBound and Gagged 

Welcome pervs and pervesses 

to the best BDSM column 

in Scotland, well OK, the 

only BDSM column in 

Scotland! Similarly to last 

month we have a number of 

moves on the BDSM scene. 

It would seem that just like 

on the Gay scene, the 

Xmas period accentuates 

the normal greed and 

avarice of venue owners. 

Thus House of Principles, 

Nightshade and even 

Rebound, have found 

themselves being 

pushed out of their venues. 

Obviously this makes 

fantastic financial 

sense, push out an 

organisation that 

books a venue for 

twelve months of 

the year, for a bunch 

of pissed up office 

attending arseholes 

who will never darken 

your doors for the following 

eleven months. 

Brilliant, definitely 

another business 

school graduate! 

Fortunately, 

Rebound organised 

another venue at the last 

minute, well done them. 

To the other clubs, better 

luck in the New 

Year. 

Now to something 

more positive: 

Scotland’s longest 

running munch 

which will next be 

held on Wed 4th 

Jan 2006, from 

8pm at The 

Balcony, Ward 

Road, Dundee. 

They will be 

seated 

upstairs in the 

small room to 

the right - just follow the F&T Munch signs. Any 

singletons wishing a meet and greet or anyone 

wishing further information, please E-mail: fifeandtaysidemunch@yahoo.co.uk 

Onto home territory, the Glasgow Munch, 

which is normally held at the warm and welcoming 

Admirals Bar on Waterloo Street, will for one 

month ONLY be held at the new club ‘Rebound’ 

venue at 30 Dora Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow. 

This is down to some confusion with the date 

and the new owners of the Admirals Bar and all 

will return to blissful normality in the New Year. 

It runs from 8pm until kicking out time, on the 4th 

Thu of the month, in this case 22nd Dec (my 

birthday!). 

So, as usual, bring along an item of food 

and for this month only booze will be on a BYOB 

basis. However there will be soft drinks available 

for a moderate charge and glasses and ice 

will be available, along with tea and coffee. Your 

meeters and greeters are Bumhug and Simply 

D, lovely people and very welcoming. Dress 

code is street clothes, casual wear or something 

festive! 

You will notice from the above example 

that people often use a pseudonym, mine for 

example is Mistress Anya. So feel free to do 

likewise. 

If you are free on Wed 19th Jan, happen to 

be in Edinburgh and want to meet people with 

similar interests, all you have to do is swan 

along to the Holyrood Tavern on Holyrood Road. 

The Munch will be in the back room, walk past 

the bar, buying drink on the way and join in. The 

fun starts at 8pm, but you can turn up at anytime 

up until Midnight, when the place shuts. They do 

serve coffee, but not food. 

Now onto the clubs. ‘Rebound’, a very popular 

Glasgow club, has moved once again, due 

to the shortsightedness of the event manager at 

the Bastille. So ‘Rebound’ now has its own private 

venue which is being converted into a permanent 

home for this very popular club. The 

next club night will be Sat 14th 

Jan 2006. Doors will open 

at 8pm and close at 2am. 

The entrance fee is £10 on 

the door. Dress code is 

fetish and/or black. 

Location is 30 Dora Street, 

Dalmarnock, Glasgow. 

As of next month 

there will be an alcohol free 

bar service i.e. glasses, ice 

and soft drinks will be available, alcohol will be 

on a BYOB basis. Transport details are available 

on both the club website and their yahoo 

group: 

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ReboundClub 

or http://www.reboundglasgow.com/ 

Now to an old favourite, club ‘Violate’ next 

takes place on Sat 7th Jan 2006 at the Big Joint, 

1084 South Street, Scotstoun. A very popular 

event, this club welcomes a mixed crowd of all 

ages. Music is provide by DJ Loveless - a mix 

of Dance and Rock. A play area is set up in the 

large back room and food is included in the ticket 

price. As an introduction to the BDSM scene 

this club night is ideal. Doors open at 8pm club 

runs until 2am, doors close at Midnight. Tickets 

are £10 on the door or £5 for members. 

A quick note on ‘Nightshade’: the event 

planned for 17th Dec has been cancelled, due to 

loss of the venue, for further details please 

check the website: http:/www.nightshadeclub.org/ 

DV8 is a monthly fetish club held in the 

atmospheric cellars of the Spiders Web Pub on 

Morrison Street, Haymarket, Edinburgh. Entry 

price is only £5 for members. Membership costs 

£10 for a year and is available to anyone who 

has been to at least two previous DV8 events. 

Guests can be brought in by a member for £10. 

The doors open at 8pm, You may pose on the 

equipment for your own photos until the club 

starts at 9.30pm. NO cameras including cameras 

on phones allowed from 9.30pm onwards. 

The club runs from 9.30pm until 1.30am. 

Any questions or venues you would like 

listed contact me on my E-mail address below. 

You can also reach me on the following forums: 

http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/ or 

http://www.bondage.com/ where I am registered 

as Mistress_Anya. You heard what they say 

about payback. Well I’m the bitch! 

Mistress Anya 

E-mail: Mistress_Anya@drink.demon.co.uk

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glaschu 

glasgow 

scene 

WORDS 

Criz 

Crimbo comes but once a year and 

Santa’s sack is bulging! Well, here we are 

again - ‘Yule’ the winter festival of the Celts! 

Or, to most of us, the time when we are asked 

to pay to come into our own city centre at 

Hogmanay! Yes, it’s true, most places will be 

putting their prices up for entry and for most 

other things as well! If you’re not going out, 

just cast your mind back to that ill thought out 

party that you had, the cat has still not forgiven 

you! Or worse, spending too much time 

with family at this time of year. 

In sheer boredom, if nothing else, you 

will be rearranging the tree balls in pairs, calling 

your dad’s best mate ‘Trixi’ and chatting 

up the next-door neighbours! It may cost 

more, but at some point over the season you 

are all going to ‘scene it,’ you know you are! 

Best deal (as always) for Hogmanay is 

the LGBT Centre - they will be doing their festive 

bit for the community at the cheapest 

price in town with raffles, games and lots of 

fun! Coco in Jamaica Street is doing a special 

‘First Hogmanay’ kinda thing in their lovely 

newly done up establishment, with lots of 

sweet young things to serve your every need 

- what better way to welcome in the bells! 

Bennets is where many traditionalists still like 

to have a swallow or two at the appointed 

hour and some will still be parked by their 

drinks in the Polo when the time draws near 

(even if they have been there since opening)! 

to raise a glass - although The Polo certainly 

seem to have ruffled some feathers on the 

Internet: http://www.thepololongesucks.com/ 

If you do Fancy something more than 

just a wee bit different how about a boat 

party? Melting Pot’s New Year Nautical 

Adventure (tickets from ‘Tickets Scotland,’ 

239 Argyle St, 0141-204 5151). Starting at 

9.30pm. the boat leaves the Broomielaw and 

later you are whisked off to the Riverside Club 

in Fox Street. I know! Costs £25 or £15 if it’s 

just the club without the boat. Loads of very 

drunk people on the River Clyde until the 

small hours with only sailors and seagulls for 

company, but i thought that I should let you 

all know about in case there were any nautical 

types among you! 

If it’s really all too much and all you want 

is a nice quiet way of welcoming 2006 then 

why not do so in one of the bars? Icon is 

doing a low key night at Hogmanay and this 

may well be more to your taste! If you want 

something a wee bit spicier but not too hot, 

try next door in the Merchant Pride and enjoy 

the cabaret. Revolver is a favourite for many 

with its small intimate feel and welcoming 

atmosphere. I cannot really speak for the ‘last 

order’ times in any of these and you may well 

have spotted that just like the Tron geography 

places all these venues in the heart of the 

action, so to speak! 

If any of you have braved Glasgow’s out 

doors Hogmanay extravaganza, then you 

know what to expect, but if you are a virgin, 

then please listen! Wrap Up, all those jumpers 

you never wear because they’re ‘so yesterday’ 

will make all the difference in the world as will 

gloves and a hat! It’s not a fashion parade it’s 

a Glasgow winter: T-shirts that are more than 

two sizes too small for you that you got for 

your baby sister are not suitable attire! 

To all those who have during this year 

volunteered in any way. To stuff an envelope 

or steward a march. To sit at a desk ‘to meet 

and greet’ or shake a tin to raise some cash. 

If you explained how to knit or pinned a ribbon. 

You may have sung or drummed. You 

may just be a voice on the line or you may just 

have typed. Whatever and however you gave 

to our community, I would like to thank you. 

Without all of you, we would have no community 

to speak of! I have, with many mistakes, 

done my best with this column and I have 

done it in my own way and in my own time. I 

hope it has at least been informative and at 

best that it has entertained! 

Well, that’s all that I have heard, seen, 

been told and had screamed at me! Till our 

next merry meeting in 2006, this witch must 

fly! 

Criz 

E-mail: criz@drink.demon.co.uk

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dùn deagh 

dundee 

scene 

WORDS 

Beth 

Hello everybody, this is a two in one edition 

of Dundee's scene. Because this edition 

is out just before Xmas you're going to get a 

quick festive update followed by what's on in 

the New Year. 

Remember that both Charlie's and 

Brooklyn's are open till 1am at the weekend 

throughout the festive season. And no need to 

worry about missing an hour of dancing in the 

club as OUT is open till 3.30am on a Sat. Both 

pubs will be having their annual Xmas Eve 

parties with Ross providing the music in 

Charlie's and Suzie hosting Karaoke in 

Brooklyn's, OUT is then taking you into Xmas 

Day with Dean proving the music. 

Charlie's will be opening for "escape the 

family" drinks on Xmas Day, opening at 6pm. 

As will Brooklyn's opening an hour later at 

7pm. The club will be open Xmas Day night 

from 11pm till 3.30am. Both pubs and the 

club will be open as normal on Boxing Day. 

Charlie's, Brooklyn's and OUT will be in full 

swing to welcome in the New Year. The show 

bar will be open on either the 1st or 2nd of 

Jan and is a great way to start the New Year (I 

can already hear "well hello dolly" ringing in 

my ears). 

Diversitay is holding its monthly icebreaker 

on the 21st of Dec - for more details 

phone Dundee (01382) 202620 Mon 7-10pm. 

Remember that Diversitay's phone line is having 

two weeks off over Christmas but will be 

back on 9th Jan. 

Once the silly season is over, 2006 is 

starting in a positive (or should that be drunken) 

manner. 

Charlie's Bar celebrates its seventh year 

in business this month; Charlie and Ian are 

celebrating by escaping to warmer climes for 

a couple of weeks. 

The first quiz night of 2006 at Charlie's 

will be held on Tue 7th Feb. And following on 

from last year, Ross will be proving the music 

on a Fri and Sat night. Ross's night "does your 

mother know" has finalised its venue change 

and will now be held every Wed in the Piano 

Bar at the London 

Nightclub. 

Brooklyn's 

has also started 

to run its own pub 

quiz and this is held every 

Mon night, with a bottle of vodka for the winner 

and the chance to win the door takings 

(this will carry on till the week after if not 

won). Karaoke is being held every Wed, Fri 

and Sun if you fancy a sing along. 

OUT, Dundee's only LGBT nightclub is 

open Wed to Sun, with specially drinks promotions 

on a Wed and Thu night. Dean provides 

the music on a Wed, Thu and Sat and 

Jamie DJs every Fri and Sun. 

Diversitay will be holding its Jan 

Icebreaker on Wed the 18th. And everyone is 

welcome along. Diversitay has also relaunched 

its newsletter now called 'Right 

About Now". This will come out every other 

month and they are on the look out for anyone 

who wishes to contribute. Ring Dundee 

(01382) 202620 on a Mon evening for more 

details. Diversitay have also finalised the date 

of their next Women's Disco, it will take place 

on 11th Mar in Braes Below, more details to 

follow. 

Mi Cielo at 

Bliss (formerly 

Whispers) 

Night Club in 

Perth is going 

from strength to 

strength and is 

holding its next 

night on Sun 8th 

Jan, 10pm till 

1.30am and all 

drinks are £1.50 

till Midnight. They 

have the fantastic 

"Uha Holeburns" 

performing and 

looks like a lot of 

fun. 

And as of this month they will also have 

copies of ScotsGay for you to pick up (a good 

reason to go if I ever heard one) Information 

can be found on their website 

http://www.blissandenvy.co.uk/ 

Lastly I would like to congratulate all 

those who tied the knot and have become civil 

partnered. I wish you all the best for the 

future. If you have a photo of the 'happy couple' 

that you would like included in the next 

issue please E-mail me it. And for all those 

thinking about following in their footsteps find 

out more by contacting Dundee's Registrar of 

Births, Deaths and Marriages 89 Commercial 

Street, Dundee, DD1 2AF. Tel: Dundee 

(01382) 435222. Fax: Dundee (01382) 

435224. 

Beth 

E-mail: Beth_Scotsgay@yahoo.com

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WORDS 

John 

Hein 

dùn eideann 

edinburgh 

scene 

The pubs are filling up with Xmas cheer 

with the promise of more to come at the New 

Year. 

First up is The Big H (as Habana's new 

logo is getting the place called). They've 

manged to wangle a wee extentionette out of 

the Licencing Board over the festive season 

and will be open until 3am for the dispense of 

sherry. Cabaret Nights with Ms Samantha are 

on Boxing Day and 2nd Jan, whilst Xmas Eve 

and Xmas Day will see Graeme F on the 

decks. Graeme F return on Ne'er Day whilst 

Chris Paton provides the loud popular noise 

at Hogmanay. During the festive season, 

Gordon, Lorraine and all the staff will be 

happy to give you a punch and will only 

charge £1 a glass (with all proceeds going to 

Marie Curie Cancer Care). 

eGo are running a night of what they 

quaintly describe as "Filthy Electronica" on 

Wed 21st Dec. This would appear to consist 

of sets from Alan Joy, Jemma & Alan 

Bloodbath and C-Dogg. Entry is £3 and cheap 

drinks are promised. 

Down the Walk at No 18, Kate Dykes 

proudly announces that not only is her establishment 

the first gay sauna in the UK to be 

VAT registered, but HMRC are using the place 

as a benchmark for similar establishments 

throughout the length and breadth of the land. 

If you're entertaining foreign visitors, be sure 

to ask for a VAT receipt with your towel and 

claim back the tax! 

Up at the Regent, young Alan happily 

boasts that he got ten 

out of ten for product knowledge when Punch 

Taverns sent in a mystery shopper the other 

day. He's also doing well in the beer scores 

with the local CAMRA branch who will soon 

be voting on pubs for their annual Good Beer 

Guide. Membership forms are available on the 

counter in case you want to join and vote for 

your favourite pub. 

Whilst on the suject of real ale, I hear 

that the Claremont has got Deuchar's IPA in. 

Haven't had a chance to pop in to sample it 

yet, but I'm sure it will be a good move with 

the Bears drinking nothing else! 

Burly Too is taking a holiday in January 

but should start up again on Sat 25th Feb 

after a much needed break. I'm told that the 

last few events at Mariners have been somewhat 

full. 

In my capacity of Pastor Best, I was out 

with the Order of Perpetual Indulgence on 

World AIDS Day and we visited a fair number 

of the bars. Sadly, the cosy little Frenchies 

wasn't on our route, but we managed the New 

Town where our condom packs (sponsored 

by Edinburgh Switchboard) were especially 

well received. Next on the route was the Blue 

Moon, followed by Sala and then The Street. 

After that, we made our way over to 

Habana and Planet Out (it was a little early for 

CCs) before replenishing our condom supplies 

at the Convent and heading for the 

Regent. I called it a night about then, but I 

think that some of the Sisters moved on elsewhere 

afterwards. The OPI will be out 

and about again over the festive 

period - please demand your personal 

condom pack and make 

sure you use the contents! 

The New Town is, I hear, 

due for a major refurbish next year - but that’s 

in the futureand the place will be operating 

normally over Xmas and New Year. 

HMS Luvely will be having their January 

Sail on Sat 7th Jan at the Liquid Room. Dress 

code is 'nautical, sailors, pirates and cheap & 

trashy' with the usual queue priority for folk 

who make an effort. 

Sorry if my route knowledge is a bit thin 

this month, but when you get thrown in at the 

deep end half an hour before 

things get to the printers and none of the 

pubs are answering the phone, there's not a 

lot of bricks to be made from the straw on my 

premises. 

Things will improve next month - and 

that's a promise 

John Hein 

E-mail: editorial@scotsgay.co.uk

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WORDS 

Tivoli 

obar dheadhainn 

aberdeen 

scene 

Hi there and here is my final round up 

of what's happening North of anywhere. 

The biggest news this month has to be 

the introduction of theCivil Partnership Act 

that finally allows same sex couples' to have 

their relationships recognised. This act 

Bar Indigo on the Adelphi continues to 

provide Aberdeen with its only gay venue. 

Open 7 nights a week it must now be 

Aberdeen's longest running exclusive LGBT 

venue in the last few years. I am sure they 

will have a full range of Christmas and New 

Do you know where your next one is coming from? 

Now you can let your fingers do the trolling and order your next copy of 

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marks a huge step forward in the rights of 

LGBT people and should be welcomed with 

open arms. Among the first and most prominent 

of Aberdonians to get hitched will be 

local councillors Neil Fletcher and John 

Stewart who are celebrating their big day on 

Tue 20th Dec. I hope that they have a great 

day and wish them all the best for the future. 

The Aberdeen University LGBT Society 

continue to have an active programme of 

events and had their Christmas meal at 

Jimmy Chungs on Tue 13th Dec. For further 

information on future events, E-mail Mark at 

aulgbtgroup@hotmail.com 

Year events over the next few weeks. Watch 

out for posters and information on G-Zone 

for further details. 

Due to other commitments I am standing 

down as Aberdeen's Scene reporter so 

any one who wishes to take over this role 

please contact the editor. It only remains for 

me to say thanks to everyone who has provided 

me with information and inspiration to 

write these articles over the last couple of 

years. I want to wish everyone a happy and 

peaceful festive season and great New Year. 

Tivoli 

E-mail: Tivoli_abdn@yahoo.co.uk 

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media homophobia and religious propaganda. Shortly before Garry Otton 

put his last column to bed, after ten years, he received a call from The 

Sunday Herald asking him to write a piece for them. 

It was pulled at the last moment before being asked to make substantial 

alterations. Immediately prior to publication, he was told the article was 

unsuitable and was persuaded to allow a ‘sympathetic’ expert to write his 

piece for him. Garry Otton has been subjected to ten years of media 

censorship, distortion and misrepresentation and has been forced to 

close thecolumn following warnings of up to six years imprisonment 

should proposed legislation protecting religion become law. Garry’s 

article appears here, in its uncensored form, exclusive to ScotsGay. 

This is his story… 

My first brush with the media was 

through my London agent selling illustrations 

for love stories drawn for magazines like 

Jackie. The illustrations sold in nine countries 

but after 500 or so, I felt the magazines 

weren’t being particularly honest. They were 

asking me to promulgate a heterosexual 

dream. But it was a lie. Not just for me: The 

reader too. If they had let me do some gay 

ones, perhaps I might still have been doing it! 

The Scottish Media Monitor was 

launched in Gay Scotland magazine while 

Dominic d’Angelo was editor in January 1996 

following the brutal murder of 35-year-old 

Michael Doran in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park in 

the summer of 1995. A gang of three lads and 

a 14-year-old girl went on a queerbashing 

rampage putting a hammer through one guy’s 

head, beating another so badly, he was unable 

to walk and finally murdering young Michael. 

He received 83 blows to his body. They 

stabbed him several times in the groin, 

stamped on his face until they had broken 

every bone in his head and left him in the 

bushes, choking to death in his own blood. 

With their clothes still bloodstained, they 

joined their friends at a nearby party and 

bragged about what they had just done. (A 

similar murder of a gay man had taken place 

in Queen’s Park during the sixties. The murder 

of John Cremin led to the last hanging at 

Barlinnie Prison of 19-year-old Anthony 

Miller, his accomplice, James Denovan was 

imprisoned indefinitely after acting as a 

decoy). A gay friend of mine who I had 

worked with in London was also murdered 

after someone put a bottle over his head and, 

in a separate incident; another gay friend was 

jumped on after leaving a gay club in North 

London. They dragged him into their car and 

knifed him to death. Michael Doran’s murder 

produced a column in The Herald that 

described one of the girls who participated in 

the attack as a “beautiful child…” whose conviction 

had “came as a shock to most people”. 

The writer deplored the fact that no attempt 

had been made “to help this child come to 

terms with the experience of seeing a human 

being stabbed and kicked to death”. 12 

weeks, later, Herald columnist, John 

MacLeod, (before he was sacked for suggesting 

murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and 

Jessica Chapman might’ve been alive if they’d 

been in church), described gays as “unnatural, 

dangerous, evil” and “simply not 

equipped to live”. They inspired me to launch 

the Scottish Media Monitor. With the ‘militant 

homosexual’ such a favourite icon for media 

vitriol, I headed the column kitted out in combats, 

brandishing a rifle from Toys R Us and 

set out to use one of the few weapons in my 

armoury: Ridicule. For it would take a seachange 

in attitudes for reporters to stop 

attaching comments from the Church to every 

report on sex. In those days, whenever any 

issue of sexuality appeared in the Scottish 

media - as it did on a daily basis - it was rarely 

academics journalists turned to, but a string 

of religious and conservative ‘spokespeople’. 

In Scotland it was usually the ‘Sexfinder 

General’, the late Monsignor Tom Connelly 

from the Catholic Church, or the Kirk’s Mrs 

Ann Allen or the Rev Bill Wallace from their 

ridiculously named Board of Social 

Responsibility, or the deposed Tory MP, Phil 

Gallie, or spokespeople from any number of 

partisan organisations like the Christian 

Institute and Family and Youth Concern. This 

laziness on the part of journalists to latch on 

to sound bites or PR machines attached to 

religious organisations both distorted and 

misrepresented Scotland’s sexuality. In colluding 

with moral conservatives; serving a 

regular diet of propaganda and misinformation 

on sexual issues, the Scottish press have 

failed the public they are supposed to serve; 

contributing to Scotland’s appalling record of 

sexual repression. Scotland has Europe’s 

highest rate of teenage pregnancy (some 

seven times higher than Holland) whilst sexual 

pathology, crime, ignorance and disease 

are rife. 

I’ve since donated boxes of news cuttings, 

the fruit of hundreds of hours scanning 

the Scottish press in libraries and newsagents 

to Glasgow’s Women’s Library, although 

much of my time was spent reading the news 

on the Internet. Much of the comments that 

find their way onto the Media Monitor website 

from readers are uncensored. Amidst the 

messages of support and criticism that are 

regularly sent to me are painful stories of 

abuse, moving responses from victims of 

salacious media reports and lately, a very 

public spat between Bronski Beat’s Steve 

Bronski and Jim Glancy. 

I’m astounded at the prudery of the 

Scottish media. I would occasionally be asked 

to review the press on Real Radio. That was 

before I was joined by a Scottish Sun journalist 

attempting to justify the paper’s exposure 

of a dentist for placing a sexy picture of himself 

up on an adult website. The Glasgow dentist 

was sacked. Not very moral for a paper 

otherwise so full of wank fodder! I said so on 

air. Believe me… My arse was out of those 

swing doors so fast…! 

When my book Sexual Fascism was 

published in 2001 after five years of monitoring 

the Scottish media, The Dundee Courier 

refused to review it because “it contained 

sex”. Both BBC Scotland and The Herald also 

refused to review it, unlike The Sunday Herald 

which I enjoy reading because I’m such a big 

fan of Muriel Gray. After ten years, scottishmediamonitor.com 

was averaging almost 

1,000 hits a day. It’s read by hundreds of 

MSPs, MPs and journalists and, thanks to the 

valued support of ScotsGay editor John Hein 

- himself a brilliant Scottish commentator 

who, regrettably, won’t be found in the pages 

of any Scottish newspaper - is published 

monthly. Be they the politicised religionists 

who dragged Gay News to the courts – (do 

not blaspheme)! – or those who pasted 

homophobic posters on every billboard they 

could find in Scotland – (Keep the Clause)! 

Gays have been at war with such extremists 

for years. If this new bill against ‘incitement to 

religious hatred’, one of the most illiberal 

measures attempted even by this prescriptive 

Government – and those were the words of 

The Daily Mail, not me! – were ever to 

become law, could I chide politicised religionists 

for the over-generous provision of media 

rent-a-gobs; accuse them of spluttering 

quotes backing an iffy moral conservatism on 

matters sexual, or name those who are hijacking 

the media for their own pernicious ends? 

Will it be easier to challenge those who promote 

female genital mutilation, physical chastisement, 

forced marriage or child abuse in 

the name of religion? I don’t think so! The bill 

has been rejected by the House of Lords, but 

that won’t necessarily stop the Government 

forcing it through. I have a great respect for 

the spiritual aspect of religions, but I have 

become increasingly nervous of the developments 

surrounding the introduction of this 

bill. Such a bill, designed to protect religionists 

(the idea of also including some protection 

for gays has been rejected), if it became 

law, would be very tricky and also very subjective 

as ‘hatred’ is almost impossible to 

define. I don’t want to risk up to seven years 

in prison for challenging religionists and 

therefore made the decision to close my column 

on its tenth birthday. Quite apart from 

anything else: I really don’t need the hassle. 

Ten years of writing my column, five 

years either side of the turn of the century, 

was an extraordinary period to chronicle attitudes 

to sexuality in Scotland. The column 

captured everything from the insidious peddling 

of religious propaganda by media 

columnists to seemingly benign stories like 

the man arrested with a snake down his 

trousers or the doll found with a penis under 

her dress. Although my interest in sexual politics 

is wide-ranging, as the column appears 

in a gay magazine – and being gay myself - 

I’ve focused on the struggle for gay emancipation, 

such as the initial failures to equalise 

the age of consent by politicians, the obstruction 

of the repeal of Section 28 by militant 

religionists, the rounding-up of gay men in 

police operations across Scotland and the 

string of subsequent suicides. Ten years 

reflects a time when Scots actor Robert 

Carlyle joined a band of unemployed men to 

strip for The Full Monty and radio stations 

banned the Bloodhound Gang from doing it 

like they do on the Discovery Channel. Only 

months after my column began, Thomas 

Hamilton tragically gunned down a classroom 

of children and their teacher in a school in 

Dunblane. Despite no evidence Hamilton sexually 

molested children in his care, or was 

himself gay, the Dunblane tragedy was sexualised 

to the extent gay men were swept up in 

a tidal wave of moral panic. Scoutmasters and 

gym teachers, boys’ club managers and 

priests were dragged across the pages of the 

Scottish press in frenzy. One ‘sex beast’ after 

another was ‘caged.’ A 24-year-old was jailed 

for three months after being found on school 

grounds in Paisley. A 77-year-old man was 

sentenced to four years for taking pictures of 

kids at the seaside in Ayrshire and a drunken 

37-year-old priest faced shame and retribution 

after allegedly groping a 16-year-old. 

Public toilets, saunas, parks and swimmingpool 

changing areas throughout Scotland 

became flash points of moral warfare. A 

swimming-pool attendant warned parents “all 

their children are at risk”, and was reported in 

a tabloid begging more staff to patrol open 

changing-rooms. “The only way to clampdown 

on this kind of thing”, he said, “is by fitting 

screens to the top and bottom of cubicles 

and security guards watching at all times”. 

Much of the Scottish media both protects 

and excludes readers in a process of 

restraint, contraction and limitation on sexual 

issues. A perceived threat to children from 

‘perverts’ was trumpeted by tabloid campaigns 

such as The Daily Record’s 

‘PervertWatch’ campaign and The News of the 

World’s ‘Name and Shame’ which leant credence 

to the media attaching a sense of 

shame and fuel moral outrage to almost any 

legitimate means of sexual expression. Most 

prominent amongst these campaigns was the 

attack on ‘Channel Filth’ on Channel 5’s late 

night depiction of erotica and The Daily 

Record’s ‘SmutWatch’ campaign. An increasingly 

politicised church, fearful of moral 

decay and advances in sexual liberty and 

expression succoured these campaigns. A 

major victory for the Church and their media 

crony’s was the banning of an exhibition of 

erotica in Glasgow. Such a campaign, however, 

paled into insignificance to what the fledgling 

Scottish parliament faced when they were 

caught unawares by the longest political 

debate in its history, the bankrolling of a cam-

paign to prevent the repeal of Section 28 by 

Scottish business tycoon, Brian Souter, 

assisted by a PR circus engineered by Jack 

Irvine, a former editor of Scottish editions of 

The Sun. 

Over the past ten years, Scotland’s 

media has boasted an abundance of equally 

conservative columnists operating within 

almost every major newspaper in Scotland. It 

was The Scottish Mirror’s Jack Irvine - regularly 

carrying his rabid homophobia, including 

a reference to “slobbering queers” – who 

inspired Brian Souter to enlist his support for 

his £2million ‘Keep the Clause’ campaign. Jim 

Sillars, a former SNP MP would write weekly 

in The Scottish Sun advising readers that 

homosexuals need to get the homosexual age 

of consent “as low as possible to ensure a 

continuous supply of sexual partners”. In The 

Daily Record, columnist Tom Brown once 

referred to gay’s “sad, seedy perversions” 

while it was his expressed opinion that “only 

sexually inadequate adults buy dirty magazines”, 

an opinion apparently shared by The 

Daily Record’s matronly agony aunt, Joan 

Burnie - or ‘Old Mother Burnie’ as she became 

known in the Media Monitor - who evoked the 

ire of many of her readers by describing erotic 

films as “filthy”. She once advised a woman 

whose husband enjoyed erotica to “burn anything 

you find”. She wrote: “If my sons grew 

up to think porn was harmless, then I’d know 

I’d failed as a mum…” The Scottish Daily Mail 

is, of course, particularly popular with the 

morally conservative. There was – and sadly 

still is – the ubiquitous Mrs Katie Grant, a 

Catholic, Conservative who, along with regular 

appearances at BBC Radio Scotland, 

writes regular columns in The Scotsman, The 

Sunday Times Scotland and, of course, The 

Scottish Daily Mail. She was famous for her 

siren calls to parents that schools would be 

awash with gay propaganda once Section 28 

was repealed. Equally shrill were reporters 

like Hamish MacDonnell, Eddie Barnes and 

Graham Grant, (all who have worked for The 

Scottish Daily Mail and have been regularly 

shamed in the Scottish Media Monitor. The 

Scotsman, once boasted Linda Watson- 

Brown, a virulent anti-porn campaigner who 

believed all men were potential rapists. Their 

lack of imagination has had her replaced with 

Mrs Grant, also favoured by The Sunday 

Times Scotland. The Daily Telegraph had Alan 

Cochrane (now in Scotland on Sunday), who 

led this paper’s campaign against the repeal 

of Section 28 in Scotland. Even The Herald, 

despite its support for repeal of this Torybacked 

legislation, rode with one foot on the 

brake and a string of religionists in the back 

seat. Stewart Lamont wrote of his disgust of 

gay men’s apparent love of public conveniences, 

Michael Fry thought the repeal of 

Section 28 would give children AIDS and 

‘Wee Free’ John Macleod, challenged by his 

own sexual guilt, regularly dresses up homosexuality 

in negative references. Scotland on 

Sunday, would also use Mrs Grant along with 

another Conservative, Catholic, Gerald 

Warner. A former speechwriter to the former 

Tory Scottish Secretary, Michael Forsyth, 

Warner once wrote that condoms offered little 

protection against AIDS and insists there is a 

powerful gay clique undermining government. 

(Well, it would be nice if they did something 

useful instead of always leaving it up to 

Europe to enforce equality for us). He once 

begged in his column: “We cannot sit idly by 

and watch minority pressure groups and their 

allies secure an absurdly disproportionate 

profile in the media…” Without a representative 

from a ‘minority pressure group’, let 

alone an ‘out’ gay columnist battling against a 

surfeit of sexually regulating writers, I wonder 

what Scottish newspaper he means. This forest 

of deadwood has taken many years to 

grow. But not until a former editor, a rightwing 

Cardinal and a multi-millionaire 

Christian fundamentalist set the forest ablaze 

in 2000 were the people of Scotland so 

exposed and so divided in a moral debate that 

spilled out into the new century. Homophobic 

billboards were mounted across Scotland. 

Souter launched a private ‘referendum’ while 

the media, much like the church today, went 

to war with itself over the issue of homosexuality. 

There were daily stories demonising 

gays - including anatomical drawings on how 

to spot a homosexual – set against a background 

of vandalism to gay-run premises, 

beatings and murders of gay men. ‘Keep the 

Clause’ was supported by the Scottish School 

Boards’ Association (SSBA) at the same time 

it became homophobic catchphrase in 

Scottish playgrounds. I believe much of religion 

has stunted Scotland’s growth as a 

nation. During the seventies and eighties, 

Scotland haemorrhaged as the young, the talented 

and the inspired fled, usually to 

London, escaping the moral strictures of a 

grey theocracy to seek fame and fortune in a 

more liberal climate. Call me naive, but at the 

dawn of a new century, like so many of my 

contemporaries, I believed in a modern, progressive 

Scotland at the heart of Europe that 

would show a grumbling middle-England the 

way forward. But that was before ten years of 

monitoring the Scottish media and a bill 

promising religionist’s special protection. 

Despite all this, the media’s attitude to 

sexuality has changed. It’s had to. The 

Internet is not only challenging the media’s 

prudery, it has opened up a wealth of opportunities 

to experiment with sex in ways that 

were once inconceivable. But it will make hypocrites 

of all of us if what we read in public 

remains so different to what we do in private. 

The National Library of Scotland, which 

selects websites that are judged to be an 

important part of the documentary heritage of 

Scotland, will archive the Scottish Media 

Monitor. Garry Otton is author of Sexual 

Fascism and plans to publish Badge of 

Shame, a book on the repeal of Section 28 in 

Scotland. 

Gary 

http://www.scottishmediamonitor.com

INTERNATIONAL NEWS by Rex Wockner 

Push to report antigay abuses to 

U.S. State Dept. 

Activists 

in London and 

San Francisco 

are urging 

people around 

the world to 

report antigay 

abuses to the 

US State 

Department. 

T h e y 

hope to 

increase the 

number of 

such incidents 

that are included 

in the department’s 

country-by-country human-rights 

report, which the agency must produce and 

send to Congress each year. 

Submissions must be received at the 

State Department before the end of 2005. 

“[This] will help improve the US State 

Department’s monitoring of such abuses and 

expand a data base that can be used by 

human rights campaigners pressing for an 

end to homophobia”, said longtime independent 

activist Michael Petrelis. “The data will 

also be helpful to corroborate the claims of 

gay people fleeing persecution and seeking 

asylum.” 

“The massive scale of homophobic persecution 

worldwide is grossly underdocumented 

in all official human rights reports”, 

added London activist Peter Tatchell of the 

gay-rights group OutRage!. “[We] will be submitting 

evidence to the US State Department 

based on our firsthand evidence from LGBT 

refugees.” 

Reports should be E-mailed to 

pottslg@state.gov 

Thousands march in Buenos Aires 

Thousands of people marched from the 

Plaza de Mayo to Argentina’s Congress in 

Buenos Aires’ 14th gay-pride parade on 20th 

Nov. 

A lead banner declared, “We want the 

same rights.” Activists are pushing for a 

national civil-unions law to match the one in 

effect in the capital city. 

Six people were arrested when a small 

group of antigay Catholics tried to prevent the 

marchers from getting too close to the 

Metropolitan Cathedral, which sits on one 

corner of the Plaza de Mayo, where the 

famous Casa Rosada also is located. 

Marcher Mariano Lago joked: “At one 

point, it started raining and we figured God 

was castigating us for being sodomites and 

that the end of the world was upon us. But the 

rain stopped quickly and a rainbow 

appeared!” 

Belgium’s lower house OKs 

gay adoption 

The lower house of Parliament in 

Belgium, one of five countries where gay couples 

can get married, has voted 77 to 62 to 

allow same-sex couples to adopt children. 

The bill now moves to the Senate where it 

should see action in March. 

“There are already a lot of children who 

live with homosexual couples”, 

Justice Committee Chairman Fons 

Borginon told the Reuters news agency. 

“We want them to have two parents with 

whom they have full, legal rights.” 

Swedish Lutheran ministers rebel 

More than 800 of the 5,000 active and 

retired ministers in Sweden’s state-funded 

Lutheran church have signed a declaration 

promising to resist the Church Assembly’s 

decision to offer blessings to same-sex couples 

who have registered their partnership. 

The Church of Sweden Assembly voted 

160 to 81 in favour of the policy. 

“We are bound by the promises of faithfulness 

to Holy Scripture and to the confession 

of the church which we made at our ordination”, 

the 863 preachers declared. “We 

therefore totally reject this order.” 

Sweden has offered registered partnerships 

— which bestow nearly every right and 

obligation of marriage — since 1995. 

Knights of Columbus lose 

lesbian case 

The Human Rights Tribunal in Canada’s 

British Columbia has ruled against the 

Knights of Columbus organization saying it 

injured the dignity, feelings and self-respect 

of a lesbian couple by canceling their reservation 

to hold their wedding reception in the 

Knights’ hall in the town of Port Coquitlam. 

Deborah Chymyshyn and Tracey Smith 

were turned away once the organization’s 

leaders became aware of the nature of the 

event. They already had sent out their wedding 

invitations. 

The Knights must pay the women 

$2,000 plus expenses. 

The tribunal said the Knights do have a 

general right, under religious-freedom guarantees, 

to refuse to rent their hall to homosexuals, 

but “that right is not absolute.” 

The organization should have met with 

the women, apologized for the cancellation, 

reimbursed them for their costs, and helped 

them find a new location, the tribunal said. 

Not to have done so offended the 

women’s “inherent dignity” and 

amounted to “discrimination”, 

the judges said. 

Australian Capital 

Territory to recognise 

gay couples 

The government of the 

Australian Capital Territory will 

introduce civil-union legislation 

in March to recognise and 

protect same-sex couples. 

A spokesman said the 

law would grant gay couples 

all the rights and responsibilities 

of matrimony. 

At present, Tasmania is 

the only Australian state or 

territory with similar legislation. 

Danish ambassador slept with 

lover on first date 

Denmark’s openly gay ambassador to 

Israel, Carsten Damsgaard, told the daily 

newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that he slept 

with his partner of more than 12 years, Esben 

Karmark, the night they met. 

“I saw a very attractive man, we started 

to talk, and we knew immediately that that 

was that”, Damsgaard said. “Our internal 

worlds were identical. We read the same 

books. We saw the same films. 

“We spoke in a similar way. I was 37. I 

had had earlier relationships, so I could compare, 

but he was only 25, and in any case he 

had something adult [about him], and he saw 

he was like me. 

“We went to bed on the first night, which 

I didn’t always do, and I don’t recommend 

that everyone have sex on the first night, but 

in our case it was the correct thing to do. 

Since then, essentially, we haven’t been 

apart.” 

Damsgaard said he and Karmark are 

happy in Israel, citing “the unmediated 

warmth, the temperament, the climate, the 

sea, the smells, the fruits and vegetables.” 

“The young men here also seem excellent”, 

he said. “It is true that Israel is a place 

where everyone interferes with your private 

space, but this does not really bother me. I 

come from a very restrained culture, and I am 

not seeking to duplicate it everywhere I go. 

“Tel Aviv is a very cosmopolitan city with 

great nightlife, terrific restaurants, beautiful 

people”, Damsgaard added. “A regular party 

town. It’s more of an international 

city than many places in Europe. It’s 

the most exciting place I’ve ever 

been.” 

Same-sex marriage 

legalised in South Africa 

South Africa’s top court has 

legalised same-sex marriage, saying 

that banning it violates the nation’s 

post-apartheid Constitution, which 

prohibits discrimination based on 

sexual orientation. 

The Constitutional Court gave 

Parliament one year to make the necessary 

changes in law. If Parliament 

fails to act, the court will rewrite the 

Marriage Act itself. 

Ten judges supported the ruling and one 

dissented — but only so she could argue that 

the ruling should take effect immediately 

rather than after a year. 

In a “media summary” of the case, the 

judges said: “The exclusion of same-sex couples 

from the benefits and responsibilities of 

marriage was not a small and tangential 

inconvenience resulting from a few surviving 

relics of societal prejudice destined to evaporate 

like the morning dew. 

It represented a harsh if oblique statement 

by the law that same-sex couples are 

outsiders, and that their need for affirmation 

and protection of their intimate relations as 

human beings is somehow less than that of 

heterosexual couples. It signifies that their 

capacity for love, commitment and accepting 

responsibility is by definition less worthy of 

regard than that of heterosexual couples. The 

intangible damage to same-sex couples is as 

severe as the material deprivation. 

They are not entitled to celebrate their 

commitment to each other in a joyous public 

event recognised by the law. They are obliged 

to live in a state of legal blankness in which 

their unions remain unmarked by the showering 

of presents and the commemoration of 

anniversaries so celebrated in our culture.” 

The decision came in a case brought by 

Marie Fourie and Cecelia Bonthuys, after the 

government refused to recognise their marriage. 

The ruling also covered a case brought 

by the Gay and Lesbian Equality Project which 

challenged the Marriage Act’s references 

to“husband” and “wife.” 

United Arab Emirates may give 

arrested gays 

hormones 

Twenty-six men were arrested in the 

United Arab Emirates in late November at a 

hotel in the city of Ghantout during what 

police called a mass homosexual wedding. 

They face lashings, five years in jail and 

possible forced treatment with male hormones. 

“There will be no room for homosexual 

... acts in the UAE”, Minister of Justice and 

Islamic Affairs Mohammed bin Nukhaira Al 

Dhahiri told the Khaleej Times. 

Interior Ministry spokesman Issam 

Azouri added: “Because they’ve put society at 

risk they will be given the necessary treatment, 

from male hormone injections to psychological 

therapies. 

“It wasn’t just a homosexual act”, he 

said. “Now we’re dealing with a kind of marriage. 

There was a ritual involved.” 

Amnesty International blasts 

Poland 

Amnesty International has denounced 

Poland for “a climate of intolerance ... against 

the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender 

community, characterised by the banning of 

public events organised by the LBGT community, 

openly homophobic language used by 

some highly placed politicians, and incitement 

of homophobic hatred by some rightwing 

groupings.” 

The organization also expressed concern 

over “the recent abolition of the government 

office responsible for promotion of equal 

treatment for sexual minorities.” 

On 15th Nov, the mayor of Poznan, 

Ryszard Grobelny, banned the city’s gay-pride 

parade due to “security concerns.” Despite 

the ban, a few hundred people gathered on 

20th Nov for a demonstration. They were 

harassed by members of the group All Polish 

Youth, who shouted “Let’s gas the fags” and 

“We’ll do to you what Hitler did with Jews.” 

The police intervened near the end of the 

march, roughed up several marchers, and 

arrested and interrogated more than 65, who 

were later released. 

“Amnesty International is concerned that 

the events in Poznan are not a one-off event, 

but part of a series of bans on events by the 

LGBT community,” the organization said. 

Warsaw’s gay-pride parade also was 

banned by local officials both this year and 

last. Mayor Lech Kaczynski, who is now 

Poland’s president, called this year’s parade 

“sexually obscene.” An improvised march 

took place on 10th Jun anyhow, with more 

than 2,500 participants. 

Switzerland elects gay 

House speaker 

Members of Switzerland’s House of 

Representatives has elected an openly gay 

speaker. Lawyer Claude Janiak, a Social 

Democrat, received 154 of the 177 votes cast. 

In his first address to the body, Janiak 

called on fellow MPs to eschew political posturing 

and vote their convictions, 

swissinfo.org reported. 

Janiak is best known for lobbying for an 

easier citizenship procedure for young foreigners, 

pushing for legalization of marijuana, 

and denouncing the Roman Catholic Church’s 

opposition to same-sex partnerships. He will 

serve in the position for 12 months. 

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scotsgay 

agony! 

WORDS 

Mistress 

Vanessa 

E-mail, if you dare, all your 

concerns to Mistress Vanessa 

vanessascotsgay@yahoo.co.uk 

Dear Vanessa 

I’m an active gay man of 35 years old. 

Recently I have noticed that if I go swimming 

or lie down in the bath I take water into 

my arse, then for some time afterwards 

water trickles out. Now my boyfriend is 

refusing to go to bed with me if I have 

washed. He says it’s like fucking a watermelon. 

Is there anything I can do to prevent me 

taking on liquid in this way? 

Holy shit! You must have had an awful lot 

of arse action to stretch your ring that 

much! Anyway, what to do is very simple – 

just stick a big CORK (note the spelling – it 

is important!) up your arse. Now please 

don’t shove it up too far or your boyfriend 

might have to use a corkscrew to get it out. 

Another thing, avoid eating beans before 

going off dancing or gyrating too exuberantly 

as you just might pop your cork like a 

big bottle of nasty brown bubbly. OR … If 

you don’t like that suggestion, try to superglue 

a zipper between the cheeks of your 

arse… well, maybe not. Hey! How exactly 

does your boyfriend know what fucking a 

watermelon is like? Never mind, I don’t 

really want to know, I’m sure he’s probably 

the type that would even give one to a 

knothole in a plank of wood. No! Don’t try 

this at home stupid! 

Ever heard of wood splinters? Well, the 

only other option is to put your name down 

for an arse transplant. OR… Hire yourself 

out as a water feature for gay peoples gardens 

– I can just see you with a steady 

stream trickling out of your clenched buttocks 

watering all the pansies. OR… Take 

the lazy option and never wash your bum 

hole again! 

Dear Vanessa 

I recently broke up with a girlfriend after two 

years together. She and I are both 24 years 

old – it was my first lesbian relationship. The 

split was a long and drawn-out process and 

painful for us both, even though - in my eyes 

at least - the relationship is well and truly 

over. However, in the weeks since the split 

we’ve run into each other a number of times 

and the result has always been the same - 

we’ve ended up in bed together. Breaking up 

was definitely the right decision. I think. But 

as you can see I’m quite confused over the 

whole thing. The sex we’ve had since splitting 

up has been better than it ever was 

when we were together and I’m actually 

looking forward to the next time, though 

she’s now beginning to get ideas that we’re 

getting back together and I don’t know what 

to do. I also miss her cats. Please help. 

Oh, for heavens sake! Look, it’s so simple; 

just steal her cats and tell her you’ll feed 

them to your drunken Goth flat-mate who 

thinks he’s really a flesh-eating vampire, 

unless she becomes your sex-slave. So 

then you can happily have your wicked way 

with her just as much as you like, you twofaced 

evil whore. Obviously, once you get 

bored to death with the stupid needy bitch, 

you can just feed her to your Goth flat-mate 

instead and keep the cats ……SORTED! 

Dear Vanessa, 

Here’s my question. It’s embarrassing to ask, 

but I would like some pointers for using a 

dildo. I am a 20-something single lesbian 

who is addicted to Peperami. As you know, 

Peperami is a spicy pork salami sausage that 

delivers a big flavour kick and a great taste. 

It also feels really good in your cunt. Trouble 

is that I have met someone online. We have 

talked on the phone and I know she has had 

a few partners in the past few years and she 

has hinted that she also likes penetration. 

Thing is, she is a vegetarian. I practiced with 

a carrot but it didn’t taste the same. We hope 

to meet in person in the next few months - 

can you offer some advice? I don’t know 

where to start. 

Yech! You dirty weirdo. OK, the advert says 

“it‘s a bit of an animal” but I hope it’s not 

THAT fucking bit! Anyway, a Peperami is 

only about a centimeter diameter – just 

how tight is your nasty little twat? C’mon 

girl, if you must have a pork podger in your 

pussy then get yourself a nice BIG smoked 

sausage! If you still want to impress your 

vegetarian friend with your bacon banger 

then just paint it green! Tell veggie knickers 

it’s an ORGANic (ha ha!) courgette, 

she’ll never know the difference when it’srammed 

into her vegetable patch. 

Dear Vanessa, 

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 

when Captain Kirk is being tried for the murder 

of the Klingon Chancellor, his personal 

log is used against him. The traitor, Valeris, 

apparently recorded him say it while he was 

making his Captain’s Personal Log in his 

quarters. However, in the trial we hear “I’ve 

never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I’ve 

never been able to forgive them for the death 

of my boy.” When Kirk was recording his 

log, his exact words were “I’ve never trusted 

Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive 

them for the death of my boy.” How did this 

happen? This has totally shaken my faith in 

William Shatner and the Star Trek universe. 

Please help me. 

What in Spocks name are you talking 

about? You sad silly Trekker, don’t you 

know anything? The real answer to your 

laughable state of confusion actually lies 

not in Star Trek itself, but in episode three 

of Blake’s 7. The clue is when big hunky 

Blake tells Avon to stop rimming him while 

he’s trying to steer the Liberator toward the 

evil Galactic Federation battle fleet. Avon 

slowly lifts his head from between Blake’s 

ample buttocks and replies: 

“Thank God your arse is so clean … I’ve 

never tasted klingons and I never will. I 

can never forgive them for bad breath on 

my body…ooh! Those nasty brown stains!” 

You see? It’s just so bloody obvious now 

isn’t it! No? God, you are so blind as well 

as stupid! The answer is that Kirk is reincarnated 

and comes back as Jean Luc 

Picard and rims big ugly Worf the Klingon’s 

arse (all three of them). THEN he walks 

into time portal ‘No17’ and comes out at 

the other end of the space- time ‘Chanel’ 

as ‘Avon’ the gay ‘Opium’ smuggler who 

likes to ‘Rimmel’ and ‘fcuk’ anything that 

moves. He then joins the rebel ‘Armani’ 

and there he meets ‘Calvin Klein’ along 

with his big hairy pal ‘Givenchy’ and his 

two robots, ‘DKNY’ and ‘REVLON’. They all 

come together (No, not that way!) to fight 

the spread of pure ‘Poison’ by the Dark 

Lord ‘Dior’ from the evil planet ‘Lancome’ 

… WHAT? You think I ‘Maybeline’? NO! It’s 

all true; I’m honestly not making it up! 

However, if you ever get confused again or 

begin to have doubts, you should always 

bring to mind the golden rules of Star Trek: 

Every planet they land on is always a class 

“M” planet, so they never need a space 

suit. That’s really lucky isn’t it? 

In every landing party to a mysterious planet 

(class M of course!) it’s always the poor 

security guard that gets the chop first. 

Scotty can fix absolutely anything with just 

a roll of sticky tape, a plastic twirly thing, 

a lighted sparkler and a ludicrously tight 

deadline that anyone else couldn’t even 

finish wiring a plug! 

Mr Spock REALLY does hate Doctor McCoy 

and would like to beat the pompous idiot to 

a pulp - just like the rest of us! So 

although he calls himself a Vulcan, old 

pointy-eared Spock really is quite human 

after all. Actually, if you watch some of 

the of the earlier episodes, you can catch 

him trying to a get sneaky look up Uhura’s 

short skirt and it’s a known fact that he has 

nothing but hard porn on his tri-corder. 

So just remember, whatever else happens 

in your tawdry little life, don’t ever lose 

faith in James T. Kirk – that man is a fucking 

Sci-Fi icon! Besides, with a real name 

of Shatner he’s bound to have plenty of 

klingons around his Uranus (Sorry, I just 

couldn’t resist that one!) so perhaps it’s 

understandable that he doesn’t like them 

one little bit! 

Anyway, I’m glad I managed to clear that 

one up for you and any other Trekker 

retards out there. I for one, would be 

appalled that you might have doubts about 

the validity of the Star Trek Universe. Shit, 

you might even start to think it isn’t real! 

Right! I’ve had enough of humouring you 

with this juvenile space claptrap, you 

incredibly sad bastard! Why don’t you really 

try to push the envelope of your mental 

powers and get yourself a fucking etch-asketch! 

Until next time…

BOOKS TO KNOW ABOUT by Dirk Kriete 

101 Must-See 

Movies For Gay Men 

By Alonso Duralde 

Published by Alyson 

Books 

Price: £9.99 

Christmas is coming – the geese are getting 

fat – and of course the television is pumping 

out movies at an alarming rate. Which ones 

should you watch, well, here is your answer! 

This book claims to be the definitive and 

comprehensive compendium of all the films 

every gay man must see. Entertainment editor 

of the US-based gay and lesbian newsmagazine 

Advocate Alonso Duralde presents 

101 films that will resonate soundly with gay 

audiences. Whether it is Pee- Wee’s Big 

Adventure (for redefining the idea of a movie 

hero), Mommie Dearest making Joan 

Crawford campier than she already was or 

Two for the Road (because sometimes it is 

necessary to glean insights about gay relationships 

from straight movies with great 

banter), Duralde brings quick wit, a gift for 

analysis and a lifelong passion for cinema to 

each film recommendation. He even manages 

to out Casablanca (Of all the bars) as a 

gay love story. A definite must for gay 

movie lovers with its witty and amusing banter 

and all the information you could possibly 

need to choose your viewing this festering 

season. 

Love: The Joy That 

Wounds 

The Love Poems Of 

Rumi 

Calligraphy by 

Lassaad Metoui 

Published by 

Souvenir Press Ltd 

Price: £9.99 

It’s one giant leap from the often trashy 

offerings Hollywood is trying to seduce us 

with to this beautiful ancient collection of 

love poems. Rumi was born in Persia in 

1211 and still his poems are a mystery. Are 

they addressed to his mentor, to a lover or to 

God? Reflecting the complexities of passion 

and faith, they are poems of remarkable 

power and emotional intensity, with an exuberant 

imagination and rhythms that echo 

the ecstatic dance of the whirling dervishes. 

The exquisite calligraphy of Lassaad Metoui, 

the most renowned Arabic illustrator of his 

generation, gives meaning and enhances 

Rumi’s thoughts on love. This is a beautifully 

produced little book well worth pride of 

place in anybodies collection of poems. You 

need never be stuck for something to write 

in your Valentine card ever again. 

Blue Days, Black 

Nights 

A Memoir By Ron 

Nyswaner 

Published by Alyson 

Books 

Price: £8.99 

We’re jumping again – from the ancient to 

the latest offering from this Academy Awardnominated 

screenwriter of Philadelphia. 

Despite the success of his latest film, 

screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia, 

Soldier’s Girl) has been contemplating selfdestruction. 

“I don’t want a mediocre, empty 

life”, he tells his psychiatrist-acupuncturistherbalist 

after half-heartedly attempting to 

hang himself with a belt. Then, on a trip 

from his home in upstate Los Angeles, Ron 

meets and falls for world-weary Johann, a 

Latin-quoting, leather-clad hustler from 

Germany. In the next year Johann will teach 

him many things: how to make a crack pipe 

out of a soda can, how to lose oneself utterly 

in passion, how to come down from a crystal 

binge and how to keep living when everything 

you’ve been living for is gone. Loving 

Johann might kill Ron, but it will never be 

boring. Often hilarious, more often deeply 

disturbing – Ron Nyswaner’s first book is a 

frank insight into a life less ordinary. This 

book is a tour de force of self destruction, 

passion and the involuntary nature of love – 

compelling. 

Travel Guide 5th 

Edition Spartacus 

International Hotel & 

Restaurant Guide 

Published by Bruno 

Gmünder 

Price: £12.95 

You really want to get away from it all? 

Well, don’t go without this book if you want 

to avoid wasting lots of time when you get to 

your destination or be disappointed by your 

choice of hotel. The new 5th edition is 448 

pages of gay hotel information from around 

the world. For the first time, the publishers 

have added a small guide to “practical” 

phrases the gay man might need in Europe. 

We can only guess what Bruno Gmunder 

means by this... The hotel and restaurant 

guide lists gay friendly hotels and restaurants, 

giving these establishments an opportunity 

to present their businesses in a professional 

and attractive way. A series of pictograms 

gives the reader a multitude of extra 

information and the photos round off the 

picture. The text is in German and English 

and provides the reader with background 

and any useful special information. This 

newest edition is again the definitive wordwide 

gay guide and includes information on 

bars, clubs, discos, baths, beaches, cruising 

areas, hotels, apartments, cafes, restaurants, 

bookshops, gay stores throughout the 

world! If you’re planning to venture abroad, 

and don’t want to miss out... get it! 

The Action Hero 

Workout 

By Jorgen de Mey 

Published by Rodale 

Price: £12.99 

So you’ve decided, you going to escape the 

drab and grey weather and head for the sun? 

Are you sure you want to show off that body 

of yours as it is? Or could you do with 

some fine-tuning? Well, don’t despair help 

is at hand with this workout book and it 

might just assist you getting rid of that spare 

tyre accumulated during the excesses of the 

festering season. Jorgen de Mey has 

devised exercise and nutrition plans to 

change the shape and fitness of many 

celebrity clients, including Tomb Raider star 

Angelina Jolie, Josh Hartnett, Billy Crudup, 

Jeremy Irons, Bridget Moynahan and Faye 

Dunaway. 

In The Action Hero Workout, he describes 

the programmes he put together for various 

stars, such as the six weeks he spent getting 

Ben Affleck in top shape for Armageddon 

and Pearl Harbor. He tells how he evaluates 

the stars’ physical status - and how you can 

evaluate yours. Convinced that his new 

method of nutrition and physical training can 

help any healthy person reach his or her personal 

best, he details a workout that will 

start to show positive changes in just three 

weeks: more endurance, increased strength, 

weight loss, signs of a more muscular body 

and a better cardiovascular output. If you 

follow his programme, Jorgen promises, 

‘you will become the best you can be’. But 

beware – just lying in bed reading this book 

won’t do a thing and I’m living proof of that 

statement – I’ve not got one iota more muscle 

from reading this book. 

Tom of Finland: The 

Comic Collection 

Edited by Dian 

Hanson 

Published by 

Taschen 

Price: £19.99 

Here’s something really tasty for all you 

comic art lovers – a collection of 5 volumes 

in a slipcase featuring the incredible talents 

of the artist Touko Laaksonen, the Finnish 

boy who became Tom of Finland, the pseudonym 

he adopted to avoid persecution so 

prevalent to artists appearing in explicitly gay 

publications in the 50s. Each of the five 

192-page volumes are packed full of the 

most exquisite comic art and feature eight or 

more complete stories. They include all 

twenty-six episodes of Tom’s infamous 

leatherman Kake. This collection is the 

definitive guide to this incredibly talented 

artist, the chronologically arranged stories 

take us right through the life of this man 

who said: “If I don’t have an erection when 

I’m drawing, I know it’s no good.” If I’ve 

wetted your appetite with this review go and 

have a look at the publisher’s website at 

www.taschen.com for more information on 

the life and works of this highly influential 

artist. 

Prime Cuts 

Howard Stangroom 


Gmünder 

Price: £14.95 

Following on from the previous review here’s 

another brilliant comic book, this time by 

William Morgan, alias Howard Stangroom, 

and Stephen Lowther. Both these authors 

set the tone of the Meat Men anthologies in 

the early 80s through the mid-90s, not to 

mention countless other comics. The stories 

in Prime Cuts run the gamut from gentle 

humour to hardcore, spiced with a bit of science 

fiction and naturally with a few invincible 

super heroes as well. The book is a collection 

of 128 pages of the funniest, sexiest 

and most famous stories from this legendary 

pair of artists. 

Lukas In Love 

Bel Ami 


Gmünder 

Price: £30.00 

‘Lukas in Love’, as the title hints, is dedicated 

to Lukas Ridgestone, one of the first Bel- 

Ami superstars. Here he is presented alone 

and with his friends. His dreamy sensuality 

and natural charisma give the photos a special 

allure and charm. Bel Ami’s playful 

young men are shown even more erotic and 

emotional than ever. The shots are magical 

and show their breathtakingly beautiful bodies 

as if they never do anything but play for 

the camera. It’s the finest and freshest eroticism 

available. 

Aqua 

Fred Goudon 


Gmünder 

Price: £23.95 

After Fred Goudon’s first, very successful 

photo book ‘Bedtime Stories’ in 2000, here 

we have this French photographer’s second, 

long-awaited book. La dolce vita awaits your 

discovery in this fascinating collection. 

Beautiful young men full of untamed energy 

celebrate their lust for life. Alone or in pairs 

they dive into a sea of sensuality. Goudon is 

a master of light and shadows, his images 

show a surprising interplay of masculine 

forms and movement. Refreshing like a summer 

rain! 

Ari Gold 


Gmünder 

Price: £26.95 

This is a coffee-table book together with a 

specially produced music CD to go with it. In 

numerous, lavishly produced photographs 

Ari Gold shows his fans poses from the erotic 

to the dreamy, full of sexiness and an 

impressive candour. He has once again surprised 

us with his new talents and makes us 

curious about his upcoming projects. 

Fabulous!

ARTS TO KNOW ABOUT by Martin Powell 

Choice, Royal Scottish Academy, 

Until 23 Jan, Free 

I remember when the Weston Link 

between the Royal Scottish Academy and the 

National Gallery was opened being taken on a 

whirlwind tour of the then exhibition led by a 

nice bloke called Tim, before getting a tour of 

the building by the Architects. At the end of 

this there was a reception where as I had not 

eaten before I decided to steer clear of the 

booze. This behaviour was noted and commented 

on, so it seemed bad manners to 

reject their hospitality so I got stuck in. It was 

not long before my tongue was loosened and 

I was offering my “expert” view of the art to 

Tim. It wasn’t until I picked up the following 

day’s papers that I realised Tim was in fact Sir 

Timothy Clifford, Director General of the 

National Galleries of Scotland. 

Anyway, Tim is retiring next month and 

this massive exhibition of over 350 pieces 

reflects his choice of what he has collected for 

the nation over the last 21 years. You will have 

to make your own choice at this exhibition as 

it is too big to view in one session. I’ve been 

twice and I expect to be back for more. It is 

also impossible to mention more than a handful 

of the works on display. That’s my choice. 

The first thing that caught my eye was a 

monumental egg slicer by Mona Hatoum. 

Seeing everyday objects in a gallery setting 

can lead us to look at the artistic merit in 

them. However it can have a downside. I once 

visited An Exhibition of Street Furniture (litter 

bins, benches, etc). 

For weeks after people gave me strange 

looks as I stood in the street admiring novel 

litter bins. 

Entirely different is Two Men by Lucien 

Freud - instantly recognisable as the work of 

the artist. Michael Andrew’s Edinburgh (Old 

Town) is aperfectly decent painting from the 

foot of West Bow, but it would not have been 

my choice to spend £158625 on it. Also of 

Edinburgh is Alexander Nasmyth’s Princes 

Street. A vision of construction from 1825. 

Canova’s Three Graces is back. This time 

the choice was to put it on a plinth. Very often 

one gets an idea of an artist’s sexual orientation 

from an exhibition. It is clear just from 

this one piece that Canova was a lover of the 

naked female form. The finest work of 

pornography I’ve ever seen. 

Surrealism is not forgotten with works 

by Magritte, Delvaux, Ernst, Picasso, and others. 

When viewing the exhibition I was struck 

by the large number of people sitting and 

viewing the art. Go and take your own look. 

You are bound to find something you like. 

The Christmas Exhibition, 

Edinburgh Printmakers, 

Until 23 Dec, then 10-21 Jan, Free. 

Make no mistake this is a Christmas 

present. An unexpected and wonderful display 

of an enormous number of prints. Lots of 

different styles, but all of them brilliant. Go 

see. I’ve only got space to mention a few. 

John Bellamy has the ability to make something 

seem normal until you look at it in detail. 

His Before Eden is a perfect example. Make 

what you will of Erika Servin’s My Guardian 

Angel. Exquisitely drawn and abounds with 

meaning. Rona Maclean has interesting drawings 

that would honour any wall. 

I’ve only described part of one wall. 

There’s lots lots more. When I described this 

as “free”, that’s to get in. As all the work is for 

saleit could turn out to be very expensive. 

Smoke & The After Hours 

The X Factor Dance Company 

3 February 2006 - Tron Theatre, Glasgow 

15 & 16 February 2006 - Traverse Theatre, 

Edinburgh 

28 February 2006 - Howden Park Centre, 

Livingston 

9 March 2006 - Brunton Theatre, 

Musselburgh 

Not a strange title but a double bill by 

this great company that is touring in the new 

year. 

Smoke is a new work by guest choreographer 

Colin Poole. It takes its name from 

Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary’s definition 

of the word and form the framework of a 

thought-provoking examination into the 

American dream - the dream of individualism, 

democracy, free trade, the spread of our way 

of life throughout the globe and the nightmare 

of terror that accompanies this ideal. 

Alan Greig’s new work The After Hours is 

presented in his trademark humorous and 

eclectic style. The production is set in the surreal 

world of dreams - dreams of love and 

anger, people, places and the hauntingly unfamiliar. 

Greig creates a fast shifting mercurial 

world of athletic dance, spoken text, imaginative 

lighting and fascinating sounds blending 

original music by Tom Murray with Jilted 

John, Bernard Herrmann and Andy Williams. 

More info - http://www.xfactordance.co.uk/ 

Martin Powell 

martinp@drink.demon.co.uk 

Timothy Clifford

FILMS TO KNOW ABOUT by Malcolm Epstein 

It might be tragic to disillusion Frank 

Sinatra fans, but within minutes of him leaving 

this life, books were being written explaining 

what an unpleasant man he really was. 

Growing up in New York, he thought it was a 

good idea to befriend crooks in the Mafia and 

was close to them throughout his life even 

though he always denied it. Anyone who 

annoyed him could be beaten up by an 

unknown assailant. 

Now a movie has been made about a disastrous 

trip he made in the 70’s to sing in 

Australia called “THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A 

DAY” (15). From the stage he called a local 

female journalist a whore, which brought a 

union strike of theatre workers, and the local 

impressario was manhandled by Sinatra 

hoodlums. It is unfortunate to have to learn 

the truth about such a 

talented man, who 

was the idol of so 

many, but this film 

only touches the 

surface of how 

unwise he could 

be. 

Another 

January opening is 

“BREAKFAST ON 

PLUTO” (15) 

about a boy growing 

up in an Irish 

town with a passion 

for wearing 

dresses who 

tracks down his 

legal mother in 

London. Anyone 

with a transvestite 

interest will love it 

and his adventures are constantly amusing. 

“MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA” (15) points out 

Japanese girls trained in dancing and playing 

an instrument didn’t offer sexual services. Its 

locations are almost as good as a holiday 

there. 

“THE MATADOR” (15) has Pierce Brosnan 

as a hit man happy to wipe out anyone for the 

right price. In Mexico he suddenly decides 

that murder has killed him on the inside. 

Filmed in four countries it gets the point 

across that money isn’t everything in life. 

Those of us who remember how chilling 

Anthony Hopkins was as a sadistic killer in the 

“Silence Of The Lambs” movies will be surprised 

to see him as a loveable pensioner in 

“THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN” (12a) in 

February. Those of us who know little about 

motor bikes won’t know an Indian is a bike of 

the past which, in his New Zealand home, Mr 

Hopkins keeps updating to ride on an 

American track. You have to be a Hopkins 

lover to witness this or be obsessed with 

speed. 

CURRENT RELEASES 

Part of my education on old movies was 

tracking down the 1933 producation of “King 

Kong” as I know it stunned moviegoers at the 

time. The latest “KING KONG” (12a) will have 

a similar effect on current audiences as it is 

the most impressive film of the year. Made by 

the man responsible for “The Lord Of The 

Rings” trilogy it will bring more Oscars to 

director Peter Jackson. Set in the American 

depression years of the early 30’s it has a film 

director eager to take a rundown ship to an 

undiscovered island. His cast has experiences 

too terrifying to relate here, but the special 

effects of battling dinosaurs and other prehistoric 

creatures have to be seen to be believed. 

You will be engrossed for the entire three 

hours. 

A Mel Brooks 1968 film 

“The Producers” did 

so well he added 

music to make it a 

hit Broadway stage 

musical that is 

now packing them 

in on the London 

stage. The movie 

version of this 

musical “THE 

PRODUCERS” 

(12a) is worth 

every penny to see 

it. Much humour is 

derived from a 

mature stage producer 

and his 

accountant, who 

decide the best 

way to make 

money is persuading 

investors to give them far more than they 

need to stage a disaster that comes off quickly. 

The producer is prepared to stimulate 

wealthy elderly ladies to give him cheques. 

There are brilliant musical production numbers 

and it is great entertainment. 

Those of us eager to please nieces and 

nephews at this time of year must consider 

“LASSIE” (PG) based on the best selling novel 

“Lassie Comes Home”. Falling on hard times 

a Yorkshire family is forced to sell their 

beloved dog to a duke in a remote Scottish 

castle. But she is determined to walk 500 

miles back to the family she loves. It is a film 

that will bring tears of joy to many. 

For me the most memorable new girl in 

movies is the British Rosamund Pike. In the 

17th century drama “THE LIBERTINE” (18) 

she is Johnny Depp’s hard faced wife and in 

“DOOM” (15) set in Mars in 2046, a sci-fi horror 

film, she is a sympathetic doctor calming 

the nerves of dying men. If there was a contract 

system here or in Hollywood that systematically 

built stars, as there was in the 

past, this girl 

would stun the 

world. 

“KEEPING 

MUM” (15) is 

the black comedy 

of the year 

with Rowan 

Atkinson as a 

nervous village 

parson so 

obsessed with 

writing good 

sermons he is 

unaware of the 

problems of his 

wife, Kristin 

Scott Thomas, 

and two children. 

When a 

sweet greyhaired 

housekeeper 

arrives, 

Maggie Smith, 

she decides to 

cure everything 

in a very dramatic 

way. 

Kristin feels so 

neglected she is 

about to have an 

affair with golf 

instructor 

Patrick Swayze. 

More detail 

would spoil it for 

you. I was 

intrigued 

throughout. 

DVD WORLD 

There could be readers who have never 

heard of Mae West. She was the most charismatic 

blonde bombshell of the thirties and 

most highly paid woman in Hollywood who 

wrote as well as starring in her films. Her wit 

has been repeated ever since. Lines like “It’s 

not the men in your life that count dear, but 

the life in your men.” When a cloakroom girl 

comments about her beautiful fur coat with 

“Goodness!” Mae retorts “Goodness had 

nothing to do with it honey.” 

Six of her best films are now on “MAE 

WEST - THE SCREEN GODDESS COLLEC- 

TION” and if you can’t find it locally call 

MovieMail on 0870 264 9000. Essential reading 

is “Mae West - It Ain’t No Sin” from Faber 

and Faber that will make you realize how 

incredible this woman was. 

Steve Guttenberg, whom many of us will 

know from countless movies, has now directed 

and is playing the lead in the most unusual 

film of the year “PS YOUR CAT IS DEAD” 

from TLA Releasing. A struggling writer who 

is often burgled is on his biggest crisis day as 

his girlfriend is moving out and he catches a 

burglar in his flat. 

For reasons known only to himself and 

his psychiatrist, after knocking the guy out, he 

chooses to tie him up face down on a table 

and talk to him for hours. When three gay 

friends happen to arrive they can see the 

humour of the situation and decide to tie him 

up as well. It is the first time I have seen a film 

for anyone who loves bondage.

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Number 6447. 

Slim And Passive 

Horny 40 year old, describes 

himself as: good looking, 5'7" 

tall with blue eyes, lives 

Central Scotland and looking 

for horny, fit guys in the 

Central area for lots of no 

strings fun. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6450. 

All In One 

Edinburgh-based leather guy, 

hairy chest, can be versatile, 

prefers to be sub who is into 

gloves, boots and masks is 

seeing dominant bikers, skins, 

leather guys - no strings 

attached. Can accommodate. "If 

you have an all-in-one biker 

suit - so much the better. Get 

in touch". Phone 09068 556612 

- Number 6419. 

No Strings Dale 

Dale, not bad looking, is seeking 

no strings fun. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 6423. 

Mate In Inverness 

5'8" tall Inverness guy with 

black curly hair, slim build, 30 

years old with lots of hobbies 

is looking for a bi or bi-curious 

sincere mate for fun times. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6427. 

Smooth Peter 

Peter is 44 years old, lean, fit, 

good looking, with a smooth 

upper body, cropped brown hair 

and green eyes. He is looking 

for hairy, dominant, older top 

guys, 40-65 years, for some 

fun. Phone 09068 556612 - 

Number 6428. 

Glasgow Master 

"This Glasgow master is adding 

to his stable. Are there any 

guys out there who are into 

BDSM? Do you like to be tied, 

gagged, blindfolded and hooded, 

ready for use as and when 

your master wants? Does pain 

and bondage create excitement 

or pleasure? If that's at all 

interesting to you, then why 

not get in touch with me?" 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6431. 

Mature Student 

Mature student from Inverness 

is looking for bi-curious 

friends for fun. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6433. 

Leather And Boots 

Edinburgh slave, 43 years old, 

into leather and boots, is willing 

to serve a very dominant 

Master. Bikers, Leather, 

Uniform... "Give me a ring - 

you will not be disappointed". 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6378. 

Go West 

West Scotland, Bi-curious guy 

wants to meet a friendly Cop, 

Fireman or Prison Officer. Can 

accommodate. Discretion 

assured. Phone 09068 556612 - 

Number 6384. 

Traditional Flogging 

Hard man are you? Could you 

take a traditional flogging? 

Travel expenses to Glasgow if 

required. Phone 09068 556612 


Horny Pair 

Two guys in Edinburgh: one 

active, the other versatile, 

looking for no strings fun with 

18-32 year old guys. Discreet, 

non-scene and horny at all 

times. Phone 09068 556612 - 

Number 6386. 

Wellies And Waders 

Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh. 

Guy 40's seeks others into 

wellies and waders. Can travel. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6388. 

David From Aberdeen 

David from the Aberdeen area 

is 45 years old, 6' tall with 

blue eyes, clean shaven, 38" 

chest and a 34" waist. Hobbies 

include walking, nights in, eating 

out and cinema. "I am a 

genuine, easy-going guy looking 

for a guy 20-50 years for 

fun and friendship with a view 

to a one to one". Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6406. 

Modest Seeks Hairy 

I am a very handsome, masculine, 

very muscular, 30 year old 

guy based in Aberdeen. Seeking 

extremely hairy guys, preferably 

bearded, age and looks 

unimportant. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6408. 

Fillings 

Hairy-bodied, masterful type 

guy 30 years+, any nationality 

in the Edinburgh area sought 

by full-bodied late 50's submissive 

guy with "a full set of 

dentures which can be opened 

by persuasion". Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6409. 

Falkirk 

41 years old crossdresser, passive, 

seeks active. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6410. 

Report To Me NOW! 

Edinburgh guy, 62 years old, 

instructs badly-behaved boys to 

report to him NOW for correction. 

Spanking, belts, strap and 

cane over trousers and bare 

bottom. Phone 09068 556612 - 

Number 6318. 

Ponytail And Leathers 

Bobby lives in a private farm 

near Fraserburgh and is 49 

years old with long dark brown 

hair held back usually in a 

ponytail. He wears lots of 

jeans, T-shirts, leathers, is fair 

to average looking, of a heavier 

build but has lost a lot of 

weight recently. He is looking 

for subs, passives, guys who 

are into being used both 

indoors and outdoors. Looks 

aren't important. "I guarantee 

that you won't go away disappointed". 

Phone 09068 556612 


Clyde Valley TV 

Slim, pretty TV seeking mature 

male 40-70 years old, preferably 

from the Clyde Valley or 

South Lanarkshire area. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 6336. 

Versatile Couple 

2 bi-guys in Central Scotland 

are looking for a third with lots 

of imagination, special interests 

etc. Discretion assured. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6337. 

Boots, Gloves And Whips 

43 year old Edinburgh sub 

looking for a leather guy top. 

He is 5'6" tall with shaved head 

and hairy chest and likes 

boots, gloves and whips. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 6358. 

Tight Leather Jeans 

Aberdeen or anywhere. 40 year 

old looking for guys in tight 

leather jeans. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6373. 

Dundee Seeks Younger 

Good looking, slim, muscular 

Dundee guy, 30 years, likes 

swimming, cycling, travelling, 

photography and many other 

things is looking for younger 

males with similar interests 

who like socialising and meeting 

up. Phone 09068 556612 - 

Number 6314. 

Edinburgh Smoothie? 

Mid fifties, straight looking and 

acting active guy would like to 

meet a smooth-skinned, passive 

Asian guy. Has his own 

place in Edinburgh. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 6315. 

Fun Male Top 

Joe describes himself as "a fun 

male top" who is into keep fit. 

He is seeking a slim camp male 

or sexy feminine TV for fun and 

friendship. "If you're out there 

- get in touch". Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6304. 

Firm Handed? 

Paul, 43 years old with a 

Number 1 crop, 5'7" tall is 

looking for leather tops: boots, 

masks etc. He is "in need of a 

firm-handed master". Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 6306. 

Rubberist 

Male Rubberist would like to 

hear from others who are into 

rubber and latex. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6257. 

Loving Andrew 

Andrew is 6'2" tall, 52 years 

old, hirsute and slim. He lives 

in Morayshire and has his own 

house and car. He is a 

Vegetarian and enjoys healthy 

cooking, the usual arts and cultural 

interests, cycling and 

slimming and is looking for 

someone 18-40 years, maybe 

taller or chubbier. He describes 

himself as fairly kind and gentle 

and would look for the same 

characteristics in other people. 

He'd like friendship or a loving 

relationship with someone else. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6204. 

Easy Going In Aberdeen 

Gay, 6' tall, 40 year old, slim 

built, easy going male from 

Aberdeen seeks male 25-35 

years for friendship and possibly 

more. Genuine replies only. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6206. 

Dundee Fiftysomething 

Late 50's gay man living in 

Dundee. Straight acting and 

looking with usual interests - 

walking, travel, music and 

reading - is looking for a gay 

man with similar interests for 

fun and friendship. "If you're 

interested, please leave a message 

and I'll get back to you". 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6174. 

His Master's Pleasure 

Edinburgh master seeks young 

submissive guy between 

approximately 18 and 30 years 

who must be prepared to 

accept bondage and punishment 

"and to be used for my 

pleasure". Phone 09068 556612 


Passive Andy 

Andy 53 years from the Borders 

can accommodate. He is 5'10" 

tall with a stocky/medium build 

and a shaved head, goatee 

beard and blue eyes. He is 

100% passive and is looking to 

meet a guy who is stocky or 

muscularly built, 30-50 years. 

Can travel within a reasonable 

area. Phone 09068 556612 - 

Number 6201. 

Chastisement 

61 year old Edinburgh disciplinarian: 

"Call me now for suitable 

chastisement". Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 6124. 

Army 

Robert from Dundee is an exarmy 

gay guy with a smart 

appearance. He would like to 

meet gay/bi guys for fun and 

roleplay scenarios. "Suited and 

uniformed guys most welcome". 

He can accommodate anytime. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6136. 

Slim Slave 

Slim 43 years old slave looking 

for dominant guys 50+. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 6093. 

Slave Seeks Master 

Slave from Glasgow looking for 

a master. "I will do anything my 

master wishes". Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6069. 

TV Times 

Male, mid-forties, quite fit and 

fully employed is looking for a 

feminine TV who likes to dress 

up. "I am not a time-waster, so 

please get in contact with me". 

Edinburgh area. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6010. 

Forceful 

Ex-Forces Richard from Dundee 

is 45 years old and is looking 

for someone like-minded who is 

into O and A, bondage and 

restraint. Can accommodate. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

6012. 

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Bend Over 

Edinburgh Headmaster 61 years 

has vacancies now for naughty 

"schoolboys". "Drop your 

trousers and bend over for a 

sound thrashing". Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 6006. 

Fellow Novice Wanted 

Scott, 39 years old from the 

Fife area, 5'9" tall, 30" waist, 

likes films, eating out and the 

occasional drink. Looking for 

another novice 20-35 years, 

preferably slim and cleanshaven 

who is willing to experiment 

and go from there. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 5970. 

Anything Goes (You Name It) 

"I am a male in my early forties 

who is looking for a dominant 

master to be your slave. 

Anything goes: uniforms, 

dressing up, you name it. I 

come from the Fife/ Edinburgh 

area. If you are interested - 

give me a call". Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 5900. 

Horny Uncle 

Horny uncle type seeking 

nephew for hot, horny fun with 

no strings attached. He is 40 

years old, 5'7" tall with a 30" 

waist and 40" chest. "No 

camps, effeminates or fatties". 

Can accommodate or travel in 

the Glasgow area. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 5701. 

Cute, Cuddly And Quiet 

Steve from Dundee is 32 years 

old, cute and cuddly. He likes 

watching TV, quiet nights in 

and nights out. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 5730. 

Forceful False Floosie For 

Forties Fife Frolics 

I am looking for a dominant TV. 

I am a mid-forties male who 

stays in Fife and works in 

Edinburgh. Looking for somebody 

who is into fun and entertainment. 

Phone 09068 556612 


Anything Goes In Aberdeen 

Aberdeen area 39 year old tolerant 

slave seeks master, 45+. 

Anything goes. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 5431. 

Edinburgh Lock 

Male, early 40's, into domination, 

rubber, leather and 

restraints. Comes from 

Edinburgh but can travel. 

Please give him a call if you 

are similarly interested. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 5452. 

Peter From Edinburgh 

Peter from Edinburgh is 48 

years old, 5'8" tall and totally 

non-scene. He is very genuine, 

honest and caring. He likes 

theatre, cinema, walking, the 

gym and holidays. He is looking 

for a like-minded gay or biguy 

who enjoys life - 18-50 

years old. Phone 09068 556612 


Suberdonian 

Aberdeen area slim 38 year old 

submissive guy seeking dominant 

guys 40+. Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 5321. 

Belting Memories 

"I am looking for a genuine 

retired or former teacher, living 

in Scotland, over the age of 50 

to give me the belt as per my 

schooldays. I need my hands 

warmed again". Phone 09068 

556612 - Number 5252. 

Pissable Meeting In Aberdeen 

Aberdeen area. Slim, tanned, 

38 year old Sub, into bondage 

and yellow, looking for other 

guys 40+. Phone 09068 556612 


Colourful Aberdonian 

Aberdeen area, submissive 42 

year old, into yellow or brown, 

into dominant guys, any age. 

Phone 09068 556612 - Number 

5082. 

Yellow Sub- 

38 year old slim, submissive 

guy, into yellow, is looking for 

dominant guys any age. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 5060. 

Professional And Non-scene 

31 year old professional, nonscene 

gay guy, non-smoker, 

5'8", 10.5 stone, 33" waist. 

Hobbies include cinema, theatre, 

reading, country walking 

and swimming. Looking to meet 

gay/bi guys up to 45 years old 

for a possible 1-2-1 with the 

right guy. Phone 09068 556612 


Peter From Edinburgh 

Peter from Edinburgh is a 51 

year old, clean-shaven guy with 

dark hair. He enjoys, music, 

cinema, theatre, country walking, 

swimming, briefs and 

Speedos and he is looking to 

meet people for fun. Phone 

09068 556612 - Number 4710. 

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WOMEN 

Caring And Sharing - Are You 

Interested? 

Bi-curious lady seeks bi lady to share 

feminine delights. Am 46 years 

old. No experience but willing. Write 

soon. Waiting for you. Have bi 

boyfriend to join us later if both agree. 

Box SG67035. 

MEN 

Lost Smile - Reward For Recovery 

I've lost my smile but I think I know 

how to get it back. If you are a 

struggling student or single guy (16-21) 

and have a few hours a week to 

spare you could help me. It would be 

very rewarding and I'm sure very 

satisfying for you. Me - a successful, 

mature businessman who does 

nothing but work and attend to the baggage 

that mature people collect. Box 

SG67002. 

Older Top Seeks Young Bottom 

Do you fancy older guys? This one is 

47, 5'7", ready to teach new 

nephew types 16-26 who are hot and 

willing to learn. Shy boys and any race 

welcome. Box SG67003. 

Sexy Looking Guy To Belt My Arse 

I am a man in my early 50's. I own a 

genuine "Lochgelly" two tail xh 

school strap which is rather severe. I 

am looking for a guy to give me 

twelve of the best on my bare buttocks. 

I do not want a sexual 

relationship or anything like that. I just 

want a nice looking guy (20's/50's) to 

lay the strap on real hard. The very 

thought of this is rather 

exciting. I cannot accommodate for personal 

reasons - so it would have to be 

your place. Any guys out there fancy 

belting another guy's bare arse? 

Box SG67006. 

Fit Slim 45 Year Old Seeks Younger 

Good looking guy in Inverclyde looking 

for young slim guys 18-30 for 

fun and good times. Can travel and 

accommodate. Box SG67008. 

Older Guy In Aberdeen 

I'm 54 and have my own place in 

Aberdeen. I'm looking to make friends 

as well as having a bit of fun. I'm pretty 

experienced but would love to 

have someone regular in my life. I travel 

a lot, have a good job, am 

very solvent and hopefully am a nice 

guy. Hope to receive lots of 

messages. Kenny. Box SG67009. 

Bi Guy For Horny Fun 

Married bi guy seeking no strings fun. 

Versatile but going through a 

more bottom phase just now. I'm 45, 

not bad looking with a good sense of 

humour. I am a nonsmoker and would 

prefer you to be the same. Looking 

for someone in the Fife/Edinburgh area 

that I can visit during the day. 

Safe fun only. Box SG67010. 

Virgin Needs Broken In 

Bi virgin 33, seeks discreet gentle guy 

or couple to learn with. Happy 

to let someone pop my cherry, cannot 

accommodate. Aberdeen area. Box 


Handsome Man Seeks Fulfillment 

I am 34, based in Tayside/Angus. I 

would like very much to meet a 

discreet man for regular fun sessions, 

involving restraint, lots of bottom 

fun and also some light physical pain. I 

regret I cannot accommodate but 

can travel. Serious guys only and proficiency 

in restraining is 

appreciated. Box SG67015. 

Eastern Promise 

I am very sympatic slim, sport type 

man. I am foreigner - Slovak. I am 

looking for similar good friend from 

area Kirkcaldy and Edinburg. Soon 

message. Box SG67016. 

Please Take This Bear Home And 

Enjoy It! 

48 year old Paddington is looking for 

cub (16-26) to stroke. No 

strings. Can accommodate (Edinburgh) 

or travel. A bear needn't only be for 

Xmas. Box SG67017. 

Hawick 

I'm 54 years old, passive, 5'10", O- 

cropped, hairy, masculine. Box 


Son Wanted 

You should be no older than 25, slim 

and non-smoking. I am experienced, 

slightly chubby, mid-fifties and looking 

for fun times with younger 

guys. Looks unimportant, as long as 

you are slim. I can accommodate but 

not travel. Discretion assured. Box 


Skinhead (Yellow) 

Zero crop Edinburgh skin wants to meet 

lads up for yellow fun, rubber, 

waders, gas masks, also other kinks. 

Photo and phone number for quick 

reply. Box SG67028. 

Your Parents Warned You About Me! 

Are you 16-21? Then this 47 year old 

guy, old enough to be your father, 

would like to meet you. Box SG67029. 

Slim/Skinny Guys Sought For NS Fun 

Fife, middle aged guy, seeks slim guys 

of all ages for no strings fun. 

Can accommodate. Very versatile, 

friendly and non-smoker. Bi and 

married guys welcome. Discretion 

assured. Box SG67030. 

Straight Guys Only 

No nancy boys need apply. Just manly 

young guys who like bending over 

for a mature 50's man - Edinburgh. Box 


Glasgow Based Male 

39, passionate, confident, slim, non 

smoker seeks attractive guy 25-50 

for special romantic relationship. Box 


Kilt Appreciation Society 

Founded 1991. Kilt group for guys with 

fetish of what lies beneath. 

Bi-monthly magazine, socials, horny 

photos, contacts. For wearers and 

admirers alike. Tel: Mervyn 01777 

708270. 

Glasgow - Lanarkshire 

Genuine passive sorted guy, 5'11", 

short crop, slim, GSOH, SA, SL, no 

baggage, seeks active top for no strings 

fun. Time wasters need not 

apply - met enough already. Box 


Up, Up And Away 

Frequent Ryanair/easyJet international 

traveller, 50, seeks younger 

(16-25) companions for short jaunts 

abroad or in UK. Don't do the gay 

scene generally. More into local food, 

drink and culture. Box SG67034. 

Glasgow - Anywhere 

Fit attractive guy, 40, slim, green eyes, 

easy going and broad minded. 

Looking for horny guys who are up for 

it. Your place or mine. Box 


Angus - Brechin 

Nice guy, 6ft, dark, 14st and OK looking 

for 58, with nice home dog. 

Into transport and classical WLTM gay 

guys or girls for friendship or 

possibly more. Box SG67037. 

Edinburgh 

Tall, dark and handsome versatile guy 

(35) seeks no strings fun and 

friendship with similar. Must have own 

hair and teeth and be slim/medium 

build. No closet cases or "straight acting" 

delusionists. Mincers and 

hairdressers most welcome. 3somes 

also considered. Box SG67038. 

It All Comes Down To Friction In The 

End 

Cynical 47 year old seeks equally cynical 

16-26 year old for fun and 

friendship. Strictly non scene. Box 


BISEXUAL 

Bi Curious? 

There has to be a first time for everything! 

Aged 16-21: get in touch? 

Considerate experienced versatile older 

guy will talk you through 

things at your own pace before getting 

down to some safe fun. Your limits 

respected. Total discretion assured. Live 

in Edinburgh but will travel if 

required. Box SG67001. 

Naughty Son Wanted 

You should be no older than 28, slim 

and non-smoking. I am experienced, 

slightly chubby, mid-fifties and looking 

for fun times with younger bi 

guys. I can accommodate but not travel. 

Discretion assured. Box 


Bisexual Fem Wanted For Sexy Couple 

24 year old fem and 25 year old male 

looking for fun in or around 

Dundee with a sexy fem. Pics preferred. 

No time wasters. Box SG67011. 

Fife Bisexual Male 

Bisexual male, 50, 6 foot, not ugly or 

daft, morally relaxed with a 

GSOH. Seeks guys or couples (40 to 60 

ish) in the Fife area for good clean 

fun. First timers and married guys welcome. 

Discretion assured. Box 


Ayrshire Area 

Middle-aged bisexual male, frequent 

visitor to the Ayrshire area. Would 

like to meet a male or couple for fun 

and friendship. Must be genuine 

and discreet. Your limits respected. Box 


Master Seeks Live-in Slaves 

Firm master from Angus in Scotland 

needs 1 or 2 slaves to live-in. Must 

be very fit. Send detailed letter and 

photo. Any age/colour. Box 


Leather Rock And Cock Addict 

Tight leather denim rock trance dance 

inclined guy. 46. 6'2" tall, 

heavy build, heavy metal, heavy sex fan, 

seeks similar friends into rock 

leather. Decent interests. GSOH. 

Passive. ALA. Box SG67023. 

Submissive 

Bodybuilder, 40, is looking for strict 

master, any age/race, but photo 

essential. Glasgow/anywhere. Box 


Friendly Bi-Guy - Glasgow - West 

Scotland 

50's would love to hang out with really 

big knobs. Enjoy mutual fun. 

Welcome 21-40. Photos please 

(returned). Cannot accommodate or 

drive. Can 

travel. Let's meet up very soon. Box 


Every Breath You Take And Me Too! 

Asthma sufferer seeks contact with 

breath restricted guys for contact, 

mutual support, pen pals, visits and 

perhaps more? Many sexual strings 

to my bow! A brown eyed Russel 

Crowe. ALA. Box SG67026. 

Bi Guy Seeks Steady Boyfriend 

Bi guy 20-45 sought by mid 50's guy in 

Grampian area for fun, games and 

hopefully LTR. Have girl friend. 

Smokers welcome. Letters only, please. 

No PC. Loadsa love. CTOA. Box 


Edinburgh 

Tall, dark and handsome versatile guy 

(35) seeks no strings fun and 

friendship with bi guys or girls. Box 


STRAIGHT 

Edinburgh 

Friendly, fit, 50something silver bear, 

recently moved to Edinburgh, 

seeks morally relaxed women of all 

ages for fun and friendship. Box 


Retired Hippy 

50, looking for some love and affection 

from women (and men) of all 

ages. Box SG67005. 

FRIENDS ABROAD 

INTERGAY 

Penpal contacts with gay men all over 

the world. Over 120 subscribers 

in 30 countries. To join is free: send 

your ad. Only subscribers get the 

booklet with all data and addresses by 

enclosing £5. INTERGAY, 

Voorstraat 12-A, 4033 AD Lienden, 

Netherlands. 

Houseboy - Personal Boy 

Young hot boy living in. I love to keep 

you naked and tied up. You will 

travel with me. I want sportsman for 

boxing or wrestling. Write: G 

Antonnisens, PO Box 55, Edegem 2650, 

Belgium. 

Visiting Los Angeles California 

If you are coming to California, please 

let me know in advance if 

possible and we can plan some fun 

things to do. Write: Jess K, PO Box 

691309, West Hollywood, CA 90069- 

9309, USA. E-mail: jess90069@earthlink.net 

ACCOMMODATION 

OFFERED 

Free Room 

In Central Edinburgh flat offered to 

young guy aged under 25 in 

exchange for light domestic help and 

help with shopping by older man now 

in ill-health. Box SG67022. 

JOBS OFFERED 

Alternative Therapies Available 

In the comfort of your own home or 

clinics throughout Edinburgh. 

Therapies available: Reiki 

treatments/teaching, Indian Head 

Massage, 

Spiritual Readings and Hopi Ear 

Candles. Fully qualified and insured 

therapist. 

Please contact Alan on 07747 714005 

for clinics and appointments. [99] 

Animal Lover 

Unique opportunity for horse and circus 

lover. Live in and learn to 

ride a High School Andalucian Horse. 

Possibility of waged UK tour summer 

2005. Meals and accommodation provided 

with training. NE Scotland. Tel: 

Bobby on St Colms (01346) 583145. 

[67] 

Cash For Your Body 

Photogenic guys can earn £100 cash 

posing for Mike Arlen who has had 14 

glossy magazines published called Mike 

Arlen's Guys. Send snapshots of 

your magnificent body to him: Mike 

Arlen, Wetherby Studios, 23 Wetherby 

Mansions, Earls Court Square, London. 

SW5 9BH or Phone: 020-7373 1107. 

E-mail: mikearlen@btopenworld.com 

[99] 

Legal Gay Houseman Wanted In USA 

Professional gay couple looking for live 

in houseman. We have homes in 

New York, Florida, Canada and 

Caribbean. Need experienced caretaker 

for homes and 3 small dogs. Cooking, 

cleaning, laundry with light yard and 

pool work (we have weekly service). 

Room, salary, cell phone and 

health insurance. May work lightly outside 

of house for extra cash. We 

entertain frequently so bartending, serving 

and clean-up important. 

Cooking not necessary as one person is 

gourmet. E-mail picture and 

experience. There is no sex involved. 

This is a professional position that 

should be taken seriously. Great 

lifestyale and ability to earn money for 

right person! Write: Jeff Gurciullo, 5454 

Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 

33140, USA. E-mail: jgurciullo@aol.com 

Looking For Staff 

Seeking salespeople for Spanish property 

shows in Aberdeen, Edinburgh 

and Inverness areas. Sundays only. Do 

you have transport, access to PC, 

someone to work with? Commission 

only. £700 a day expected with 

approximately 15 week delay of payments. 

Full training given to right person. 

Contact Sales Manager: 0141-229 

1693. [67] 

Models Wanted 

Previously published photographer 

needs good looking guys (18-25) who 

want to earn £20 per hour for publication 

work. For details please phone 

Stuart on 0141-636 6556 (no withheld 

numbers please) or E-mail: 

xpozure4u@shaws2000.fsnet.co.uk [99] 

Nude Model Wanted 

Amateur photographer seeks a slim fit 

guy under 25 for nude modelling. 

Edinburgh area. No strings or publication. 

Generous fee for the right 

guy. Please send your details and a 

photo to be considered. Box SG67020. 

SERVICES 

CAFFMOS 

Contacts and friendships for men over 

sixty. The organisation for the 

more mature gentleman and his admirers. 

Write to: CAFFMOS, PO Box 2273, 

Hove. BN3 2GF. Or phone Hove (01273) 

220995 for info. [99] 

Contact Mag 

Contact Mag for adults: over 900 photos. 

Approval copy from: Matchmaker 

(K38), Chorley, PR7 4BS. Or ring 01257 

483335 (24 hours). [99] 

CP Contact Paper 

CP contact paper for spanking, skins, 

discipline, etc. SAE to TD 

Monthly, PO Box 352, Manchester. M60 

2PG. [99] 

Free TV/TS News 

A Tranny not for profit newsletter. 

Views, news, venues and free 

personal adverts. A5 sae: BM Box 2534, 

London. WC1N 3XX. [99] 

Golden Wheel 

Seeking discreet gay or bisexual new 

friends, male or female? Long 

standing service, all areas and worldwide. 

Send stamp for details to: 

(Sadie), The Golden Wheel, Liverpool. 

L15 3HT. [99] 

Happy House Bear 

Hairy, rugby built daddy (46) available 

for cleaning and other 

nude/partially-clothed domestic chores. 

Glasgow area. Rates and info on 07813 

307321 or E-mail: 

bearessentials@myway.com [67] 

Home In Spain 

For letting or investment. Superb villas, 

bungalows or apartments with 

pool direct from builder from £65,000 

(60 per cent mortgage available). 

Call Let's Live Abroad on 0845 

2255777. WWW: 

http://www.letsliveabroad.com/ [99] 

Limited Companies 

Only £90 for your own Limited 

Company. PLCs £100. Charitable and 

Unlimited Companies also available. 

Freephone 0800 526421 for our free 

'Guide To Limited Companies'. E-mail: 

cosun@drink.demon.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.quick-companies.co.uk/ [99] 

Proofreading And Tuition 

In English (including TEFL), French, 

Latin, Greek and Gaelic, Typing 

Services, Historical and Genealogical 

Research. Charles S Coventry, 23/9 

Viewcraig Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9UJ. 

Tel: 0131-558 8785. E-mail: 

charlie_cov@yahoo.co.uk [99] 

TD Monthly 

The UK's fastest-growing contact publication 

for gay men into 

spanking/CP and all related interests.

Please send SAE for details. Write: TD 

Monthly, PO Box 310, Manchester. M15 

6WT. WWW: 

http://geocities.com/tdmonthly/homepage.html 

[99] 

Translation Services 

Qualified translator based in Edinburgh 

offers translation services 

between the following languages: 

English, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish and 

French. E-mail: 

trots2@drink.demon.co.uk or Write: 

Box SG67000. [99] 

Worldwide Penfriends 

Regular lists. Make friends, exchange 

holidays, improve your languages. 

For general and music lovers' lists send 

£3: "The Penpal List", c/o 

221B Merton Rd, Southfields, London. 

SW18 5EE. [99] 

BACK RUBS 

Antonio X 

23, successful educated Italian guy for 

exotic pleasure, 28" waist, 

smooth, toned all over. Underwear 

fetish with discreet service based 

around Scotland in/out calls on 1hr 

rate. Tel/text: 07790 446997. [67a] 

Edinburgh Centre 

Good looking 21 year old slim white 

lad. Out calls in Central 

Edinburgh. Specialise in sub/dom. Call 

07906 349143. [67] 

Edinburgh Ebony Escort 

5'10", slim to muscular, toned, 25 years 

old, W/E, handsome. In call or 

visit. Covers central Scotland. Put 

together the way a man should be. 

Call 07969 894038. [66a] 

Edinburgh Gay Escort 

Muscle Escort 

Sam - Hot Muscle Escort. Attractive, fit 

and muscular guy. Versatile 

guy offering a professional and friendly 

service. Available throughout 

Central Scotland. In calls available. Visit 

ScotsGuys.Com for details or 

call 08444 170134 (local rate). [66a] 

Transvestite Escort! 

Nadine - Professional and friendly service 

from a gorgeous 20 year old 

transvestite escort. Accom in Glasgow 

or visit you anywhere in 

Scotland. Visit ScotsGuys.Com for 

details or call 08444 170134 (local 

rate). [66a] 

Scotland’s Top Escort! 

WHERE TO GO 

Reubans Of Carlisle 

Gay and bi sauna. Close to M6 Jct42. 

Open 7 days. Tel 01228 523328. 

WWW: http://www.reubans.com/ [70] 

WHERE TO STAY 

All New, All Gay Guesthouses - 

Edinburgh 

Two great locations. Exclusively gay. 

Easy walk to nightlife. Stylish 

rooms, all with TV and video (tapes 

available). Shared and private 

bathrooms. Breakfast available till noon. 

Non-smoking houses. Easy parking. 

Room rates: £29-£49 per night. Call 

0131-558 1382 or Fax 0131-556 8279. 

WWW: 

http://www.gayscotland.com/alvahouse/ 

[69a] 

Apartment - Edinburgh City Centre 

Holiday/break. Fabulous serviced apartment, 

near all gay venues. 5 mins 

to main rail/bus stations and Princes St. 

Sleeps 1-5 people. 1 double 

bedded room. 1 single bedroom. Very 

large lounge/dining room - inc 

double sofabed. Kitchen inc all mod 

cons and bathroom. From £90 per 

night. Tel: 0131-557 1910 or 07966 

938055 or E-mail: 

dublinstreetstay@hotmail.com for bookings. 

WWW: 

http://www.dublinstreet.co.uk/ [68a] 

Charing Cross Guest House 

Offering budget accommodation in the 

heart of Glasgow City Centre. Gay 

friendly. Tel: (+44) 141-332 2503. Fax: 

(+44) 141-353 3047. WWW: 

http://www.glasgow-guesthouse.net/ 

[70] 

Near Perth 

Guest House. En suite rooms B&B £25. 

Dinner to order. Also massage, 

hairdressing head and body. For a discreet 

personal service, call Ron on 

07730 876454. [67] 

North West Highlands 

Friendly and relaxed small B&B with 

spectacular mountain views & 

wilderness surroundings. 

Ideal for walking, climbing, cycling or 

enjoying the peace & quiet in 

an "away from it all" 

picturesque location. Martin and Ken. 

Tel: (01809) 511315. WWW: 

http://www.poulary.co.uk/ [68a] 

boxes 

HELPLINES AND SWITCHBOARDS 

CROSSLYNX NATIONAL TV/TS/TG HELPLINE 

Mon 7.30-9.30pm. Phone: 0141-847 0787 

WWW: http://www.crosslynx.org/ 

CUMBRIA AND THE BORDERS GAY HELPLINE 

Nightly 6-9pm. Phone: Bassenthwaite Lake (01768) 776244 

DIVERSITAY LGBT SWITCHBOARD (DUNDEE) 

Mon 7-10pm. Phone: Dundee (01382) 202620 Write: PO Box 53, Dundee. DD1 3YG. 

E-mail: contact@diversitay.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.diversitay.org.uk/ 

FIFE HATE CRIME REPORTING HELPLINE 

24 hours. Phone: Freephone 0800 3891425 

A freephone number for people who wish support in reporting to Fife Constabulary crime motivated by hate. For further 

information about the service or becoming a trained helpline volunteer, phone us now! 

HOMOPHOBIC CRIME LINE 

Nightly 7-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0647 or Stirling (01786) 469483 

WWW: http://www.centralscotland.police.uk/gblt/ 

LOTHIAN GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD 

Nightly 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0131-556 4049 

E-mail: help.swithboard@btconnect.com WWW: http://www.lgls.co.uk/ 

LOTHIAN LESBIAN LINE 

Mon, Thu 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0131-557 0751 

E-mail: help.switchboard@btconnect.com WWW: http://www.lgls.co.uk/ 

STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD 

Nightly 7-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0447 

E-mail: info@sgls.co.uk WWW: http://www.sgls.co.uk/ 

STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN LINE 

Wed 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0547 

WWW: http://www.sgls.co.uk/services1.htm 

LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD 

24 hours. Phone/Minicom: 020-7837 7324. FAX: 020-7837 7300. WWW: http://www.llgs.org.uk/ 

ScotsG ay 

Tony - 20 year old sexy fit lad. Straight 

looking horny lad! Friendly, 

discreet and professional service at my 

place or yours. In calls available! Visit 

ScotsGuys.Com for details or call 

08444 170134 (local rate). [66a] 

Glasgow Gay Escort 

Damien - 18 year old sexy guy for in or 

out calls in Glasgow. VWE 

active guy who is always able to satisfy! 

Friendly and discreet escort for 

guys of all ages. Visit ScotsGuys.Com 

for details or call 08444 170134 

(local rate). [66a] 

Massage For Men - Edinburgh 

Great relaxing, holistic, sensual, tantric, 

full body pampering in 

nurturing masculine environment. Soft 

candles, music, incense, warm towels, 

shower, cologne, refreshments. £30 

session. Jim: Qualified, experienced, 

caring. 0131-557 4643. [69] 

Edinburgh 

Chubby gay man offers erotic massage 

for men (£20) in Central 

Edinburgh. Call Kenny on 0131-669 

3135 or 07920 223181. [99] 

Kyle - 18 year old boyish and cute gay 

escort in Glasgow and Edinburgh. 

Slim, toned, hung and horny. 

Versatile/passive and can accom in 

Glasgow or visit you anywhere. Visit 

ScotsGuys.Com for details or call 

08444 170134 (local rate). [66a] 

ScotsGuys Escort Agency 

The best gay escorts in Scotland are at 

ScotsGuys! Visit 

http://www.scotsguys.com/ for pictures 

and details or call 08444 170134 

(local rate) for all enquiries and bookings. 

New Escorts always wanted. 

[66a] 

Swedish Massage In Edinburgh 

Professional masseur with long experience 

of both remedial and relaxing 

massage working from home on 

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 

For more information, see my web page 

http://www.masseur.pwp.blueyonder.co. 

uk/ or call 07724 592777. [66a] 

Swedish Massage in Glasgow Area 

Remedial and sports massage. Qualified 

Practitioner evenings and weekends. 

Home visits. Non sexua. Call drew on 

01355 245 708. [69a] 

Edinburgh Massage 

Ex-army, NVQ2 trained masseur, offers 

relaxed, unhurried service. £30 

per hour. Private flat, off road parking. 

Go on, treat yourself. Call 

07913 200799 for details. [67] 

Penzance - Cornwall 

Small, gay-friendly, period hotel situated 

with own parking in town 

centre. Rooms available en-suite. 

WWW: http://www.cliffhotelpz.co.uk/ 

Tel: (01736) 368888. [99] 

Perth 

We are a gay and lesbian friendly guest 

house in Perth. 10 mins from 

city centre amenities. Comfortable 

rooms recently refurbished and 

ensuite. 24 channel televideo. All diets 

catered for. Excellent rates. Full 

Scottish breakfast. See you soon. 

Phone 07715 180157. E-mail: 

enquiries@rosebankguesthouseperth.co 

.uk [67] 

Pottery House B&B - Loch Ness 

Small, friendly B&B on the shores of 

Loch Ness just 8 miles from 

Inverness. Call John or Glen: 01463 

751267. WWW: 

http://www.potteryhouse.co.uk/ [70a] 

Quality 4 Star Rated B&B Near To 

Inverness 

Located on the Black Isle, its quiet rural 

location is just perfect for 

walking cycling and touring the 

Highlands, or even just relaxing. 

Telephone Chris or Paul on 01463 

811779. [71] 

Victorian House Hotel 

60 spacious and well appointed bedrooms 

- quiet, comfortable and 

individually furnished. 3 star and gay 

friendly. Tel: (+44) 141-332 0129. 

Fax: (+44) 141-353 3155. WWW: 

http://www.victorianhotelglasgow.co.uk/ 

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NATIONAL 

ORGANISATIONS 

OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND: 

Scotland's oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual 

and transgender rights organisation. It 

was founded in 1969 as the Scottish 

Minorities Group, later became the 

Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and 

changed its name to OUTRIGHT SCOT- 

LAND in December 1992. Currently 

focusing on work around the Scottish 

Parliament, Scottish Executive and 

Scottish Public Institutions such as the 

NHS, Police and Justice System. Write: 

The Secretary, OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND, 

PO Box 23253, Edinburgh. EH1 3XD. E- 

mail: convenor@outrightscotland.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.outright-scotland.org.uk/ 

Why not support 

OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND's work? 

Membership is £15 waged, £9 lowwaged 

(under £10,000 pa) and £5 

unwaged. Life membership is £150. 

Affiliation from Trades Union and 

Political Party Branches also welcome: 

£100 (Local Branches), £150 (National 

Organisations). Please make out your 

cheque/Postal Order to OUTRIGHT 

SCOTLAND and send to The Secretary, 

OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND, PO Box 23253, 

Edinburgh. EH1 3XD. 

EQUALITY NETWORK: 

Working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and 

transgender equality in Scotland. Write: 

30 Bernard Street, Edinburgh. EH6 6PR. 

Tel: 07020 933952. Fax: 07020 933954. 

E-mail: en@equality-network.org WWW: 

http://www.equality-network.org/ We 

hold weekly meetings, regular forums 

and an annual conference; contact us 

for more details. Join the campaign network! 

LESBIAN ARCHIVE AND INFORMATION 

CENTRE: 

The UK's largest and most significant 

collection of materials relating to lesbian 

lives. LAIC (at Glasgow Women's 

Library) 109 Trongate, Glasgow. G1 

5HD. Tel/Fax: 0141-552 8345. Open 

Tue, Wed, Fri 1-6pm. Thu 1-9pm. E- 

mail: gwl@womens-library.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.womenslibrary.org.uk/laic.htm 

PRIDE SCOTIA (EDINBURGH): 

Now busily organising Pride Scotia 

2007! Tel: 0131-556 9471. Write: 58a 

Broughton Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3SA. 

E-mail: edinburgh@pride-scotia.org 

WWW: http://www.pride-scotia.org/ 

PRIDE SCOTIA (GLASGOW): 

Organising Pride Scotia 2006 which is 

provisionally planned for Sat 24th Jun 

2006! Write: 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow. 

G1 4AL. E-mail: glasgow@pride-scotia.org 

WWW: http://www.pridescotia.org/ 

STONEWALL SCOTLAND: 

Scottish office of the London based 

campaigning group. Write: 9 

Howe Street, Edinburgh. EH3 6TE. Tel: 

0131-557 3679. E-mail: 

scotland@stonewall.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.stonewallscotland.org.uk/ 

LOCAL ORGANISATIONS 

ABERDEEN: 

Icebreakers: A support group for members 

of the LGBT community who are 

new to the Grampian area or the local 

scene. Meets monthly. Write: c/o Phace 

Scotland, 11 Waverley Place, Aberdeen. 

AB10 1XH. Tel: 0845 2412151. Fax: 

0845 2412152. E-mail: 

grampian@phacescotland.org 

North East Scotland Gay Group: A 

befriending group for gay and bisexual 

men, meets 3rd Sun of each month at 

7.30pm. Write: c/o 11 Waverley Place, 

Aberdeen. AB10 1XH. Tel: 0845 

2412151. E-mail: nesgg@phacescotland.org 

Pride In Aberdeen: An umbrella group 

for voluntary LGBT organisations in the 

North East of Scotland (formerly North 

East LGBT Forum). Working towards 

opening an LGBT Centre in Aberdeen. 

Write: Pride in Aberdeen Ltd, c/o 

PHACE Scotland, 11 Waverley Place, 

Aberdeen. AB10 1XH. E-mail: 

info@prideinaberdeen.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.prideinaberdeen.org.uk/ 

ARGYLL & CLYDE: 

If you are interested in getting involved 

in a local group for gay and bisexual 

men anywhere in the Argyll and Clyde 

area get in touch! PHACE Scotland are 

involved in a range of social and support 

groups across the West of 

Scotland. Tel: Matt Johnston on 0141- 

332 3838 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) or E- 

mail: mattj@phacescotland.org 

AYRSHIRE: 

Ayrshire Social & Sexuality Support 

Group: Meets 3rd Wed of each month 

at 7pm in Irvine. Details of venue from 

David Bingham on 0141-332 3838 

(Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) or Irvine (01294) 

323473. E-mail: davidb@phacescotland.org 

CAITHNESS: 

Caithness Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual 

Group: A friendly informal group which 

meets irregularly. Write: Box 689, 

Journal Office, 42 Union Street, Wick. 

KW1 5ED. Tel: 07808 814007 (Fri 7- 

9pm). E-mail: 

caithnessglb@yahoo.co.uk WWW: 

http://members.lycos.co.uk/caithnessglc/index.htm 

DUNDEE: 

Disco:very: The newsletter from 

Diversitay. Available from: Diversitay 

(LGBT Group), PO Box 53, Dundee, 

DD1 3YG. 

DUNFERMLINE: 

FifeFLAGS: Fife Free Lesbian and Gay 

Society. Based in Dunfermline, provides 

a welcoming and safe meeting space 

and drop-in centre near the town centre 

for the LGBT community, our friends, 

family and supporters. Regular social 

group meets on Mon and Thu eve from 

7pm. Youth group for people up to age 

25, coordinated by LGBT Youth 

Scotland, meets on first Mon of each 

month from 7-9 pm. Support for parents 

of recently out children can also be 

arranged - contact for details. Various 

groups meet in comfortable surroundings 

and arrange activities and outings 

or just hang out and meet new friends 

over coffee and biscuits. Safer sex 

information and supplies available as 

part of the Fife Health Board condom 

distribution scheme. Tel: Dunfermline 

(01383) 738517. E-mail: 

Info@FifeFLAGS.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.fifeflags.org.uk/ 

EDINBURGH: 

Icebreakers: Social group for guys and 

gals who want to make friendships and 

feel more at ease in the company of 

other gay people. Run by Switchboard 

volunteers. Takes place from 7.30-9pm 

in CC Blooms on the 2nd & 4th Wed of 

each month. If you’re recently out or 

new to Edinburgh or just feel a bit cut 

off and want a break, come along. A 

welcoming and non-threatening environment. 

First timers can be met outside. 

Phone Lothian Switchboard for 

details. 

ELGIN: 

Moray LGBT Group: Meets at Health 

Point, 239 High Street, Elgin. Write: c/o 

11 Waverley Place, Aberdeen. AB10 

1XH. Tel: 0845 2412151. E-mail: 

moraylgbtgroup@phacescotland.org 

FALKIRK: 

FLAGS LGBT Centre: 56-58 Cow Wynd, 

Falkirk. FK1 1PU. Tel: Falkirk (01324) 

638218. Situated near the centre of 

town. Resource area with latest magazines, 

leaflets etc. Free safer sex supplies 

for men and women. Tea and coffee 

area. Various groups meet in the 

Centre each week. For further information: 

telephone or E-mail and speak to 

one of the volunteers. E-mail: 

flagslgbt@hotmail.com 

GLASGOW: 

Glasgow LGBT Centre: The Centre 

Board manages Glasgow LGBT Centre 

Limited, which is registered as a 

Scottish charity and as a Scottish company. 

Centre Administrator and 

Manager are on duty (9.30am-5pm 

Mon-Fri). Membership criteria for 

Glasgow LGBT Centre Limited is available 

to all interested people agreeing to 

the code of conduct. See press for 

notice of the Annual General meeting of 

Members - childcare and BSL interpreter 

can be organised, but please give 

advance notice. Membership is closed 

in the last month. Write: Glasgow LGBT 

Centre, 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 

4AL. Tel/Fax: 0141-221 7203. E-mail: 

admin1@glgbt.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.glgbt.org.uk/ 

Icebreakers Group: For lesbians, gays 

and bisexuals new to the scene. 12.30- 

3pm on 1st Sun of each month at LGBT 

Centre, 11 Dixon Street. Details from 

Strathclyde Switchboard. 

INVERCLYDE: 

Greenock LGBT Group: Are you interested 

in meeting LGBT people from in 

and around Greenock? The Phoenix 

Community Health Project are running 

an occasional group for LGBT people 

from Inverclyde. These meetings are a 

chance to socialise with local people 

and to find out more about what's on 

offer for Inverclyde's LGBT community. 

The group is relaxed, informal and is 

also open to friends and family. Meets 

at the Phoenix Project, 19 Bogle St, 

Greenock on some Thu eves from 7- 

9pm. Tel: Sandra on Greenock (01475) 

892197 or Matt on 0141-332 3838. 

INVERNESS: 

Highland Gay Men's Group: Meets at 

7.30pm on 4th Wed of each month at 

34 Waterloo Place. Tel: Inverness 

(01463) 711585 (Mon-Fri 9.30am- 

4.30pm). E-mail: hgmg@reachouthighland.org.uk 

Highland Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, 

Transgender Forum. Write: c/o Reach 

Out Highland, 34 Waterloo Place, 

Inverness. IV1 1NB. E-mail: 

forum@gay-ness.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.gay-ness.org.uk/ 

STIRLING: 

Stirling Gay Men's Group meets monthly 

from Sep-Jun (generally 3rd Fri) in 

private houses. E-mail: 

mensgroup@lademill.force9.co.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.lademill.f9.co.uk/Forthfriend. 

html 

WOMEN'S LISTINGS 

SCOTTISH NETWORK FOR LESBIAN 

STRENGTH: 

To further lesbian issues, follow a lesbian 

agenda and foster lesbian visibility. 

E-mail: High_Les@bigfoot.com 

ABERDEEN: 

Aberdeen Lesbian Group: A small social 

group of lesbian and bisexual women 

who meet every fortnight in the 

Women’s Centre, Shoe Lane (next to 

the Lemon Tree). They aim to bring 

together like-minded women into a 

friendly atmosphere focussing on fun 

and enjoyment. Tel: 07914 151920. E- 

mail: savanah@clara.co.uk 

AroundAB-out 2001: A free monthly 

online newsletter primarily for lesbians 

in Aberdeen and the North-East of 

Scotland but has a mixed readership of 

gender, sexuality and age throughout 

the UK and internationally. It contains a 

mix of articles, humour, information 

and regular features. Personal copies 

are sent free via e-mail if requested, and 

the website is updated during the 

month with time related news. WWW: 

http://www.about2001.com/ For individual 

free subscriptions, E-mail: 

Subscriptions@About2001.com with 

the word "subscribe" either in the subject 

or in the body of the e-mail. 

Granite Sisters: Aberdeen based social 

and cultural group for lesbians throughout 

Scotland. Meetings and events held 

in both the private homes of members 

and public venues. Confidentiality and 

privacy are regarded as very important 

to this group as many members are not 

out, and you will find the members 

respect these values at gatherings. 

Website also contains news and information 

about gay issues, gay friendly 

holidays in Scotland etc. Further details: 

Maria Clark Manager/Secretary. Tel/Fax: 

Aberdeen (01224) 713336 (day/eve). 

Write: PO Box 18230, Aberdeen. AB2 

9YN. E-mail: 13@clara.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.13.clara.co.uk/ 

CAITHNESS: 

GirlZone in Caithness, is a new social 

group, for gay and bi-sexual women of 

all ages. E-mail: GirlZoneCaith@aol.com 

DUNDEE: 

Ellesbelles: Dundee's women only 

drumming group. Meets every Thu 

from 5.30pm at Michelin Athletic Club, 

Drumgeith Road. Tel: Dundee (01382) 

330131. E-mail: ellesbellesdundee@hotmail.com 

We Bissums: A regular newletter for 

women in and around Dundee. Write: 

PO Box 6819, Dundee. DD1 2YG. E- 

mail: weebiz@hotmail.co.uk 

EDINBURGH: 

AD Group: For lesbians 40+. Monthly 

meeting and frequent social events. For 

details, phone Edinburgh Lesbian Line. 

Edinburgh Gay Women's Group: Weekly 

social group to chat, laugh, do crazy 

things or more relaxed ones. Go to the 

movies, pub, theatre, dancing, whatever 

you fancy. Meets every Wed 8pm 

onwards at Sala, LGBT Centre, 60 

Broughton St. For details, phone 

Edinburgh Lesbian Line. 

Lesbian Book Group: Meets monthly 

(Wed 7.30-9.30pm) in basement of 

LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 

Howe Street, Edinburgh. Contact Kerry 

for further details / next book by E-mail: 

kjmcdoll@yahoo.co.uk or Tel: 07739 

324046. 

LGBT Centre For Health & Wellbeing: 9 

Howe Street, Edinburgh. EH3 6TE. 

Social events, groups, classes and volunteering 

for lesbian, bisexual and 

transgender women. Tel: 0131-523 

1100. E-mail: allie@lgbthealth.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.lgbthealth.org.uk/ 

LIBRA: Help for women concerned 

about their drinking. Free 1-2-1 counselling 

and groupwork. Tel: 0131-661 

0111. Write: 4 Norton Park, Edinburgh. 

EH7 5RS. E-mail: libra@libralothian.fsnet.co.uk 

FALKIRK: 

Forth Valley Gay Women meet 7.30- 

9pm every 2nd Thu at FLAGS LGBT 

Centre, 56-58 Cow Wynd, Falkirk. FK1 

1PU. Tel: 07849 082761. 

GLASGOW: 

Centre For Women's Health: Sandyford 

Initiative, 2-6 Sandyford Place (old Eye 

Infirmary), Glasgow. G3 7NB. Tel: 0141- 

211 6700. Minicom: 0141-211 6703. 

Fax: 0141-211 6702. Sappho @ 

Sandyford: Sappho promotes positive 

health for lesbians and easier access to 

sexual, reproductive and women's 

health services. A monthly well-woman 

clinic and screening service is provided 

in a lesbian friendly setting. Tel: 0141- 

211 8130 for appointment. Counselling 

at the Centre for Women's Health takes 

place fortnightly on Tue eve. Women 

Only Space and Reference Library: 

Mon-Thu 10am-8.30pm, Fri 10am-4pm. 

Tel: 0141-211 6700 for info. There is a 

crêche within Sandyford Initiative - Tel: 

0141-211 8647 for info. E-mail: sandyfordlib@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk. 

WWW: 

http://www.sandyford.org/ 

Glasgow Women's Library: 4th/5th 

Floors, 109 Trongate, G1 5HD. Tel/Fax: 

0141-552 8345. Open Tue, Wed, Fri 1- 

6pm. Thu 1-9pm. Lending and reference 

library - books, magazines, journals, 

videos, leaflets and information. 

UK and overseas feminist and lesbian 

publications. Contains the Lesbian 

Archive and Information Centre - a 

unique national collection of publications, 

journals and ephemera by and for 

lesbians. E-mail: gwl@womenslibrary.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.womens-library.org.uk/ 

OLGA - Older Women's Group: Meets 

monthly. Tel: Jenny or Alex on 

Kilwinning (01294) 558171 or Rose on 

0141-423 3025. E-mail: roseodoherty@hotmail.com 

Personal safety and confidence building 

courses for women are offered by Wise 

Women, 120 Sydney Street, Glasgow. 

G31 1JF. Tel: 0141-550 7557. 

Quertyphone: 0141-550 7558. 

INVERNESS: 

GirlZone: Formerly Girls @ The Gate. 

Friendly, informal social group for LBT 

and friends - all welcome. Meets 3rd 

Sat of each month. Tel: Joanne on 

07792 223 687 for details and venue. E- 

mail: girlzone@gay-ness.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.gay-ness.org.uk/ 

Highland Lesbian Group: A friendly lesbian 

social group which offers support 

and information. Organises fundraisers 

for Womankind Worldwide: 

http://www.womankind.org.uk/ WWW: 

http://www.freewebs.com/highlandlesbiangroup/ 

E-mail: 

High_Les@bigfoot.com 

LESBIAN INFORMATION SERVICE: 

E-mail: 

jan@lesbianinformationservice.org 

WWW: http://www.lesbianinformationservice.org/ 

LILLIDOTS: 

Lesbian Feminist Walking Group. 

Contact via Dundee Switchboard, 

Lothian Lesbian Line or Strathclyde 

Switchboard. 

YOUNG LESBIANS: 

See our Youth Groups listings. 

BISEXUALS 

BI EDINBURGH: 

A monthly space for bisexuals and 

those questioning their sexuality. Meets 

3rd Wed of month from 8pm at the 

Edinburgh LGBT Centre, 58a Broughton 

Street for informal discussion followed 

by drinks. Tel/text: 07963 960321. E- 

mail: info@biscotland.org WWW: 

http://www.biscotland.org/ 

BI GLASGOW: 

Glasgow's own bisexual group, for 

information, support and socializing, for 

bisexuals and those questioning their 

sexuality. Meets 1st Wed of month, 

from 7.30-9.30pm in the Ian Dunn 

Room at Glasgow LGBT Centre, followed 

by drinks. Also organises training 

and activist activities in support of 

bisexual visibility and pride. Tel/text: 

07963 960321. Write: Bi Glasgow, c/o 

Glasgow LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon Street, 

Glasgow, G1 4AL. E-mail: info@biscotland.org 

WWW: 

http://www.biscotland.org/ 

BI MEN SCOTLAND: 

Scots Wing of the Bi Men Network - 

worldwide 1/4 million bi and gay men! 

WWW:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/B 

i-Men-Scotland/ 

ABUSE 

BROKEN RAINBOW LGBT DOMESTIC 

VIOLENCE SERVICE (UK): 

Works to change the situation for LGBT 

people facing domestic violence. Runs a 

listening, information and signposting 

Helpline Service, staffed by LGBT people. 

Tel: 0845 2604460 (Mon-Fri 9am- 

1pm and 2-5pm). E-mail: 

mail@brokenrainbow.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.broken-rainbow.org.uk/ 

MALE SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE 

IN GRAMPIAN: 

Support and Advice. Write: PHACE 

Scotland, 11 Waverley Place, Aberdeen. 

AB10 1XH. Tel: 0845 2412151. E-mail: 

grampian@phacescotland.org 

MEN AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE: 

MASA offers a unique 1-2-1 counselling 

service for adult male survivors of 

childhood abuse. MASA can also provide 

Hypnotherapy and Electric 

Stimulation Therapy (a form of acupunture). 

Tel: 0141-550 2048 (Tue 7-9pm). 

E-mail: abusedmen@aol.com 

RAPE AND ABUSE LINE: 

For male and female survivors. Women 

answer the Tel: Freephone 0808 

8000123 (or Dingwall (01349) 865316) 

hours as advised on telephone answering 

machine. Men answer the Tel: 

Freephone 0808 8000122 (or Dingwall 

(01349) 862686) hours as advised on 

telephone answering machine. Callers 

are welcome to phone either line. Write: 

PO Box 10, Dingwall. IV15 9HE. 

THRIVE: 

Counselling service for male survivors 

of childhood sexual abuse. Write: The 

Sandyford Initiative, 4 Sandyford Place, 

Glasgow. G3 7NB. Tel: 0141-211 8133. 

E-mail: thrive@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk 

ATHEISTS/HUMANISTS 

GAY AND LESBIAN HUMANIST 

ASSOCIATION: 

GALHA is a national membership group 

promoting the gay-friendly Humanist 

outlook and gay and lesbian rights as 

human rights. Write: 34 Spring Lane, 

Kenilworth, Warwickshire. CV8 2HB. 

Tel/Fax: Kenilworth (01926) 858450. E- 

mail: secretary@galha.org WWW: 

http://www.galha.org/ 

HUMANIST SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND: 

LGBT commitment ceremonies/weddings. 

Lesbian Humanist Society 

registered celebrant. Scotland wide. Tel 

07739 826377 or E-mail: 

gerrie.ds@ntlworld.com 

PINK TRIANGLE TRUST: 

PTT is a gay charity which can arrange 

non-religious ceremonies of love and 

commitment for lesbian and gay couples 

at very reasonable rates in most 

parts of Scotland. Details from: Write: 

34 Spring Lane, Kenilworth, 

Warwickshire. CV8 2HB. Tel/Fax: 

Kenilworth (01926) 858450. E-mail: 

ceremonies@pinktriangle.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.pinktriangle.org.uk/ 

BDSM 

MSC SCOTLAND: 

A club for men interested in Leather, 

Rubber, Uniform. Meets at the Regent 

Bar, Edinburgh, on the 3rd Sat of each 

month from 9pm. Write: PO Box 28, 

Edinburgh. EH3 5JL. E-mail: msc@mscscotland.net 

WWW: http://www.mscscotland.net/ 

SCOTTISH GAY SKINS: 

Information Site for Scottish Gay 

Skinheads. E-mail: 

scotsskins@fsmail.net WWW: 

http://www.gayromeo.com/scotsskins 

ScotsSkins meet informally in The 

Claremont in Edinburgh on the 3rd Sat 

of each month. 

SM GAYS: 

E-mail: info@smgays.org WWW: 

http://www.smgays.org/ 

SM PRIDE: 

National organisation providing 

information, advice and support 

on BDSM and related issues. Write: SM 

Pride, PO Box 413, Torquay, Devon. 

TQ1 1WZ. Tel: 07849 470005. Fax: 

08702 415058. E-mail: theteam@uksmpride.org 

WWW: http://www.uksmpride.org/ 

BEARS 

BEARSCOTS: 

For hairy, moustached, bearded or 

bulky men and their admirers. 

Edinburgh: Meets 1st Sat of each 

month from 2pm in No. 18 Sauna and 

then from 9pm in the Claremont Bar. 

Write: PO Box 12785, Edinburgh, EH6 

7YU. Tel: Dundee (01382) 640059. E- 

mail: info@bearscots.org.uk Glasgow: 

Meets 2nd Fri of each month from 8pm 

in the Revolver Bar. E-mail: 

glasgow_bear@yahoo.co.uk For details 

of other social events across Scotland 

contact BearScots or check the website. 

WWW: http://www.bearscots.org.uk/ 

BIKERS 

GAY BIKERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB: 

A UK-wide club for women and men. 

Active Scottish section. Write: PO Box 

33, Long Eaton, Nottingham. NG10 2BF. 

E-mail: info@gaybikers.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.gaybikers.co.uk/ 

CHRISTIANS 

EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP: 

Lesbian, gay or bisexual? From an 

Evangelical tradition? So are we. Tel: 

Andrew on Mid Calder (01506) 499926. 

Write: c/o 13 Westbrook Drive, 

Macclesfield, Cheshire. SK10 3AQ. E- 

mail: info@eflgc.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.eflgc.org.uk/ 

HOLY TRINITY METROPOLITAN 

COMMUNITY CHURCH: 

An inclusive church of the lesbigay and 

trangendered community open to all 

irrespective of sexuality. Services: Every 

Sun at 6pm (11am during Aug) at 

Augustine United Church, 41 George IV 

Bridge, Edinburgh (opposite the Central 

Library). Relationship blessings conducted 

by arrangement. Tel: 0131-226 

1691. Write: Metropolitan Community 

Church, 41 George IV Bridge, 

Edinburgh. EH1 1EL. E-mail: 

mail@mccedinburgh.com WWW: 

http://www.mccedinburgh.com/ 

OPEN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: 

A small gay friendly denomination in 

the Old Catholic tradition. 

Regular Masses and other sacraments 

in Edinburgh. Also Relationship 

Blessings, Hand-fastings, and Healing. 

Contact Alistair on 07817 767445. E- 

mail: alistair_bate@hotmail.com WWW: 

http://www.revalistairbate.com/ 

QUAKERS: 

Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship is a 

welcoming and supportive national 

group for people of all sexual orientations 

and their friends. Write: Ruth 

(SG), 46 The Avenue, Starbeck, 

Harrogate. HG1 4QD. E-mail: qlgfcontact@btclick.com 

WWW: 

http://www.qlgf.org.uk/ 

QUEST: 

Organisation for lesbian and gay 

Catholics. Monthly meetings are held in 

different regional groups throughout 

Britain. Scottish meetings held in 

Glasgow. Quest Linkline - The Helpline 

for Gay and Lesbian Catholics - Tel: 

(Freephone) 0808 808 0234. Write: BM 

Box 2585, LONDON. WC1N 3XX. E- 

mail: quest@questgaycatholic.org.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.questgaycatholic.org.uk/ 

ROMAN CATHOLIC CAUCUS OF THE 

LESBIAN & GAY CHRISTIAN 

MOVEMENT: 

Local group meets in Central 

Edinburgh. Write: RC Caucus, PO Box 

24632, London. E9 6XF. Tel: 020-7226 

0847. E-mail: lgcm_rccaucus@hotmail.com 

CREATIVE ARTS 

DIVERSE ARTISTS: 

An opportunity for Artists from all Art 

Disciplines, to meet, discuss their Art 

and develop projects and workshop 

opportunities. Membership is open to 

all diverse artists. Tel: Aileen on 07931 

309093. E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk 

CULTURAL 

GAYKILTS: 

A friendly social group of men who 

admire men in kilts and promote the 

wearing of the traditionally constructed 

kilt. Regular monthly meetings alternating 

between Edinburgh and Glasgow. 

Other kilted meetings and weekend get 

togethers and visits throughout Britain. 

See web site for details. Tel: 07800 

891702. E-mail: info@gaykilts.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.gaykilts.co.uk/ 

GLASGAY!: 

Scotland's annual celebration of queer 

culture. Next dates: 20th Oct-20th Nov 

2005. Write: The Q! Gallery, 87-89 

Saltmarket, Glasgow G1 5LE. Tel: 0141- 

552 7575 or 07762 722460. E-mail: 

info@glasgay.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.glasgay.co.uk/ 

INTERNATIONAL KILT APPRECIATION 

SOCIETY (IKAS): 

Contact and social group for guys interested 

in viewing/wearing kilts. Regular 

newsletter. Write: Mervyn Tacy, `Ziveli', 

20 Ordsall Park Road, Retford. DN22 

7PA. Please enclose sae. Tel: 01777 

708270. E-mail: IKILTas@aol.com 

WWW: http://www.freewebs.com/ikas/ 

REMEMBER WHEN PROJECT: 

Documenting the collective history of 

Edinburgh's LGBT communities, 

recording life-stories and personal 

memories across the generations, and 

celebrating our rich and varied contributions 

to the quality of life in the city. 

Write: Brian Thompson, Remember 

When Project, 14 Forth Street, 

Edinburgh. EH1 3LH. Tel: 0131-558 

2820. E-mail: 

brian@rememberwhen.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.rememberwhen.org.uk/ 

SCOTTISH BORDERS GAY FILM 

GROUP: 

Meets monthly during autumn through 

to the spring, and views videos/DVDs 

with a gay theme or character. For more 

details please contact Alastair on 

Galashiels (01896) 757861. 

SCOTTISH GAY VEGGIE GROUP: 

To unite gay veggies. Tel: 0141-883 

2715 or 07963 540356. 

THE SPORRAN CLAN: 

Social group that promotes the wearing 

of the kilt, the love of guys who wear 

kilts and Scottish culture. Member benefits 

include: Meetings and varied 

events throughout the year in Scotland 

and abroad; access to World Class 

Bulletin Board providing definitive 

resource of kilting information and 

Members On-Line Chat Room. No 

Membership Fee. For more information: 

E-mail: sporranclan@mac.com WWW: 

http://www.sporranclan.org/ 

CYBERSPACE 

LAMBDA BOARD — EDINBURGH: 

The UK's oldest LGBT 24 hour computer 

based bulletin board system. Private 

mailboxing, areas for Women, Gay Men, 

Bisexuals, Leather Enthusiasts, TV/TSs, 

etc. 0131-556 6316. Scrolling (8N1) 

and Viewdata (Prestel) formats at 

speeds up to V22bis (2400/2400). 

SCOTSGAY: 

All of the words from the magazine can 

be found on our website as well as 

interactive Meet Market and our 

Listings which are updated nearly every 

day. WWW: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ 

HEALTH AND ABILITIES 

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 

Whilst AA runs the following LGBT 

meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 

please note that it is a non restrictive 

organisation and LGBT people are welcome 

at any meeting. Edinburgh: Tue 

7.30pm (Edinburgh LGBT Centre, 58a 

Broughton Street). Glasgow: Tue 8pm 

(Phace Scotland, 2nd Floor, 49 Bath 

Street), Thu 7.30pm (Nye Bevan House, 

20 India Street), Fri 8pm (Glasgow 

LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon Street). National 

Helpline: 0845 7697555 (24 hours). 

Scottish Office: 0141-226 2214. 

Edinburgh Office: 0131-225 2727. 

BODY POSITIVE (GRAMPIAN): 

A self help group offering support and 

assistance for individuals with HIV/AIDS 

in the Grampian area. Write: PO Box 83, 

Aberdeen. AB9 1AA. 

BODY POSITIVE (TAYSIDE): 

11-15 Princes Street, Dundee. DD4 

6BY. A charity that exists to empower 

HIV and HepC positive people and those 

affected thereby to eliminate the stigma 

and isolation they experience. Tel: 

Dundee (01382) 461555. Fax: Dundee 

(01382) 461424. Tue-Thu (Drop In) 

Noon-3.30pm. E-mail: admin@bptayside.sol.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.bodypositivetayside.org/ 

BROWNLEE CENTRE (GLASGOW): 

Gartnavel General Hospital, 1053 Great 

Western Road, Glasgow. G12 0YN. 

Confidential information, advice, counselling 

and direct access testing for HIV 

and Hepatitis. The Centre provides 

ongoing medical and social care plus 

psychological and emotional support 

for people living with HIV infection and 

one to one counselling for people at 

risk of HIV. Tel: 0141-211 1089. Fax: 

0141-211 1097. Mon-Thu 9am-5pm, 

Tue 5-7.30pm, Thu 5-7.30pm, Fri 9am- 

4.30pm. 

BROWNLEE COMMUNITY TEAM: 

1st Floor, Granite House, 31 Stockwell 

Street, Glasgow. G1 4RZ. Social work 

service for people with HIV/AIDS providing 

intensive community based support. 

General advice and information on 

community care and housing needs 

also provided. Mon-Thu 8.45am- 

4.45pm. Fri 8.45am-3.55pm. Tel: 0141- 

552 4488. Fax: 0141-552 2760. Also at 

Brownlee Centre: Tel: 0141-211 1090. 

FIFE MEN: 

5 South Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy. KY1 

1YA. (Behind Sheriff Court). 

Information, advice and support on gay 

and health issues, free condoms, and 

much more! Mon-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 10am- 

3pm. Tel: Kirkcaldy (01592) 265666. 

Fax: Kirkcaldy (01592) 643866. E-mail: 

enquiries@fifemen.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.fifemen.co.uk/ 

GAY MEN'S HEALTH: 

10a Union Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3LU.

listings 

A community led Lothian wide project 

for gay and bisexual men. Wide ranging 

volunteering opportunities which provide 

services including support and 

counselling, scene work, peer education 

and training, provision of condoms, 

lube and Safer Sex information. Tel: 

0131-558 9444. Fax: 0131-558 9060. 

E-mail: info@gmh.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.gmh.org.uk/ 

GAY MEN'S HEALTH TAYSIDE: 

Exists to promote the sexual health of 

gay and bisexual men living in Angus, 

Dundee and Perth and Kinross, reduce 

the spread of HIV within those communities 

and challenge the discrimination 

that can be faced by gay and bisexual 

men, including HIV positive gay and 

bisexual men, and those affected by 

HIV. Tel: Dundee (01382) 424070. Fax: 

Dundee (01382) 424090. E-mail: 

admin@gaymenshealthtayside.com 

WWW: http://www.gaymenshealthtayside.com/ 

GLASGOW BROWNLEE AIDS WELFARE 

FUND: 

Raises funds for people with HIV/AIDS 

in the Greater Glasgow area. Write: PO 

Box 3954, Glasgow. G45 9WB. 

GRAMPIAN AIDS LINE: 

Helpline for people with questions on 

HIV/AIDS. Tel: Aberdeen (01224) 

574000 (Mon-Tue 8.30am-5pm, Wed 

8.30am-6pm, Thu 8.30am-12.30pm, Fri 

8am-4pm). 

GRAMPIAN BUDDY GROUP: 

Befriending and support service for 

people living with HIV/AIDS. Write: PO 

Box 353, Aberdeen. AB9 8DD. Tel: 

Aberdeen (01224) 555406. 

HEALTHY GAY SCOTLAND: 

A national HIV prevention & sexual 

health promotion programme for gay 

and bisexual men. Offers a range of 

services including info on its website, 

campaigns and resources and a free 

condoms by post scheme. WWW: 

http://www.healthygayscotland.com/ 

HIV-AIDS CARERS AND FAMILIES 

SERVICE PROVIDER SCOTLAND: 

10 Elderpark Workspace, 100 Elderpark 

Street, Glasgow. G51 3TR. Mon-Fri 

10am-5pm. Telephone Support Service 

Mon-Fri 7pm-10pm. Tel: 0141-445 

8797. Fax: 0141-445 8798. E-mail: hivaids_carers@lineone.net 

WWW: 

http://www.hiv-aids-carers.org.uk/ 

HIV SCOTLAND: 

Suite 2, 27 Beaverhall Road, Edinburgh. 

EH7 4JE. Tel: 0131-558 3713. Fax: 

0131-558 9887. The independent voice 

for HIV in Scotland, this charity is a 

policy and strategic body and runs 

Healthy Gay Scotland and Black 

Minority Ethnic-related HIVwork. 

E-mail: info@hivscotland.com 

WWW: http://www.hivscotland.com/ 

JUICE: 

Weekly support group for HIV+ gay and 

bisexual men in Edinburgh. Tel: 0131- 

661 0982. 

LADDIES & LASSIES CLUB: 

Scottish Deaf Gay & Lesbian Club. 

Meets in Icon Bar, 24 Candleriggs, 

Glasgow, from 7pm on last Fri of each 

month (except Dec). 

E-mail: LLSDGALC@hotmail.com 

LANARKSHIRE HIV, AIDS AND HEPATI- 

TIS CENTRE: 

Counselling Service, Monklands 

Hospital, Monks Court Avenue, Airdrie. 

ML6 0JS. One stop shop for HIV and 

Hepatitis health services. Mon-Fri 9am- 

5pm. Also Tue & Thu 7-9.30pm 

(appointments only). Tel: Airdrie 

(01236) 747960 or 712247. Fax: Airdrie 

(01236) 712449. 

LESBIAN & GAY CARERS NETWORK - 

ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY: 

Carers' contacts for gay men and lesbians 

are trained and skilled volunteers 

able to offer a listening ear and understanding 

to gay and lesbian carers of 

people with Alzheimer's disease or any 

other form of dementia. Tel: Arthur on 

Brighton (01273) 628047, Bruce on 

Oxford (01865) 847471, Roger on 

Thanet (01843) 220932 or Vanessa on 

Newport, Gwent (01633) 215782. 

Alzheimer's Society National Helpline - 

Tel: 0845 3000336 (8.30am-6.30pm 

Mon-Fri). Write: Lisa Cooper, 

Development Officer, Lesbian and Gay 

Carers Network, North West Regional 

Office, Alzheimers Society, 4 Wilmslow 

Road, Cheadle. SK8 1BT. Tel: 0161-428 

1556. E-mail: 

gaycarers@alzheimers.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/Gay_Care 

rs/index.htm 

LGBT CENTRE FOR HEALTH & 

WELLBEING: 

9 Howe Street, Edinburgh. EH3 6TE. 

Working in partnership with the LGBT 

community and health service providers 

to improve the physical, mental and 

social wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual 

and transgender people in south-east 

Scotland. Volunteering opportunities in 

many diverse areas. Tel: 0131-523 

1100. E-mail: admin@lgbthealth.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.lgbthealth.org.uk/ 

MAN FRIDAY: 

The GUM clinic at Woolmanhill, 

Aberdeen session for Gay and Bi men. 

Fri 1.20-3.50pm. Testing and advice on 

sexual health matters is available by 

appointment or on a drop-in basis. Tel: 

Aberdeen (01224) 555555. 

PHACE SCOTLAND: 

134 Douglas Street, Glasgow. G2 4HF. 

HIV prevention and support services in 

Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Argyll 

and Clyde and Greater Glasgow including 

Buddying and the Crusaid Hardship 

Fund in Scotland. Also provides a range 

of health promotion services for Gay 

and Bisexual men throughout the West 

of Scotland and Grampian. Please contact 

for further details. Volunteers welcome! 

Tel: 0141-332 3838. Fax: 0141- 

332 3755. E-mail: contact@phacescotland.org 

WWW: http://www.phacescotland.org/ 

PHACE SCOTLAND - GRAMPIAN LGBT 

SERVICE: 

11 Waverley Place, Aberdeen. AB10 

1XH. Tel: 0845 2412151. Fax: 0845 

2412152. E-mail: grampian@phacescotland.org 

PILLAR MENTAL HEALTH LGBT 

GROUP: 

For members of the LGBT Community 

offering support and advice at times of 

difficulty. Tel: Aberdeen (01224) 

621266. E-mail: 

info@pillaraberdeen.co.uk or 

michaelm@phacescotland.org 

POSITIVE HELP: 

13a Great King Street, Edinburgh. EH3 

6QW. Practical help for people who are 

infected or affected by HIV and AIDS in 

Edinburgh, their families and carers. 

Tel: 0131-558 1122. Fax: 0131-558 

3636. E-mail: posihelp@onetel.com 

POSITIVE VOICE: 

37-39 Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh. 

EH7 5DJ. Self help for people living 

with and affected by HIV/AIDS in 

Lothian, offering free complementary 

therapies, advocacy and peer support. 

Tel: 0131-652 0754. Fax: 0131-661 

9100. E-mail: enquiries@positivevoice.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.positive-voice.org.uk/ 

REACH OUT HIGHLAND: 

34 Waterloo Place, Inverness. IV1 1NB. 

Supports people throughout the 

Highlands - whether living there or visiting 

- to take responsibility for, manage, 

and make informed choices about 

their sexual health and well-being. Tel: 

Inverness (01463) 711585 (Mon-Fri 

9.30am-4.30pm). Fax: Inverness 

(01463) 711793. E-mail: support@reachouthighland.org.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.reachouthighland.org.uk/ 

ROAM OUTREACH: 

Free confidential NHS Lothian outreach 

service for men who have sex with men 

who use cruising areas, saunas, on-line 

cruising and male sex workers. They 

offer a wide range of services including 

sexual health and safer sex advice, provide 

info and advice on drugs, personal 

safety and legal issues (including 

remote reporting of crime) and a FREE 

condom and lube service. They offer a 

free and confidential Testing Service - 

"Out of hours" drop in Mon 5-7pm 

where you can have a FULL SEXUAL 

HEALTH CHECK UP and receive Hep B 

vaccinations. Website has anonymous 

contact form. Tel: 0131-537 8300 and 

ask to speak to BBV Outreach Worker 

George. E-mail: enquiries@roam-outreach.com 

WWW: http://www.roamoutreach.com/ 

SANDYFORD INITIATIVE: 

2-6 Sandyford Place (old Eye 

Infirmary), Glasgow. G3 7NB. 

Glasgow's main sexual health centre. 

Free web access and health library with 

large LGBT lending collection. Specialist 

services for gay men (See seperate 

ScotsGay Listing for Steve Retson 

Project) and lesbians (See seperate 

ScotsGay listing for Centre for 

Women's Health). Self-referral genitourinary 

medicine service with open 

access clinic every weekday with registration 

from 8.30-10am or book on 

0141-211 8601. Women's counselling 

and groups for eating disorders etc at 

Centre for Women's Health. E-mail: 

helpsandyford@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk. 

WWW: http://www.sandyford.org/ 

SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 

Sex Addicts Anonymous is a twelvestep 

recovery programme. Our primary 

purpose is to stop our addictive sexual 

behavior and to help others recover 

from their sexual addiction. Our members 

define their own sexual boundaries 

with the guidance of their sponsors and 

other group members. We encourage 

our members to discover and explore 

what healthy sexuality means to them. 

Tel: Scottish Helpline on 0141-552 0154 

(24 hours). E-mail: info@saarecovery.org 

WWW: http://www.saarecovery.org/ 

SEXUAL HEALTH LINE: 

Freephone 0800 567123. 24 hours. 

Confidential advice and information. 

Minicom: Freephone 0800 521361. 

WWW: http://www.playingsafely.co.uk/ 

SMASH: 

Support for Mental and Sexual Health is 

a support group for LGBT people in 

Grampian with mental health issues 

around their sexuality. Meets twice 

monthly in the PHACE Scotland offices, 

running in tandem with the Pillar Mental 

Health Group. Write: c/o 11 Waverley 

Place, Aberdeen. AB10 1XH. Tel: 0845 

2412151. E-mail: grampian@phacescotland.org 

STEVE RETSON PROJECT: 

Sandyford Initiative, 2-6 Sandyford 

Place (old Eye Infirmary), Glasgow. G3 

7NB. A free sexual health screening and 

counselling service for gay and bisexual 

men. Clinics run Tue & Wed 5.30- 

8.30pm. Also Thu 5.30-8.30pm at the 

LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon Street. Sameday 

HIV test Tue morning 8.30-10am. 

Tel: 0141-211 8628. E-mail: 

johnny.duffy@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.steveretsonproject.org.uk/ 

WAVERLEY CARE: 

58a Queen Street, Edinburgh. EH2 3NS. 

Waverley Care is an agency responsible 

for a number of projects for people living 

with AIDS/HIV in the Lothians. Tel: 

0131-226 2206. Fax: 0131-226 2209. 

E-mail: director@waverleycare.org 

WWW: http://www.waverleycare.org/ 

WAVERLEY CARE BUDDY SERVICE: 

Waverley Care Buddy Service is a volunteer 

befriending service offering emotional 

and social 1:1 support for individuals 

living with HIV in Edinburgh and 

the Lothians. Write: David Wright, 

Buddy Service Co-ordinator, c/o 

Milestone House, 113 Oxgangs Road 

North, Edinburgh. EH14 1EB. Tel: 0131- 

441 5405 (a private and dedicated 

phone line). E-mail: buddy@waverleycare.org 

WAVERLEY CARE DAYCARE SERVICE: 

Offers a range of daycare activities to 

people with HIV/AIDS. Tel: 0131-441 

2791. 

WAVERLEY CARE MILESTONE HOUSE: 

113 Oxgangs Road North, Edinburgh. 

EH14 1EB. Residential care (primarily 

respite and paliative care) for people 

with HIV/AIDS. Tel/Fax: 0131-441 6989. 

E-mail: milestone@waverleycare.org 

WAVERLEY CARE SOLAS HIV/AIDS 

INFORMATION CENTRE: 

2/4 Abbeymount, Edinburgh. EH8 8EJ. 

Information, support, advice, counselling 

and a café. Café: Mon-Fri 11am- 

4pm. Information Centre: Mon-Fri 

11am-4pm. Many support groups and 

activities outwith these hours, please 

enquire. Tel: 0131-661 0982. E-mail: 

solas@waverleycare.org WWW: 

http://www.waverleycare.org/ 

OLDER GAYS 

CAFFMOS: 

Nationwide Social and Contacts Club for 

the older gay gentleman and his admirers, 

both young and old. New Scottish 

group meets in Edinburgh. Write: PO 

Box 2273, Hove. BN3 2GF. Tel: Hove 

(01273) 220995. E-mail: 

Caffmos2@aol.com Edward is the 

Scottish Contact - E-mail: 

ebsc18624@blueyonder.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.caffmoscommunity.com/ 

PRIME TIME: 

Social group for men over 40. Meets 

LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 

Howe Street, Edinburgh, every 2nd Sun 

from 2-4pm. Tel: 0131-558 9444. E- 

mail: bonnangellie@aol.com 

ORDER OF PERPETUAL 

INDULGENCE 

The Sisters and Brothers of the OPI are 

part of a world wide order of queer men 

and women of all sexualities which is 

open to all who feel the habit. Its tenets 

are: The expiation of stigmatic guilt and 

the promulgation of universal joy. 

WWW: http://www.thesisters.org.uk/ 

OPI CONVENT OF DUNN EIDEANN: 

The Edinburgh convent. Write: Sister 

Athletica de la Bain OPI, c/o PO Box 

666, Edinburgh. EH7 5YW. E-mail: sisterathletica@drink.demon.co.uk 

OUTDOOR PURSUITS 

GAY BIRDERS CLUB: 

For LGBT Birdwatchers. Write: Gay 

Birders Club, GeeBeeCee, BCM-Mono, 

London. WC1N 3XX. E-mail: info@gbconline.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.gbconline.org.uk/ 

GAY CARAVAN & CAMPING CLUB: 

For men and women. Regular meets 

throughout the UK. Tel: Steve on 07785 

338812. E-mail: 

info@gaycaravanclub.com WWW: 

http://www.gaycaravanclub.com/ 

GAY OUTDOOR CLUB: 

Holds regular events including walking, 

skiing, cycling, mountaineering, camping, 

youth-hostelling, badminton, running 

and swimming. Monthly social 

evening in Edinburgh on 2nd Thu of 

month. Please send an A5 sae to PO 

Box 637, Skellingthorpe, Lincoln, LN6 

5XD, or ring one of the Scottish contacts: 

EDINBURGH: Walks & Social: 

Andrew on 0131-477 0499, Gym & 

Swimming: Colin on 0131-226 4476, 

Cycling/Kayaking/Running: David on 

Bathgate (01506) 500796. GLASGOW: 

Walks: Robert on 0141-950 1081, 

Cycling & Swimming: Douglas on 

0141-649 5896, Climbing: Jonathan on 

0141-334 0812, Badminton: Donn on 

07919 410042, Running: Chris on 

07786 263274. HIGHLANDS: Walks & 

Weekend Trips: Alan on Dores (01463) 

751258 & Les on Inverness (01463) 

238920. MOUNTAINEERING: Tim on 

0131-478 0844. See website for more 

details about events and how to make 

contact by E-mail. WWW: 

http://www.gocscotland.org.uk/. 

GLASGOW GAY RAMBLERS GROUP: 

Leisurely walks in the countryside. 

Bring sensible footwear/clothing and 

packed lunch. 2nd Sat of each month. 

Meet at Mitchell Library, Berkeley 

Street. No membership - just turn up. 

Cars normally shared. Tel: Robert on 

0141-950 1081. E-mail: robert@gocscotland.org.uk 

PARENTS 

EDINBURGH LESBIAN MOTHERS 

GROUP (ELMG): 

Informal network of parents and women 

trying to be parents. See listing for 

Lesbian Mothers Network (Scotland) for 

contact details. 

GAY DADS SCOTLAND: 

Meets on last Thu of each month in a 

private room at 8pm in Sala Café, 60 

Broughton Street. Glasgow meetings on 

2nd Mon of each month at the Glasgow 

LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon Street. Contact 

for details or view the web site. Tel: 

07791 188742. E-mail: info@gaydadsscotland.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.gaydadsscotland.org.uk/ 

GLASGOW LESBIAN MOTHERS 

GROUP: 

Meets last Sat of each month. Contact 

Ruth Black on 0141-221 7203. E-mail: 

admin1@glgbt.org.uk 

LESBIAN MOTHERS NETWORK 

(SCOTLAND): 

Tel: Sue Robertson on 0131-556 

3899/4563. Fax: 0131-557 7899. Write: 

One Parent Families Scotland, 13 

Gayfield Square, Edinburgh. EH1 3NX. 

E-mail: suerobertson@opfs.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.opfs.org.uk/ 

PARENTS' ENQUIRY SCOTLAND: 

Coming out? Information and support 

for parents of LGBT people. Helpline 

and admin: Tel: 0131-556 6047 before 

10pm. Write: c/o ScotsGay Magazine, 

PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7 5YW. E- 

mail: parentsenquiry@hotmail.com 

WWW: http://www.parentsenquiryscotland.org/ 

RAINBOW FAMILIES HIGHLAND: 

Support, advice and information for 

LGBT parents and families. Regular 

newsletter. Phone Maria on Beauly 

(01463) 782797 after 6.30pm and at 

weekends. E-mail: maria@scotlandinfo.co.uk 

or Write: c/o Reach Out 

Highland, 34 Waterloo Place, Inverness. 

IV1 1NB. 

POLITICAL 

GAY CONSERVATIVES: 

Represents the gay community to the 

Conservative Party. Write: BM TORCHE, 

London WC1N 3XX. 

INTERCOURSE: 

Network devoted to encouraging discussion 

about sex, sexuality and relationships. 

Send SAE for free leaflets. 

Write: Intercourse, c/o 17 West 

Montgomery Place, Edinburgh. EH7 

5HA. E-mail: info@intercourse.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.intercourse.org.uk/ 

LIBERAL PARTY LESBIAN AND GAY 

CAMPAIGN: 

Tel: 0151-259 5935 (Telephone 

Answering Machine). Write: 41 Sutton 

Street, Liverpool. L13 7EG. E-mail: libgay@libparty.demon.co.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.liberal.org.uk/ 

OUT FOR INDEPENDENCE: 

The SNP's LGBT Group, has been 

established to bring together lesbians, 

bisexuals, gay men and transgender 

people who support Independence, and 

to act as a forum within the SNP to discuss 

LGBT issues. Write: Out for 

Independence, 107 McDonald Road, 

Edinburgh. EH7 4NW. 

PRISONERS 

FREE MAGAZINES FOR PRISONERS: 

Copies of ScotsGay are sent free of 

charge to prisoners in UK prisons and 

institutions. Please contact us if you 

wish to be added to the mailing list. 

REAL ALE 

LESBIAN AND GAY REAL ALE 

DRINKERS: 

Formerly Diverse Drinkers, this is the 

Edinburgh group of CAMRA's Task 

Group for LGBT real ale and cider fans. 

Meets in The Regent 1st Mon of each 

month from 9pm to sample the brewers' 

art (except Aug when it is the 2nd 

Mon to avoid GBBF). Tel: Karen on 

0131-557 8790. E-mail: 

diversedrinkers@drink.demon.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.lagradedinburgh.org.uk/ 

UK LGBT real ale pub 

listings can be found at WWW: 

http://www.lagrad.org.uk/ 

RESIDENTIAL EVENTS 

EDWARD CARPENTER COMMUNITY: 

Runs residential events for gay men in 

SW Scotland, and other places (mainly 

the English Lake District). ECC organises 

events for gay men to get together in 

a supportive environment as an alternative 

to the commercial scene. Write: 

Edward Carpenter Community, BM ECC, 

London. WC1N 3XX. Tel: 08703 

215121. E-mail: info@edwardcarpentercommunity.org.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.edwardcarpentercommunity.org.uk/ 

SPORTS 

ABERDEEN GAY MEN'S SWIMMING 

GROUP: 

Swim every Wed from 8pm onwards. 

Tel: David on Aberdeen (01224) 

317552. E-mail: 

agmsg@drink.demon.co.uk 

CALEDONIAN THEBANS: 

Caledonian Thebans Rugby Football 

Club is Scotland's first gay friendly 

rugby club. Predominantly made up of 

gay/bi men, but all are welcome. 

Instruction and practice by experienced 

members. Learn the game and get fit. 

No experience necessary. Tel: 07074 

843226. E-mail: membership@thebansrfc.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.thebansrfc.co.uk/ 

GAY GOLF CLUB: 

Tel: Dan on 0141-946 8290. E-mail: 

tierney_daniel@hotmail.com 

GLASGOW GAY AND LESBIAN BAD- 

MINTON CLUB: 

Meets every Thu from 8-10pm. Come 

along and have fun and enjoy meeting 

the other members for a friendly game. 

All welcome. Tel: Donn on 07919 

410042 (6-11pm). 

GLASGOW LGB RUNNING GROUP: 

Every Tue eve: run starts at 7pm. Meets 

at the main entrance to Bellahouston 

Leisure Centre. Choice of distances 

around Bellahouston and Pollok parks 

to cater for various levels of fitness and 

motivation. An admission for the use of 

changing room, lockers and showers 

only is available at the Leisure Centre 

for £2. We aim to be changed and ready 

to start running at 7pm. Schedule for 

the winter season is subject to change, 

so please contact Chris for details if 

you'd like to join us. Contact Chris by 

E-mail: running@gocscotland.org.uk or 

Tel: 07786 263274 (or text). 

GLASGOW SWIMMING GROUP: 

Meets informally during adults-only 

session 7.30-9pm Thu at North 

Woodside Pool, Braid Square. Tel: 

Douglas on 0141-649 5896. See website 

for details of how to make contact 

by E-mail. WWW: http://www.gocscotland.org.uk/ 

GAY FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS NET- 

WORK: 

Write: GFSN Membership Secretary, c/o 

Central Station, 37 Wharfdale Road, 

London. N1 9SE. Tel: Barry on Stony 

Stratford (01908) 564085. E-mail: skyblueandwhite@btinternet.com 

WWW: 

http://www.gfsn.org.uk 

GOC CYCLING GROUP: 

Runs on 2nd Sun of each month 

throughout Central Scotland. Tel: 

Douglas on 0141-649 5896 or David on 

Bathgate (01506) 500796. See website 

for full details about events and how to 

make contact by e-mail. WWW: 

http://www.gocscotland.org.uk/. 

RACQUETEERS BADMINTON GROUP: 

Edinburgh based gay and lesbian non 

competitive badminton club meets Thu 

evening 7-9pm at Meadowbank 

Stadium. Season ends 1st Dec but 

resumes mid Jan. E-mail: brian@beetee.org 

WWW: http://beetee.org/badminton.htm 

TEAM SCOTLAND BADMINTON CLUB: 

Glasgow based gay and lesbian badminton 

club meets twice weekly for 

competitive games. International tournaments 

and matches against clubs in 

London and Europe are held annually. 

Sorry - no beginners. Tel: Raymond on 

0141-778 9220. E-mail: teamscotland@gaysport.info 

WWW: 

http://www.gaysport.info/teamscotland/ 

STUDENTS 

Many Universities and Colleges have 

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and 

Transgendered Societies. Contact these 

via your Student Union or Student 

Association. ScotsGay also links to a 

number of LGBT Soc websites from our 

own web page at 

http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ Many LGBT 

Socs are open to non-students living in 

the area. Tel: NUS Scotland LGBT 

Officer on 0131-556 6598. Fax: 0131- 

557 5679. Write: Scott Cuthbertson, 

LGBT Officer, NUS Scotland, 29 Forth 

Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3LE. E-mail: 

mail@nus-scotland.org.uk 

TV/TS 

ABERDEEN: 

3G (Grampian Gender Group). Offers 

support, help and a safe environment 

for Transgendered People. Meets 3rd 

Sat of each month Noon-5pm. Tel: 

Gillian on 07050 562175. Mon 7-9pm. 

E-mail: Gillian_abdn@yahoo.co.uk 

EDINBURGH: 

Edinburgh TV/TS Group. Tel: Louise on 

Dunfermline (01383) 852529 or 

Lorraine on Kinghorn (01592) 891344. 

E-mail: louisewight1@yahoo.co.uk 

EDINBURGH: 

TransAlba aims to support both pre and 

post-op transexuals, their families and 

friends. Helpline: 07961 574880 (Mon- 

Fri 6-10pm). E-mail: 

transalba03@aol.com WWW: 

http://www.transalba.org/ 

Trans Men Scotland - for all FTM's, 

transmen, transsexual, transgender, 

pre-op, post-op, non-op, exploring 

options, living long term, in transition - 

or however else you might define. If 

you are or were born female bodied and 

define yourself as male some or all of 

the time you will be welcome to a support 

group for all trans men in 

Scotland. Meets 7.30pm on the 2nd Sat 

of each month at the LGBT Centre for 

Health and Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 

Edinburgh. For further info E-mail: 

admin@transmenscotland.org.uk or Tel: 

Maxwell or Lewis on 0131-477 0525. 

WWW: 

http://www.transmenscotland.org.uk/ 

GLASGOW: 

Crosslynx TV/TS/TG Group meets 2nd 

Wed of each month from 7-10pm. Tel: 

Crosslynx Helpline on 0141-847 0787 

(Mon 7.30-9.30pm). Write: c/o 11 

Dixon Street, Glasgow. G1 4AL. E-mail: 

caroltaylortg@tesco.net 

Sandyford Initiative Transgender 

Support Group meets at the Sandyford 

Initiative, 2-6 Sandyford Place (old Eye 

Infirmary), on 1st Thu of each month 

from 7pm and 3rd Sat of each month 

from Noon. Phone Colin MacKillop 

(Community Access Co-ordinator) on 

0141-211 8168 or E-mail: colin.mackillop@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk 

INVERNESS: 

Highland T Group 2nd Wed of each 

month at 7pm at 34 Waterloo Place, 

Inverness. Tel: Inverness (01463) 

711585 (Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm). E- 

mail: tgroup@reachouthighland.org.uk 

WORKPLACE 

AFLAGA: 

The Armed Forces Lesbian & Gay 

Association (formerly Rank Outsiders). 

Support group for all serving and LGBT 

ex members. Write: BCM Box 8431, 

London. WC1N 3XX. National Helpline: 

0870 740 7755 (24 hours). E-mail: 

info@aflaga.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.aflaga.org.uk/ 

EIS GAY AND LESBIAN NETWORK: 

Write: Veronica Rankin, National Officer 

(Education and Equalities), 46 Moray 

Place, Edinburgh. EH3 6BH. Tel: 

Veronica Rankin on 0131-225 6244. E- 

mail: vrankin@eis.org.uk 

FIRE BRIGADES UNION GAY AND 

LESBIAN SUPPORT GROUP: 

For firefighters and control staff. Write: 

National Gay And Lesbian Committee, 

PO Box 10555, London. N1 8XT. Tel: 

07801 047620. E-mail: gal01@fbuho.org.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.fbu.org.uk/ 

GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION IN 

SCOTLAND: 

Membership is open to all police officers 

and police staff, serving or retired. 

Write: Inspector David Lyle, Police 

Headquarters, Fettes Avenue, 

Edinburgh, EH4 1RB. 

Tel: 0131-311 3488. E-mail: 

alan@gpascotland.com (Strathclyde) 

dennis@gpascotland.com (Lothian & 

Borders) sam@gpascotland.com 

(Tayside) or david@gpascotland.com(all 

other forces). 

WWW: http://www.gpascotland.com/ 

GMB SCOTLAND EQUAL RIGHTS 

GROUP: 

Write: Regional Equal Rights Officer, 

GMB Scotland, Fountain House, 1/3 

Woodside Crescent, Glasgow. G3 7UJ. 

Tel: 0141-352 8143. E-mail: 

richard.leonard@gmb.org.uk 

UNISON: 

Glasgow City Lesbian & Gay Group. 

Meets monthly on Payday Tuesday in 

the Glasgow LGBT Centre at 6pm. Tel: 

Neil MacInnes on 07810 358139. E- 

mail: macinnesneil@aol.com 

Scotland L&G Committee. Write: Neil 

MacInnes, Secretary, UNISON House, 

14 West Campbell Street, Glasgow. G2 

6RX. Tel: 0141-332 0006 or Neil 

MacInnes on 07810 358139. E-mail: 

macinnesneil@aol.com WWW: 

http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/lesbiangay/ 

West Network. For Unison members in 

the West of Scotland. Meets quarterly. 

Tel: Neil MacInnes on 07810 358139. E- 

mail: macinnesneil@aol.com 

YOUTH GROUPS 

ABERDEEN LGBT YOUTH GROUP: 

New LGBT group for people between 

the ages of 16 & 25. Meets every Wed 

from 7.30-9.30pm at 11 Waverley 

Place, Aberdeen. Tel: 0845 2412151. E- 

mail: grampian@phacescotland.org 

HIGHLAND GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEX- 

UAL YOUTH GROUP: 

Meets 7.30pm 1st Wed of each month 

at 34 Waterloo Place, Inverness. Tel: 

Inverness (01463) 711585 (Mon-Fri 

9.30am-4.30pm). E-mail: support@reachouthighland.org.uk 

LGBT YOUTH D&G: 

Groups, volunteering and support for 

LGBT people under 26 from Dumfries 

and Galloway. For more details, call 

Dumfies (01387) 739888. Text 07785 

274147. E-mail: 

DandG@lgbtyouth.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/ 

LGBT YOUTH SCOTLAND: 

John Cotton Centre, 10 Sunnyside, 

Edinburgh. EH7 5RA. Provides services 

and opportunities for lesbian, gay, 

bisexual and transgender young people 

(13-25) in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife, 

Borders, Tayside and Dumfries & 

Galloway. The groups include drop-ins 

at their Edinburgh offices for under-18's 

(Wed) and for over 18's (Thu). They 

also have a range of different opportunities 

to get involved with, including 

volunteering and projects involving 

video and arts work, and they offer 

training services. Advice, support and 

housing services are also available in 

Southeast Scotland - Tel: Dumfries 

(01387) 739888. Nationally, they run 

regular events for young people to get 

involved in local and national decisionmaking, 

and to make new pals and have 

a laugh. Confidential Youthline Tel: 0845 

113 0005 (Tue 7.30-9pm). Office 

Tel/Fax: 0131-622 2266 (Mon-Fri 

9.30am-5pm). E-mail: 

info@lgbtyouth.org.uk WWW: 

http://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/ The website 

has details of Youth Groups 

throughout Scotland. 

LIPS - LESBIANS IN PEER SUPPORT: 

Project supporting young lesbians and 

bisexual women aged 25 and under. 

Offers a safe space for young lesbian 

and bisexual women to meet, providing 

information, support and activities. 

Meets Thu from 7-9pm at Glasgow 

Women's Library, 109 Trongate, 

Glasgow. Contact Genevieve for more 

details or just turn up. Tel: 0141-552 

8345/7539. E-mail: gwl@womenslibrary.org.uk 

Calendar online at WWW: 

http://www.womens-library.org.uk/ 

VIVIDYOUTH: 

For young LGBT people aged 15-25. 

Meets at the Glasgow LGBT Centre on 

Tue from 7.30-9.30pm.

venues and emporia 

*DENOTES SCOTSGAY AVAILABLE 

ABERDEEN 

ABERDEEN WOMEN'S CENTRE* 

Shoe Lane, (next door to Lemon Tree). 

Tel: (01224) 625010. Tue-Wed 10am- 

2pm, Thu 5-9pm. A *women only 

space* where all women are welcome 

without prejudice. Free use of computers 

and Internet connection. Access for 

disabled. No smoking policy in Centre. 

Contact Maria Clark for more details at 

E-mail: awc@clara.co.uk 

BAR INDIGO* 

20 Adelphi. Sun-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri-Sat 

5pm-3am. Gay bar/club in old Oh 

Henry's premises. Free entry before 

Midnight - thereafter £2 entry Fri, £3 

entry Sat. 

WELLMAN'S HEALTH STUDIO* 

3rd Floor, 21-23 Justice Mill Lane. Tel: 

(01224) 211441. Mon-Fri 11am-10pm, 

Sat-Sun 10am-5pm. Aberdeen's first 

(and only) gay sauna. Two video 

booths, dark room, sauna, steam room, 

stand-and-tan sun cabin. Massages 

available from £20 - no need to book in 

advance. 

DUNDEE 

BROOKLYN'S BAR* 

2 St Andrew's Lane. Tel: (01382) 

200660. 5pm-Midnight. Well appointed 

gay-friendly bar next door to Out and 

under the same management. Karaoke: 

Wed, Fri & Sun. DJ: Sat. 

CHARLIE'S BAR* 

75-79 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 226840. 

Sun 12.30-Midnight, Mon-Sat 11am- 

Midnight. Gay-friendly bar with free 

disco Fri & Sat 8pm-Midnight. Free use 

of premises for pre-booked groups. 

OUT* 

124 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 200660. 

Wed-Sun 11pm-2.30am. Good atmosphere, 

very popular disco with wide 

selection of sounds and the occasional 

act/PA. 

DUMFRIES 

MIXED BAG 

102 Club, English Street. Tel: (01387) 

739888. 9pm-2am. Last Fri of each 

month. Next date: Fri 20th Jan. New 

club night for LGBT people and their 

friends from Dumfries and Galloway. 

E-mail: mixedbag@hotmail.co.uk 

WWW: 

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ 

mixedbag/ 

EDINBURGH 

ABSOLUTELY DRAGULOUS* 

Claremont Bar, 133/135 East Claremont 

Street. Tel: 0131-556 5662. Fax: 0131- 

558 3539. 9pm-late. 3rd Fri & 5th Sat 

of each month. Club for trannies, 

admirers, anybody with an open mind. 

Entertainment, Dancing. Entry £5 

(Trannies £3). WWW: 

http://www.absolutely-dragulous.com/ 

and http://www.claremontbar.co.uk/ 

absolutelydragulous.htm 

THE AULD HOOSE* 

23-25 St Leonards Street. Tel: 0131- 

668 2934. Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 

11.30am-1am. Everybody-friendly bar. 

Real ale. Food served: Mon-Fri 

11.30am-1.30pm & 5pm-8.30pm, Sat 

11.30am-7.30pm, Sun 12.30-6.30pm. 

BLACK BO'S 

57/61 Blackfriars Street. Tel: 0131-557 

6136. Mon-Thu 6-10pm, Fri-Sat 6- 

10.30pm. Superb little mostly vegetarian 

restaurant. Friendly staff. Mixed 

clientele. E-mail: admin@blackbos.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.blackbos.co.uk/ 

BLAZE 

eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 

7434. 11pm-3am. Every Fri except 2nd 

of month. Commercial/funky house & 

chart by James Longworth and guests. 

"Igniting the gay weekend". £1.50 drinks 

promos all night. Entry £5. E-mail: 

info@jameslongworth.com WWW: 

http://www.jameslongworth.com/ 

BLUE MOON* 

1 Barony Street/36 Broughton Street. 

Tel: 0131-556 2788 (Bar) or 0131-557 

0911 (Office). Sun 10am-11pm, Mon- 

Thu 11am-11pm, Fri 11am-11.30pm, 

Sat 10am-11.30pm. Food served until 

10pm. Popular lesbigay café/bar complex. 

BOBBIE'S BOOKSHOP* 

220 Morrison Street. Tel: 0131-538 

7069. Mon-Sat 10am-1pm, 2-5.30pm. 

Mixed bookshop selling a selection of 

UK and imported gay magazines. 

BOOTYLUSHOUS 

Medina Nightclub (Under Negociants), 

45-47 Lothian Street. Tel: 0131-225 

8313. Info Line: 07736 936650. Sun 

10pm-3am. "It's our duty to please your 

booty". DJs Dale Lush, Simmone Black, 

Michelle, Isla Blige, Arran Jay. 

R&B/Soul/Disco. £3 entry before 

Midnight - £4 thereafter. E-mail: 

dale@lushmarketing.com WWW: 

http://www.bootylushous.com/ 

BURLY TOO 

Mariners (formerly The Commplex), 39- 

40 Commercial Street, Leith. Info Line: 

07930 357401. 10.30pm-3am. Next 

dates: Fri 16th Dec: Let Your Baubles 

Hang Down, (No club in Jan), Sat 25th 

Feb. Aimed at lads 25+. DJ Hi-Fi Sean. 

Dress code: wear rubber, leather, uniform, 

industrial, sportswear, kilts or 

denim. Entry after 1am at the discretion 

of the promoters/door security. "Burly 

designed to be cruisy". £7/£6. E-mail: 

dv8scots@hotmail.com WWW: 

http://www.dv8scots.co.uk/ 

C.C. BLOOM'S* 

23 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-556 

9331. Mon, Fri, Sat 6pm-3am, Sun, 

Tue-Thu 8pm-3am. Two floors. Karaoke 

on Thu and Sun. Cilla Slack on Fri 

10pm-3am. Disco every night from 

11pm. E-mail: 

xanderfan82@hotmail.com WWW: 

http://www.ccblooms.com/ 

CLAREMONT BAR & RESTAURANT* 

133/135 East Claremont Street. Tel: 

0131-556 5662. Fax: 0131-558 3539. 

Bar: Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 

11am-1am. Restaurant: Sun 12.30pm- 

6pm, Mon-Sat 11.30am-2.30pm and 

6pm-10pm. "The Claremont is one of 

the most relaxed attitude bars in the 

city and has a policy that the customer 

always comes first." Renowned for 

courtesy, comfort and good food. 1st 

Sat: Bearscots and bear lovers. 2nd Sat: 

Gaykilts & Sporran Clan for kilties and 

kilt lovers. 2nd Sun: Line dancing (7- 

11pm) beginners onwards. 3rd Fri: 

Absolutely Dragulous for 

Trannies/TS/TGs. 3rd Sat: 

SMgayscots/leather/rubber. 4th Sat: 

Fabulous Stunners - adult fetish group. 

5th Sat: Absolutely Dragulous. E-mail: 

mail@claremontbar.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.claremontbar.co.uk/ 

DISKO BLOODBATH 


7434. 11pm-3am. Monthly. 1st Wed of 

each month. Next dates: Wed 4th Jan, 

1st Feb. Edinburgh's 1st Alternative 

Queer Night. Hard boys, hard girls, hard 

rock, punk, electro-alternative with 

Party Monster atmosphere. £3. 

EASYINTERNETCAFÉ 

58 Rose Street. Tel: 0131-220 3577. 

Sun 9am-10pm, Mon-Sat 7am-10pm. 

Large Internet Café from which many 

gay men seem to troll the net instead of 

just picking up each other! WWW: 

http://www.easyinternetcafe.com/ 

EDINBURGH LGBT CENTRE* 

58a and 60 Broughton Street. Houses 

Sala Café-Bar and Pride Scotia 

(Edinburgh). Provides meeting and 

noticeboard space for many LGBT 

organisations. Free WiFi Internet access 

(sponsored by ScotsGay) now available. 

FEVER 


7434. Info Line: 0131-557 4656. 11pm- 

3am. Monthly. Next dates: Sat 8th Jan, 

4th Feb, 4th Mar, 1st Apr. Taste's 

monthly night featuring Taste resident 

DJs Fisher & Price and Martin Valentine 

in the ballroom and The Visitor and 

Kaupuss playing pophouseelectrodisconewwaveglam 

(basically anything 

goes) in the Cocteau Lounge. Pre-club 

party at The Street from 9pm with DJs 

The Visitor and Kaupuss. Ask staff for 

discount passes. Sat 31st Dec: 

Hogmanay Fever at eGo with DJs Fisher 

& Price and Martin Valentine in the 

Ballroom and The Visitor, Kaupuss and 

Neil Kerr in the Cocteau Lounge. Doors 

open at 10pm for this one with a 5am 

licence. Tickets are £16 members and 

£20 non members or £25 on the door, 

from Ripping, Q Store and Taste and 

Fever. £8 Members/£10 - Taste members 

£5 before 11.15pm. WWW: 

http://www.taste-clubs.com/ 

FRENCHIES BAR* 

89 Rose Street Lane North. Tel: 0131- 

225 7651. Sun 2pm-1am, Mon-Sat 

1pm-1am. Vibrant gay bar (Edinburgh's 

oldest) in the heart of Rose Street. 

Happy Hour 6-8pm every day. 

FUR BURGER 


7434. 11pm-3am. 2nd Thu of each 

month. Next date: Thu 12th Jan. "I'm 

Lickin It" - new women's club. DJ's: 

Dejay Bird, The Funki Diva and their 

lovely guests. £3 entry. Pre club at 

Planet Out. WWW: 

http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route. 

php?id=2323325 

HABANA* 

22 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-558 

1270. Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 

Noon-1am. Centrally located pre club 

bar. Open and bright as well as quite 

intimate. Busy. Drink promos throughout 

the month. E-mail: habana1@btinternet.com. 

WWW: http://www.gayscotland.com/habana/ 

HOLYROOD TAVERN* 

9a Holyrood Road. 0131-556 5044. 

Mon-Sat Noon-1am. Sun 12.30pm- 

1am. A welcome re-opening under previous 

landlord Mark. Real ale. Mixed 

clientele. 

JOY 

The Venue, 15 Calton Road. JOY Info 

Line: 0131-467 2551. 11pm-3am. Every 

4 weeks. Next dates: Sat Dec 17th, Jan 

14th. Popular club night held on two 

levels and featuring DJs Maggie Joy, 

Alan Joy and Brett King in the main 

room, Trendy Wendy and Sally F downstairs 

in The Cooler. £8 before 

Midnight/£10 after - look out for discount 

passes in the bars beforehand. 

LEATHER AND LACE* 

8 Drummond Street. Tel: 0131-557 

9413. Fax: 0131-557 8336. Sun Noon- 

9pm, Mon-Sat 10am-9pm. 25 Easter 

Road. Tel: 0131-623 6969. Noon-6pm. 

368-370 Gorgie Road (Currently not 

licensed as a sex shop). Tel: 0131-468 

6969. Sun Noon-8pm, Mon-Sat 11am- 

8pm. Scotland's ORIGINAL licenced 

SEX shops! Toys galore, video rental 

too! Larger sizes stocked. 

LUVELY 

The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street. 

Tel: 0131-225 2564. Info Line: 0131- 

657 4633. 10.30pm-3am. Monthly. Next 

date: Sat 17th Dec. Mega club night 

with resident DJs Tommy Kay, Newton 

& Stone, Jared and GP. WWW: 

http://www.luvely.net/ 

MINGIN' 

The Venue, 15 Calton Road. Info Line: 

0131-467 2551. 11pm-3am. Fortnightly. 

Next dates: Sat 21st Jan (no Mingin' 

Sat 24th Dec). Alan Joy & Brian 

Dempster are at the helm of this small 

friendly and intimate club. £5 before 

Midnight, £6 after. Mingin's Hogmanay 

Party is on Sat 31st Dec, price £10 in 

advance, £12 on the door. Tickets from 

The Regent Bar & Q Store. 

NEWTOWN BAR* 

26B Dublin Street. Tel: 0131-538 7775. 

Fax: 0131-539 1132. Sun 12.30pm- 

1am, Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat 

Noon-2am. Especially popular with 

men. Drinks Promotions Daily. 

Downstairs: The dark and cruisy Disco 

Bar is open Fri & Sat with resident DJ 

Malcolm from 10pm-2am - also available 

for hire Sun-Thu. E-mail: 

Webmaster@thenewtownbar.co.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.thenewtownbar.co.uk/ 

NOWHERE 


7434. 11pm-3am. 1st Thu of each 

month. Next date: Thu 5th Jan. New 

club night. £3 entry. Drink Promotions. 

DJs: Dejay Bird, DJ Michelle, The Funki 

Diva, DJ Yonis & Special Guests. 

Nowhere is based on the ever changing 

New York Club scene with people as 

eclectic as the music. WWW: 

http://www.clubnowhere.co.uk/ 

No EIGHTEEN* 

18 Albert Place, Leith Walk. Tel: 0131- 

553 3222. Mon-Thu Noon-10pm, Fri- 

Sun Noon-11pm. The UK's only VAT 

registered gay sauna. Relaxed and 

friendly atmosphere with excellent facilities 

which include large sauna cabin, 

14-man steam room, private rooms, 8- 

man filter Jacuzzi, communal and private 

showers, themed rooms, video 

area and TV lounge. Hot and cold 

refreshments available. £10 (£8 concessions). 

Manager's special: admission £5 

after 8pm. WWW: http://www.number18sauna.com/ 

PLANET OUT* 

6 Baxter's Place. Tel: 0131-556 5551. 

4pm-1am. Popular and busy gay bar 

with friendly staff. Cheap drinks on a 

Mon! E-mail: planetout@btinternet.com 

Q-STORE* 

5 Barony Street. Tel/Fax: 0131-477 

4756. Sun 1-5pm, Mon-Fri 11am-7pm, 

Sat 11am-6pm. Scotland's only 

licensed gay store. Not just feelthy pictures 

- lifestyle too! 

THE REGENT* 

2 Montrose Terrace. Tel: 0131-661 

8198. Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 

11am-1am. Relaxed atmosphere & 

comfortable surroundings. No loud 

popular noise makes it easy for chatting. 

Real ales (the pub is listed in the 

CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2006 - the 

first Scottish gay bar to be included). 

Soup, snacks and filled croissants available 

all day. Free wireless internet 

access. CAMRA's Lesbian & Gay Real 

Ale Drinkers meet here on the 1st Mon 

of the month at 8pm. WWW: 

http://www.lagrad-edinburgh.org.uk/ 

SALA CAFÉ-BAR* 

60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-478 

7069. Sun, Tue-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri- 

Sat 11am-1am. Relaxed and friendly 

gay café bar in the heart of Edinburgh's 

Gay 'district' (directly above 

Edinburgh's LGBT Centre). Fabby big 

window and sofas to watch world go 

by! Freshly prepared, wide ranging 

menu. Regular live music and party 

nights (contact Sala for more info). 

Gallery space with regularly changing 

exhibitions. Women's group meet informally 

for drinkies/food every Wed eve. 

Room also available for private dinners/parties 

etc. Free WiFi Internet 

access (sponsored by ScotsGay) now 

available. E-mail: 

salacafebar@hotmail.com 

SOLAS CAFÉ* 

2/4 Abbeymount. Tel: 0131-661 0982. 

Mon-Fri 11am-4pm. Attached to Solas 

HIV/AIDS Information Centre. Good 

home cooking (everything cooked on 

the premises). Vegetarians and carnivores 

catered for. 

STEAMWORKS* 

5 Broughton Market. Tel: 0131-477 

3567. Daily 11am-11pm. Stylish sauna 

forming part of busy gay hotel & sauna 

complex in centre of gay quarter. Stateof-the-art 

facilities including large spa 

pool, sauna cabin, large steam room, 

video room, labyrinth with themed 

areas, café lounge, free Internet access, 

tanning booth. Massage available daily. 

Choice of lockers or private cabins. 

Admission: Lockers £5, Cabins £10 

before 3pm Mon-Fri. Lockers £9, 

Cabins £14 at all other times. Students 

& under 25 £5 lockers all day, every 

day! No membership required. Proudly 

gay owned & operated. WWW: 

http://www.steamworks-sauna.co.uk/ 

THE STREET* 

2 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-556 4272. 

11.30am-1am. Small but perfectly 

formed bar run by Louise (ex-POut), 

Annie and Trendy Wendy. Food served 

11.30am-7.30pm. 

TACKNO 


7434. Last Sun of each month. Next 

date: Sun 25th Dec (Xmas Party). 

11pm-3am. DJ Trendy Wendy. Mixed 

and crowded club night. Note new 

venue. 

TASTE 

The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street. 

Tel: 0131-225 2564. Info Line: 0131- 

557 4656. Sun 11pm-3am. Edinburgh's 

original and longest running gay-friendly 

club night that brings together likeminded 

people who enjoy a club environment 

free from hassle and bad attitudes 

and for whom sexuality is not an 

issue. Taste's resident DJs Fisher & 

Price play an eclectic mix of the best 

underground dance music currently 

available in the Big Room, while resident 

DJ Martin Valentine plays Deep 

House and US House in the Wee Room. 

Sun 18th Dec: Jon Pleased (Quarterly 

Residency) with DJs Fisher & Price and 

Martin Valentine (5am licence). Sun 

25th Dec: Escape Xmas Party with residents 

DJs Fisher & Price and Martin 

Valentine and Steven Wanless. Tickets 

are £10 members and £12 non members, 

£15 on the door, from Ripping, Q 

Store and Taste and Fever. Doors 11pm 

to until 5am. Sun 1st Jan: Best Tunes of 

2005 with residents DJs Fisher & Price 

and Martin Valentine and Steven 

Wanless. Tickets are £10 members and 

£12 non members, £15 on the door, 

from Ripping, Q Store and Taste and 

Fever. Doors 11pm to until 5am. 

Regular prices: £6 Members/£8 Guests 

£5 before 11.30pm. Drink promos until 

1am. WWW: http://www.tasteclubs.com/ 

THAI ME UP 

4 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-558 9234. 

Lunch: Wed-Sat Noon-2.30pm. Dinner: 

Mon-Sun 5-11pm. Superb gay-friendly 

Thai restaurant situated in the middle of 

Edinburgh's gay area. Friendly, efficient 

staff serving some of the best and most 

authentic Thai food in the UK. E-mail: 

management@tmeup.com WWW: 

http://www.tmeup.com/ 

UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS 


7434. Info Line: 0131-467 2551. 11pm- 

3am. Monthly. Next date: Sat 28th Jan. 

In the drawing room, DJs Graeme F and 

Chris Paton from Habana are unleashed 

into a bigger arena playing chart, dance, 

camp and pop. In the basement, Mrs 

Bridges and Mr Hudson aka Maggie & 

Alan Joy cook up a fine stew of Joy 

tunes from 1993-2005. £6 entry. 

VELVET WOMEN'S CLUB NIGHT 

Mariners (formerly The Commplex), 39- 

40 Commercial Street, Leith. 10pm- 

2am. First Sat of each month. Next 

dates: 31st Dec (Hogmanay Party 

Tickets Only £10), Sat 7th Jan. Male 

guests welcome if invited and accompanied 

by a lady. New music policy which 

spans the genres. £6/£5 conc. with ID. 

£3 before 10.30pm. E-mail: clubvelvet@blueyonder.co.uk 

WWW: 

http://www.webflyers.co.uk/Flyer/377 

VIBE* 


7434. Tue 11pm-3am. James 

Longworth plays charty/party upstairs, 

guest DJs R'n'B downstairs. Superpopular 

gay night. £1 drinks promos all 

night. £3 before Midnight/£4 after. E- 

mail: info@jameslongworth.com WWW: 

http://www.jameslongworth.com/ 

VITTORIA 

113 Brunswick Street. Tel: 0131-556 

6171. Fax: 0131-478 7009. Sun Noon- 

11pm, Mon-Sat 10am-11pm. Megapopular 

gay-friendly Italian restaurant. 

Best lasagna in Edinburgh! E-mail: 

info@vittoriarestaurant.com WWW: 

http://www.vittoriarestaurant.com/ 

WORD POWER* 

43 West Nicolson Street. Tel: 0131-662 

9112. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Sat 

10.30am-6pm. Independent radical 

bookshop. E-mail: books@wordpower.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.wordpower.co.uk/ 

GLASGOW 

BENNETS 

80-90 Glassford St. Tel: 0141-552 

5761. Sun, Wed-Thu 11.30pm-3am, Fri- 

Sat 11.30pm-3.30am. Recently reopened 

after disastrous fire. E-mail: 

enquiries@bennets.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.bennets.co.uk/ 

BURLY 

The Arches, 30 Midland Street. Infoline: 

07930 357401. 10.30pm-3am - entry 

after 1am at the discretion of the promoters. 

Next event: Fri 3rd Feb (no club 

in Jan). Dress code: wear rubber, 

leather, uniform, industrial, sportswear, 

kilts or denim. DJ Hi-Fi Sean and 

Raymo. Designed to be cruisy. £8/£10. 

E-mail: dv8scots@hotmail.com WWW: 

http://www.dv8scots.co.uk/ 

CCA* 

350 Sauchiehall Street. Admin Tel: 

0141-332 7521. Fax: 0141-332 3226. 

Box Office Tel: 0141-352 4900. Café Tel: 

0141-332 7959. Box Office: Tue-Thu 

11am-10.30pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11.30pm, 

Sun 11am-6pm. Gallery: Tue-Sun 

11am-6pm, Thu 11am-8pm. Café: Tue- 

Thu 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am- 

Midnight, Sun 11am-6pm. Bar: Tue-Thu 

11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-1am. The 

Centre for Contemporary Arts. 6 performance 

& exhibition spaces, Café/Bar, 

bookshop. E-mail: gen@ccaglasgow.com 

WWW: http://www.ccaglasgow.com/ 

CLONE ZONE* 

45 Virginia St. Tel/Fax: 0141-553 2666. 

Sun Noon-6.30pm, Mon-Sat 10.30am- 

7pm. Clothes, videos, magazines, toys. 

E-mail: admin@clonezone.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.clonezone.co.uk/ 

CLUB EROS* 

1-3 Bridge Street. Tel: 0845 4562310. 

Sun-Fri Noon-10pm, Sat Noon-4am. 

Glasgow's largest licenced sauna & 

gym for gay and bi men set over three 

floors. Entry from £7.50. Free Sunday 

breakfasts. E-mail: 

cluberos@hotmail.com 

THE COCO CLUB 

18 Jamaica Street. Tel: 0141-847 0820. 

Thu-Sun. 11pm-3am. Gay 

night club and entertainment venue in 

former Club Devotion premises. 

http://www.thecococlub.co.uk/ 

COURT BAR* 

69 Hutcheson Street. Tel: 0141-552 

2463. Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 

8am-Midnight. Intimate bar beside former 

Sheriff Court. Straight until midevening. 

CUBE 

34 & 44 Queen Street. Tel: 0141-226 

8990. Mon-Tue 11.30pm-3am. Mon: 

Passionality@Cube44 with DJ Shawn 

Roberts. Tue: FunClub@Cube34 with DJ 

Shazza Halliwell. Various drinks promos. 

Entry £3. E-mail: 

thornleisure@yahoo.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.cubeglasgow.co.uk/ 

CYBER* 

Unit 3, King's Court, 107 King Street. 

Tel: 0141-553 0942. Sun Noon-5.30pm, 

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm. Alternative clothing 

specialising in corsetry. 

DELMONICA'S BAR 

68 Virginia Street. Tel: 0141-552 4803. 

Daily Noon-Midnight. Claims to be 

"Glasgow's biggest and busiest Gay 

bar". DJs nightly from 9pm. Thu: Quiz. 

Sun: Karaoke. Nice if your face fits. E- 

mail: delmonicas@g1group.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.g1group.co.uk/ 

EASYINTERNETCAFÉ 

57/61 St. Vincent Street. Tel: 0141-222 

2365. Sun 8am-8pm, Mon-Fri 7am- 

10pm, Sat 8am-10pm. Large Internet 

Café from which many gay men seem 

to troll the net instead of just picking up 

each other! WWW: http://www.easyinternetcafe.com/ 

GLC CAFÉ/BAR* 

11 Dixon Street. Tel: 0141-226 5050. 

11am-Midnight. Full breakfast always 

available. Home cooking. Friendly and 

busy! Karaoke on Fri, Sat. 

GLASGOW LGBT CENTRE (GGLC)* 

11 Dixon Street. Tel/Fax: 0141-221 

7203. Daily 11am-Midnight. Welcomes 

lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered. 

Services include: Café Bar, 

Info Box, Health Info, Interest Groups, 

Free Newspapers, Diary of Events, 

Reading Room, Garden of Reflection, 

Function space for hire and innovative 

Art Gallery. Houses 18 user groups and 

organisations. Fully wheelchair accessible 

venue. E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk 

WWW: http://www.glgbt.org.uk/ 

ICON* 

24 Candleriggs. Tel: 0141-552 0243. 

Fax: 0141-552 4251. 4pm-Midnight. 

Next door to Merchant Pride. 

Interesting cocktail list. Stylish environment 

and laidback grooves through to 

quality house music. E-mail: info@iconbar.co.uk 

WWW: http://icon-bar.co.uk/ 

THE LANE 

60 Robertson Street Lane (off Argyle 

Street). Tel: 0141-221 1802. Noon-7pm. 

"Exotic Gay Men's Club" with sauna and 

private cabins. Not very busy. 

MERCHANT PRIDE* 

20 Candleriggs. Tel: 0141-564 1285. 

Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat Noon- 

Midnight. Food: Noon-5pm. Upmarket 

bar in the heart of the Merchant City. 

Regular cabaret, karaoke and disco. 

MODA 

58 Virginia Street. Tel/Fax: 0141-553 

2553. Mon-Thu 5pm-1am, Fri-Sun 

5pm-3am. Fashionable pub/club. 

WWW: http://www.g1group.co.uk/ 

THE POLO LOUNGE 

84 Wilson Street. Tel: 0141-553 1221. 

Mon-Thu 5pm-1am, Fri-Sun 5pm-3am. 

Long established pub/club. Young 

crowd. Polo Club (downstairs dancefloor) 

open Fri-Sun, £5 after 11pm. E- 

mail: polo@g1group.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.pololounge.co.uk/ 

RELAX CENTRAL* 

3rd Floor, 27 Union Street. Tel: 0141- 

221 0415. Noon-10pm. Established gay 

sauna. Fully licensed by Glasgow City 

Council. Entry £8.50 (until 2pm), £10 

thereafter. E-mail: 

info@relaxcentral.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.relaxcentral.co.uk/ 

REVOLVER BAR* 

6a John Street. Tel: 0141-553 2456. 

Mon-Fri Noon-Midnight, Sat-Sun 1pm- 

Midnight. A refreshing antidote to the 

current gay scene. Pool table, state of 

the art free jukebox (with over 8,000 

tracks on it), reasonably priced drinks, 

good quality service, no karaoke. 

SILKS AND SECRETS* 

308 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-572 1017. 

Fax: 0141-221 0959. Sun Noon-5pm, 

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm. Clothes and toys 

catering for gay, transvestite and fetish 

tastes. Larger sizes stocked. 

TRON THEATRE CAFÉ BAR* 

Chisholm Street. Tel: 0141-552 8587. 

Fax: 0141-552 6657. Sun 11am-Late, 

Mon-Sat 10am-Late. Friendly theatre 

bar. Mixed. Good food. WWW: 

http://www.tron.co.uk/ 

THE TUNNEL 

84 Mitchell Street. Tel: 0141-204 1000. 

Wed. 11.30pm-3am. Allure with DJ 

Darren. Entry £3. E-mail: thornleisure@yahoo.co.uk 

VICTORIA BAR* 

157-159 Bridgegait. Tel: 0141-552 

6040. Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 

11am-Midnight. Basically straight, but 

justly popular with Glasgow's many 

Real Ale queens and dykes. Convenient 

for the Citizens Theatre. 

VIOLATE 

PO Box 808, Glasgow. G71 7YN. Violate 

Club Line: 09099 108174 (60p per min 

at all times). BDSM and general pervery. 

Operates in Glasgow and 

Edinburgh. Runs regular clubs at the 

Big Joint in South Street, Glasgow on 

the first Sat of each month. Also holds 

special one off clubs called UltraViolate 

roughly every 3 months. E-mail: 

info@violate.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.violate.co.uk/ 

THE WATERLOO* 

306 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-229 5891. 

Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat Noon- 

Midnight. Semper idem! Popular, 

crowded, down to earth gay drinking 

shop. Scotland's oldest gay bar - what 

more can we say? Busy, busy, busy! 

Awarded the Beti Hutton seal of 

approval. 

PERTH 

MI CIELO* 

Bliss Nightclub (formerly Whispers). 

40-48 Canal Street. Tel: (01738) 

446442. Next date: Sun 8th Jan. New 

monthly club night. All drinks are £1.50 

till Midnight. E-mail: karen@blissandenvy.co.uk 

WWW: http://www.blissandenvy.co.uk/ 

STIRLING 

BARNTON BISTRO* 

3½ Barnton Street. Tel: (01786) 

461698. Sun Noon-Midnight, Mon-Thu 

10.30am-Midnight, Fri-Sat 10.30am- 

1am. Food: until 7.30pm. Near to railway 

station. Mixed, busy, bohemian and 

friendly bar/bistro. Popular with students 

and Sons/Daughters of the Rock 

alike. 

TWIST* 

Fubar, 6 Maxwell Place. Tel: (01786) 

472619. Wed 11pm-2am. John Mclean 

plays charty/party mix to a gay crowd. 

£3 entry. £2 drinks promos all night. E- 

mail: fubar@clg.co.uk WWW: 

http://www.clg.co.uk/fubar/ 

STRATHYRE 

MUNRO INN* 

Strathyre, Callander. Tel: Strathyre 

(01877) 384333. Sun-Thu Noon- 

Midnight, Fri-Sat Noon-1am. Gayfriendly 

bar and hotel. Full menu served 

all day. Sunday roast. E-mail: bookings@munro-inn.com 

WWW: 

http://www.munro-inn.com/ 

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