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ScotsGay’s publisher adds to the debate 

opinion 

John Hein 

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Following the article in the last 

issue of ScotsGay, featuring the 

Glasgow LGBT Centre's 

banning of the magazine, 

Gordon Pike co-chair of the 

Centre issued the following 

statement: 

"ScotsGay is a useful resource for 

the LGBT community, in terms of its 

listings and national coverage. 

Unfortunately, we are unable to 

continue stocking the magazine due to 

its adult content. The Centre is used by 

all sections of the community and the 

adult content is, by law, not deemed 

suitable for young people. This is not a 

reflection or a criticism of the general 

content of the magazine, simply a 

reflection of child protection policy and 

legislation. We did inform the 

ScotsGay staff at the beginning of 

2006 that we wished to reduce the 

number of ScotsGay magazines 

delivered to the Centre as we were 

preparing to re-locate to new premises 

and were undecided as to our future 

plans in terms of publications available 

within the Centre. We have 

subsequently reduced the amount of 

magazines we received over the year. 

We are surprised and somewhat 

disappointed that Mr. Hein has 

responded in such a dramatic fashion. 

Aside from the reported telephone quote 

mentioned in his article, neither Mr. 

Hein nor any of his staff have engaged 

at any level with the Centre regarding 

this matter. If any Centre member has 

any view, either positive or negative on 

this matter, they may contact Gordon 

Pike (co-chair) by writing to him at: 

Glasgow LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon 

Street, Glasgow, G1 4AL. " 

In fact, prior to phoning 

Centre Manager Ruth Black for 

comment, I had a lengthy 

conversation in the Centre with 

one of its Directors, Alastair 

Smith, something of which Ruth 

Black was well aware. Gordon Pike 

manages to totally avoid the issue 

of the Centre's inability (or 

unwillingness) to control 

children's access to so-called adult 

content - something which other 

LGBT community projects seem to 

manage adequately whilst 

ensuring that ScotsGay is freely 

available to the adults who form 

the vast majority of their users. 

Has the Centre never heard of 

a top shelf or "copies available on 

request"? 

Meanwhile, daily editions of 

popular "newspapers" which 

regularly promote homophobia 

and sexism are freely available to 

pollute the minds of children of all 

ages on the Centre's premises. 

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Direct Action! 

Censorship under the political microscope 

politics 

Jodie Fleming 

assistant-editor@hotmail.co.uk 

POWERS OF ATTORNEY AND WILLS 

CAN PROTECT YOUR PARTNER 

For advice on Civil Partnership, Wills, Powers 

of Attorney, House Purchase and Sale and 

winding up the affairs of a loved one, call 

Donald Reid. 

19 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8HX 

Tel: 0131-228 2828 

Fax: 0131-228 2861 

E-mail: dr@vmh.co.uk 

Web Address: www.vmh.co.uk 

Go fist your girlfriend or tie your 

boyfriend to the bedpost and fuck 

him… only don’t take a picture of it, 

cos you could find yourself with a 

three year stretch at Her Majesty’s 

Pleasure and your name on the Sex 

Offenders Register. 

In April the government is due to 

discuss plans to criminalise the 

possession of extreme pornography. 

Now before you decide this doesn’t 

affect you and turn the page, this does 

affect you. IT AFFECTS US ALL very 

much, because essentially the 

government are telling people how to 

have sex. Even more staggering is that 

these images don’t even have to be real 

– included in the legislation is role 

play, Photoshop images, or simply 

images shot in a certain context that 

the government decide ‘conveys a 

realistic impression of fear, violence or 

harm’! 

Once upon a time, a man called 

Graham Coutts killed his girlfriend, 

though in Oct last year his conviction 

was quashed as an ‘accident during 

consensual sex’. It was revealed in court 

that Coutts was a user of BDSM porn, 

which started this campaign by the 

dead girl’s mother. I get that she 

didn’t want to admit to herself that 

her little girl wasn’t quite so innocent 

after all … But it’s ludicrous to blame 

it on porn, especially when previous 

partners of Coutts testified in court 

that he participated in breath play 

long before even getting an internet 

connection. I mean it’s all very sad 

that someone died due to unsafe 

methodology – but does that mean the 

rest of us should have to suffer? 

Violent people can be triggered 

into action by many things, including 

pornography. But even the 

government’s own consultation paper 

could find no definite evidence that 

the impact of violent porn creates 

criminal reactions in viewers. Let’s face 

it – abusers are cowards who will use 

any scapegoat at their disposal. After 

all, the majority of men who beat their 

partners blame their behaviour on 

alcohol. If society believes that it’s 

porn, and not people, who cause 

violence, the issue of how responsible 

we are for our behaviour becomes a 

real issue. Sexually violent material 

may be a symptom of a sexually 

violent society, but it’s certainly not 

the cause. 

On the other hand, it’s been 

proven that rapists and abusers have 

been taught repressive messages about 

sex, masturbation and pornography, 

and research shows that anti-porn 

activism can actually exacerbate the 

problems that lead to sexual assault 

and abuse. Peter Tatchell of Outrage! 

makes the point that ‘banning sexual 

images only serves to fuel sex phobia, guilt 

and anxiety … contributing to sexual hangups’. 

Britain has the strictest 

censorship laws in Europe, and the 

highest number of violent sexual 

assaults. Coincidence? You can’t 

legislate against lust, and if people 

aren’t allowed to have this 

masturbatory outlet then how do they 

carry out their fantasies? On a lone 

woman walking at night? One could 

go so far as to say that these images 

help keep these people sated, and the 

rest of us out of harm’s way. 

Ultimately this legislation is 

nothing more than a knee-jerk crowd 

pleasing vote grabber. The grieving 

mother came a-knocking, and here’s 

the government’s redress. Film 

Censorship expert Julian Petley very 

aptly said in Oct 2006, ‘a violent porn 

bill may address public anger but will fail to 

deliver fair law.’ 

Vernon Coaker, Under-secretary of 

State, was asked why he felt such 

extreme measures were required, to 

which he replied, ‘don’t blame us – we’re 

just doing what we’re told.’ Now why does 

that have such a familiar ring to it?? 

And who ‘told’ them? Churches, police 

groups, charities and selected women’s 

groups – a big bunch of fantasists and 

self appointed bleeding heart dogooders. 

Get over yourself!!! All these 

people have done is adopt a Victorian 

idea of women being permanent 

victims, too mentally fragile to 

encounter an offensive picture. 

They’ve developed a definition of 

womanhood every bit as oppressive as 

the one their predecessors fought to 

destroy. 

Even Tony Blair doesn’t agree with 

this legislation. In Sept 2006, he 

released a statement saying that ‘…it is 

not for the state to tell people that they 

cannot choose a different lifestyle, for 

example in issues to do with sexuality.’ 

It’s further argued that this 

legislation will protect the people 

featured. But it’s already illegal to 

coerce/abuse someone into nonconsensual 

activity. And most sites use 

a small number of actors on a regular 

basis, who reappear each time 

miraculously recovered from their 

serious/fatal injuries! 

As a feminist, I believe this 

legislation is deeply and inherently 

wrong, and as an activist I have to 

voice that belief. Censorship is a 

dangerous tool that is primarily used 

to suppress those who would 

challenge oppression and victimise 

minorities. Now feminism is about 

freedom of speech, and here women’s 

sexual choices deemed as ‘socially 

unacceptable’ are coming under 

attack, whether it be as a viewer or a 

participant. Whatever happened to 

pro-choice, whatever happened to ‘a 

woman’s body – a woman’s right to 

choose’? After all isn’t that what the 

Human Rights Act is supposed to be 

there for – to protect the free 

expression of people who don’t 

conform to the mainstream of society? 

Women have the right to explore 

their bodies and sexuality without 

being subject to repression, a right 

society has denied women for 

centuries. Being sexual in front of a 

camera can have a positive, confidence 

building effect, producing feelings of 

self awareness surrounding sexuality. 

This legislation just reeks of a ‘nice 

girls don’t …’ attitude. After all, porn 

carries messages other than womenhating 

…. For example sexual 

adventure, sex for no reason other 

than pleasure, public sex, group sex, 

gay sex. Porn can be enjoyable and 

empowering, rather than victimising, 

view of sex. 

I wonder just what exactly makes 

our government think they have the 

right to legislate people’s sexual 

orientations out of existence? They 

tried that pre-1980, when male 

homosexuality in Scotland was illegal. 

Watch out, ‘cos before you know it 

they’ll have you banged up in the 

Royal Edinburgh with electrodes 

attached to your chest, ready to ECT 

you all the way to vanilla-ville. 

Now if you’re curious as to what 

images exactly are going to be banned 

under the new legislation, here is the 

complete list: 

Asphyxia: Restriction of breath. 

Includes wearing a gimp mask 

Blood Play: Sex during 

menstruation; smearing of blood 

Bondage: Binding someone into 

an uncomfortable position for sexual 

gratification, where withdrawal of 

consent is not possible. Eg if they’re 

gagged 

Corporal Punishment: Inflicting 

pain. Any activity leaving lasting 

marks, bruises or scars – including a 

heavy love bite 

Fisting: Inserting a fist into the 

vagina or anus 

Insertion: Fucking which clearly 

inflicts pain 

Necrophilia: Staged sexual 

intercourse with a corpse. Actual 

necrophilia is already illegal. 

Sado-Masochism: Inflicting 

torture or humiliation/getting sexual 

gratification from torture or 

humiliation 

Scat/Urolagnia: Enemas, water 

sports, handling of excrement 

Violence (including simulated): 

Sexual violence, including role play of 

sexual violence such as rape or 

mutilation. 

This means people who pose no 

threat to society will now be 

criminalized, completely undermining 

communities such as BDSM and Goth 

- an estimated 10% of the adult 

population! And taking into account a 

survey carried out by Kinsey which 

showed that 42% of people have 

participated in some form of corporal 

punishment - from mild spanking 

through to BDSM play – we’re hardly 

talking about an insignificant 

minority! But clearly these people’s 

voices don’t count. The fact is that 

BDSM sites allow individuals with 

similar interests to share advice and 

education on safe practices. Practices 

such as minimising the risk of loss of 

blood to extremities, and preventing 

possible asphyxia. How will the 

legislators feel when somebody dies as 

a result of this legislation? Will they 

accept that blood on their hands, or 

will they dismiss these lives as 

unimportant due to their ‘abhorrent’ 

sexual desires? 

The government claims 

mainstream films with violent scenes 

won’t be affected, as violent material 

will count as illegal only if 

“Women have the 

right to explore their 

bodies and sexuality 

without being subject 

to repression, a right 

society has denied 

women for centuries” 

pornographic – i.e primarily produced 

for the purpose of sexual arousal. But 

how is this to be distinguished from 

low budget thrillers or horror films 

which are often both sexually 

suggestive and violent? Take Mel 

Gibson’s ‘Passion of Christ’, which 

features just about every perversion 

listed above. It shows lumps of flesh 

being torn out with steel barbed whips 

and an extremely gruesome 

mutilation/death scene. The whole 

film is one big torture scene, yet it 

came close to getting a Certificate 15! 

The criteria are so subjective that they 

become unenforceable and easily 

abused. 

A prime example of this was 

demonstrated by Boots the Chemist, 

who edited a couple’s honeymoon 

photos by refusing to print a pic of a 

piece of classical art taken in a gallery, 

because it featured nudity. Their letter 

of explanation stated, ‘Our staff are at 

liberty not to print pictures they think are in 

bad taste’. So you see what’s happening 

here? We’re no longer talking about 

illegal material or photographs of 

abuse, but of ‘bad taste’. This is surely 

a very dubious basis for passing 

judgement! 

In a fair society, there’s no 

justification for censoring something 

just because you don’t like it. What 

kind of God Complex thinks they have 

the right to be the moral majority for 

the rest of us? We all have our own 

moral hierarchy of acceptability 

personal to ourselves. I personally 

detest boxing. Two men beating each 

other into pulp in the name of sport 

makes me sick. Their injuries are 

certainly not faked and do in many 

cases lead to brain damage and 

premature death. But that’s allowed, 

cos no one’s wanking off to it. Just 

when does the ‘distaste’ of the 

majority justify the repression of a 

minority? I say never! 

Ultimately censorship is used by 

those in power as a way to avoid 

dealing with serious problems in 

society, problems that require real 

action. Just like they use ASBOs as a 

band-aid solution in dealing with 

yobs, dealing with the symptoms and 

not the cause. What we need instead is 

an accessible public forum for the 

discussion of issues such as sexuality 

in a fuller, more realistic context that 

acknowledges the divisive forces in 

society, as well as positive and accurate 

sex education for young people. 

The fact remains that those who 

have power get to censor, and those 

who lack power get silenced. Freedom 

of speech is the ally of anyone who 

seeks change, and as such freedom of 

speech means you may have to see and 

hear things that you don’t like. But if 

censorship prevails, you will still see 

and hear things you don’t like – and 

be left without a voice to fight it. 

These ‘pillars of moral rectitude’ came 

after the gays first, now they’re coming 

after the perverts. Who’s going to be 

next? 

If you have any comments about 

this issue or anything else in the 

monthly Direct Action series of articles, 

please E-mail me at the address above. 

Acknowledgements: 

www.backlash-uk.org.uk 

www.fiawol.demon.co.uk 

HELPLINESANDSWITCHBOARDS 

CROSSLYNX NATIONAL TV/TS/TG HELPLINE 

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

Website: www.crosslynx.org 

CUMBRIA AND THE BORDERS GAY HELPLINE 

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

DIVERSITAY LGBT SWITCHBOARD (DUNDEE) 

Mon 7-9.30pm. Phone: Dundee (01382) 202620 Write: PO Box 53, Dundee. 

DD1 3YG. E-mail: contact@diversitay.org.uk 

Website: 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! 

HATE CRIME LINE 

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

Website: www.centralscotland.police.uk/gblt 

LOTHIAN GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD 

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

E-mail: help.switchboard@btconnect.com or via 

Website: www.lgls.co.uk 

LOTHIAN LESBIAN LINE 

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

E-mail: help.switchboard@btconnect.com or via 

Website: www.lgls.co.uk 

STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD 

Nightly 7-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0447. E-mail: info@sgls.co.uk 

Website: www.sgls.co.uk 

STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN LINE 

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

Website: www.sgls.co.uk/services1.htm 

LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD (24 hours) 

Phone/Minicom: 020-7837 7324. FAX: 020-7837 7300. 

Website: www.llgs.org.uk 



Glasgow 

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For more events in Glasgow - turn to the centre pages 

goingout 

Criz Nikalis 

criz@scotsgay.co.uk 

Many dread the arrival of Feb. 

Valentine’s Day falls mid-week this 

year, so there won’t be many Cupid 

inspired nights. I’m wise enough to 

know that most of you just want to 

veg till the spring, but I shall try to 

tempt you all out with a few tasty 

tits and bits! 

We start with the welcome return 

of Burly on Fri 2nd Feb. The boys are 

still going strong, and all they ask is 

that you respect the dress code and 

enjoy the view! For all those who love 

real men, Bearscots are meeting in 

Revolver on Fri 9th Feb from 8pm. 

At the moment these are informal 

gatherings, but there are plans to 

expand the events which may include 

a sauna visit and charity night. The 

group has increased in numbers and, 

as always, the Revolver staff do their 

best to make the night special. 

On Sun 28th Jan Chocolate 

Mondays will be singing in Bennets, 

and the girls are back on top on Fri 

2nd Feb with the lovely Sara. 

The next Utter Gutter is on Sat 

3rd Feb - this is a night which has 

really gone from strength to strength. 

It features a wide range of music and 

personality, offering a real alternative 

to what the scene normally serves. 

The Women’s Library have 

settled into their new home and are 

offering a packed diary, starting with a 

Creative Writing Workshop which was 

held on Thu 25th Jan. There’s a 

Women’s History event on Wed 7th 

Feb at 7.30pm, led by Anni Donaldson 

who will guide you through the 

History of Women. Tips on tours with 

Sandra Middleton will meet outside 

the City Chambers at 6pm on Tue 

13th Feb. All of these events are well 

organised, informative and fun. 

The Arches has a new mixed 

exhibition on until Tue 27 Feb. This is 

an exhibit of poster work called 

Graphic Art Collective, a group 

established to provide an easy outlet 

for Scotland’s upcoming creative 

talent, and a source of fresh 

contemporary art prints. The Arches 

are also showing more of their Future 

Shorts on Sun 28th Jan and Sun 11th 

Feb. Also showing is the coming of age 

Sehnsucht Nach Meer (looking for more), a 

beautifully shot film which tugs at the 

heart strings. 

Warhol has been going for a few 

months now, with a welcoming 

atmosphere and one of the few places 

where food is available. They have a 

quirky gallery space and also run a 

number of events. I asked what ‘Gay 

Friendly’ means, apparently it doesn’t 

mean that the bar staff will oblige on 

the table! It usually means that the 

owner and staff are wise and mature 

enough not to be concerned about 

how your bread is buttered. 

Last, but by no means least, The 

Garage. It’s open till 3am, has a 

pleasant coffee bar and helpful staff. 

Glasgow now has more saunas 

than any other place in Scotland so 

the demand is there - but why? Those 

I asked cited value for money, comfort 

and the social nature of it. These 

BENNETS 

80-90 Glassford St. Tel: 0141-552 

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

Fri-Sat 11.30pm-3.30am. Scotland's 

oldest gay disco. 

E-mail: enquiries@bennets.co.uk 

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. First Fri 

of each month. Next event: Fri 2nd 

Feb (Welcome Back). Designed to be 

cruisy. £8/£10. 

E-mail: dv8scots@hotmail.com 

www.dv8scots.co.uk 

CCA* 

350 Sauchiehall Street. Tel: 0141- 

352 4900. Fax: 0141-332 3226. Café 

Tel: 0141-332 7959. Box Office: Mon 

9am-5pm, Tue-Sat 9am-10pm. 

Gallery: Tue-Sat 11am-6pm. Café: 

Tue-Thu 9am-11pm, Fri-Sat 9am- 

Midnight. Bar: Tue-Wed Noon-11pm, 

Thu Noon-Midnight, Fri-Sat Noon- 

1am. The Centre for Contemporary 

Arts. 6 performance & exhibition 

spaces, Café/Bar. 

E-mail: gen@cca-glasgow.com 

www.cca-glasgow.com 

CLONE ZONE* 

45 Virginia St. Tel/Fax: 0141-553 

2666. Sun 12.30-6.30pm, Mon-Sat 

10.30am-7pm. Clothes, videos, 

magazines, toys. 

E-mail: admin@clonezone.co.uk 

www.clonezone.co.uk 

CLUB EROS* 

1-3 Bridge Street. Tel: 0845 4562310 

or 0141-429 5764. Sun-Thu Noon- 

11pm, Fri Noon-Midnight. Sat Noon- 

4am. Glasgow's largest licenced 

sauna & gym for gay and bi men set 

over three floors. Entry from £9. Free 

Sunday breakfasts. E-mail: 

cluberos@hotmail.com 

COURT BAR* 

69 Hutcheson Street. Tel: 0141-552 

2463. Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon- 

Sat 9am-Midnight. Recently 

refurbished intimate bar beside 

former Sheriff Court. Straight until 

mid-evening. 

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.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. 

E-mail: info@cyber-clothing.com 

www.cyber-clothing.com 

DELMONICA'S BAR* 

68 Virginia Street. Tel: 0141-552 

4803. Noon-Midnight. Claims to be 

"Glasgow's biggest and busiest Gay 

bar". DJs nightly from 9pm. Thu: 

Quiz. Sun: Karaoke. 

E-mail: delmonicas@g1group.co.uk 

www.g1group.co.uk 

THE GARAGE* 

5-10 Metropole Lane. Tel: 0141-552 

5502. Mon-Sun Noon-3am. 

Glasgow's Men's Health and Leisure 

Club. With 200+ lockers, 25 man spa 

pool, 20 man steam room, 20 man 

dry sauna, 14 rest rooms, sling 

room, tea & coffee bar, free internet 

access and TV lounge. Entry £12 

(£10 concession), after 1.30am Fri- 

Sat £8. www.garage-glasgow.com 

GLC CAFÉ/BAR* 

11 Dixon Street. Tel: 0141-226 5050. 

Sun 1pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 11am- 

Midnight. Full breakfast always 

available. Home cooking. Friendly 

and busy! Evening entertainment 

Wed-Sun. 

GLASGOW LGBT CENTRE (GGLC) 

11 Dixon Street. Tel/Fax: 0141-221 

7203. Sun 1pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 

11am-Midnight. Welcomes lesbians, 

gay men, bisexuals and 

transgendered. Services include: 

Café Bar, Info Box, Health Info, 

Interest Groups, Free Newspapers 

(but not ScotsGay - which has 

"inappropriate sexual content"), 

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.glgbt.org.uk 

THE LANE 

60 Robertson Street Lane (off Argyle 

Street). Irregular hours. Sauna with 

private cabins. Not very busy. 

MERCHANT PRIDE* 

20 Candleriggs. Tel: 0141-564 1285. 

Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Fri 

4pm-Midnight, Sat Noon-Midnight. 

Upmarket bar in the heart of the 

Merchant City. Regular cabaret, 

karaoke and disco. 

MODA* 

58 Virginia Street. Tel: 0141-553 

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

5pm-3am. Fashionable pub/club. 


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. Taste: new 

midweek night open every Wed 9pm- 

3am (Free entry all night - £1 all 

drinks). E-mail: polo@g1group.co.uk 


Q! GALLERY* 

87-91 Saltmarket. Tel/Fax: 0141-552 

7575. Text: 07762 722460. Mon-Sat 

11am-5pm. Glasgay's year-round 

gallery dedicated to queer art and 

artists. The Stud!o is an adjacent 

performance/research/workshop and 

holistic arts space. 

E-mail: info@glasgay.co.uk 

www.glasgay.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 from £5. 

E-mail: info@relaxcentral.co.uk 

www.relaxcentral.co.uk 

establishment have become as much a 

part of the Glasgow scene as any of the 

other venues in our listings. When you 

go in you are met with a smiling face 

who explains the lay out, and guides 

you throughout the various areas. I 

must admit being struck by just how 

relaxed and welcoming it is; there 

would seem to be no judgement calls 

being made and they attract a diverse 

range of ages and shapes! I must say 

that someone is missing a big gap in 

the market - if you opened a women’s 

one, I’m sure they would come! 

Well, that’s all I have heard, been 

told and had screamed at me. Till our 

next merry meeting... 

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.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 

UTTER GUTTER 

The Riverside Club, Fox Street. Tel: 

0141-248 3144. 10.30pm-3am. First 

Sat of each month. Next date: Sat 3rd 

Feb. Glasgow's only alternative 

queer night in Glasgow that sticks 

two fingers up at the mainstream 

scene. £10/£8. 

E-mail: uttergutter@hotmail.com 

www.uttergutter.com 

VICTORIA BAR* 

157-159 Bridgegait. Tel: 0141-552 


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) or 07939 

723387. 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.violate.co.uk 

WARHOL* 

214 Bath Street. Tel: 0141-332 3502. 

4pm-1am. Gay friendly Bar Diner & 

Restaurant, with live music, gallery, 

comedy & film. Inspired by the work 

of Andy Warhol and the Factory(s). 

"Making money is art, and working is 

art and good business is the best 

art." 

THE WATERLOO* 

306 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-229 


Sat Noon-Midnight. Semper idem! 

Popular, crowded, down to earth 

drinking shop. Scotland's oldest gay 

bar - what more can we say? Busy, 

busy, busy! Awarded the Beti Hutton 

seal of approval. 

*denotes ScotsGay available 



Edinburgh 

dùn eideann 

For more events in Edinburgh - turn to the centre pages 

goingout 

Jodie Fleming 

assistant-editor@hotmail.co.uk 


will open the Edinburgh Filmhouse screening of 

Calamity Jane 

for 

Waverley Care 

Saturday 10th February at 1.30pm 

Tickets are available from the 

Filmhouse box office 

It’s been a lean month on the 

Edinburgh scene throughout Jan! 

With the proprietors of our pubs 

and clubs resorting to dining on 

spam and leftover Xmas choccies, 

it’s time to get back out there. As 

our end of Jan pay cheque arrives, 

we can all breathe a huge sigh of 

relief and get enthused with all that 

Feb has to offer. 

Feb heralds the celebration of 

pagan-originated Valentine’s Day, and 

with it the make-up, break-up and reevaluation 

of many relationships! 

Society has dictated that those of us 

lucky enough to have found our soulmate 

– or simply just a wellintentioned 

shag buddy – can 

celebrate that union on Wed 14th Feb. 

So get yourself to Clinton and waste 

your money on yet another card and 

maybe even a fluffy rag toy, just to 

show you care! Or you could book a 

table at Velvet’s Valentine’s Night of 

Dinner and Dancing, put on just for the 

occasion. Bookings are being taken 

now for this sumptuous three course 

feast, commencing at 7.30pm upstairs. 

Non-diners can join the party 

downstairs from 8pm, with resident 

DJs Random and Leatherface on the 

decks. Further entertainment will be 

provided by Cindy the Sexy Salsa 

Dancer, getting everyone in the mood 

for grinding their hips. Velvet’s usual 

date will still apply, this month falling 

on Sat 3rd Feb. So get down to 

Mariners at 9.30pm for 2-4-1 on all 

drinks until 11pm! 

The Troll 

troll@scotsgay.co.uk 

BearScots are returning to the hills! 

From 16th-19th Mar they will be 

ensconced in a large baronial 

mansion on the outskirts of Keith 

in Moray. This is a chance to relax 

in beautiful and luxurious 

surroundings and to make new 

friends over a long three-day 

weekend. 

The total cost for the three nights 

(including bear size portions of buns 

and other comestibles) is £75. E-mail: 

info@bearscots.org.uk or Tel: 0131- 

600 0170 for further details. 

I can also reveal that BearscotFest 

2007 will take place in Edinburgh Fri 

5th-Sun 7th Oct. 

The new and exciting antithesis to 

Velvet arrives this month in the form 

of Zeus. Debuting at Mariners on Sat 

10th Feb, this is a night for the boys. 

Velvet DJs Random and Leatherface will 

be joined by DJs Lick It and Lee o sare, 

from 9.30pm–2am. Drinks promos 

include 2-4-1 from 9.30–11pm, and 

although gay girls are welcome when 

accompanied by a male, this night is 

primarily for the boys. 

The bi-yearly Switchboard Ball 

will be held on Sat 17th Feb at the 

Assembly Rooms. The theme this time is 

Rio Carnival, with DJ Trendy Wendy 

and the Black Rose Ceilidh Band. 

The Pink Paper Readers’ Awards 

were announced for 2007, with Best 

Scottish Club being awarded to CC 

Blooms (No. 3) and Ego (No. 5). Best 

Scottish pub was awarded to Habana 

(No. 2) and Planet Out (No. 3). 

Time to stop procrastinating and 

put into action those New Year 

resolutions you made! You have the 

perfect opportunity on Sat 10th Feb as 

the LGBT Centre for Health & 

Wellbeing on Howe St are hosting an 

Open Day. A range of community 

groups will be showcasing different 

ways you can get involved in our 

community, from group activities to 

volunteering opportunities. Among 

others in attendance will be Lothian 

Switchboard, Gay Men’s Health and 

LGBT Youth. 

And finally for those of us 

interested in the women’s movement, 

there’s a fantastic free exhibition on 

The Caledonian Thebans are 

supporting LGBT History Month 2007 

by holding a Scottish themed LGBT 

Quiz Night on Tue 27th Feb when 

everyone is welcome to come along to 

their not-too-serious quiz on LGBT 

people, things and events. Grab a few 

friends and come and share your 

knowledge, learn stuff you never knew, 

have a laugh and raise money for 

charity. Prizes will be awarded to the 

winning team - maximum 5 people per 

team. The evening will kick off at 7pm 

in Deep Blue and will cost £2 per 

person. 

Destination 2 Restaurant Bar - 

the upmarket counterpart to next 

door Destination - is to be the regular 

venue for Forbidden Fruit - a monthly 

night for women and their friends run 

by Deborah and Sue. It will be on the 

3rd Sat of each month with next 

outing on Sat 17th Feb. The former 

Sugo is rather different to the spit and 

sawdust feel next door - think IKEA 

and relaxed chill out living room. 

women’s suffrage at Holyrood. ‘If I 

Can’t Vote, I Don’t Count’, runs until 

Mar. It’s both fascinating and 

encouraging to see how far the 

women’s movement has progressed 

since then, without losing sight of 

how much we still have to accomplish. 

There’s a full food menu Noon-9pm 

each day and it’s open Noon-1am. 

Meanwhile, the original 

Destination is open 7pm-1am (plus 

5am-Noon on Fri and Sat). The Cabaret 

Show (with a minimum of two drag 

queens) is on Thu-Sat, Mon is a 

Student Night with all drinks for £2 

and Tue sees Competition Karaoke, 

whilst Topping and Butch are 

promised for Fri 2nd and Sat 3rd Mar. 

Gordon at Habana tells me that a 

new Quiz Night will be starting soon 

on Thu nights. DJ G Star is on the 

decks on Tue evenings for House of Sin. 

Finally, if you’re scunnered with 

Edinburgh, how about this job 

opportunity in Glasgow? Gay Men’s 

Health has funding for three full-time 

posts and a part-time administrator. 

Deadline for applications: 5pm on 

Mon 5th Feb. For an application pack 

Write: Gay Men’s Health, 10a Union 

Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LU. 

Tel: 0131-558 9444. 

E-mail: recruitment@gmh.org.uk 

THE AULD HOOSE* 

23-25 St Leonards Street. Tel: 

0131-668 2934. Sun 12.30pm-1am, 

Mon-Sat 11.30am-1am. Everybodyfriendly 

bar. Real ale. Food served: 

Mon-Sat 11.30am-9.30pm, Sun 

12.30-8pm. 

BLACK BO'S 

57/61 Blackfriars Street. Tel: 0131- 

557 6136. Mon-Thu 6-10pm, Fri- 

Sat Noon-2pm & 6-10.30pm. 

Superb little mostly vegetarian 

restaurant. Friendly staff. Mixed 

clientele. 

BLUE MOON CAFÉ* 

1 Barony Street/36 Broughton 

Street. Tel: 0131-556 2788 (Bar) or 

0131-557 0911 (Office). Sat-Sun 

10am-11pm, Mon-Fri 11am-11pm. 

Food served until 10pm. Popular 

LGBT café. 

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. 

BOOTY 

Medina Nightclub (Under 

Negociants), 45-47 Lothian Street. 

Info Line: 07736 936650. Sun 

11pm-3am. "It's our duty to please 

your booty". DJ Dale Lush and 

guests. Club Classics, Funky 

House, Soulful House, US Garage, 

Old Skool House, Hip Hop, R&B, 

UK Garage and Retro. £3 entry. E- 

mail: dale@lushmarketing.com 

www.club-booty.com/ 

C.C. BLOOM'S* 

23-24 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131- 

556 9331. Sun 7pm-3am. Mon-Thu 

6pm-3am, Fri-Sat 5pm-3am. Two 

funky floors! DJ Shazza v DJ 

Blondie on Sat. Valentine's Sunday 

- 11th Feb for fun! Disco every 

night from 11pm. E-mail: 

enquiries@ccsnightclub.co.uk 

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 6-10pm. 

"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 leather - rubber 

- kilts - fetish. 2nd Sat: Gaykilts - 

Sporran Clan - leather - rubber - 

skins - fetish - bears. 3rd Sat: Gay 

male only - rubber - bears - fetish 

plus trannies. 4th Sat: Stunners - 

adult fetish group - new members 

welcome £5 entry. Every Fri night 

10pm onwards is gay male only. 

E-mail: mail@claremontbar.co.uk 

www.claremontbar.co.uk/ 

DESTINATION (EDINBURGH)* 

17 Albert Place. 7pm-1am. Also 

Fri-Sat 5am-Noon. Formerly The 

Old Salt. Mon: Student night - all 

drinks £2. Tue: Karaoke 

competition. Thu, Fri & Sat: 

Cabaret Show with minimum of two 

drag queens! 

DESTINATION 2 RESTAURANT BAR* 

14-16 Albert Place. Tel: 0131-554 

7282. Noon-1am. Food: Noon-9pm. 

New chill out bar with relaxed 

living room feel. Small downstairs 

bar available for private functions. 

DEEP BLUE* 

1 Barony Street. Tel: 0131-556 

2788 (Bar) or 0131-557 0911 

(Office). 4-11pm. Friendly gay 

basement bar. Unobtrusive music - 

great for talking to people. Regular 

drinks promos. 

DV8 

Spiders Web Basement, 258 

Morrison Street. Tel: 0131-228 

1949. Next dates: Fri 26th Jan, Fri 

9th & 23rd Feb, Fri 9th & 30th Mar. 

8pm-1am.Fetish club with strict 

fetish code door policy (although 

they do allow smart black 

dresswear). People of all genders 

and sexualities are invited to come 

along and enjoy the friendly 

atmosphere in the company of 

Footman John and his team. 

E-mail: saltire28@yahoo.co.uk 

WWW: http://dv8fetishclub.co.uk/ 

EDINBURGH LGBT CENTRE* 

58a and 60 Broughton Street. Houses 

Sala Café-Bar, Pride Scotia 

(Edinburgh) and Fitlads. Provides 

meeting and noticeboard space for 

many LGBT organisations. Free WiFi 

Internet access (sponsored by 

ScotsGay). 

FEVER 

eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 

7434. Info Line: 0131-557 4656. 

11pm-3am. Monthly. Next dates: Sat 

3rd Feb, Sat 3rd & 31st Mar, 28th 

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 10pm with DJs Miss 

Chris and Mikey Dowser. Ask them 

for discount passes. £8 Members/£10 

- Taste members £5 before 11.15pm. 

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 

Twist, 26b Dublin Street. 

10pm - 2am. 2nd Fri of every month 

Next datesL Fri 9th Feb, Fri 9th Mar, 

Fri 13th Aprl - 2nd Birthday Party! 

Drink promos all night! £4 entry 

DJ's The Funki Diva, DejayBird, Boy 

Toy & Debi T. Wear good shoes, 

bring beautiful people! 

HABANA* 

22 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-558 

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

Noon-1am. Popular watering hole, 

re-opened after tasteful 

refurbishment. E-mail: 

cafehabanaeh1@mac.com. 

www.cafehabanaeh1.com/ 

HOLYROOD TAVERN* 

9a Holyrood Road. 0131-556 5044. 

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

1am. Real ale. Mixed clientele. 

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 


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. 1st Sat of 

each month. Next dates: Sat 3rd Feb 

(Construction Time), Sat 3rd Mar, Sat 

7th Apr. Mega club night with 

resident DJs Tommy Kay, Dean 

Newton, Grum Stone, and Jon 

Edwards. www.luvely.com/ 

MINGIN' 

Downstairs at Studio 24, 24 Calton 

Road. Tel: 0131-558 3758. Info Line: 

0131-661 8198. 11pm-3am. Every 

four weeks. Next date: Fri 9th Feb. 

Dark sexy dirty house club featuring 

Alan JOY and Brian Dempster. 

No EIGHTEEN* 

18 Albert Place, Leith Walk. Tel: 

0131-553 3222. Mon-Thu Noon- 

10pm, Fri-Sun Noon-11pm. The UK's 

first 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. 

ON REQUEST 


7434. 11pm-3am. 3rd Thu of each 

month. "Str8 friendly" club night. 

Cheap and fun just like the people. 

Drinks promos all night. Entry £3. E- 

mail: buftys@on-request.co.uk 

www.on-request.co.uk/ 

PLANET OUT* 

6 Baxter's Place. Tel: 0131-556 

5551. Mon-Fri 4pm-1am, Sat-Sun 

2pm-1am. Popular and busy gay bar 

with friendly staff. Live music Sun 

eve. Quiz night and drink promotions 

Mon. Drink promotions until 9pm 

Tue-Sun. 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 has 

been listed in the CAMRA Good Beer 

Guide two years running - 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.lagradedinburgh.org.uk/ 

SALA CAFÉ-BAR* 

60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-478 

7069. Tue, Thu 4-11pm, Wed, Fri 

4pm-Midnight, Sat 10.30am- 

Midnight, Sun 10.30am-11pm. 

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). E-mail: 

salacafebar@hotmail.com 

SOLAS CAFÉ* 

2/4 Abbeymount. Tel: 0131-661 

0982. Mon-Fri 8.30am-3.30pm. 

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. State-of-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 2pm. Lockers 

£10, Cabins £15 at all other times. 

Students & under 25 £5 lockers all 

day, every day! No membership 

required. Proudly gay owned & 

operated. www.steamworkssauna.co.uk/ 

THE STREET* 

2 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-556 4272. 

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

1am. Small but perfectly formed bar 

run by Louise, Annie and Trendy 

Wendy. Food served Noon-8pm. Wed 

9pm: Quiz. Pre-clubs: Fever and 

Tackno. Discount for BLOGGS 

Members. 

SUGAR DADDY 


7434. 11pm-3am. 1st and 3rd Fri of 

each month. Replaces Blaze with 

more DJs, more varied music and is 

billed as "The best of the scene 

twice a month". £1.50 drinks promos 

with ALL the best DJs from the scene 

including James Longworth, Trendy 

Wendy, Michelle, Chris Paton, JT 

and guests. The crowd choose the 

music! Entry £5. E-mail: 

info@jameslongworth.com 

www.jameslongworth.com/ 

TACKNO 

Moving to a new venue and date - 

watch this space. 


TASTE 

Cabaret Voltaire, 36 Blair Street. Tel: 

0131-220 6176. Info Line: 0131-557 

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

original and longest running LGBTfriendly 

club night that brings 

together like-minded 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. Miss Chris warms up the 

main room and Martin Valentine 

plays US and global house in the 

Back Room. Sun 2nd Feb: John 

Pleased (Quarterly residency) with 

Fisher & Price, Miss Chris and 

Martin Valentine. Regular prices: £6 

Members/£8 Guests £5 before 

11.30pm. Drink promos until 1am. 

www.taste-clubs.com/ 

THAI ME UP 

4 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-558 9234. 

Lunch: Wed-Sat Noon-2.30pm. 

Dinner: Mon-Sun 5-11pm. Superb 

LGBT-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.tmeup.com/ 

TWIST* 

26B Dublin Street. Tel: 0131-538 

7775. Fax: 0131-539 1132. Sun 

12.30pm-1am, Mon-Thu Noon-1am, 

Fri-Sat Noon-2am. Food: Mon-Sat 

Noon-3pm. Sun 12.30-4pm. Formerly 

the Newtown Bar, has re-opened 

after massive refurbishment. Drinks 

Promotions Daily. Downstairs: The 

clubby Disco Bar is open Fri-Sat with 

resident DJ from 10pm-2am. Full 

Scottish breakfasts on Sun. Free 

WiFi. 

E-mail: webmaster@bar-twist.co.uk 

www.bar-twist.co.uk.co.uk/ 

VELVET WOMEN'S CLUB NIGHT 

Mariners, 39 Commercial Street, 

Leith. 9.30pm-2am. First Sat of each 

month. Next dates: Sat 3rd Feb, Wed 

14th Feb (Valentine's Day Dinner), 

3rd Mar. Buy 1 get 1 free most drinks 

9.30-11pm, promos from £1.50 

11pm-2am. Club for gay girlies & 

their friends. Music policy which 

spans the genres. DJs Random & 

Leatherface. £6/£5 conc. with ID. £4 

before 10.30pm. 

E-mail: clubvelvet@blueyonder.co.uk 

www.webflyers.co.uk/Flyer/377 

www.myspace.com/clubvelvet 

VIBE* 


7434. Tue 11pm-3am. All the normal 

madness from DJ Spyke, James 

Longworth and r'n'b guests. Superpopular 

gay night. £1 drinks promos 

all night. £3 before Midnight/£4 

after. E-mail: 

info@jameslongworth.com 

www.jameslongworth.com/ 

VITTORIA 

113 Brunswick Street. Tel: 0131-556 

6171. Fax: 0131-478 7009. Sun 


Mega-popular LGBT-friendly Italian 

restaurant. Best lasagna in 

Edinburgh! E-mail: 

info@vittoriarestaurant.com 

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.word-power.co.uk/ 

ZEUS CLUB NIGHT 

Mariners, 39 Commercial Street, 

Leith. 9.30pm-2am. 2nd Sat of each 

month. Next Dates: Launch Night Sat 

10th Feb (Celebrating LGBT History 

Month & Valentine's), Sat 10th Mar, 

Sat 14th Apr. New LGBT Club Night 

for the boys and their friends, boys 

may invite and accompany a gay 

girlie guest! An uplifting and eclectic 

span of the musical genres with DJs 

Lee o sayer; Lick it; Leatherface; 

Random and guests. Buy 1 get 1 free 

most drinks 9.30-11pm, promos from 

£1.50 11pm-2am. Pre-Club Party @ 

Deep Blue (under Blue Moon) 8pm 

promos £2. £6/£5 conc. with ID. £4 

before 10.30pm. 

www.webflyers.co.uk/Flyer/5822 


Dundee 

dùn deagh 

For more events in Dundee and the rest of Scotland - turn to the centre pages 

goingout 

Beth Robinson 

beth@scotsgay.co.uk 

Is it the sign of a good festive period 

when you’re still making apologies 

throughout Jan? If so, I had a great 

time! My last set of apologies go to 

the bouncers at OUT for my 

drunkenness on the 30th Dec (no, I 

couldn’t wait for New Year’s Eve!!). 

That’s what happens when you go 

out for lunch and don’t go home. 

One pint too many me thinks! 

So it’s the romantic time of the 

year again with Valentine’s Day just 

around the corner, and Dundee is 

celebrating! If you can’t pull this 

month then I think you need to 

seriously reassess you tactics! 

The Gauger is celebrating 

Valentines Day a couple of days early, 

with a party on Sat 10 Feb. There’s a 

fancy dress theme too, so a good 

excuse to bring out that Hallowe’en 

Costume that’s only been worn once. 

And of course a great excuse to see all 

you boys dressed as ladies! Tickets are 

£1, with music from 8pm. There will 

be prizes for the best dressed so make 

an effort! The Gauger still have 

calendars available, £4 and available at 

the bar. All the money raised is going 

to a good cause. Ross will be DJ-ing on 

Fri and Sat nights. 

Brooklyn’s is celebrating on the 

14th Feb with the now traditional Shag 

Tag. If you need Dutch courage 

beforehand, Brooklyn’s has free pool 

and drinks promotions every day 

between 5pm and 9pm. There’s 

Karaoke on Wed, Fri and Sun, with 

DJs on the intervening nights 

including DJ Reilly on a Tue. 

OUT is no doubt going to follow 

on from Shag Tag in Brooklyn’s with 

lots of drunken shenanigans in the 

club (no doubt a few sickies will be 

pulled on the 15th). The club is open 

Wed to Sun11pm till late. OUT’s latest 

addition is “Poptastic” every Sun; it’s 

only £3 at the door with drinks 

promos all night. An ideal way to get 

over Fri and Sat hangovers! 

Diversitay will be out on 

Dundee’s scene on 10th Feb with 

Valentine’s Day outreach (granted a 

few days early). This is an ideal 

opportunity to discover and support 

your local LGBT group. So if you see 

them out and about, go up and have a 

chat. But be warned, they may try and 

convince you to volunteer! Diversitay’s 

help line is still running every Mon 

night from 7-9pm, or you can E-mail: 

contact@diversitay.org.uk or shuck 

out their website at 

www.diversitay.org.uk 

Diversitay are also currently 

setting up a ‘MySpace’ and ‘bebo’ site, 

so look out for them and add them to 

your friends list. 

A quick mention to DV8 

Dundee’s LGBT youth group. DV8 is a 

youth group for young people under 

25 who have issues with their 

sexuality, or with the sexuality of a 

member of their family. It’s a safe and 

friendly environment where you can 

meet other young people and discuss 

issues affecting the LGBT community 

and their families. They also have 

guest speakers from the police, health 

and voluntary sectors. For more info, 

E-mail Marley at marl12580@aol.com 

Abertay University LGBT Group 

is still going strong and meet on the 

1st and 3rd Mon of each month at 

7pm, in the cinema room on the 3rd 

floor of the Student Centre. It’s open 

to students from both universities and 

is currently planning events for 

upcoming months. If you’re a student, 

joining your LGBT society is the ideal 

way to make new friends and get 

support from like minded people. 

Dundee University LGBT Group 

seems to have really taken off - despite 

being only a few months old, it’s 

already got over 50 members. Like its 

counterpart at Abertay, it’s an ideal 

way to make friends and have a few 

drinks along the way. 

See you all next month! 

ABERDEEN 

CHEERZ BAR* 

2-8 Exchange Street. Tel: (01224) 

594511. Lively new gay bar with 

entertainment and more. 

FOUNDATION* 

Carnegies Brae. New club. E-mail: 

clubfoundation@btconnect.com 

PINK PELICAN 

Under Hotel Metro, 17 Market 

Street. Tel: (01224) 583275. Thu 

10pm-2am. Fri 10pm-3am. Sat 

10pm-3am. Sun 10pm-2am. 

Aberdeen's latest gay club. £5 

admission. Features the old 

favourite Disco Bus. 

DUMFRIES 

MIXED BAG 

Birkhill Hotel, 16 St Mary's Street 

(Lockerbie Road). Tel: (01387) 

739888. 9pm-2am. Last Fri of 

each month. Next dates: Fri 26th 

Jan, Fri 23rd Feb, Fri 30th Mar. 

Monthly club night for LGBT 

people and their friends from 

Dumfries & Galloway. 

E-mail: mixedbag@hotmail.co.uk 

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

mixedbagDG/ 

DUNDEE 

BROOKLYN'S BAR* 

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

200660. 3pm-Midnight. Well 

appointed LGBT bar next door to 

OUT. Under new management. 

Karaoke: Wed, Fri & Sun. DJ: Sat. 

DOUBLY DISCREET* 

38 Albert Street. Tel: (01382) 

809080. Mon-Wed, Fri 10am-6pm. 

Thu 10am-8pm. Sat 10am-5pm. 

First Wed of each month (Dundee 

Munch) 10am-8pm. Alternative 

clothing shop catering for all 

genders and sexualities. As well 

as stocking a wide range of 

clothing and sex aids they pride 

themselves on being able to 

source personal services such as 

gender friendly beauticians, 

photographers and offer a 

personal shopping service. 

www.doubly_discreet.com 

THE GAUGER* 

75-79 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 

226840. Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, 

Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight. Has 

recently reverted to its original 

name from Charlies Bar. LGBTfriendly 

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. Under new 

management. Previously known as 

Liberties although everyone just 

calls it The Club. Student 

discount. 


ROASTERS COFFEE HOUSE* 

218 Blackness Road. Tel: Dundee 

(01382) 646648. Sun 11am-3pm, 

Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat 8am-5pm. 

LGBT-friendly café which can be 

hired out in the evenings for 

organisations who want 

somewhere small and quiet to 

meet. 

www.roasters-coffeehouse.co.uk 

STIRLING 

BARNTON BAR & BISTRO* 

3 1/2 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. 

www.thebistro.co.uk 

STRATHYRE 

MUNRO INN* 

Strathyre, Callander. Tel: Strathyre 

(01877) 384333. Fax: Strathyre 

(01877) 384263. Sun-Thu Noon- 

Midnight, Fri-Sat Noon-1am. 

LGBT-friendly bar and hotel. Full 

menu served from 8am. Sunday 

roast. 

E-mail: bookings@munro-inn.com 

www.munro-inn.com 

WHERE THERE’S ALWAYS 

MUCH MORE THAN MEETS 

THE EYE! 

40 Bedrooms 

24 Hour Reception 

TV lounge 

Direct Dial Phones 

Tea and Coffee Making Facilities 

30/31 Philbeach Gardens, Earl’s Court, London SW5 9EB 

RESERVATIONS: 020-7273 1244 

Fax 020-7244 0149 E-mail: 100756.3112@compuserve.com 

www.philbeachhotel.freeserve.co.uk 



LGBT History Month 

A guide to Scotland’s events in February 

celebrate 

For more and updated information go to www.lgbthistory.org.uk 

Below are listed events which have 

already been fully planned and some 

which need a few additional details. 

There are also bars, clubs and 

restaurants which have committed to 

promoting History Month by having 

quiz nights, themed nights and 

displaying posters. 

NATIONAL EVENTS 

Amnesty 

Amnesty International is to a host 

discussion group and provide display 

materials. Also they will raise awareness 

through networks and to work towards 

inclusion within Amnesty Publications - 

www.amnesty.org.uk/content 

Police 

Eight Scottish Police forces in 

conjunction with the Gay Police 

Association will host awareness raising 

sessions and storytelling. – All eight 

Police forces will display LGBT History 

Month posters. www.gay.police.uk/about 

Equality Network 

The Equality Network campaigns for 

equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and 

transgender people in Scotland. It 

creates ways for people to contribute to 

making Scotland a place in which 

everyone, regardless of sexual 

orientation or gender identity, can live 

free from hatred, prejudice and 

discrimination. 

The Equality Network will have a display 

of archive materials at their offices all 

month. 

Screening of My Beautiful Laundrette at 

Sala Café Bar on Wed 14th Feb 

www.equality-network.org 

Stonewall Scotland 

Stonewall Scotland campaigns for 

equality and justice for gay, lesbian, 

bisexual and transgender people living in 

Scotland. We work with businesses, the 

public sector, the Scottish Executive, 

Scottish Parliament and a range of 

partners to improve the ‘lived 

experience’ of LGBT people in Scotland. 

The group will be hosting a Diversity 

Champions celebratory event on Thu 

22nd Feb to mark the one year 

anniversary of the programme in 

Scotland. It’s a celebration of the 

success the programme has had since it 

was lunched in Scotland last year, as 

well as a networking event and a fun 

evening out for invitees. This is a closed 

event, open to Diversity Champions and 

special guests only. If you would like 

more information about the Diversity 

Champions programme in Scotland and 

how to join, go to 

www.stonewallscotland.org.uk/scotland/ 

or contact Stonewall Scotland Diversity 

Champions Coordinator Michelle 

Fullerton on 0131-557 3679. 

Parents Enquiry 

Parents Enquiry Scotland is a voluntary 

organization run by parents of LGBT 

children providing help, information and 

support for parents of LGBT children. 

They will display archive materials at 

events throughout the month. 

www.parentsenquiryscotland.org 

Scottish Youth Parliament 

The SYP was launched in Murrayfield 

Stadium in Edinburgh in 1999 - the 

day before Scotland’s other new 

Parliament! Several years later they are a 

group of around 150 elected young 

people aged between 14 and 25 years, 

who aim to be a collective national youth 

voice for all young people in Scotland. 

LGBT Youth Scotland has two elected 

MSYPs. 

www.scottishyouthparliament.org.uk 

LGBT History Month is to be discussed 

at their Feb Meeting. 

NUS – National Union of Students 

NUS is one of the largest student 

organisations in the world and 

represents the interests of around five 

million students in further and higher 

education throughout the United 

Kingdom. NUS provides research, 

representation, training and expert 

advice for individual students and 

students’ unions. They deal with over 

15,000 welfare enquiries each year and 

train over 3,000 students’ union officers. 

To celebrate LGBT History Month NUS is 

raising student awareness and has sent 

information to all colleges and 

universities in Scotland. 

www.nusonline.co.uk 

Last year NUS created a CD Rom of 

LGBT History events which is again 

being screened. 

Equality Forward 

Equality Forward (formerly the Scottish 

Equalities Unit for further and higher 

education) started in Apr 2006. Equality 

Forward are having an in house meeting 

and awareness raising session. 

Information and stalls have been held in 

Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Galloway 

and Glasgow. 

www.equalityforwardscotland.ac.uk 

Transmen Scotland 

Trans Men Scotland is a self help 

support group for all female to male 

transgender people. 

They meet monthly in Edinburgh and 

Glasgow for support and information. All 

female to male identified people are 

welcome to attend. They also hold 

regular social meetings to which 

partners, friends and family are 

welcome. 

www.transmenscotland.org.uk 

Our Story Scotland 

Display of materials at the People’s 

Palace – Glasgow 16th Feb - 25th Mar in 

the Winter Garden. 

OurStory Scotland is a recognised 

Scottish Charity. They collect, archive 

and present the life stories and 

experiences of the LGBT community in 

Scotland. This involves oral history work 

with all ages, including the older 

generation, whose stories reveal the 

tremendous changes that have occurred 

in the situation of LGBT people during 

their lifetime. 

In addition to collecting stories, images, 

artefacts and research materials from 

LGBT lives, they present our heritage 

through the arts, in exhibitions, 

storytelling and drama. 

www.ourstoryscotland.org.uk 

Materials will also be displayed in Duns 

Library – Borders, Solas Café Bar – 

Edinburgh, Dumfries Library and in 

many other libraries in Aberdeen and 

Edinburgh. 

National LGBT Youth Council 

The Youth Council is made up of young 

people from across Scotland who work 

together to ensure LGBT inclusion within 

their local areas. 

This is a vibrant, fun and busy group - if 

you are interested in getting involved 

contact Euan.platt@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

Meeting on Sat 17th Feb at the John 

Cotton Centre in Edinburgh for story 

telling, a look at legislation and the 

impact and importance of civil 

partnerships. 

www.lgbtyouth.org.uk 

REGIONAL EVENTS 

Aberdeen 

Bus campaign - 15 headliners inside 

buses 22nd Jan - 28th Feb. 

3 Films at the Belmont Cinema as part of 

the Rainbow screenings. 

Terrence Higgins Trust hosting 3 events 

open to the LGBT community. 

Borders 

Bus Campaign - 15 headliners inside 

buses 22nd Jan - 28th Feb. 

A dedicated exhibition at Duns library - 

timeline of Scottish History and archive 

materials. 

Information in 16 local libraries - 

directed to LGBT authors. 

LGBT Equality Forum - to host 

discussion and look at LGBT heritage. 

Plus schools work with awareness 

raising sessions. 

Dumfries and Galloway 

Library exhibition and storytelling. 

Mixed Bag - LGBT Club night with a time 

tunnel of historical events. 

LGBT Youth Scotland workshops and 

activities including storytelling. 

Plus schools work with awareness 

raising sessions. 

Dundee 

Bob Cant hosting 2 events with films and 

discussion at Dundee Contempory Arts 

centre on Fri 2nd and Sat 3rd Feb 6- 

9.30pm. 

The Corner Youth service holding an 

LGBT History Month workshop to 

support young people to attend the DCA, 

and to look at coming out. 

Edinburgh 

Outside of bus campaign - 22nd Jan - 

28th Feb – keep your eyes peeled and let 

us know if you have spotted the advert. 

The City Of Edinburgh Council is 

demonstrating its support to LGBT 

History Month by flying the rainbow 

flag at the City Chambers for the whole 

month. 

LGBT Youth Scotland 

LGBT Youth Scotland Parachute Jump - 

Sun 25th Feb 

Plus youth events 15 workshops and 

activities on Tue at FUSION, the 

volunteer group, Wed at Sound Youth 

6.30-8.30pm and Thu at Vada over 18s 

7-9pm contact 

cara.spence@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

Leith Library - Rainbow Exhibition 

Rainbow City - Stories from Lesbian, 

Gay, Bisexual and Transgender 

Edinburgh. An Exhibition by Remember 

When, a joint project run between the 

Living Memory Association and the City 

of Edinburgh Council. 

Leith Library 1st Feb - 7th Mar. Mon - 

Thu 10am - 8pm, Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 

9am - 1pm Sometimes this room is 

being used by community groups - to 

check availability Tel: 0131-529 5517 

www.rememberwhen.org.uk 

National Galleries of Scotland 

Three LGBT guided tours with art 

historian Matthew Wellard around their 

galleries. National Gallery 9th Feb 2.30- 

3.30pm, Portrait Gallery 15th Feb 5.30- 

6.30pm; Gallery of Modern Art 25th Feb, 

2-3pm meet 15 before each event at the 

main door. http://nationalgalleries.org 

Citadel Youth Project 

3 workshops and tours around the 

Rainbow City exhibition. 

Positive Voice 

Positive Voice is the HIV self-help 

organisation in Lothian: people living 

with HIV, their partners, families and 

carers supporting one another. 

Celebrates LGBT History by having a 

screening and discussion of 9 Dead Gay 

Guys Mon 12th Feb, Bingo Mon 19th 

Feb, African Food night Mon 26th Feb – 

these events are for current users only. 

www.positive-voice.org.uk 

Waverley Care 

Exhibition at SOLAS of LGBT history and 

Our Story Scotland episodes. In 

conjunction with the Global Volunteer 

Exchange starting on Thu 1st Feb – open 

during café hours 

PLUS Benefit screening of ‘Calamity 

Jane’ at the Filmhouse Sat 10th Feb 

1.30pm. 

Hostess: Miss Cilla Slack; guest 

appearance by Loud & Proud choir. 

Open to all. 

Tickets £8 (£5 conc) Box Office 0131- 

228 2688 www.waverleycare.org 

Edinburgh Film House 

Celluloid Closet Sat 3rd Feb 3.30pm. 

www.filmhousecinema.com 

Edinburgh LGBT Volunteering 

Opportunities 

The Lothian LGBT volunteer initiative 

includes LGBT Youth Scotland ‘Fusion’ - 

volunteering for young people 16-26; 

LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing; 

Gay Mens Health; Lothian Gay and 

Lesbian Switchboard, have teamed up 

with the Gay Police Association and 

Edinburgh Volunteer Centre, to bring you 

an open day to see what volunteer 

opportunities are available within the 

Lothians. 

This is your chance to give back to the 

LGBT community - although you do not 

have to be LGBT to volunteer. 

Sat 10th Feb 2-5pm at The LGBT Centre 

for Health and Wellbeing, Howe Street 

Edinburgh. 

Out of the bedroom – Out of the Closet 

Calling all musicians, singer/songwriters, 

poets, comedians and storytellers! 

Out of the Bedroom, Edinburgh’s leading 

open mic night for original songwriters 

is proud to announce that it will be 

holding a special night in support of 

LGBT History Month, entitled “Out of the 

Closet”. 

This will be held at The Canon’s Gait Bar 

(232 Canongate) on Tue 20th Feb. 

If you are a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or 

Transgender performer, or are simply 

someone who wishes to perform in 

order to show your support for the LGBT 

communities and acknowledge their rich 

history, then they want to hear from you! 

The normal Out of the Bedroom rules 

will be relaxed on this night, which 

means they’ll allow playing covers, 

poetry, standup comedy and storytelling 

on top of the usual original music! You 

may also book a slot in advance. They 

can’t guarantee the length of slots at the 

moment, but we hope to give everyone 

who wishes to perform the chance to do 

so. To book a slot in advance, please 

contact James at 

bigjim@outofthebedroom.co.uk 

Planet Out Bar 

4 dedicated pub quizzes every Monday 

in February 7.30pm, at the fun and 

friendly LGBT Bar at Baxter’s Place 

Edinburgh. 

For the Planet Out listing turn to the 

Edinburgh page. 

The Metropolitan Community Church 

They are a Christian Church that seeks to 

offer a safe and affirming space where 

all can worship God and explore their 

faith, irrespective of sexuality or gender 

identity. 

As part of the international Metropolitan 

Community Churches movement, they 

grew up within the lesbian, gay, bisexual 

and transgender community. They have 

been worshipping together in Edinburgh 

since July 1995. 

The MCC is excited to announce the first 

of four special services around the 

themes of LGBT History, including: 

Queer heroes in the Bible 

The history of the Metropolitan 

Community Church 

Our hope for the future 

The Metropolitan Community Church is 

an open and affirming community where 

all are welcome, regardless of Faith, 

sexual orientation or gender identity. If 

you would like to find out more, please 

contact Jake, or visit the MCC website 

details below. 

www.mccedinburgh.com 

Services will be held at The Augustine 

Church, George IV Bridge Sundays 6- 

7.30pm 

The Caledonian Thebans RFC 

LGBT History Quiz Night on Tue 27th Feb 

at 7pm at Deep Blue. £2 per person. All 

money raised will go to charity 

Contact Kade Moncrieff on 07758 

668784 or 

E-mail: membership@thebans-rfc.co.uk 

Everyone is welcome to come along to 

this not-too-serious quiz on LGBT 

people, things and events. Grab a few 

friends and come and share your 

knowledge, learn stuff you never knew, 

have laugh and raise some money for 

charity. 

Prizes will be awarded to the winning 

team. Maximum 5 people per team. 

Teams can be made up on the night. 

Breathing Space Day 

www.breathingspacescotland.co.uk 

Thu 1st Feb. 

LGBT Youth Scotland staff have an LGBT 

History Walk from the work of the 

Remember When Project, which 

highlights key LGBT places around 

Edinburgh. The walks vary from half 

hour to an hour and can be found at 

www.rememberwhen.org.uk 

Various schools have signed up to 

incorporate LGBT History Month into 

their curriculum. LGBT Youth Scotland 

are delivering classroom lessons which 

looks to challenge heterosexism and 

homophobia. 

Youth Scotland 

YS will have a stall and exhibition at their 

youth services conference. 

There will be a LGBT History Month Stall 

and information at this great 

conference.at the Hilton Hotel on Thu 

22nd Feb 9.30am – 4.30pm 

The second Would You Credit It? 

Conference will be held in Feb 2007 

focusing on accrediting young people’s 

achievement in non-formal education. 

www.youthscotland.org.uk 

This year’s theme is Peer Education and 

includes a case study workshop and 

presentation from the Peer Education 

Project in Dundee. 

Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard 

Ceilidh and Carnival Sun 18th Feb, 8pm- 

1am at the Assembly Rooms, George 

Street, Edinburgh. www.lgls.co.uk cost - 

£15. 

Polygender 

This is a new group for people who step 

outwith traditional gender roles Thu 8th 

Feb, 7-9pm at the LGBT Centre for 

Health and Wellbeing. 

www.lgbthealth.org.uk. 

Heriot Watt University 

The Uni will showcase posters and 

information throughout the whole 

campus regarding historical characters 

for all of Feb. www.hwusa.org 

Telford College 

The College Union is to have an internal 

awareness raising event. 

Volunteer Centre Edinburgh 

Volunteer Centre Edinburgh is 

supporting LGBT History Month by 

showcasing volunteering opportunities 

from the local LGBT Volunteering 

Initiative. A dedicated display of 

opportunities will be on a specially made 

display in the centre throughout Feb and 

everyone is welcome to come in to have 

look and find out more about what’s 

available and how to get involved. 

45 Queensferry St. Lane, Edinburgh, EH2 

4PF. 0131-225 0630. 

www.volunteeredinburgh.org.uk 

E-mail: 

admin@volunteeredinburgh.org.uk 

Mon, Tue and Wed: 9am-5pm. 

Thu: 9am-6pm. Fri: 9am-4pm. 

Falkirk 

Museum girls outreach group - 

discussing and designing LGBT 

costumes as part of their project and to 

celebrate LGBT History Month 

Museum staff will have an informal 

discussion group. 

Fife 

Fife LGBT Youth Group will host two 

LGBT History Month workshops 

including an 

Anne Frank exhibition. 

Glasgow 

Bus Campaign - 15 headliners on inside 

of buses Mon 22nd Jan - Wed 28th Feb. 

Let us know if you spot the adverts. 

ann.marriott@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

FILM: A Soap (En Soap) 

Tue 20th Feb at 6pm GFT 

The whole world seems hungry for a 

regular fix of soap opera but what 

happens when you take a different 

approach to the sex, lies and silly 

storylines of such television staples? 

That’s what Pernille Fischer Christensen 

has done in this emotional tale that 

follows a young woman who dumps her 

boyfriend and moves into a grotty flat 

where her neighbours include a lonely 

pre-op transsexual who spends his days 

watching television soaps and servicing 

gentleman callers. 

FILM: The Blossoming Of Maximo 

Oliveros 

(Ang Pagdadalaga Ni Maximo Oliveros) 

Thu 22nd Feb at 6pm CCA 

In the slums of Sampaloc, twelve yearold 

Maximo is a budding drag queen 

who tends house for his father and two 

older brothers. The family is mired in 

crime but the older men are protective 

towards him. Then handsome, devout 

Christian Victor joins the local police 

force. Maximo develops a huge crush on 

him and the affection appears to be 

mutual. The torn loyalties and broken 

hearts that ensue form the basis of an 

extraordinary warm, complex and deeply 

moving melodrama. 

FILM: The Dying Gaul 

Sun 18th at 8.45pm GFT 

Playwright Craig Lucas (Longtime 

Companion, Prelude To A Kiss) makes a 

stylish directorial debut with this twisted 

tale of secrets and betrayals. Grieving 

screenwriter Robert has written a 

brilliant script inspired by his lover’s 

recent death from AIDS. A film executive 

offers to buy it for a million dollars on 

one condition; Robert must agree to 

make the love story heterosexual. The 

temptation becomes unbearable 

especially when the glamorous film 

executive and his wife prove to be so 

seductive. 

FILM: Summer In Berlin (Sommer vorm 

Balkon) 

Fri 23rd Feb at 8.45 GFT 

One of the most admired directors in 

current German cinema, Andreas Dresen 

tells a touching tale of the friendship that 

binds two women through the tough 

times they endure in the reunified Berlin. 

Nike (Uhl) is a nurse in an old folks’ 

home. Katrin (Friedrich) is devoted to 

her teenage son Max. When Nike 

embarks on a doomed relationship with 

a trucker, Katrin turns to drink to blot out 

the traumas of her life. The result is a 

gentle, compassionate study of the 

extraordinary drama in ordinary lives. 

FILM: The Wayward Cloud (Tian Bian Yi 

Duo Yun) 

Wed 21st Feb at 8.15pm CCA 

Taiwan has been hit by an acute drought, 

the citizens are hot and horny and 

finding uses for watermelons that you 

had never thought possible. Porn star 

Lee bathes in the rooftop water tank of 

his apartment block. Chen has just 

returned from Paris and cannot open her 

suitcase. Survival is hard but loneliness 

is even more difficult to bear in this 

amazingly idiosyncratic love story 

featuring explicit sex scenes and some 

of the campest musical numbers since 

Busby Berkeley retired. A cult in the 

making. 

City of Glasgow 

Civic Reception at the City Chambers - 

hosted by Liz Cameron. Mon 26th Feb. 

Please contact 

ann.marriott@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

Glasgow LGBT Centre 

The Glasgow LGBT Centre has been on 

Dixon Street for 10 years. 

This month the Centre celebrates the 

development and history of all the 

groups who have met there and grown 

with the centre. 

The Centre is due to move in Mar, so 

this is the perfect opportunity for groups 

to come together and celebrate their 

diverse history. 

All groups are being asked to create a 

timeline of their groups development 

which will be exhibited throughout the 

Centre. 

There will also be an LGBT History quiz, 

Karaoke, a fashion show, a look at LGBT 

symbols and Polari. 

Contact ann.marriott@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

for more information or go to 

www.glgbt.org.uk 

Vivid Youth 

Every Tue 6.30-9pm 

Vivid Youth is the busy, vibrant youth 

service in Glasgow. Held at The LGBT 

Centre – Dixon Street. 

At each meeting this month there will be 

links to LGBT History - in the form of 

story telling, awareness raising and 

research - learning about our historical 

journeys - from Stonewall to the current 

legislation. 

Lots of lovely people to hang out with, 

new friends to be made and guaranteed 

enjoyment. 

Contact seamus.kealey@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

www.lgbtyouth.org.uk 

Metropolitan Community Church 

Wed 21st Feb 7pm at the Glasgow 

Quaker Meeting House. Please contact 

Jake, or go to www.mccedinburgh.com 

Glasgow Women Library 

Hidden Histories, Hidden Lives 

Tue 27th Feb 6.30pm 

Genevieve Curran, Lesbian Resource 

Worker, Glasgow Women’s Library, 81 

Parnie St. 

Genevieve Curran will lead a session for 

Women Make History on the often 

overlooked histories of lesbians and will 

delve into the rich heritage to be found 

in GWL own Lesbian Treasure Trove. 

The event is free. 

www.womenslibrary.org.uk 

Act It OUT 

This is a piece of forum theatre 

performed by young peer educators in 

Glasgow to raise awareness and 

informally educate other young people. 

www.healthygayscotland.com 

Cocktales 

Cocktales is a cartoon based resource 

with information about healthy lifestyles 

for men who have sex with men. 

Contact 

pamela.clocherty@lgbtyouth.org.uk for 

more information. 

www.healthygayscotland.com 

Our Story Scotland 

Display of materials at the People’s 

Palace – Glasgow Fri 16th Feb – Sun 

25th Mar in the Winter Garden. 

A recognised Scottish Charity. We 

collect, archive and present the life 

stories and experiences of the LGBT 

(lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender) 

community in Scotland. 

This involves oral history work with all 

ages, including the older generation, 

whose stories reveal the tremendous 

changes that have occurred in the 

situation of LGBT people during their 

lifetime. In addition to collecting stories, 

images, artefacts and research materials 

from LGBT lives, we present our heritage 

through the arts, in exhibitions, 

storytelling and drama. 

www.ourstoryscotland.org.uk 

Highlands 

Knoydart - screening of 2 films at Village 

Hall. 

Elgin - screening of Beautiful Thing at 

Youth Cafe. 

Inverness 

LGBT Forum - 2 coffee mornings and 

storytelling. 

Social gathering with the Forum and 

guests. 

Council Meeting dedicated to History 

Month. 

Highland Disco at Raigmore. 

Terrence Higgins Trust - exhibition and 

awareness raising. 

Metropolitan Community Church - 

spiritual event Sat 17th Feb at THT. 

St Andrews 

University Events -TBC 

Stirling 

University events TBC 

Council - meeting with History Month 

focus 

West Lothian 

Youth events at West Lothian Youth 

Action Project by LGBT Youth Scotland. 

Contact 

Daniel.winstanley@lgbtyouth.org.uk 

Thu 1st Feb – Polari and guest expert on 

LGBT History 7-9pm. 

15th Feb - Galey Caighley planning – an 

evening of LGBT Anthems form 

throughout the years 7-9pm. 

Thanks to Ann Marriott 



Breaking Up 

How to do it... and how not to 

lifestyle 

Mark Corrigan 

mark@scotsgay.co.uk 

Let’s be honest, at some point we 

have all dumped somebody in a 

horrific and insensitive manner, 

and we walk away from the debris 

with a slight shackle of guilt but no 

real perspective on the 

repercussions of our actions. 

However, there are certain ways 

that are socially acceptable to dump 

someone. I’m an advocate of the old 

fashioned face to face meeting in 

public. The reason is simple. A one on 

one meeting can lower the risk of a 

dramatic scene, which allows an 

amount of dignity to be retained by 

both parties. Shrewd perhaps, but 

believe me, a dumped gay boy can be 

like a tiger backed into a corner. It’s 

best to do it in the open so if he does 

attack there are witnesses. The premise 

is that he is too concerned with his 

image management to damage a well 

groomed reputation by lashing out in 

a public environment. Even a phone 

call, though still impersonal, can grant 

some form of closure. 

However there are specific ways 

you should never be dumped, like the 

cowardly fashion of, let’s say, via a text 

message. “I need some space so I’m going 

away. I think if we see each other things will 

be said that neither of us means, I can’t give 

you what you want. I’m sorry…” 

As I read this text my body is 

rendered frozen with fear and anxiety. 

It was as if an octopus had clambered 

up my body and with icy tendrils, 

numbed each limb and turned my 

stomach like a tombola, only there 

was no prize winning raffle to pull 

out, just that sense of utter loss and 

uselessness. 

So this is what it feels like to get 

dumped. ‘Wow, this kinda hurts…’ 

I read somewhere, I believe it was 

in the Metro newspaper (a guilty 

indulgence relished by the intellectual 

anarchist in me and reviled by the 

Times reading ponce I often portray in 

polite society), that every person 

should be subject, at least once in their 

lives to the ritual of the involuntary 

break-up. Also known as getting 

dumped, chucked, rejected or flung, 

whichever terminology you choose, it 

makes no difference to the person at 

the receiving end. 

So was it true that everybody 

should be dumped at least once in 

their lives? This was my first 

experience of being dumped, hence the 

birth of this article. 

I hope that dumpers everywhere 

can understand their actions, and the 

dumpees can find some solace and 

understand that they are not alone - 

that their pain is not significant to 

just them, but is shared by everyone 

that has found themselves in that 

situation. 

For those of you that have never 

had the misfortune of being on the 

receiving end of the barbed dumping 

stick, here are a few insights into how 

it feels to be handed your P45 and told 

that your current employment as the 

world’s happiest man has been 

terminated with immediate effect. 

It’s like the world has been swept 

from beneath your feet, and you find 

yourself vulnerable and exhausted 

with angst. In those dark moments 

you don’t realise that an enemy 

approaches, his name is Denial. He 

has decided to 

be your pimp 

and you find 

yourself broken 

at his feet 

begging to be 

his bitch, so as 

not to face the 

reality that the 

person you 

think you love 

has rejected 

you. 

Denial is 

the tool of the desperate fantasist that 

is unwilling or unable to acknowledge 

reality. In his most wicked game, 

Denial makes you believe that you can 

surmount the insurmountable and 

claim back your prize man with crazy 

romantic gestures that they don’t 

want or understand, and fail to even 

acknowledge. 

Your lame and ill informed 

attempts to win him back eventually 

drive that no good pimp daddy Denial 

out (along with any sense of dignity 

that you had left), and reality sets in 

with a ball tugging, arse fisting 

painful and 

devastating 

truth. You’ve 

lost. 

As sad as 

that story may 

be, I plead that 

you restrain 

those tears 

because once 

defeat has been 

grudgingly 

accepted, we 

find that we can actually continue to 

live beyond the bubble of dreamy 

existence we made for ourselves whilst 

in a relationship. And herein lays the 

tragedy, it’s not that the bubble has 

burst but rather in the uncertainty of 

what is beyond the illusion we created. 

We then reflect and mourn our 

loss. The memories you can’t drive 

out, no matter how willing to help our 

old friends are, such as Class A’s and 

that favourite Eastern European 

immigrant, Smirnoff. (Now you’re 

talking my language - Ed.) 

“A dumped gay boy 

can be like a tiger 

backed into a corner. 

It’s best to do it in the 

open so if he does 

attack there’s 

witnesses. ” 

“Would I get back 

with my ex? 

I would rather have a 

wank in the desert 

with broken glass as 

lubricant, thank you 

very much! ” 

The repercussions of being a 

dumpee vary from person to person, 

some people see their ex in everyone’s 

faces, every love song heard in a bar 

can be made to find meaning to an 

aspect of your failed partnership. You 

may go for walk or sit in the park to 

be away from the flat and its 

reminders of the happier times spent 

with your estranged. You seem to be 

bombarded with visual torment of 

jovial couples taking strolls, engaging 

in public displays of affection and 

generally rubbing your face in their 

bile-inducing 

bliss. Upon 

seeing them, 

you find 

personal insult 

in their 

happiness, 

adding to an 

already 

overfilled pot of 

emotional 

turmoil that is 

flirting with the 

idea of erupting. 

Why are they everywhere? There is 

an explanation. Now I’m no theorist, 

but bear with me on this. In 

EastEnders, when the character Sonia 

Jackson handed her child to the 

adoption authorities, she quickly 

regretting her decision, runs to Albert 

Square’s thriving market place and 

what happens? Lo and behold loving 

mothers and their babies pop-up in all 

directions as if to taunt our 

protagonist. How very insensitive I 

hear you cry. The law of the soap 

dictates that when you have lost 

something and you desperately want it 

back, the 

protagonist will 

have to endure 

being 

confronted with 

what they 

themselves have 

lost and we as 

viewers are 

along for the 

sadistic ride. 

This law could 

be applied to 

almost every scenario of loss in the 

soap. Anyway, my point is that when 

we have lost something sacred to us, 

we will find the echoes of it 

everywhere we look. It’s a way of 

tormenting ourselves, part of our 

destructive and self critical nature. I 

found I broke myself down in every 

way, analysed my character to the 

point that there was no more to 

antagonise. I was the lowest I could be 

until I realised there was nothing I 

could do or change about myself and 

that it wasn’t my entire fault. 

I had been dumped by a text 

message, and therefore the 

relationship ended like a severed limb, 

messy with bits still clinging on. But 

in just a manner of weeks and a few rebound 

bonks later (I use the word few 

liberally as I actually mean lots), I 

found the wounds I was licking began 

to close. 

Some people need to feel pain in 

order to feel at all. Often a boyfriend 

will take their anxieties out on you 

because they aren’t equipped to deal 

with their own problems or issues. You 

may find yourself a scapegoat for 

insecurities that should, could and 

may have been resolved had you 

worked together. If you put the effort 

in and they still rejected you, you can 

walk away from the debris unashamed 

of your actions and with enough 

dignity to be proud that you were the 

one that tried. I take great solace that I 

know who I am and I don’t need a 

man to complete me, a school of 

thought which is the product of being 

dumped. 

It is a strange sensation to see how 

the other half lives. I have friends that 

get dumped all the time and they cope 

just fine. I expect it is because they 

don’t allow themselves to invest their 

emotions too readily. Consider that a 

lesson learned. I suspect getting 

dumped for the first time is rather like 

getting tonsillitis: when it first strikes 

it sneaks up and wipes you out, but 

the second round you sense it coming 

prepare yourself. 

Which brings me full circle to my 

conclusion that a person should be 

dumped at least once in their life. I 

find myself reluctant to agree but I’m 

afraid I have to. The lessons learned 

are tools that are important to grasp. I 

can’t say that I’m happy to have been 

dumped, but it certainly has made me 

stronger and more focused about the 

kind of future I want for myself. Use 

the pain and shame of your mistakes 

to drive you forward and don’t dwell 

on the pettiness of revenge - as the 

best vengeance is to do well in your 

endeavours; prove your abilities only 

to yourself. 

If you were to ask me now, would 

I get back with my ex if the 

opportunity arose, my reply would be 

simple - I would rather have a wank in the 

desert with broken glass as lubricant, thank 

you very much! 

There are no hard feelings and we 

are still good friends but I know more 

about myself post relationship than I 

did whilst in one. I’m taking my 

experience and moving on from this 

point. 

I’ve learned a valuable lesson, 

albeit harshly, but God damn I’m 

grateful I’ve learned it young. 



THE VAGINA 

MONOLOGUES 

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The march of the militant prudes 

mediamonitor 

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garry@scottishmediamonitor.com 

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Are Scots finally cool with sex? Last 

September in Edinburgh the 

Scottish National Gallery of 

Modern Art managed to erect 

photographs of Robert 

Mapplethorpe’s depictions of S&M 

sex. 

His floral portraits had his camera 

touching on every wet, vulva-like lip 

and crevice of the ovary and dribbled 

tantalisingly along the flesh-like 

stamen of each magnificent floral 

erection, poised in various states of 

sexual arousal without a hint of 

outrage. Moral conservatives ran out 

of the necessary steam to lay their 

concerns on the laps of Catholic 

reporters in the Scottish press. 

And there was more! Po-faced 

monarchs were brushed aside at the 

National Portrait Gallery in 

Edinburgh recently to show two-floors 

of naked flesh. (Adults could 

accompany children under 12). An 

excited art historian, Professor 

Duncan MacMillan, enthused in The 

Sunday Times Scotland: “Standards 

have changed so much that shows like The 

Naked Portrait are perfectly possible. The 

types of images which people see on the 

television and in the newspapers are 

scandalous compared to 30 years ago. The 

nude has lost its power to shock.” 

Hmm! Open the pages of selfprofessed 

Glasgow-based “family 

newspaper”, The Sunday Mail and 

dip into ‘safe’ gay, home-crimping TV 

guru’s, Justin and Colin’s ‘Right at 

Home’ supplement. Readers, over 

Christmas, were assailed by the sight 

of an advert featuring (gasp)! a naked 

man running into the sea. Steady 

though! A quarter-of-an-inch of naked 

backside was blacked out. It promoted 

the delights of buying overseas 

property with Let’s Live Abroad! in a 

country where its prime minister, José 

Luis Rodríguez Zapatero stuck two 

fingers up at the Catholic Church to 

guarantee equality to all its citizens, 

where there are naked beaches all 

along its coasts and erotic mags are for 

sale in corner shops alongside Haribo 

sweeties. All the same, this is clearly 

not the sort of crack Glaswegians like! 

Censorship is frequently covert 

and disceptive. When the ad was due 

to appear on Glasgow’s buses, agency 

Viacom quietly hinted to Let’s Live 

Abroad! they might want to cover the 

sight of this exposed bottom with a 

wee pair of trunks, thereby passing 

onto the company the responsibility of 

censoring. A good first option. When 

Let’s Live Abroad! threatened instead 

to expose the censorship with a black 

patch and the word ‘CENSORED’ 

clearly written across it, the story was 

picked up by Glasgow’s Evening 

Times. Viacom backed down, the 

swimmer wriggled out of his 

PhotoShop trunks and Glasgow lived 

to see another day. 

On Scotland’s new found liberties, 

The Sunday Times Scotland’s Gillian 

Bowditch was also in a frenzied state 

of celebration in Stirling. Vodkafuelled 

juices were surging amongst a 

few hundred other lustful females to 

watch a theatre production of ‘The 

Foolmonty’. With a healthy amount of 

sexual energy and not afraid of it, Ms 

Bowditch enjoyed watching a bunch of 

builders, having devested themselves 

of their jackets incrested with the logo 

of Stirling Council’s building services 

department, prancing around in 

nothing more than Jimmy bunnets 

and G-strings. Well, OK, the line-up 

was 44 year old, 16 stone John Ewing; 

25 year old, 14 stone Chris McFadden; 

38 year old, 17 stone Alan Morrison; 

24 year old, 12 stone Andrew Wilson 

and 47 year old, 26 stone brickie Jim 

Berry, but it’s a start! 

And aren’t we proud of Scottish 

rugby champ, Sean Lamont who 

graces one of Stade Français’s famous 

‘Dieux du Stade’ nude calendars? “It is 

a pose that would have been unthinkable in 

the macho world of Scottish rugby a decade 

ago”, declared a surpringly upbeat 

Gillian Bowditch. 

Surprisingly, it’s not so much 

naked pleasure as moral censorship 

that appears to be the subject of 

discussion over cups of tea and 

Creamed Fancies back at Glasgow’s 

LGBT Centre. Directors Gordon Pike, 

Alastair Smith, Jean Monaghan, 

Gladys Paterson and their manager, 

Ruth Black make an altogether 

different line-up. According to her 

profile on the Glasgow LGBT Centre’s 

website, Ms Black is a mother. She also 

has a daughter and a 13-year-old son. 

You can also read about this in 

CentrePoint, their magazine which 

she edits. She also runs a lesbian 

mothers’ group here. You can read 

about that too. As the Centre’s 

manager, she is also quite vocal about 

banning Scotland’s longest-running 

gay magazine, ScotsGay from all parts 

of the Centre, including its café; a 

punishment not even considered for 

The Daily Record whose 

homophobic credentials matched Der 

Stürmer during the repeal of the 

notorious Section 28. “We consider the 

sexual content of (ScotsGay) inappropriate 

for the Centre,” she told this magazine. 

“We have to take into account that people as 

young as thirteen are using the place”. 

I suppose we should be thankful 

she decided not to torch them like 

copies of Jahrbuch fur Sexuelle 

Zwischenstufen in front of Berlin’s 

‘gay centre’ in 1933. Frankly, there’s 

not much else in the way of precedents 

when it comes to gay centre’s banning 

gay magazines. As one of the Centre’s 

users told me. “One day, ScotsGay just 

wasn’t there!” Director, Alastair Smith, 

working in the café, was dismissive. 

“We’ve got to consider all users of the 

Centre”. He too does not approve of 

adverts from sex workers and explicit 

personal ads (which, compared to gay 

magazines like QX, distributed freely 

around London, might’ve been 

penned by Beatrix Potter). As one 

Centre user told me: “Pinch yourself. 

You’re not dreaming. It’s 2007 and we have 

the equivalent of Glasgow’s publicly-funded 

gay centre run by Mrs Valerie Riches’s 

Family and Youth Concern! Halle-fuckinglujah”! 

ScotsGay’s publisher, John Hein 

has been more circumspect: “I have no 

objection to minors using the place as long 

as adults aren’t asked to change their 

behaviour to accommodate the hangups of 

their parents”. 

Also based in Glasgow, The 

Scottish Daily Mail have been 

running a campaign, whipping up 

incitement to hatred of gays. (“NOW 

GAYS ARE GIVEN RIGHTS TO 

CHILDREN. Children from broken homes 

will be sent to live with gay couples…”; 

“Now the Tartan Army face their biggest 

opponent yet after football fans became the 

latest group to be targeted by the gay rights 

lobby” and “Gay agenda in the NHS is a 

sick joke” etc., etc). This was part of a 

campaign orchestrated by militant 

religionists to draw attention to their 

efforts seeking exemption from 

equality legislation. So-called ‘equality’ 

minister Ruth Kelly – a member of the 

sinister Catholic Opus Dei 

organisation – buckled under the 

pressure. What The Scottish Daily 

Mail journalists will make of 

Glasgow’s LGBT Centre’s latest 

contribution to gay culture will be 

anyone’s guess. I can imagine them 

banging their sticks on their 

Axminster, spluttering about the 

politically-correct gay lobby banning 

their gay magazines from their own 

publicly-funded premises before 

bemoaning the loss of Tennents Lager 

Lovelies and all that Scotland stood 

for. What a laugh! And it is… Funny. 

Almost. 

Ruth Black’s (hopefully brief) 

soirées into sexual politics found her 

siding with The Scottish Daily Mail’s 

notoriously militant Catholic 

propagandist, ‘home affairs editor’, 

Graham Grant: “Gay rights MSPs accept 

award named after child-sex monster”. The 

award was given to Green MSP Patrick 

Harvie and Lib Dem MSP Margaret 

Smith. The award commemorates the 

late Ian Dunn who has been 

continuely crucified by the media for 

co-founding and offering a post restante 

address for the seventies pædophile 

organisation, the Pædophile 

Information Exchange, (PIE). Some 

members of PIE went on to be charged 

with “corrupting public morals” for 

attempting to change the law. Ian 

Dunn has been recognised for 

founding the Scottish Minorities 

Group which campaigned successfully 

to legalise homosexuality in Scotland. 

Tapping into that old ‘friends in high 

places’ chestnut, Grant’s ‘report’ 

feared “revelations that MSPs have 

received the awards will fuel concerns over 

links between gay campaign groups and 

Holyrood”. 

Grant added: “In 1997, (Ian Dunn) 

condemned police over a camera 

surveillance operation in public toilets in 

Stirling which led to several gay men being 

charged – even though the investigation also 

revealed that some men had sex with a 13- 

year-old”. 

Mr Grant forgot to mention that 

police were happy to stand by and 

watch this gay youth pick up men in 

this way during his summer holidays 

so they could secure 11 arrests which 

resulted in three attempted suicides, 

two of which were ultimately 

successful. Ruth Black’s extraordinary 

contibution to the story was: “Anything 

that sexualises the gay community in this 

way is unhelpful”. 

Excuse me? We are sexualised 

from the moment we open our gay 

mouths and I am in no hurry to be desexualised! 

Grant insisted: “Last month, 

MSPs pushed through laws allowing gay 

adoption, despite the Executive’s own 

consultation showing that 90 per cent of 

Scots were against it”. 

When was this? I’m sorry, but that 

was a referendum I must’ve missed! In 

the same paper on another page, the 

tireless Graham Grant went on to 

suggest the huge influx of Catholicvoting 

Poles would “punish Labour 

candidates for their ‘anti-family’ policies at 

the Holyrood elections”. Not so fast, 

matey! Catholic militants are selfishly 

putting their interests before those of 

children by blackmailing the 

Government, theatening to close all its 

adoption agencies if it doesn’t grant 

them opt-outs from equality 

legislation. Even the most stupid can 

now see the importance of secularism 

in government! With the Scottish 

media having suffocated under the 

powerful grip of religion for so long, it 

is indeed refreshing to see the door 

now wide open to leave comments 

under their stories on the Internet. 

Militant religionists are being 

challenged by a burgeoning secularism 

like I’d never have thought possible! I 

hope the politicians are sitting up and 

taking notice! At last, we are a 

majority! 

Unlike ScotsGay, The Sunday 

Mail still enjoys a place in the Centre 

for visitors to enjoy its moral 

chastisements. From the same stable 

as The Daily Record, its content has 

consistently challenged sexual 

openess. “MAKE PORN A HATE 

CRIME”, headlined political editor, 

Brian Lironi’s piece of self-flagellation 

over a “sex abuse summit” planned for 

February. It was an opportunity 

militant feminists would be exploiting 

to ensure mens’ magazines were pulled 

off newsagent’s shelves for good. 

Described without compunction by 

Lironi as “Scotland’s leading experts”, 

they were none other than the 

notorious Scottish Women Against 

Pornography (SWAP) led by Catherine 

Harper of the Scottish Women’s 

Coalition. She told The Sunday Mail: 

“The message of all pornography is that 

women secretly wish to be raped and abused 

and enjoy the treatment they receive. We 

view pornography as sexual hatred in the 

same way racist material is regarded as 

incitement to racial hatred… It is about 

providing a more equal society and a safer 

place for women and children”. To grasp 

the amount of debate that we can 

expect going into this nonsense, we 

can take The Mail’s quote from Elaine 

Smith MSP as read: “We need to hear 

from academics who work in this field 

about whether they think pornography is 

harmful and how serious a problem it might 

be. We don’t expect any of them to say it is a 

good thing so the next question will be what 

we can do about it”. 

Game set and match to the ladies 

in the pinched whalebone corsets, 

then! 

The last thing Scotland needs is 

more censorship. And certainly not in 

a space set aside for the very people 

who have been the most damaged by 

inappropriate moral adjudications and 

misguided prudery. So enjoy ScotsGay 

while you can; if you can get it. It 

might not exactly be your cup of tea. 

But at least it’s free. In more ways than 

one! 

www.scottishmediamonitor.com 

www.secularism.org.uk 


(to post comments and views on our blog) 

Garry Otton is a former ScotsGay columnist, 

author of ‘Sexual Fascism’ and forthcoming 

book ‘Badge of Shame’, examining the 

repeal of Section 28 in Scotland. 



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Aberdeen guy, 40 years, looking 

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WOMEN 

Velvet – Edinburgh 

Having a wee get together with 

some girls at our flat in Leith 

before Velvet on Sat 3rd Feb. Let 

us know if you fancy coming 

along. SG73101. 

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 SG73102. 

Blokes For Blokes With Big 

Boobs 

A big sleazy pair of masculine 

skinheads in Brighton sniffing 

around for hot sweaty action with 

stocky masculine kinky types into 

mansmells. Fancy a pair of 

exceptionally big but real breasts 

on a butch bloke? Very masculine 

here. Like what we can smell, 

offer mega udders with manmeat 

and discreet. Box SG73103. 

Are You There? 

Male 51, tall, educated and fit, 

would like to meet younger male, 

20-35, for in and out of doors 

excitement. Can accommodate. 

Box SG73106. 

1-2-1 in Lanarkshire/Glasgow 

Gay guy, 33, slim smooth build, 

5’8” ,dark hair/dark eyes, average 

okay looks, seeks taller non 

smoking guy who has similar 

interests, which are travelling, 

DVDs, Cinema, pubs, clubs, going 

out for meals etc. (24-40). 

Box SG73104. 

Looking For Fun Times! 

50 years young and seeking gay 

times with older or younger! Not 

fussed! I’m into admiring tight 

shorts and pants - are you? Please 

get in touch. Box SG73105. 

Relaxed And Open 

Gentle, kind, easygoing older 

gentleman, seeks similar younger 

lad. I like to laugh, and I’ll always 

be able to make you smile. I love 

to cook. No strings - just good 

friends with pleasant benefits. Box 

SG73107. 

Active Guy 

53, 5’7”, non scene, seeks a 

friendly, passive guy, 21-70+, with 

a nice smooth firm bottom, for 

lasting fun and friendship. I live in 

the Glasgow area, but could travel 

for right person. Box SG73108. 

Long Hair Good 

Any young guys with long hair 

into older guys? Get in touch! Box 

SG73123. 

Looking For Younger Guy To 

Spoil 

Hi, I am 40 years old, run my own 

business and work hard, now I 

want to play. I’m looking for a 

younger guy for fun and want to 

spoil him. Box SG73109. 

Edinburgh - Glasgow - Central 

Scotland 

Dirty old man (48) looking for 

young guy (16-21) with enough 

imagination to guess the purpose 

for which he is being sought! Box 

SG73110. 

Totally Passive Guy 

I am looking for totally active guys 

only. I’m aged 65, 5’8”, vegetarian, 

smoke a pipe, don’t drink. I’m also 

a pet lover. Box SG73111. 

I Need A Social Life! 

Gay guy, 47, seeks same for 

outings and companionship. I like 

going to theatres, cinemas and 

meals out. I would prefer a stocky 

bloke, but anyone interested in 

having a mate for a beer and a 

laugh would be most welcome to 

apply. I stress that at the moment 

I am only looking for 

companionship, but that does not 

mean to say that a long term 

relationship might not develop in 

the future. All letters answered. 

Box SG73112. 

New Year Connection 

Glasgow based, mid 40’s, hairy, 

fit, genuine, non-smoker, seeks 

others into sharing, fitness and 

massage. You should be open 

minded, caring, 25+ into theatre, 

Celtic Connections events and 

interested in forming a social 

group. Box SG73124. 

Wanted: Sugar Daddy 

Slim longhaired hippy with sexy 

backside, would like to meet a 

caring sensitive person for 

fulfilling fun and games. Box 

SG73114. 

Glasgow Party Planner 

Party planner (50), fit and 

professional invites contact from 

those party animals interested in 

getting together for a sociable 

evening. Box SG73115. 

Edinburgh Pool Early 1970’s 

You next cubicle hairy and 

gorgeous. Me very young. You 

came in pretending to look for 

comb. Nothing happened but have 

spent a lifetime wishing it had. A 

long shot but are you out there? 

Box SG73116. 

Older Top Seeks Young Bottom 

Do you fancy older guys? This one 

is 49, 5’7”, ready to teach new 

nephew types 16-26 who are hot 

and willing to learn. Shy boys and 

any race welcome. Box SG73117. 

Come To Fife And Be Active 

Passive gent has a warm welcome 

for active, mildly dom guy. Nonsmoker. 

Enjoy cosy nights in until 

warmer clime means nude sunbathing 

and more. Box SG73118. 

Well Educated 

Gay male, 41, tall, slim, WE, 

looking for regular fun times and 

possibly more. I stay in the West 

End of Glasgow. I can travel or 

accommodate. Box SG73119. 

Edinburgh Encounters 

50-year-old Edinburgh man, fairhaired, 

slim and smooth, with nice 

bum that needs regular attention, 

would like to meet gay men, any 

age, interested in regular, mutually 

satisfying encounters. Whatever 

your interests - get in touch! Box 

SG73133. 

Please Take This Bear Home And 

Enjoy It! 

51 year old Paddington is looking 

for cub (16-26) to stroke. No 

strings. Can accommodate 

(Edinburgh) or travel. Box 

SG73126. 

Passive Seeks Active 

Passive fit guy, early 40’s, good 

sense of humour, 5’10”, slim and 

tidy, would like to meet active top 

for regular fun and friendship. I’m 

in the Glasgow, Lanarkshire area. I 

can accommodate. Discretion 

assured. Box SG73121. 

Friendship, Fun And Friction 

Passive lad, 36, reliable with good 

sense of humour, ultra clean, 5’9”. 

I seek a top 25-60. I can 

accommodate in Glasgow but I’m 

also prepared to travel to 

Edinburgh. Serious replies only. 

Box SG73122. 

Leather Sub Seeks Dom First 

Time 

37 year old leather sub seeks 

genuine first time with 

experienced dom master. I can 

travel and accommodate in 

Scotland. Looks and age 

unimportant but must be an 

experienced leather master. All 

genuine letters are answered. Box 

SG73113. 

East Coast Versatile Guy Seeks 

Fun 

Middle aged, versatile guy, seeks 

slim guys of any age for no 

strings fun. I can accommodate. 

Bisexual and married guys 

welcome. Discretion assured. All 

letters answered. Box SG73125. 

Up, Up And Away! 

Frequent Ryanair/easyJet traveller, 

50, seeks younger (16-25) 

companions for short jaunts 

abroad and in the UK. Don’t do the 

gay scene generally. More into 

local food, drink and culture. Also 

happy to go out for a pint or 

cinema/theatre in Edinburgh. Box 

SG73120. 

Honest Edinburgh Guy - HIV+ 

44, average build, good sense of 

humour, cropped hair (thinning), 

passive/versatile, like the cinema, 

music, theatre, travel and cats. I 

would like to meet friend, under 

50, to socialise with and enjoy 

fun… who knows? Cheers for 

reading! Box SG73127. 

Chubby Chaser In Glasgow Area 

Seeking guy 40+ preferably with 

body hair, but not essential. I’m 

40, non-scene and out. I can be 

top or bottom. I’m WE and can 

accommodate. Fun times or more 

with the right guy. Box SG73128. 

Ayrshire Male 

33, slim, 5’9”, dark hair, blue eyes, 

attractive with a good sense of 

humour. I’m looking for gay or bi 

guys of any age for fun and 

friendship within the area. All 

letters answered. Box SG73130. 

Dumfries Male Looking For My 

Love 

Caring male, 32, seeks male 18+ 

for long term relationship in the 

Dumfries and outer area. Must 

have a good sense of humour and 

be committed, although looks are 

not that important. Kindness is. 

Box SG73131. 

Seeking Asian Soulmate 

Edinburgh based, 41 year old, 

genuine and friendly, slim gay guy, 

seeks younger, slim Oriental/Asian 

guy for fun, good times and 

hopefully a meaningful 

relationship. Box SG73132. 

Submissive Powerlifter 

Part time rugby player seeks strict 

master, any age, any race, for long 

term relationship. Photo please. 

Glasgow/anywhere. Box SG73129. 

It All Comes Down To Friction In 

The End 

Cynical 49 year old seeks equally 

cynical 16-26 year old for fun and 

friendship. Strictly non scene. Box 

SG73134. 

BISEXUAL 

Fife Bisexual Male 

Male, 51, married, bi, 6’, own hair 

and teeth, not ugly not daft, 

weight in proportion. Seeks similar 

bi male, 35 to 45, for fun and 

friendship. Can travel. 

Beginner/curious/timewasters 

welcome. Box SG73135. 

Binding Commitment 

Bi guy (assertive) seeks 

submissive bi guy or TV for 

binding commitment with lashings 

of fun. Box SG73136. 

Looking For Fun In Glasgow 

Hi I’m looking for TV’s/cross 

dressers and general lovers of 

lingerie for no strings discreet fun. 

I’m 26, slim, athletic body and 

very, very horny. Box SG73137. 

Seeking Bi Couples 

I am 45, fit and bi with a defined 

physique. I’m looking for bicouples 

for mutual pleasure. 

Edinburgh/Anywhere. Box 

SG73138. 

Serious Athlete Seeks Partner 

Male, training hard, would like to 

meet male or preferably female 

motivational companions in the 

Edinburgh area. Council gyms 

only. Box SG73139. 

Sexy TV Seeks Male Admirer 

Corina, sexy, convincing blonde 

TV. 29 passive bisexual. Dresses 

to please in stockings and 

stilettos. I would like to meet 

active male for pleasure. 

Discretion assured. SAE for reply. 

Central. Photo at 

http://roses.repartee.tv/Personals. 

htm. Box SG73140. 

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 and can accommodate 

but will travel if required. Box 

SG73141. 

Retired Hippy 

50, looking for some love and 

affection from women and men of 

all ages. Box SG73142. 

STRAIGHT 

Edinburgh 

Friendly, fit, 50something silver 

bear, recently moved to 

Edinburgh, seeks morally relaxed 

women of all ages for fun and 

friendship. Box SG73143. 

. 

LOOKING FOR 

Kevin Jones – Edinburgh 

Missing since 16th Apr 2006. We 

really miss him. Please get in 

touch with Ray and his family or 

Fettes police. Box SG73144. 

Montrose 

Looking for a room to rent in 

Montrose. Gay male (38) 

professional, any offers 

considered. Box SG73145. 

Steamworks 

24th Nov 2006. You an engineer. 

We talked about working men. I 

left half way through. Would like 

to meet again. Box SG73146. 

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Cumbernauld Agency Requires 

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Models/Fungivers required. Age 

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[73a] 

Escorts Wanted 

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Contacts and friendships for older 

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A new free website for kilt wearers 

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5102). [99] 

Glasgow West End 

Sensual, therapeutic, friendly, head 

to toe massage. Slim, toned, 

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[73a] 

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Call Bill on 01577 830386. [73a] 

Massage For Men - Edinburgh 

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4643. [75] 

Massage Glasgow Area 

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01355 245708. [74a] 

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For the best full body, with head 

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WHERE TO STAY 

All New, All Gay Guesthouses - 

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Room rates: £29-£49 per night. 

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www.gayscotland.com/alvahouse 

[77] 

Penzance - Cornwall 

Small, gay-friendly, period hotel 

situated with own parking in town 

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www.cliffhotelpz.co.uk Tel: 

(01736) 368888. [99] 

Quality 4 Star Rated B&B Near To 

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Telephone Chris or Paul on 01463 

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