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Editorial<br />
What’s in this issue of <strong>ScotsGay</strong>?<br />
editorial<br />
Something unremarkable happened in New York on 27th June<br />
1969, an event that had taken place a thousand times before<br />
across the United States of America. The police raided a gay bar.<br />
But this time the drag queens, butch dykes, fags and<br />
prostitutes fought back. Thirty-eight years ago…<br />
Our annual Pride day commemorates a North American<br />
series of riots, which began in a Mafia run gay bar called the<br />
Stonewall Inn.<br />
‘We are the Stonewall girls<br />
We wear our hair in curls<br />
We wear no underwear<br />
We show our pubic hair...<br />
We wear our dungarees<br />
Above our nelly knees!’<br />
News of this fight back reverberated across the planet. To<br />
many, this is when the modern gay liberation movement was<br />
born. So to all the drag queens, transsexuals, dykes, poofs,<br />
queers and everyone else who paraded, protested and partied at<br />
Pride Scotia – we salute you. We hope you enjoy the Pride pics<br />
on our centre pages.<br />
Meanwhile in Russia, this year’s Pride event turned into… a<br />
riot. As we rightly congratulate ourselves on achieving some<br />
form of equality back home, many abroad are not so fortunate.<br />
Indeed LGBT people all over the planet suffer torture,<br />
imprisonment and death. In this issue, John Murphy looks at<br />
the plight of Eastern European gays and asks ‘What is to be<br />
done?’<br />
Also this month, Jodie Fleming poses some challenging<br />
questions about the butch/femme dynamic in the lesbian<br />
community. Stephen Mathieson interviews Amjeed Kabil, author of<br />
Straightening Ali. Tony Challis thinks about Christians and Blair. And<br />
we have all the scene reports from across Scotland including a<br />
bumper section from the Granite City with our new girl Lexi Lush<br />
and our old friend from g-zone, Andi Watson.<br />
Oh, and in case you haven’t noticed, we are now in colour…<br />
Martin Walker<br />
<strong>ScotsGay</strong>: a monthly magazine for LGBT folks and friends.<br />
<strong>ScotsGay</strong> 60/- Light (Scene Edition) appears at the end of even numbered months, whilst<br />
<strong>ScotsGay</strong> 80/- <strong>Heavy</strong> appears at the end of odd numbered months. ISSN: 1357-0595.<br />
Unless otherwise stated © Pageprint Publishing Limited, June 2007. PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7 5YW.<br />
Non profit use by the LGBT community of material in the magazine, to which we hold copyright,<br />
will normally be permitted free of charge, but you must contact us first for permission.<br />
Editorial<br />
Tel: 0131-4<strong>76</strong> 2713<br />
Fax: 0131-539 2999<br />
Advertising<br />
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Fax: 0131-539 2999<br />
Contact the editor - E-mail: editor@scotsgay.co.uk<br />
Got a story? - E-mail: newsdesk@scotsgay.co.uk<br />
Views expressed in <strong>ScotsGay</strong> don't necessarily reflect the views of <strong>ScotsGay</strong>.<br />
People featured in <strong>ScotsGay</strong> may indentify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, straight, or anything really.<br />
Editor/Designer Martin Walker<br />
Assistant Editor/Copy Proofer Jodie Fleming<br />
Writers Tony Challis, Malcolm Epstein, Dirk Kriete, Lexi Lush,<br />
Stephen Mathieson, John Murphy, Criz Nikalis, Beth Robinson,<br />
William Shakespeare, Andi Watson and Rex Wockner<br />
Publisher John Hein<br />
Cover Picture Mike, Astral and friend from Dundee LGBT Youth taken at Pride<br />
in Aberdeen in the Tunnels by Foundation Nightclub<br />
Web www.scotsgay.co.uk and www.myspace.com/scotsgaymagazine<br />
EDITED, PRINTED and PUBLISHED in SCOTLAND<br />
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