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If you've just picked up this copy<br />
of <strong>ScotsGay</strong>, you'll almost certainly<br />
be in the same place as some<br />
copies of the Pride Scotia 2005<br />
Guide - <strong>ScotsGay</strong> subscribers are<br />
having their copies posted out to<br />
them with this issue. However, if<br />
you can't find one and have<br />
access to the Internet, you can<br />
download a copy at<br />
http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/pdf/<br />
prideguide05.pdf<br />
But things have moved on just a<br />
little since the Pride Scotia Guide<br />
went to press.<br />
Firstly, we can confirm that the<br />
March will assemble at Noon in<br />
East Market Street (behind<br />
Waverley Station). For some reason,<br />
that wasn't made clear in the<br />
Guide! And secondly, we can<br />
announce that Phace Scotland will<br />
be holding their annual Pride<br />
Awards ceremony from 3pm at<br />
the Pride Scotia Health and<br />
Community Fair in eGo. These<br />
awards are given out each year to<br />
Whether you are buying or<br />
selling a house, need a Will<br />
drawn up, Investment Advice<br />
or are bereaved and need help<br />
winding up an estate and want<br />
a gay solicitor to do the work,<br />
call Donald Reid.<br />
19 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8HX<br />
Tel: 0131-228 2828<br />
Fax: 0131-228 2861<br />
E-mail: dr@vmh.co.uk<br />
Web Address: http://www.vmh.co.uk/<br />
– THE DAY APPROACHES<br />
folk who have done things for the<br />
LGBT community in Scotland and<br />
are always popular.<br />
Tickets are selling well for<br />
Ocean Pride - the massive Club<br />
Night being organised by Alan<br />
Joy down at Ocean Terminal in<br />
Leith which will feature top DJs<br />
from all the best gay pubs and<br />
clubs in Edinburgh. In addition to<br />
being available from Q Store, the<br />
Regent Bar and Habana, you can<br />
order your tickets online at<br />
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/<br />
(just type Ocean Pride into the<br />
Advanced Search facility) or<br />
there's a 24 hour telesales number:<br />
08700 600100.<br />
The AIDS Quilt Exhibition at St<br />
George's West Church is also all<br />
go with the quilts being shown for<br />
the first time in ten years in<br />
Scotland. A good way of keeping<br />
in touch with any further developments<br />
is by looking at the Pride<br />
website which can be found at<br />
http://www.pride-scotia.org/<br />
We're urgently recruiting Stewards<br />
for the March. If you would like the<br />
free T-shirt, bag of goodies and<br />
sense of being a Responsible<br />
Adult on the day, please contact<br />
our office on 0131-556 9471 or<br />
E-mail: hrc@pride-scotia.org.<br />
If you live in the Glasgow area,<br />
you should contact our Glasgow<br />
Steward Co-ordinator<br />
Bill on 07810 825854.<br />
PRIDE SCOTIA – SATURDAY 25TH JUNE – EDINBURGH<br />
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Hi there and here is this<br />
month’s round up of what is<br />
happening north of anywhere.<br />
Pride Aberdeen 2005 is<br />
almost here – the big day is<br />
Sat 4th Jun in the Duthie Park<br />
from 12.30- 7.30pm.<br />
The fundraiser at the start of<br />
May in Bar Indigo raised<br />
over £970 towards the event<br />
and the open mic night earlier<br />
in May in Cellar 35 has also<br />
added to the funds. Thanks<br />
must go to all those who contributed.<br />
A further fund raising<br />
event was due to be held on<br />
the bank holiday weekend in<br />
Café Drummond’s (Belmont<br />
Street, Aberdeen) on Sun 29th<br />
May from 8pm. The night was<br />
due to consist of acoustic performances<br />
from some of<br />
Aberdeen’s newest, most up<br />
and coming and experienced<br />
musicians including Karl<br />
Alexander, Amy Sawyers and<br />
Gerry Jablonski.<br />
The AbFab Gayleidh was<br />
well attended and the band<br />
did a good job of getting people<br />
up to dance and keep<br />
order. Thanks go to AbFab for<br />
organising the event and the<br />
guys at RGU for putting on a<br />
pre-event buffet. I hope that<br />
this event remains in the calendar<br />
for next year.<br />
The Belmont Cinema<br />
(Belmont Street, Aberdeen)<br />
will be showing ‘But I’m a<br />
Cheerleader’ followed by a<br />
karaoke session in the bar<br />
afterwards. This will be on Fri<br />
3rd Jun at 6.45pm and tickets<br />
can be purchased from the<br />
box office on Aberdeen<br />
(01224) 343536.<br />
Wellman’s Health Studio<br />
on Justice Mill Lane will be<br />
open until midnight on the day<br />
of Pride and is offering 10%<br />
discount on entry.<br />
The headline acts for Pride<br />
are Kelly Wilde at 3.40pm<br />
and Kym Mazelle at<br />
6.30pm. The rest of the day<br />
will include performances from<br />
Baby Karma, Ellie Mulhern,<br />
Finniston, Babibelz Street<br />
Drummers, Potted Heid, Red<br />
Man Walking, Amy Sawers,<br />
The Little Kicks and several DJ<br />
sets including Camp is Back.<br />
There will be a very interesting<br />
and exciting variety of<br />
4<br />
obar dheadhainn<br />
aberdeen<br />
scene<br />
companies, local traders and<br />
individuals selling their goods<br />
and services at the event.<br />
Codona’s fairground rides will<br />
be present again this year with<br />
even more attractions for your<br />
enjoyment. Bar Indigo will be<br />
providing the alcohol in the<br />
beer tent on the day and will<br />
be the place to go for the after<br />
event party which runs until<br />
3am.<br />
Every penny you<br />
spend at the event<br />
in some way will<br />
contribute towards<br />
funding local events,<br />
consultations and<br />
work towards<br />
Lesbian, Gay,<br />
Bisexual and<br />
Transgender equality<br />
in the North East.<br />
The Pride in Aberdeen volunteers<br />
will be visible at the<br />
event throughout the day with<br />
collection buckets and raffle<br />
tickets and many more opportunities<br />
for you to donate to the<br />
cause. If you wish to help out<br />
on the day there are still<br />
opportunities for you to volunteer.<br />
Contact the Pride office on<br />
Aberdeen (01224) 644101<br />
or E-mail info@prideinaberdeen.org.uk<br />
All the details for Pride<br />
Aberdeen 2005 can be found<br />
on their website at<br />
http://www.prideinaberdeen.org.uk/<br />
I have just received these<br />
details of a new club night in<br />
Aberdeen. If anyone ventures<br />
a<br />
along please let me know how it went. A new club night was<br />
due to start on Fri 27th May beneath the Hotel Metro called<br />
Xenophon. They are trying to capture some of the atmosphere<br />
from the film ‘Party Monster’ – i.e. over the top, flamboyant,<br />
glamorous costumes, glitter, make-up etc. and the music will be<br />
very much electro based. It’s not a gay night - but then again it’s<br />
not a straight night either - it’s really just about throwing away<br />
inhibitions and having fun. I guess it won’t appeal to everybody<br />
here, but if anybody feels that Aberdeen is a bit too grey and is<br />
up for something different, then please come and check it out.<br />
The details are at<br />
http://www.xeno-phon.co.uk/ The night is on<br />
the last Friday of every month with half price<br />
admission for the ‘extravagantly attired’.<br />
Tivoli<br />
E-mail: Tivoli_abdn@yahoo.co.uk
glasgow<br />
scene<br />
Well! They say a new broom is as<br />
good as a spring clean but mine is<br />
used for flying! Criz is the name<br />
and reporting my game, amongst<br />
other things we shall not speak of<br />
here but don't you just love Burly!<br />
I'm less a 'scene queen' nor a 'club<br />
spy' more a 'secret shopper'. Yes, I<br />
know we have all said "never<br />
again I'm staying in with the cats,<br />
a DVD and a decent bottle of whatever!"<br />
Then the summer's short<br />
nights draw us out! It is my aim,<br />
however, to find a more diverse<br />
'scene', I know it's there. I've found<br />
it before and we are varied - it's<br />
our greatest strength!<br />
Theatre, Clubs, Centres and<br />
Pubs - if I hear it, see it or you tell<br />
me about it (that's tell not scream!)<br />
I shall type it here for all to see. So<br />
here goes. Revolver Bar: it may<br />
have changed owners but it is still<br />
as popular as ever it was. With<br />
over 40 seats, it's a wee bit like a<br />
TARDIS, it's bigger than it looks,<br />
and let's face it size is important!<br />
The staff are friendly and the 'punters'<br />
are mixed. Open earlier than<br />
most, I have never seen it empty<br />
(making it a wee bit tricky to take a<br />
pic!) - more bars like this and<br />
Glasgow LGBTs would be a happier,<br />
less separate, bunch! Sadly,<br />
they've stopped their popular Sat<br />
Quiz and 'might!', be changing it<br />
to a Tue night once a month starting<br />
in July! Every Sat afternoon that<br />
I have been in, it has been jumping<br />
- but I suppose they know what<br />
they're doing! And speaking of<br />
Quiz Nights: Killer Kitty is still<br />
going strong at Del's from 9pm on<br />
a Thu. I was told that there was<br />
bingo too! Fresh, on Fri, Lush, on<br />
Sat, and T-ladys on a Wed - all on<br />
at the Polo.<br />
Merchant Pride still has its Sat<br />
afternoon 'Jazz' till 5.30ish and DJ<br />
Annie takes over at 9ish. Sundays<br />
are May Miller and Angelo takes<br />
over at 9ish on Sun night for the<br />
'Sing Song' a host who has a body<br />
to die for and a rapier wit that<br />
would put both Graham Norton<br />
and Julian Clary in their respective<br />
places!. And now to the thespians<br />
among us: The Tron! Monologues<br />
have never been my cup of tea, as<br />
for dresses, well at Halloween<br />
maybe, but 'Sisters, Such Devoted<br />
Sisters', had me spellbound! Russell<br />
Barr exposed the darker side of<br />
both gay and straight culture in his<br />
G<br />
vivid look at the life of a drag<br />
queen in the clubs and pubs of<br />
Glasgow. David Leddy's show,<br />
again in the Tron, 'In The Shade'<br />
was a wee bit harder to define! It's<br />
about a Psychic Soul sister called<br />
La Toya Levine who has the ability<br />
to 'channel' 'divas'. Well, I said it<br />
was tricky! Dressed in a 'fat suit'<br />
David sings, dances and 'peals'<br />
his way in to your heart. A BIG<br />
part of the peformance is the the<br />
layers of 'fat suit', each one revealing<br />
a different La Toya. She is<br />
'sporty' can be 'ethnic' even<br />
'sexxy'! Like some multi python<br />
shedding a variety of colourful<br />
skins, Leddy is able to perform<br />
'solo'. If you're looking for 'high<br />
camp' with a wee pinch of 'super<br />
bitch' make a date with the irrepressible<br />
David Leddy. I have had<br />
a long love affair with the Tron,<br />
like so many a lost soul craving<br />
good food, fine wine, great entertainment<br />
and of course magnificent<br />
eye candy!<br />
glaschu<br />
The LGBT Centre is planing some<br />
barbecues! After the undoubted<br />
success of the 'Women's Nights'<br />
the 'Gay Men's Discussion Group'<br />
is planing to have some evenings<br />
of their own. Social events may<br />
well include cinema and theatre (I<br />
swear on a stack of holy books I<br />
have nothing to do with this most<br />
wonderful of ideas!) the two Joes<br />
have set the last Sat of the month<br />
from 2pm-4pm for the fun to commence.<br />
I am told that all ages and<br />
types are welcome. Details of this<br />
and coming events can be<br />
obtained for the Centre. The AGM<br />
of the Centre with annual report<br />
and year's accounts has been<br />
announced. Sun 12th Jun at 2pm -<br />
light refreshments will be served.<br />
Well that's all that I have heard,<br />
seen, been told and had screamed<br />
at me! Until our next merry meeting,<br />
this witch must fly!<br />
Criz<br />
E-mail: criz@drink.demon.co.uk<br />
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burlyboys<br />
raise£250for edinburgh gay men’s health<br />
dùn eideann<br />
edinburgh<br />
edinburgh<br />
scene<br />
Velvet’s next confirmed<br />
date will be Sat 4 June @ The<br />
usual venue which is the<br />
Commplex in Leith near<br />
Guiliano’s Italian Restaurant. I<br />
am also led to believe that the<br />
Commplex has a had a<br />
cheeky wee makeover and the<br />
DJ Box is now downstairs.<br />
Velvet have also issued an<br />
apology for lack of bar staff at<br />
the venue and is assuring all<br />
you ladies it will not happen<br />
again!! Velvet normally has a<br />
two for one offer on entry for<br />
those who arrive mega early.<br />
Various drink promos run<br />
throughout the night.<br />
A big apology (again) to<br />
Wanda Wet Thighs ... I mean<br />
Samantha Swallows as her<br />
drageoke is on EVERY THURS-<br />
DAY not fortnightly as printed<br />
last month. Samantha<br />
Swallows will be on the decks<br />
also that night to ply all your<br />
requests. Catch Samantha<br />
and the rest of the gorgeous<br />
gang at HABANA – one of<br />
the official sponsors of PRIDE<br />
SCOTIA 2005. Drink promos<br />
run all day and night at<br />
Habana and rumour has it<br />
that a 3am license may be in<br />
the pipeline on a permanent<br />
basis for Edinburgh’s Premier<br />
Gay Bar.<br />
Check out Burly Too at the<br />
Commplex - the next theme<br />
will be ‘Topless and Tattoo’, so<br />
all you burly boys can head<br />
along and show off your tats.<br />
A burly bus brings all the<br />
Glasgow boys through so<br />
there is a variety of meat on<br />
offer for this “designed to be<br />
cruisy” club! A big thank you<br />
to Burly for raising £250 for<br />
edinburgh<br />
Edinburgh’s Gay Men’s<br />
Health. The pic shows the<br />
presentation of the cheque.<br />
See<br />
http://www.dv8scots.co.uk/<br />
for more info on this popular<br />
club night.<br />
Also some important info for<br />
you Heroes fans, their new<br />
venue is the Subway<br />
Cowgate with the next night<br />
on Thu 23rd Jun. Heroes promotes<br />
an eclectic mix of music<br />
with a variety of Edinburgh’s<br />
top DJs including One Arm<br />
Bandit (Planet Out) and<br />
Voodoo Doll (Club<br />
Motherfucker- London, Disko<br />
Bloodbath).<br />
The Street Bar seems to<br />
be busier and busier as the<br />
months fold in. The trendy<br />
mixed bar offers drink promos<br />
Mon–Fri 4-8pm. Food is<br />
served from 11am–7pm and<br />
is provided courtesy of Devil’s<br />
Kitchen. A variety of<br />
comestibles are on offer from<br />
salads to traditional fresh pub<br />
grub. The downstairs is now<br />
available for hire for birthdays<br />
etc speak to Wendy,<br />
Annie or Lou for prices and<br />
availability.<br />
As we go to press, I hear of<br />
a new Sauna down at<br />
Portobello Roundabout called<br />
“Dé Vils”. It’s rumoured to be<br />
run by Raymond (who previously<br />
ran a sauna in<br />
Haddington Place). More in<br />
our next issue.<br />
Wee Alan<br />
E-mail:<br />
weealan@drink.demon.co.uk
Hello everybody!<br />
Here goes with a quick glance on<br />
what is happening in Dundee this<br />
month, it may look small but it fills<br />
the gap.<br />
At Charlie’s Bar there is the<br />
usual monthly quiz night, next one<br />
on Tue 7th Jun. There is also the<br />
disco on Friday and Saturday<br />
nights provided by DJ Ross, and<br />
all the work in the dance and pool<br />
table area is now complete – talking<br />
of the pool area hopefully the<br />
property’s owner has finally paid<br />
attention to Charlie and Iain and<br />
fixed the leaky roof as well.<br />
Out, Brooklyn’s Bar and the<br />
recently occasionally re-opened<br />
LEATHER & LACE<br />
8<br />
Show Bar have all the usual<br />
offers and nights happening,<br />
details on display.<br />
Diversitay switchboard will<br />
have their next ice-breaker<br />
evening on Wed 15th Jun at Braes<br />
on Perth Road. They still have to<br />
restrict the switchboard’s opening<br />
hours to Monday evening every<br />
second week, so is next available<br />
on the 30th May.<br />
Ok that is about all that I can<br />
say about the scene in Dundee for<br />
this month, just remember that<br />
there is a wealth of other<br />
pubs/clubs in the west end of the<br />
city centre that are considered<br />
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NEVER SHINES<br />
It’s hot! Wank fodder.<br />
I’m watching lads, hugging, kissing,<br />
rolling around together; their muscular<br />
legs all-akimbo on my plasma. Mmm…<br />
Sky Sports! Shame about the fans<br />
though, knocking back the lager; farting<br />
into their vinyl sofas. It’s a bit like killing<br />
crabs with Clearasil, but the Scottish<br />
Executive want to wipe out sectarianism<br />
in Scottish football. Come on! Drunken,<br />
foul-mouthed, knuckle-scraping,<br />
Buckie-drunk, football yobs pouring<br />
over Scottish Executive circulars on<br />
courtly behaviour at football matches? I<br />
don’t think so. A whole host of problems<br />
bubble to the surface in the same Petri<br />
dish, amongst them, drinking, drugs,<br />
violence, sexism, litter, and, dare one say<br />
it? Homophobia. Remember ‘out’ gay<br />
professional footballer, Justin Fashanu<br />
who was publicly referred to as “the<br />
bloody poof” by his manager? The<br />
Scottish Sun obviously finds homophobia<br />
in football very funny. “Training<br />
camp” featured a couple of cute Killie<br />
boys strolling across the pitch holding<br />
hands. SunSport was disgusted from<br />
Kinning Park. “First Aberdeen’s Noel<br />
Whelan and Russell Anderson are caught<br />
in a passionate clinch… now this!” Under<br />
a pic of Noel and Russ, tongue-jousting,<br />
they quipped: “Who’s a pretty Boyd,<br />
then…! Kilmarnock comics Kris Boyd and<br />
Freddie Dindeleux make a lovely pair as<br />
they stroll hand-in-hand”. Apart from<br />
chatting about French chanteuse,<br />
Mylene Farmer, I never got the impression<br />
my old neighbour, Fred ever kicked<br />
for the other side, but who knows? The<br />
Sun summoned former Celtic manager<br />
“Billy McNeill’s manly verdict” on “one<br />
forgettable image that left a football nation<br />
shocked”, while The Sun’s Iain King dismissed<br />
it as “an isolated moment of madness<br />
in the macho world of SPL football”.<br />
The Scottish Sun’s “eagle-eyed snapper<br />
went to spy on Kilmarnock… at another<br />
training CAMP, this time Freddie<br />
Dindeleux was gazing at Kris Boyd as they<br />
held hands and pranced around the pitch”.<br />
Billy McNeill admitted: “Dressing-rooms<br />
are vicious environments yet I think in this<br />
case Dindeleux and big Boyd have been<br />
caught out in a training routine to be fair<br />
to them. However, that is not going to stop<br />
them being annihilated at Rugby Park this<br />
morning when they see this! Sunsport’s picture<br />
will be pinned up in the dressing-room<br />
– with every caption you can think of<br />
10<br />
beside it”. Summing-up his “manly verdict”,<br />
Billy McNeill recalled a better<br />
example of footballer’s behaviour to capture:<br />
“Dave got fed-up with Billy kicking<br />
him and got a fistful of jersey and was<br />
ready to thump him – now that’s a true<br />
football picture for me!” The Scottish<br />
Sun’s Iain King concluded: “So there you<br />
have it, conclusive proof from the nation’s<br />
most famous captain that this sort of conduct<br />
just won’t do. Listen to a legend, listen<br />
to a player who grew up when being a<br />
man’s man meant something else entirely”.<br />
I’m holding up my pink card to you<br />
Iain. See, I can be funny too!<br />
“CON-DOMS”<br />
was a chance for Scottish Sun reporter<br />
Kevin Lowry to stoke “fury at Scots<br />
prison’s freebies for gay sex”. The only<br />
“fury” I want to see should be aimed at<br />
those who do nothing to protect the<br />
lovers and partners of people who may<br />
have participated in risky behaviour in<br />
prison. This was a story about The<br />
Scottish Sun placing its twisted morality<br />
before reality. “Fury erupted last night<br />
over plans to dish out free CONDOMS to<br />
prisoners. Lags will be given them on<br />
request in a bid to encourage safe gay sex<br />
behind bars”. It’s a cheap trick, but the<br />
media effortlessly orchestrate ‘fury’ from<br />
a small gaggle of Scottish religionists and<br />
right-wing politicians. In this case, Tory<br />
Bill Aitken made the extraordinary assertion<br />
that: “The way things are going, quite<br />
a section of the population will be queuing<br />
up to get into Greenock jail”. An insider<br />
told The Sun: “This is just saying to cons.<br />
‘Come in and have a good time’. Most of<br />
the cons are off their heads on drugs in<br />
here, so these condoms are seen by guards as<br />
one last little freebie for them to round off<br />
their fun…” The Sun brushed aside<br />
qualified advice to insist: “…Politicians<br />
across the spectrum claimed Scotland did<br />
not need the programme”. They found<br />
three. The Sun’s editorial shrieked:<br />
“…Handouts of free condoms so prisoners<br />
can have safe gay sex? Now that really is a<br />
holiday camp option”. This was “liberalism<br />
gone mad”. Of course it wasn’t. Nor<br />
was it “camp” or an “option”. The<br />
Scottish Sun is anything but liberal, but<br />
is definitely mad and sometimes camp.<br />
But thankfully, reading it will always be<br />
an option.<br />
Tiresome Tory/Catholic propagandist,<br />
Mrs Katie Grant boiled the kettle<br />
and rolled up her sleeves to deal with<br />
Dundee’s problem of teenage pregnancy<br />
in The Sunday Times Scotland:<br />
“Nobody shouts at a pregnant 13-year-old.<br />
Nobody wants to overload her with homework.<br />
She will elicit sympathy rather than<br />
condemnation and may even get out of<br />
carrying her schoolbag if she complains<br />
that it gives her ‘pains’. Being pregnant, so<br />
other girls will be reminded every day,<br />
makes your life much easier”. Full of<br />
answers she decided: “In the UK teenage<br />
pregnancy is not frowned upon and is<br />
financially rewarded with the taxpayer<br />
forking out millions to pay for the young<br />
mothers and their offspring, in the form of<br />
income support, housing benefit, education<br />
and employment training and access to<br />
childcare”. So if it’s all about money,<br />
what is she doing opening her purse to<br />
suggest: “It may be expensive housing<br />
pregnant teenagers away from the mainstream<br />
and it may not be politically correct.<br />
But… it is mad to believe that there<br />
is even an option”. Let’s have Catholic<br />
orphanages for ‘fallen girls’, eh, Mrs<br />
Grant? She used this as an opportunity<br />
to trash the Dutch and their splendid<br />
ability to reduce teenage pregnancy with<br />
a quick plug for Joost van Loon’s book,<br />
Deconstructing the Dutch Utopia. This<br />
sociologist tried to suggest that the<br />
Dutch don’t start sex education at a<br />
younger age and neither is it more<br />
explicit than British sex education. In a<br />
nutshell, he suggests the family unit and<br />
lack of state support is responsible for<br />
the Netherlands’s success. Oh, and Mrs<br />
Grant forgot to mention the publishers<br />
of the book: The Family Education<br />
Trust. How remiss! Would that be<br />
Valerie Riches’ partisan Family and<br />
Youth Concern? Oh, so it is! Be it the<br />
teen mags they read; access to erotica or<br />
discussion in school, take my word for<br />
it, the Dutch do start their education<br />
earlier and yes it is more explicit! I have<br />
to question the usefulness of Aberdeen<br />
University’s ‘research’ into “every family<br />
planning clinic in Scotland, along with<br />
those of 161 GP practices…” feathering<br />
The Scottish Daily Mail’s sensational<br />
report by the very opinionated Ian<br />
Smith on “girls as young as ten… prescribed<br />
the Pill”. The Pill had been prescribed<br />
to over a thousand under 16s but<br />
only 35 aged 13 and only two “shockingly”,<br />
aged 10. Given Scotland’s record of<br />
sexual ignorance, am I alone in finding<br />
these figures remarkably conservative?<br />
Much to the satisfaction of The Scottish<br />
Daily Mail, Dr James McLay, the clinical<br />
pharmacologist who led the study,<br />
was on hand to pin his own political<br />
opinions on the findings: “One of the<br />
worries that we clearly have is that these<br />
girls who are under 13 on the oral contraceptive<br />
should be reported to social workers<br />
because they are being subjected to rape”.<br />
Whilst this might well be true since hav-<br />
ing sex with a girl under 13 is classified<br />
as statutory rape in Scotland since she is<br />
not deemed old enough to consent, the<br />
doctors would have also acted under a<br />
duty to care. The Mail quickly ushered<br />
in an “absolutely astounded… Shona<br />
Robison, health spokesman (sic) for the<br />
Scottish National Party” whose quotes sat<br />
alongside the knee-jerking Mail rent-agob,<br />
Valerie Riches of Family and Youth<br />
Concern who gushed: “The law of the age<br />
of consent has become an absolute mockery”.<br />
“Police storm gallery<br />
in row over ‘offensive<br />
art’,” was an unusually sympathetic<br />
story in The Scottish Daily Mail.<br />
You’d better believe it! We’ve had police<br />
on the Borders raiding a shop window<br />
with half-naked Sindy dolls, now<br />
Glasgow’s SellBuyArt gallery in the West<br />
End has been raided to remove Glasgow<br />
artist Lee Stewart’s partially obscured<br />
canvas of a nude woman. Strathclyde<br />
Police told The Mail: “The painting was<br />
attracting a lot of attention from local children<br />
and there had been a couple of complaints<br />
made”. What! No pictures of<br />
someone getting a good kicking? I<br />
understand Glasgow’s Burrell Collection<br />
is planning to showcase Titian’s naked<br />
Venus Rising from the Sea this summer.<br />
Anyone informed the local constabulary?<br />
Prudes pop up in all sorts of places.<br />
Last month we had The Sunday Mail<br />
wandering around a gay sauna, moralising<br />
in white towels. This month the<br />
prudes were hanging about outside a<br />
sauna, twitching the nets from the windows<br />
of a nearby hotel and wagging fingers<br />
from the city chambers. The problem?<br />
The Lane Health Club calls itself a<br />
health and fitness club. Wha’? Isn’t sex<br />
healthy? Perhaps they’d overlooked the<br />
fact that if The Lane had GAY SAUNA<br />
slapped all over it, I doubt it would be as<br />
nearly as attractive to all those closeted<br />
married men who pop in to pull a few<br />
muscles during happy hour. Let’s not kid<br />
ourselves here, this has nothing to do<br />
with what The Lane Health Club chooses<br />
to call itself: it’s about prudery, pure<br />
and simple. Another Scottish paper<br />
draped a towel over its privates and gawped.<br />
The Herald reported “they also<br />
claim the sauna operations are a blight on<br />
Glasgow City Council’s strategy to attract<br />
new business to its international services<br />
district”. Baws! Any internationals business<br />
centre worth its salt – think of<br />
Frankfurt – needs the sex industry. The<br />
Herald’s chief reporter, Iain Wilson,<br />
sniffed: “…But the premises consists mainly<br />
of 11 cubicles, each with vinyl-covered<br />
couch and televisions, said to be for ‘relaxation’<br />
and watching videos. There is also a<br />
sauna, changing room, and TV lounge”.<br />
Vinyl is easier to wipe. How long have<br />
you been a reporter, Iain? Radisson SAS<br />
hotel wanted to complain that the prem-<br />
10
ises were not being used for the purpose<br />
it was registered. Filled with concern,<br />
Philip Mahoney, the hotel general manager<br />
told The Herald: “One needs to<br />
make sure, without saying neighbours have<br />
to be nice, that business operations are as<br />
stated. If open, fine. I do not make a moral<br />
judgment. It’s the secretive nature that concerns<br />
me…” Well they were there first, so<br />
you know what you can do with your<br />
over-priced hostelry, don’t you, Phil?<br />
Alex Mosson, former Glasgow lord<br />
provost and ward councillor and chairman<br />
of Greater Glasgow and Clyde<br />
Valley Tourist Board chose to tell The<br />
Herald “of numerous complaints from<br />
firms in the area”. (Who are they? And<br />
what about the local firms who have no<br />
problems with the sauna)? The council<br />
ordered a site visit to be carried out.<br />
Perhaps they should invite the sauna-loving<br />
Sunday Mail, they’re only round the<br />
corner!<br />
An “ordeal in bed”<br />
The Daily Record described it, a “lesbian’s<br />
30-minute sex attack on friend”.<br />
Apparently, “the shocked victim lay still<br />
throughout the assault because she didn’t<br />
know what to do”. Excuse me? She knew<br />
so little about it, in fact, that the “victim”<br />
went and told a pal all about it saying she<br />
hadn’t been comfortable with what had<br />
happened before reporting it to the<br />
police. Michelle McComb, 22, from<br />
Hawick in Roxburghshire, has now been<br />
added to Michael Howard’s infamous<br />
Sex Offenders Register. Michelle normally<br />
slept on the couch when she<br />
stopped round her pal’s, but on this<br />
occasion, she went upstairs and joined<br />
“the victim” in bed. Michelle has learning<br />
difficulties and didn’t understand the<br />
concept of consent but conceded in<br />
court that her pal couldn’t have consented<br />
if she was asleep, an important point<br />
when considering the legal definition of<br />
rape. It is bad enough, with such<br />
appalling levels of guilt and shame<br />
attached to homosexual expression, that<br />
sex takes place in drunken stupors, but<br />
there are other ‘excuses’ that allow participants<br />
to emerge guilt-free from mediadenigrated<br />
sexual encounters. One of<br />
these is simply to deny you ever gave permission<br />
in the first place. In a culture of<br />
sexual ‘victims’, have we completely lost<br />
our ability to negotiate sex? Drop the<br />
charges against Michelle McComb and<br />
get her off the Sex Offenders Register at<br />
once!<br />
Reporting adverts banned by the<br />
Advertising Standards Authorities, The<br />
Herald explained.<br />
“These included an Armani<br />
Junior advert which the ASA<br />
ruled sexualised a child and a<br />
promotion by Ryanair which<br />
promoted ‘Fawking Great Offers’<br />
close to Guy Fawkes Night. The<br />
watchdog ruled the Dublinbased<br />
airline’s advert was offensive<br />
because the word ‘Fawking’<br />
was too close to ‘f******’.”<br />
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In The Daily Record, they reported: “A<br />
boss who branded a worker ‘all t**ts and no<br />
brain’ has been ordered to pay her more<br />
than £40,000”. Good heavens, what are<br />
‘toots’? Fortunately, <strong>ScotsGay</strong> doesn’t act<br />
the timorous beastie over a few choice<br />
words and our editor permits people to<br />
use the language they are comfortable<br />
with. It’s a pity the rest of the Scottish<br />
media wasn’t as inclusive. My colleague,<br />
Tivoli, who edits the Aberdeen section in<br />
<strong>ScotsGay</strong>, recently came up against a<br />
pathetic piece of censorship with a<br />
throwaway comment that Aberdeen<br />
Pride (on Saturday, 4 June in Duthie<br />
Park) appeared to be “coming at you faster<br />
than a pope’s election…” Aberdeen-G-<br />
Zone, an msn group edited by a twat<br />
called ‘Andi’, thought Tiv was insulting,<br />
stamping his trainers to insist: “I’m not<br />
going to argue or debate about it” and censored<br />
the offending passage. The Caths<br />
are touchy! BBC Scotland’s Off The Ball,<br />
presenters Tam Cowan and Stuart<br />
Cosgrove had asked listeners what they<br />
recommended throwing at failed club<br />
managers. E-mail was read out suggesting<br />
former Celtic boss Tommy Burns<br />
ought to be pelted with communion<br />
wafers. The Catholic Church came down<br />
on them like a ton of bricks. The<br />
Scottish Daily Mail reported:<br />
“The pair were yesterday spared<br />
an official reprimand after<br />
broadcasting watchdog Ofcom<br />
ruled that the BBC had<br />
‘addressed the matter’.”<br />
Catholic activist Peter Kearney, director<br />
of the Catholic Media Office threatened<br />
to appeal. Of course, if it were homophobia<br />
we were complaining about, the religionist-sodden<br />
Scottish media would be<br />
up in arms over ‘political correctness<br />
gone mad’. The last time I was on radio<br />
I was given a stern warning about on-air<br />
use of the words ‘wank fodder’. I was<br />
probably referring to The Scottish Sun<br />
and the likes of “Katie, 19, from<br />
Liverpool”, who was, this month, showing<br />
off her perky wee pink ‘uns in a garden<br />
centre. Real Radio has not asked me<br />
back. Well, their music is pants anyway!<br />
Where do you go for good radio in<br />
Scotland? Certainly not BBC Radio<br />
Scotland, that’s for sure! That’s so far up<br />
it’s own arse, stick a brush on the end and<br />
they could clean their own teeth!<br />
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so please get in contact with me”.<br />
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Number 6010.<br />
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09068 556612 - Number 6015.<br />
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09068 556612 - Number 5970.<br />
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5737.<br />
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EDINBURGH LOCK<br />
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09068 556612 - Number 5452.<br />
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Phone 09068 556612 - Number<br />
5367.<br />
PETER FROM EDINBURGH<br />
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09068 556612 - Number 5380.<br />
LEARNING THE ROPES<br />
Slim, mature, 50s passive Tayside guy who<br />
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interested or experienced in trying out<br />
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Phone 09068 556612 - Number<br />
5318.<br />
SUBERDONIAN<br />
Aberdeen area slim 38 year old submissive<br />
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09068 556612 - Number 5321.<br />
MATURE FROM DUNDEE?<br />
Francis from Dundee is in his mid-fifties<br />
with a slim build, 5’8” tall with blue eyes.<br />
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Phone 09068 556612 - Number<br />
5232.<br />
ANYTHING GOES IN ABERDEEN<br />
Aberdeen area 39 year old tolerant slave<br />
seeks master, 45+. Anything goes. Phone<br />
09068 556612 - Number 5431.<br />
YELLOW SUB-<br />
38 year old slim, submissive guy, into yellow,<br />
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Phone 09068 556612 - Number 5060.<br />
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31 year old professional, non-scene gay<br />
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4775.<br />
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09068 556612 - Number 4710.<br />
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LOOKING FOR<br />
STEPHEN SMITH<br />
Can Stephen Smith (or anybody who<br />
knows where to contact him) please get in<br />
touch. Stephen was involved with Pride<br />
Scotia in Glasgow last year. Box SG63169.<br />
WOMEN<br />
ODD SOCK LOOKING FOR<br />
PARTNER<br />
40+ lesbian looking for new lesbian friends<br />
(and maybe more) between the ages of 38<br />
and 50. I enjoy the cinema, socialising,<br />
walking and funtimes. Want to know<br />
more?! Box SG63108.<br />
LET’S GET SENSUAL<br />
Lesbian, young looking 44, n/s, likes eating<br />
out, cosy nights in, music. GSOH,<br />
blonde hair, slim, blue eyes, seeks fem boyish<br />
chic 35-45 who is not afraid to be open<br />
and sensual. Box SG63141.<br />
MEN<br />
EDINBURGH<br />
Uncomplicated no strings fun and friendship<br />
offered to young guy 16-22 by 45 year old<br />
guy. Come and go as you like. Box<br />
SG63102.<br />
DUNDEE AREA<br />
5’5”, medium build, TV, seeks older male<br />
for fun and friendship. Box SG63104.<br />
BLOND BOMBSHELL!!!<br />
Jonny, 27, blond hair, blue eyes, from<br />
Northumberland seeks dominant older male<br />
to punish me for being a naughty boy!!!<br />
Box SG63105.<br />
FED UP BUT FLEXIBLE<br />
So many men, so many many ads, so many<br />
disappointments - so prove me wrong - let<br />
me see that there’s at least one<br />
gay/bi/trans/married guy who can get his<br />
arse in gear to organise himself to meet up<br />
for a quick and useful shag, without any<br />
ties, without any duboisu romantic aspirations<br />
or the usual Edinbrugh baggage - go<br />
on - surprise me!! Box SG63106.<br />
OLDER DOMINANT SOUGHT<br />
47 year old bottom lad, seeking to meet<br />
older 50+ gentleman for friendship and<br />
guidance. Genuine search for person to<br />
relive younger days and memories of traditional<br />
domestic discipline. Hopeful of friendship.<br />
Genuine Search. No timewaster. Box<br />
SG63107.<br />
UK BLACK WISHING TO MAKE<br />
FRIEND<br />
Hi there. I am a UK black gay guy hoping to<br />
make friends with other black professional<br />
guys all the world, ie the States and Europe.<br />
I am seeking to make friends to communicate<br />
with and arrange a possible exchange<br />
visit. Box SG63109.<br />
HOUSEBOY - PERSONAL<br />
ASSISTANT<br />
26 year old London lad, good looking, honest<br />
and reliable wants to be a housekeeper/personal<br />
assistant for wealthy gay gentleman.<br />
Box SG63110.<br />
HORNY LEATHERCLAD BIKER<br />
Horny, fit, 27 year old Fireblade biker, slim,<br />
leather lover, nedin mates for rideouts and<br />
hot leather fun. Into most things. Based in<br />
Glasgow. A boyfriend would be nice. Box<br />
SG63111.<br />
UP, UP AND AWAY<br />
Frequent Ryanair/easyJet international<br />
traveller, 50, seeks younger (16-25) companions<br />
for short jaunts abroad or in UK.<br />
Don’t do the gay scene generally. More into<br />
local food, drink and culture. Box<br />
SG63112.<br />
PROF GUY SEEKS SIMILAR<br />
34 year old straight acting prof guy based<br />
in West Lothian (work in Edinburgh). 5’9”,<br />
32”w, 40”c, medium build with brown<br />
shaved hair, blue eyes. Into gym, cinema,<br />
eating out, pub, looking for similar, clean<br />
cut guy 18-40 for friendship, relationship.<br />
Non smokers preferred. Box SG63113.<br />
MEN IN UNIFORM<br />
Sought by mature late 40’s guy, 5’11”,<br />
slim, 28” waist, clean shaven, fit looking.<br />
Looking for guys for fun and games and<br />
possible 1-2-1. Box SG63144.<br />
16<br />
LOOKING FOR ORDINARY<br />
BLOKE<br />
Me: 5’9”. Stocky. 40. Cumbernauld. Short<br />
fair hair. Hairy. Not out. Divorced father.<br />
Looking for non-camp blokes for pint, natter,<br />
fun. Not into skinny. Prefer 25-45. Pic<br />
with E-mail preferred. Genuine honest<br />
blokes. Box SG63114.<br />
GLASGOW WEST END<br />
Looking to meet guys in or around the<br />
Glasgow area who are up for friendship, fun<br />
and maybe more with the right guy. Hairy<br />
guys especially welcome (no 1 crop). I’m<br />
35, 5’1”, slim/med build, smooth body,<br />
nice looks, s/a s/l, looking for same type<br />
of guys - no scene queens please, discretion<br />
assured, can accomm/travel. Get in touch<br />
now! Looking to meet with guys up to the<br />
age of 45 only! Box SG63115.<br />
EDINBURGH - FIFE -<br />
ANYWHERE<br />
42 year old slave looking for dominant<br />
guys, 50+, to train me in bondage, cp etc.<br />
Me: med build, 5’10”. Up for most things<br />
with right guy. Box SG63117.<br />
SUBS FOR HIGHLAND<br />
PLAYROOM<br />
I am a well experienced dominant 41 year<br />
old living in the very far north of Scotland. I<br />
have a well equipped playroom with loads<br />
of equipment, toys and restraints. I am<br />
looking for submissive guys to visit in<br />
July/August 2005. I can cater for most<br />
aspects of BDSM, with all limits respected.<br />
Experienced and novice players considered.<br />
Any interested parties reply with age and<br />
stats and list experiences if any. Box<br />
SG63118.<br />
RAMPANT RABBIT<br />
Rampant 40’s man seeks someone who<br />
enjoys bondage, spanking weekends.<br />
Frolicking around in some wood shavings is<br />
a must like a pair of horny rabbits!!! Box<br />
SG63121.<br />
FANCY SPICED-UP BROTHERLY<br />
LOVE?<br />
We all long to be loved yes/no?<br />
Appreciated/respected too? Tired of the<br />
scene? Needing to give/receive easy going<br />
TLC? I’m your man/soul mate? We’ll see.<br />
Box SG63136.<br />
OLDER TOP SEEKS YOUNG<br />
BOTTOM<br />
Do you fancy older guys? This one is 46,<br />
5’7”, ready to teach new nephew types<br />
16-26 who are hot and willing to learn. Shy<br />
boys and any race welcome. Box<br />
SG63122.<br />
HOLIDAY MATE<br />
Very straight acting good looking fit guy,<br />
37, 5’10”, dark hair, loves sport, eating<br />
out, cinema, looking for a travelling buddy<br />
for week long holiday in Ibiza early Sept,<br />
same age or younger. Box SG63123.<br />
LADS FOR ACTION<br />
Fit, slim, straight-acting Edinburgh lad (31)<br />
looking for no strings fun with similar guys.<br />
Bike leathers or sportskit fans a big bonus!<br />
Must be fit and under 40. Couples welcome.<br />
Can always accommodate. Box<br />
SG63124.<br />
SUMMER HOLIDAY GAY OFFER<br />
Fancy a holiday where you can dominate,<br />
humiliate, abuse torture your host? I’m<br />
Andrew and I’ve rented a large house in<br />
Shetland for September. All letters with<br />
shirtless photo get quick reply. Box<br />
SG63125.<br />
EX AYRSHIRE GUY.<br />
Hi, I am a 41 year old gay guy originally<br />
from Kilmarnock, now in Blackpool. Would<br />
like to be in touch with guys from anywhere<br />
in Scotland or any Scots anywhere.<br />
Friendship only. E-mail, MSN. Box<br />
SG63127.<br />
SEEKING HORNY FUN JUNE<br />
36, slim, friendly, discreet and non-scene<br />
English guy on holiday in Scotland June<br />
(Glasgow/Kilsyth/West Highlands) seeks<br />
guys similar age for horny fun. Box<br />
SG63128.<br />
LOOKING FOR DAYTIME FUN<br />
Biker, 50, looking for daytime fun in<br />
Inverclyde area. Box SG63129.<br />
Send all replies to : <strong>ScotsGay</strong>, PO Box 666, Edinburgh EH7 5YW.<br />
MALE WANTED TO<br />
ADMINISTER CP<br />
Wanted: guy under 60, in the<br />
Edinburgh/Glasgow area to administer 12<br />
strokes of my heavy Lochgelly tawse on my<br />
bare buttocks. I want a guy who has a good<br />
strong arm to deliver the punishment. I am<br />
not looking for a sexual relationship, just a<br />
reform school type belting. I am in my early<br />
50’s, and fairly fit and active. I cannot<br />
accommodate so it would have to be your<br />
place. Any offers? Box SG63130.<br />
PASSIVE LAD SOUGHT<br />
Glasgow based Dominant (50) seeking to<br />
meet new friends, genuine search. Ideally,<br />
you will be passive in nature and looking for<br />
friendship with older “daddy” type. Have<br />
other interests too. Looking for genuine,<br />
honest friendship. Obedience and control<br />
taught by traditional style methods. No<br />
timewasters please, this is a genuine search<br />
for genuine LTR. Box SG63133.<br />
LIGHT BONDAGE AND FUN -<br />
TAYSIDE<br />
I am 33, g/l, male, educated,<br />
Dundee/Angus, would like to meet experienced<br />
gay men into light bondage. I like to<br />
have my hands cuffed behind me, naked,<br />
then taken from behind on my knees. Enjoy<br />
repeated penetrations. Great body. Cannot<br />
accommodate. Box SG63134.<br />
LOOKING FOR FUN<br />
16 year old looking for dirty man of any<br />
age to teach me the “Ropes” I live in<br />
Caithness. I can travel but cannot accommodate.<br />
Box SG63135.<br />
TIGHT AND SMOOTH<br />
Bi guy, 24, looking to meet guys between<br />
18-35 for no strings enjoyment. 5’10”,<br />
slim, 7” u\c, lovely smooth balls and tight<br />
pink hole waiting to be filled. Box<br />
SG63137.<br />
MASSAGE EXCHANGE<br />
Fully qualified massage therapist seeks others<br />
for massage exchange. Glasgow based,<br />
can accommodate or travel. Would like to<br />
set up a massage group too. Box<br />
SG63138.<br />
FIRST TIMER<br />
Hi, genuine 29 year old horny guy looking<br />
to meet up with an experienced older guy in<br />
the Glasgow area to have a good time! Box<br />
SG63139.<br />
ATTRACTIVE BLACK GUY<br />
Living in Southern England, soon moving to<br />
Scotland, would like to hear from friendly,<br />
attractive Scots in Glasgow or Edinburgh for<br />
friendship, fun and nightlife. Box<br />
SG63140.<br />
ISLAND MAN LOOKING FOR<br />
FUN!<br />
I’m 30, well built, not too bad looking. I’m<br />
looking for discreet fun, willing to do O and<br />
A and more besides! Live on an island so<br />
would have to be patient and careful in<br />
planning. Box SG63142.<br />
EDINBURGH OR ANYWHERE<br />
Down to earth average looking 39 year old,<br />
5’8”, genuine. I am looking for a genuine<br />
guy who has got a motorbike and is also<br />
looking for a leather clad genuine guy to be<br />
his pillion to go out for long runs and have<br />
good safe horny fun on the bike or off. I will<br />
go halfers with all expenses. Please do reply<br />
if you are a biker. Genuine replies and<br />
please no time wasters. ALAWP. Box<br />
SG63143.<br />
ABERDEENSHIRE -<br />
MORAYSHIRE<br />
56 year old wheelchair user seeks 17 or 18<br />
year old youth not into drink or drugs.<br />
Discretion required. GSOH. Into staying in,<br />
videos, DVDs and TV. Box SG63146.<br />
LOOKING FOR BOYFRIEND<br />
47 year old Tayside man, 5’9”, 11st, slim<br />
build, looking for genuine guy, 21-40 for<br />
relationship. I like foortball, music, eating<br />
out. ALA with photo. Box SG63147.<br />
WANT A SUMMER BREAK?<br />
Any young lads or students want a summer<br />
break in Shetland with a 30 year old guy.<br />
Own farm. Enjoy the space for a quiet break<br />
with me. Travel costs can be paid. Box<br />
SG63148.<br />
SLIM? SKINNY? LOOK NO<br />
FURTHER?<br />
Fife guy, middle aged, seeks slim guys of<br />
any age for no strings fun at his place or<br />
yours. S/a, S/l, NSm, N/sc and very discreet.<br />
Bi, married welcome. ALA. Box<br />
SG63149.<br />
TOUGH MASTERS WANTED<br />
Total submissive slave requuires tough master/s<br />
for restraint, punishment, sexual and<br />
houth duties. 35. Edinburgh area. Can travel.<br />
Box SG63150.<br />
LOTHIAN LEATHER GUY<br />
Youthful old guy (59) looking for man own<br />
age. Workmen loyalty discretion humourous<br />
seriously horny sense fun. Biker with obvious<br />
interests would be a bonus. Vanilla to<br />
SM with right man. Box SG63151.<br />
WANT A SHETLAND HOLIDAY<br />
Horny guy looking to meet males visiting<br />
Shetland can accommodate holiday makers.<br />
Welcome campers, bikers, any. Get in<br />
touch. Enclose mobile number for fast reply.<br />
Box SG63152.<br />
THIGH SAY! BOOTED BABES<br />
BEEFYBURLY<br />
Regular Scots visitor, passive, single, 45,<br />
non smoker, WLTM thigh booted cross<br />
dresser, TV, TS, for anal oral action. I love<br />
boots! You could be beefy or burly too. ALA.<br />
Box SG63153.<br />
ATTRACTIVE<br />
Slim young 60, 5’7”, smart appearance,<br />
totally passive, WLTM visit discreet active<br />
top guy, for friendship and more. Good<br />
clean fun, likes O and A, videos. Letters<br />
please. Box SG63154.<br />
GAY PRISONER<br />
28 year old seeks mail as very bored. ALA.<br />
Box SG63155.<br />
LIVE-IN HOUSEBOYS WANTED<br />
Are you 18-35, slim, smooth. Free accommodation<br />
and meals in exchange for<br />
domestic, garden, sexual duties. Pocket<br />
money (if good) if bad (spanked). Send<br />
detailed letter, photos. Send now. Box<br />
SG63156.<br />
SHETLAND ISLAND GAMES<br />
Any sporty males attending Island Games in<br />
Lerwick want a discreet meet. Can accommodate.<br />
Anything goes fun times. Box<br />
SG63157.<br />
WHAT’S IT CALLED?<br />
My name is Bill. I live in Cumbernauld area.<br />
I’m 52 and look for a gay guy, any age, to<br />
visit me weekly for friendship and more. No<br />
mobile phone numbers and full postal<br />
address, please. Box SG63158.<br />
LIKE YOU LIKE ME LIKE BOYS<br />
Boy (45) likes boy stories, sport, a pint,<br />
rock and thinking. Seeking head-boy who’d<br />
help me get fit. NSm. Easy going, cheerful,<br />
but sex mad. Letter, photo, phone number.<br />
Edinburgh. Box SG63159.<br />
SHETLAND TRAVEL GUIDE<br />
Want a guy (35) to show you the sights of<br />
beautiful Shetland. Big house so I can give<br />
you a free bed whil you are enjoying the<br />
islands. Box SG63160.<br />
FREE ROOM<br />
Offered in Central Edinburgh flat to young<br />
guy in exchange for light domestic work<br />
and help with shopping by older man in ill<br />
health. Box SG63161.<br />
ARE YOU FAT? MIDDLE AGED?<br />
BORED OF SCENE?<br />
I’m 40, look younger, OHAC, medium build,<br />
VWE and love fat 40+ men who enjoy a<br />
man who appreciates the fuller figure. Bald<br />
is a plus. I serious - are you? Glasgow area.<br />
Box SG63162.<br />
ANYWHERE RURAL<br />
Passive manservant, loyal and dedicated,<br />
seeks dominant household or demanding<br />
master. I will submit to training and serve<br />
as required. ALA. Box SG63163.<br />
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO<br />
FRICTION IN THE END<br />
Cynical 46 year old seeks equally cynical<br />
16-26 year old for fun and friendship.<br />
Strictly non scene. Box SG63166.<br />
BISEXUAL<br />
BI CURIOUS?<br />
There has to be a first time for everything!<br />
Aged 16-21: get in touch? Considerate<br />
experienced versatile older guy will talk you<br />
through things at your own pace before getting<br />
down to some safe fun. Your limits<br />
respected. Total discretion assured. Live in<br />
Edinburgh but will travel if required. Box<br />
SG63101.<br />
BI FEMALE SEEKS SIMILAR<br />
Professional bi female, 32, non scene,<br />
seeks similar genuine bi female. Box<br />
SG63116.<br />
LOOKING FOR GREAT TIME<br />
Anyone want to have a lot of fun and show<br />
me a good time? Willing to travel as long<br />
as you can accommodate. Box SG63119.<br />
SHY CD LEARNER LOOKING<br />
FOR GENT<br />
I would like to meet a kind older gent for<br />
weekday fun in the Greenock/Wemyss Bay<br />
area. I am 5’11” and a dress size 16 and<br />
all body hair is shaven. Box SG63120.<br />
MISTRESS SEEKS YOUNG<br />
PLAYTHINGS<br />
Long and blonde late 30’s Bi CD slim, firm<br />
and sexy mistress seeks young Bi CD sub or<br />
Bi/Gay couple for fun and games in and<br />
around Edinburgh. Box SG63126.<br />
YOUNG GUY WANTING TO<br />
EXPERIMENT<br />
I am 18 year old boy looking to experiment<br />
with guys or girls between 18 and 23. I am<br />
looking for someone to take time and help<br />
me learn. Box SG63131.<br />
MAN CALLED UNCLE<br />
Still seeks niece (bi lady), nephew<br />
(bi/gay) for fun and naughty games. Can<br />
accommodate though travel limited. All<br />
ages and replies considered. ALA. Smokers<br />
and disabled welcome. Grampian area. Box<br />
SG63164.<br />
SUBMISSIVE BODYBUILDER<br />
50” ch, 18” arm, 35” waist, 5’8”, 16st,<br />
total bottom, require total top with photo.<br />
Anywhere. Box SG63165.<br />
STRAIGHT<br />
EDINBURGH<br />
Friendly, fit, 50something silver bear,<br />
recently moved to Edinburgh, seeks morally<br />
relaxed women of all ages for fun and<br />
friendship. Box SG63103.<br />
FRIENDS ABROAD<br />
INTERGAY<br />
Penpal contacts with gay men all over the<br />
world. Over 120 subscribers in 30 countries.<br />
To join is free: send your ad. Only subscribers<br />
get the booklet with all data and<br />
addresses by enclosing £5. INTERGAY,<br />
Voorstraat 12-A, 4033 AD Lienden,<br />
Netherlands.<br />
GERMAN LOOKING FOR SCOTS<br />
FRIEND<br />
I am Thomas, 46, 6ft tall, 13st weight,<br />
dark blond longish hair. Am looking for a<br />
Scotsman for mutual visits, fun and of<br />
course friendship. Am interested in British<br />
history, esoteric topics (Knights Templar,<br />
Freemasons, Wicca) like to read, languages,<br />
video, cinema, music (musicals,<br />
etc.) and of course sex (top). I like the<br />
Scottish accent and have always wanted to<br />
know what’s hidden under the Scottish kilt.<br />
LOL. So hope that somebody out there is<br />
interested in contacting me. Write: Thomas<br />
Piotrowski, Klippe 49, 42555 Velbert,<br />
Germany. E-mail: Tirnanog42@gmx.de<br />
SEEKING FRIEND AND LOVER<br />
Thai guy look yonger and good looking,<br />
honest sincere warm and kind. No drink!<br />
No smoke! I’m looking for friend and lover<br />
who can share my feeling and interests.<br />
Especially could come to Thailand in order to<br />
meet me. Thailand the land of smile welcomes<br />
you all and I am very glad to hear<br />
from you. Write: Oxide Phosa, Box 30,<br />
Lomsak, Phetchabun, Thailand, 67110. Email:<br />
get_dam@yahoo.com<br />
MAKE SCOTSGAY YOUR<br />
FRIEND IN SCOTLAND<br />
just pick up your copy of ScotsGAy at one of<br />
the venues listed on page 19.<br />
US FILM & THEATRE<br />
PRODUCER<br />
Looking for young guy to enhance his<br />
August visit. Will be in Edinburgh from 8-19<br />
August and wish to meet young, boyish<br />
looking 18-24 cute guy who will be invited<br />
as my guest to attend Fringe plays and<br />
enjoy great lunch and dinners. Staying at<br />
the George Hotel. If you enjoy older guys,<br />
(I’m 49, 6’0”, 13st 3lb) and having a<br />
good spanking when I think you need it,<br />
and are romantic, dependable, sincere and<br />
fun to be with, I’d like to hear from you. Email<br />
me directly at: LSBTRAVEL@aol.com<br />
Take a chance and reply as you certainly<br />
have nothing to lose and everything to gain<br />
- especially a great new friend.<br />
JOBS OFFERED<br />
£100 PER HOUR<br />
We are recruiting attractive guys to work as<br />
escorts in our highly respected escort<br />
agency. Earn up to £100 per hour for doing<br />
what you enjoy. You will be well looked<br />
after and supported in your work, and will<br />
be involved with a progressive, dynamic<br />
agency. Models also required. For more info<br />
call Ross on 08444 170134 or E-mail:<br />
ross@scotsguys.com [63]<br />
ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
In the comfort of your own home or clinics<br />
throughout Edinburgh. Therapies available:<br />
Reiki treatments/teaching, Indian Head<br />
Massage, Spiritual Readings and Hopi Ear<br />
Candles. Fully qualified and insured therapist.<br />
Please contact Alan on 07747<br />
714005 for clinics and appointments. [99]<br />
ANIMAL LOVER<br />
Unique opportunity for horse and circus<br />
lover. Live in and learn to ride a High School<br />
Andalucian Horse. Possibility of waged UK<br />
tour summer 2005. Meals and accommodation<br />
provided with training. NE Scotland.<br />
Tel: Bobby on St Colms (01346) 583145.<br />
[<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR<br />
Required for the summer season by busy<br />
sailing school on West Coast of Scotland.<br />
Applicants must be young, fit, cheerful and<br />
reasonably broadminded. Experience not<br />
necessary as full training will be provided.<br />
Good terms and conditions including free<br />
private accommodation. Night suit student<br />
or school leaver. E-mail: swl121@aol.com<br />
or Tel: 07831 846025 for further details.<br />
[64]<br />
CASH FOR YOUR BODY<br />
Photogenic guys can earn £100 cash posing<br />
for Mike Arlen who has had 14 glossy<br />
magazines published called Mike Arlen’s<br />
Guys. Send snapshots of your magnificent<br />
body to him: Mike Arlen, Wetherby Studios,<br />
23 Wetherby Mansions, Earls Court Square,<br />
London. SW5 9BH or Phone: 020-7373<br />
1107. E-mail:<br />
mikearlen@btopenworld.com [99]<br />
LOOKING FOR STAFF<br />
Seeking salespeople for Spanish property<br />
shows in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and<br />
Inverness areas. Sundays only. Do you have<br />
transport, access to PC, someone to work<br />
with? Commission only. £700 a day<br />
expected with approximately 15 week<br />
delay of payments. Full training given to<br />
right person. Contact Sales Manager: 0141-<br />
229 1693. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
MALE CARER<br />
Required to assist partially disabled single<br />
man, dressing and undressing and light<br />
household duties. Free accommodation and<br />
salary available in comfortable bungalow on<br />
main bus route 12 miles North of Perth.<br />
Box SG63145.<br />
MODELS WANTED<br />
Previously published photographer needs<br />
good looking guys (18-25) who want to<br />
earn £20 per hour for publication work. For<br />
details please phone Stuart on 0141-636<br />
6556 (No withheld numbers please) or Email:<br />
xpozure4u@shaws2000.fsnet.co.uk<br />
[99]<br />
WELL HUNG MODELS 18-30<br />
WANTED<br />
Well hung male models aged 18-30 wanted<br />
for adult website. Photo shoot in
Glasgow June 05. Good pay. Please apply<br />
only if 8” or more. E-mail:<br />
hunglads@lycos.co.uk or Write: Box<br />
SG63132. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
SERVICES<br />
CAFFMOS<br />
Contacts and friendships for men over sixty.<br />
The organisation for the more mature gentleman<br />
and his admirers. Write to:<br />
CAFFMOS, PO Box 2273, Hove. BN3 2GF.<br />
Or phone Hove (01273) 220995 for info.<br />
[99]<br />
CONTACT MAG<br />
Contact Mag for adults: over 900 photos.<br />
Approval copy from: Matchmaker (K38),<br />
Chorley, PR7 4BS. Or ring 01257 483335<br />
(24 hours). [99]<br />
CP CONTACT PAPER<br />
CP contact paper for spanking, skins, discipline,<br />
etc. SAE to TD Monthly, PO Box 352,<br />
Manchester. M60 2PG. [99]<br />
FREE TV/TS NEWS<br />
A Tranny not for profit newsletter. Views,<br />
news, venues and free personal adverts. A5<br />
sae: BM Box 2534, London. WC1N 3XX.<br />
[99]<br />
GOLDEN WHEEL<br />
Seeking discreet gay or bisexual new<br />
friends, male or female? Long standing<br />
service, all areas and worldwide. Send<br />
stamp for details to: (Sadie), The Golden<br />
Wheel, Liverpool. L15 3HT. [99]<br />
HOME IN SPAIN<br />
For letting or investment. Superb villas, bungalows<br />
or apartments with pool direct from<br />
builder from £65,000 (60 per cent mortgage<br />
available). Call Let’s Live Abroad on<br />
0845 2255777. WWW: http://www.letsliveabroad.com/<br />
[99]<br />
LIMITED COMPANIES<br />
Only £90 for your own Limited Company.<br />
PLCs £100. Charitable and Unlimited<br />
Companies also available. Freephone 0800<br />
526421 for our free ‘Guide To Limited<br />
Companies’. E-mail:<br />
cosun@drink.demon.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.quick-companies.co.uk/ [99]<br />
PROOFREADING AND TUITION<br />
In English (including TEFL), French, Latin,<br />
Greek and Gaelic, Typing Services, Historical<br />
and Genealogical Research. Charles S<br />
Coventry, 23/9 Viewcraig Street,<br />
Edinburgh. EH8 9UJ. Tel: 0131-558 8785.<br />
E-mail: charlie_cov@yahoo.co.uk [99]<br />
TD MONTHLY<br />
The UK’s fastest-growing contact publication<br />
for gay men into spanking/CP and all related<br />
interests. Please send SAE for details.<br />
Write: TD Monthly, PO Box 310,<br />
Manchester. M15 6WT. WWW:<br />
http://geocities.com/tdmonthly/homepage.html<br />
[99]<br />
TRANSLATION SERVICES<br />
Qualified translator based in Dundee offers<br />
translation services between the following<br />
languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian,<br />
Turkish and French. E-mail:<br />
trots2@drink.demon.co.uk or Write: Box<br />
SG63100. [99]<br />
WORLDWIDE PENFRIENDS<br />
Regular lists. Make friends, exchange holidays,<br />
improve your languages. For general<br />
and music lovers’ lists send £3: “The<br />
Penpal List”, c/o 221B Merton Rd,<br />
Southfields, London. SW18 5EE. [99]<br />
BACK RUBS<br />
DUNDEE<br />
For the best relaxing massage, full body<br />
plus head massage, in relaxing atmosphere.<br />
Cal me now. Remedial treatments and<br />
tuition in relaxing massage given. Tel:<br />
07986 465474. [65a]<br />
EDINBURGH<br />
Chubby gay man offers erotic massage for<br />
men (£20) in Central Edinburgh. Call Kenny<br />
on 0131-661 1477 or 07880 658324.<br />
[99]<br />
SCOTSGUYS ESCORT AGENCY<br />
The best gay escorts in Scotland are at<br />
ScotsGuys! Visit<br />
http://www.scotsguys.com/ for pictures<br />
and details or call 08444 170134 (local<br />
rate) for all enquiries and bookings. New<br />
Escorts always wanted. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
NEW EDINBURGH JAKE<br />
New Jake, 30, fit muscle lad, XVWE, VGL,<br />
tanned, offers discreet escort service, fully<br />
versatile, CP, leather available. Based<br />
Edinburgh can travel. In/out hotels. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
MALE/MALE MASSAGE<br />
Looking for a strong hard full body massage<br />
with oils? Give me a call. Fife/Perth area.<br />
01577 830386. Bill. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
MASSAGE AVAILABLE<br />
Have a real rub-down with your copy of<br />
<strong>ScotsGay</strong>.<br />
GLASGOW & EDINBURGH!<br />
Kyle - 18 year old boyish and cute gay<br />
escort in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Slim,<br />
toned, hung and horny. Versatile/passive<br />
and can accommodate in Glasgow or visit<br />
you. Will travel. Call 07043 368505.<br />
[<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
HOT NEW GUY!<br />
Anton - 24 year old sexy guy with toned,<br />
smooth body. Good looking and professional<br />
guy giving a friendly, relaxed service at<br />
my place or yours. Available in Glasgow,<br />
Edinburgh and throughout Central Scotland.<br />
Tel: 07050 174700 for details. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
NEW GLASGOW ESCORT<br />
Damien - 18 year Glasgow lad. Straight<br />
acting/looking guy with a friendly and<br />
open personality. I’m a VWE active guy<br />
offering a discreet service. My place or<br />
yours. Will travel. Call Ross: 07050<br />
030424 for info. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
NEW GLASGOW GAY ESCORT<br />
Darren - 18 year old Glasgow lad. Very<br />
cute, schoolboy looks, slim and smooth.<br />
XVWE and always horny! Friendly and discreet<br />
service at my place or yours. Will travel.<br />
Tel:07043 368517 for details. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
TEN INCH - GLASGOW<br />
Craig - 21 year old Glasgow Gay Escort. Tall,<br />
slim and smooth lad with ten inches to play<br />
with. Versatile and horny. Can accommodate<br />
in Glasgow or visit you. Call Craig<br />
0141-876 1442. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
MASSAGE FOR MEN -<br />
EDINBURGH<br />
Great relaxing, holistic, sensual, tantric, full<br />
body pampering in nurturing masculine<br />
environment. Soft candles, music, incense,<br />
warm towels, shower, cologne, refreshments.<br />
£20 session. Jim: Qualified, experienced,<br />
caring. 0131-556 7199. [64a]<br />
WHERE TO STAY<br />
ALL NEW, ALL GAY<br />
GUESTHOUSES - EDINBURGH<br />
Two great locations. Exclusively gay. Easy<br />
walk to nightlife. Stylish rooms, all with TV<br />
and video (tapes available). Shared and private<br />
bathrooms. Breakfast available till<br />
noon. Non-smoking houses. Easy parking.<br />
Room rates: £29-£49 per night. Call 0131-<br />
558 1382 or Fax 0131-556 8279.<br />
W W W :<br />
http://www.gayscotland.com/alvahouse/<br />
[<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
APARTMENT - EDINBURGH<br />
CITY CENTRE<br />
Holiday/break. Fabulous serviced apartment,<br />
near all gay venues. 5 mins to main<br />
rail/bus stations and Princes St. Sleeps 1-5<br />
people. 1 double bedded room. 1 single<br />
bedroom. Very large lounge/dining room -<br />
inc double sofabed. Kitchen inc all mod cons<br />
and bathroom. From £90 per night. Tel:<br />
0131-557 1910 or 07966 938055 or Email:<br />
dublinstreetstay@hotmail.com for<br />
bookings. WWW: http://www.dublinstreet.co.uk/<br />
[68a]<br />
B & B<br />
Main High Street, Clachnaharry, Inverness.<br />
£14.50pppn. Double or single. Breakfast<br />
and light supper included. Tel: Inverness<br />
(01463) 229662. Ask for Murdo. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
INVERNESS - GLENUIG GUEST<br />
HOUSE<br />
Close to City Centre. Welcoming, gay-friendly<br />
atmosphere. Spacious ensuite rooms. Off<br />
street parking. Substantial continental<br />
breakfast served until noon. Rates from<br />
£18pppn. Tel: Inverness (01463)<br />
250938. [64a]<br />
NEAR PERTH<br />
Guest House. En suite rooms B&B £25.<br />
Dinner to order. Also massage, hairdressing<br />
head and body. For a discreet personal service,<br />
call Ron on 07730 876454. [67]<br />
NORTH WEST HIGHLANDS<br />
Friendly and relaxed small B&B with spectacular<br />
mountain views & wilderness surroundings.<br />
Ideal for walking, climbing,<br />
cycling or enjoying the peace & quiet in an<br />
“away from it all” picturesque location.<br />
Martin and Ken. Tel: (01809) 511315.<br />
WWW: http://www.poulary.co.uk/ [68a]<br />
PENZANCE - CORNWALL<br />
Small, gay-friendly, period hotel situated<br />
with own parking in town centre. Rooms<br />
available en-suite. WWW:<br />
http://www.cliffhotelpz.co.uk/ Tel:<br />
(01736) 368888. [99]<br />
PERTH<br />
We are a gay and lesbian friendly guest<br />
house in Perth. 10 mins from city centre<br />
amenities. Comfortable rooms recently<br />
refurbished and ensuite. 24 channel televideo.<br />
All diets catered for. Excellent rates.<br />
Full Scottish breakfast. See you soon.<br />
Phone 07715 180157. E-mail:<br />
enquiries@rosebankguesthouseperth.co.uk<br />
[67]<br />
PORTGOWER - HELMSDALE<br />
Self catering accommodation to let. Fully<br />
furnished house. Double bedroom, bathroom<br />
and shower, sitting room,<br />
kitchen/diner. Back and front door, Front<br />
and back garden. Parking for three cars. Tel:<br />
Murdo for further particulars on Inverness<br />
(01463) 229662. [<strong>63a</strong>]<br />
POTTERY HOUSE B&B - LOCH<br />
NESS<br />
Small, friendly B&B on the shores of Loch<br />
Ness just 8 miles from Inverness. Call John<br />
or Glen: 01463 751267. WWW:<br />
http://www.potteryhouse.co.uk/ [64a]<br />
boxes<br />
HELPLINES AND SWITCHBOARDS<br />
CROSSLYNX NATIONAL TV/TS/TG HELPLINE<br />
Mon 7.30-9.30pm. Phone: 0141-847 0787<br />
WWW: http://www.crosslynx.org/<br />
CUMBRIA AND THE BORDERS GAY HELPLINE<br />
Nightly 6-9pm. Phone: Bassenthwaite Lake (01768) 776244<br />
DIVERSITAY LGBT SWITCHBOARD (DUNDEE)<br />
Mon 7-10pm. Phone: Dundee (01382) 202620 Write: PO Box 53, Dundee. DD1 3YG.<br />
E-mail: contact@diversitay.org.uk<br />
WWW: http://www.diversitay.org.uk/<br />
FIFE HATE CRIME REPORTING HELPLINE<br />
24 hours. Phone: Freephone 0800 3891425<br />
A freephone number for people who wish support in reporting to Fife Constabulary crime motivated by hate. For further<br />
information about the service or becoming a trained helpline volunteer, phone us now!<br />
HOMOPHOBIC CRIME LINE<br />
Nightly 7-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0647 or Stirling (01786) 469483<br />
WWW: http://www.centralscotland.police.uk/gblt/<br />
LOTHIAN GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD<br />
Nightly 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0131-556 4049<br />
E-mail: switchboard@rapidial.co.uk WWW: http://www.lgls.co.uk/<br />
LOTHIAN LESBIAN LINE<br />
Mon, Thu 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0131-557 0751<br />
E-mail: switchboard@rapidial.co.uk WWW: http://www.lgls.co.uk/<br />
STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD<br />
Nightly 7-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0447<br />
E-mail: info@sgls.co.uk WWW: http://www.sgls.co.uk/<br />
STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN LINE<br />
Wed 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0547<br />
WWW: http://www.sgls.co.uk/services1.htm<br />
LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD<br />
24 hours. Phone/Minicom: 020-7837 7324. FAX: 020-7837 7300. WWW: http://www.llgs.org.uk/<br />
ScotsG ay<br />
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venues and emporia<br />
ABERDEEN<br />
ABERDEEN WOMEN’S CENTRE*<br />
Shoe Lane, (next door to Lemon Tree). Tel:<br />
(01224) 625010. Tue-Wed 10am-2pm,<br />
Thu 5-9pm. A women only space where all<br />
women are welcome without prejudice. Free<br />
use of computers and Internet connection.<br />
Access for disabled. No smoking policy in<br />
Centre. Contact Maria Clark for more details<br />
at E-mail: awc@clara.co.uk<br />
BAR INDIGO*<br />
20 Adelphi. Sun-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri-Sat 5pm-<br />
3am. Gay bar/club in old Oh Henry’s premises.<br />
Free entry before Midnight - thereafter £2<br />
entry Fri, £3 entry Sat.<br />
WELLMANS HEALTH STUDIO*<br />
3rd Floor, 21-23 Justice Mill Lane. Tel:<br />
(01224) 211441. Mon-Fri 11am-10pm,<br />
Sat-Sun 10am-5pm. Aberdeen’s first (and<br />
only) gay sauna. Two video booths, dark<br />
room, sauna, steam room, stand-and-tan sun<br />
cabin. Massages available from £20 - no<br />
need to book in advance.<br />
ABERDOUR<br />
FORRESTER’S ARMS*<br />
35 High Street. Tel: (01383) 860544. Sun<br />
12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 11.30am-<br />
Midnight. Gay-friendly venue operated by Mark<br />
(ex Edinburgh’s Holyrood Tavern). Real ale.<br />
DUNDEE<br />
BROOKLYN’S BAR*<br />
2 St Andrew’s Lane. Tel: (01382) 200660.<br />
5pm-Midnight. Well appointed gay-friendly<br />
bar next door to Out and under the same<br />
management. Karaoke: Wed, Fri & Sun. DJ:<br />
Sat (Handbag Heaven Show).<br />
CHARLIE’S BAR*<br />
75-79 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 226840. Sun<br />
12.30-11pm, Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight. Gayfriendly<br />
bar with free disco Fri & Sat 8pm-<br />
Midnight. Free use of premises for prebooked<br />
groups.<br />
OUT*<br />
124 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 200660. Wed-<br />
Sun 11pm-2.30am. Good atmosphere, very<br />
popular disco with wide selection of sounds<br />
and the occasional act/PA.<br />
EDINBURGH<br />
ABSOLUTELY DRAGULOUS*<br />
Claremont Bar, 133/135 East Claremont<br />
Street. Tel: 0131-556 5662. Fax: 0131-<br />
558 3539. 9pm-late. 3rd Fri & 5th Sat of<br />
each month. Next dates: Fri 17th Jun, Fri<br />
15th Jul, Sat 30th Jul (Summer/Beach<br />
Theme). Club for trannies, admirers, anybody<br />
with an open mind. Entertainment, Dancing.<br />
Entry £5 (Trannies £3). WWW:<br />
http://www.absolutely-dragulous.com/ and<br />
http://www.claremontbar.co.uk/absolutelydragulous.htm<br />
THE AULD HOOSE*<br />
23-25 St Leonards Street. Tel: 0131-668<br />
2934. Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat<br />
11.30am-1am. Everybody-friendly bar. Real<br />
ale. Food served: Mon-Fri 11.30am-1.30pm<br />
& 5pm-8.30pm, Sat 11.30am-7.30pm, Sun<br />
12.30-6.30pm.<br />
BLACK BO’S<br />
57/61 Blackfriars Street. Tel: 0131-557<br />
6136. Mon-Thu 6-10pm, Fri-Sat 6-<br />
10.30pm. Superb little mostly vegetarian<br />
restaurant. Friendly staff. Mixed clientele. Email:<br />
admin@blackbos.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.blackbos.co.uk/<br />
BLAZE<br />
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.<br />
11pm-3am. 1st, 3rd & 4th Fri of each<br />
month. Commercial/funky house & chart by<br />
James Longworth and guests. “Igniting the<br />
gay weekend”. £1.50 drinks promos all<br />
night. Entry £5. E-mail: info@jameslongworth.com<br />
WWW: http://www.jameslongworth.com/<br />
BLUE MOON*<br />
1 Barony Street/36 Broughton Street. Tel:<br />
0131-556 2788 (Bar) or 0131-557 0911<br />
(Office). Sun 10am-11pm, Mon-Thu 11am-<br />
11pm, Fri 11am-11.30pm, Sat 10am-<br />
11.30pm. Food served until 10pm. Popular<br />
lesbigay café/bar complex.<br />
BOBBIE’S BOOKSHOP*<br />
220 Morrison Street. Tel: 0131-538 7069.<br />
Mon-Sat 10am-1pm, 2-5.30pm. Mixed<br />
bookshop selling a selection of UK and<br />
imported gay magazines.<br />
BOOTYLUSHOUS<br />
Medina Nightclub (Under Negociants), 45-<br />
47 Lothian Street. Tel: 0131-225 8313.<br />
Info Line: 07736 936650. Sun 10pm-3am.<br />
Hosted by DJ Dale Lush and Graeme F.<br />
R&B/Soul/Disco. £2 entry before Midnight -<br />
£3 thereafter. WWW: http://www.lushmarketing.com/<br />
BURLY TOO<br />
The Commplex, 39-40 Commercial Street,<br />
Leith. Tel: 0131-555 5600. Info Line:<br />
07930 357401. 10.30pm-3am. 3rd Sat of<br />
each month. Next dates: Sat 18th Jun<br />
“Topless & Tattoo”. Sat 23rd July “Brief<br />
Encounter” - Dress Code Boots & Underwear<br />
+ usual Burly dress code. Aimed at lads 25+.<br />
Dress Code: Sportswear, denim, rubber,<br />
leather, uniform, kilts. No designer or trendy<br />
gear. Entry after 1am at the discretion of the<br />
18<br />
promoters/door security. “Burly designed to<br />
be cruisy”. £8 on the door. E-mail:<br />
dv8scots@hotmail.com WWW:<br />
http://www.dv8scots.co.uk/<br />
C.C. BLOOM’S*<br />
23 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-556 9331.<br />
Mon, Fri, Sat 6pm-3am, Sun, Tue-Thu 8pm-<br />
3am. Two floors. Karaoke on Thu and Sun.<br />
Cilla Slack on Fri 10pm-3am. Disco every<br />
night from 11pm. E-mail:<br />
xanderfan82@hotmail.com WWW:<br />
http://www.ccblooms.com/<br />
CLAREMONT BAR & RESTAURANT*<br />
133/135 East Claremont Street. Tel: 0131-<br />
556 5662. Fax: 0131-558 3539. Bar: Sun<br />
12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 11am-1am.<br />
Restaurant: Sun 12.30pm-6pm, Mon-Sat<br />
11.30am-2.30pm and 6pm-10pm. “The<br />
Claremont is one of the most relaxed attitude<br />
bars in the city and has a policy that the customer<br />
always comes first.”; Renowned for<br />
courtesy, comfort and good food. 3rd Fri:<br />
Drag night. 1st Sat: Bearscots for bears and<br />
bear lovers. 2nd Sat: Gaykilts & Sporran<br />
Clan. 3rd Sat: Fetish, leather and Scotskins.<br />
4th Sat: Camouflage/uniform night. 5th Sat:<br />
Drag night. E-mail: mail@claremontbar.co.uk<br />
WWW: http://www.claremontbar.co.uk/<br />
DÉ VILS<br />
9 Seafield Road East, Portobello. Tel: 0131-<br />
657 5575. New gay sauna. Reports welcome.<br />
DISKO BLOODBATH<br />
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.<br />
11pm-3am. Monthly. 1st and 3rd Wed of<br />
each month. Next dates: Wed 1st & 22nd<br />
Jun. Edinburgh’s 1st Alternative Queer Night.<br />
Hard boys, hard girls, hard rock, punk, electro-alternative<br />
with Party Monster atmosphere.<br />
£3.<br />
EASYINTERNETCAFÉ<br />
58 Rose Street. Tel: 0131-220 3577. Sun<br />
9am-10pm, Mon-Sat 7am-10pm. Large<br />
Internet Café from which many gay men<br />
seem to troll the net instead of just picking up<br />
each other! WWW: http://www.easyinternetcafe.com/<br />
EDINBURGH LGBT CENTRE*<br />
58a and 60 Broughton Street. Houses Sala<br />
Café-Bar and Pride Scotia (Edinburgh).<br />
Provides meeting and noticeboard space for<br />
many LGBT organisations.<br />
FEVER<br />
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.<br />
Info Line: 0131-557 4656. 11pm-3am.<br />
Monthly. Next date: 25th Jun (Max Hebert<br />
(Stereo, Montréal) and Residents). Taste’s<br />
monthly night featuring Taste resident DJs<br />
Fisher & Price and Martin Valentine in the<br />
ballroom and The Visitor and Kaupuss playing<br />
pophouseelectrodisconewwaveglam (basically<br />
anything goes) in the Cocteau Lounge. Preclub<br />
party at The Street from 9pm with DJs<br />
The Visitor and Kaupuss. Ask staff for discount<br />
passes. £8 Members/£10 - Taste<br />
members £5 before 11.15pm. WWW:<br />
http://www.taste-clubs.com/<br />
FRENCHIES BAR*<br />
89 Rose Street Lane North. Tel: 0131-225<br />
7651. Sun 2pm-1am, Mon-Sat 1pm-1am.<br />
Vibrant gay bar (Edinburgh’s oldest) in the<br />
heart of Rose Street. Happy Hour 6-8pm<br />
every day.<br />
FUR BURGER<br />
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.<br />
11pm-3am. 2nd Thu of each month. Next<br />
date: Thu 9th Jun. “I’m Lickin It” - new<br />
women’s club. £3. Pre club at Planet Out.<br />
W W W :<br />
http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.p<br />
hp?id=2323325<br />
HABANA*<br />
22 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-558 1270.<br />
Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat Noon-1am.<br />
Centrally located pre club bar. Open and<br />
bright as well as quite intimate. Busy. Drink<br />
promos throughout the month. E-mail:<br />
habana1@btinternet.com. WWW:<br />
http://www.gayscotland.com/habana/<br />
HEROES<br />
Subway Cowgate, 69 The Cowgate. 0131-<br />
225 6766. 11pm-3am. Monthly. Next date:<br />
Thu 23rd Jun. Edinburgh’s Pop Art Night - Live<br />
Music, Art, DJs, GoGo Dancers. WWW:<br />
http://www.geocities.com/YRaHERO/<br />
JOY<br />
The Venue, 15 Calton Road. JOY Info Line:<br />
0131-467 2551. 11pm-3am. Monthly.<br />
Next dates: Sat 4th Jun, 2nd Jul. Popular<br />
club night held on three levels and featuring<br />
DJs Maggie Joy, Alan Joy and Brett King in<br />
the main room, Trendy Wendy and Sally F<br />
downstairs in The Cooler. £8 Joy members/£10<br />
otherwise - look out for discount<br />
passes in the bars beforehand.<br />
LEATHER AND LACE*<br />
8 Drummond Street. Tel: 0131-557 9413.<br />
Fax: 0131-557 8336. Sun Noon-9pm, Mon-<br />
Sat 10am-9pm. 25 Easter Road. Tel: 0131-<br />
623 6969. Noon-6pm. 368-370 Gorgie<br />
Road (Currently not licensed as a sex shop).<br />
Tel: 0131-468 6969. Sun Noon-8pm, Mon-<br />
Sat 11am-8pm. Scotland’s ORIGINAL<br />
licenced SEX shops! Toys galore, video rental<br />
too! Larger sizes stocked.<br />
LUVELY<br />
The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street. Tel:<br />
0131-225 2564. Info Line: 0131-657<br />
4633. 10.30pm-3am. Monthly. Next dates:<br />
Sat 4th Jun, 2nd Jul. Mega club night with<br />
resident DJs Tommy Kay, Newton & Stone,<br />
Jared and GP. WWW:<br />
http://www.luvely.net/<br />
MINGIN’<br />
The Venue, 15 Calton Road. Info Line: 0131-<br />
467 2551. 11pm-3am. Monthly. Next dates:<br />
Sat 11th Jun, 9th Jul. Keep your eyes open for<br />
special passes in the bars over the next few<br />
weeks for FREE ENTRY to Mingin’ before midnight.<br />
Also as a wee twist to the night, Alan Joy<br />
will be playing first (11pm-1am) and Brian<br />
Dempster will be finishing off the night (1am-<br />
3am). £6 entry (£5 before midnight). E-mail:<br />
mingin@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
NEWTOWN BAR*<br />
26B Dublin Street. Tel: 0131-538 7775.<br />
Fax: 0131-539 1132. Sun 12.30pm-1am,<br />
Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat Noon-2am.<br />
Especially popular with men. Drinks<br />
Promotions Daily. Downstairs: The dark and<br />
cruisy Disco Bar is open Fri & Sat with resident<br />
DJ Malcolm from 10pm-2am - also<br />
available for hire Sun-Thu. E-mail:<br />
Webmaster@thenewtownbar.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.thenewtownbar.co.uk/<br />
No EIGHTEEN*<br />
18 Albert Place, Leith Walk. Tel: 0131-553<br />
3222. Mon-Thu Noon-10pm, Fri-Sun Noon-<br />
11pm. Claims to be Edinburgh’s busiest men<br />
only sauna. Relaxed and friendly atmosphere<br />
with excellent facilities which include large<br />
sauna cabin, 14-man steam room, private<br />
rooms, 8-man filter Jacuzzi, communal and<br />
private showers, themed rooms, video area<br />
and TV lounge. Hot and cold refreshments<br />
available. £9 (£7 concessions). Manager’s<br />
special: admission £5 after 8pm. WWW:<br />
http://www.number18sauna.com/<br />
PLANET OUT*<br />
6 Baxter’s Place. Tel: 0131-556 5551. 4pm-<br />
1am. Popular and busy gay bar with friendly<br />
staff. Cheap drinks on a Mon! E-mail: planetout@btinternet.com<br />
POLYSUPER<br />
Mood Nightclub, Omni Leisure Development,<br />
Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-550 1640. Mon<br />
10pm-3am. A Polysuper selection of commercial<br />
R’n’B, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s hits and<br />
today’s Top Of The Pops blended with a<br />
cheezee assortment of the most popular<br />
camp anthems. Entry: £3/£2 student/flyer.<br />
Great Drinks Promos From £1.50. E-mail:<br />
petehimsworth@petehimsworth.com WWW:<br />
http://www.polysuper.com/<br />
Q-STORE*<br />
5 Barony Street. Tel/Fax: 0131-477 4756.<br />
Sun 1-5pm, Mon-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-<br />
6pm. Scotland’s only licensed gay store. Not<br />
just feelthy pictures - lifestyle too!<br />
THE REGENT*<br />
2 Montrose Terrace. Tel: 0131-661 8198.<br />
Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 11am-1am.<br />
Alan Joy’s dog-friendly gay bar, run in conjunction<br />
with Lisa from Luvely. Real ale,<br />
relaxed atmosphere, comfortable surroundings.<br />
Coffee and croissants. CAMRA’s Lesbian<br />
and Gay Real Ale Drinkers meet here on the<br />
1st Mon of each month at 8pm (except Aug<br />
- 2nd Mon). WWW: http://www.lagradedinburgh.org.uk/<br />
SALA CAFÉ-BAR*<br />
60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-478 7069.<br />
Sun, Tue-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-<br />
1am. Relaxed and friendly gay café bar in<br />
the heart of Edinburgh’s Gay ‘district’ (directly<br />
above Edinburgh’s LGBT Centre). Fabby big<br />
window and sofas to watch world go by!<br />
Freshly prepared, wide ranging menu.<br />
Regular live music and party nights (contact<br />
Sala for more info). Gallery space with regularly<br />
changing exhibitions. Women’s group<br />
meet informally for drinkies/food every Wed<br />
eve. Room also available for private dinners/parties<br />
etc. E-mail: salacafebar@hotmail.com<br />
SOLAS CAFÉ*<br />
2/4 Abbeymount. Tel: 0131-661 0982.<br />
Mon, Wed, Fri 11am-4pm, Tue, Thu 11am-<br />
8pm. Attached to Solas HIV/AIDS<br />
Information Centre. Good home cooking<br />
(everything cooked on the premises).<br />
Vegetarians and carnivores catered for.<br />
STEAMWORKS*<br />
5 Broughton Market. Tel: 0131-477 3567.<br />
Daily 11am-11pm. Stylish sauna forming<br />
part of busy gay hotel & sauna complex in<br />
centre of gay quarter. State-of-the-art facilities<br />
including large spa pool, sauna cabin,<br />
large steam room, video room, labyrinth with<br />
themed areas, café lounge, free Internet<br />
access, tanning booth. Massage available<br />
daily. Choice of lockers or private cabins.<br />
Admission: Lockers £5, Cabins £10 before<br />
3pm Mon-Fri. Lockers £9, Cabins £14 at all<br />
other times. Students & under 25 £5 lockers<br />
all day, every day! No membership required.<br />
Proudly gay owned & operated. WWW:<br />
http://www.steamworks-sauna.co.uk/<br />
THE STREET*<br />
2 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-556 4272.<br />
11.30am-1am. Small but perfectly formed<br />
bar (formerly Pop Rokit) recently taken over<br />
and refurbished by Louise (ex-POut), Annie<br />
and Trendy Wendy. Food served 11.30am-<br />
7.30pm.<br />
TACKNO<br />
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.<br />
Last Sun of each month. 11pm-3am. DJ<br />
Trendy Wendy. Mixed and crowded club<br />
night. Note new venue.<br />
TASTE<br />
The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street. Tel:<br />
0131-225 2564. Info Line: 0131-557<br />
4656. Sun 11pm-3am. Edinburgh’s original<br />
and longest running gay-friendly club night<br />
that brings together like-minded people who<br />
enjoy a club environment free from hassle<br />
and bad attitudes and for whom sexuality is<br />
not an issue. Taste’s resident DJs Fisher &<br />
Price play an eclectic mix of the best underground<br />
dance music currently available in the<br />
Big Room, while resident DJ Martin Valentine<br />
plays Deep House and US House in the Wee<br />
Room. Sun 29th May: Josh the Funky One<br />
(Chicago). Sun 12th Jun: Alex Anderson (The<br />
Gallery, London) stands in for Fisher & Price<br />
while they are in Canada and Martin<br />
Valentine. Sun 19th Jun: Max Hebert<br />
(Stereo, Montréal) with Mark Price and<br />
Martin Valentine. Sun 3rd Jul: Taste’s 11th<br />
Birthday Party - with guests Mike Monday<br />
(Kinky Vinyl, Playtime London) and Harri<br />
(Sub Club Glasgow). Doors open 10pm.<br />
Tickets will be available in early Jun at<br />
Ripping Records and Q Store (plus a booking<br />
fee) and Taste of course, priced £8 members,<br />
£10 guests or on the door at £10 members<br />
and £12 guests.Regular prices: £6<br />
Members/£8 Guests £5 before 11.30pm.<br />
Drink promos until 1am. WWW:<br />
http://www.taste-clubs.com/<br />
THAI ME UP<br />
4 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-558 9234.<br />
Lunch: Wed-Sat Noon-2.30pm. Dinner: Mon-<br />
Sun 5-11pm. Superb gay-friendly Thai restaurant<br />
situated in the middle of Edinburgh’s gay<br />
area. Friendly, efficient staff serving some of<br />
the best and most authentic Thai food in the<br />
UK. E-mail: management@tmeup.com<br />
WWW: http://www.tmeup.com/<br />
VELVET WOMEN’S CLUB NIGHT<br />
The Commplex, 39-40 Commercial Street,<br />
Leith. Tel: 0131-555 5600. 10pm-2am.<br />
First Sat of each month. Next dates: Sat 4th<br />
Jun, 2nd Jul, 6th Aug. Male guests welcome<br />
if invited and accompanied by a lady. New<br />
music & guest DJs. £6/£5 conc. with ID.<br />
Discount entry before 10.30pm. E-mail: clubvelvet@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
WWW:<br />
http://www.webflyers.co.uk/Flyer/377<br />
VIBE*<br />
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.<br />
Tue 11pm-3am. James Longworth plays charty/party<br />
upstairs, guest DJs R’n’B downstairs.<br />
Super-popular gay night. £1 drinks<br />
promos all night. £3 before Midnight/£4<br />
after. E-mail: info@jameslongworth.com<br />
WWW: http://www.jameslongworth.com/<br />
VITTORIA<br />
113 Brunswick Street. Tel: 0131-556 6171.<br />
Fax: 0131-478 7009. Sun Noon-11pm,<br />
Mon-Sat 10am-11pm. Mega-popular gayfriendly<br />
Italian reataurant. Best lasagna in<br />
Edinburgh!<br />
E-mail: info@vittoriarestaurant.com<br />
WWW: http://www.vittoriarestaurant.com/<br />
WIGGLE*<br />
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.<br />
Info Line: 0131-467 2551. 11pm-3am.<br />
Monthly. Next date: Sat 18th Jun. In the<br />
main hall, resident DJs Trendy Wendy and<br />
Jon Pleased blend camp with classics and<br />
new sounds. Dale Lush and DJ Michelle go a<br />
touch alternative downstairs. Entry to Wiggle<br />
is £10 (£8 for green card holders).<br />
E-mail: wiggle@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
WORD POWER*<br />
43 West Nicolson Street. Tel: 0131-662<br />
9112. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Sat 10.30am-<br />
6pm. Independent radical bookshop.<br />
E-mail: books@word-power.co.uk<br />
WWW: http://www.word-power.co.uk/<br />
GLASGOW<br />
BENNETS<br />
80-90 Glassford St. Tel: 0141-552 5761.<br />
Sun, Wed-Thu 11.30pm-3am, Fri-Sat<br />
11.30pm-3.30am. Recently re-opened after<br />
disastrous fire.<br />
E-mail: enquiries@bennets.co.uk<br />
WWW: http://www.bennets.co.uk/<br />
BURLY<br />
The Arches, 30 Midland Street. Infoline:<br />
07930 357401. 10.30pm-3am - entry after<br />
1am at the discretion of the promoters. Next<br />
events: Sat 4th Jun “Topless & Tattoo”. Fri<br />
1st Jul “Leather Night dress code leather +<br />
usual Burly dress code - guys in full biker gear<br />
get a free drink at the bar. £8 members/£10<br />
nightly membership. Strict Dress<br />
Code: rubber, leather, uniform, industrial,<br />
sportswear, kilts & denim. Designed to be<br />
cruisy. E-mail: dv8scots@hotmail.com<br />
WWW: http://www.dv8scots.co.uk/<br />
CCA*<br />
350 Sauchiehall Street. Admin Tel: 0141-<br />
332 7521. Fax: 0141-332 3226. Box<br />
Office Tel: 0141-352 4900. Café Tel: 0141-<br />
332 7959. Box Office: Tue-Thu 11am-<br />
10.30pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11.30pm, Sun<br />
11am-6pm. Gallery: Tue-Sun 11am-6pm,<br />
Thu 11am-8pm. Café: Tue-Thu 11am-11pm,<br />
Fri-Sat 11am-Midnight, Sun 11am-6pm. Bar:<br />
Tue-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-1am.<br />
The Centre for Contemporary Arts. 6 performance<br />
& exhibition spaces, Café/Bar, bookshop.<br />
E-mail: gen@cca-glasgow.com WWW:<br />
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/<br />
CLONE ZONE*<br />
45 Virginia St. Tel/Fax: 0141-553 2666.<br />
Sun Noon-6.30pm, Mon-Sat 10.30am-7pm.<br />
Clothes, videos, magazines, toys. E-mail:<br />
admin@clonezone.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.clonezone.co.uk/<br />
CLUB DEVOTION<br />
18 Jamaica Street. Tel: 0141-847 0820.<br />
Thu-Sun. 11pm-3am. Popular gay club. Now<br />
has two areas: Upstairs - carpeted and a nice<br />
relaxing place to sit down, Downstairs - main<br />
dance floor and stage. E-mail:<br />
clubbing@pinkdevotion.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.pinkdevotion.co.uk/<br />
CLUB EROS*<br />
1-3 Bridge Street. Tel: 0845 4562310. Sun-<br />
Fri Noon-10pm, Sat Noon-4am. Glasgow’s<br />
largest licenced sauna & gym for gay and bi<br />
men set over three floors. Entry from £7.50.<br />
Free Sunday breakfasts. E-mail:<br />
cluberos@hotmail.com<br />
COURT BAR*<br />
69 Hutcheson Street. Tel: 0141-552 2463.<br />
Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 8am-<br />
Midnight. Intimate bar beside former Sheriff<br />
Court. Straight until mid-evening.<br />
CUBE<br />
34 & 44 Queen Street. Tel: 0141-226<br />
8990. Mon-Tue 11.30pm-3am. Mon:<br />
Passionality@Cube44 with DJ Shawn<br />
Roberts. Tue: FunClub@Cube34 with DJ<br />
Shazza Halliwell. Various drinks promos.<br />
Entry £3. E-mail: thornleisure@yahoo.co.uk<br />
WWW: http://www.cubeglasgow.co.uk/<br />
CYBER*<br />
Unit 3, King’s Court, 107 King Street. Tel:<br />
0141-553 0942. Sun Noon-5.30pm, Mon-<br />
Sat 10am-6pm. Alternative clothing specialising<br />
in corsetry.<br />
DELMONICA’S BAR<br />
68 Virginia Street. Tel: 0141-552 4803.<br />
Daily Noon-Midnight. Claims to be<br />
“Glasgow’s biggest and busiest Gay bar”. DJs<br />
nightly from 9pm. Thu: Quiz. Sun: Karaoke.<br />
Nice if your face fits. E-mail:<br />
delmonicas@g1group.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.g1group.co.uk/<br />
EASYINTERNETCAFÉ<br />
57/61 St. Vincent Street. Tel: 0141-222<br />
2365. Sun 8am-8pm, Mon-Fri 7am-10pm,<br />
Sat 8am-10pm. Large Internet Café from<br />
which many gay men seem to troll the net<br />
instead of just picking up each other! WWW:<br />
http://www.easyinternetcafe.com/<br />
GLC CAFÉ/BAR*<br />
11 Dixon Street. Tel: 0141-226 5050.<br />
11am-Midnight. Full breakfast always available.<br />
Home cooking. Friendly and busy!<br />
Karaoke on Fri, Sat.<br />
GLASGOW LGBT CENTRE (GGLC)*<br />
11 Dixon Street. Tel/Fax: 0141-221 7203.<br />
Daily 11am-Midnight. Welcomes lesbians,<br />
gay men, bisexuals and transgendered.<br />
Services include: Café Bar, Info Box, Health<br />
Info, Interest Groups, Free Newspapers, Diary<br />
of Events, Reading Room, Garden of<br />
Reflection, Function space for hire and innovative<br />
Art Gallery. Houses 18 user groups and<br />
organisations. Fully wheelchair accessible<br />
venue. E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.glgbt.org.uk/<br />
THE LANE<br />
60 Robertson Street Lane (off Argyle Street).<br />
Tel: 0141-221 1802. Noon-8pm. “Exotic<br />
Gay Men’s Club” with sauna and private cabins.<br />
Not very busy.<br />
MERCHANT PRIDE*<br />
20 Candleriggs. Tel: 0141-564 1285. Sun<br />
12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat Noon-Midnight.<br />
Food: Noon-5pm. Upmarket bar in the heart<br />
of the Merchant City. Regular cabaret,<br />
karaoke and disco.<br />
MODA<br />
58 Virginia Street. Tel/Fax: 0141-553<br />
2553. Mon-Thu 5pm-1am, Fri-Sun 5pm-<br />
3am. Fashionable pub/club. WWW:<br />
http://www.g1group.co.uk/<br />
THE POLO LOUNGE<br />
84 Wilson Street. Tel: 0141-553 1221.<br />
Mon-Thu 5pm-1am, Fri-Sun 5pm-3am. Long<br />
established pub/club. Young crowd. Polo<br />
Club (downstairs dancefloor) open Fri-Sun,<br />
£5 after 11pm. E-mail: polo@g1group.co.uk<br />
WWW: http://www.pololounge.co.uk/<br />
RELAX CENTRAL*<br />
3rd Floor, 27 Union Street. Tel: 0141-221<br />
0415. Noon-10pm. Established gay sauna.<br />
Fully licensed by Glasgow City Council. Entry<br />
£8.50. E-mail: info@relaxcentral.co.uk<br />
WWW: http://www.relaxcentral.co.uk/<br />
REVOLVER BAR*<br />
6a John Street. Tel: 0141-553 2456. Mon-<br />
Fri Noon-Midnight, Sat-Sun 1pm-Midnight. A<br />
refreshing antidote to the current gay scene.<br />
Pool table, state of the art free jukebox (with<br />
over 8,000 tracks on it), reasonably priced<br />
drinks, good quality service, no karaoke.<br />
SILKS AND SECRETS*<br />
308 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-572 1017.<br />
Fax: 0141-221 0959. Sun Noon-5pm, Mon-<br />
Sat 10am-6pm. Clothes and toys catering for<br />
gay, transvestite and fetish tastes. Larger<br />
sizes stocked.<br />
TRON THEATRE CAFÉ BAR*<br />
Chisholm Street. Tel: 0141-552 8587. Fax:<br />
0141-552 6657. Sun 11am-Late, Mon-Sat<br />
10am-Late. Friendly theatre bar. Mixed.<br />
Good food. E-mail:<br />
morven.stewart@tron.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.tron.co.uk/<br />
THE TUNNEL<br />
84 Mitchell Street. Tel: 0141-204 1000.<br />
Wed. 11.30pm-3am. Allure with DJ Darren.<br />
Entry £3. E-mail: thornleisure@yahoo.co.uk<br />
VICTORIA BAR*<br />
157-159 Bridgegait. Tel: 0141-552 6040.<br />
Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 11am-<br />
Midnight. Basically straight, but justly popular<br />
with Glasgow’s many Real Ale queens and<br />
dykes. Convenient for the Citizens Theatre.<br />
VIOLATE<br />
PO Box 808, Glasgow. G71 7YN. Violate<br />
Club Line: 09099 108174 (60p per min at<br />
all times).BDSM and general pervery.<br />
Operates in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Runs<br />
regular clubs at the Big Joint in South Street,<br />
Glasgow on the first Sat of each month. Also<br />
holds special one off clubs called UltraViolate<br />
roughly every 3 months. E-mail: info@violate.co.uk<br />
WWW:<br />
http://www.violate.co.uk/<br />
THE WATERLOO*<br />
306 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-229 5891.<br />
Sun 12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat Noon-<br />
Midnight. Semper idem! Popular, crowded,<br />
down to earth gay drinking shop. Scotland’s<br />
oldest gay bar - what more can we say?<br />
Busy, busy, busy! Awarded the Beti Hutton<br />
seal of approval.<br />
STIRLING<br />
BARNTON BISTRO*<br />
31/2 Barnton Street. Tel: (01786)<br />
461698. Sun Noon-Midnight, Mon-Thu<br />
10.30am-Midnight, Fri-Sat 10.30am-1am.<br />
Food: until 7.30pm. Near to railway station.<br />
Mixed, busy, bohemian and friendly<br />
bar/bistro. Popular with students and<br />
Sons/Daughters of the Rock alike.<br />
TWIST*<br />
Fubar, 6 Maxwell Place. Tel: (01786)<br />
472619. Wed 11pm-2am. John Mclean<br />
plays charty/party mix to a gay crowd. £3<br />
entry. £2 drinks promos all night. E-mail:<br />
fubar@clg.co.uk WWW:<br />
http://www.clg.co.uk/fubar/<br />
STRATHYRE<br />
MUNRO INN*<br />
Strathyre, Callander. Tel: Strathyre (01877)<br />
384333. Sun-Thu Noon-Midnight, Fri-Sat<br />
Noon-1am. Gay-friendly bar and hotel. Full<br />
menu served all day. Sunday roast. E-mail:<br />
bookings@munro-inn.com WWW:<br />
http://www.munro-inn.com/<br />
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