Heavy Issue 62 - ScotsGay Magazine

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
SCENE AROUND in EDINBURGH,
GLASGOW, DUNDEE and ABERDEEN
GARY OTTON asks:
Is the Church Running Scotland?
PLUS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
REVIEWS and FULL LISTINGS
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JUST HOW FAR SHOULD
WE GO TO STOP
OFFENDING PEOPLE?
London's Mayor Ken Livingstone
has been in the news recently
after comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp
guard. He won't apologise and
may yet find himself being
removed from office by the
Standards Board and banned
from public life for five years for
breaching the subsection of The
Local Authorities (Model Code of
Conduct) (England) Order 2001
which says that councillors "must
treat others with respect".
Strangely, the press didn't complain quite as much (and he didn't
apologise either) when he personally welcomed a rabidly homophobic Muslim cleric to his city.
But, hey ho, pooves are expendable when it comes to courting the
Muslim vote.
In Oslo, at an International
Lesbian and Gay Association
shindig many years ago, I recall a
visiting USAnian youth sports
team, who had been giving us
some stick, being quelled with a
copy of the fairly strict Norwegian
law
outlawing
homophobic
speech.
And then there was poor simple
Tom Forrest who braved the wrath
of Scotland's liberal intelligentsia
after saying that gays weren't welcome to share a room in his
remote B&B in Kinlochewe. Fair
enough that the publicly funded
VisitScotland threw him out of
their scheme, but full marks to the
man for his honesty. At least we
now know what he thinks of us
and can choose to spend our
money with more sensible hoteliers!
Edinburgh University's Library is
currently in a quandry as to what
to do about a single copy of the
Koran. It seems that the space to
which it is allocated by its classmark is on the lowest shelf - but
Followers of Islam have kicked up
because sticking their Book on the
floor is disrepectful. For the last six
ScotsGay
Editorial
Editorial
months, it has been unavailable to
the general reader because it's sitting on an administrator's desk
whilst s/he works out what to do
with it!
Stand firm and there will be a
major stushie. Give in and then
the adherents of every other set of
God Botherers will moan about
their Books being disrespected
and the library will have to
remove all the bottom shelves!
It's all getting a bit like how I
remember the plaintive appeal to
the authority of the teacher in the
school playground when a brat
was offended: "Please Miss, he
said that I pee'd the bed". And
Miss would diplomatically do her
best to sort it out.
But we're supposed to be
grownups now. With thicker skins.
And stronger bladders.
Ultimately, I'd rather know what
News
The landmark Civil Partnership
Act will be brought into force on
Mon 5th Dec this year. Any couple wishing to form a civil partnership will be able to give notice of
their intention to register at a
Register Office from that date.
This will allow the first civil partnerships to be formed in time for
Xmas on Wed 21st December,
after the 15 day waiting period
has passed.
The Civil Partnership Act allows
same-sex couples to make a formal, legal commitment to each
other by forming a civil partnership.
However, it's not marriage
(unlike the happy couples in our
pic from the first gay weddings in
Amsterdam) and it's not available
to opposite sex partners. And
Register Offices in Scotland have
so far been underwhelmed with
interest. Glasgow has received
six enquiries since the legislation
was passed in November,
Edinburgh has had one, whilst
Scotland's busiest office, Gretna,
has only had a couple of doizen
tentative enquiries over the last
year.
Important rights and responsibilities will flow from entering a
civil partnership, helping samesex couples to organise their lives
together.
Provisions in the Act include:
– employment and pension benefits;
– recognition under intestacy
rules;
– access to fatal accidents compensation;
– recognition for immigration
and nationality purposes.
John Hein
E-mail: editorial@scotsgay.co.uk
There will be a formal, courtbased process for dissolution of a
civil partnership.
Further information about civil
partnership is available on the
WEU website: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk
ScotsGay
HALF WAY
DOWN THE
AISLE
people think of me than be misled
by all this nicey PC nonsense
which can lead to us thinking
we're liked when in fact we're
loathed or merely tolerated.
Just for the record: I loathe the
superstitious and their imaginary
friends, but I tolerate the ones who
tolerate me - I've even shagged a
few of them (but I did wash my
hands afterwards).
As far as the unshelveable
Koran is concerned, were it not
for the respect I have for books in
general, I'd advise the University
to rehouse it (along with the rest of
the Theology section) in the smallest room in the Library!
Which would be nice for the
trees.
KEITH COWAN’S
JUST DESSERTS
– a duty to provide reasonable
maintenance for your civil partner and any children of the family;
– civil partners to be assessed in
the same way as spouses for
child support;
– equitable treatment for the purposes of life assurance;
Weel kent Edinburgh queen, Keith
Richard Cowan, is to receive an
MBE from another Queen for
"Services to Diversity". ScotsGay
thinks that this is Royalspeak for
rampant poovery but hope that he
and his mum enjoy their day out
at the Palace anyway!
The process of entering into a civil
partnership will be administered
by the local registration service.
On the day of registration, each
member of the couple will sign in
the presence of the registration
officer and two witnesses.
The Act also allows for samesex couples who have entered
legally recognised overseas relationships to be treated as civil
partners in the United Kingdom.
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ScotsGay
News
ON YOUR
BIKES!
could pass on the details to him
of this special event.
Douglas Bingham
E-mail: drb@gocscotland.org.uk
FAGS OUT,
PLEASE!
Gay Outdoor Club 25th
Anniversary Run
It’s nearly a quarter of a century
since gay cyclists first got together in Scotland for an organised
run. Advertised in Gay News
and Gay Scotland as the
Edinburgh Gay Cycling Group,
the first organised event was
held on Sunday 13th April 1980
and was a run from Edinburgh to
Peebles and back via the
Moorfoot Hills. It was attended
by six participants - two of whom
are still very much involved in
GOC today.
To mark this anniversary, next
month’s run (on Sun 10th Apr)
will retrace much of the route of
April 1980’s inaugural run - but
with more deviation onto minor
roads - this being partly down to
the increase in volume of traffic
on main roads that has occurred
over the past 25 years. Both long
(60-65 miles) and moderate (4045 miles) circuits will be on offer.
The longer route will start at
10.30am
outside
the
Commonwealth Pool, Dalkeith
Road, while the shorter circuit
will start at Noon on the A7 road
junction at North Middleton
(OS66, NT357588).
A warm welcome is extended
to all and it is hoped that a number of those who have participated in GOC’s Scottish cycling
activities over the years will
make a special point of joining
us on this occasion. The
Edinburgh Gay Cycling Group
was started by a guy called
Andy Gentle and it is hoped he
will perhaps read this and manage to come along then too. If
anyone else reading this is still in
touch with Andy maybe they
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Smoking prevalence among gay
men and lesbians is around twice
that of the general population.
Seven out of ten smokers want to
stop and there is support available which can greatly improve
your chance of stopping successfully. No Smoking Day on Wed
9th Mar is an excellent opportunity for smokers to make the decision to stop smoking. Over a million smokers will be using the Day
to try and stop.
Highlighting the help available
for gay and HIV positive men is an
important issue for Will Nutland,
Head of Gay Men’s Health
Promotion at Terrence Higgins
Trust. “Giving up smoking is a
key decision anyone can make to
improve their health. When that
person is also HIV positive the
decision to quit can have even
more benefits.”
Dónal Heath co-ordinates GMFA’s
London-based stop smoking service for gay men. The service has
had about a 70% success rate and
Dónal offers these tips for anyone
who wants to stop smoking:
– Using Nicotine Replacement
Therapy, like gum or patches,
can double your chances of success - talk to your GP or pharmacist
– Joining a stop smoking group
will make you four times more
likely to succeed. Contact the
NHS on 0800 1690169 for
details of other services
– If you can’t join a group, set
yourself a quit date and stick to
it. Use the time between now
and then to get ready
– Write down all the reasons you
want to stop and tape it to the
fridge to help you stay motivated
– Enlist the support of friends,
family and workmates - why not
quit together and help keep
each other on track?
– Log on to http://www.nosmokingday.org.uk/ for more help or
http://www.godhatesfags.org.
uk/ for stern advice.
Peter Lee used one of the local
NHS Stop Smoking Services to
support his quit attempt and hasn’t
looked back since. “It has really
made a big difference to me.
Stopping one habit has motivated
to me to improve other things in
my life including improving my
diet and taking lots of exercise. I
feel fantastic and friends are
always telling me that I look better
for it. I think that there probably is
a higher percentage of smokers in
gay bars and clubs. I find it really off-putting - it makes people
smell horrible, really unattractive!
And you really notice the morning
after that your clothes stink and
have to be washed.”
DISCRIMINATION
ON THE MOVE
Have you experienced discrimination? Are you interested in equality issues and how this affects your
community? Would you also be
keen to learn more about working
with your local media in order to
change the coverage your area of
concern is getting?
Then come along to one of these
FREE events!
– James Watt College, Greenock,
Wed 6th Apr
– Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, (Gaelic
College), Isle of Skye, Thu 14th
Apr
– The Weigh Inn, Burnside,
Thurso, Thu 21st Apr
– Aberdeen (venue to be confirmed), Wed 8th Jun
Help is available with interpreters,
crèche facilities, transport and
accommodation provided this is
agreed in advance. Full disabled
access and oop systems fitted.
Agenda for the day/booking
forms available at
http://www.forumondiscrimination.org.uk/ or Write: Forum on
Discrimination, Scottish Civic
Forum/Fòram Catharra Na HAlba, 16 Jackson's Entry,
Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8
8PJ, Tel: 0131-524 9392.
Fax: 08700 511192.
BAIRNS MEAN
PRIZES!
Following receipt of a grant from
the local Council of £1005, Flags
LGBT Centre, at 56-58 Cow
Wynd, Falkirk have expanded
their opening hours yet again.
The Centre is now open every Sun
afternoon between 2pm and 5pm
for “Afternoon Tea”. Each week,
the “3 o'clock quiz” will kick-off at
3 o'clock (who could have
guessed?), giving participants the
chance to win a cash prize! Rules
are simple:
– players can enter individually or
in teams of up to three persons
– thirty questions will be asked (in
two halves, to allow for a comfort break), the winner being the
person or team with most correct answers
– entry to the quiz is £1 per person
– the winner will receive half the
admission takings
– in the event of a tie, a series of
sudden-death questions will be
used to determine a winner
– in the event of a team winning,
they may also elect for sudden
death questions to find an individual winner - however, all
team members must agree to
this strategy.
So, why not pop along this coming Sunday? It could be your lucky
day!
FLAGS is also looking for a
new computer after their existing
one went “phut”. If you've got an
old one you were thinking of
throwing out, please toss it in their
direction! Contact them on Falkirk
(01324) 617717 or
E-mail: flagslgbt@hotmail.com
WAVERLEY CARE
THROWS OPEN
ITS DOORS TO
THE PUBLIC
Waverley Care, Scotland’s leading HIV charity, is holding its first
ever Open Day at the Solas
Support and Information Centre,
2-4 Abbeymount, Edinburgh on
Fri 18th Mar from 11.30am-1.30
pm.
The Open Day provides a
unique opportunity to find out
more about the broad range of
services available to people living
with HIV.
Invitations are being sent to
healthcare professionals, social
work offices and voluntary organisations across the city but the
event is open to anyone who
would like to know more about
what’s on offer. People who may
want to use services - or who wish
to learn more on behalf of friends
or family - are particularly welcome. Staff from the various projects will be available to talk about
their particular area of work and
refreshments will be available.
In addition to the Solas Centre,
For further information, please
contact: Karen Docwra on 0131226 2206.
E-mail: fund@waverleycare.org
WORDS AND
NUMBERS
Glasgow LGBT Centre has
announced a new Adult Literacy
and Numeracy Project aimed
directly at the LGBT Community in
the Glasgow area. It's being run
in partnership with Glasgow
College of Nautical Studies.
The project will help address a
need within the LGBT community
that has failed to be met by generic learning provision. Many LGBT
people have disrupted or severed
education due to homophobic bullying and/or the breakdown of
family homes due to their emerging sexuality or gender orientation.
The new Literacies Development
worker will meet with service users
to assess their educational needs some may need very basic tuition
while others will be keen to
enhance knowledge that they
have already gained. Many of the
courses will involve personal
development and take an integrated approach that will incorporate
literacy and numeracy.
Within the project there will be
a pilot project that will be aimed
specifically at the Transgender
Community. This community faces
similar barriers to the rest of the
LGBT community but also faces
some additional burdens in that
there is only a slowly burgeoning
awareness and understanding of
what has hitherto been a taboo
subject or one that has been the
butt of cruel jokes.
The project is funded by the
Challenge Fund which is administered by Glasgow City Council
and comes under the auspices of
the city wide ‘Glasgow’s Learning’
project. The project can be contacted at Glasgow LGBT Centre,
11 Dixon Street, Glasgow. G1
4AL. Tel: 0141-204 2011.
UNCERTAIN DATE
STEPPING OUT
PLAY IT STRAIGHT
© Scottish Parliament
Waverley Care’s projects include
a residential respite unit; day care
service; café; support groups; arts
project; African support project;
counselling; children and families
service. The charity’s volunteer coordinator and buddy co-ordinator
will also be on hand to talk about
opportunities for getting involved
in volunteering for the charity.
David Johnson, Director of
Waverley Care said: “We are
very much looking forward to welcoming visitors to Waverley Care
Solas. Twenty years on, HIV has
changed in many ways and our
services try to reflect this.
Waverley Care is committed to
meeting the changing needs of
our service users and we hope
that people will want to come
along and hear about new initiatives and about ways in which we
can meet ongoing support
needs.”
Waverley Care Solas was
opened in December 1991 by former Runrig star, Donny Munro
and has since been visited by a
number of its high profile Patrons
including rock icon Shirley
Manson and top-selling author
Alexander McCall Smith.
ScotsGay
News
A heat for Mr Gay UK was due to
be held as part of Twist at the
FUBAR in Stirling on Wed 23rd
March but, as ScotsGay went to
press, the whole Mr Gay UK contest was “on hold” according to
the organisers. We suggest you
contact the venue directly nearer
the time to see if it's still on!
Scots bisexual star Alan Cumming
is to narrate a new reality TV
show on C4 from 8th Apr.
“Playing It Straight” will feature a
beautiful girl looking for love who
will have to tell the gays from the
straight men if she wants to win.
UNFAIR TRADE
Out gay man Keith Raffan has
resigned as the Liberal Democrat
list Member of the Scottish
Parliament for Mid Scotland and
Fife.
SNIPPETS
NAE POOVES
The Church of Scotland is to come
under renewed pressure to oppose
homosexuality after the formation of
a group of evangelicals within the
Kirk: Forward Together. It follows
concern from many in the pews that
the Kirk can often seem too accommodating to a secular agenda, in
both belief and practice.
VAMPIRES
Diverse Artists, based at the LGBT
Centre in Glasgow, are looking
for fresh blood! If you're interested
in the creative arts, give Aileen
Graham a ring on 07931
309093 or
E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk
SOCCER
The Gay Football Supporters
Network will be coming to
Glasgow in June for their annual
get-together. They can be found
online at
http://www.gfsn.org.uk/
A free public seminar on
Prostitution and the sex industry in
Scotland is being organised by
Edinburgh Active Citizens Group
and Zero Tolerance in Edinbuirgh
City Chambers from 7-9pm on Thu
10th Mar. More info: 0131-469
6048 or E-mail:
jane.meagher@educ.edin.gov.uk
GAY BALL
The annual Brownlee Ball, to raise
funds for the Brownlee Centre at
Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital, is
to take place at the Glasgow
Moathouse Hotel on Sat 26th
Mar. Tickets, priced £35, are
available from Clone Zone,
Waterloo Bar, Revolver Bar,
Brownlee Centre and by post from
GBAWF, PO Box B3954,
Glasgow. G45 9WB. Tel: 07973
306701 or E-mail:
info@gbawf.org.uk
BAD LADS WANTED
ITV’s hit show Bad Lads Army is
looking for recruits who will have
to live for a month in a 1950’s
National Service army camp and
ensure cold showers, early starts
and a gruelling exercise regime.
The producers are looking for a
really wide cross section of participants this year - love rats, serial
shaggers, hooray henrys, binge
drinkers, layabouts, lager louts
and generally naughty lads - with
or without a criminal record!! If
you’re aged between 18 and 24
and think you’re hard enough to
take part then please call 0207284 1441 requesting an entry
form or logon to
http://www.itv.com/badladsarmy/
HEBRIDES
G-heb is back on the net at
http://www.reachouthighland.
org.uk/page34.html
CHEAP JULIAN
ScotsGay readers can get £2 off
tickets for Julian Clary’s one night
appearance on Sat 19th Mar at The
Academy in Glasgow. Book before
28th Feb on 0870 771 2000 or via
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/ quoting “Academy Offer”.
VAGINA PLAY
LGBT Youth Scotland volunteers
FUSION will perform Eve Ensler’s
Award winning play “The VAGINA
Monologues” in Edinburgh at St
Brides Centre, 10 Orwell Terrace on
Sun 27th Feb and Tue 8th Mar
(signed performance) at 7pm. On
27th Feb, there will also be stalls
and information on a variety of topics of interest from Noon-5pm in the
café at St Bride’s.
TOP SCOTS
Halifax Bank of Scotland were the
top gay friendly Scottish employers in the recently published
Stonewall Corporate Equality 100
Index. They came 13th whilst the
only other Scottish employers in
the
UK-wide
survey
were
Strathclyde Fire Brigade (27th)
and Strathclyde Police (28th).
GIVING
The Newtown Bar raised nearly
£1,000 for Waveley Care and
Positive Voice on World AIDS Day
and have just raised a further
£420 for the Tsunami Appeal.
MAD NOT BAD
Daniel McCafferty, manager of
Dundee G Zone, part of “Scotland’s
largest-web based LGBT community” would like to help start a Pride
Event for Dundee and is looking for
similarly minded organisations and
individuals.
E-mail: daniel@g-zone.co.uk
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AWOL!
Wee Alan has gone AWOL as
only the young and pretty can manage. Last believed to have been
seen in his distinctive Parka in
London Road on Mon 22nd Feb,
he’s been bodyswerving our editor
on the phone and his copy hasn’t
arrived. Which is where I come in!
Heading down Leith Walk, I see
that No 18 is ten. To celebrate, they
held a most successful party weekend at the end of Jan with a groaning buffet and a free raffle whose
prizes included a DVD player.
George asks me to bare in mind that
the first Sat of each month is Bear
Day - with all the joys of Bear Soup
in the Jacuzzi TM. They’ve also now
got a masseur working on the premises - currently three days a week phone for details if you want that
aching muscle sorted! Their recent
monstering in the gutter press hasn’t
affected trade one little bit, I’m glad
to say!
Further down the Walk, I note that
the old Pizzarama premises at 325
Leith Walk are being refurbished by
the nice folk from the Vittoria and
are shortly to re-open as La
Favorita with Pizza and Pasta on
the menu. Yum!
Bussing back up the Walk (the OAP
pass comes in useful), I’m reminded
that Edinburgh University’s V-Day is
putting on the Vagina Monologues
in Mood 1st-3rd Mar. A bit of a
change from the usual Moodiness as
exemplified by the Monday outing
of Polysuper who are doing a big
promo on the 2nd Mon of each
month with £150 of holiday vouchers to be won. And if you turn up as
an Easter Bunny on 28th Mar, you
could win something else too!
Habana is also getting Eastery
with their annual Easter Egg donation for a children’s charity. Their
Tsunami Appeal is well on its way to
raising £2,000 with Colin and Ryan
risking life and limb in a sponsored
sky dive at St Andrews on 19th Mar
And they’re even doing a fundraiser
for Pride Scotia on Easter Sunday.
But it’s not all digging into the pockets for charity - Habana customers
actually get time for a pint too - and
with all the usual promotions running, there’s usually a bargain to be
had. Looking at me quizically,
Gordon reminds me that Barry will
be running Quiz Nights from Wed
9th Mar.
dùn eideann
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Over at the Claremont, I hear that
the gorgeous Craig is starting up a
new club for trannies, admirers and
anybody with an open mind. Called
Absolutely Dragulous, it’s due
to kick off on Fri 18th Mar and thereafter on the 3rd Fri of each month,
and will consist of a Cabaret followed by a club night. I always
thought that a Cabaret was a row of
taxis, but I’m sure I’ll be proved
wrong!
Another New Thing is Gregor
Laird’s Heroes whch is due to
launch at the Rhythm Room,
Below Q-Bar on Sat 26th Feb (note
the change from the previously
advertised venue). It will run on the
2nd and 4th Sat of each month featuring live bands, go-go dancers,
movies, performance art, and an
eclectic loud popular noise policy.
Sounds different!
Sat 26th Feb should also see the
9th Birthday Party of Luvely at the
Liquid Room. The theme is Top Hat
and Tails and, in addition to all the
usual birthday prizes and surprises,
there’s a free Birthday CD for everyone!
Next month will see the long
awaited launch of BURLY in
Edinburgh. The Glasgow boys are
treking their caravan through to The
Commplex on Fri 25th Mar for the
usual cruisy goings on. I think this
one will be a winner!
Not a winner, I’m afraid, was the
Regent who came second in the
Edinburgh section of the local
Campaign for Real Ale’s Pub of the
Year competition. Needing his arse
felt was local CAMRA member Alan
Joy who forgot to vote for his own
howff - if he had, the extra vote
would have made the pub 1st equal
with the Halfway House.
Whether the Regent gets into the
Good Beer Guide this year will
become apparent in August.
To become apparent next month is
whether Wee Alan will surface
again in the pages of ScotsGay and
if he’ll ever be forgiven by Lothian
Lesbian and Gay Switchboard for
referring to them in print as
“Bitchboard”.
Toodle Pip!
Justin Milne
E-mail: justin@scotsgay.co.uk
shame
SHAME
Shame – Scotland’s most exciting
new Alternative Club has arrived at
The Commplex, who are already
home to the very successful Velvet
Women’s Club Night; Nightshade;
Madison’s
Rock
Night;
Saddletramps; and now the new
home of the famous Burly from
Glasgow. Gay Blessings are also
conducted at The Commplex, (just
like The Simpsons!) as Weddings
are a main part of their business.
After a roaring success of a
launch night at The Commplex,
Shame is here and you are ready for
it, you naughty people! A balanced
and happy mix of male and female
was achieved…
On arrival at this impressive converted gothic church, guests were
greeted by the awesome spectacle
of Te Pooka juggling fire. As people
queued to enter Shame’s launch
night these skilful and seasoned performers warmed them with fire.
A free glass of bubbly also awaited guests as they arrived.
Shame attracted some very interesting and relaxed people, a wonderful mix of the LGBT, fetish, Goth &
alternative communities married
together beautifully, quite an
achievement. The music was a good
mixture of interesting and very sexy
music to dance to, blended in with
some fantastic classics, such a
refreshing change to the club scene.
DJ Tekhed will be introducing an
impressive list of guest DJs including
– Primal T; Michelle; Metus; the man
with no name and a very stunning
young lady! Many more DJs are
lined up, and live performances are
also planned.
An interesting slide show was projected onto the roof and could be
edinburgh
scene
viewed from both floors all night.
And a digital slide show was projected onto a huge screen above the
dance floor, I saw the lovely Pete
Burns dancing on the screen at one
point.
Upstairs is a large airy chill out
space where you can chat, play
pool or gaze down at the busy
dance floor. This interesting area is
filled with big comfy couches, a second bar, pool table and two frosted
glass booths, one of which was
occupied by Crew 2000 with a very
busy information stall run by 4 very
helpful volunteers. They also provided free condoms, lube, dental dams
and many other useful free things!
Also upstairs is the dungeon area,
run by the friendly; approachable
and helpful Nightshade, and a very
attractive woman with fangs!
Nightshade also run a club at the
Commplex. The equipment supplied
by Nightshade made quite a spectacle with the awesome cross positioned in front of the stain glass window made by Elaine A. Adam.
‘Airbrush Body Art’ – A temporary
tattoo that looks like the real thing –
were provided by A.G. Body Art
and went down a treat as we all got
lovely tattoos.
The word on the street is that all
who attended had a fantastic night
and they will be back for more in
their droves, with all their friends,
Shame is the talk of the town!
The organisers have put a lot of
thought into putting this together and
it has paid off with droves of happy
people. See www.webflyers.co.uk
/Flyer/2047 for more info.
As we go to press, we hear that the
Townhouse Sauna has closed down.
More in our next issue.
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The first Burly of
2005 crashed the
400 barrier for the
first time with 420
guys turning out.
Leather guys, boiler suit guys and - much in evidence - kilted guys danced, laughed, hugged and
kissed the night away. DJs Davie and Hifi Sean
kept the dance floor packed, the club processed all
those new memberships for 2005 at breakneck
speed and we welcomed guys from all airts and
pairts with homegrown visitors from Edinburgh and
Dundee and guys who had heard of the club in
London, Newcastle, Northern Ireland and The
Netherlands - and made a little visit.
Remember the Next One on 4th Mar in Glasgow
and a new Club night in Edinburgh at the
Commplex on 25th Mar. Directions and maps to
the venues are on the Burly website
http://wwww.dv8scots.co.uk/
Salutations and felicitations,
gentle folk. Welcome to another
barrel-scraping edition of life on
the scene in Glasgow. Frankly my
dears, there is fuck all going on
that wasn't going on last month
and indeed the month before that
ad nauseum for as long as anyone
cares to remember. Club nights
come and go, new venues struggle to open and die from lack of
interest. Everyone bitches about
the scene and round we all go
again. Meanwhile his Royal
Lowness gets richer and fatter, we
all get a little older and I get more
hard bitten and cynical than even
I believed possible. Still it could be
worse, just wait and see!
So once more on with the motley. The next BURLY event in
Glasgow will be at The Arches on
Fri 4th March. The doors open
from 10.30pm until 3am and tickets are £8 for members and £10
for non-members.
'Violate' is on Sat 5th Mar at
the Big Joint, 1084 South Street,
Scotstoun. A very popular event,
this club welcomes a mixed crowd
of all ages. Music is provide by DJ
Loveless a mix of Dance and
Rock. A play area is set up in the
large back room and food is
included in the ticket price. As an
introduction to the BDSM scene
this club night is ideal. Doors open
at 8pm, club runs until 2am, doors
close at Midnight. Tickets are £10
on the door or £5 for members.
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Annual membership is available
on the door at £10. Discount
news: you can get 10% off products from the Juju website. Don't
forget that your Violate membership card will also get you 10%
off in Spyker and Cyber on Kings
Street. Also Me-licious and all UK
outlets of Clone Zone.
Club Allure takes place every
Wednesday Night, 11.30pm until
4am at The Tunnel, 84 Mitchell
Street. Entry is £3 or (£2 with text
message) the night features DJ
Darren playing all the best Pop,
R'n'B & Dance. A top class sound
and light system, HUGE dance
floor and fantastic drinks prices,
this is the only place to be seen on
a Wednesday Night. For more
information contact Gordon or
Shaun at Thorn Leisure on: 07813
269995 or 0141-204 1000 or Email: thornleisure@yahoo.co.uk
The next club 'Rebound' is on
Fri 11th Mar at a brand new
venue. Rebound is ideal for those
who like their perversions served
straight with a twist! Doors open
at 8pm and close at 1am, The
entrance fee is £10 on the door.
Location is the Brunswick Hotel,
106-108 Brunswick Street (off
Ingram Street) - 5 mins walk from
George Square and Queen Street
Station. Dress code is fetish
and/or black.
For those of you into the
Metal/Goth scene. New Flesh
on Wednesdays Rock/Nu Metal
at Privilege, 69 Hope Street - just
up from the Solid Rock Cafe.
Doors open 9pm-2am (£1
between 9pm and 10pm, £2
between 10pm and 11pm, £4
after 11pm). Tel: 0141-353
6555. Fax: 0141-353 6999.
WWW:
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flesh/ or
http://www.signoise.com/
E-mail: newflesh@andywaite.com
or nightqueries@signoise.com
The next BEDLAM Goth Club
event is Sat 26th Feb. Usually
takes place the last Saturday of
the month. Doors open 9pm-2am
at the Qudos, Main Floor, Queen
Margaret
Union,
Glasgow
University, Hillhead. Bedlam
Tickets usually available from:
Osiris, 487 Great Western Road
& Missing Records, Wellington
Street, and on the door on the
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The Cube presents Passionality
every Monday night. A night of
pop, chart and dance music.
Doors open at 34-44 Queen
Street 11.30pm-3am. Entry is £3
or £2 with a flyer. Also FUN is on
every Tuesday with DJ's Shawn
Roberts and Shazza Halliwell.
Doors open 11.30pm-3am. Entry
is £3 all night.
So once again I reach the end
of another column. The rats are
gnawing at the skirting and the
last remaining candle is guttering
in the draft from the snores of the
sleeping ward nurse. I'm going to
go to sleep now, Teddy says "It's
time." Remember folks whatever
you find to do: be safe.
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LEITH POLICE NO LONGER
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EMBRACE DIVERSITY
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AS G2ZH MONITORS LGBT STAFF
Lothian and Borders Police
have taken a bold step forward in
an attempt to ensure that members
of their workforce who identify as
either Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or
Transgender can declare their sexual orientation or gender identity
in an environment free from fear
and worry that they will be discriminated against.
L&B are the first Force in
Scotland to introduce this monitoring and indeed are at the forefront
of monitoring throughout the UK.
Currently 3 Forces in England,
Bedfordshire, Lancashire and
Leicestershire are introducing
monitoring for new recruits but are
some way from asking existing
staff members.
Monitoring has been introduced
to send out a positive message to
both the public and staff alike that
being LGB or T is something that
the Police are trying to embrace,
whether or not the person is 'out'
to colleagues or not.
It is not intended to be a 'Big
Brother' style of information gathering where highly personal information about staff is kept for ulterior motives - It is about creating a
confident and open workplace
environment for all staff, whatever
their ethnicity, religious belief,
gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
Chief Inspector George Denholm, Head of the Diversity Unit of
Lothian and Borders Police said,
"As an emergency service
provider and public employer, we
need to reflect the needs of the
community we serve. We have a
diverse workforce who bring different skills, abilities and backgrounds to the job. It's important
that we value the diversity of our
workforce and make them feel valued. The introduction of monitoring, I hope, sends out that message. We can't honestly say that
we reflect society as a whole if we
are oblivious to the backgrounds
of our own staff".
Sergeant Paul Matthews, The
Force LGBT Liaison Officer added
"If officers and staff are confident
enough to divulge their sexual orientation or gender identity internally, then I hope that confidence
will naturally transfer itself to the
wider community. We have to
investigate homophobic and transphobic incidents almost on a daily
basis, hopefully the public will feel
more secure and confident
enough to tell us about these incidents if they are aware that we
value our LGBT staff and take
these issues seriously".
Staff are being asked a number
of other questions in the survey,
including their ethnicity, faith or
religious belief and if they have a
disability. There is no requirement
to complete the survey and indeed
there is an option for staff to
'choose not to say'. Some staff
have raised concerns over confidentiality and how the information
would be used, but those fears
have been allayed by the process
which is being adopted. Inspector
Dennis Hunter, the Forces Gay
Police Association (GPA) representative said, "I'm absolutely sure
that any sensitive information staff
may provide will be kept secure
and in the strictest confidence,
and in fact only 3 of the most senior HR personnel in the force will
ever be able to access the information. Any statistics gathered
will be anonymous and will be
used in such a way that will not
inadvertently 'out' people against
their wishes. I can't stress enough
how important it is for the police
to make this leap in support of
something the GPA has been fully
supportive of for a number of
years".
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PARTY WITH PRIDE AT HABANA
We'll be taking over Gordon's howff for an
EGGSTRAVAGANT FUNDRAISER
on EASTER SUNDAY
(27th March) 8pm-1am Prize Raffle with some super prizes
(and a few really naff ones like a year's sub to ScotsGay)
Drag Racing
(well, it can be pretty racy stuff)
with
Samantha Swallow
and
Heather Boa
Karaoke
(Bring your own earplugs)
Free Creme Egg for first x punters in the door
(where x = number of eggs in the box we ain't bought yet)
And Ms White is threatening to give Mr Hein a baldy
(but he and you can find out more about that on the night)
Don't forget: Pride Scotia is on Saturday 25th June
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dùn deagh
D
Hello everybody! It may be a
bleak cold bill-ridden February but
the clubs and pubs of Dundee are
keeping up our spirits with all the
usual offers and events on.
Brooklyn’s Bar has all the usual
on, including karaoke on Wed, Fri
and Sun with hostess Suzie, who
is also in charge of the pop-fest
that is Handbag Heaven on Sat
nights. Downstairs, Out is holding
a DJ competition to look for the
next big talent on the decks. If you
think you have what it takes to get
the crowds jumping then get your-
self down there each Wed night,
and you migh end up with a regular gig! A new DJ is entertaining
on Thu nights, entry is £2.50 and
all drinks are on the same prices
and promos as in Brooklyn’s Bar.
Charlie’s Bar have their next
quiz night on Tue the 1st of Mar,
kicking of at about 8pm. DJ Ross
is playing the Fri and Sat nights,
as well as hosting the gay-friendly
Mojo every second Thu night at
the Dundee Students Union.
Diversitay, the Dundee LGBT
Switchboard, has distributed its
dundee
scene
new newsletter iculgbtayside.
Hopefully a regular on the scene
this newsletter provides an insight
into what Diversitay does and the
services it can offer, as well as
providing news and views on
what is happening in the Dundee
LGBT scene. Volunteers for the
switchboard and contributions
that can be made to the newsletter
are always welcome, details of
how to get in touch with Diversitay
are at the back of the mag.
The next social night will probably be held on Wed 16th of
March, at the Braes. Exact details
and confirmation of the night can
be obtained by getting in touch
with them.
Folks, that is about it for this
month, any comments or upcoming events that are needing publicised then drop an E-mail direct to
me or the magazine and I’ll do my
best to regurgitate it the next issue
that comes along.
Chris
E-mai: courier_chris@yahoo.co.uk
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Hi there, here is this month’s round up
of what’s happening North of anywhere.
Over the last few months the builders
have been in at the old Castro’s site.
Gone are the distinctive yellow doors
and bar fittings and what looks like a
retail unit has taken their place. Despite
rumours to the contrary, I don’t think it
will be re-opening as a gay bar/club.
However, this location has been associated with the LGBT scene for many years
so I decided to do some digging.
The Castro’s/Pink Flamingo site has
been associated with the Aberdeen gay
scene for a decade. From the dusty
archives of ScotsGay I discovered that
the Pink Flamingo had only recently
opened when Scotsgay burst on to the
scene with Issue 1 back in December
1994. Described as a ‘Plush cocktail bar
frequented by the trendier crowd’ it
offered an alternative to Flannies and
Club Caberfeidh. The Pink Flamingo
offered competitions, a pool table and
pinball machine as well as music to blow
your ears and was open 7 nights a
week. They held amateur stripper competitions and one was won by local ‘stud
muffin Freddy’. I don’t have the photo
that appeared in the magazine but does
anyone know if Freddy is still around?
After Flannies went straight in Aug 95,
the Pink Flamingo remained in competition with Club Caberfeidh until the
Flamingo finally closed in May 96.
A few months later Castro’s Bar/Club
opened with a VIP press launch in Nov
96 having been bought over by Tracy
Lefevre. Once again, open 7 nights a
week and decorated in salmon pink it
provided a choice for the LGBT crowd.
Castro’s featured a wide range of DJs
including Boy George and meetings of
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obar dheadhainn
the Grampian Bear Club. Caberfeidh
finally closed in Aug 97 and Castro’s
had the scene all to itself until the arrival
of Club 2000 in Feb 98. Castro’s closed
for a redecoration and re-opened while
the paint was not quite dry. I do remember the ‘trendy’ new light fittings downstairs which resembled stainless steel
kitchen utensils and the sea shells stuck to
the walls upstairs that gradually disappeared. As the popularity of Club 2000
grew, fewer people frequented Castro’s
and by Jan 99 it had closed.
In Nov 99 the building was refurbished and re-opened as the Monkey
Bar. Unfortunately it wasn’t gay friendly
as a few folk found out. However it didn’t last long and in Dec 2000 Bar
Castro’s opened. In true Aberdeen style
the LGBT crowd flocked to the new venue
and Madisons aka Club 2000 promptly
closed. There was a cosy, quieter bar
atmosphere upstairs with pumping music
downstairs. They ran regular competitions and theme nights including Leather
& Lace, Cum in your Pants and a Bob the
Builder night complete with JCB outside.
These nights proved to be very popular
and even the bar staff joined in the fun.
The front doors gained a rainbow logo
and ‘Adam and Steve’ was added
above the name which raised a few
smiles with enlightened passers-by. This
had to be Aberdeen’s most visible LGBT
venue. After Out Clubbing opened,
Castro’s in 2005
Photo: www.g-zone.co.uk/aberdeen
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rumours of Castros’ demise started. In
Jun 2002 Bar Castro’s was severely damaged in a fire and closed. There have
been many rumours about it re-opening
and although the building was re-roofed
nothing ever happened and it has stood
empty ever since. Recently the builders
have been in and the rumours have started again. But this time it definitely looks
like it has changed to a retail unit and
sadly another piece of Aberdeen’s LGBT
history is consigned to the archives.
Phace Scotland still don’t seem to be
moving anywhere. They have been hoping to get out of their Justice Mill Lane
offices for some time now and I can only
assume that they are still having problems with getting the lease signed for
their new offices. Walking past their new
premises at 11 Waverley Place the
offices are still empty with no sign of life.
I see the Arts Centre has three dates
for the Aberdeen Cares Drama
Company’s production of Torch Song
Trilogy. ACDC performed Beautiful Thing
back in May 2003 and this is their latest
venture to bring LGBT plays to
Aberdeen. The dates are Thu 14th to Sat
16th Apr so look out for further details.
Pride in Aberdeen 2005 is set for Sat
4th Jun in Duthie Park and once again
hopes to build on the success of previous
Pride events. I am sure the committee is
very busy behind the scenes but with
only 3 months to go, there has been little
publicity or request for volunteers. If there
is anything happening please let
Aberdeen know!
The Belmont Cinema continues its
Rainbow film season with a new print of
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
Dates are Sun 27th and Mon 28th Feb
and the Belmont can be contacted on
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Garry Otton asks: Is the Church Running Scotland?
Flashback. After Scotland’s devolution, under First Minister,
Donald Dewar, the then health
minister, Susan Deacon, inspired
by the success of sex education in
countries like the Netherlands,
Sweden and Denmark set up four
Brook Centres in Scotland’s cities
and established Healthy Respect,
championing the supply of better
information on sexual issues for
young people. But there was trouble at t’ Mill. Liberal protesters
had forced the Bank of Scotland
to back down from a multi-million pound deal with homophobic televangelist Pat Robertson
and soon after, minister Wendy
Alexander announced the repeal
of Clause 28, banning the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality by local
authorities. Social conservatives
went on the attack. Religionists
led by the late Cardinal Winning;
newspapers championed by
Martin Clarke, then editor of The
Daily Record; entrepreneurs led
by Stagecoach boss, Brian Souter
and the man behind the Bank of
Scotland’s PR and a former editor
of Scottish editions of The Sun,
Jack Irvine joined peroxide prampushers chanting ‘Keep the
Clause’. The fledgling Scottish
Parliament looked set to topple.
Homophobic billboards went up
across Scotland, gay venues were
attacked, there were illustrations
in newspapers showing how to
spot homosexuals, Labour lost the
by-election in Ayr and with ‘Keep
the Clause’ a playground catchphrase, there were beatings, a suicide and murders of gay men. The
Executive buckled. Clause 28
went and so too did Healthy
Respect. Religionists were promised ‘guidelines’ in sex education.
The Catholic Church’s media
cronies continued to press for an
end to the Executive’s liberal
ambitions until eventually, they
got their way!
Now, asking ex-Scottish Daily
Mail ‘reporter’, Eddie Barnes to
report on the efforts of the
Scottish Executive to stem the
tide of Scotland’s appalling record
of sexual infection and pregnancies is like asking Old Mother
Burnie to hold the condom tray at
a swingers’ party! He was in
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Scotland on Sunday flagging up
“sex clinics in rural schools plan”,
supporting the Church’s longstanding campaign to spike the
Executive’s programme. The well
overdue Sexual Health Strategy to give it its proper title - was
designed to offer guidelines on
sexual health and ensure all pupils
had access to advice and support,
condoms and the so-called ‘morning-after pill’. At least, that was
the intention. But then, of course,
no one had bargained for The
Scottish Daily Mail and the
Catholic Church. They insisted
the strategy was “sure to trigger a
renewed battle between ministers
and moral campaigners over sex
education”. (Yes, with a bit of help
from you and your paymasters,
Barnesy)! When the strategy was
out, The Scottish Daily Mail
hardly had a word to say about it.
Where were the ‘storms’, the ‘fury’
and the ‘outrage’? There was a
smell coming from the woodshed.
The story dominating the papers
was the conviction of Luke
Mitchell for the murder of Jodi
Jones. Mitchell, a disturbed goth,
attended Catholic St David’s
school, certainly no shining model of all that was good in education! There had been a suicide of a
13-year-old girl who had hanged
herself in her bedroom in
Dalkeith. Her friends claimed
she’d been a victim of bullying.
School inspectors saw nothing
wrong with the school and left
praising its ‘good standard of education within a very caring and
supportive atmosphere’. Anyone
thought to ask gay kids how caring and supportive Catholic
schools were? (Perhaps, the
Executive should wrap it up in a
Sewell motion and ask Westminster to deal with it). Without
paying too much attention to the
well-oiled cogs of the Catholic
media machine, their chief of
propaganda, Peter Kearney told
The Herald: “From the date
Cardinal O’Brien’s article was published, (the one that labelled the
strategy ‘state sponsored child
abuse’) we had more public debate
in the 10 days following than in the
10 months previous. To say he raised
awareness of it would be an under-
statement”. Mario Conti soon
returned to The Sunday Herald.
This time, where he belonged, in
‘Guest Vocals’, a spot that strongly suggested this was a one-off.
How we prayed. Conti was
pumping the idea that we should
all treat sex holistically in schools
“and not exclusively as a medical
issue”. Fine, if he meant we could
be more open and honest about
all aspects of sexuality, but he didn’t. It was the same boiled sweet in
a different wrapper: No sex please,
we’re Catholics. It is difficult to
take seriously a spokesman for an
organisation that got sex so wrong
it had to stash money in overseas
accounts in preparation for compensation payouts to its sex victims. The message that casualties,
chalked up in their thousands in
the lost years of sexual prohibition
and censorship promoted by the
Church, could only be rectified by
more stringent measures, was
astounding. Conti was happy that
the strategy had taken on board
his insistence that it contained
“clear educational guidelines…”
Problem was, the “appropriate
information” provided by Catholic
schools with its “emphasis on the
moral and ethical framework within which we view this great gift”
exclude the rights of lesbians,
gays, bisexuals and the transgendered. Conti was happy the strategy had taken so long to “get the
right answer”. In right-wing gobbledegook, it was a blow to “political correctness”. He added in his
address: “I would define the victory,
if victory there must be, as being one
for good sense. For that the
Executive deserves our thanks”. But
perhaps the “thanks” – if that’s
what you want to call the misery
that will be heaped on our nation
by this unnecessary pandering to
the Church - was owed to the
apparently “abstinence plus” supporting Scottish health minister,
Andy Kerr who told The Scottish
Daily Mail: “We respect the right of
faith groups and others to hold onto
and promote their religious, moral
and spiritual values”. Dancing
with the devil, it seems the minister had had a wee private meeting,
undated and unminuted, three
days before Christmas, with
Cardinal Keith O’Brien; not long
after O’Brien had warned in parliament that gays were ‘captives’ of
‘sexual aberrations’. The delayed
health strategy now winged its
way out of the Executive doors on
a white fluffy cloud, transformed
into what Conti now described as
an “impressive document… Gone
are the ambiguous language of
political correctness and provocative
neologisms; the talk of ‘celebrating
sexual diversity’ and tackling ‘heterosexism’… Gone is the ‘safe-sex’
mantra; replaced with the altogether wiser rhetoric of ‘abstinence
plus’.” Yes indeed. Gone was the
safer sex message that had saved so
many of our lives; gone was the
recognition that gays too were
part of Scotland and deserving of
the protection of its parliament;
gone was sexual diversity to be
replaced by the straitjacket of sexual conformity and gone were
those nasty neologisms. (Aah!
Remember when gay meant happy before it was hijacked)? The
Catholic Church was H-A-P-P-Y!
These were the ‘guidelines’ they
had always wanked over. Even
family planning workers could be
barred from entering their schools
at the insistence of head teachers,
effectively giving Catholics a veto.
Iain Macwhirter got it exactly
right in The Sunday Herald:
“Abstinence plus what? Abstinence
plus
rampant
promiscuity?
Abstinence plus judicious sexual
exploration? Abstinence plus a bit
on the side now and again? The
Executive sexual health policy is an
oxymoron: just say no – except when
you say yes”. This had been five
years in the making, cumulating
in a cash injection of just £15m of
public money, only some of
which would go to centres helping pregnant teenagers. What a
total fuck-up! Even that was still
too much for the Catholic hierarchy. Cash for abortions had the
Catholic Church’s mean-spirited
spokesman Peter Kearney waving
his todger in The Scottish Daily
Mail: “This is a staggering investment in approaches which have
demonstrably failed. To plough good
money after bad on such a scale is
very worrying”. Well let’s hear it
for ‘Abstinence-plus’ then! It’s like
getting gang-banged by a couple
of suited evangelicals round the
back of the bike sheds; just the
sort of message that will open the
school doors to the Silver Ring
Thing and all sorts of other dotty
US-style
Let-Jesus-Say-When
shenanigans. As Kearney wasted
no time explaining in The
Scottish Daily Mail: “The Scottish
Executive must translate its rhetoric
on abstinence into reality by giving
equally serious financial support to
groups offering abstinence-based
advice”. There! What did I tell
you? What hope have we of
becoming a modern nation with
the Church round our necks?
Scotland is top of the league in
unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. In five
years, Herpes and Chlamydia
went up by 50% amongst teens,
over 38,000 became pregnant in
just four years and 16,000 had
abortions. Will the ‘strategy’, led
by the same group who stripped it
of its purpose really do the trick?
Oh, please, do me a favour! Now
I see why Jack Straw argued that
Westminster, not Holyrood,
should have responsibility for
abortion. We have been exposed
as a nation of superstitious,
morally conservative red-necks
and the disease is spreading.
Swooning in adoration at
Catholic
successes,
The
Edinburgh Evening News gave
Forward Together, a bunch of
Church of Scotland militants, the
oxygen of publicity over their
desire to see the Kirk lurch to the
right alongside them. Rev Ian
Watson,
Professor
Andy
McGowan and Rev Bill Wallace
were ringleaders. (Regular readers
will no doubt remember Wallace
and Connelly, the homophobic
double-act: Bill Wallace of the
Kirk’s Victorian Board of Social
Responsibility and the late
Catholic Chief of Propaganda, the
‘Sexfinder General’, Monsignor
Tom Connelly). Mr Wallace - still
hanging on in there, bless him once told The Scotsman all “genital sexual acts should be within the
marriage bond and nowhere else”.
(With his attitude, he’d be lucky
to get it on the sheets)!
The religionist’s limp organ, The
Scottish Daily Mail were soon
picking again at their sexual scab.
Their ‘political editor’ Ian Smith
declared “anger over cash for youth
group offering children secret abortions”. The “funding row” was part
of their spiteful campaign to prevent financial help to young people who found themselves completely alone, fearful of their par-
ents and desperate for help. “The
funding row has derailed the
Executive’s attempts to appease critics, particularly the Catholic
Church…” And who were these
‘critics’? Try not to laugh. At the
end of the report The Mail
showed its hand to reveal Catholic
militant Peter Kearney and Eileen
McCloy, a mother of ten from
Glasgow! (Oh stop! I’ll wet myself
in a minute)!
Graham Grant. He’s a bit scary.
Behind the personal ramblings of
a bitter, crotchety, homophobic
old soldier is a somewhat younger
man. Grant’s (g.grant@dailymail.co.uk) predictable rant was
this time directed at “anger over
public cash to promote gay history… “Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash will indeed be spent –
promoting the history of Scottish
homosexuality”, he gasped. The
£10,000 grant to OurStory
Scotland charity would do what
we’ve been so careless doing:
Recording, or even recognising
our history. Its aim was to tackle
disadvantage and prejudice by
investigating the history of gay
issues. It “sparked fury from
experts…” Professor Tom Devine
had recently criticised pupils’
sketchy knowledge of our nation’s
past. He told The Mail: “This is
an educational scandal…” but he
was referring to the lack of history taught in schools, surely? Grant
frothed at the Executive’s effort to
“recognise and celebrate the contribution that LGBT people have
made to Scottish society”. Adding
that “the news sparked fury from
experts who said the funds should be
invested in Scottish history teaching
instead, amid concerns that the subject is dying out in schools due to
lack of funding”. So, we’re responsible for the demise of history as a
subject taught in schools now!
Grant’s homophobic contribution
continued on the lines of: “The
decision to celebrate gay issues and
invest in researching their history
comes as some Scottish head teachers
scrap the study of history”. The only
‘expert’ Grant found was Tory
MSP Bill Aitken who thought the
Executive had “got its priorities
wrong”. Indeed it had. It should
be speaking out against The
Scottish Daily Mail’s homophobia; silencing them once and for
all! That’s why I’m not interested
in the mud-slinging that has taken place between London’s mayor,
Ken Livingstone and a Jewish
Daily Mail journalist. All I know
is that Mr Livingstone has helped
highlight what I have spent ten
long
years
demonstrating:
Associated Newspapers own a
newspaper that is responsible for
appalling levels of sexual fascism.
Their journalists might well
scream: ‘It wisnae me’, but like
the cries of the officers policing
the concentration camps, it’s no
excuse. May I finish by repeating
the words of London’s mayor:
“You cannot work for The Daily
Mail and expect to have the rest of
society treat you with respect”.
Cops come from all walks of life,
and cum in all ways too! If there
are gay cops – and of course there
are – I expect they will do all the
things that gays do. But what do
you do when your lifestyle comes
up against a bunch of reactionary,
sexual prudes? Apart from line the
cat’s litter tray, there’s not a great
deal more anyone can do with
The Sunday Mail. It’s as sexually
liberating as the ball and clawed
feet under the cover of a walnut
dressing table. Following on the
heels of Hamilton Sheriff Hugh
Neilson’s resignation after he was
caught wrapped in a towel during
a police raid in a Glasgow sauna,
The Sunday Mail discovered a
cop giving out towels and making
sandwiches in a gay sauna in
Edinburgh. They stopped only at
printing the recipe for the sandwich filling! What hope is there of
turning a comic into a newspaper
or the ‘Force’ into a ‘Service’ if
this is all it takes to put you off
your dinner. “PC Delwyn
Williams, 32, resigned from the
force on Friday after his astonishing
double life was exposed”, cried The
Sunday Mail. He faced a criminal
inquiry.
‘Reporters’
Jane
Hamilton and Brian Lironi were
behind this ridiculous story. “An
undercover reporter”, too ashamed
to expose himself, in more ways
than one, popped along to the No
18 sauna to be shown around by
Williams. By all accounts, Oor
Del was courteous and helpful.
The naive ‘reporters’ were
stunned by what was, after all, a
gay sauna! “Williams showed our
reporter three small rooms, which he
said were available for anyone who
wanted to have sex. There is also a
dark room and a ‘sling’ room with
leather straps suspended from the
wall about half way up… Eight
middle-aged men were sitting
naked. (The stairway was) decorated with posters of nearly-naked
men”. What did they expect, pictures of Esther Williams and
Deanne Durbin and magazines
on how to get the best out of your
Skoda Estelle? Del went on to
advise: ‘There are two other gay
saunas in Edinburgh. You might
want to try them too”. (Townhouse
Sauna and Gym in East
Claremont Street and Steamworks
at Broughton Market). It was, of
course, all too much for Sunday
Mail ‘reporters’ who probably
were more used to pulling their
rosaries through their fingers.
However, they still went back for
more! “Another investigator who
visited the sauna was propositioned
for sex three times in an hour.
…Two men, both in their 50s, were
sitting in the Jacuzzi chatting…
(Steady)! Williams joked that our
reporter would have to ‘dis-robe’
before he could be shown the rest of
the sauna. Several other men were
lying around wearing only towels…
Later, a second reporter sitting in
the sauna was asked three times by
different people within an hour if he
wanted sex. He refused all offers and
left”. (Well done, old boy!
Another tabloid martyr to the
cause). Lifting the smelling salts
to their noses, the moral investigators were surprised to find the
premises “still open for business yesterday”. And the day after and the
day after that, we hope! They tried
to dig around for anyone else too
ashamed to put their name to The
Sunday Mail’s tripe and found “a
police source” who told them:
“There have been stories in the past
which have embarrassed the force
but this is on another level”. It is.
Including the release of pictures
that were being used by police in
an investigation. The licence
holder, Kathleen Dykes, took on
the sleazy Mail head on over the
constable’s moonlighting: “It was
a great job for a gay man. Any
straight man would be more than
happy to work on a desk if they were
going to meet a potential 50 women
in a towel every day”. If they ever
go back, I do hope our boys give
them the clap they so richly
deserve.
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have to put up with grief
over your sexual orientation.
Not anymore
The treatment that gay men,
lesbians and bisexuals have had
to swallow because of their
sexual orientation – stuff like
sacking, harassment, fewer
perks, lack of promotion,
is now over.
Finished. Against the law.
Just make sure you use that law.
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CANADIAN
PRIME MINISTER
EMBRACES
SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE
Canadian Prime Minister Paul
Martin strongly defended samesex marriage on Feb 16th as
Parliament began debate on the
bill to legalise it nationwide.
Courts already have legalised
same-sex marriage in eight of
Canada’s 13 provinces and territories.
“I rise in support of a Canada
in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the
people of this land are treated as
equals under the law,”
Martin said. “Our deliberations
will be not merely about a piece
of legislation or sections of legal
text — more deeply, they will be
about the kind of nation we are
today, and the nation we want to
be. This bill protects minority
rights. [As] public legislators, we
are responsible for serving all
Canadians and protecting the
rights of all Canadians. ... The
rights of Canadians who belong
to a minority group must always
be protected by virtue of their status as citizens, regardless of their
numbers. These rights must never
be left vulnerable to the impulses
of the majority. We embrace freedom and equality in theory, Mr.
Speaker. We must also embrace
them in fact.
“[S]ome have counselled the
government to extend to gays and
lesbians the right to ‘civil union,’”
Martin said. “This would give
same-sex couples many of the
rights of a wedded couple, but
their relationships would not legally be considered marriage. In
other words, they would be equal,
but not quite as equal as the rest
of Canadians. ... ‘[S]eparate but
equal’ is not equal.”
The bill is expected to pass this
spring. Most Liberal, Bloc
Québécois and New Democrat
MPs support it, along with a few
Conservatives.
It will be the first time an entire
nation has voted on same-sex
partnerships.
The law extends many marriage
rights to registered same-sex couples but withholds rights in the
areas of adoption, in vitro fertilization and taking each other’s
last name, according to the
newsletter of the European Region
of the International Lesbian and
Gay Association.
CZECH REPUBLIC
REJECTS PARTNERSHIP BILL
A same-sex registered-partnership
bill failed in the Czech Republic’s
Parliament on Feb 11th by a single vote.
It was the fourth time a partnership bill was defeated.
Most of the 82 MPs who supported the bill are from the Social
Democratic, Communist, Freedom
Union and Civic Democratic parties. Most of the 83 no votes came
from Christian Democrats.
SPANISH SUPPORT
SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE
A scientific poll by La Vanguardia
newspaper found that 61 per cent
of Spaniards support extending
full marriage rights to same-sex
couples.
Spain’s Parliament is expected
to legalise same-sex marriage this
year.
Thirty-two per cent of those
questioned oppose the plan.
The poll also found that 44 percent of Spaniards favour letting
same-sex couples adopt children
but 50 percent do not.
Pollsters questioned 1,000
adults by phone. The margin of
error was ±3.16 per cent.
“We are seeing in Spain an historic cultural and ideological
change ... the result of a slow and
sustained evolution by all of society toward respecting differences
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and diversity”, said veteran gay
activist Jordi Petit.
RUSSIAN SUPREME
COURT REJECTS
SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE
Russia’s Supreme Court has
refused to amend the Family Code
to allow same-sex marriage saying it’s a matter for other branches
of government to consider.
The suit was filed by Eduard
Mishin, editor-in-chief of the
Gay.ru Web site, and Eduard
Murzin, a member of the
Parliament of the Russian internal
republic of Bashkortostan, after
officials rejected their attempt to
obtain a marriage certificate.
Murzin is heterosexual but
wanted to help publicise the cause
of gay equality.
“I do not belong to a sexual
minority, but I am ready to stand
up for the civil rights of gays and
lesbians in Russia,” he told the
Moskovsky Komsomolets daily.
Murzin said the heterosexual
definition of marriage violates the
Russian Constitution and the
European Convention on Human
Rights. The couple plans an
appeal to the Council of Europe’s
European Court of Human Rights
The day after Murzin’s and
Mishin’s attempt to marry, Gay.ru
was evicted from its offices. Police
declared that the premises were
“being used not in accordance
with their purpose,” said Gay.ru’s
Nikita Ivanov. The offices also
housed Kvir magazine and the
gay organization Together.
SWISS TO VOTE ON
PARTNERSHIP LAW
Swiss voters will have their say on
a same-sex partnership law on Jun
5th.The measure was passed by
Parliament in Jun 2004 but religious conservatives then collected
enough signatures to force a
nationwide referendum on the law.
Nikita Ivanov
Jordi Petit
FIJI MAY LEGALIZE
GAY SEX
Fiji’s Law Reform Commission will
look at legalizing gay sex,
Executive Chairperson Alipate
Qetaki said on Feb 10th.
Sodomy is banned in public
and private. Violators face up to
five years in prison.
Paradoxically, Fiji’s 1997 constitution is one of only a handful in
the world that ban discrimination
based on sexual orientation.
TURKEY GETS
A GAY RADIO
STATION
Turkey’s first gay radio station has
come on line. Web-only Radio
Rebel
can
be
heard
at
http://www.direnis.radyosu.com/
“Our main aim is to put the
sound of homosexuals on the
map”, one of the founders, Sanem
Yurttas, told Roj TV. “We are
responding to the dominant system which tries to cut off our
voice.”
The station transmits music and
programmes in Turkish, Kurdish,
Lazca, Circassian, Armenian,
Syriac and Arabic.
Short sentence in
gay murder case
The apparent ringleader in the
2001 killing of a naked gay man
in a cruisy Vancouver, Canada,
park has received only a six-year
prison sentence.
Local gay activists criticized the
length of the sentence and British
Columbia Supreme Court Justice
Mary Humphries, who determined
there was no evidence the killing
of Aaron Webster near Stanley
Park’s cruising trails was a hate
crime.
Ryan Cran, 23, and at least two
other men beat Webster, 41, with
baseball bats, a golf club and a
pool cue.
Gay former Member of
Parliament Svend Robinson called
on B.C. Attorney General Geoff
Plant to review the case and
remind prosecutors to use hatecrime laws.
WWW: http://wockner-news.com/
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Books
Book reviews
by Dirk Kriete
One Night Stand
By Ben Tyler
Published by Kensington
£ 15.99
sex scenes in those books will be
quite as steamy as the ones in this
one. It’s the story of the gorgeous,
muscular and very fit Derek
Bracken, who comes to Hollywood,
like millions of other gorgeous, muscular and very fit boys to chase his
dream. There he collects a posse of
other young men to service
Tinseltowns closeted stars and gay
mafia dons. But of course the established gay sex industry doesn’t take
competition lying down, (pun intended) and all hell breaks loose in a
battle for gay superiority. This is a
quite a good little undemanding
novel, you know, the type to take to
bed with you and to read a few
pages before you go to sleep. You
might however like to wait for the
paperback edition.
Gilgamesh
A New English Version
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Published by Profile Books
£ 14.99
A friend of mine described this book
as queer Mills & Boons with attitude
and he’s not far wrong. Not that
I’ve read any Mills & Boons myself,
you understand, but I don’t think the
This book is as far removed from the
previous as you can possibly get,
there’s no steamy sex, there are no
sexy
hustlers
and
ancient
Mesopotamia is just about the furthest you can get from Hollywood.
This is simply a brilliant translation
of the worlds oldest epic.
Lost for almost two millennia,
the eleven clay tablets on which
the epic was inscribed were dis-
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covered in 1853 in the ruins of
Nineveh, and the text was not
deciphered and fully translated
until the end of the century. When
the great poet Rilke first read
Gilgamesh in 1916, he was
awestruck. ‘Gilgamesh is stupendous!’ he wrote. ‘I consider it to
be among the greatest things that
can happen to a person.’
The epic is the story of literature’s
first hero, the king-of Urukin what is
now present-day Iraq and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way,
Gilgamesh discovers that friendship
can bring peace to a whole city, that
a pre-emptive attack on a monster
may have dire consequences, and
that wisdom can be found only
when the quest for it is abandoned.
In giving voice to grief and the fear
of death, perhaps more powerfully
than any book written after it, in portraying love and vulnerability and
the ego’s hopeless striving for
immortality, the epic has become a
personal testimony for millions of
readers in dozens of languages.
Mondo Homo
Your Essential Guide to Queer Pop
Culture
By Richard Andreoli
Published by Alyson
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If you’ve been reading my reviews
over the past few years you are no
doubt aware of the special place in
my heart occupied by the book that
is perfect to read in small doses
while you’re otherwise occupied in
what is known as the smallest room
in the house. And this is one of
those. It’s got the essential mix of
short essay, often wildly funny, bestof lists, how-to advice and even the
odd recipe; who could ask for more.
This book is a co-operation of nine
writers and their work has encompassed a fairly wide spectrum of cultural reportage resulting in this irreverent look at gay icons and it gives
you an insight in to the landscape of
contemporary
queer
culture.
Although written by American writers this book nevertheless has made
the jump across the Big Pond successfully and is as relevant here as it
is in the States. This definitely is a
book to have lying about.
Black Ice
Translated from the German by
Anthea Bell
Published by Bitter Lemon Press
£ 8.99
This is another one of those books
that occupies another special part in
my heart, the crime novel. Only this
one is much more then just that, it is
one of the most beautifully told stories of our years, in which humorous
noir dialogue and poetry flourish.
It’s a well crafted thriller, set in a
European world of small-town
hypocrisy and was deservedly
made into a film in 1998. It is written by Hans Werner Kettenbach, an
essayist, script writer and best-selling novelist, whose work is now
available in English for the first time.
It tells the story of Erica, an attractive local heiress, who is married to
Wallman, a man with expensive
tastes. When she falls to her death
hear their lakeside villa, the police
conclude it was a tragic accident.
Scholten, a long time employee of
Erica’s, isn’t so sure. He knows a
thing or two about the true state of
her marriage and suspects an
almost perfect crime. Scholten’s
maverick investigation into the odd,
inexplicable details of the death
scene soon buys him a ticket for a
most dangerous ride.
I found it hard to put this one
down when I started it and I’m sure
so will you, thrilling from the first
page to the last.
Johnny Was And
Other Tall Tales
By Greg Wharton
Published by Suspect Thoughts
Press £ 9.99
Johnny Was And Other Tall Tales is a
collection of short erotic fiction by the
EAA Award-winning author Greg
Wharton. Apparently one of the stories
in this book has been selected for Best
Gay Erotica 2004. I liked in particular
that these stories don’t just titillate, but
rather that they are true stories and
faithful accounts of the realities of sex
and treats the act as simply another
part of life, just as messy, embarrassing, penetrating, funny, meaningful,
deceptively simple and complex, just
like the real thing.
Arts
by Martin Powell
Time for a brief walk taking in
some of Edinburgh's smaller galleries.
is one of the better ones, intelligently written and while still very sexy, a
little more involved then the usual
wham bam thank you mam stories
we are being fed all too often. It
really does live up to it’s title of the
ultimate of gay erotica on the market
today.
Tar and Feathers
By Dorothy Nelson
Published by Dalkey Archive Press
£ 7.99
Last but not least for this month is a
Best Black Gay Erotica
Edited by Darieck Scott
Published by Cleis Press £ 9.99
Cockburn Street has the Collective
Gallery. The exhibition on at the
time, now over, was Born Under a
Bad Sign by Gordon Dalton, Hazel
McLeod, and Christopher Walker
and Skull and Grace by T Christy
Cole. Conceptual art which reminded me of the Stuckists deprecation
that the trouble with most conceptual
artists is they have got no concepts.
This isn't quite fair, looking at the
Gallery's Web site one can see
what their concepts are. Unfortunately to me they are unable to
convey it through their art.
Visual art that can only be understood by reading about it can best
be described as crap. Still I'll keep
visiting there, sooner or later they
must have a good exhibition.
Further down the road is Stills
who until 12th Mar have an exhibition called American As Well by
the Uraguayan artist Martin
Sastre, which is a series of video
works. The irony of a series of
videos in a gallery called Stills
appealed to me but seems to have
been totally lost on the gallery.
This got off to a bad start with me
in a piece where the artist was
expounding on the ability of video
art to span the world without leaving home, but hasn't that been the
case since the invention of moving
pictures? I have seen the Keystone
Cops but they have never been
near my home. This is followed by
a series of other works. I was quite
struck by The E! True Hollywood
Story which is about television
celebrities who are famous
because they are television
celebrities but are otherwise vacuous.
Masturbated Virgin: The Game
struck me as a successful pastiche
of mindless late night music video
TV, but if I wanted to see such TV
I'd watch it, not go to a gallery to
get an illusion of it. There is more
work and it's on until 12th Mar.
Down the hill to Market Street
and the Fruitmarket Gallery. This
gallery is totally unpredictable
and adventurous, which is a fancy
way of saying some of what it
exhibits really appeals to me and
some of it just doesn't get through.
EDINBURGH
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Politically correct or not, this book is
full of nothing but the steamiest of
hot black man on man sex. It’s got it
all, from the slowly building heat of
Reginald Harris’ love story “The
Dream” to the raw lust of Jay
Russell’s “Rude Boys” in which two
tops at a sex club negotiate which of
them will give it up. It’s a book that
will encourage any hot blooded
male to read it one handed...
Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005
Edited by Jesse Grant
Published by Alyson £ 9.99
It’s a good job that the theory of
going blind when you’re indulging
in a certain activity has been proven
to be erroneous with the glut of one
handed reading books I’ve received
in the last couple of month. This one
book that left me deeply affected
with its disturbing rendition of family
life. It’s the story of the Crawford
family which is dominated by Da
(Joe), a manic-depressive thief and
liar who has spent two years in
prison for exposing himself in the
woods to young children and couples. Ma is a weak and downtrodden victim of her husband’s violent
temper who occasionally flirts with
her son Benjee, an overly sensitive
boy with little hope for future happiness. As the narrative passes back
and forth between the members of
the family a compelling portrait of
abuse and its consequences is constructed, one that contains both horror and humour in the sexual and
social sicknesses of the characters.
But it’s not all doom and gloom,
Dorothy Nelson has managed to
weave into this book some moments
of extremely black humour and making this a darkly funny story of a dysfunctional Irish family.
Dirk Kriete
E-mail: dirk@drink.demon.co.uk
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Let's just say that Ellen Gallagher's
Orbus was not my cup of tea (but
see below for the next exhibition).
Then across the station and into
the New Town to Edinburgh
Printmakers in Union Street. A
superb exhibition by three talented
artists. Cat Outram has a very good
eye and has captured some stunning images of Edinburgh fascinating entries or stairs or crescents that
I largely never knew existed. In a different style is Still Building, a stylised
view of Edinburgh from on high that
is both instantly recognisable but
geographically inaccurate. Another
one that really caught my eye was
Tenement Gardens which is a view
through a window of a garden. It
may not sound much but is superb,
as is a print of some trees in a
wood.
Kelly Stewart's The Paris
Drawings are exactly that.
Stewart, an Australian artist who
now lives in Edinburgh, was concerned that her work was too
Edinburgh based so spent a
month in Paris capturing images
and subsequently turned them into
this body of work. However the
work is not photographic, Stewart
has the skill to distort an image in
a lovely way to turn it into something marvellous. Strasbourg St
Denis would not be stable as a
building but would work wonderfully as an image on a wall.
Bridges over the Seine matches no
topology I know but works brilliantly. And there is more of the
same.
Gillian Murray's work is different and is basically full colour
images of plants. I wish I had wall
space for a stunning Venus Fly
Trap, a green plant on a bright
blue background. However any of
her prints would glorify any wall.
The exhibition is on until 26th
Mar.
Just opening (26th Feb - 1st
May) at the Fruitmarket Gallery is
the first solo presentation of the
works of Simon Patterson. In spite
of being nominated for the Turner
Prize, Patterson is a talented artist
who is best known for The Great
Bear, a map of the London
Underground with the names of
the stations replaced by engineers, philosophers, footballers,
etc. Patterson has a reputation for
taking sources of ordered information, such as maps or keyboards,
and distorting them to undermine
the authority of the original
source. I'm really looking forward
to this one.
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Film
by Malcolm Epstein
At the cinema box office the biggest
moneymakers in recent years are
always children's films. Those
obsessed with them should study the
Film 2005 BBC1 programme in
which Jonathan Ross always covers
new releases to please his kids.
Assuming our readers only get to the
subject when taking out nieces and
nephews we only cover the most
memorable. The animated Valiant
comes under that heading about a
humble wood pigeon who sneaks
his way into the Royal Pigeon
Service during the war to carry vital
messages from Britain to the French
resistance.
He has to dodge the German falcon brigade bringing much humour.
The film is voiced by many show
business celebrities like Ewan
McGregor, Ricky Gervais, John
Cleese and Rupert Everett. Ideal for
the under-twelves.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, March has the French Ma
Mère (18) with Isabelle Huppert
who has fascinated audiences for
decades. She is the mother of an
attractive 17 year old son who have
been living apart for years. When
they meet again he falls in love with
her. To keep it to an acceptable certificate for British audiences the
mother is seen watching the son
make love to his girlfriend. While
they were separated she admits her
immoral life had become an addiction.
If violence is your scene, Hostage
(15) must be considered.
Bruce Willis has such power now
he produces as well as stars in films
when, as here, he found a book that
impressed him and chose a French
director, Florent Siri, whose past
work he had admired.
Bruce is the best thing in this
drama as a police inspector persuading mental cases to give up
their hostages. But watching
teenage hoodlums terrorize people
till Mr Willis arrives is too nervewracking for me.
I preferred Hitch (12a) that has
Will Smith as a 'date doctor' who,
for a fee, helps countless people of
both sexes to find their ideal partner
by improving their conversational
techniques.
No matter if someone is overweight or less than lovely, he tells
them how to handle every situation.
It is a fun comedy. In our world
knowing Mike Arlen is always interested in pictures of appealing guys
an effective opening line is: "I know
a professional photographer always
searching for good looking models
and I would love to show him snapshot of you."
Kinsey (15) has Liam Neeson as
the person who caused international
furore in 1948 with his book Sexual
Behavior of The Human Male.
Alfred Kinsey began his career for
many years studying wasps as a
zoologist. He happened to notice
books on sex education were ridiculously outdated and decided to gather information from thousands of
men about their sex lives. His book
revealed that 37 per cent of
American males had at least one
homosexual experience. Though
happily married with three children,
he was also happy to have a gay
interest and admit it to his wife.
Without him, America would not be
the sexually uninhibited place it is in
most states today.
It is not very subtle for the makers of
Alfred Kinsey
Assassination of Richard Nixon (l5)
that opens in April to call it that as
the man was not assassinated. Sean
Penn plays a lost guy with a broken
marriage who can't hold a job
down and his unstable mind makes
him hijack a plane to make the pilot
drop him in the grounds at the
White House.
Sean still has the kind of animal
magnetism that kept Madonna
happy for part of a very dramatic
marriage.
CURRENT RELEASES
Million Dollar Baby (12a) directed
and starring Clint Eastwood has had
rave reviews, but I am too affected
by 30 years of knowing that professional boxers risk brain damage
which can put them in comas for
many months and those who come
out of them are often in wheelchairs.
Clint helping a girl boxer win
bouts had me wondering about the
brain damage she could be suffering. However I appear to be in the
minority. A few years ago I met a
bricklayer who made cash by bare
knuckle boxing. As it is not legal
here, tickets cannot be printed for
evenings of six bouts and customers
must be notified by phone.
There are vast numbers who love
to see blood run.
Hollywood knows there are millions who love horror films usually
with unknown casts grateful to work.
I walked out of Scream a few years
ago when high school girls were
being slashed with knives.
It was such a hit they made
Scream 2 and Scream 3. Now
Robert de Niro has joined in with
Hide and Seek (15). If you like to
see a dead woman floating in a
bath with slashed wrists filling it with
blood this is the film for you.
The movie capital occasionally
proves that big budgets are not necessary if you have an original script
and polished direction.
It has with Criminal (15) in which
unknowns stun you with so many
frauds your head will be reeling.
Essential viewing if it plays anywhere near you. The audience I saw
it with were mesmerized.
The Sea Inside (PG) from Spain
has had rave reviews with Javier
Bardem as a man paralysed from
the neck down in a diving accident.
Spending his life bedridden, he
argues with authority that his life
machines should be turned off when
he wants them to be.
This subject was covered with
great humour once in a play that
became a film Whose Life is it
Anyway? that has been revived
recently on the London stage with
Kim Cattrall.
Writer and director James L
Brooks was responsible for a Jack
Nicholson film As Good as it Gets
that was showered with Oscars.
His new movie you must add to your
list is Spanglish (12a) - a word that
is a hybrid of Spanish and English
spoken by many Latinos who live in
Paz Vega
America. Paz Vega is a beautiful single parent with a six year old girl in
Mexico City who searches for a better life in Los Angeles living in a
Latino quartar for six years where
only Spanish is spoken. To earn
more, she becomes a housekeeper
for a well-off white family, but she
still doesn't speak English although
her daughter has learned it at
school. Working for top chef Adam
Sandler, his wife Tea Leoni and their
two children combines great comedy and high drama that you will
enjoy. It is so well written it is the first
time I have loved Adam Sandler on
screen.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
(15) is a South Seas adventure by
writer/director Wes Anderson who
has more imagination than most.
Bill Murray is an oceanographer
whose partner has been eaten by a
shark and is determined to track him
down. Wes maintains interest by
casting Anjelica Huston and the
most admirable actress in films
today, Cate Blanchett in the leads.
To know how brilliant this woman is,
you need to compare her playing
Queen Elizabeth I a few years ago
with her Katherine Hepburn recently
in The Aviator. Such expertise is
rarely seen onscreen. In this, she is a
journalist on voyage pleased with
the amorous advances of the handsome Owen Wilson. Pirates abduct
them, but the special effects of tropical fish relieve the tension. Worth
your valuable time.
Owen Wilson
Aliens of the Deep is an interesting
curiosity that can be seen with a 3D
effect wearing glasses at a few
IMAX cinemas as well as at
London's Science Museum. Marine
biologists explore the floors of the
world's oceans all directed by James
Cameron who made such a world
hit of Titanic. You rarely see films like
this.
DVD WORLD
A calendar that moves must be a
novelty and while a photographer
was taking pictures for one, in Dieux
du Stade a movie camera followed
around 45 nude French sportsmen
chosen from the cream of the
nation's rugby players.
Having it on a DVD showing the
work that went into this 2005 calendar with make up girls rushing in
and out of shots is interesting. And
one of the images forms this month's
ScotsGay front cover. The only disappointment is the lack of crotch
interest. For that, the British still lead
the way. If you like the idea of 23
incredible erections in your direction
there is one magazine you should
track down:
Volume 14 of Mike Arlen's Guys.
But you'll not be getting any of them
on our front cover!
Any of us planning a Greek holiday should take in From the Edge of
the City from Millivres Multimedia
that highlights a side of Athens not
generally known. Russian immigrant
familes have late teenage sons in
Omonia Square prepared to sell
their magnificent bodies to tourists
so they can spend their money at the
local brothels.
You won't learn this from any
Greek travel brochure.
Those of us enthralled by a recent
TV series about the earliest black
and white movie film taken a hundred years ago should know it is
now on DVD. Shot mostly in
Yorkshire, The Lost World of Mitchell
and Kenyon is a 175-minute phenomenon as, although without
sound, it can be freeze framed to
show stunning guys we would love
to meet if time trips were possible. It
has cost the British Film Institute a
fortune to copy old film discovered
in a basement on to modern stock. I
will be studying this for years.
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Box SG62019.
HELP
Fort William guy 30 years old looking to
meet with gay guy for friendship/relationship. Sick of being alone? I am. Box
SG62020.
TRANSVESTITE SEEKS GIRLY
FUN
Mature gay TV/CD seeks same for girly
fun times. Let’s swap/compare undies,
frillies, dresses, skirts, heels, etc. Box
SG62015.
FIFE MALE
Fife male, 50, married and bored senseless, seeks new experiences and friends
40ish to 60ish. Inexperienced but enthusiastic. Singles, couples welcome for correspondence, long term friendship, fun.
Genuine and discreet. Time wasters welcome. Box SG62016.
VERY BUSTY BUTCH BLOKE
South East coast. Gay bloke, heavily tattooed. Very masculine but with massive
sweaty pair of genuine manboobs, only
34” waistbut have 47” pair of boobs. Need
a bloke into big boobs to be a fan and play
with me. Into sweat. Box SG62017.
UP, UP AND AWAY
Frequent Ryanair/easyJet international
traveller, 50, seeks younger (16-25)
companions for short jaunts abroad or in
UK. Don’t do the gay scene generally.
More into local food, drink and culture.
Box SG62018.
20 YEAR OLD CROSS DRESSER
I am 20 years old living in Glasgow and
I’m looking for experience with other
gay/bi males. I like to wear women’s
clothing (leather, pvc, latex, slutty
panties) and want a good discreet shag.
Age is not an issue. Box SG62021.
GLASGOW VOYEURS NEEDED
Male voyeur (50’s), has slim built exhibitionist male friend (early 50’s), who
loves to perform DIY in front of others.
WLTM other voyeurs who would like to
watch him perform. Box SG62010.
GENUINE TRUSTING BF
WANTED
Looking for bf, must be genuine, reliable,
trusting, caring, sincere, as I am. Me: 38,
5’10’’, a few extra pounds, sa/sl, non
scene ,clean shaven. Own flat in Ayrshire,
work in Glasgow. Enjoy my regular visits
to the gym also enjoy the usual cinema
eating in/out travelling, etc. Get in
touch. ALA, promise. Box SG62022.
OLDER TOP SEEKS YOUNG
BOTTOM
Do you fancy older guys? This one is 46,
5’7”, ready to teach new nephew types
16-26 who are hot and willing to learn.
Shy boys and any race welcome. Box
SG62024.
SHY EDINBURGH GUY LOOKS
4 FUN!
34 year old Edinburgh man looking for
guys 18-35 for fun and friends - no
strings attached fun. Box SG62032.
MATURE SLAVE - 65
Wanted: master for 65 year old gay to
tie, gag, whip and spank him and use
him as you wish. Glasgow area. Can travel. Morning, afternoon or evening. Box
SG62033.
FRIENDLY BI GUY - GLASGOW
- ANYWHERE
Bi guy wants to pull your briefs down.
Welcomes new friends aged 25-55. I’m
medium build, not tall, 50’s. Cannot
accommodate and don’t drive. Photos
appreciated (returned). Box SG62034.
MASTER SEEKS GUYS GLASGOW - ANYWHERE
Friendly guy welcomes bad boys to
report for disciplinary action or spanking,
belting. Your limits repsected. Cannot
accommodate and don’t drive. Photos
appreciated/returned. Box SG62035.
SEEKING EDINBURGH
ORIENTAL
Edinburgh based white gay guy (30), tall
slim and fair, seeks Edinburgh area slim
Chinese/Oriental gay guy (18-35) for
meaningful relationship. Box SG62036.
WANTED: MEN OF COLOUR
There must be someone for me out there.
Older active male, clean and tidy, can
accommodate. I’m awaiting for your
responde. Box SG62037.
ORIENTAL MYSTIC SEEKING
FRIENDS
Classy, elegant oriental male, 40’s,
smooth, passive, clean and perfumed.
Good enough to eat. Seeks friends. Non
scene. Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire preferred. Discretion assured. Please write
with details. Box SG62038.
PARTY TIME SUNDAY
AFTERNOON
Fun party every Sunday afternoon each
Sunday in March in private house in
Cumbernauld area. Box SG62043.
ScotsGay
Do you know where your next one
is coming from?
Now you can let your fingers do the trolling and order your
next copy of ScotsGay by telephone!
All you have to do is dial 0906 11 00 256 and we’ll send a
copy of the mag to you (or the person of your choice) in the
traditional discreet plain brown envelope.
MAKE SURE YOU GET YOURS
Calls should cost no more than £2
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GLASGOW BOTTOM SEEKS
TOPS
Govan gay guy, 55, slim, fit, experienced, versatile/passive, seeks VWE
guys 16-70 for regular hot sessions. If
it’s big and stiff, get in touch. Discretion
assured if married. Box SG62039.
AYRSHIRE PASSIVE SEEKS
HORNY TOP
Attractive, slim, youg late 50’s, 5’7”,
smart appearance, WLTM discreet,
active, top gay, for good clean safe fun,
likes pankings, enjoys ‘O’ and ‘A’ and
gay videos. Can travel weekends. Letters
please. Box SG62040.
FREE DEEP AND RELAXING
MASSAGE
Free massage to ease the stress of a hard
day in the college, university, building
site or office is offered by this amateur
masseur. Let this ‘active’, WE, (40+)
guy with medium build ease your aches
and pains in this discreet service in the
comfort and safety of your own
room.Bathing with deep soap massaging
prior to oiling will soothe the stresses of
the day making you ready for the night
on the town. Shaving also offered to
those supplying new safety razor. Service
offered to busy boyz aged 20-35,
slim/medium build, tall and clean
shaven. Available afternoons/early
evenings. For those with no accommodation, safe and discreet meetings can be
arranged in a sauna in Edinburgh (No
18). Send details of your needs with a
photo (essential before meeting) for
prompt reply. E-mail for arrangements.
Box SG62046.
FRIENDLY SPORTS TEACHER
35, living in Scotland, seeks naughty
lads to report for detention. A sore butt
guaranteed. Canelines given and taken.
Can travel. Can accommodate. Please
send letter, photo and phone number. No
photo = no reply or an extra caning supplied in wet shorts. I have a firm right
hand. Box SG62050.
DEPRIVED OF DEPRAVITY!
Burly bloke, single six footer seeks sesuous sleazy situations with similar guys.
I’m 45 years old. You could be
older/younger. You accommodate in
Glasgow/Edinburgh. WLTM leather bears
skins. Box SG62041.
LANCASHIRE
54, 6ft, slim, fit, cheerful, horny guy,
HIV+, WLTM W/E guy, similar age, for
regular good times. Can accommodate.
ALA. Box SG62044.
FRIENDLY FIFE GUY SEEKS
OTHERS
Middle aged guy seeks slim/skinny guys
of any age for no strings fun. Very versatile. S/L, S/A, N/Sm. Can accommodate. Bi and married welcome. Discreet.
Box SG62045.
GLASGOW
35 year old Glasgow guy would like to
meet guys into leather and denim for
safe fun and nights out. I can accommodate. Write soon. No time wasters
please. Box SG62048.
MANLY AND BUTCH
I am 5’11” tall, clean shaven, slim, looking for that special person to share my
life for fun and friendship and maybe
more. Discretion assured. Box SG62047.
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO
FRICTION IN THE END
Cynical 46 year old seeks equally cynical
16-26 year old for fun and friendship.
Strictly non scene. Box SG62051.
BISEXUAL
BI CURIOUS?
There has to be a first time for everything! Aged 16-21: get in touch?
Considerate experienced versatile older
guy will talk you through things at your
own pace before getting down to some
safe fun. Your limits respected. Total discretion assured. Live in Edinburgh but will
travel if required. Box SG62001.
BISEXUAL TV
Gorgeous bisexual TV seeks playmate
for friendship, fun and more. I’m 36, bi
and single. My body is smooth and
sexy, and I dress to impress. You’ll find
me always made up, and always wanting to please. I’m discreet and will be as
broad-minded towards you as you are
caring and understanding towards me. I
live in the Highlands, and can travel and
accommodate. Interested? I hope so.
Mail me now and I’ll send you some
pics. Lots of love, Sara, x. Box
SG62009.
BODYBUILDER - 40
50” chest, 17” arm, 35” waist, 16st,
5’8”, seeks serious training partners.
Glasgow area. Photo please. Box
SG62027.
BI COUPLES SERIOUSLY
SOUGHT
For long term regular adult fun in
Grampian area. Smokers, disabled welcome. PA NTW. Ages unrestricted. All
suggestions considered. Can accommodate. Travel limited. Beginners, experienced, all welcome. Reply ASAP.
Thanks. Box SG62028.
BI FEMALE(S) WANTED TO
JOIN US
We 40/50’s couple, bi with bi male
friends looking for long term adult fun
Aberdeen to Inverness area. Smokers
welcome. ALA. No strings. Limits
respected. Don’t delay: write today!
Box SG62029.
MAN CALLED UNCLE
Seeking niece and nephew. No strings
fun and games. He’s mid 50’s, 5’7”.
Can accommodate but travel limited. All
replies considered. ALA. PA. Smokers
and disabled welcome. Box SG62030.
NO WORK + GREAT LIFE!
Wanted: young living in boy, well built,
who will become mine - fully. Box
SG62031.
BI GUY LOOKING FOR BI
COUPLES
50 year old looking for bi couples for
fun and friendship. Can travel. N/s. Non
Scene. Box SG62042.
STRAIGHT
DUNDEE - PERTH
Friendly, fit, 50-something silver bear
seeks morally relaxed women of all
ages for fun and friendship. Box
SG62002.
GLASGOW
29y old blond guy, 6’4”, is looking for
submissive women (35-55) from
Glasgow. If you like bondage, spanking,
torture, foot fetish, etc., write to me
please. Thank you. Box SG62012.
FRIENDS ABROAD
INTERGAY
Penpal contacts with gay men all over
the world. Over 120 subscribers in 30
countries. To join is free: send your ad.
Only subscribers get the booklet with all
data and addresses by enclosing £5.
INTERGAY, Voorstraat 12-A, 4033 AD
Lienden, Netherlands.
A’ BHEIL GAIDHLIG AGAD?!
26 year old GWM Australian. Tha mise
‘ga h-ionnsachadh ach cha’n ‘eil moran
agam fhathast. Would like to learn
more! Seeking a GWM pen-pal, pref
20’s/30’s. Write: Damon Roberts, 11
Larkin Street, Maroochydore 4558,
Australia.
E-mail: daemon125@excite.com
BELGIUM
Young guy visit Belgium for love fun! You
can stay for free in house near city
Antwerpen. SMS 0032 473344818.
Wanted also: boy for living in.
INDIA
I’m Kiran from India. 22. I’m looking for
young and slim smart gay friends from
USA or Europe. I want him to marry me
and stay with me in India forever. Who
will do that? Please reply to me. Write:
Kiran Gopu, Kiran 3-181, Huzurabad
505468, Dist Karimnagar, Andar
Pradesh, India.
E-mail: kiran_gopu@yahoo.co.in
ACCOMMODATION
OFFERED
ROOM TO LET GLASGOW
Accommodation offered in modern flat
close to Glasgow City Centre. Domestic
duties required in return. Offered to Male
or Female. Traditional Style methods
applied. Non sexual. Box SG62005.
FREE ACCOMMODATION
Offered to six young, boyish, very cocky,
cheeky, cute, students or college lads in
large house overlooking Pentland Hills,
Edinburgh, in exchange for light houseboy duties and decorating. Paintbrush
and paint supplied. Age group 16-30ish.
No time wasters please. Please send letter, shirtless photo/nude and phone
number to: Box SG62049.
JOBS OFFERED
£100 PER HOUR
We are recruiting attractive guys to work
as escorts in our highly respected escort
agency. Earn up to £100 per hour for
doing what you enjoy. You will be well
looked after and supported in your work,
and will be involved with a progressive,
dynamic agency. Models also required.
For more info call Ross on 08444
170134 or E-mail: ross@scotsguys.com
[62]
ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES
AVAILABLE
In the comfort of your own home or clinics throughout Edinburgh. Therapies available: Reiki treatments/teaching, Indian
Head Massage, Spiritual Readings and
Hopi Ear Candles. Fully qualified and
insured therapist. Please contact Alan on
07747 714005 for clinics and appointments. [99]
ANIMAL LOVER
Unique opportunity for horse and circus
lover. Live in and learn to ride a High
School Andalucian Horse. Possibility of
waged UK tour summer 2005. Meals
and accommodation provided with training. NE Scotland. Tel: Bobby on St Colms
(01346) 583145. [62a]
boxes
CASH FOR YOUR BODY
Photogenic guys can earn £100 cash
posing for Mike Arlen who has had 14
glossy magazines published called Mike
Arlen’s Guys. Send snapshots of your
magnificent body to him: Mike Arlen,
Wetherby Studios, 23 Wetherby
Mansions, Earls Court Square, London.
SW5 9BH or Phone: 020-7373 1107. Email: mikearlen@btopenworld.com
[99]
MODELS WANTED
Previously published photographer needs
good looking guys (18-25) who want to
earn £20 per hour for publication work.
For details please phone Stuart on 0141636 6556 (No withheld numbers
please) or E-mail:
xpozure4u@shaws2000.fsnet.co.uk
[99]
VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHIC
MODELS
Models are required for paid video and
photographic work in Scotland. You could
be earning an excellent rates and working with some of the best models and
photographers in Scotland! For information please E-mail: models@gaymalemodels.co.uk with your details and
attach a recent picture if possible or call
0845 120 5980. [62]
WEB DESIGNER REQUIRED
We require a web designer to work on
various existing and planned projects
which are mainly gay themed. You will
preferably have experience with ASP and
will be willing to work from your own
base. Student/Trainee web designers
with some programming skills are also
welcome to apply. Please E-mail: recruitment@i-webmedia.co.uk with a summary of your skills and experience. [62]
TRANSLATION SERVICES
Qualified translator based in Dundee
offers translation services between the
following languages: English, Ukrainian,
Russian, Turkish and French. E-mail:
trots2@drink.demon.co.uk or Write: Box
SG62000. [99]
BACK RUBS
ASIAN GAY ESCORT
Horny 28 year old Asian guy. Masculine,
hairy, muscular and into all scenes from
sensual massage to domination & roleplay. Can accommodate Glasgow and
Ayrshire or travel anywhere. Call Rajan
07043 368490. [62]
EDINBURGH GAY ESCORT
SERVICES
CAFFMOS
Contacts and friendships for men over
sixty. The organisation for the more
mature gentleman and his admirers.
Write to: CAFFMOS, PO Box 2273,
Hove. BN3 2GF. Or phone Hove
(01273) 220995 for info. [99]
CONTACT MAG
Contact Mag for adults: over 900 photos.
Approval copy from: Matchmaker (K38),
Chorley, PR7 4BS. Or ring 01257
483335 (24 hours). [99]
CP CONTACT PAPER
CP contact paper for spanking, skins, discipline, etc. SAE to TD Monthly, PO Box
352, Manchester. M60 2PG. [99]
PROOFREADING AND TUITION
In English (including TEFL), French, Latin,
Greek and Gaelic, Typing Services,
Historical and Genealogical Research.
Charles S Coventry, 23/9 Viewcraig
Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9UJ. Tel: 0131558 8785. E-mail:
charlie_cov@yahoo.co.uk [99]
FREE TV/TS NEWS
A Tranny not for profit newsletter. Views,
news, venues and free personal adverts.
A5 sae: BM Box 2534, London. WC1N
3XX. [99]
GOLDEN WHEEL
Seeking discreet gay or bisexual new
friends, male or female? Long standing
service, all areas and worldwide. Send
stamp for details to: (Sadie), The Golden
Wheel, Liverpool. L15 3HT. [99]
HOME IN SPAIN
For letting or investment. Superb villas,
bungalows or apartments with pool direct
from builder from £65,000 (60 per cent
mortgage available). Call Let’s Live
Abroad on 0845 2255777. WWW:
http://www.letsliveabroad.com/ [99]
LIMITED COMPANIES
Only £90 for your own Limited Company.
PLCs £100. Charitable and Unlimited
Companies also available. Freephone 0800
526421 for our free ‘Guide To Limited
Companies’.
E-mail:
cosun@drink.demon.co.uk
WWW:
http://www.quick-companies.co.uk/ [99]
TD MONTHLY
The UK’s fastest-growing contact publication for gay men into spanking/CP and
all related interests. Please send SAE for
details. Write: TD Monthly, PO Box 310,
Manchester. M15 6WT. WWW:
http://geocities.com/tdmonthly/homepage.html [99]
WORLDWIDE PENFRIENDS
Regular lists. Make friends, exchange
holidays, improve your languages. For
general and music lovers’ lists send £3:
“The Penpal List”, c/o 221B Merton Rd,
Southfields, London. SW18 5EE. [99]
Carlos. 26 year old attractive bi-escort in
Central Edinburgh. Canaccommodate or
visit you. Fit, toned body. Versatile, sensual, tactile and fun. Quality escort for
discerning gents. Call 07050 030424
for info. [62]
MASSAGE FOR MEN EDINBURGH
Great relaxing, holistic, sensual, full body
pampering massage. £20. Qualified,
experienced, caring therapist. 0131-556
7199. [62]
GLASGOW & EDINBURGH!
Kyle - 18 year old boyish and cute gay
escort in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Slim,
toned, hung and horny. Versatile/
passive and can accom in Glasgow or
visit you. Friendly service. Call 07043
368505. [62]
NEW GLASGOW GAY ESCORT
SCOTSGUYS ESCORT AGENCY
The best gay escorts in Scotland are at
ScotsGuys! Visit http://www.scotsguys.com/ for pictures and details or call
08444 170134 (local rate) for all
enquiries and bookings. New Escorts
always wanted. [62]
HELPLINES AND SWITCHBOARDS
CROSSLYNX NATIONAL TV/TS/TG HELPLINE
Mon 7.30-9.30pm. Phone: 0141-847 0787
WWW: http://www.crosslynx.org/
BRAD - EDINBURGH
Relax for an all over body masssage.
Very discreet service. Mobile: 07880
661330. [62]
CUMBRIA AND THE BORDERS GAY HELPLINE
EDINBURGH
Large, cuddly, chubby gay man gives occasional massage. Call Kenny on 0131-661
1477 or 07880 658324. [99]
Mon 7-10pm. Phone: Dundee (01382) 202620 Write: PO Box 53, Dundee. DD1 3YG.
E-mail: contact@diversitay.org.uk
WWW: http://www.diversitay.org.uk/
LANARKSHIRE GLASGOW
ESCORTS
Tired of boyz? Masculine horny guys
Martin (30 active) and Joe (35 passive).
Great service in/out. Calls available
seperate or fab rates for duo. Go on try.
Call 07796 964526. [62]
FIFE HATE CRIME REPORTING HELPLINE
WHERE TO STAY
ALL NEW, ALL GAY
GUESTHOUSES - EDINBURGH
Two great locations. Exclusively gay. Easy
walk to nightlife. Stylish rooms, all with
TV and video (tapes available). Shared
and private bathrooms. Breakfast available till noon. Non-smoking houses. Easy
parking. Room rates: £29-£49 per night.
Call 0131-558 1382 or Fax 0131-556
8279. WWW: http://www.gayscotland.com/alvahouse/ [63a]
APARTMENT - EDINBURGH
CITY CENTRE
Holiday/break. Fabulous serviced apartment, near all gay venues. 5 mins to
main rail/bus stations and Princes St.
Sleeps 1-5 people. 1 double bedded
room. 1 single bedroom. Very large
lounge/dining room - inc double
sofabed. Kitchen inc all mod cons and
bathroom. From £90 per night. Tel:
0131-557 1910 or 07966 938055 or
E-mail: dublinstreetstay@hotmail.com
for bookings. WWW:
http://www.dublinstreet.co.uk/ [62a]
B&B
Main High Street, Clachnaharry,
Inverness. £14.50pppn. Double or single. Breakfast and light supper included.
Tel: Inverness (01463) 229662. Ask for
Murdo. [63a]
Nightly 6-9pm. Phone: Bassenthwaite Lake (01768) 776244
DIVERSITAY LGBT SWITCHBOARD (DUNDEE)
24 hours. Phone: Freephone 0800 3891425
A freephone number for people who wish support in reporting to Fife Constabulary crime motivated by hate. For further information about the service or becoming a trained helpline volunteer, phone us now!
HOMOPHOBIC CRIME LINE
Nightly 7-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0647 or Stirling (01786) 469483
WWW: http://www.centralscotland.police.uk/gblt/
LOTHIAN GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD
Nightly 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0131-556 4049
E-mail: switchboard@rapidial.co.uk WWW: http://www.lgls.co.uk/
LOTHIAN LESBIAN LINE
Mon, Thu 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0131-557 0751
E-mail: switchboard@rapidial.co.uk WWW: http://www.lgls.co.uk/
STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD
Nightly 7-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0447
E-mail: info@sgls.co.uk WWW: http://www.sgls.co.uk/
STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN LINE
Wed 7.30-10pm. Phone: 0141-847 0547
WWW: http://www.sgls.co.uk/services1.htm
LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD
24 hours. Phone: 020-7837 7324. Minicom: 020-7689 8501. FAX: 020-7837 7300.
WWW: http://www.llgs.org.uk/ WWW: http://www.queery.org.uk/
ScotsGay
PERTH
We are a gay and lesbian friendly guest
house in Perth. 10 mins from city centre
amenities. Comfortable rooms recently refurbished and ensuite. 24 channel televideo.
All diets catered for. Excellent rates. Full
Scottish breakfast. See you soon. Phone
07715 180157. E-mail: enquiries@rosebankguesthouseperth.co.uk [67]
INVERNESS - GLENUIG GUEST
HOUSE
Close to City Centre. Welcoming, gayfriendly atmosphere. Spacious ensuite
rooms. Off street parking. Substantial
continental breakfast served until noon.
Rates from £18pppn. Tel: Inverness
(01463) 250938. [64a]
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NEAR PERTH
Guest House. En suite rooms B&B £25.
Dinner to order. Also massage, hairdressing head and body. For a discreet personal service, call Ron on 07730 876454.
[67]
Darren - 18 year old Glasgow lad. Very
cute, schoolboy looks, slim and smooth.
XVWE and always horny! Friendly and
discreet service at my place or yours. Will
travel. Tel: 07043 368517 for details.
[62]
NEW - EDINBURGH
Jake, 30. Fit gym muscle lad, toned and
very well hung. Offers discreet escort service - most scenes catered for, versatile, CP,
leather. Satisfaction guaranteeed. 07979
803934. Out/hotels. [62a]
PENZANCE - CORNWALL
Small, gay-friendly, period hotel situated
with own parking in town centre. Rooms
available en-suite.
WWW: http://www.cliffhotelpz.co.uk/
Tel: (01736) 368888. [99]
PORTGOWER - HELMSDALE
Self catering accommodation to let. Fully
furnished house. Double bedroom, bathroom and shower, sitting room,
kitchen/diner. Back and front door, Front
and back garden. Parking for three cars.
Tel: Murdo for further particulars on
Inverness (01463) 229662. [63a]
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NATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS
OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND:
Scotland’s oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organisation. It was founded in
1969 as the Scottish Minorities Group, later
became the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group
and changed its name to OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND in
December 1992. Currently focusing on work
around the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Executive
and Scottish Public Institutions such as the NHS,
Police and Justice System. Write: The Secretary,
OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND, PO Box 23253, Edinburgh.
EH1 3XD. E-mail: convenor@outrightscotland.org.uk WWW: http://www.outrightscotland.org.uk/ Why not support OUTRIGHT
SCOTLAND’s work? Membership is £15 waged,
£9 low-waged (under £10,000 pa) and £5
unwaged. Life membership is £150. Affiliation
from Trades Union and Political Party Branches
also welcome: £100 (Local Branches), £150
(National Organisations). Please make out your
cheque/Postal Order to OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND and
send to The Secretary, OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND, PO
Box 23253, Edinburgh. EH1 3XD.
EQUALITY NETWORK:
Working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in Scotland. Write: 30 Bernard Street,
Edinburgh. EH6 6PR. Tel: 07020 933952. Fax:
07020 933954. E-mail: en@equalitynetwork.org WWW: http://www.equality-network.org/ We hold weekly meetings, regular
forums and an annual conference; contact us for
more details. Join the campaign network!
LESBIAN ARCHIVE AND INFORMATION CENTRE:
The UK’s largest and most significant collection of
materials relating to lesbian lives. LAIC (at
Glasgow Women’s Library) 109 Trongate,
Glasgow. G1 5HD. Tel/Fax: 0141-552 8345.
Open Tue-Fri 1-6pm and Sat 2-5pm.
E-mail: gwl@womens-library.org.uk
WWW:
http://www.womenslibrary.org.uk/laic.htm
PRIDE SCOTIA (EDINBURGH):
Now busily organising Pride Scotia 2005 for Sat
25th July 2005! Tel: 0131-556 9471. Write:
58a Broughton Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3SA.
E-mail: edinburgh@pride-scotia.org
WWW: http://www.pride-scotia.org/
PRIDE SCOTIA (GLASGOW):
Organised Pride Scotia 2004 and now taking a
few days off before starting work on Pride Scotia
2006! Write: 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow. G1 4AL.
E-mail: glasgow@pride-scotia.org
WWW: http://www.pride-scotia.org/
STONEWALL SCOTLAND:
Scottish office of the London based campaigning
group. Write: 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AL.
Tel: 0141-204 0746. Fax: 0141-204 5110.
E-mail: scotland@stonewall.org.uk
WWW: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/
LOCAL
ORGANISATIONS
ABERDEEN:
Pride In Aberdeen: An umbrella group for voluntary LGBT organisations in the North East of
Scotland (formerly North East LGBT Forum).
Working towards opening an LGBT Centre in
Aberdeen. Aberdeen Pride: Sat 4th Jun 2005.
WWW: http://uk.geocities.com/equalityforum/
North East Scotland Gay Group: Caters for all ages
and meets at 7.30pm on the 3rd Sun of every
month. Tel: Phace Scotland on Aberdeen (01224)
587166 (9am-5pm).
E-mail: nesgg@phacescotland.org
AYRSHIRE:
Ayrshire Social & Sexuality Support Group: Meets
3rd Wed of each month at 7pm in Irvine. Details
of venue from David Bingham on 0141-332
3837 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm), Irvine (01294)
323473 or Strathclyde Switchboard.
E-mail: davidb@phacescotland.org
CAITHNESS:
Caithness Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Group: A friendly informal group which meets irregularly. Write:
Box 689, Journal Office, 42 Union Street, Wick.
KW1 5ED. Tel: 07808 814007 (Fri 7-9pm).
E-mail: caithnessglb@yahoo.co.uk
WWW: http://members.lycos.co.uk/caithnessglc/index.htm
DUNDEE:
Disco:very: The newsletter from Diversitay.
Available from: Diversitay (LGBT Group), PO Box
53, Dundee, DD1 3YG.
DUNFERMLINE:
FifeFLAGS: Fife Free Lesbian and Gay Society.
Based in Dunfermline, provides a welcoming and
safe meeting space and drop-in centre near the
town centre for the LGBT community, our friends,
family and supporters. Regular social group meets
on Mon and Thu eve from 7pm. Youth group for
people up to age 25, coordinated by LGBT Youth
Scotland, meets on first Mon of each month from
7-9 pm. Support for parents of recently out children can also be arranged - contact for details.
Various groups meet in comfortable surroundings
and arrange activities and outings or just hang out
and meet new friends over coffee and biscuits.
Safer sex information and supplies available as
part of the Fife Health Board condom distribution
scheme. Tel: Dunfermline (01383) 738517.
E-mail: Info@FifeFLAGS.org.uk
WWW: http://www.fifeflags.org.uk/
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EDINBURGH:
Icebreakers: Social group for guys and gals who
want to make friendships and feel more at ease in
the company of other gay people. Run by
Switchboard volunteers. Takes place from 7.309pm in CC Blooms on the 2nd & 4th Wed of each
month. If you’re recently out or new to Edinburgh
or just feel a bit cut off and want a break, come
along. A welcoming and non-threatening environment. First timers can be met outside. Phone
Lothian Switchboard for details.
ELGIN:
Moray LGBT Group: Meets 3rd Thu of each month
from 7.30pm at Health Point, 239 High Street,
Elgin. Write: c/o Phace Scotland, 21-23 Justice
Mill Lane, Aberdeen. AB11 6EQ. Tel: Aberdeen
(01224) 587166. Fax: Aberdeen (01224)
587167. E-mail: markt@phacescotland.org
FALKIRK:
FLAGS LGBT Centre: 56-58 Cow Wynd, Falkirk.
FK1 1PU. Tel: Falkirk (01324) 617717. Situated
near the centre of town. Resource area with latest
magazines, leaflets etc. Free safer sex supplies for
men and women. Tea and coffee area. Various
groups meet in the Centre each week. For further
information: telephone or E-mail and speak to one
of the volunteers. E-mail: flagslgbt@hotmail.com
GLASGOW:
Glasgow LGBT Centre: The Centre Board manages
Glasgow LGBT Centre Limited, which is registered
as a Scottish charity and as a Scottish company.
Centre Administrator and Manager are on duty
(9.30am-5pm Mon-Fri). Membership criteria for
Glasgow LGBT Centre Limited is available to all
interested people agreeing to the code of conduct.
See press for notice of the Annual General meeting of Members - childcare and BSL interpreter can
be organised, but please give advance notice.
Membership is closed in the last month. Write:
Glasgow LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow,
G1 4AL. Tel/Fax: 0141-221 7203.
E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk
WWW: http://www.glgbt.org.uk/
Icebreakers Group: For lesbians, gays and bisexuals new to the scene. 12.30-3pm on 1st Sun of
each month at LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon Street.
Details from Strathclyde Switchboard.
INVERNESS:
Highland Gay Men’s Group: Meets at 7.30pm on
4th Wed of each month at 34 Waterloo Place. Tel:
Inverness (01463) 711585 (Mon-Fri 9.30am4.30pm).
E-mail: hgmg@reachouthighland.org.uk
Highland Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
Forum. Write: c/o Reach Out Highland, 34
Waterloo Place, Inverness. IV1 1NB.
E-mail: forum@gay-ness.org.uk
WWW: http://www.gay-ness.org.uk/
LANARKSHIRE:
Lanarkshire Gay Group: An LGBT group which
meets most Weds from 8pm in or around
Hamilton. We are a small group of gay people
who get together for support and friendship over
a cup of tea or coffee. Join us for genuine friendship, we welcome new members, Gay, Lesbian,
Bi, Transgender and their friends. Come along,
give it a try, what have you got to lose? Write:
LGG, 10 Bartie Gardens, Ashgill, Larkhall. ML9
3FB. Tel: Larkhall (01698) 887532 (7-10pm).
E-mail: LGG@bartie.fsnet.co.uk WWW:
http://www.geocities.com/lanarkshiregaymensgroup/
STIRLING:
Stirling Gay Men’s Group meets monthly from
Sep-Jun (generally 3rd Fri) in private houses.
E-mail: Forthfriend@lademill.force9.co.uk WWW:
http://www.lademill.f9.co.uk/Forthfriend.html
WOMEN’S
LISTINGS
SCOTTISH NETWORK FOR LESBIAN STRENGTH:
To further lesbian issues, follow a lesbian agenda
and foster lesbian visibility. Further information
from Highland Lesbian Group at PO Box 91,
Inverness. IV2 7GJ.
E-mail: High_Les@bigfoot.com
ABERDEEN:
Aberdeen Lesbian Group: A small social group of
lesbian and bisexual women who meet every fortnight in the Women’s Centre, Shoe Lane (next to
the Lemon Tree). They aim to bring together likeminded women into a friendly atmosphere
focussing on fun and enjoyment. Tel: Aberdeen
(01224) 625010 or 07786 795568.
E-mail: aberdeenlesbiangroup@yahoo.co.uk
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/aberdeenlesbiangroup/
AroundAB-out 2001: A free monthly online
newsletter primarily for lesbians in Aberdeen and
the North-East of Scotland but has a mixed readership of gender, sexuality and age throughout the
UK and internationally. It contains a mix of articles, humour, information and regular features.
Personal copies are sent free via e-mail if requested, and the website is updated during the month
with time related news. WWW:
http://www.about2001.com/ For individual
free
subscriptions,
E-mail:
Subscriptions@About2001.com with the word
“subscribe” either in the subject or in the body of
the e-mail.
Granite Sisters: Aberdeen based social and cultural group for lesbians throughout Scotland.
Meetings and events held in both the private
homes of members and public venues.
Confidentiality and privacy are regarded as very
important to this group as many members are not
out, and you will find the members respect these
values at gatherings. Website also contains news
and information about gay issues, gay friendly
holidays in Scotland etc. Further details: Maria
Clark Manager/Secretary. Tel/Fax: Aberdeen
(01224) 713336 (day/eve). Write: PO Box
18230, Aberdeen. AB2 9YN.
E-mail: 13@clara.co.uk
WWW: http://www.13.clara.co.uk/
Lesbian And Friends Lunch Club: 1st Sat of each
month in Aberdeen Women’s Centre, Shoe Lane.
Come along and be treated to a tasty lunch while
enjoying a nice relaxing atmosphere in the company of like minded women. Tel: Aberdeen (01224)
625010. E-mail: savanah@clara.co.uk WWW:
http://www.geocities.com/aberdeenlesbiangroup/lunch.html
DUNDEE:
Ellesbelles: Dundee’s women only drumming
group. Meets every Thu from 5.30pm at Michelin
Athletic Club, Drumgeith Road. Tel: Dundee
(01382) 330131.
E-mail: ellesbellesdundee@hotmail.com
WWW: http://www.ellesbelles.com/
We Bissums: A regular newletter for women in
and around Dundee. Write: PO Box 6819,
Dundee. DD1 2YG.
E-mail: we_bissums@hotmail.com
EDINBURGH:
AD Group: For lesbians 40+. Monthly meeting and
frequent social events. For details, phone
Edinburgh Lesbian Line.
Edinburgh Gay Women’s Group: Weekly social
group to chat, laugh, do crazy things or more
relaxed ones. Go to the movies, pub, theatre,
dancing, whatever you fancy. Meets every Wed
8pm onwards at Sala, LGBT Centre, 60 Broughton
St. For details, phone Edinburgh Lesbian Line.
Lesbian Book Group: Meets monthly (Wed 7.309.30pm) in basement of LGBT Centre for Health
& Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, Edinburgh. Contact
Kerry for further details / next book by E-mail:
kjmcdoll@yahoo.co.uk or Tel: 07739 324046.
LGBT Centre For Health & Wellbeing: 9 Howe
Street, Edinburgh. EH3 6TE. Social events,
women’s health consultation, groups, classes and
volunteering for lesbian, bisexual and transgender
women. Tel: 0131-523 1100.
E-mail: allie@lgbthealth.org.uk
WWW: http://www.lgbthealth.org.uk/
LIBRA: Help for women concerned about their
drinking. Free 1-2-1 counselling and groupwork.
Tel: 0131-661 0111. Write: 4 Norton Park,
Edinburgh. EH7 5RS.
E-mail: libra@libra-lothian.fsnet.co.uk
FALKIRK:
Forth Valley Gay Women meet 7.30-9pm every
2nd Thu at FLAGS LGBT Centre, 56-58 Cow Wynd,
Falkirk. FK1 1PU. Tel: Falkirk (01324) 617717.
GLASGOW:
Centre For Women’s Health: Sandyford Initiative, 26 Sandyford Place (old Eye Infirmary), Glasgow.
G3 7NB. Tel: 0141-211 6700. Minicom: 0141211 6703. Fax: 0141-211 6702. Sappho @
Sandyford: Sappho promotes positive health for lesbians and easier access to sexual, reproductive and
women’s health services. A monthly well-woman
clinic and screening service is provided in a lesbian
friendly setting. Tel: 0141-211 8130 for appointment. Counselling at the Centre for Women’s
Health takes place fortnightly on Tue eve. Women
Only Space and Reference Library: Mon-Thu 10am8.30pm, Fri 10am-4pm. Tel: 0141-211 6700 for
info. There is a crèche within Sandyford Initiative Tel: 0141-211 8647 for info.
E-mail: sandyfordlib@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk
WWW: http://www.sandyford.org/
Glasgow Women’s Library: 4th/5th Floors, 109
Trongate, G1 5HD. Tel/Fax: 0141-552 8345.
Open Tue-Fri 1-6pm. Sat 2-5pm. Closed Mon.
Lending and reference library - books, magazines,
journals, videos, leaflets and information. UK and
overseas feminist and lesbian publications.
Contains the Lesbian Archive and Information
Centre - a unique national collection of publications, journals and ephemera by and for lesbians.
E-mail: gwl@womens-library.org.uk
WWW: http://www.womens-library.org.uk/
Glasgow Women’s Library Lesbian Outreach
Service: A new group and two drop-in sessions are
running for lesbian and bisexual women over 25.
The group meets in the Library every second Wed
eve, and afternoon drop-in sessions are in the
Library or Glasgow LGBT Centre. For more information on dates and times contact the Library on
0141-552 8345.
OLGA - Older Women’s Group: Meets monthly. Tel:
Jenny or Alex on Kilwinning (01294) 558171 or
Rose on 0141-423 3025.
E-mail: roseodoherty@hotmail.com
Personal safety and confidence building courses
for women are offered by Wise Women, 120
Sydney Street, Glasgow. G31 1JF. Tel: 0141-550
7557. Quertyphone: 0141-550 7558.
INVERNESS:
GirlZone: Formerly Girls @ The Gate. Friendly,
informal social group for LBT and friends - all welcome. Meets 3rd Sat of each month. Tel: Joanne
on 07792 223 687 for details and venue.
E-mail: girlzone@gay-ness.org.uk
WWW: http://www.gay-ness.org.uk/
Highland Lesbian Group: A friendly lesbian social
group which offers support and information.
Organises fundraisers for Womankind Worldwide:
http://www.womankind.org.uk/
WWW:
http://www.freewebs.com/highlandlesbiangroup/ Write: PO Box 91, Inverness. IV2 7GJ.
E-mail: High_Les@bigfoot.com
LESBIAN INFORMATION SERVICE:
E-mail: jan@lesbianinformationservice.org
WWW: http://www.lesbianinformationservice.org/
LILLIDOTS:
Lesbian Feminist Walking Group. Contact via
Dundee Switchboard, Lothian Lesbian Line or
Strathclyde Switchboard.
YOUNG LESBIANS:
See our Youth Groups listings.
BISEXUALS
BI EDINBURGH:
A monthly space for bisexuals and those questioning their sexuality. Meets 3rd Wed of month from
8pm at the Edinburgh LGBT Centre, 58a
Broughton Street for informal discussion followed
by drinks. Tel/text: 0796 396 0321.
E-mail: info@biscotland.org
WWW: http://www.biscotland.org/
BI GLASGOW:
Glasgow’s own bisexual group, for information,
support and socializing, for bisexuals and those
questioning their sexuality. Meets 1st Wed of
month, from 7.30-9.30pm in the Ian Dunn Room
at Glasgow LGBT Centre, followed by drinks. Also
organises training and activist activities in support
of bisexual visibility and pride. Tel/text: 0796
396 0321. Write: Bi Glasgow, c/o Glasgow LGBT
Centre, 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AL.
E-mail: info@biscotland.org
WWW: http://www.biscotland.org/
ABUSE
BROKEN RAINBOW LGBT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
SERVICE (UK):
Works to change the situation for LGBT people facing domestic violence. Runs a listening, information and signposting Helpline Service, staffed by
LGBT people. Tel: 020-8539 9507 (Mon-Fri 9am1pm & 2-5pm).
E-mail: mail@broken-rainbow.org.uk
WWW: http://www.broken-rainbow.org.uk/
MEN AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE:
MASA offers a unique 1-2-1 counselling service for
adult male survivors of childhood abuse. MASA
can also provide Hypnotherapy and Electric
Stimulation Therapy (a form of acupunture). Tel:
0141-550 2048 (Tue 7-9pm).
E-mail: abusedmen@aol.com
RAPE AND ABUSE LINE:
For male and female survivors. Women answer
the Tel: Freephone 0808 8000123 (or Dingwall
(01349) 865316) hours as advised on telephone answering machine. Men answer the Tel:
Freephone 0808 8000122 (or Dingwall
(01349) 862686) hours as advised on telephone answering machine. Callers are welcome to
phone either line. Write: PO Box 10, Dingwall.
IV15 9HE.
THRIVE:
Counselling service for male survivors of childhood
sexual abuse. Write: The Sandyford Initiative, 4
Sandyford Place, Glasgow. G3 7NB. Tel: 0141211 8133. E-mail: thrive@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk
ATHEISTS/
HUMANISTS
BEARS
BEARSCOTS:
For hairy, moustached, bearded or bulky men and
their admirers. Edinburgh: Meets 1st Sat of each
month from 2pm in No. 18 Sauna and then from
9pm in the Claremont Bar. Write: PO Box 12785,
Edinburgh, EH6 7YU. Tel: Dundee (01382)
640059. E-mail: info@bearscots.org.uk
Glasgow: Meets 2nd Fri of each month from 8pm
in
the
Revolver
Bar.
E-mail:
glasgow_bear@yahoo.co.uk For details of other
social events across Scotland contact BearScots or
check the website.
WWW: http://www.bearscots.org.uk/
BIKERS
GAY BIKERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB:
A UK-wide club for women and men. Active
Scottish section. Write: PO Box 33, Long Eaton,
Nottingham. NG10 2BF.
E-mail: info@gaybikers.co.uk
WWW: http://www.gaybikers.co.uk/
CHRISTIANS
LAMBDA BOARD - EDINBURGH:
The UK’s oldest lesbigay 24 hour computer based
bulletin board system. Private mailboxing, areas
for Women, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Leather
Enthusiasts, TV/TSs, etc. 0131-556 6316.
Scrolling (8N1) and Viewdata (Prestel) formats
at speeds up to V22bis (2400/2400).
HOLY TRINITY METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH:
An inclusive church of the lesbigay and trangendered community open to all irrespective of sexuality. Services: Every Sun at 6pm (11am during
Aug) at Augustine United Church, 41 George IV
Bridge, Edinburgh (opposite the Central Library).
Relationship blessings conducted by arrangement.
Tel: 0131-226 1691. Write: Metropolitan
Community Church, 41 George IV Bridge,
Edinburgh. EH1 1EL.
E-mail: mail@mccedinburgh.com
WWW: http://www.mccedinburgh.com/
SCOTSGAY:
All of the words from the magazine can be found
on our website as well as interactive Meet Market
and our Listings which are updated nearly every
day. WWW: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/
QUAKERS:
Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship is a welcoming and supportive national group for people of all
sexual orientations and their friends. Write: Ruth
(SG), 46 The Avenue, Starbeck, Harrogate. HG1
4QD. E-mail: qlgfcontact@btclick.com
WWW: http://www.qlgf.org.uk/
QUEST:
Organisation for lesbian and gay Catholics.
Monthly meetings are held in different regional
groups throughout Britain. Scottish meetings held
in Glasgow. Quest Linkline - The Helpline for Gay
and Lesbian Catholics - Tel: (Freephone) 0808
808 0234. Write: BM Box 2585, LONDON.
WC1N 3XX.
E-mail: quest@questgaycatholic.org.uk
WWW: http://www.questgaycatholic.org.uk/
ROMAN CATHOLIC CAUCUS OF THE LESBIAN &
GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT:
Local group meets in Central Edinburgh. Write: RC
Caucus, PO Box 24632, London. E9 6XF. Tel:
020-7226 0847.
E-mail: lgcm_rccaucus@hotmail.com
CULTURAL
SCOTTISH GAY SKINS:
Information Site for Scottish Gay Skinheads. Email: scotsskinsinfo@fsmail.net WWW:
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/scotsskins/
ScotsSkins meet informally in The Claremont in
Edinburgh on the 3rd Sat of each month.
SM GAYS:
E-mail: info@smgays.org
WWW: http://www.smgays.org/
SM PRIDE:
Scottish contact E-mail: druidic_goddess@yahoo.com
WWW: http://www.uksmpride.org/
SCOTTISH GAY VEGGIE GROUP:
Social group. Tel: 0141-883 2715 or 07963
540356.
CYBERSPACE
HUMANIST BLESSINGS:
Celebrate your love and commitment with a
meaningful ritual or ceremony that you will
always remember. Non-religious blessings/affirmation ceremonies, funerals and baby namings/welcomes. Woman Humanist Society registered officiant. Tel: 07739 826377 or
E-mail: celebrate.lgbt@ntlworld.com
MSC SCOTLAND:
A club for men interested in Leather, Rubber,
Uniform. Meets at the Regent Bar, Edinburgh, on
the 3rd Sat of each month from 9pm. Write: PO
Box 28, Edinburgh. EH3 5JL.
E-mail: msc@msc-scotland.net
WWW: http://www.msc-scotland.net/
SCOTTISH BORDERS GAY FILM GROUP:
Meets monthly during autumn through to the
spring, and views videos / DVDs with a gay
theme or character. For more details please contact Alastair on Galashiels (01896) 757861.
EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP:
Lesbian, gay or bisexual? From an Evangelical tradition? So are we. Tel: Andrew on Mid Calder
(01506) 499926. Write: 123 Byron Road,
Chelmsford, Essex. CM2 6HJ.
E-mail: info@eflgc.org.uk
WWW: http://www.eflgc.org.uk/
CREATIVE ARTS
BDSM
REMEMBER WHEN PROJECT:
Documenting the collective history of Edinburgh’s
LGBT communities, recording life-stories and personal memories across the generations, and celebrating our rich and varied contributions to the
quality of life in the city. Write: Brian Thompson,
Remember When Project, 14 Forth Street,
Edinburgh. EH1 3LH. Tel: 0131-558 2820.
E-mail: brian@rememberwhen.org.uk
WWW: http://www.rememberwhen.org.uk/
EDINBURGH GAY CATHOLIC SUPPORT GROUP:
Meets monthly. Tel: 07833 740142.
E-mail: gaycatholicedinburgh@yahoo.co.uk
GAY AND LESBIAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION:
GALHA is a national membership group promoting
the gay-friendly Humanist outlook and gay and
lesbian rights as human rights. Write: 34 Spring
Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. CV8 2HB.
Tel/Fax: Kenilworth (01926) 858450.
E-mail: secretary@galha.org
WWW: http://www.galha.org/
PINK TRIANGLE TRUST:
PTT is a gay charity which can arrange non-religious ceremonies of love and commitment for lesbian and gay couples at very reasonable rates in
most parts of Scotland. Details from: Write: 34
Spring Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. CV8 2HB.
Tel/Fax: Kenilworth (01926) 858450.
E-mail: ceremonies@pinktriangle.org.uk
WWW: http://www.pinktriangle.org.uk/
INTERNATIONAL KILT APPRECIATION SOCIETY
(IKAS):
Contact and social group for guys interested in
viewing/wearing kilts. Regular newsletter. Write:
Mervyn Tacy, `Ziveli’, 20 Ordsall Park Road, RETFORD. DN22 7PA. Please enclose sae. Tel: 01777
708270. E-mail: IKILTas@aol.com
DIVERSE ARTISTS:
An opportunity for Artists from all Art Disciplines,
to meet, discuss their Art and develop projects and
workshop opportunities. Membership is open to
all diverse artists. Tel: Aileen on 07931 309093.
E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk
CELTIC MUSIC GAY GROUP:
Mixed LGB group. Scottish/Irish music/culture
fans (Wolfstone, Runrig, Wolfe Tones, Athenry,
Aire Og, Christy Moore, etc). Watch and swap
videos/cassettes. Write: BM Box 7970, LONDON.
WC1N 3XX.
EAST MEETS WEST:
Are you Asian, and interested in forming a social
group in the Glasgow/Edinburgh area with guys
who are genuinely interested in Asians and Asian
culture? If so, please either Tel: 07748 183626
or E-mail: gordino666@hotmail.com
GAYKILTS:
A friendly social group of men promoting the wearing of the traditional kilt. Regular meetings at
Claremont Bar, Edinburgh, 2nd and last Sun of
each month lunch times and 2nd Sat of each
month from 8pm. Other kilted weekend get
togethers and visits throughout Britain. Tel:
07800 891702. E-mail: info@gaykilts.co.uk
WWW: http://www.gaykilts.co.uk/
GLASGAY!:
Scotland’s annual celebration of queer culture.
Next dates: 1st-20th Nov 2005. Write: GALA
Scotland Ltd, PO Box 16812, Glasgow. G12 9ZU.
Tel: 0141-334 7126 or 07762 722460.
E-mail: info@glasgay.co.uk
WWW: http://www.glasgay.co.uk/
GLESGAY CEILIDH:
A not for profit organisation hosting at least biannual fundraising ceilidhs in aid of Strathclyde
Lesbian And Gay Switchboard and the Glasgow
LGBT Centre. To join, find out more or help out,
contact: Craig Wright on 07764 569094 or Email: glesgayceilidh@btopenworld.com
HEALTH AND
ABILITIES
(including Sexual
Health)
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:
Whilst AA runs the following LGBT meetings in
Edinburgh and Glasgow, please note that it is a
non restrictive organisation and LGBT people are
welcome at any meeting. Edinburgh: Tue 7.30pm
(Edinburgh LGBT Centre, 58a Broughton Street).
Glasgow: Tue 8pm (Phace Scotland, 2nd Floor,
49 Bath Street), Thu 7.30pm (Nye Bevan House,
20 India Street), Fri 8pm (Glasgow LGBT Centre,
11 Dixon Street). National Helpline: 0845
7697555 (24 hours). Scottish Office: 0141-226
2214. Edinburgh Office: 0131-225 2727.
BODY POSITIVE (GRAMPIAN):
A self help group offering support and assistance
for individuals with HIV/AIDS in the Grampian
area. Write: PO Box 83, Aberdeen. AB9 1AA.
BODY POSITIVE (STRATHCLYDE):
9 Sandyford Place, Glasgow. G3 7NP. Provides a
wide range of peer support, transport, therapies,
and treatment information for those living with
HIV/AIDS as well as outreach work in North
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire and Arran. Drop In: MonFri 11am-5pm. Social Activities & Emotional
Support Group: Tue 6-8pm. Activists’ Group: Thu
5-8pm. Crêche available Tue and Thu eves. Has
opened a new Family Centre at 12a Sandyford
Place that will house a number of new community initiatives including a healthy eating initiative
and health and fitness programme. Works with
young people in partnership with Barnardos
Riverside Project. Administration: Mon-Fri 9am5pm. Tel: 0141-248 8285. Fax: 0141-248
9285. E-mail: info@bodypositive.org.uk
WWW: http://www.bodypositive.org.uk/
BODY POSITIVE (TAYSIDE):
11-15 Princes Street, Dundee. DD4 6BY. A charity that exists to empower HIV and HepC positive
people and those affected thereby to eliminate the
stigma and isolation they experience. Tel: Dundee
(01382) 461555. Fax: Dundee (01382)
461424. Tue-Thu (Drop In) Noon-3.30pm.
E-mail: admin@bptayside.sol.co.uk
WWW: http://www.bodypositivetayside.org/
BROWNLEE CENTRE (GLASGOW):
Gartnavel General Hospital, 1053 Great Western
Road, Glasgow. G12 0YN. Confidential information, advice, counselling and direct access testing
for HIV and Hepatitis. The Centre provides ongoing
medical and social care plus psychological and
emotional support for people living with HIV infection and one to one counselling for people at risk
of HIV. Tel: 0141-211 1089. Fax: 0141-211
1097. Mon-Thu 9am-5pm, Tue 5-7.30pm, Thu 57.30pm, Fri 9am-4.30pm.
BROWNLEE COMMUNITY TEAM:
1st Floor, Granite House, 31 Stockwell Street,
Glasgow. G1 4RZ. Social work service for people
with HIV/AIDS providing intensive community
based support. General advice and information on
community care and housing needs also provided.
Mon-Thu 8.45am-4.45pm. Fri 8.45am-3.55pm.
Tel: 0141-552 4488. Fax: 0141-552 2760.
Also at Brownlee Centre: Tel: 0141-211 1090.
FIFE MEN:
5 South Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy. KY1 1YA.
(Behind Sheriff Court). Information, advice and
support on gay and health issues, free condoms,
and much more! Mon-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 10am-3pm.
Tel: Kirkcaldy (01592) 265666. Fax: Kirkcaldy
(01592) 643866.
E-mail: enquiries@fifemen.co.uk
WWW: http://www.fifemen.co.uk/
listings
GAY MEN’S HEALTH:
10a Union Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3LU. A community led Lothian wide project for gay and bisexual
men. Wide ranging volunteering opportunities
which provide services including support and counselling, scene work, peer education and training,
provision of condoms, lube and Safer Sex information. Tel: 0131-558 9444. Fax: 0131-558
9060. E-mail: info@gmh.org.uk
WWW: http://www.gmh.org.uk/
GAY MEN’S HEALTH TAYSIDE:
Exists to promote the sexual health of gay and
bisexual men living in Angus, Dundee and Perth
and Kinross, reduce the spread of HIV within those
communities and challenge the discrimination that
can be faced by gay and bisexual men, including
HIV positive gay and bisexual men, and those
affected by HIV. Tel: Dundee (01382) 424070.
Fax: Dundee (01382) 424090.
E-mail: admin@gaymenshealthtayside.com
WWW: http://www.gaymenshealthtayside.com/
GLASGOW BROWNLEE AIDS WELFARE FUND:
Raises funds for people with HIV/AIDS in the
Greater Glasgow area. Write: PO Box 3954,
Glasgow. G45 9WB. E-mail: info@gbawf.org.uk
WWW: http://www.gbawf.org.uk/
GRAMPIAN AIDS LINE:
Helpline for people with questions on HIV/AIDS.
Tel: Aberdeen (01224) 574000 (Mon-Tue
8.30am-5pm, Wed 8.30am-6pm, Thu 8.30am12.30pm, Fri 8am-4pm).
GRAMPIAN BUDDY GROUP:
Befriending and support service for people living
with HIV/AIDS. Write: PO Box 353, Aberdeen.
AB9 8DD. Tel: Aberdeen (01224) 555406.
HEALTHY GAY SCOTLAND:
A national HIV prevention & sexual health promotion programme for gay and bisexual men. Offers
a range of services including info on its website,
campaigns and resources and a free condoms by
post scheme.
WWW: http://www.healthygayscotland.com/
HIV-AIDS CARERS AND FAMILIES SERVICE
PROVIDER SCOTLAND:
10 Elderpark Workspace, 100 Elderpark Street,
Glasgow. G51 3TR. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm.
Telephone Support Service Mon-Fri 7pm-10pm.
Tel: 0141-445 8797. Fax: 0141-445 8798.
E-mail: hiv-aids_carers@lineone.net
WWW: http://www.hiv-aids-carers.org.uk/
HIV SCOTLAND:
Suite 2, 27 Beaverhall Road, Edinburgh. EH7 4JE.
Tel: 0131-558 3713. Fax: 0131-558 9887.
Previously known as the Scottish Voluntary HIV
and AIDS Forum, this independent Scottish Charity
runs a number of initiatives including Healthy Gay
Scotland. E-mail: info@hivscotland.com
WWW: http://www.hivscotland.com/
JUICE:
Weekly support group for HIV+ gay and bisexual
men in Edinburgh. Tel: 0131-661 0982.
KLINEFELTER SYNDROME:
An Intersex condition affecting 1 in 700 live born
males. Also known as 47,XXY. Self-Help/Support
group for Internet users. Tel: Steph on 07950
850981. E-mail: k.xxy@medscape.com WWW:
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/klinefelterxxy
LADDIES & LASSIES CLUB:
Scottish Deaf Gay & Lesbian Club. Normally meets
in Merchant Pride, 20 Candleriggs, Glasgow, from
7pm-Midnight on last Fri of each month (except
Dec). Write: c/o Glasgow LGBT Centre, 11 Dixon
Street, Glasgow. G1 4AL. E-mail: LLSDGALC@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.laddiesandlassies.co.uk/
LANARKSHIRE HIV, AIDS AND HEPATITIS CENTRE:
Counselling Service, Monklands Hospital, Monks
Court Avenue, Airdrie. ML6 0JS. One stop shop for
HIV and Hepatitis health services. Mon-Fri 9am5pm. Also Tue & Thu 7-9.30pm (appointments
only). Tel: Airdrie (01236) 747960 or 712247.
Fax: Airdrie (01236) 712449.
LESBIAN & GAY CARERS NETWORK ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY:
Carers’ contacts for gay men and lesbians are
trained and skilled volunteers able to offer a listening ear and understanding to gay and lesbian carers of people with Alzheimer’s disease or any
other form of dementia. Tel: Arthur on Brighton
(01273) 628047, Bruce on Oxford (01865)
847471, Roger on Thanet (01843) 220932 or
Vanessa on Newport, Gwent (01633) 215782.
Alzheimer’s Society National Helpline - Tel: 0845
3000336 (8.30am-6.30pm Mon-Fri). Write: Lisa
Cooper, Development Officer, Lesbian and Gay
Carers Network, North West Regional Office,
Alzheimers Society, 4 Wilmslow Road, Cheadle.
SK8 1BT. Tel: 0161-428 1556.
E-mail: lcooper@alzheimers.org.uk WWW:
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/Gay_Carers/ind
ex.htm
LGBT CENTRE FOR HEALTH & WELLBEING:
9 Howe Street, Edinburgh. EH3 6TE. Working in
partnership with the LGBT community and health
service providers to improve the physical, mental
and social wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people in south-east Scotland.
Volunteering opportunities in many diverse areas.
Tel: 0131-523 1100.
E-mail: admin@lgbthealth.org.uk
WWW: http://www.lgbthealth.org.uk/
MAN FRIDAY:
The GUM clinic at Woolmanhill, Aberdeen session
for Gay and Bi men. Fri 1.20-3.50pm. Testing and
advice on sexual health matters is available by
appointment or on a drop-in basis. Tel: Aberdeen
(01224) 555555.
PHACE SCOTLAND:
49 Bath Street, Glasgow. G2 2DL. HIV prevention
and support support services in Lanarkshire,
Ayrshire and Arran, Argyll and Clyde and Greater
Glasgow including Buddying and the Crusaid
Hardship Fund in Scotland. Also provides a range
of health promotion services for Gay and Bisexual
men throughout the West of Scotland and
Grampian. Please contact for further details.
Volunteers welcome! Tel/Fax: 0141-332 3838.
E-mail: contact@phacescotland.org
WWW: http://www.phacescotland.org/
PHACE SCOTLAND - GAY MEN’S SERVICES:
134a Douglas Street, Glasgow. G2 4HF. Tel:
0141-332 3837. Fax: 0141-332 3755.
E-mail: contact@phacescotland.org
WWW: http://www.phacescotland.org/
PHACE SCOTLAND - GRAMPIAN LGBT HEALTH
PROJECT:
21-23 Justice Mill Lane, Aberdeen. AB11 6EQ.
(Moving to 11 Waverley Place, Aberdeen. AB10
1XH.). Tel: Aberdeen (01224) 587166. Fax:
Aberdeen (01224) 587167.
E-mail: markt@phacescotland.org
PILLAR MENTAL HEALTH LGBT GROUP:
For members of the LGBT Community offering support and advice at times of difficulty. Tel: Aberdeen
(01224) 621266.
E-mail:
info@pillaraberdeen.co.uk
or
michaelm@phacescotland.org
POSITIVE HELP:
13a Great King Street, Edinburgh. EH3 6QW.
Practical help for people who are infected or
affected by HIV and AIDS in Edinburgh, their families and carers. Tel: 0131-558 1122. Fax: 0131558 3636. E-mail: posihelp@onetel.com
POSITIVE VOICE:
37-39 Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh. EH7 5DJ.
Self help for people living with and affected by
HIV/AIDS in Lothian, offering advocacy and peer
support. Tel: 0131-652 0754. Fax: 0131-661
9100. E-mail: enquiries@positive-voice.org.uk
WWW: http://www.positive-voice.org.uk/
REACH OUT HIGHLAND:
34 Waterloo Place, Inverness. IV1 1NB. Supports
people throughout the Highlands - whether living
there or visiting - to take responsibility for, manage, and make informed choices about their sexual health and well-being. Tel: Inverness (01463)
711585 (Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm). Fax:
Inverness (01463) 711793.
E-mail: support@reachouthighland.org.uk
WWW: http://www.reachouthighland.org.uk/
ROAM OUTREACH:
Free confidential NHS Lothian outreach service for
men using cruising areas including the Internet and
male sex workers. As well as sexual health advice,
provides info and advice on drugs, safer sex, personal safety and legal issues (including remote
reporting of crime). Offers free and confidential
HIV testing - out of hours drop in Mon 5-7pm
where you can be tested for Hepatitis and receive
Hep B vaccinations. Outreach bus is parked outside
Calton Cemetery most Mon nights from around
9pm - drop in to access free safer sex supplies.
Website has anonymous contact form. Tel: 0131537 8300 and ask for Mark, Ronnie or George.
E-mail: enquiries@roam-outreach.com
WWW: http://www.roam-outreach.com/
SANDYFORD INITIATIVE:
2-6 Sandyford Place (old Eye Infirmary), Glasgow. G3
7NP. Glasgow’s main sexual health centre. Free web
access and health library with large LGBT lending collection. Specialist services for gay men (See separate
ScotsGay Listing for Steve Retson Project) and lesbians (See separate ScotsGay listing for Centre for
Women’s Health). Self-referreal genitourinary medicine service with open access clinic every weekday
with registration from 8.30-10am or book on 0141211 8601. Women’s counselling and groups for eating disorders etc at Centre for Women’s Health.
E-mail: helpsandyford@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk.
WWW: http://www.sandyford.org/
SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS:
Men’s Sexual Health Recovery Group for the sexually driven and those at risk. A fellowship of men
who meet on a regular basis in Glasgow and
Edinburgh to stop their compulsive sexual behaviour. Tel: Scottish Helpline on 0141-552 0154
(24 hours). E-mail: info@saa-recovery.org
WWW: http://www.saa-recovery.org/
SEXUAL HEALTH LINE:
Freephone 0800 567123. 24 hours. Confidential
advice and information. Minicom: Freephone
0800 521361.
WWW: http://www.playingsafely.co.uk/
STEVE RETSON PROJECT:
Sandyford Initiative, 2-6 Sandyford Place (old Eye
Infirmary), Glasgow. G3 7NP. A free sexual health
screening and counselling service for gay and
bisexual men. Clinics run Tue & Wed 5.308.30pm. Also Thu 5.30-8.30pm at the LGBT
Centre, 11 Dixon Street. Same-day HIV test by
appointment on Tue morn. Tel: 0141-211 8628.
E-mail: johnny.duffy@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk
WWW: http://www.steveretsonproject.org.uk/
WAVERLEY CARE:
58a Queen Street, Edinburgh. EH2 3NS.
Waverley Care is an agency responsible for a number of projects for people living with AIDS/HIV in
the Lothians. Tel: 0131-226 2206. Fax: 0131226 2209. E-mail: director@waverleycare.org
WWW: http://www.waverleycare.org/
WAVERLEY CARE BUDDY SERVICE:
Waverley Care Buddy Service is a volunteer
befriending service offering emotional and social
1:1 support for individuals living with HIV in
Edinburgh and the Lothians. Write: David Wright,
Buddy Service Co-ordinator, c/o Milestone House,
113 Oxgangs Road North, Edinburgh. EH14 1EB.
Tel: 0131-441 5405 (a private and dedicated
phone line). E-mail: buddy@waverleycare.org
WAVERLEY CARE DAYCARE SERVICE:
Offers a range of daycare activities to people with
HIV/AIDS. Tel: 0131-441 2791.
WAVERLEY CARE MILESTONE HOUSE:
113 Oxgangs Road North, Edinburgh. EH14 1EB.
Residential care (primarily respite and palliative
care) for people with HIV/AIDS. Tel/Fax: 0131441 6989. E-mail: milestone@waverleycare.org
WAVERLEY CARE SOLAS HIV/AIDS
INFORMATION CENTRE:
2/4 Abbeymount, Edinburgh. EH8 8EJ.
Information, support, advice, counselling and a
café. Café: Fri, Mon-Wed 11am-4pm. Thu 11am6.30pm. Information Centre: Fri, Mon-Wed 9am5pm. Thu 9am-7pm. Tel: 0131-661 0982.
E-mail: solas@waverleycare.org
WWW: http://www.waverleycare.org/
OLDER GAYS
CAFFMOS:
Nationwide Social and Contacts Club for the older
gay gentleman and his admirers, both young and
old. Write: PO Box 2273, Hove. BN3 2GF. Tel:
Hove (01273) 220995.
E-mail: Caffmos2@aol.com
WWW: http://www.caffmoscommunity.com/
ORDER OF
PERPETUAL
INDULGENCE
The Sisters and Brothers of the OPI are part of a
world wide order of queer men and women of all
sexualities which is open to all who feel the habit.
Its tenets are: The expiation of stigmatic guilt and
the promulgation of universal joy.
WWW: http://www.thesisters.org.uk/
OPI CONVENT OF DUNN EIDEANN:
The Edinburgh convent. Write: Sister Athletica de
la Bain OPI, c/o PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7
5YW. E-mail: sisterathletica@drink.demon.co.uk
OUTDOOR
PURSUITS
GAY BIRDERS CLUB:
For LGBT Birdwatchers. Write: Gay Birders Club,
GeeBeeCee, BCM-Mono, London. WC1N 3XX.
E-mail: info@gbc-online.org.uk
WWW: http://www.gbc-online.org.uk/
GAY CARAVAN & CAMPING CLUB:
For men and women. Regular meets throughout
the UK. Tel: Marcus on Polruan (01726)
870088. E-mail: info@gaycaravanclub.com
WWW: http://www.gaycaravanclub.com/
GAY OUTDOOR CLUB:
Holds regular events including walking, skiing,
cycling, mountaineering, camping, youthhostelling, badminton and swimming. Monthly
social evening in Edinburgh on 2nd Thu of month.
Please send an A5 sae to PO Box 637,
Skellingthorpe, Lincoln, LN6 5XD, or ring one of
the Scottish contacts: EDINBURGH: Walks &
Social: Grant on 0131-556 8705, Gym &
Swimming: Colin on 0131-226 4476. GLASGOW: Walks: Robert on 0141-950 1081, Cycling
& Swimming: Douglas on 0870 3215894,
Climbing: Jonathan on 0141-334 0812,
Badminton: Donn on 07919 410042. HIGHLANDS: Walks & Weekend Trips: Alan on Dores
(01463) 751258 & Les on Inverness (01463)
238920. MOUNTAINEERING: Roger on York
(01904) 659544. See website for full details
about events and how to make contact by E-mail.
WWW: http://www.gocscotland.co.uk/.
GLASGOW GAY RAMBLERS GROUP:
Leisurely walks in the countryside. Bring sensible
footwear/clothing and packed lunch. 2nd Sat of
each month. Meet at Mitchell Library, Berkeley
Street. No membership - just turn up. Cars normally shared. Tel: Robert on 0141-950 1081.
E-mail: robert@gocscotland.org.uk
PARENTS
EDINBURGH LESBIAN MOTHERS GROUP (ELMG):
Informal network of parents and women trying to
be parents. See listing for Lesbian Mothers
Network (Scotland) for contact details.
GAY DADS SCOTLAND:
Meets on last Thu of each month at 8pm in Sala
Café, 60 Broughton Street. Glasgow meetings on
2nd Mon of each month at the Glasgow LGBT
Centre, 11 Dixon Street. Also meets socially each
month in different cities. Contact for details or
view the web site. Tel: 07791 188742.
E-mail: info@gaydadsscotland.org.uk
WWW: http://www.gaydadsscotland.org.uk/
GLASGOW LESBIAN MOTHERS GROUP:
Meets last Sat of each month. Contact Ruth Black
on 0141-221 7203.
E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk
LESBIAN MOTHERS NETWORK (SCOTLAND):
Tel: Sue Robertson on 0131-556 3899/4563.
Fax: 0131-557 7899. Write: One Parent Families
Scotland, 13 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh. EH1
3NX. E-mail: suerobertson@opfs.org.uk
WWW: http://www.opfs.org.uk/
PARENTS’ ENQUIRY SCOTLAND:
Support for parents of LGBT children. Write: c/o
LGBT Youth Scotland, John Cotton Centre, 10
Sunnyside, Edinburgh. EH7 5RA. Tel: 0131-556
6047 before 10pm.
E-mail: parentsenquiry@hotmail.com
WWW: http://www.parentsenquiryscotland.org/
RAINBOW FAMILIES HIGHLAND:
Support, advice and information for LGBT parents
and families. Regular newsletter. Phone Maria on
Beauly (01463) 782797 after 6.30pm and at
weekends. E-mail: maria@scotland-info.co.uk or
write c/o Reach Out Highland, 34 Waterloo
Place, Inverness. IV1 1NB.
POLITICAL
GAY CONSERVATIVES:
Represents the gay community to the
Conservative Party. Write: BM TORCHE, London
WC1N 3XX.
WWW: http://www.gayconservatives.com/
INTERCOURSE:
Group devoted to encouraging discussion about
sex and sexuality. Activities include pub nights,
discussions and trips to the cinema. Mix of ages,
genders, sexualities, ethnicities etc. Write:
Intercourse, c/o 17 West Montgomery Place,
Edinburgh. EH7 5HA.
E-mail: info@intercourse.org.uk
WWW: http://www.intercourse.org.uk/
LIBERAL PARTY LESBIAN AND GAY CAMPAIGN:
Tel: 0151-259 5935 (Telephone Answering
Machine). Write: 41 Sutton Street, Liverpool. L13
7EG. E-mail: libgay@libparty.demon.co.uk
WWW: http://www.liberal.org.uk/
OUT FOR INDEPENDENCE:
The SNP’s LGBT Group, has been established to
bring together lesbians, bisexuals, gay men and
transgender people who support Independence,
and to act as a forum within the SNP to discuss LGBT
issues. Write: Out for Independence, 107 McDonald
Road, Edinburgh. EH7 4NW.
PRISONERS
FREE MAGAZINES FOR PRISONERS:
Copies of ScotsGay are sent free of charge to prisoners in UK prisons and institutions. Please contact
us if you wish to be added to the mailing list.
REAL ALE
LESBIAN AND GAY REAL ALE DRINKERS:
Formerly Diverse Drinkers, this is the Edinburgh
group of CAMRA’s Task Group for LGBT real ale and
cider fans. Meets in The Regent 1st Mon of each
month from 9pm to sample the brewers’ art
(except Aug when it is the 2nd Mon to avoid
GBBF). Tel: Karen on 0131-557 8790. E-mail:
diversedrinkers@drink.demon.co.uk WWW:
http://www.lagrad-edinburgh.org.uk/ UK LGBT
real ale pub listings can be found at WWW:
http://www.lagrad.org.uk/
RESIDENTIAL
EVENTS
EDWARD CARPENTER COMMUNITY:
Runs residential events for gay men in SW
Scotland, and other places (mainly the English
Lake District). ECC organises events for gay men to
get together in a supportive environment as an
alternative to the commercial scene. Write: Edward
Carpenter Community, BM ECC, London. WC1N
3XX. Tel: 08703 215121. E-mail: info@edwardcarpentercommunity.org.uk
WWW:
http://www.edwardcarpentercommunity.org.uk/
SPORTS
ABERDEEN GAY MEN’S SWIMMING GROUP:
Swim every Wed from 8pm onwards. Tel: David
on Aberdeen (01224) 317552.
E-mail: agmsg@drink.demon.co.uk
CALEDONIAN THEBANS:
Caledonian Thebans Rugby Football Club is
Scotland’s first gay friendly rugby club.
Predominantly made up of gay/bi men, but all
are welcome. Instruction and practice by experienced members. Learn the game and get fit. No
experience necessary. Tel: 07074 843226.
E-mail: membership@thebans-rfc.co.uk
WWW: http://www.thebans-rfc.co.uk/
GAY GOLF CLUB:
Tel: Dan on 0141-946 8290.
E-mail: tierney_daniel@hotmail.com
GLASGOW GAY AND LESBIAN BADMINTON CLUB:
Meets every Thu from 8-10pm. Come along and
have fun and enjoy meeting the other members
for a friendly game. All welcome. Tel: Donn on
07919 410042 (6-11pm).
GAY FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS NETWORK:
Write: GFSN Membership Secretary, c/o Central
Station, 37 Wharfdale Road, London. N1 9SE.
Tel: Barry on Stony Stratford (01908) 564085.
E-mail: skyblueandwhite@btinternet.com
WWW: http://www.gfsn.org.uk
GOC CYCLING GROUP:
Runs on 2nd Sun of each month (except Dec)
throughout Central Scotland. Tel: Douglas on
0870 3215894. See website for full details
about events and how to make contact by e-mail.
WWW: http://www.gocscotland.org.uk/.
TEAM SCOTLAND BADMINTON CLUB:
Glasgow based gay and lesbian badminton club
meets twice weekly for competitive games.
International tournaments and matches against
clubs in London and Europe are held annually.
Sorry - no beginners. Tel: Raymond on 0141-778
9220.
E-mail: teamscotland@gaysport.info
WWW: http://www.gaysport.info/teamscotland/
STUDENTS
Many Universities and Colleges have Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgendered Societies.
Contact these via your Student Union or Student
Association. ScotsGay also links to a number of
LGBT Soc websites from our own web page at
http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/
Many LGBT Socs are open to non-students living in
the area. Tel: NUS Scotland LGBT Officer on 0131556 6598. Fax: 0131-557 5679. Write: Scott
Cuthbertson, LGBT Officer, NUS Scotland, 29
Forth Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3LE.
E-mail: mail@nus-scotland.org.uk
TV/TS
ABERDEEN:
3G (Grampian Gender Group). Offers support,
help and a safe environment for Transgendered
People. Meets 3rd Sat of each month Noon-5pm.
Tel: Gillian on 07050 562175. Mon 7-9pm.
E-mail: Gillian_abdn@yahoo.co.uk
EDINBURGH:
Edinburgh TV/TS Group meets 2nd Mon of each
month from 7-10pm at the LGBT Centre for Health
& Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, Edinburgh. Tel:
Louise on New Oakley (01383) 852529 or
Lorraine on Kinghorn (01592) 891344.
EDINBURGH:
TransAlba aims to support both pre and post-op
transexuals, their families and friends. Helpline:
07961 574880 (Mon-Fri 6-10pm). E-mail:
transalba03@aol.com
Trans Men Scotland - for all FTM’s, transmen,
transsexual, transgender, pre-op, post-op, non-op,
exploring options, living long term, in transition -
WORKPLACE
AFLAGA:
The Armed Forces Lesbian & Gay Association (formerly Rank Outsiders). Support group for all serving and LGBT ex members. Write: BCM Box
8431, London. WC1N 3XX. National Helpline:
0870 740 7755 (24 hours). E-mail: info@aflaga.org.uk WWW: http://www.aflaga.org.uk/
CAS:
Support group for all LGBT people involved in
Scottish Citizens Advice Bureaux. Tel: Gary on
Eyemouth (018907) 52074.
E-mail: cas@drink.demon.co.uk
EIS GAY AND LESBIAN NETWORK:
Write: Veronica Rankin, National Officer
(Education and Equalities), 46 Moray Place,
Edinburgh. EH3 6BH. Tel: Veronica Rankin on
0131-225 6244. E-mail: vrankin@eis.org.uk
FIRE BRIGADES UNION GAY AND LESBIAN
SUPPORT GROUP:
For firefighters and control staff. Write: National
Gay And Lesbian Committee, PO Box 10555,
LONDON. N1 8XT. Tel: 07801 047620.
E-mail: gal01@fbu-ho.org.uk
WWW: http://www.fbu.org.uk/
GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION IN SCOTLAND:
Membership is open to all police officers and
police staff, serving or retired. Write: Inspector
David Lyle, Police Headquarters, Fettes Avenue,
Edinburgh, EH4 1RB. Tel: 0131-311 3218. Email: alan@gpascotland.com (Strathclyde) or
david@gpascotland.com (L&B and all other
forces). WWW: http://www.gpascotland.com/
GLASGOW LGB RUNNING GROUP:
Every Tue eve: run starts at 8pm. Meets at the
main entrance to Bellahouston Leisure Centre.
Choice of distances around Bellahouston and
Pollok parks to cater for various levels of fitness
and motivation, and an informal social gathering
for post-run refreshment afterwards. An admission
for the use of changing room, lockers and showers only is available at the Leisure Centre for £2.
We aim to be changed and ready to start running
at 8pm. Contact Chris by E-mail: running@gocscotland.org.uk or Tel: 07786 263274 (or text).
GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL G&L EMPLOYEES
FORUM:
Tel: Charles Thompson on 0141-287 3744.
E-mail: charles.thompson@land.glasgow.gov.uk
or however else you might define. If you are or
were born female bodied and define yourself as
male some or all of the time you will be welcome
to a new support group for all trans men in
Scotland. Meets 7.30pm on the 2nd Sat of each
month at the LGBT Centre for Health and
Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, Edinburgh. For further
info E-mail: transmenscotland@aol.com or Tel:
Maxwell or Lewis on 0131-477 0525.
GLASGOW SWIMMING GROUP:
Meets informally during adults-only session 7.309pm Thu at North Woodside Pool, Braid Square.
Tel: Douglas on 0141-649 5896. See website for
details of how to make contact by e-mail.
WWW: http://www.gocscotland.org.uk/
GLASGOW:
Crosslynx TV/TS/TG Group meets 2nd Wed of
each month from 7-10pm. Tel: Crosslynx Helpline
on 0141-847 0787 (Mon 7.30-9.30pm). Write:
c/o 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow. G1 4AL.
E-mail: caroltaylortg@tesco.net
INVERNESS:
Highland T Group 3rd Wed of each month at 7pm
at 34 Waterloo Place, Inverness. Tel: Inverness
(01463) 711585 (Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm).
E-mail: tgroup@reachouthighland.org.uk
GMB SCOTLAND EQUAL RIGHTS GROUP:
Write: Regional Equal Rights Officer, GMB
Scotland, Fountain House, 1/3 Woodside
Crescent, Glasgow. G3 7UJ. Tel: 0141-352
8143. E-mail: richard.leonard@gmb.org.uk
UNISON:
Glasgow City Lesbian & Gay Group. Meets monthly on Payday Tuesday in the Glasgow LGBT Centre
at 6pm. Tel: Neil MacInnes on 07810 358139.
E-mail: macinnesneil@aol.com
Scotland L&G Committee. Write: Neil MacInnes,
Secretary, UNISON House, 14 West Campbell
Street, Glasgow. G2 6RX. Tel: 0141-332 0006 or
Neil MacInnes on 07810 358139. E-mail: macinnesneil@aol.com WWW: http://www.unisonscotland.org.uk/lesbiangay/
West Network. For Unison members in the West
of Scotland. Meets quarterly. Tel: Neil MacInnes
on 07810 358139.
E-mail: macinnesneil@aol.com
SCOTSGAY:
All of the words from the magazine can be found
on our website as well as interactive Meet Market
and our Listings which are updated nearly every
day. WWW: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/
YOUTH GROUPS
ARGYLL & CLYDE YOUTH SEXUALITY & SUPPORT
GROUPS:
If you are interested in getting involved in a local
group that helps gay and bisexual men aged
under 26 come to terms with their sexuality, Tel:
Matt Johnston on 0141-332 3837 (Mon-Fri
9am-5pm) or E-mail: mattj@phacescotland.org
HIGHLAND GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL YOUTH
GROUP:
Meets 7.30pm 1st Wed of each month at 34
Waterloo Place, Inverness. Tel: Inverness
(01463) 711585 (Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm).
E-mail: support@reachouthighland.org.uk
LGBT YOUTH SCOTLAND:
John Cotton Centre, 10 Sunnyside, Edinburgh.
EH7 5RA. Provides services and opportunities for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people (13-25) in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife,
Borders and Tayside. The groups include drop-ins
at their offices for under-18’s (Wed) and for over
18’s (Thu). They also have a range of different
opportunities to get involved with, including volunteering and projects involving video and arts work,
and they offer training services. Advice, support
and housing services are also available in
Southeast Scotland. Nationally, they run regular
events for young people to get involved in local
and national decision-making, and to make new
pals and have a laugh. So, if any of these sound
good to you, get in touch. Confidential Youthline
Tel: 0845 113 0005 (Tue 7.30-9pm). Office
Tel/Fax: 0131-622 2266 (Mon-Fri 9.30am5pm). E-mail: info@lgbtyouth.org.uk
WWW: http://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/
LIPS - LESBIANS IN PEER SUPPORT:
Project supporting young lesbians and bisexual
women aged 25 and under. Offers a safe space
for young lesbian and bisexual women to meet,
providing information, support and activities.
Meets 2nd & 4th Thu of each month from 7-9pm
at Glasgow Women’s Library, 109 Trongate,
Glasgow. Group for lesbians and bisexual women
who are 18 or under meets also at Glasgow
Women’s Library 1st & 3rd Sat of each month
from 2-4pm. Contact Shona for more details or
just turn up. Tel: 0141-552 8345/7539.
E-mail: gwl@womens-library.org.uk
PHŒNIX LGBT YOUTH DUMFRIES:
Group for lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender
young people (13-25) in Dumfries & Galloway.
Based in Dumfries, but with a group in Stranraer
coming soon, this is an exciting new chance to get
involved and meet new people. Tel: Youthline on
0845 113 0005 (Tue 7.30-9pm) or Dumfries
Youth Enquiry Service on Dumfries (01387)
251322 and ask for Grace Cardozo.
E-mail: info@lgbtyouth.org.uk
WWW: http://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/
THIS WAY OUT:
Group for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender or
those who are unsure. For people aged 25 or
under. Informal meetings held monthly on Wed
eves. Phone Diversitay LGBT Switchboard on
Dundee (01382) 202620 Mon 7-10pm. Write:
Diversitay LGBT Group, PO Box 53, Dundee, DD1
3YG. E-mail: contact@diversitay.org.uk
WWW:
http://www.diversitay.org.uk/
Confidentiality guaranteed.
VIVIDYOUTH:
For young LGBT people aged 15-25. Meets at the
Glasgow LGBT Centre on Tue from 7.30-9.30pm.
E-mail: nicola.thornton@cls.glasgow.gov.uk
SCOTSGAY:
All of the words from the magazine can be found
on our website as well as interactive Meet Market
and our Listings which are updated nearly every
day. WWW: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/
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venues and emporia
ABERDEEN
ABERDEEN WOMEN’S CENTRE*
Shoe Lane, (next door to Lemon Tree). Tel:
(01224) 625010. Tue-Wed 10am-2pm, Thu 59pm. A *women only space* where all women
are welcome without prejudice. Free use of computers and Internet connection. Access for disabled. No smoking policy in Centre. Contact Maria
Clark for more details at E-mail: awc@clara.co.uk
BAR INDIGO*
20 Adelphi. Sun-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri-Sat 5pm-3am.
Gay bar/club in old Oh Henry’s premises. Free
entry before Midnight - thereafter £2 entry Fri, £3
entry Sat.
WELLMANS HEALTH STUDIO*
3rd Floor, 21-23 Justice Mill Lane. Tel: (01224)
211441. Mon-Fri 11am-10pm, Sat-Sun 10am5pm. Aberdeen’s first (and only) gay sauna. Two
video booths, dark room, sauna, steam room,
stand-and-tan sun cabin. Massages available from
£20 - no need to book in advance.
ABERDOUR
FORRESTER’S ARMS*
35 High Street. Tel: (01383) 860544. Sun
12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 11.30am-Midnight.
Gay-friendly venue operated by Mark (ex
Edinburgh’s Holyrood Tavern). Real ale.
ARBROATH
INVERPARK HOTEL*
42 Millgate Loan. Tel: (01241) 873378. Bar:
Sun-Thu 11am-2pm & 5pm-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am2pm & 5pm-1am. Restaurant: Noon-8pm.
Recently taken over by Beverli and Tina and welcomes LGBT folk.
DUNDEE
BROOKLYN’S BAR*
2 St Andrew’s Lane. Tel: (01382) 200660. 5pmMidnight. Well appointed gay-friendly bar next
door to Out and under the same management.
Karaoke: Wed, Fri & Sun. DJ: Sat (Handbag
Heaven Show).
CHARLIE’S BAR*
75-79 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 226840. Sun
12.30-11pm, Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight. Gayfriendly bar with free disco Fri & Sat 8pmMidnight. Free use of premises for pre-booked
groups.
OUT*
124 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 200660. Wed-Sun
11pm-2.30am. Good atmosphere, very popular
disco with wide selection of sounds and the occasional act/PA.
EDINBURGH
THE AULD HOOSE*
23-25 St Leonards Street. Tel: 0131-668 2934.
Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 11.30am-1am.
Everybody-friendly bar. Real ale. Food served all
day.
BAR JAVA*
48-52 Constitution Street, Leith. Tel: 0131-553
2020. Fax: 0131-552 9683. Sun 9am-1am,
Mon-Sat 8am-1am. Gay-friendly bar and hotel.
Meals served daily. Hotel rooms from £25 p/p. Email: enquiries@hotelbarjava.com WWW:
http://www.hotelbarjava.com/
BLACK BO’S
57/61 Blackfriars Street. Tel: 0131-557 6136.
Mon-Thu 6-10pm, Fri-Sat 6-10.30pm. Superb little mostly vegetarian restaurant. Friendly staff.
Mixed clientele. E-mail: admin@blackbos.co.uk
WWW: http://www.blackbos.co.uk/
BLAZE
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.
11pm-3am. 1st, 3rd & 4th Fri of each month.
Next dates: 25th Feb, 4th, 18th, & 25th Mar.
Commercial/funky house & chart by James
Longworth and guests. “Igniting the gay weekend”. £1.50 drinks promos all night. Entry £5. Email: info@jameslongworth.com WWW:
http://www.jameslongworth.com/
BLUE MOON*
1 Barony Street/36 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131556 2788 (Bar) or 0131-557 0911 (Office).
Sun 10am-11pm, Mon-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri
11am-11.30pm, Sat 10am-11.30pm. Food
served until 10pm. Popular lesbigay café/bar
complex.
BOBBIE’S BOOKSHOP*
220 Morrison Street. Tel: 0131-538 7069. MonSat 10am-1pm, 2-5.30pm. Mixed bookshop selling a selection of UK and imported gay magazines.
BOOTYLUSHOUS
Medina Nightclub (Under Negociants), 45-47
Lothian Street. Tel: 0131-225 8313. Info Line:
07736 936650. Sun 10pm-3am. Hosted by DJ
Dale Lush and Graeme F. R&B/Soul/Disco. £2
entry before Midnight - £3 thereafter. E-mail:
dale@lushmarketing.com
WWW:
http://www.lushmarketing.com/
FRENCHIES BAR*
89 Rose Street Lane North. Tel: 0131-225 7651.
Sun 2pm-1am, Mon-Sat 1pm-1am. Vibrant gay
bar (Edinburgh’s oldest) in the heart of Rose
Street. Happy Hour 6-8pm every day.
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BURLY TOO
The Commplex, 39-40 Commercial Street, Leith.
Tel: 0131-555 5600. Info Line: 07930 357401.
3rd Sat of each month (TBC). 10.30pm-3am.
Launch Night: Fri 25th Mar. Aimed at lads 25+.
Dress Code: Sportswear, denim, rubber, leather,
uniform, kilts. DJ Hi-FI Sean. Introductory charge:
Donation to Waverley Care. “Burly designed to be
cruisy”. £7 on the door. E-mail: dv8scots@hotmail.com WWW: http://www.dv8scots.co.uk/
C.C. BLOOM’S*
23 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-556 9331. Mon,
Fri, Sat 6pm-3am, Sun, Tue-Thu 8pm-3am. Two
floors. Karaoke on Thu and Sun. Cilla Slack on Fri
10pm-3am. Disco every night from 11pm.
E-mail: xanderfan82@hotmail.com
WWW: http://www.ccblooms.com/
CLAREMONT BAR & RESTAURANT*
133/135 East Claremont Street. Tel: 0131-556
5662. Fax: 0131-558 3539. Bar: Sun
12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 11am-1am. Restaurant:
Sun 12.30pm-6pm, Mon-Sat 11.30am-2.30pm
and 6pm-10pm. “The Claremont is one of the
most relaxed attitude bars in the city and has a policy that the customer always comes first.”
Renowned for courtesy, comfort and good food.
1st Sat: Bearscots for bears and bear lovers. 2nd
Sat: Gaykilts & Sporran Clan. 3rd Sat: Fetish,
leather and Scotskins). 4th Sat: Camouflage/uniform night. 5th Sat: Fetish night.
E-mail: mail@claremontbar.co.uk
WWW: http://www.claremontbar.co.uk/
DISKO BLOODBATH
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434.
11pm-3am. Monthly. 1st Wed of each month.
Next date: Wed 2nd Mar. Edinburgh’s 1st
Alternative Queer Night. Electro/Indie/Punk/
Rock. Free badges. XXX projections. £3.
E-mail: gregorlaird@hotmail.com
WWW: http://www.diskobloodbath.myby.co.uk/
LUVELY
The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street. Tel: 0131225 2564. Info Line: 0131-657 4633.
10.30pm-3am. Monthly. Next dates: 26th
Feb, 19th Mar, 23rd Apr. Mega club night with
resident DJs Tommy Kay, Newton & Stone,
Jared and GP.
WWW: http://www.luvely.net/
NEWTOWN BAR*
26B Dublin Street. Tel: 0131-538 7775. Fax:
0131-539 1132. Sun 12.30pm-1am, Mon-Thu
Noon-1am, Fri-Sat Noon-2am. Especially popular
with men. Drinks Promotions Daily. Downstairs:
Disco Bar is open Fri & Sat with resident DJ
Malcolm from 10pm-2am - also available for hire
Sun-Thu.
E-mail: Webmaster@thenewtownbar.co.uk
WWW: http://www.thenewtownbar.co.uk/
No EIGHTEEN*
18 Albert Place, Leith Walk. Tel: 0131-553 3222.
Mon-Thu Noon-10pm, Fri-Sun Noon-11pm. Claims
to be Edinburgh’s busiest men only sauna. Relaxed
and friendly atmosphere with excellent facilities
which include large sauna cabin, 14-man steam
room, private rooms, 8-man filter Jacuzzi, communal and private showers, themed rooms, video
area and TV lounge. Hot and cold refreshments
available. £9 (£7 concessions). Manager’s special: admission £5 after 8pm.
WWW: http://www.number18sauna.com/
PLANET OUT*
6 Baxter’s Place. Tel: 0131-524 0061. 4pm1am. Popular and busy gay bar with friendly staff.
Cheap drinks on a Mon!
E-mail: planetout@btinternet.com
EASYINTERNETCAFé
58 Rose Street. Tel: 0131-220 3577. Sun 9am10pm, Mon-Sat 7am-10pm. Large Internet Café
from which many gay men seem to troll the net
instead of just picking up each other! WWW:
http://www.easyinternetcafe.com/
POLYSUPER
Mood Nightclub, Omni Leisure Development,
Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-550 1640. Mon
10pm-3am. A Polysuper selection of commercial
R’n’B, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s hits and today’s Top Of The
Pops blended with a cheezee assortment of the
most popular camp anthems. Entry: free before
11pm thereafter £2. Great Drinks Promos From
£1.50.
E-mail: petehimsworth@petehimsworth.com
WWW: http://www.polysuper.com/
EDINBURGH LGBT CENTRE*
58a and 60 Broughton Street. Houses Sala CaféBar and Pride Scotia (Edinburgh). Provides meeting and noticeboard space for many LGBT organisations.
Q-STORE*
5 Barony Street. Tel/Fax: 0131-477 4756. Sun
1-5pm, Mon-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-6pm.
Scotland’s only licensed gay store. Not just feelthy
pictures - lifestyle too!
FEVER
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434. Info
Line: 0131-557 4656. 11pm-3am. Monthly.
Next dates: Sat 5th Mar, 2nd Apr, 30th Apr (1st
Birthday with Special Guest Paul Heron). Taste’s
monthly night featuring Taste resident DJs Fisher &
Price and Martin Valentine in the ballroom and The
Visitor and Kaupuss playing pophouseelectrodisconewwaveglam (basically anything goes) in the
Cocteau Lounge. Pre-club party at The Street from
9pm with DJs The Visitor and Kaupuss. Ask staff
for discount passes. £8 Members/£10 - Taste
members £5 before 11.15pm.
WWW: http://www.taste-clubs.com/
THE REGENT*
2 Montrose Terrace. Tel: 0131-661 8198. Sun
12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat 11am-1am. Alan Joy’s
dog-friendly gay bar, run in conjunction with Lisa
from Luvely. Real ale, relaxed atmosphere, comfortable surroundings. Coffee and croissants.
CAMRA’s Lesbian and Gay Real Ale Drinkers meet
here on the 1st Mon of each month at 8pm
(except Aug - 2nd Mon).
WWW: http://www.lagrad-edinburgh.org.uk/
HABANA*
22 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-558 1270. Sun
12.30pm-1am, Mon-Sat Noon-1am. Centrally
located pre club bar. Open and bright as well as
quite intimate. Busy. Drink promos throughout the
month. E-mail: habana1@btinternet.com.
WWW: http://www.gayscotland.com/habana/
HEROES
Rhythm Room, Below Q-Bar, 5-11 Leith Street.
Tel: 0131-557 5830. 8pm-1am. 2nd & 4th Sat
of each month. Next dates: Sat 26th Feb, 12th
(Fractal Jack appearing! hot sweaty naked rock
boys) & 26th Mar, 9th & 23rd Apr. New club
night launches 26th Feb (note changed venue).
Live Music, go-go dancers, movies, performance
art, eclectic music policy.
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/YRaHERO/
JOY
The Venue, 15 Calton Road. JOY Info Line: 0131467 2551. 11pm-3am. Monthly. Next date: Sat
12th Mar. Popular club night held on three levels
and featuring DJs Maggie Joy, Alan Joy and Brett
King in the main room, Trendy Wendy and Sally F
downstairs in The Cooler. £8 Joy members/£10
otherwise - look out for discount passes in the bars
beforehand.
LEATHER AND LACE*
8 Drummond Street. Tel: 0131-557 9413. Fax:
0131-557 8336.
Sun Noon-9pm, Mon-Sat 10am-9pm. 25 Easter
Road. Tel: 0131-623 6969. Noon-6pm. 368-370
Gorgie Road (Currently not licensed as a sex
shop). Tel: 0131-468 6969. Sun Noon-8pm,
Mon-Sat 11am-8pm. Scotland’s ORIGINAL
licenced SEX shops! Toys galore, video rental too!
Larger sizes stocked.
MINGIN’
The Venue, 15 Calton Road. Info Line: 0131-467
2551. 11pm-3am. Monthly. Next dates: Sat 19th
Mar, 16th Apr. Keep your eyes open for special
passes in the bars over the next few weeks for
FREE ENTRY to Mingin’ before midnight. Also as a
wee twist to the night, Alan Joy will be playing first
(11pm-1am) and Brian Dempster will be finishing
off the night (1am-3am). £6 entry (£5 before
midnight). E-mail: mingin@blueyonder.co.uk
SALA CAFÉ-BAR*
60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-478 7069.
Sun, Tue-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-1am.
Relaxed and friendly gay café bar in the heart
of Edinburgh’s Gay ‘district’ (directly above
Edinburgh’s LGBT Centre). Fabby big window
and sofas to watch world go by! Freshly prepared, wide ranging menu. Regular live music
and party nights (contact Sala for more info).
Gallery space with regularly changing exhibitions. Women’s group meet informally for
drinkies/food every Wed eve. Room also available for private dinners/parties etc.
E-mail: salacafebar@hotmail.com
SHAME ALTERNATIVE CLUB
The Commplex, 39-40 Commercial Street, Leith.
Tel: 0131-555 5600. 10pm-2am. Last Sat of
each month. Next dates: 26th Feb, 26th Mar,
23rd (not 30th) Apr, 28th May. New Alternative
Club Night. Music includes - Industrial, 80’s,
Techno, Digital Hardcore and Punk. Music; Art;
Airbrush Tattoos & Fetish. Come as you are! LGBT
and straight friendly. £6/£5 conc. with ID. £5
before 10.30pm. £4 GLAM & EDG&R.
WWW: http://www.webflyers.co.uk/Flyer/2047
E-mail: shame@hotmail.co.uk
SOLAS CAFÉ*
2/4 Abbeymount. Tel: 0131-661 0982. Mon,
Wed, Fri 11am-4pm, Tue, Thu 11am-8pm.
Attached to Solas HIV/AIDS Information Centre.
Good home cooking (everything cooked on the
premises). Vegetarians and carnivores catered
for.
STEAMWORKS*
5 Broughton Market. Tel: 0131-477 3567.
Daily 11am-11pm. Stylish sauna forming part
of busy gay hotel & sauna complex in centre
of gay quarter. State-of-the-art facilities
including large spa pool, sauna cabin, large
steam room, video room, labyrinth with
themed areas, café lounge, free Internet
access, tanning booth. Massage available
daily. Choice of lockers or private cabins.
Admission: Lockers £5, Cabins £10 before
3pm Mon-Fri. Lockers £9, Cabins £14 at all
other times. Students & under 25 £5 lockers
all day, every day! No membership required.
Proudly gay owned & operated.
WWW: http://www.steamworks-sauna.co.uk/
THE STREET*
2 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-556 4272. Mon-Fri
3pm-1am, Sat-Sun Noon-1am. Small but perfectly formed bar (formerly Pop Rokit) recently taken
over and refurbished by Louise (ex-POut), Annie
and Trendy Wendy.
CLONE ZONE*
45 Virginia St. Tel/Fax: 0141-553 2666. Sun
Noon-6.30pm, Mon-Sat 10.30am-7pm. Clothes,
videos, magazines, toys.
E-mail: admin@clonezone.co.uk
WWW: http://www.clonezone.co.uk/
SPYKER*
Unit 7, King’s Court, 99 King Street. Tel/Fax:
0141-552 3111. Sun Noon-5pm, Mon-Fri 11am5.30pm, Sat 11am-6pm. Fetish Wear. Violate
members get 10% discount.
-mail: spyker@blueyonder.co.uk
TACKNO
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434. Last
Sun of each month. 11pm-3am.
DJ Trendy Wendy. Mixed and crowded club night.
Note new venue.
CLUB DEVOTION
18 Jamaica Street. Tel: 0141-847 0820. ThuSun. 11pm-3am. Popular gay club. Now has two
areas: Upstairs - carpeted and a nice relaxing place
to sit down, Downstairs - main dance floor and
stage.
E-mail: clubbing@pinkdevotion.co.uk
WWW: http://www.pinkdevotion.co.uk/
TRON THEATRE CAFÉ BAR*
Chisholm Street. Tel: 0141-552 8587. Fax:
0141-552 6657. Sun 11am-Late, Mon-Sat
10am-Late. Friendly theatre bar. Mixed. Good
food. E-mail: morven.stewart@tron.co.uk
WWW: http://www.tron.co.uk/
TASTE
The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street. Tel: 0131225 2564. Info Line: 0131-557 4656. Sun
11pm-3am. Edinburgh’s original and longest running gay-friendly club night that brings together
like-minded people who enjoy a club environment
free from hassle and bad attitudes and for whom
sexuality is not an issue. Taste’s Main Room resident DJs Fisher & Price play an eclectic mix of the
best dance music currently available. Back Room
resident DJs Martin Valentine and Steven Wanless
play Deep House and US House. Sun 6th Mar:
Alex Anderson (The Gallery, London). Sun 27th
Mar: Easter Weekend Special. Sun 17th April:
Very Special Guest Dimitri from Amsterdam.
Regular prices: £6 Members/£8 Guests £5 before
11.30pm. Drink promos until 1am.
WWW: http://www.taste-clubs.com/
THAI ME UP
4 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-558 9234. Lunch:
Wed-Sat Noon-2.30pm. Dinner: Mon-Sun 511pm. Superb gay-friendly Thai restaurant situated in the middle of Edinburgh’s gay area. Friendly,
efficient staff serving some of the best and most
authentic Thai food in the UK.
E-mail: management@tmeup.com
WWW: http://www.tmeup.com/
VELVET WOMEN’S CLUB NIGHT
The Commplex, 39-40 Commercial Street, Leith.
Tel: 0131-555 5600. 10pm-2am. First Sat of
each month. Next dates: 5th Mar, 2nd Apr, 7th
May, 4th Jun. Male guests welcome if invited and
accompanied by a lady. New music & guest DJs.
£6/£5 conc. with ID. Discount entry before
10.30pm. E-mail: clubvelvet@blueyonder.co.uk
WWW: http://www.webflyers.co.uk/Flyer/377
VIBE*
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434. Tue
11pm-3am. James Longworth plays charty/party
upstairs, guest DJs R’n’B downstairs. Super-popular gay night. £1 drinks promos all night. £3
before Midnight/£4 after.
E-mail: info@jameslongworth.com
WWW: http://www.jameslongworth.com/
VITTORIA
113 Brunswick Street. Tel: 0131-556 6171. Fax:
0131-478 7009. Sun Noon-11pm, Mon-Sat
10am-11pm. Mega-popular gay-friendly Italian
restaurant. Best lasagne in Edinburgh!
E-mail: info@vittoriarestaurant.com
WWW: http://www.vittoriarestaurant.com/
WIGGLE*
eGo, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434. Info
Line: 0131-467 2551. 11pm-3am. Monthly.
Next date: Sat 26th Feb. In the main hall, resident
DJs Trendy Wendy and Jon Pleased blend camp
with classics and new sounds. Dale Lush and DJ
Michelle go a touch alternative downstairs. Entry
to Wiggle is £10 (£8 for green card holders). Email: wiggle@blueyonder.co.uk
WORD POWER*
43 West Nicolson Street. Tel: 0131-662 9112.
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Sat 10.30am-6pm.
Independent radical bookshop.
E-mail: books@word-power.co.uk
WWW: http://www.word-power.co.uk/
GLASGOW
BENNETS
80-90 Glassford St. Tel: 0141-552 5761. Sun,
Wed-Thu 11.30pm-3am, Fri-Sat 11.30pm3.30am. Recently re-opened after disastrous fire.
Currently only one floor (with no price reduction).
E-mail: enquiries@bennets.co.uk
WWW: http://www.bennets.co.uk/
BURLY
The Arches, 30 Midland Street. Infoline: 07930
357401. 1st Fri of each month. 10.30pm-3am entry after 1am at the discretion of the promoters.
Next event: Fri 4th Mar from ££8 members/£10
nightly membership. Strict Dress Code: rubber,
leather, uniform, industrial, sportswear, kilts &
denim. Designed to be cruisy.
E-mail: dv8scots@hotmail.com
WWW: http://www.dv8scots.co.uk/
CCA*
350 Sauchiehall Street. Admin Tel: 0141-332
7521. Fax: 0141-332 3226. Box Office Tel:
0141-352 4900. Café Tel: 0141-332 7959. Box
Office: Tue-Thu 11am-10.30pm, Fri-Sat 11am11.30pm, Sun 11am-6pm. Gallery: Tue-Sun
11am-6pm, Thu 11am-8pm. Café: Tue-Thu 11am11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-Midnight, Sun 11am-6pm.
Bar: Tue-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-1am. The
Centre for Contemporary Arts. 6 performance &
exhibition spaces, Café/Bar, bookshop.
E-mail: gen@cca-glasgow.com
WWW: http://www.cca-glasgow.com/
CLUB EROS*
1-3 Bridge Street. Tel: 0845 4562310. Sun-Fri
Noon-10pm, Sat Noon-4am. Glasgow’s largest
licenced sauna & gym for gay and bi men set over
three floors. Entry from £7.50. Free Sunday
breakfasts. E-mail: cluberos@hotmail.com
COURT BAR*
69 Hutcheson Street. Tel: 0141-552 2463. Sun
12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 8am-Midnight.
Intimate bar beside former Sheriff Court. Straight
until mid-evening.
CUBE
34 & 44 Queen Street. Tel: 0141-226 8990.
Mon-Tue 11.30pm-3am. Mon: Passionality@
Cube44 with DJ Shawn Roberts. Tue: FunClub@
Cube34 with DJ Shazza Halliwell. Various drinks
promos. Entry £3.
E-mail: thornleisure@yahoo.co.uk
WWW: http://www.cubeglasgow.co.uk/
CYBER*
Unit 3, King’s Court, 107 King Street. Tel: 0141553 0942. Sun Noon-5.30pm, Mon-Sat 10am6pm. Alternative clothing specialising in corsetry.
DELMONICA’S BAR
68 Virginia Street. Tel: 0141-552 4803. Daily
Noon-Midnight. Claims to be “Glasgow’s biggest
and busiest Gay bar”. DJs nightly from 9pm. Thu:
Quiz. Sun: Karaoke. Nice if your face fits. E-mail:
delmonicas@g1group.co.uk
WWW:
http://www.g1group.co.uk/
EASYINTERNETCAFÉ
57/61 St. Vincent Street. Tel: 0141-222 2365.
Sun 8am-8pm, Mon-Fri 7am-10pm, Sat 8am10pm. Large Internet Café from which many gay
men seem to troll the net instead of just picking up
each other!
WWW: http://www.easyinternetcafe.com/
GLC CAFÉ/BAR*
11 Dixon Street. Tel: 0141-226 5050.
11am-Midnight. Full breakfast always available. Home cooking. Friendly and busy!
Karaoke on Fri, Sat.
GLASGOW LGBT CENTRE (GGLC)*
11 Dixon Street. Tel/Fax: 0141-221 7203. Daily
11am-Midnight. Welcomes lesbians, gay men,
bisexuals and transgendered. Services include:
Café Bar, Info Box, Health Info, Interest Groups,
Free Newspapers, Diary of Events, Reading Room,
Garden of Reflection, Function space for hire and
innovative Art Gallery. Houses 18 user groups and
organisations. Fully wheelchair accessible venue.
E-mail: admin1@glgbt.org.uk
WWW: http://www.glgbt.org.uk/
THE LANE
60 Robertson Street Lane (off Argyle Street). Tel:
0141-221 1802. Noon-8pm. “Exotic Gay Men’s
Club” with sauna and private cabins. Not very
busy.
MERCHANT PRIDE*
20 Candleriggs. Tel: 0141-564 1285. Sun
12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat Noon-Midnight.
Food: Noon-5pm. Upmarket bar in the heart of the
Merchant City. Regular cabaret, karaoke and disco.
MODA
58 Virginia Street. Tel/Fax: 0141-553 2553.
Mon-Thu 5pm-1am, Fri-Sun 5pm-3am.
Fashionable pub/club.
WWW: http://www.g1group.co.uk/
THE POLO LOUNGE
84 Wilson Street. Tel: 0141-553 1221. Mon-Thu
5pm-1am, Fri-Sun 5pm-3am. Long established
pub/club. Young crowd. Polo Club (downstairs
dancefloor) open Fri-Sun, £5 after 11pm.
E-mail: polo@g1group.co.uk
WWW: http://www.pololounge.co.uk/
RELAX CENTRAL*
3rd Floor, 27 Union Street. Tel: 0141-221 0415.
Noon-10pm. Established gay sauna. Fully licensed
by Glasgow City Council. Entry £8.50.
E-mail: info@relaxcentral.co.uk
WWW: http://www.relaxcentral.co.uk/
REVOLVER BAR*
6a John Street. Tel: 0141-553 2456. Sun-Thu
Noon-Midnight, Fri-Sat Noon-1am. A refreshing
antidote to the current gay scene. Pool table, state
of the art free jukebox (with over 8,000 tracks on
it), reasonably priced drinks, good quality service,
no karaoke. E-mail: info@revolverbar.com
WWW: http://www.revolverbar.com/
SILKS AND SECRETS*
308 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-572 1017. Fax:
0141-221 0959. Sun Noon-5pm, Mon-Sat
10am-6pm. Clothes and toys catering for gay,
transvestite and fetish tastes. Larger sizes stocked.
THE TUNNEL
84 Mitchell Street. Tel: 0141-204 1000. Wed.
11.30pm-3am. Allure with DJ Darren. Entry £3.
E-mail: thornleisure@yahoo.co.uk
VICTORIA BAR*
157-159 Bridgegait. Tel: 0141-552 6040. Sun
12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight.
Basically straight, but justly popular with
Glasgow’s many Real Ale queens and dykes.
Convenient for the Citizens Theatre.
VIOLATE
PO Box 808, Glasgow. G71 7YN. Violate Club
Line: 09099 108174 (60p per min at all times).
BDSM and general pervery. Operates in Glasgow
and Edinburgh. Runs regular clubs at the Big Joint
in South Street, Glasgow on the first Sat of each
month. Also holds special one off clubs called
UltraViolate roughly every 3 months.
E-mail: info@violate.co.uk
WWW: http://www.violate.co.uk/
THE WATERLOO*
306 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-229 5891. Sun
12.30pm-Midnight, Mon-Sat Noon-Midnight.
Semper idem! Popular, crowded, down to earth
gay drinking shop. Scotland’s oldest gay bar - what
more can we say? Busy, busy, busy! Awarded the
Beti Hutton seal of approval.
STIRLING
BARNTON BISTRO*
312 Barnton Street. Tel: (01786) 461698. Sun
Noon-Midnight, Mon-Thu 10.30am-Midnight, FriSat 10.30am-1am. Food: until 7.30pm. Near to
railway station. Mixed, busy, bohemian and friendly bar/bistro. Popular with students and
Sons/Daughters of the Rock alike.
TWIST*
Fubar, 6 Maxwell Place. Tel: (01786) 472619.
Wed 11pm-2am. John Mclean plays charty/party
mix to a gay crowd. £3 entry. £2 drinks promos
all night. E-mail: fubar@clg.co.uk
WWW: http://www.clg.co.uk/fubar/
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