SCOTSGAY MAGAZINE ================= ScotsGay is a monthly magazine for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Edited, printed and published in Scotland ScotsGay 80/- Heavy -Issue 33 - April 2000 ELECTRONIC EDITION ***Now available on the Web: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe information is now at the END of the magazine. All Material Copyright (c) Pageprint Limited 2000. Permission is hereby given to distribute this material provided that this copyright notice is included and that distribution is specifically for non-profitmaking reasons. Distribution for profit must be done only with prior written consent of the magazine any deviation from this will be seen as an infringement of copyright. Hardcopies are limited to one per person for personal use only and such hard copies are subject to the same copyright restrictions as laid out above. 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Ogg's View - on Keep The Clause Nunsense - Sisterly advice Dance Chart - Alan Joy Scotsdyke - Dolls Freebies - Dusty Springfield Scottish Media Monitor - Section 28 in the press Granny Spice - Through a glass - darkly Letters Scene - News from everywhere Glasgow Edinburgh Dundee Aberdeen Moray Sad Corner Reviews - Film, literature and dance Freebies - Queer As Folk 2 The Nice Bit - Bisexual news alternative International - News from around the world Scotsgay Voice - Our own 1-2-1 dating service Boxes - The ScotsGay Meet Market Listings - Checked and updated every issue Helplines - Phone info Venues - What and where ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITORIAL ========= The folk involved with the campaign against the repeal of Section 28 include some incongruous bedfellows. Firstly, there is the public figure who may shortly be named in a tabloid newspaper as having (presumably) enjoyed a blowjob with a respected gay campaigner in an Irvine public lavatory some years ago. Before either of them became famous or influential, it has to be said. Then there is the rich business woman who has a gay son. Unfortunately, her son has psychological problems - no wonder, if his claims to have been sexually abused by her are true. Currently, he, like his mother, is a supporter of the campaign against repeal having been sucked in by a fundamentalist Christian sect which malignly encourages his efforts to deny his sexuality. His recent drunken, desperate suicide attempt is to lead shortly to yet another court appearance for breach of the peace when he intends to throw the blame for his psychological problems at his mother's door for the edification of the national press. I've heard it all before and no doubt I shall hear it all again. He may or may not have the bottle or, for that matter, the attention span to go through with the expose. We shall see. I can't say I have a high opinion of either hypocritical cottagers or rapist mothers. However, my opinion of Mr Tom Farmer OBE is somewhat lower. You are no doubt aware that this Good Catholic Gentleman has made his pile of pennies from the motorists of this country with his chain of Kwik-Fit garages which supply exhausts, tyres and the like. "You can't get quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter - they're the boys to trust", as the adverts have it. Not so, as I found out recently when I needed a new exhaust system fitted to my ageing Manta. Kwik-Fit quoted me for the job but I nearly had a Fit when I heard that they wanted over ukp300. I made my excuses and left - Kwik. Another firm, local but by no means a back street bodger, working from substantial premises near to the centre of Edinburgh, did the job for less than half that sum leading to 100% customer satisfaction and delight. This one is personal, Tom. I can't stop you slagging me off through your financing of the Pro Section 28 campaign - but I'm damned if your old firm is going to rip me off to pay for it! John Hein johndunedin@drink.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TRUE COLOURS ============ An interesting piece of academic research by Professor Michael Lynch of Edinburgh University reveals that the Scottish flag, a blue background with white St Andrews Cross may in fact be wrong. He has uncovered two medieval paintings which clearly and unequivocally show our Saltire's true colours to be...wait for it...pink and white. One of the paintings is of the funeral of JamesIII in 1488 and shows the pink and white saltire hanging from the abbey roof! Furthermore an ancient heraldic archive called The Book of Honours and which dates from the mid 15th century again identifies the saltire as pink and white. Traditional myth surrounding the origin of the blue and white saltire has it that a white cross was sighted emblazoned on the blue morning sky as a sign of impending victory to the Picts before a great battle in 832AD. However respected researchers doubt the value of a blue and white flag as a battle flag in this country of notoriously gray skies. Instead they argue that a pink or red and white flag would make much more sense, it would be more visible to the troops as the rallying point in any battle (which was the whole point of flags in the first place). Crucially, red or pink dyes were rare and expensive, suitably so for the emblem of the nation itself. I rather like this idea of a pink saltire. I've grown a bit fed up with the rainbow flag representing our gay community, it's an American import and has never really caught on in Scotland. So why not a pink saltire to represent the new Scotland of the new millenium.? In the face of all the forces of bigotry, reaction and spite we should proudly proclaim the fair, inclusive and tolerant society we wish to be as a nation. The pink saltire could become our battle honours and rallying point not just for our gay causes of equal rights respect and dignity, but also for all liberal-minded Scots who are appalled by the attempted hijacking of our little country's new democracy by the rich, the right wing and the revisionists. With this plea in mind I happily expect some enterprising young gay or lesbian to start manufacturing the pink saltire in time for our own Pride this year and wouldn't it be great to see a sea of them flutter around our float at the Mardi Gras 2000 in London in the summer. Derek Ogg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLYROOD ======== Section 28 The Scottish Parliament's Local Government Committee spent March scrutinising the Ethical Standards in Public Life Bill, which repeals Section 28. It has now published its report, having taken evidence from organisations ranging from Keep the Clause and churches, to LGBT groups. The report strongly supports repeal, and as we go to press, the Parliament is due to debate the report on April 27th. The Bill will then go to its second stage, where the Local Government Committee debates detailed amendments. The Bill then returns to the whole Parliament at the end of June, for a final day of debate on amendments, and a vote on whether to pass the Bill. Campaigners are expecting attempts to remove repeal from the Bill during those debates. Meanwhile, Keep the Clause has delivered a claimed 120,000 strong signature to Parliament opposing repeal, and at the time of writing were expected to announce further details of their 'referendum' on Section 28. Tim Hopkins of Scrap the Section said, "This is not a referendum, which has all sorts of built-in safeguards. It's a private opinion poll, and we all know you can get whatever answer you want from an opinion poll, depending on how you ask the question. Keep the Clause has just spent half a million advertising blatant misinformation about Section 28". *** Your help is needed! *** The Scrap the Section campaign is asking all readers to write to their MSP, or to ring their office, to ask them to support repeal. "We need everyone to do this, to counter the rich and powerful Keep the Clause campaign. If we lose repeal now, we will be far worse off than before," says Tim Hopkins. Readers can find out the name of their constituency MSP by ringing the Parliament's information office on 0845 278 1999 and giving their postcode. The address to write to is: Name of MSP, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP. Ask your MSP to support repeal of section 28. If you can write anything about your own experience of homophobia at school, that would help, but it's best to keep your letter short. If you want to ring to leave a message for your MSP, ring 0131-348 5000 and ask for their office. If you have the time, it would help the campaign even more if you also ask the information office for the names of your seven regional MSPs, and write the same letter to each of them as well. Regional (list) MSPs don't get lobbied much, because they don't have individual constituencies. Partnership rights The Scottish Parliament has passed its first gay-friendly legislation. The Adults with Incapacity Bill recognises same-sex partners for the first time in Scots law, and gives them the right to be consulted on the affairs of their partner if they become incapacitated. This follows six months of lobbying on the Bill by the two national LGBT rights groups, Outright Scotland and the Equality Network. They were supported by the Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee, and Justice Minister Jim Wallace quickly accepted that the new law should treat same-sex couples the same as cohabiting unmarried men and women. The amendment to recognise same-sex couples in this way was passed by the Parliament unanimously. It describes a same-sex relationship as "a relationship which has the characteristics, other than that the persons are of the opposite sex, of the relationship between husband and wife". Tim Hopkins of the Equality Network said, "We will be monitoring future legislation to ensure that it too treats cohabiting couples equally, whether they are same or mixed-sex". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS ==== VOICES OF OUR NATION The Our Nation? Queer voices from Scotland's Past, Present and Future, held on 15th April brought together about 40 people to explore our different voices in Scottish society. Outright Scotland's President, Janey Buchan, got things off to a heady start with more than 40 years worth of 'gay rights' anecdotes and an attack on a certain politician for not consulting us before announcing repeal of Section 28. Papers ranged from religion to rent and from sodomy to same-sex partner recognition via GLF and theatre. The afternoon ended on an exciting and somewhat contentious note with a session including lesbian history, reflections on being bigendered and an (reasoned) attack on identity politics! Thanks to Outright Scotland, ScotsGay and WordPower Bookshop for sponsorship. Brian Dempsey WWW: http://www.conference.outright-scotland.org AGE OF CONSENT The Westminster Bill which equalises the age of consent at 16 for everyone in Scotland has passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Activists warn however, that the Bill was only passed as a delaying tactic, and that the Lords will now try to hold it up as much as possible by tabling amendments. The Bill will become law by the end of the year though, because the House of Commons has passed it two years in a row, and so can invoke the power of the Parliament Acts to make it law even if the Lords continue to oppose it. POLICE Community police officers from Gayfield Police Station in Edinburgh came together with members of local LGBT communities during a recent training day. Gayfield covers the part of the city where most gay venues and businesses are located - an area which two recently published reports have associated with high LGBT victimisation and violence. Local police commanders felt that better police awareness of LGBT issues was a priority and the day's training included sessions on cruising, violence, lesbianism and the problems encountered by transgendered people. The day concluded with a visit to a local gay bar. Pictured outside Gayfield Police Station are some of the participants and facilitators who made the day a success. AMNESTY Zimbabwean activist Poliyana Mangwiro recently addressed a meeting of Amnesty International in Glasgow City Chambers. As Tsitsi Tiripano, a member of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, she was supported by AI when she and others were attacked by police whilst staffing a GALZ stall at the International Book Fair in Harare. GO ONLINE WEST Gay Men's Health has opened a new Cyber Cafe in West Lothian with free Internet access for local gay and bi men. Help and training will be on hand in the cafe which will be open every Saturday from Noon until 4pm. GMH is also launching a new local Counselling service on May 17th which will be staffed by qualified and experienced counsellors and will offer support to men around a range of emotional, sexual and health issues. Both schemes are funded by Lothian Health and West Lothian Community Health Development Grants scheme and will initially run for six month. For further details, phone Bathgate (01506) 631010 or 0131-558 9444. E-mail: GMH@go-west.freeserve.co.uk TAKE A HIKE Living in the Tayside/Fife area? Fancy hillwalking with a group of gay men? Walks are never too strenuous and just good fun. We are looking for new members to join us this summer, first walk being Saturday 27th May 'Loch of the Lowes'. Meet Dundee railway station 9.30am. For more information write to PO Box 182, Dundee or e-maildundeehills@yahoo.co.uk BIRTHDAY OOT GETS ABOOT Celebrating its first birthday in May, the only regular gay and gay friendly comedy club in Scotland [and probably with the demise of London's 'Screamers' the only such event in the UK] is also going to get out and about next month when it opens in Glasgow. OOT: OUT ON TUESDAY has run monthly at THE STAND comedy club in Edinburgh since May last year consistently earning excellent reviews and attracting enthusiastic audiences. West coast comedy fans can come out monthly when OOT IN GLASGOW opens at THE STAND's new premises at 333 Woodlands Road G3 on Sunday May 14th. The same show will run on the following Tuesday in Edinburgh. The show is based on the club's successful five act formula ensuring variety and value for just ukp5. Resident compere [since September 1999] Craig Hill and resident games host [since December 1999] Cormac O'Hara are joined monthly by two billed guests and an unlisted open spot. Kicking off the season is the circuit's campest comedian James Holmes, returning to the club he opened a year ago, with support from an act entirely new to OOT, Dundonian lesbian love goddess and stairical songstress Pauline M. [MAY: Glasgow Sunday 14th & Edinburgh Tuesday 16th] The lesbian Victoria Wood, Clare Summerskill then guests with debuting OOT act Susan Vale [JUNE: Glasgow Sunday 11th & Edinburgh Tuesday 13th]. OOT favourite Mrs Barbara Nice returns with tricksy turn Magic Mandy Muden [JULY: Glasgow Sunday 9th & Edinburgh Tuesday 11th]. OOT in Glasgow runs from 8.30-10.30pm, Edinburgh shows run 9- 11pm. Always on the look-out for new acts, THE STAND is particularly keen to hear from those who feel they are suitable for a gay and gay friendly audiences. Open spots on upcoming OOTs may be available while embryonic acts of all sorts may like to sign up for sets of six free comedy classes running on Sunday afternoons in Glasgow from May 7th to June 11th and in Edinburgh from May 14th to June 18th. Find out more from Fiona on 0131-558 7373 SHUT Nexus, the Bijou Eaterie at the Edinburgh LGB Centre is to shut for two weeks for refurbishment. Fiona Horne, who now owns the business herself, hopes to open again on Monday 15th May. NEITHER RACIST NOR GAY Stefan King, whose gay Glasgow business empire includes Delmonicas, The Polo Lounge and Caffe Latte, was recently cleared by a Glasgow court of maintaining a racist admission policy. The Commission for Racial Equality has marked an appeal against the ruling. Earlier, King had told the court on oath that he was not gay. POET Glasgow gay poet Edwin Morgan has been awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry. MERCURY Body Positive Tayside are organising a photographic exhibition of Freddie Mercury (Queen) in Perth to raise awareness of HIV. The exhibition, which will be held at Dewars Exhibition Centre from 10th to 23rd June. HOAX Gay Times has printed a letter claiming to be written by Derek Ogg QC which attacks London businessman Ivan Massow. Derek was somewhat surprised as he didn't write it! Despite the letter claiming that Derek was involved with the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (which became Outright Scotland in 1992), Gay Times didn't realise that they'd been tricked until contacted by Derek. PRIDE Pride Scotland has been rescheduled for Saturday 2nd September in Glasgow. This follows a split in the organisation when a number of people left to form Glasgow Pride which is intended to run an annual Pride event in the city. MORE STAFF Positive Voice, the Edinburgh HIV/AIDS self-help organisation are, currently recruiting a Project Manager and part time Administrator. THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Fantasies, Scotland's first licensed sex shop, which has upset the blue rinses of Edinburgh's Drummond Street for several years with their discreet selection of massive inflatable willies and naughty bits of leather, now intends to do the same for Easter Road. A former cat home shop at 25 Easter Road is the proposed venue. And yes, they've heard all the pussy jokes before! BROWNLEE The Brownlee Centre has won the merit award for Best Unit Year 2000 in a competition organised by the Greater Glasgow Health Council. LOTTERY Body Positive Tayside has received a grant of ukp51,300 from the National Lotteries Charities Board to purchase premises in Dundee. AGM OutRight Scotland's AGM will be held in Edinburgh's Festival Theatre at 2pm on Saturday 13th May. RAINBOW Bass Leisure Retail, owners of the Waterloo Bar in Glasgow, have presented the Rainbow Fund with a cheque for ukp100. NEGATIVE STEP Positive Steps has ceased providing nursing, social and personal care services to HIV+ people in order to concentrate on its other activities. -------------------------------------------------------------------- OGG'S VIEW: HOW TO KNOW THE FUTURE ================================== There is a nice story about Churchill having a walk in his rose garden with American President Roosevelt just as the end of the war was in sight. " The next enemy will be the Russians, our next friends will be the Germans" said Churchill. The remark confused the Americans present, but years later, well into the Cold War and with West Germany a bulwark of democracy one of those present reminded Churchill of his accurate prophesy, " How could you have known the future so accurately?" he asked. " Easy", puffed Churchill , " I read history!" It is therefore with a sense of deja vu that I watch the Souter financed Keep The Clause campaign swing into action. Each dirty tactic, lie and misrepresentaion somehow struck me , an avid reader of history, as having echoes from so many past persecutions. Whether it be gypsies, Muslims, Jews, Roman Catholics or blacks, a careful read of Scottish (yes, that's what I said, Scottish) history will show a despicable and shameful record of vilification, marginalisation and ultimate persecution of minorities in our land of fair minded folk. One of the earliest ever opinion polls conducted under a modern system took place in Scotland in the 50s. The result was 64% in favour of the proposition 'that blacks be sent home to their own country'. Given that a huge part of that number voting was made up of ordinary working class Scots men and women it must have made any black person then here quake in their shoes. Opinion polls on hanging, homosexuality, abortion have all in Scotland historically shown us up as a nation to be a bunch of mean minded,vengeful and unforgiving bigots. Our documented persecution ( and murder) of Catholics, our anti Semitism and our persecution of gypsy travellers over three hundered years is curiously absent from school history syllabuses, which instead favour a macho recollection of the battles of the most inept and corrupt royal dynasty, the Stuarts, in European history. But is the future so bleak? Note that I said 'opinion polls show us to be...'. We are not the sum of the opinion polls' parts. These polls are a snapshot of opinion at any one time. They are a collection of answers to someone else's question. They are represented to say one thing only, but human experience tells us that very often we can't just express our real feelings or beliefs on any given question by way of a simple yes or no answer. Take the question 'Do you support the repeal of Section 28?' A lot of people don't know for a fact what that is. They know, because Soutar says so, it's about homosexuals getting at our children. So they, surprise surprise, given a yes or no option, say 'no' It is therefore said that Soutar speaks for 'parents' and 'ordinary folk' and that those better informed and thoughtful people who said 'yes' to the question are just the 'chattering classes' or 'politically correct activists'. In other words the person who controls the questions, the advertising of the answer he wants, and the spin to be put on answers, lays claim to being the representative of the 'will' of the Scots people. The real tragedy is that Scots who then meet gays or get to know about the issues are horrified at the idea that 'Scots' are intolerant! I have no doubt at all that the vast majority of Scots do not give a toss about S28, nor about gay people, or blacks, gypsies or Jews.. They are too busy getting on with their own lives, trying to get by, find, build or keep their own relationships, jobs and hopes alive to get steamed up about other folk who just so happen to be different. The Scots are, by and large, well meaning and want to be thought of as decent friendly and tolerant. What three centuries of social history teaches us about the Scots though is that the ordinary person has been plagued by appalling spiteful, vain, greedy and power mad leaders, whether they were kings, queens or newspaper proprietors. If ever a nation was shafted by its leaders this is it. Until now. With a new parliament and some sort of proportional representation, we have a group of youngish politicians who are forward looking, European- minded and blessed with a touching faith in reasoned liberal thought. Newspapers such as the Herald and The Mirror publish, in the face of the Soutar whirlwind, reasoned and hard hitting rebuttals of the poison being pushed on those billboards. A young woman politician has braved a torrent of slagging and dirty tricks to undermine her, yet Wendy Alexander budges not. The outcome can also ultimately be found in history too, although it takes an optimistic reading of a thousand years of our own history to find it. But it's there. Reason will prevail as does courage. The history of the Scottish Enlightenment, of our ancient universities, our founding of trade unionism in the darkest excesses of exploitation, show us to be a small nation capable of wanting to be better than we are. The historians of the next century will look back on our current fight to win that to which we were always entitled, but denied, our dignity as fellow free Scots, and they will I hope see that we made ourselves better than we were, we took a step forward then another. And each step forward we take leaves all the further behind us the disgraceful, leaden and defeating history of small mindedness, bigotry and intolerance that scarred our last millenium. Make no mistake though, when I spoke of courage prevailing I meant it, the courage of us gay men and women to stand up and take our place, to stake our claim, to participate in the debate. We cannot and should not rely upon reason alone to win this type of battle. History tells us that too, no-one ever won a right without a fight. Every one of us has a role to play, by coming out, to friends, to parents and by living our lives honestly. Now that takes courage I know, but it's that courage that wins not just for us but for the betterment of all Scotland. Derek Ogg QC -------------------------------------------------------------------- NUN SENSE ========= "Oh, you poor darling! You've obviously been working far too hard", opined Sister Athletica de la Bain. "You spend all your time stuck here in the Scriptorium, rarely getting out into the rest of the Convent or among the gathered faithful. It's no wonder you make mistakes!" "What mistakes would those be?", enquired the amanuensis. "Well, you see, that schism business. It's not just a Scottish thing--it's an ancient tradition among the Sisters. You forgot that the San Francisco house did just that a while back and the two groups, as is traditional, don't get on. And Sister Hedra Sexual is in one lot (the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc.) and Sister Sadie Sadie the Rabbi Lady is in the other, and you know what Sister Bobby's like--she'll talk to anyone!" "Oh, bugger! Sorry." "You really should take it a wee bit easier, sweetie, even if we do have a galvanised, slimmer and fitter Convent of Dunn Eideann these days. By the way, have you done the icon of St. Tim yet? And here's a load of stuff for the Nun column--it's not too long is it?" Still on the dear Sister Athletica, she would like to point out that her trips to San Francisco, Eastern Europe, Paris, the Manchester Mardi Gras and even such glamour spots as Glasgow and Newcastle were all on important business and she's been networking with Sisters from all over the world as well as keeping herself well informed on the latest developments in the HIV/AIDS field. Committed, hard-working Sisters (such as ourselves) are expected to travel far from the Convent doing the Order's work, and both the Dunn Eideann novices have been paying particular attention to this important duty of late. Novice Brother Bimbo del Doppio Senso took some chill out time after sterling work on the scene, visiting Chicago (especially North Halsted Street). While time did not permit a visit to a certain bath house, the Novice Brother did minister to at least one of the Disciples of Lesbos (or, at least, they were spotted going into one of the "stalls" in a bar "washroom" together), and brought back news of an interesting science fiction series starring three actresses who were previously in Xena! Novice Cornelia offered and received our blessings before her trip to that cradle of Sisterhood, New York, where she approved of the medicines of repentance in the Stonewall Cafe. Alas, this meant she missed out on a rather full and hard working weekend for the Order in Scotland. The weekend in question was from the 7th - 9th April. The lovely Heather arranged for us to attend the launch of the new gay tartan, where we received enough material to make sashes for all our members in Scotland. But who can forget the fine figures sporting the new fabric in the most sensitive and appealing places? And let's not forget (as if we could!) the blessings given to the calves beneath the kilts for the new century. Our sisterly blessings to Ronnie Hek and the Rainbow Experience for their generosity and good luck for the future. The lovely Ian McDonald (Names Project UK) kindly gave his permission for Waverley Care Trust to sell raffle tickets at his massive multi club night UTD. Donning our veils, we joined the Waverley Care volunteers (especially the delightful Claire who went out of her way on our behalf) in a full night of sales in what is now our annual fundraiser for this worthy cause. A great night was had and Sister Bobby led us in seeking and receiving many signatures on Stonewall's Fight the Clause petition which was duly sent by them to Mr. Blair. What weekend would be complete without a thorough manifestation for our gathered faithful in their favourite watering holes? Sunday saw us in all the better spots passing on the latest information sent by our Italian cousins. World Pride 2000 will run between July 1st - 9th in Rome and we have every intention of being there if we can sort out suitably cheap (or preferably free) accommodation. There'll be drag, dance, debates, leather, rock and let's not forget the Caligula Party. Our fundraising is an important part of our work in supporting gay rights and HIV/AIDS and next month we hope to summarise our last year's efforts assuming we can get Sister Athletica out of the chapter house vestibule and into the archives! -------------------------------------------------------------------- JOY DANCE CHART =============== 1 DJ Sandy vs Housetrap Overdrive (Junkie XL Remix) Additive 2 Markus Schulz U Can Get It (C L M Mix) Plastik 3 Killahurtz West on 27th (A Tribe Called KHz Mix) Hooj Choons 4 Stef Paco and Frederick Magic Shop (Voyager Remix) Coded 5 Medway The Fat Bastard EP: Release/Aircobra Hooj Choons 6 Pocket Overdue EP: Smoke Signals Thunk 7 Sandstorm The Return of Nothing (Club 69 Future Mix/Original Mix/Evolution Mix) Blue Plate/Renaissance 8 Pete Lazonby Sacred Cycles (Medway Mix) Hooj Choons 9 Apparition Partial Hallucination (Original) Low Sense 10 Voyager Panic EP: Panic Coded 11 Eternal Rhythm Deep Down Under (Ocean Wave Remix) Quad 12 Kenji Ogura Cyber Tech (X-Form Remix) Traid Traxxx 13 Giorgio Moroder From Here to Eternity (Danny Tenaglia Dub Mix) Airplane! 14 Taana Gardner Work That Body (Angelsterodub) West End 15 Nuw Idol Kick Drum Domination Well Wicked 16 Online Widescreen (One Wicked Son Mix) Advance 17 Disciples of Johnny Mojo I Know You (Trance Mix) Tarantic 18 DJ Budal and Ferry Inside (Original) Pro 19 Flat 6 It's Tool Late (Andrea Doria Mix) Infusion 20 Sash! Just Around the Hill (Grandizer Get Down Dub) Multiply ------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOTSDYKE: DOLLS ================ Well at long last we have a place to call our own - a place where we can chat, relax and catch up on what's happening without the blaring noise of a pub or club - just somewhere for us. And isn't it about time? Dolls was set up by Sam who welcomes you to her little palace. But even though space is at a minimum, it is cosy and comfy with big sofas to lounge on, candles and nice girly things which make a nice change. Anyway, I decided to go up and see Sam to find out how it all started. ScotsGay. Why a woman only "club"? Sam. Because there wasn't one. I have been on the gay scene since I was fourteen and essentially it is only for men. I was living in London but I loved Edinburgh and I couldn't believe it didn't have a woman only bar just to sit around in comfort and chat and chill so when I moved to Edinburgh I wanted to do something for the lesbian community and came up with this idea. ScotsGay. What has the reaction been like? Sam. It has been brilliant - far exceeding what I thought. The place has been heaving and all the girls I have had through the door have said "Thanks we really need this". It has been a great mix of people: singles, couples, more mature and younger - they all come in and because the place is quite cosy and relaxed people talk to each other. That is what I wanted to create. ScotsGay. How long did it take to get off the ground? Sam. It took 12 months from the first idea and just over three months to get it up and running from when I decided I was definitely going to do it. ScotsGay. Why did you do it? Sam. I wanted to provide the lesbian community with a place they could call their own - where their needs would be responded to and their ideas taken on board. There is this whole lesbian culture of 'get a girl and stay at home', but I wanted to bring them out and make them feel comfortable in a non threatening area. I think I've succeeded. We think so too! Love to all Heather heather@drink.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------- FREEBIES: DUSTY SPRINGFIELD =========================== We have five copies of the new Dusty Springfield video 'Full Circle' to give away to readers this month. Described by Rolling Stone magazine as "Britain's best ever pop singer", the late Dusty had a voice that could chill the spine and warm the heart. A diva whose career spanned four decades, no British female singer has ever commanded such love and respect. It's a VVL Release and will be available to buy from 15th May. If you would like a copy, send us a note of your name and address. Springfield Video, ScotsGay, PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7 5YW ----------------------------------------------------------------- SCOTTISH MEDIA MONITOR ====================== Garry Otton. Back behind the wheel and heading straight through the glass at Anderston Quay! There was dancing in Kelvingrove Park, whistling could be heard from cottage cubicles across Scotland and crowds danced up Miller Street singing "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Souter?" The day: Tuesday, 4 April when "Stockbrokers' screens turned into a sea of red," (Scottish Mail) and Brian Soapy Souter's shares went down like Kate Winslet in the Titanic. He was not available for comment. Never before had so many queens read the broadsheets' business sections. Could this really be happening? Would we be really be seeing Brian and Betty down the Barras pulling out a set of gathered nets for their new council house? Or whipping round Aldi with a trolley? And don't forget that sale of foam-backed off-cuts at Allied Carpets, will you, Soaps ? Then there was Ann Hill of the Scottish School Boards Association, poor love. Naturally, the press wanted a wee word after reports alleging she had claimed ukp9,500 for providing services that no longer existed. She wasn't available for comment either. In fact she was sunning herself in Cyprus! Editor Martin Clarke has been sharing the same bed with Soapy for so long now, Daily Record readers are wondering if he will ever change the sheets. But it's not over yet. Keep the Clause, with its campaign bordering on incitement to hatred, trundles on. Constant references to the poll tax and subsequent rioting crop up regularly in the Christian militia's propaganda sheets. Still stirring the shite, PR boss, Jack Prat Irvine explained: "...If Tony Blair sees sense and calls a halt to this politically correct madness, Dewar's position will be untenable. It does sound like a re-run of the Poll Tax - good enough for Scotland but not for England. Strange Donald Dewar should be the man bringing Thatcherite tactics to Scotland." The Scottish Mail's editorial declared how "repeal of Section 28 had become Labour's Poll Tax ... a seriously destabilising force in Scottish society." From almost the beginning of their malicious campaign, Keep the Clause and militant sections of the Scottish media have been warning of riots in the streets similar to those initiated by the poll tax if Section 28 is repealed. Letter after homophobic letter has been pouring into newspapers. In the Fraserburgh Herald, a writer too ashamed to leave any names other than Regular Reader opined: "Sir ..., It is time that people put the word gay back to its proper use, it has been hijacked to give queers a sense of respectability in a way of life that is neither natural or healthy. The term homosexual Christian is comical, they would be as well to say a Christian thief or a Christian murderer. As a parent I strongly object to the removal of Clause 28. I do not want that taught in schools. I am not impressed with the performance of the Scots Parliament, to crown all that, the rates are to rise ten per cent." The Daily Record had called it a "respected organisation" before the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) told them - politely - to get to fuck! A petulant Soapy told the Christian militia's tabloid, the Scottish Mail: "It is outrageous that gay cliques within the Labour Party are now putting intolerable pressure on the Electoral Reform Society to break our understanding." (I'm warning you, Soapy , don't piss me off. I'm running out of places to hide the bodies). Neither was the Daily Record amused. Its editorial blamed us. "The Section 28 turmoil has gone from unsatisfactory to downright sinister. It is now clear that powerful factions are determined that the people of Scotland will not have their say." But the Daily Record had made its mind up and used the editorial to threaten the ERS. "If they refuse the people the chance to give their opinion on Section 28, they will be accused of showing partiality to the gay lobby. It would be a shame if such an important body lost its authority by caving in to a minority, no matter how influential ... If the voters are not allowed to have their say now, they will have it sooner or later ..." The Scottish Mail was raging. The editorial also made sinister references to "outside influences," declared it a "cause for alarm" and insisted: "The whole future course of democracy in Scotland is now at stake. The people must have their say." What gay Mafia? Oh do me a favour! Not one single law guaranteeing gay equality on the statute books. And not one out gay columnist in the Scottish press compared to almost a dozen anti-gay commentators? As one Keep the Clause militant told me: "That is because we the people have stopped it!" Jack Prat blustered on BBC News Scotland that the ERS was "spineless" and "gutless." A spokesman for the ERS, visibly shocked at his outburst, expressed deep misgivings about the true motives behind Soapy's campaign. In Scotland on Sunday the bulbous beast decided: "If we had realised the kind of people they were we would never have got involved with them. They have presented an image of propriety and fair dealing and it turns out their chairman is a spiv." Oh, I nearly pissed meself when I read that! The Scottish Mail pressed the panic button. With an illustration of bomb being detonated, the caption ran: "EURO LAW TIME BOMB" the Scottish Mail announced the incorporation of a "tyranny" of human rights being incorporated into Scots law which "threatens to undermine every aspect of British life." Particularly "gays demanding exactly the same rights as married couples in every field, from public housing to inheritance, from taxation to pension rights." Oh, how bloody awful! There is a shop window in San Francisco filled with Barbie dolls. When the flags go up every year for gay pride, the Kens are made up to party: Full leathers, construction gear, feather boas or fetish wear! And what a million miles away that is from his poor cousins living in a shop window in Moniaive, a small town in Dumfries-shire. Gay Ken and his pals were looked after by 54-year-old Marcelle Bremner before the police busted her! They hammered on her door in a raid in the early hours of a Saturday morning insisting she remove a potentially illegal display of two Ken dolls. Following a complaint from a member of the public, this "lewd and libidinous" display of "a graphic nature" was, as Scotland on Sunday explained, due to "two Ken dolls, sitting suspiciously close to each other, staring out quite blatantly at passers-by, and wearing only Bermuda shorts." A WPC ordered Bremner: "Get those Ken dolls dressed. I don't want to see those two men beside each other!" Scotland on Sunday found: "The display, which is housed in the double-fronted windows of Bremner's former clothes shop is festooned in pink and surrounded by Barbie memorabilia and every possible pink boudoir item imaginable." A spokeswoman for Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary told Mrs Bremner she might want to reconsider how she displays them! If, after five years of documenting homophobia in the Scottish press, anyone had said I would reach a stage when I'd be documenting anatomical diagrams showing the differences between straight and gay I would have laughed. But here they were. "A simple pointer," (Daily Record) and a double-page spread in the Scottish Mail: "Lesbians tend to have the homosexual male characteristic of a shorter second finger" and "homosexual men have slightly shorter second fingers than straight men." And bigger cocks! Now did they tell you that? With carte blanche to deliver as much homophobia as its readers can swallow, the Daily Record turned on soap Eastenders. "Soap chiefs rapped for Eastbender." Also in the firing line was the hit Asian comedy Goodness Gracious Me which "showed Asian members of a congregation using chutney with their communion bread." I roared when I read that! First time I laughed at something in the Record since Old Mother Burnie showed readers what she looked like on her wedding day! Who said The Herald was fair and balanced? Yes, the letters pages editor does a grand job, otherwise editor Harry Reid ensures his paper is stacked against us by weighing down The Herald with boring and homophobic religionists. He even allows his offices to be used to broker publishing deals for the likes of historian Michael Fry. Fry talks out his arse! He wanted to speak for parents who regard it "a great affliction if one of their children grew up to be a homosexual ... Since homosexuals do not procreate, they only increase through recruitment." Stewart Lamont, another religionist used his regular column in The Herald to tell us he wants gays left with the "freedom to deviate in private." He was so touched by the story of his pal, a lavatory attendant who was forced to put up with gays using the place to meet: "You know, minister, when I get someone in here for a right good s***e it's like a breath of fresh air." (You'll find it's spelled 'shite'--Ed.) The Scottish Mail on Sunday was delighted with the news that the Christian Institute was suing Phace West, the group that produced the booklet Gay Sex Now. The Christian Institute believed "Glasgow Council is illegally promoting homosexuality by paying around ukp50,000 a year to the group ..." Not much compared to the $350,000 the Catholic Church donated to an anti-gay civil union clause in California last month. And where is all this money coming from to back the lawsuit? From little old ladies popping a few pennies in the collection box? Yeah, riiiight! Soapy has a lot to say about protecting kids from going through a gay phase. In an interview for Sunday Times Scotland, the interviewer noted: "He says he did not experience such a crush himself, but has a close friend who did ... He seems so awkward that I wonder how he deals with his children asking about sex. I'm just a normal guy, he answers softly..." (Well for once, Soaps , we weren't talking about you)! " It embarrasses me. The one time Amy asked me something I said, Your mother will tell you when she gets back from the shops." Well done everyone, everywhere who are helping to flush Stagecoach down the plughole of existence! AND BOYCOTT THE DAILY RECORD! *Cut it out! ------------ *Sinister? The Scottish Mail warned: "Campaigners from all over Britain will now focus their energies on Scotland, raising the profile of the contentious issue yet further." *"Labour's obsession with incorporating European human rights laws into our legal system threatens to undermine every aspect of British life." Edward Heathcoat Amory in the Bible's supplement: the Scottish Mail. *The Daily Record's agony of an aunt, Old Mother (Joan) Burnie s response to "a pash" a 17-year-old had for another boy at his college. "Some things are better left unsaid. So go on being friends, but don't try to force it into something else." *A guy into uniforms - especially policemen's - shared his thrill with Old Mother Burnie. She advised: " ...Bin the outfit completely ... Impersonating a police officer is definitely something which could get you into very serious trouble ..." *And on the subject of fetishes, what does Old Mother Burnie think of men into wearing women's tights? "If it was stockings and suspenders, I might think you had a problem ..." *Had someone sent the olde bagge a home-made cake? After rumours that rock star Ricky Martin might be gay, Burnie reckoned: "The sight of Ricky Martin's bulge ... is a heart-warming one." I'll say! *Over Donald Dewar s remark on BBC' s Frost on Sunday that 50 per cent of Scottish children were born out of wedlock the Scottish Mail snapped: "In fact the correct figure is 40 per cent." Oh? And since when has a mere 10 per cent of the population ever been of any concern of theirs? *Pro-repeal journo Iain Macwhirter in the Sunday Herald: "Recently a number of political journalists have been discovering that discreet inquiries are being made about their own private lives. What's he like? Is he married? Is he divorced? Is he gay? Even newspaper editors are being threatened by sinister figures on the fringes of Scottish media life. Some gay journalists are seriously thinking about leaving the country altogether." I shall stop right where I am until the first tomato lands in the crack of Daily Record editor Martin Clarke's arse after his head is shoved in stocks in George Square! *A toffee-nosed Scotland on Sunday reporter's comments after a few yobs from the Daily Record got up and sung YMCA at a Parly work's night out: "I am told by those with an interest in popular music, is a song admired by some in the gay community." *The Sexfinder General, Monsignor Tom Connelly's remarks in the Sunday Herald over a sexual health conference organised by Children in Scotland: "The adult world is obsessed with sex. It is time the adult world gave young people a sense of discipline." I don't think _that_ kind of sex has any place in our schools! For update of media coverage on Section 28 go to the SCOTTISH MEDIA MONITOR web site! http://www.bigfoot.com/~scotmedia (c) Garry Otton 2000 Garry Otton garryotton@bigfoot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- GRANNY SPICE ============ I hope that all of your Easter bunnies were as nice as mine. My tailbob still throbs from my egg rolling exploits in Queens Park. One noticed an array of young men rolling more than their eggs... I thought my Easter bonnet did me proud but, on casting my eye on TV, I noticed that the Vatican queens were more resplendent in their full drag and burning handbags as usual--how dare these suppressed trannies flaunt their drag in the name of religion, when we know full well they are all drag queens underneath--such finery from the ever so humble hypocrites! Well girls, spring has sprung and the sap is rising in those youthful things that abound in the parks and other areas. Perhaps your old mother will get herself laid. Talking about getting laid I visited the lady Brenda in her new abode in Plymouth last weekend and guess what? The place was awash with young, virile matelots from the tall ships. My past experience as a Jenny Wren came in very handy as Brenda took me off to Plymouth Ho (or was it hole?). Night fell, and we savoured the delights of the tall ships. I'm definitely converted to rock sea salt now girls--give me a matelot or two every time. Our pussies were squelching and we were so into it that I lost my bottom set of teeth. If you find them, please do return them as my old set don't fit so well! I now understand why Drake delayed taking on the Armada. The spray in my mouth was certainly salty but it didn't come off the sea! Brenda meanwhile was practising her old adage a dick in the hand beats none in the bush... But a lassie showed them what it was all about--several salty youths will wind their way back to Eastern Europe with fond memories. As for Brenda, she's getting worse! I'm sure the naval (or is it navel?) dockyard will put up a plaque soon, reading something like "Brenda caused Drake to pause over his balls at Plymouth Ho". If you happen to get down Plymouth way there's an interesting little scene on the go and such a busy port if you like sailors. Brenda and I were truly wired, hired, fucked and fired like Drake's cannons--although I do wish I could find that matelot with the superb bollocks once again. I hear that Lady Grace in Leadhills is again preparing fresh strawberries and cream for all you hill-walking types (and you know how she makes up the cream!), and the lovely Shona is on a strict diet prior to letting herself loose on the men of Newcastle. I am told the regulars are looking forward to her and Ms Hutton's B & B--where lorry drivers and other overnighters will be most welcome! Sunday afternoons in The Waterloo continue to grow in strength with Francine's Bingo--I'm told there are even rumours about "La Diva Hutton" coming out of retirement to return for an afternoon stint! Section 28 poove hounders don't give up easily I see and are piling their hatred and pressure on with the help of the homophobes of Media House. What really surprises me is the lack of response from the more wealthy section of the gay community in giving donations to those organisations who are trying to combat this wicked misinformation campaign. How much more do we have to listen to these proselytising Christian hypocrites. If you can't give money, offer your skills or time. I have had one or two interesting snippets regarding someone very close to La Cardinal who should be outed--trouble is we need more than snippets--hard facts are better to expose the hypocrisy of these vile homophobes! To lighter things--my dear editor of the ginger hair and ample girth, tells me the dear Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are off to Rome for World Pride 2000. Imagine my dears La Hutton, the Sisters and our editor as The Vicar ("he chased me over the pew, your worship!") all in Vatican Square--wouldn't that make a lovely front cover? I'm off to Paris for my spring break, Well, didn't Jeremy Thorpe say that "Bunnies go to France" (God that makes me feel old!)? Fuck the bunnies, I want some French cock! Look after those less favoured while I get my cake and eat it in Paris, unlike poor Antoinette the only thing I want to lose is my maidenhead (yet again!) I'll let you know all about the steamy Paris springtime nights in the Bois de Boulogne where trannies have to fight for a man... and maybe this time, I might even get me a husband. Love and safe fucks, Beti beti@drink.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LETTERS ======= Court Rip Off Recently, on a Saturday night, myself and two friends went to the Court Bar for a drink. Some of our friends were there and were already pissed off at the situation. The function room downstairs was being used for an engagement party which was straight (no problem) but they were selling the drink downstairs at the very cheap day time prices whilst all of the regular gay clientele had to pay the expensive Saturday night prices. When I suggested that we go down and purchase drink to bring upstairs it was pointed out that this was not allowed. What really did add insult to injury was that three people who thought the music was too loud had decided to drink upstairs. When they required a drink the bar staff went downstairs and brought the drink up to them at the cheap prices! Well as far as I am concerned this is nothing short of being shifty and they can stick their place right up their hole! SORRY, I did not really expect this from The Court. billy.johnstone@virgin.net When we approached Gerry and Pat (the owners of the Court Bar) it was pointed out that on that particular night there was indeed a private function being held in the downstairs bar. Gerry and Pat had given Isobel Duffy the use of the room and drink at at their own price, as is their right, in return for all the good work they have done in fundraising for the RAINBOW FUND. Although Isobel is herself not gay, she is more than happy to assist in fundraising for people living with HIV/Aids in Glasgow. "The Court Bar has never been just straight during the day and gay at night, gay customers and friends of Gerry and Pat's are welcome at any time and free to take advantage of the many price cuts during the day. The evening prices are on a par if not better than some of the other gay bars in town, and what you might have forgotten is that in the Court Bar we serve 35 mls and not 25 as many other bars do. I am sure if the writer of the above letter wishe to come in and see us we will be happy to see him. Gerry and Pat Proprietors Court Bar" Rainbow Tartan Row In April/May 1999 I approached Ronnie Hek to help design a rainbow tartan, being a lesbian and with the gay community in mind. I felt it would be fun for us to have our own tartan. I wanted to sell this through my shop and Ronnie would sell other items through his web site. The plaid was woven and Ronnie registered it with the tartan society in his sole name meaning the plaid can only be obtained through him. He feels he has a unique product for the gay market for which he feels he can charge a premium. I feel very agreeved at the way in which he is attempting to ell this product and the highly inflated prices he is prepared to charge, which goes against everything which I had intended. We approcahed him recently with a view to having the tartan registered in both our names and have been unsuccessful in this. I have severed all links with Ronnie Hek and would like the gay community to be made aware of him trying to make a fast buck at the community's expense worldwide. This is not sour grapes on my behalf but I feel strongly agrieved that this idea is being exploited in such a manner. We appreciate your assistance to this end. Erica Muirhead ------------------------------------------------------------------- GLASCHU/GLASGOW: ARSE BANDIT WITH ATTITUDE Hiya Scumbagz! It's been a brilliant month for ScotsGay's circulation--most venues ran out of copies, and even the shops stocking it for sale were low on supplies when I had a look. As you know, certain pubs in Glasgow refuse to stock ScotsGay as they seem to think nobody has the right to question their poor standards and rude staff. I'm happy to disappoint you all! We shift more copies than ever before, and it will take somebody with a lot more clout than the current pub managers to shut Goldilocks up! I warned some months ago that Sadie Frost's showed all the classic signs of a pub in trouble. Nothing appears to have been done and the scene continues to desert the place. Here are some of the complaints that have been left on my website: "Sadie Frosts could teach Dels a few things about crap service these days. It used to be a decent place to go but not any longer" complains Suzy. "They keep running out of beer, all the good staff have gone and there's more booze in my fridge than there is behind that bar" says Jon. "Doesn't the management want to encourage gay people to come to the pub or is it just so far gone and crap that they are just desperate to fill the place up and anyone will do? And, as usual, the service in Sadies leaves a lot to be desired--in fact it's even worse than the Polo now and that's saying something" says Fi, and finally "We used to go regularly for lunch but don't bother any more. The service is terrible, the place is filthy, the food is cold and they can't get the orders right. There's not even any decent staff anymore" from Al. These are only a fraction of the moans that I have heard recently. Get it sorted or it's only a matter of time before Sadie's closes its doors for the last time. (And don't go blaming me--this is what the scene thinks of your pub). R.I.P. Sadie's Macsorley's in Jamaica Street actively courts the LGBT community, and is a regular haunt for those disillusioned by poor standards in certain allegedly "gay" venues. It's a traditional pub with a recently refurbished Victorian interior, and very beautiful it looks too. A highlight is the Grand Karaoke Competition with a ukp1000 first prize. No, not a misprint--there really is a grand in cash for the lucky winner! Heats are on Wednesday nights, and the final will be on July 5th. Makes all those Karaoke nights with cheapo prizes look a bit tacky doesn't it? There's also a quiz on Mondays, and live music at the weekend. Manager James told me that his pub is a popular pre-club meeting place for Trade and Fruitfly at the Arches. The Star of India restaurant at 4 Howard Street is already popular with the scene, and it's handy for the GGLC, Macsorley's and Centurion. It's open 'til 1am, and there's an "eat as much as you like" buffet from Sunday - Wednesday for all you fat bastards. Owners Tom and Elaine look forward to your custom, and say they'll soon be doing a karaoke night. Glasgow's latest gay one nighter is at Media, 142 Renfield Street. This is a new club opposite the Pavilion, and entry is free. Thomas, owner of the Boogie Bar is promoting the night and plans to bring up live acts and PAs. The opening night went well and Thomas and his boyfriend seemed quite happy. The club has plenty of comfortable seating, a long bar and large screen video. DJ for the night is Stu AKA Dave Dazzle from the Boogie Bar, playing a selection of trashy poofy music to keep you lot happy. It was interesting to note that there were quite a few lesbians in on the opening night--weekday clubs tend to be male dominated. I think this will become a popular one nighter--give it a try. Forgot to mention the drinks promos. I miss out on these 'cos I've always got the (push)bike with me. Slave is going down a storm with the younger dancy crowd, and gay guys now make up about half the weekend clientele. The entry prices have been revised and it's now free on Friday before 11pm, and ukp5 on Saturday with a flyer. Although the Boyz only night on Tuesday has been running for a while, they've decided to hold an official launch night. That crotch on the flyers belongs to none other than Billy from Clone Zone, who says the next one will be a bit raunchier. (Does that mean you'll be getting your dick out?). It's well worth a visit, and you might get a squirt of free booze from Mme Martini who goes around with an atomiser offering to spray drink down customers' throats. I thought I was in Debenhams! Just give us the bottle! The music's changed a bit too, and wasn't so heavy--they even played some of the poofy stuff that I recognised. Funniest sight was all the guys peering over the rail looking at the dance floor down below. They weren't watching the Muscle Mary who was getting paid to do his stuff, but at a twinky dancing with his shirt off and providing the entertainment for free! The tourist season will soon be upon us, which means I'll be getting loads of mail asking me for places to stay. The Glasgow Guest House, 56 Dumbreck Road, Tel 0141-427 0129 is one to be recommended. Already popular with the visiting LGBT crowd, owners Brian and Graham offer disabled access, veggie food and all rooms are en-suite. It's also on all a main bus route, is near to the local station and there are no problems getting parked. They'll also have their own website soon, so that should make them even more accessible to the overseas visitors. The Scrap Section 28 meetings draw an interesting mix of people. Of course, most of you lot are too busy propping up a bar getting pissed to care about what is happening in the real world, but if anyone wants to attend, meetings are held every Wednesday at 5:30 in the GGLC. The March for Equality and Diversity (Scrap Section 28) will go ahead on Saturday July 24th in Edinburgh, and potential stewards should get in touch with the Wednesday meeting. Other events are planned and, thanks to Howard, there's a full listing on my website. It will be updated weekly. As the weeks go by, Brian Souter's position looks increasingly desperate as more of his alleged support deserts him. Even the homophobic Daily Retard has changed its editorial stance slightly! For those of you who are online, remember to visit the Keep the Clause website and let Mr Souter and his fellow bigots know what you think of his doomed campaign. The KTC supporters are rapidly disappearing as their arguments for retention are proved to be without foundation and those supporting repeal greatly outnumber the KTC lobby. Time for a look at the pub and club ratings which you all love so much. Well, most of you do--I've had a few irate comments from certain people unhappy with the results. All I have to say to them is a big FUCK OFF! These ratings are what the scene thinks, and if you don't like them--TOO BAD! Best Pub was Austins (28%) with The Poo narrowly beating Sadie's and Del's to come last with 5%. Best Club Night was Trade (56%), Best Club went to Bennet's (83%). Best Service was the Waterloo (32%), and surprisingly Bennet's came last with only (1%). Dels got Prettiest Bar Staff (25%) and also Biggest Dump Award (29%). This month saw a record number of votes--keep on sending them! Bizarre episode of last month had to be my visit to the Townhouse in Edinburgh. I'm not so well known through there, so I can be a bit more incognito, if you know what I mean. Anyway, during my last visit, there were 80 people in, and 20 of them were from Glasgow. Embarrassing or what? Certainly cramped my style--all these guys coming up to me in the playroom to say hello! When I'm in a sauna, the last thing on my mind is helping you lot word your contact ads! Am I the only guy in Glasgow who can get a stiffy without sniffing a whole bottle of poppers? It's not my fault you're a bit on the floppy side, so why do you have to inflict the bloody awful smell on me? I can't even escape it in the saunas these days--there's always some sad fat ugly bastard with a bottle jammed up their nose. YUK! And I won't name a certain barman who wafted a bottle under my nose in one of the clubs 'cos he thought I was "gagging for it". Goldilocks is always gagging for it, and I don't need any artificial stimulants to perform! If you lot looked after yourselves a bit better, and got some exercise instead of living on a diet of fags, booze and shit food you might get down to some serious shagging instead of sniffing poppers and trying to raise the dead! Time for a quick round-up of stuff for all you on-line queens. My own website recently had a record number of visitors in one day. Work on the Bennet's site seems to have come to a standstill once again, but as they're getting less than a dozen hits a day, I can understand why they don't bother, unlike the ScotsGay website which manages about 700 a day, and still rising! As some of you have discovered, I now have a webcam in the Goldilocks mansion, which some of you spend hours watching. And I know what most of you are doing at the time, if some of the comments left on the website are anything to go by. Perverts! I see there is another Glasgow LGBT site under construction, with an anticipated rate of 1000 hits per day. In your dreams. This would be more than ScotsGay, my own site, the other Glasgow site, Bennet's and the GGLC combined! I also had a look at the Poo website recently, and wasn't surprised to note that it still hasn't been updated (must be over 2 years now). If I can make the effort to supply listings for four organisations, is it too much for places to keep their own websites up to date? Hardly surprising that my own site listings are now used by so many other websites. If you want the most up to date information--you know where to look! snippets Steady Eddy has started a Sci-Fi night in the GGLC, meeting in the Caff from 6pm onwards on Tuesdays. They'll be showing stuff on the large screen, and I'm told Blakes 7 is included.t John Graham is now editor of Centrepoint, the GGLC magazine, and is looking for new contributors. t By the time you read this, the saga of Centurion's jacuzzi should be resolved. The problem was the time taken to get a spare part from Sweden, and of course it was the wrong one! Hopefully it will be working on my next visit. The new showers make a big difference, and new furniture and carpeting will shortly be installed. t Stonewall has taken over a vacant office in the GGLC--further details as soon as I hear anything. t Pride Scotland hopes to be holding the march on 2nd of September this year. If anyone wants to help out, they are looking for volunteers, so get in touch with either the Glasgow or Edinburgh offices. Well, I think that's it for this month. As usual, all gossip, snippets, rumours, boyfriend application forms to the usual address at the back of the mag. You know I love all that e-mail--even the pervy stuff that you sad wankers send me! Luv, Goldilocks. Website: http://www.gay-glasgow.co.uk E-mail: goldilocks@gay-glasgow.co.uk ICQ 68688388 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DUN EIDEANN/EDINBURGH ===================== Martin, your usual correspondent has the 'flu, poor dear, so he asked me to have a bash at it for him. He might be off to Newcastle in the autumn, so we plan joint pieces for the next couple of months to see how it works out. We'll kick off with this month's poll. Top Bar: 1. Planet Out 2. The Stag and Turret Worst Bar: 1. CC Blooms (no other bars nominated) Top One Nighter: 1. JOY! 2. ICONS Worst One Nighter: 1. JOY! (no other clubs nominated) Top Cafe: 1. Blue Moon 2. NEXUS Worst Cafe (no votes) Most Fanciable Barman: Alan (from Icons/Planet Out) Most Fanciable Barwoman: "That tasty short haired bird from NEXUS "(!!?) Interesting stuff. Some of you love JOY!, others hate it, though the votes in favour outweighed the votes against by about three to one. Planet Out is clearly Edinburgh's favourite gay bar. The battle for second place was close with the Stag and Turret just pipping the Newtown Bar to the post. CC Bloom's seems to attract a lot of negative reaction but ScotsGay is rarely found within its walls so fans of CC's just don't get the chance. If CC's had this organ more readily available it could be very different. The only votes for worst cafe were for straight places so they were discounted. Alan got a massive three votes for most fanciable barman (not bad for an unsolicited category, but no doubt as a result of his success in the Mr. Gay UK Edinburgh heat at ICONS). "That tasty short haired bird from NEXUS" got one vote, her girlfriend perhaps? I was in CC Bloom's last night, and the night before, and erm, the night before that and it's a terrific place! Very popular with men and women. Open till late and at the weekends it's mobbed, what could be better? Different DJs keep the dance floor fresh and varied from night to night and the bar staff are always very friendly. The drinks are standard club prices, but the place is free entry so we can't complain too much. On a good night the atmosphere is electric and fun. The Karaoke is a scream! I recommend that you go and have a laugh with your mates. The Newtown Bar is pretty much a male only environment, but I guess if the girls can have their own spaces, then so can the guys. I like the Newtown too, with friendly bar staff and even friendlier bar prices. Leather is optional here, about half the guys attending wear the black. Moustaches also for preference but young smooth men may receive much attention. This, as one punter, Justin put it, is a Proper Gay Bar. Owner Ray is often very much in attendance. The Stag and Turret is more your average local pub, than a glamourous hi-tech queer-space. This is no bad thing. The bar staff are really terrific. The only criticism is that it could do with a touch of tidying up here and there. Maybe a paint job? Next month Martin will return so we'll be back to all the scene gossip. Find us at one nighters JOY! and ICONS (details of these nights and all other venues in the listings section) or e-mail us at the address below. Ali c/o mgwuk@hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DUN-DEAGH/DUNDEE ================ It is a time of sadness, it is a time of joy! What can this mean you might wonder? Well there have been a number of comings and goings this month at Liberty... errh more than the usual anyway! The bar staff lose two members from their ranks at the end of the month, namely the lovely Neil (Nelly) Webster former Mr Gay UK finalist! (which he hates to be reminded of...ooops!) and Alan (lamb-a-kins) Brand. Neil leaves for a six-month sabbatical to the USA as part of his university course and Alan has decided to retire from the bar trade to concentrate on his bingo career. So good luck and best wishes to the both of them. Rumour has it that the interest to become their replacements is considerable! Gavin, who has been promoted to manager, assures me that he will be personally handling the applicants himself! So the interview should be a tuff one! Two members of the security staff, Norrie and Jim have decided to leave which has saddened us all. Both have gained the respect of the patrons of Liberty by their professionalism and their pleasant manner, so they will be sadly missed. However the standard they set will be maintained, as Sara the only female member of the team, has promised to lick shape the new recruits into shape! One such recruit, Stella, turned bright red at the thought of this iIntensive training regime. On a happy note, the live entertainment at Liberty continues in its usual high standards. This month alone has seen the Swedish boy band Consoul, and Eurovision babe Nikki French strut their stuff much to the enjoyment of the crowd. Both nights were very busy and by all accounts well worth the very modest entry price increase of only ukp1 more than usual. Music at Liberty is always a key element of a good night out, and resident DJ Brian (BP) keeps the dance floor constantly busy. Oh hi Liz and Kath! Wednesdays and Fridays see the 'Talented Mr Hill' in his guise of Miss Surreal Bastille, Karaoke Princess! Yes for those who don't know, Ally is Liberty's resident karaoke compäre and drag queen. He's been one of the more colourful and flamboyant members of the Liberty's team for some time, and he never fails to make his nights that little bit more extra than the norm! Oh and I promised to say happy birthday to him, so happy 22nd Ally from everyone xxx. Charlie's Bar has been its usual busy self and the Monday night pool contest along with the reasonable price list never fails to pull in a large crowd. Rumour has it that hetties are sneaking in, but Charlie assures us that he's taking steps to ensure this isn't the case! He's opting for a 'No Queer No Beer!' approach, allegedly. The Dundee University and Abertay LGBT societies organised a joint trip to the bright lights of Glasgow recently, which was a great success. Everyone made it back to Dundee, albeit some decided to do some shopping and returned Sunday night themselves! Well they said they stayed Sat night to go shopping! For those of you that enjoy hill walking and getting some fresh air (yes it really does go on), the local Hillbillies group is planning a varied list of events in the near future, so keep an eye out for them. The more astute reader will notice perhaps that this is my first column in this magazine and I hope I've set the mood correctly. That is, it is my intention to present a more user friendly approach to my reports etc, but still maintain a critical perspective when needs must. So the Campaign To Get Brian to Smile On A Regular Basis continues! (Impossible--Ed.) XXX PerryJ perryj@drink.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------- OBAR DHEADHAIN/ABERDEEN ======================= Whew! It's not often that I can say that my feet hardly touch the ground, but with the past few days, it literally has been the case! I've just returned from a fab weekend in Englandshire, where I had an absolutely fantastic time. The only down-side to it all is that I've got a large blister on the sole of my foot, and a rather sore back, not to mention a sleep debt of around 18 hours! But, it looks like I've finally conquered my fear of flying, even though my maiden flight was probably the worst I'll ever experience. No doubt most of you will be aware of the news that the parent company of Club 2000, Fantasy Club and other ventures, is now in the hands of the receivers. I was unable to contact Colin for an official response, but as far as I am aware, it looks as if the operation will be passed onto some other entity as a going concern, it being one of the more profitable subsidiaries of the group. As usual there are various rumours flying around, but I will hopefully have the full story next month. Other things have been "flying" around too. On my visit to Club 2000 last week I was presented with an (unofficial) flyer for the City Bar, which is currently doing the rounds. While it was done in a very tongue-in-cheek fashion, and at first sight it was quite amusing, it was nothing short of a cheap, nasty joke carried out by someone who obviously bears a major grudge against Chris and her establishment. I won't repeat any of the allegations that were made due to the fact that I'm uncertain about their legality (!). It both saddens and angers me to see this sort of thing happening. I am aware of the fact that people think they've been banned unfairly, but by and large people get banned from pubs because of unacceptable behaviour, although in some cases there are exceptions. But to resort to that kind of back-stabbing is just sheer childishness. There are various channels open if there is a complaint to be made about a venue or its management, including a letter to the relevant press, or in the case of the City Bar, the brewery that owns it. Such petty bitching does not portray a very nice image of the Aberdeen scene, especially when people quite often make the effort to travel a significant distance to get here. The Scots are supposed to be well-known for their hospitality, but the picture painted here in Aberdeen is not a very welcoming one. I visited gay venues in four different cities this weekend, each one unique, and in parts of the country ranging from Cheltenham to Blackpool. But what was apparent was that most of the people I met appreciated what they had and supported their scene. Here, not even the owners of our two gay venues support each other, despite the fact that one is a pub and the other is a club. How can we expect others to do the same? I make no apologies for coming down on you lot like the proverbial ton of bricks, but it's about time that we here in Aberdeen put our differences aside and started working together for the common good. It's only because communities in other cities work together that events like Pride and Mardi Gras happen. And if you don't like what's on offer here, don't bitch about it - get off your useless arses and do something constructive about it. The Trash Heap Has Spoken. Nyahhh. Gus gus@drink.demon.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- MOIREIBH/MORAY ============== The excitement of the past month around here has been almost unbearable what with... err, well... err... that's just the problem. Nobody's been up to anything! What a crap month April has been. And everyone's skint, too, which definitely has something to do with it. Meanwhile I've just got back from Easter egg 'rolling' in amongst the sand dunes at Lossiemouth. In the rain. Luckily we had a hot barbecue to huddle round for warmth. Oh, and to cook food on, which was nice. Many minutes of top-class decorating went into the finished eggs before they were launched - at several g's - in various directions (but mainly in the vicinity of obnoxious children). Throwing them proved considerably better than trundling them along the ground as tradition dictates. They wouldn't have rolled very far in the sand, anyway. Rumour has it that there are to be 'gay nights' starting in Joanna's! Actually any Friday or Saturday night in there gets taken over by us-lot on the dance floor anyway, which I feel goes into raising the tone of the place quite a bit, so there's not going to be much of a noticeable difference if they start. Something tells me that the likelihood of Jo's having a gay night is less likely than winning the lottery. Every week. A new-and-improved venue in Elgin is the Pegasus Bar (formally the White Horse) opposite Downtown. This is now very posh compared to the dark and grotty place we all remember. It's nicely decorated, lighter and comes complete with several comfy sofas. I was working at the opening night and it was heaving! Of course the music was fantastic (!) so now the Peg has really got potential! Check it out. By the time the magazine is out this month the Moray Firth Social Group will have had their AGM - it is on the 26th April at the Park House Hotel - so an update from that will be in next-month's column. Our Vicki Plumm is leaving us (definitely, this time?!) in a couple of weeks for the bright lights of Edinburgh so I hope all goes well for him in his new adventure. As usual I was asking him for any gossip over the past month but he was saying that there has been absolutely nothing! I reckon he needs to get away to create mischief somewhere new! After all his hard work being a complete git these past few months--and very successfully, too--I was delighted to hear that Brian Souter lost several million pounds off the value of his Stagecoach company's shares. Ha! Serves him right! This wasn't, they say, a result of his high profile bigotry campaign but a mere glitch in the market. Hmm, what a strangely well timed coincidence, then! Right, I really have nothing else to write about as neither me or my two main sources of info have anything more to report so I shall call it a day and leave you to it. Take care and make the most of every minute ('cos you can just as easily have a really dull month!!) Dr Kenniff --------------------------------------------------------------------- SAD CORNER ========== Broughty Ferry Signalbox taken in May 1986. This unusual structure, built by the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway as a Block Post and to control the level crossing, is no longer in use and has become somewhat delapidated. However, Railtrack's plans to demolish it have been thwarted by listing. Next issue: Selectors from a UAX12 Strowger telephone exchange. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REVIEWS ======= Books ----- Malcolm Epstein June is a lucky month for Edinburgh film lovers as two very entertaining gay comedies come to the Filmhouse - the American Trick (15) on 2nd and the French Man Is A Woman (15) on 16th. Christian Campbell is a struggling writer of musical shows in "Trick" who shares his tiny flat with a straight guy who monopolises it having horizontal excitement with a stream of girls. At a gay disco Christian studies a go go dancer gyrating on a counter and later, on one of those all night New York underground trains, their eyes meet again. But Christian's flatmate is still entertaining one of his harem and not eager to let anyone watch. "Trick" has an assortment of gay character roles played by the most over the top performers you have ever seen onscreen whom the two would be lovers meet before dawn. Go guy JP Pitoc has the kind of body it must be an agony of exercises to achieve. In that city of so much night activity you might wonder why there was no late sauna where their lust could have been satisfied. If there are holes in the plotline it is the only flaw in a slick production enhanced by some delightful background music. It is a pleasant surprise to find the compäre of Eurotrash, the very straight Antoine de Caunes, playing a gay clarinettist in Man Is A Woman. When he's not inspecting manpower in a sauna, his music is the cabaret at Jewish weddings attended by his family, who have got past the stage of urging him to wed. Knowing he is broke an uncle offers him a large cash sum to marry and produce a child. The fact that he has never had sex with a woman brings an incongruity to the whole thing when he decides to marry an attractive Jewish girl. Neverthe-less "Man Is A Woman" is good to watch and the clarinet solos are very impressive. Believing in clairvoyancy is useful to appreciate two of the new releases. Final Destination (18) has a young American cast of 17 year olds waiting to board a plane for a holiday to remember in Paris. But waiting for the take off one of the students, Devon Sawa, has a premonition the plane will explode in a fiery blaze moments after leaving the ground. Sensing imminent doom he causes a scene urging everyone to leave the plane. He and six others do. Back in the terminal they quickly hear the plane explode in mid air. FBI agents quickly arrive to investigate. Devon soon forms the opinion they are all destined to die before long as they were not on the plane. Confirming this his friends start having fatal accidents. House (15) is a British comedy set in a decaying Welsh bingo hall where one of the staff realises she has inherited from her mother the power to predict winning numbers. Anyone who remembers the "This Life" TV series on young lawyers sharing a home may recall Jason Hughes who was the only gay guy in the household. He is a very straight bingo caller here whose considerable appeal and effervescent personality made me surprised to learn this is his first feature film. Well loved character faces like Miriam Margoyles and Freddie Jones add much to the merriment. Audiences who love violence--there must be millions out there otherwise Hollywood wouldn't be making these films endlessly--must track down American Psycho (18). Based on a highly successful novel it has Christian Bale as a smart business executive with a passion for murdering girls in ways I refuse to list here. I loathed it--but without my approval it may well make a lot of money. Sunshine (15) is an historical saga of a Hungarian Jewish family over three generation that has Ralph Fiennes with and without facial hair playing the son of each generation. Director Istvan Szabo has packed meticulous detail into its three hours. But watching Mr Fiennes being humiliated and murdered by sadistic Nazi guards in a concentration camp is not my kind of entertainment. This scene could have been described by his son who witnesses it. But maybe Mr Szabo knows there are plenty of sadists out there who relish this kind of scene. Boiler Room (15) is an American brokerage firm where the most conversationally aggressive phone salesmen are dominated by their bosses to sell even more stocks and shares as of their lives depended on it--or find another job. British stockbrokers tell me this could never happen here. Either way it helps if you are intrigued by the stock market to appreciate this one. Slightly calmer fare is The Last September (15) based on an Elizabeth Bowen novel about Ireland in 1920. A lord and lady of a country manor, Michael Gambon and Maggie Smith, have not accepted that their lives are changing with the growing political problem. A facade of tennis parties and army camp dances pleases them until one of their family starts and affair with a particularly attractive IRA member. Those of us who don't want any kind of screen violence must consider My Life So Far (12)--a villain free comic adventure of a boy growing up before the war with an eccentric father, Colin Firth, in a country mansion beside a Scottish loch. Intrigues between the family and servants happen in a world about to change dramatically with the war. Eldest son Malcolm McDowell has become a businessman in the south and returns to tell his mother, Rosemary Harris, that his brother, Colin, must modernise the estate and stop wasting his time thinking up inventions. Told from a boy's point of view it is a refreshing film. In Sandra Bullock's latest you have to accept she is a girl addicted to drink and drugs who has been ruining her life which leads to a court ordered cure at a clinic for 28 Days (15). Her visiting fiance isn't pleased that she's socialising with a stunning sex obsessed sportsman, Viggo Mortensen. Those of us who know someone out of control on drink or drugs should point them in this direction. Current Releases: Up At The Villa (12) with sumptuous Italian settings has Kristin Scott Thomas, for reasons I won't explain here, coping with a dead man's body in her bedroom. Sean Penn whisks it away for her knowing her engagement to a British ambassador wouldn't be helped by this kind of publicity. Set on the eve of World War II there is an undercurrent of political tension relieved by millionairess Anne Bancroft's parties at her luxury home in Florence. Mr Penn has acquired a sophistication that is devastatingly attractive. Based on a novella by W. Somerset Maugham it is directed by Philip Haas from a screenplay by his wife Belinda which had me engrossed. Julia Roberts has another big hit on her hands with Erin Brokovich (15) as the broke single mother of three kids whose poverty is relieved by a job with lawyer Albert Finney. Her sharp mind investigates toxic pollution in her area leading to big companies offering millions to keep her quiet. Based on a true story Julia has here some of the wittiest and sexiest lines of her career. Books ----- Dirk Kriete Longtime Companions Autobiographies of Gay Male Fidelity Edited by Alfred Lees and Ronald Nelson Harrington Park Press ukp11.99 My partner and I will be celebrating our fourteenth anniversary this year. I know that to some of you that might seem rather like a sentence than a relationship, but I ain't complaining. Nor are the couples featured in this book. The longest lasting gay relationship in it is that of the editors, whose idea and work it was to get people together to write an account of what life is like in a long lasting gay relationship. These two, now in their eighties, have been together for 50 years (47 when they finished the book). I couldn't help thinking and hoping that these two are still going strong. When their friendship started our particular type of loving was still illegal more or less all over the world and the trauma that people in an age as illiberal and suppressive were experiencing is something that these days only exists in our worst nightmares. But they pulled through and loved and cared for each other all their lives and I salute them. I must admit to sowing plenty of wild oats in my youth, but I am glad to be in a caring and sharing relationship just like the ones featured in this book. If you are, or if you are still searching for your life time partner you simply must read this book, there is a chance and a hope for all of us. Military Trade Steven Zealand Harrington Park Press ukp12.99 Hmmm, I thought, interesting, when this book arrived the other day. And so it proved to be... It's basically the result of a research project by the author and features the stories of 18 "military chasers" as different as a TV talk show presenter who pimped Marines to Hollywood stars, or the story of a heavy metal superstar who dreams of being reincarnated as a Marine boot. Yes, it was an interesting insight into the workings of some peoples mind, but to be perfectly honest, there was nothing there to really turn me on. They are all just too butch for my liking... That of course is not to say that this book is not to anybody's liking, it's well written and really quite amusing in parts, so if the military is your scene you can't go far wrong with this one. Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys Male and Female Homosexualities in Contempory Thailand Edited by Peter A Jackson and Gerard Sullivan Harrington Park Press ukp12.99 This book has the subtitle "Exploring the diverse sexual population of Thailand" and ok it might just do that but I found this one pretty hefty going. Perhaps of interest to those of you that are thinking of or have booked a holiday to the land of smiles, but for the rest of us I think a little dry and academic. Nice Girls Don't Wear Cha-Cha Heels Camp Lines From Classic Films Leigh Rutledge Alyson ukp7.99 One of those books that brought hilarity to the smallest room in the house with wonderful snippets like Elizabeth Taylor's line "Cut off her nipples with gardenin' shears! Ya call that normal?" or the immortal Marilyn Monroe muttering "There I was, with a perfectly strange plumber-- and no polish on my toenails!". They are all in this book, listless debutantes, long-suffering mothers, ruthless social climbers and women in bras staggering through hotel rooms swigging booze straight from the bottle are all celebrating alongside Bible heroines mouthing the most staggeringly awful dialogue ever to appear in film. This is a book for anyone who's ever been convulsed with laughter or whose jaw has dropped at lines such as "I am she who must be obeyed" (She) or "Worship whatever god you please, just as long as I can worship you!" (The Ten Commandments) will rejoice at rediscovering these immortal lines that have dripped from the lips of some of the most celebrated actors of all time. Easter Michael Arditti Arcadia Books ukp11.99 I had a phone call the other night. It was from the writer of this book. We had a bit of a talk after he inquired whether his book had been send to me by the publishers. And he seemed a really down to earth and genuinely nice person. That impression was reinforced a few days later when I caught him being interviewed on Radio 4. So by the time I got round to reading his book I felt like I already knew a lot about it. But I didn't. This book is as surprising as it is brilliant. It combines a deep understanding of Western Christianity with a wit and sarcasm rarely seen in contemporary writing. And no, I'm definitely not some kind of a Bible basher, quite the contrary, the last time I went to church was when I was still being forced to do so by my parents when I was 14 and beautiful! Whether you're a Christian, Moslem, Hindu or an Atheist you'll find something to identify with in this excellent novel. There is an unforgettable array of characters to choose from, each one thought through into minute detail. If there is one novel you buy this year, it ought to be this one. The Servant Robin Maugham Prion ukp5.99 If you're into art house movies and more specific the British films of the 60s you'll know this story. It was filmed in 1963 by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde as Barrett and James Fox as Tony, the two leading characters in this haunting novella, in which the normal "safe" world is thrown forever into turmoil in a shadowy nightmare where nothing is as it seems and truths remain troublingly obscure. I read this book in our local hospital the other day while my mother had a cataract operation, it's only 75 pages, but nevertheless it left a lasting impression. Images of Desire Models by Bel Ami Edited by Pride Video Profun Media ukp16.99 Desertion Scorching Heat And Desperate Passions Edited by Pride Video Profun Media ukp14.99 These two books feature over 60 high quality colour photographs with the most gorgeous men in the most revealing of poses! A couple of beautifully produced coffee table books for more then just one handed fun. Dance ----- Martin Powell Salt La La La Human Steps It is a pretty good rule of thumb that if you find yourself in a theatre paying attention to the lighting then either the production has suffered from an over-enthusiastic lighting designer who has failed to realise that their role is to enhance the piece not to overwhelm it, or the events on stage are truly dreadful and one is desperately searching for any entertainment. Such a rule does not apply to this show by the dance company of Montreal based choreographer Edouard Lock. This was as much a choreography of light as one of bodies. The unifying theme was circles. These could be almost as large as the entire stage or just large enough for a single dancer. They could overlap or light discrete spaces, and were often lit from behind so as to provide little more than an outline of bodies. And the bodies were usually a pair of dancers. However this lack of focus on individuals enabled the dance to flow effortlessly from person to person or from space to space. This flow of bodies enabled Lock to make even more physical demands of the dancers than he usually does - something I would not have thought possible. As usual, film was featured in the piece (on circular screens), but I had difficulty in seeing the relevance of this to the rest of the work. I also felt that the live musisians on stage did not really add anything. When the instruments are amplified to hell as part of a loud minimalist beat they lose their individuality. This was however an eminently watchable work. I was amazed when after what seemed like 35 to 40 minutes the symmetry of the piece showed it to be drawing to a close as I knew it was a 90 minute show. In fact it was 90 minutes. Any show that can so distort one's notion of time has got to be pretty good. ------------------------------------------------------------ FREE STUFF! =========== We've got some freebies for you this month! And one of them is so good that some unspeakable toad has pinched our review copy. So, all we can tell you is that it's the video of Queer As Folk 2 which had us all glued to Channel 4 the other month. Frankly, I was surprised that nobody got hot under the collar at all the underage drinking depicted in the programmes. But the tastefully filmed sex scenes in the first series grabbed all the headlines - An Anal Treet on Canal Street, as one wag put it. In addition to the broadcast footage, there are some specially filmed behind-the-scenes bits on the vid The video is a VCI release and is now available in the shops. When the review copy of the Queer As Folk 2 CD arrived, we'd learned a bit about security and this one has been a well played delight at ScotsGay Towers. Anyway, by the time you read this, we should have 5 copies of each to give away to readers. If you'd like one (or both), please just send your name and address to us: ScotsGay Freebies, PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7 5YW. ---------------------------------------------------------------- BI VOCAL: THE BISEXUAL NEWS ALTERNATIVE ======================================= It is an horrific indictment of the current political climate when the National Front and the British National Party feel confident enough to hold picket lines outside meetings of local bisexual, lesbian and gay groups in England. Buoyed partly by all the fuss over Section 28 and even more by the blatant racism towards asylum seekers by mainstream politicians like Jack Straw and William Hague, the right is building once again. "Shop an Immigrant and Win a Pint!" screamed the misogynist homophobic bigots at the Sunday Sport. And the rest of the tabloids continue the abuse. Bill Connor, the General Secretary of USDAW, the shop workers' trade union said that William Hague in particular was pandering to "ignorant racist attitudes"_. He added, "although they will not say publicly at this stage, they would be quite happy to do what General Pinochet did--put us all in a detention camp". Hope Hanlon, UN Refugee Commission spokesperson said that British politicians were using racism for electoral advantage. Meanwhile blacks, Asians and gays get viciously beaten, stabbed and worse. The Anti-Nazi League is re-forming (again?--Ed.) as a response to the situation. We have to stand up to these bastards. E-mail me at the address below if you wish to receive details. The following is taken from the Edinburgh Bisexual Group website http://www.ebg.org.uk/ "On Thursday 24th February 2000, the Edinburgh Bisexual Group wound itself up, along with the Bisexual Phoneline and the Penpal Scheme, rather just fizzle out. The group had been running without a break for sixteen years. Over the past months, attendance at the Thursday meetings has dwindled to near zero. Although new potential members have continued to arrive on Thursdays, often there have been no established group members there to greet them, and no meeting for them to join. Late last year a special meeting attracted a number of people who felt that EBG should continue, some of whom were willing to spend some time and effort to make this happen. Unfortunately they were unsuccessful". For the whole story go to the Edinburgh Bisexual Group website. I would personally like to thank all those from EBG that have worked so hard over the many years, especially Kate, Shari, Alison and Ray. The Glasgow Bisexual Group continues. They meet at Human Space, 17 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, G4 9DL (not far from St George's Cross Underground station (just off Great Western Road) contact - glasgow@bi.org. Meets first Monday of each month at 7.30pm - 9pm, followed by a local cafe or bar. Finally, a plug for BiCon 2000, Manchester 24 - 28 August. The 18th UK Bisexual Conference, now incorporating the 6th International BiCon BM BiCon, London, England, WC1N 3XX http://bi.org/~bicon/bicon2000/ or email bicon2000@bi.org Martin Walker mgwuk@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL NEWS FROM REX WOCKNER =================================== LATVIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS Latvian Prime Minister Andris Skele resigned April 12, one day before the Parliamentary Investigation Commission on Pėdophilia announced that he and several other officials were probably connected, in some unspecified way, to a same-sex pėdophilia scandal. The commission said the officials should be considered immoral and probably should not be allowed to hold office again, according to a report from Juris Ludvigs Lavrikovs of Latvia's Homosexuality Information Center. According to Lavrikovs: "The scandal started in September 1999 when the Latvian Independent Television company LNT showed a program where several male teenagers confessed to having been sexually abused by Ainars Eisaks, director of the agency Mrs Latvia, who it was alleged, together with Jurijs Jurjevs, director of the Logos Center, provided prominent people with young boys for sexual gratification." Other officials named by the commission include Justice Minister Valdis Birkavs, State Revenue Director Andrejs Sonciks, Latvia Post Office Director Aivars Droiskis, and Riga Classical College Dir-ector Romans Alijevs, Lavrikovs reported. An online Baltic states newspaper, The Weekly Crier, made no reference to pedo-philia in its report on Skele's resignation. The paper said: "Skele resigned after two of three parties in his ruling coalition, Latvia's Way and the Fatherland and Freedom party, announced they could no longer work with him. The shakeup had at least as much to do with style as substance. Skele, with a business background, was seen as an intelligent administrator capable of balancing budgets. But he was also seen as abrasive, heavy-handed and a poor team player." ELIZABETH TAYLOR accepts Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's Vanguard Award for promoting gay rights. Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation 11th Annual GLAAD Media Awards April 15, 2000 Los Angeles. JAMAICAN GAYS SEEK RIGHTS The Jamaican Parliament is considering amendments to the Constitution's bill of rights, and the Jamaican Forum of Lesbians, All Sexuals and Gays would like to see sexual- orientation protections added. According to the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission in San Francisco: "Given the fact that male homosexual intimacy is currently criminalized in Jamaica, the need for such an inclusion becomes even more urgent. The Offences Against the Person Act prohibits 'acts of gross indecency' (generally interpreted as referring to any kind of physical intimacy) between men, in public or in private. The offense of buggery is created by section 76, and is defined as anal intercourse between a man and a woman, or between two men. Most of the prosecutions in fact, involve consenting adult men suspected of indulging in anal sex." IGLHRC suggests lobbying Prime Minister The Rt. Hon. P.J. Patterson (fax: +1-876-929-0005; e-mail: cablib@cwjamaica.com), Minister of National Security and Justice Hon. K.D. Knight (fax: +1-876-906-1724; e-mail: webmaster@mnsj.gov.jm) and Minister of Education and Culture Sen. The Hon. Burchell Whiteman (fax: +1- 876-967-1887; e-mail: junorj@mho.gov.jm). Send a copy to jflag@hotmail.com. B.C. GAYS WILL BE EQUALIZED The government of British Columbia, Canada, is preparing an omnibus bill that will amend the definition of "spouse" to include same-sex couples everywhere the word appears in provincial law, reports Xtra West. Vancouver-Burrard Member of the Legislative Assembly Tim Stevenson said the bill will be ready for the current legislative session and will take effect as soon as it is proclaimed. "The new bill will change the definition of spouse in every single reference through every single law," Stevenson, who is gay, told Xtra West. "Every time that word comes up, it now will include gays and lesbians. This is more of a mopping-up of everything." "Spouse" appears in B.C. laws approximately 500 to 600 times. The changes will take B.C. gays farther along the road to equality than anywhere else in Canada, Stevenson said. TRANNIES JAILED AND LASHED Nine gay Saudi Arabian transvestites in the western city of Qunfuda have been jailed and will be lashed twice monthly for two years. Five of the men were sentenced to six years in prison and 2,600 lashes at the rate of 52 lashes per semimonthly session. The other four men were sentenced to five years in prison and 2,400 lashes at the rate of 48 lashes per semimonthly session. Police began observing the men after receiving reports they were acting strangely, a spokesman said. As the investigation continued, the police determined the men were dressing in women's clothing and having sex together, a violation of Islamic law. WRESTLERS DENOUNCE BEARS Organizers of Turkey's 649th Kirkpinar oil wrestling championships are outraged that the Bears of Turkey group is organizing an outing to the July 1-2 event near the city of Edirne. The wrestlers -- burly, mustachioed men who rub themselves with olive oil, wear leather pants, and stick their hands down each other trousers to get a better grip -- want the government to forbid the bears' attendance. "It's immoral," said Alper Yazoglu, chairman of the Traditional Sports Federation. "We are trying every way to have this stopped. .... We shall pass this matter on to the interior, foreign and other ministries to ask for this disgusting business to be stopped." The bears are advertising their outing at http://www.ayilar.net/. Gay 'bears' are hairy and beefy or big-bellied men who, in the past decade, have created bear clubs, bars and magazines that bring together men whose libidos are uninterested in the "twink," "pretty boy," and/or chiseled-body look promoted by the gay media. S.A. MAG HONORED The South African gay magazine OUTright is among the finalists for the prestigious Mondi Paper Magazine Awards in the categories of fashion and decor. Other finalists in those categories include the international magazines Marie-Claire and Elle and the South African magazines Femina, Style, House & Leisure and You/Huisgenoot. "It is really fantastic -- proof that we have moved the magazine from fag rag to fash mag," said OUTright editor Daniel Somerville. "Gay magazines don't have to be cheap tatty affairs. With a hard-working and highly talented team we can produce a quality product for our community." Winners will be announced May 10. KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL SEEKS ENTRIES The second Seoul International Queer Film & Video Festival is seeking entries. The first festival, in 1998, "was a big success," organizers said. "The festival's percentage of seats was up to eighty-five percentage and about more than 10,000 audiences met the queer film works during ten festival dates," Executive Director Seo Dong-Jin said April 11 in an English-language press release. 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