SCOTSGAY MAGAZINE ================= ScotsGay is a monthly magazine for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Edited, printed and published in Scotland ScotsGay 80/- Heavy -Issue 34 - June 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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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 ========= ScotsGay 34 Editorial ========= I'm sorry to have to interject a sour note into the celebrations for the repeal, in Scotland, of Section 28. Following a lengthy campaign, largely initiated by the Edinburgh based Equality Network but supported by Outright Scotland, various ad hoc groups, Trades Unions, etc., the Scottish Parliament has just voted for the Repeal of Section 2A as it is known in Scotland. Campaigners in Scotland marked the actual day of the passing of the clause with a fairly low key media event - simply the unveiling of a giant banner saying "BYE BYE SECTION 28" immediately in front of the Scottish Parliament on The Mound. However, the London based Stonewall Lobby Group Ltd effectively attempted to hijack UK media coverage by arranging a London media circus-free alcohol was offered to people who turned up and donned kilts at a bar in Soho. And changing facilities were provided for those proud muscle marys who didn't fancy wearing their kilt on the Tube! Apart from the cultural and gender insensitivity involved-stereotyping (largely male) Scots as wearers of Highland Dress with all the overtones of the Kailyard is problematic-the truth is that Stonewall has contributed very little if anything to the Scottish campaign. Admittedly, they opened an office in Glasgow two months ago, but in terms of the hard work that goes into running a national campaign in Scotland, they've done next to nothing. For the Labour friendly Stonewall, it's all about power. Scotland's campaigners have been largely left to their own devices up until now, but with the transfer of political power to Holyrood becoming apparent even South of the Border, it's time for Nanny Stonewall to get their neb in and make sure that the natives don't upset New Labour. Public profile is all-and they know how to get it. Stonewall's grandstanding in campaigns organised by others isn't particularly new. And it's happened in Scotland already: Angela Mason OBE managed to grab the headlines and many of the live media interviews when she was ejected from the Edinburgh launch of Souter's Keep the Clause Campaign. Something those of us involved in gay politics don't talk about very much publicly or privately is what we, as individuals, get out of all the hard work involved (apart from perhaps eventually seeing our policies becoming flesh in the shape of legislation). Nevertheless, one of the few rewards is the buzz of getting onto TV and radio or into the newspapers. That may seem petty. But publicity and the approbation of others is something to which practitioners of many respectable occupations aspire. The mass of gay campaigners are rarely paid for what they do - so should we grudge them whatever gives them their kicks? It seems that the well paid people at Stonewall in London do and want to grab the headlines for themselves. If Stonewall really wants to help the cause in Scotland, they would do better to make a substantial financial donation to the work of our indigenous democratically run campaigning organisations. After all, the cost of setting up their Glasgow office and employing a member of staff for 8 weeks probably amounts to more than the annual cost of running Outright Scotland! And Stonewall did fundraise in Edinburgh last year on the basis that the proceeds would pay for offices for Equality Network and Outright Scotland. Please note that this is not an anti-English rant. Scotland's best known campaigner Tim Hopkins may have been born in England, but his commitment to Scotland is unquestionable. The same cannot be said of Stonewall. John Hein johndunedin@drink.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------- News ==== CLAUSE OUT The Scottish Parliament has finally voted to repeal section 28. After an historic debate on June 21st, MSPs voted by 99 votes to 17 in favour of the repeal Bill. Scrapping the section was supported by Labour, LibDem, SNP, SSP and Green MSPs, with only the Tories voting against. A major battle had been going on for six months between the Keep the Clause campaign funded by Brian Souter's millions, and the Scottish Executive and the umbrella Scrap the Section campaign. Scrap the Section was a coalition of LGBT groups and people and many others who were appalled at the injustice of section 28. A spokesperson for Scrap the Section said, "It is great to be able to celebrate the end of section 28 after twelve and a half years. Wendy Alexander and the rest of the Scottish Executive, and all the MSPs who voted for repeal, deserve our thanks. They came under huge pressure to back down, but stuck to their principles. This is a huge victory for the new Scottish democracy." He continued, "Thanks are also due to all the thousands of people who supported the Scrap the Section campaign." Keep the Clause, desperate to claim a victory, welcomed the inclusion of the word "marriage" in the guidance issued to education authorities on sex education. However, Scrap the Section say that the sex education curriculum was always going to include references to marriage. "The guidance also says that sex education must teach respect for diversity, awareness of sexual orientation issues, and the importance of ending discrimination and prejudice." The Scrap the Section campaign ended with a march and rally in Edinburgh under the banner "Equality and Diversity". 5,000 supporters marched along Princes St and up the Mound to Parliament Square. There they heard speakers pay tribute to MSPs and others who supported repeal, and highlight the importance of working together to mend the divisions created in Scotland by the Keep the Clause campaign, and to continue to fight against inequality and discrimination. Tim Hopkins HAVE A NICE DAY, MISTER SOUTER? (WE DID!) We turned out in force for what turned out to be the Section 28 Victory March in Edinburgh. Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered, straight... We were all there! Which is more than can be said of Brian Souter and the millions of pounds he poured down the drain to try and stop us! NOT SO EASY ScotsGay's Internet Web Site has been banned by easyEverything, the megachain of Internet access stores which recently opened a branch in Edinburgh. Attempts to access the site previously brought up an embarrassing warning screen which warned that further attempts to view such filth and depravity would result in ejection from the premises. Now customers are directed to the easyEverything front page. Whilst it is clear from the employment policies of sister airline easyJet that company chair Stelios Haji-Iaonnou is in no way homophobic, he didn't answer our E-mails when we attempted to raise the matter with him. According to company spokesperson, James Rothnie, "We have a firewall in place to prevent illegal and immoral sites but would hope that our firewall is not overzealous. We will review this site and find out why our firewall is preventing access to it." However, Rothnie has now contacted us again and has passed the buck to another company, Websense, who provide the URL filtering service for easyEverything. Meanwhile, customers at Edinburgh's other Internet Cafes, Cyberia and Web 13, can not only continue to browse our site at http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ but can pick up copies of the magazine. Our readers are invited to moan at http://www.websense.com/ A spokesperson for Cyberia told ScotsGay, "At Cyberia we find no reason to censor customers wanting to look at the online version of 'ScotsGay Magazine'. The web site is an important resource for gays, lesbians and bisexuals living in Scotland and these people themselves form a significant part of the Scottish community as a whole". UPHILL GARDENING After many months of planning and fine tuning Glasgow's Brownlee Centre (the successor to Ruchill) garden received the finishing touches at a ceremony to mark the garden's completion. Tree planting and plaque unveiling were the order of the day, as Jim Glenn, Chair of the Brownlee AIDS Welfare Fund, and Maggie Boyle, the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Group Hospitals, did the honours in front of an invited audience. The garden was funded to the tune of UKP15,000, bringing the total cash donated this year by the charity to just over UKP20,000. FLITTING The Steve Retson Project, Scotland's only dedicated sexual health service for gay men, is on the move. For the past six years it has been based at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, but on July 26th, 2000 it is moving into a new home, right in the heart of Glasgow, at the west end of Sauchiehall Street in the old Eye Infirmary building. In addition to specific gay men's services, the new Centre, the Sandyford Initiative, will host the complete range of other sexual health services including Lesbian health Services, GU Medicine, Family Planning and the Centre for Women's Health. In addition to the usual comprehensive sexual health services, designed by gay men for gay men, the Project will be offering two new services-same day HIV testing and erectile dysfunction services. "Kilts in the Highland Capital", a weekend gathering of kilt wearers and watchers, took place in Inverness recently. A similar event is planned for next year. Photo: Hamish Bicknell PRIDE Pride Scotland are getting ready for the big day in Glasgow on Saturday 2nd September, but they need more help! Specifically, they're looking right now for people to do the women's area, Dance Tent and to be Stewards on the day. Phone the Edinburgh office on 0131-556 8822 and speak either to Jon-Scot or Alistair or E-mail info@pridescotland.org FEEDBACK There will be a feedback session from the World AIDS Conference at the SOLAS Centre in Edinburgh on Thursday 3rd August from 2-8pm. It's a chance to hear the latest information about HIV treatment and community developments. To book your free place, phone Davina or David on 0131-661 0982. Buffet lunch and refreshments provided. GOOD JOB Waverley Care have been awarded a commendation in the Annual Arts & Business Scottish Awards for the Trust's organisation of The Galloping Gondoliers, one of last year's major fundraisers for WCT. BONA VADA Dumfries folk will have a chance to see Head On, an Australian film about what it's like to be young, gay and Greek. Venue is the Robert Burns Centre on Thursday 6th July. Regular Lesbian and Gay Film Screenings take place there on the first Thursday of each month. MILESTONE Residential beds at Milestone House, Scotland's only AIDS hospice, have been cut to 8 and only patients from Lothian are now being admitted. Funding after October 1st is uncertain. PUFF Stop by and take a look at Outright Scotland's redesigned web site - http://www.outright-scotland.org. With clear navigation and information aimed at members, readers and the press the site is a major aid to Outright's communication with its members, our communities and all of Scotland. The site is sure to prove valuable in advancing Outright's commitment to being democratic, open and accountable in all its work. BLOOMING CHEEK Peter Holt reports: My gay colleagues had been fundraising for Scrap Section 28 and were met with enthusiasm in all the gay venues in the Edinburgh except CC Blooms who denied them entry. They were told that they couldn't enter the building without a laminated pass! Doorstaff also refused to let them speak to the bar staff. STERLINI OPPIDUM The next Stirling social will be on Tuesday 25th July at the Portcullis Hotel bar, by Stirling Castle. Central Scotland Gay Mens Group next meets Fri 15th September. Details from: Stirling LGB Group (or CGMG), PO Box 28, Stirling. FK8 5YW. PINK BERETS Sponsors are sought for a team of HIV positive people who will jump out of a plane (parachutes provided) in aid of Solas. All monies raised will be used to provide therapies and activities for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. Donations should be sent to Shona at Solas, 2-4 Abbeymount, Edinburgh. EH8 8EJ. SUMMER FLING Strathclyde Gay and Lesbian Switchboard are having a fundraising ceilidh at the Trades Hall, Glassford Street, Glasgow on Friday 7th July. The dancing begins at 8 o'clock and the reeling and jigging carries on till midnight. The band will be Macappela who were a big success last year. There will be a licensed bar and the ticket price includes a light buffet. Tickets cost UKP10 and UKP7.50 concs. and are available from Clone Zone in the GGLC, Dixon Street. And if you're still up for it when the ceilidh ends, then your ticket gets you into Bennets nightclub free. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY ===================== Who are these sinister, shady figures lurking in the shadows and willing to put their hands in their deep pockets to help fund Brian Souter's mail shot and endorse his homophobic Keep the Clause campaign? "LET'S PUT IT TO THE VOTE... UKP1m private cash for Scottish referendum over Section 28... 23 co-sponsors helping pay for the ballot", cried the Scottish Mail. Keep the Clause's Jack Cassidy refused to answer the Sunday Herald when they asked what brought this particular business group together and exactly how many were clients of Jack Irvine's PR company Media House. He dismissed their questions as "irrelevant." Many of those putting their names forward as sponsors of the referendum were part of the Entrepreneur Exchange network, and at least four of them winners of the top entrepreneur award sponsored by The Herald. It seemed like it was all coming together for the Keep the Clause campaign. It used a standard political technique: Scour the opponent's record for potentially embarrassing views; quote them out of context; don't be put off by your own shortcomings on the issue; just get together some plausible allies to lend authority to your attack. And here they all were: - Sir Tom Farmer, a devout Catholic, a personal friend of Cardinal Winning and a papal knight of St Gregory the Great. He was a former chairman of Scotland Against Drugs when Keep the Clause front man David Macauley, later sacked, fronted it. Sir Tom Farmer established Kwik-Fit in 1971 and sold it to Ford in 1999 for UKP1billion. He ploughed UKP6 million into Hibernian football club where Jack Irvine worked briefly as PR. Tom Hunter is Scotland's richest man. He made UKP290 million selling his Sports Division business to JJB Sports and allows Jack Irvine to handle his personal PR. His 20 per cent stake in the Reality Group, net him a further UKP7million in May 2000 when the company was sold to Great Universal Stores. He was the subject of a Scottish News of the World 'story' when he was caught in a UKP35-a-night motel on the M6 with work colleague Mary Rigby. He is married with two children. Alf Young, a respected business writer and a personal friend of many of the sponsors of the referendum wrote in The Herald: "Tom Hunter, says it doesn't really matter whether he thinks Section 28 should be repealed or not. 'This issue is now one of democracy.' Come off it, Tom. You believe there is a genuine majority in Scotland for keeping Section 2a. I suspect there is an even more decisive majority in favour of higher taxes on the very wealthy, like you... Were that cause to be given the same PR welly Brian Souter and Keep the Clause have given Section 28, Tom, polls would soon be telling us a decisive majority of Scottish voters want you and I to pay higher taxes. Would you, Brian and all the other sponsors be willing to bankroll a referendum on that issue in the name of democracy? I think I know the answer to that one." The homophobic convener of the Church of Scotland's Board of Responsibility, Anne Allen's mug was now frequently shown in the Daily Record in the form of a soft, friendly tilted portrait that looked like it had been shot in a Hollywood studio in the forties. Forget it! When Edinburgh council were carrying out a survey of homophobia she wanted to know why people who were disgusted at the activities of homosexuals weren't being surveyed too. Brian 'Soapy' Souter and his wife Betty who are both members of the evangelical Church of the Nazarene based in Kansas, USA. This Church has its own publication house that distributes its propaganda in tongues across the globe. With a personal wealth estimated at the start of 2000 at over UKP565million, Brian, boss of Stagecoach, was regaled as Scotland's richest man. That was before he lit the screens in the City to cry of SELL! SELL! SELL! Also on the list is Brian Souter's 57-year-old sister Ann Gloag, Scotland's richest woman. At her height she was richer even than the Queen - with a personal fortune that has been estimated at more than UKP100 million and an annual dividend payout of UKP4 million. She also owns the UKP2 million Beaufort Castle in Invernesshire and a yellow Bentley with the number plate: 1 ANN. Gloag's son Jonathan committed suicide in 1999 when he was found hanging from a tree. He stood to inherit the Stagecoach empire, had what the Scottish Mail described as "a loving and pretty wife and three small sons," a UKP450,000 mansion bought by his mother and, after trying to work in his mother's business, left to become a chef. Sensitive Jonathan took his domineering mother's side in her divorce with her husband Robert who set up a bus company of his own before Ann joined forces with her brother to drive him off the road. Robert Gloag's name wasn't mentioned at Jonathan's funeral. Ann and Brian's elder brother, the Rev David Souter, conducted the service. Ann Gloag made what is believed to be Britain's biggest donation to a Christian charity giving UKP4 million to a Danish organisation that converts old car ferries to 'Mercy Ships' or floating hospitals, relief centres and missionary bases. She also donates money through her Balcraig charity and her PR is handled by - guess who - Jack Irvine. However hard sympathetic newspapers tried to paint Gloag the caring and benevolent woman, nothing can escape the fact, Keep the Clause spent, according to one estimate, UKP4 per head of the population of Scotland to persuade them to support a bitter and divisive anti-gay law. Jim Sillars, former MP for Glasgow Govan and deputy leader of the SNP, now a regular columnist in the homophobic Scottish Sun. He thinks gays need an age of consent as low as possible to keep a "stock of homosexual young males... to ensure a continuous supply of sexual partners. ...Sex objects, to be used." Gerald Weisfeld, connected to Tom Hunter through the retail trade, helped his wife Vera build up the 'What Everyone Wants' discount chain before selling it for UKP50 million. David Moulsdale is a close friend of Tom Hunter and owner of Optical Express, now the fifth largest chain of opticians in Britain. Jack Irvine's Media House works for Optical Express. You might now want to get your glasses from Vision Express; Jeffrey Black; Boots; Lizars or knock a pair out from the bottom of a couple of bottles of Irn Bru! Pat and Alex Grant both set up Norfrost in Caithness, one of the largest refrigeration businesses in the world. Although the couple have no children of their own, Pat's son by a former marriage made a headline in ScotsGay: "Half-baked Clay," this occasional member of the International Church of Christ posted homophobic posters up in Edinburgh. He (sort of) enjoyed gay sex in the past. He says he was so "tormented by guilt" that he subsequently tried to take his own life. The Sunday Mail once referred to Clay's mother as the Ice Queen. She is a close friend of Souter's sister Ann Gloag through the Scottish Business Trust and communicates with her son through solicitor's letters. Scottish editions of the Sunday Mirror quoted her 35-year-old son Clay: "All I want to do is hug her. I just want us to be like a normal mother and son." Pat Grant said: "I don't want anything more to do with him. I don't couldn't care less what he says or does. I've heard it all before. I pay his mortgage and his bills - he costs me UKP20,000 a year. I am not interested in rebuilding our relationship." Clay has since fallen back into the clutches of fundamentalist superstition. Hugh Adam, a trustee of the Keep the Clause campaign and a former director of Rangers Football Club. Adam also ran the Rangers Pool Division. After letting off a statutory 'I'm not homophobic, but...' rant in the Scottish Sun, he proceeded to reveal just that. He told them: "My difficulty is that I cannot persuade myself that homosexuality is other than an abnormality. That does not mean, of course, that its practitioners are diminished in any way as human beings. I know that there are many people with the same views as myself but decline to speak out for fear of being branded politically incorrect. I urge them to come out." Nasty stuff! John Cameron, a Fife landowner and farmer who was chairman of the National Farmers' Union of Scotland. He was also railway advisor to Brian Souter's Stagecoach and director of South-west Trains, best remembered for its refusal to grant the partner of a lesbian subsidised travel. Donald Macdonald, who had worked his way to the top at Stakis Hotels before he established a chain of hotels of his own, Bathgate-based Macdonald Hotels. In June 2000 they announced a UKP100m joint venture with the Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland to build 10 upmarket city centre hotels. Shop around; there must be better beds to shag in! Macdonald announced an 8 per cent increase in underlying pre-tax profits to UKP13.8 million in 1999. Macdonald Hotels is engaged in a joint venture with Sheffield University for a 110-bedroom hotel as well as a number of other ambitious hotel projects. After the announcement, Macdonald shares raised their total dividend by 9 per cent to 6.0p with a final pay-out of 4.0p. Its shares firmed half-a-penny to 178p. Asked if the company was vulnerable to takeover Macdonald said the board owned more than 30 per cent and there was probably another 20 per cent or 30 per cent in "very friendly hands". They include Standard Life, Scottish Equitable, Scottish Mutual and Edinburgh Fund Managers. Their rival is Thistle Hotels. George Russell, chief executive of Scotland the Brand which promotes Scottish products was approached by Brian Souter with whom he has long-standing personal and church connections. "I'm not in the same church, but we follow the same Saviour," he told the Sunday Herald. NEXXXXXT!? Sir David McNee, formerly Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1977 to 1983 when Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister. Fergus Ewing, an SNP MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber and deputy shadow minister for tourism, small business and the Highlands and Islands. Lord MacKay of Clashfern, is a retired former Lord Chancellor and was a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet. Say no more! David McLetchie, leader of the Scottish Conservatives and MSP for Lothian was asked to sign up to this list by Keep the Clause, leaving only enough time check with a couple of his colleagues before doing so. Not all the party appeared to be entirely happy with McLetchie aligning himself so closely with this outfit. Andrew Welsh is chairman of the powerful audit committee of the Scottish parliament. Bill Hughes, once the Treasurer and Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party, a key figure in the Scottish division of the CBI and an elder in the Church of Scotland. He was also an architect of Scottish Enterprise as well as a chairman of Grampian Holdings, a company Jack Irvine has done PR work for. The Scottish Mail, proclaiming itself "the favourite newspaper of Britain's leading businessmen" claimed: "It was his Christian duty to support moves to retain Section 28." Then allowed him to let off a tirade of militant gobbledegook: "As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of marriage and that the traditional family unit is critically important. It is the ideal state of affairs in which to propagate a child. This stance is strongly taken by our minister, Alistair Horne, and the membership of the church are totally behind him." Nurse? Screens! Neil Hood, Professor of Business Policy, director of Strathclyde University's International Business Unit and advisor to Scottish Enterprise, a non-executive director of Kwik-Fit - Sir Tom Farmer's former company - and of Grampian Holdings whose former chairman is Bill Hughes. Neil Hood is also a lay preacher. Vali Hussein, vice-principal of the Islamic Academy of Scotland, which promotes research in Islamic Jerusalem, told the Scottish Mail how his deep religious convictions led him to take a stand. "I firmly believe the promotion of homosexual acts is completely immoral and is a terrible thing to teach innocent children in schools. I do not want such things in schools. We respect family values and want children to grow up in a normal environment and not be brainwashed into thinking something abnormal is normal." Fundamental Muslims stone lesbians, gays, bisexuals and people of transgender to death. Great fun for the kids! The Scottish Mail swaggered: "There is not a fanatic, a crank or a so-called 'homophobe' among them." The Daily Record crowed: "This time, Souter doesn't stand alone. He had put together an impressive bunch of backers from every walk of Scottish society who share his rage at the Government's arrogant refusal to listen to public opinion over gay sex lessons in schools. Along with church leaders, they include academics..." yes, all two of them! You must have been surprised to hear that the Daily Record-accused of homophobia even in newspapers sympathetic to Section 28-in an award ceremony organised by media and marketing magazine The Drum, was made Scottish newspaper of the year for best news coverage! The tabloid beat its chest at the annual Royal Bank of Scotland newspaper awards: "The Record continues to be a caring, family newspaper," it crowed. The chairman of the judging panel was former Herald editor Arnold Kemp, who writes for the Observer in Scotland and who recently suggested Brian Souter might purchase The Herald. Other judges were Boston Globe editor Matthew Storin; Endell Laird, former editor of the Daily Record; Cameron Grant, former chairman of the Institute of Public Relations; Giles Brooksbank, of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising; and David Appleton, head of group media relations at the Royal Bank of Scotland. (The chairman of the Scottish Daily Record, Sir Angus Grossart, is also vice-chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland and managing director of merchant bank Noble Grossart whose portfolio includes Souter's Stagecoach. Interviewed in the Sunday Herald, he said: "I have a lot of respect for Brian and... he has the right to do this"). The former editor of the Daily Record, Endell Laird said: "The Daily Record takes news stories and gives them a good punchy angle." Some of its victims could testify to that! (c) Garry Otton 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nun Sense ========= Well, the good Sister Athletica de la Bain has had to go to another important conference in Manchester and so we still can't tell you how much money we raised during the last financial year. We do know that we, and some of their volunteers, managed to raise a grand total of UKP548.63 (and one Swiss Franc) for the Scrap the Section campaign over two evenings at the end of May. The collection finished at Tackno and was unfortunately cut short by a fire alarm going off at the club! It was worth it just to see Sister Bobby's face when the strapping young firefighters arrived. Another reason Sister Athletica has been unable to get the annual figures done was because she had to attend a function at which Donald Dewar presented a special Aids Ambassador award to someone very, very close to her. While we were trying to bribe the Trypesetter this time round, we learned two things. Firstly, that Beti Hutton had submitted her column extremely promptly, and had therefore missed a terribly important piece of gossip. The Sisters heard that there will be no Foxtrot cartoon this issue. It seems our cartoonist has fallen in lurve and is too busy bonking-safely we hope-to come up with the goods! Do we have a spare gross or two of condoms to send over? There will be a large Sisterly presence at Pride in London this year. Sister Athletica de la Bain and Sister Bobby will hit the city on Thursday and will join Sisters from all over the place for a gathering on Friday night. Novice Brother Bimbo del Doppio Senso will jet down on Saturday morning, accompanied by the mysterious henchman Pastor Best, and will join the others on the march itself. As we are all over the age of 19, we will not be going to the expensive commercial event in Finsbury Park afterwards, but plan to join the Gathered Faithful from ukglb (something to do with that new-fangled internet thing apparently) at their picnic in Kensington Gardens. While we're talking about the net, Sister Bobby was sent an interesting article via an American Sister. She forwarded it to the Scriptorium and the Amanuensis has changed it slightly to suit the needs of the Scottish Sisters. We don't know who wrote the original, but we feel it raises some important points which the religious extremist promulgators of stigmatic guilt would do well to consider. An Open Letter to Cardinal Winning Dear Carnal Whineing, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law. I have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odour for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbours. They claim the odour is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this? I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women get upset. Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to the Irish but not the French. Can you clarify? I have a neighbour who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obliged to kill him myself? A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear prescription glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here? I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging. BUG OF THE MONTH: INTESTINAL PARASITES Symptoms: cramps, wind, trapped wind, changes in shitting pattern - usually diarrhoea, feeling run down, white coating on turds. Appear: three days to several weeks after exposure. Exposure: rimming someone infected or sucking the dick of someone who's just fucked an infected person. If untreated: liver infection possible. Prevention: easily prevented by sending away for one of our safety packs. See our advertisement on page 23 for details. Cure: Horrible medications from your G.P. 'Bug of the Month' is ripped off from Play Fair, written by Sister Dana van Iquity and published by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. in San Francisco. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DANCE CHART =========== 1 Silvio Ecomo Standing (Halo & Hipp-e Remix) Hooj 2 Halo Varga presents My Sound Disko Tone Siesta 3 DJ Taucher Science Fiction (DJ Jaimy & Kenny D Remix) Additive 4 DJ Gilbert Dulux/Nice 'n' Fat/Twice as Fast Tri Lamb 5 H-Foundation X-tra large Moody 6 DJ Rasoul True Science Leaf 7 Underground Sound of Lisbon The Lights (RuiDaSilva Mix) Kismet 8 Eddie Lock vs The Priest Calling My Name (Dave Valentine & Phil Kelsey Mix) Plastic Surgery 9 Green Velvet Flash (Danny Tenaglia's Nitrous Oxide Mix) F-111 10 Spoiled & Zigo More & More (Pants & Corset Homelands Mix) Manifesto 11 Inertia Vellum (Hamel's Quadrant Dub) Future Groove 12 Kundalini Rising Kayomani (Cyberkid Remix) Whoop! 13 Marco Bailey Sacrifice & Dedication: Karma/Snare Attacks Primate 14 Peace Division BE U 4 T (Peace Dub) Low Pressings 15 Bedrock Voices Bedrock/Pioneer 16 Sonic Tribe Rotation Journey 17 Winx Don't Laugh (Timo Maas Y2K Rework) Edel 18 Niskala The Journey (Mission II) Plastik 19 Shaggy Dance & Shout (Klub Kings Progressive Mix) MCA 20 Fred Numf vs Five Point 0 Globalisation (Original/Fade's Knowtechknow Remix) Pro ------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOTSDYKE GOES SOUTH ==================== Well howdy folks I'm back in sunny Edinburgh after my wee trip down to Blackpool and what a weekend I had! We decided to go by coach just for a change. To be honest when I lived in Portsmouth I used to travel back and forth by coach and it wasn't always the most comfy of journeys. This time I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't the long boiling hot journey I was used to, the coach itself was very airy and the seating comfortable. We left by Citylink at 8.25am and even with a 50min break we were in Blackpool by 1.30pm and with no car there was plenty of time to hit the pubs and clubs. But first we checked into our hotel which was the Thorncliffe, 5mins walk from most of the gay pubs and clubs. The owners Michael and Jeff were very welcoming and took time to tell us about all the new happenings on the scene and after a wee cup of tea we decided to go exploring. The scene seems to have exploded in Blackpool with loads of new pubs and clubs. The first we visited was the Mardi Gras and what a laugh we had! This place is the tops-it has all the cheesy, charty music under the sun and a stage on which we were entertained by the wonderfully funny Stella Artois (and half the dance floor) as they performed an excellent rendition of Gang Bang complete with motions. On our next night we were treated to a wonderful meal in Viva La Diva and may I just say thank you to Frank for his lovely hospitality, not to forget our waiter Lee (see I told you, you would be famous). I really mean this-if you are thinking of going down, don't bypass this place they do a great Sunday lunch up until 6pm and it's great value. After we had filled up, we went off to the newest bar owned by Basil from none other than the Strand. It's called Fayes and it sits on 9 levels. It's fabulously furnished complete with 2 altars, one being used as a DJ booth when we were there. Next we were off to Funny Girls and what can I say about that, that hasn't been said before? Let's just say a great night was had. Our next jaunt was to the Flying Handbag which hasn't really changed since I was last down except they have now joined it up with Flamingo's via a removable stage of all things. It's still very popular, although there's plenty of room and it doesn't take too long to get served. After a night in Flamingo's, it was off to bed to catch the coach in the morning, a great time being had by all. Can I just say a final thank you to Michael, Jeff, George the pooch, all at the Mardi Gras, Davie for just being Davie and everyone who made my weekend so fabby. Love to all Heather xxx heather@drink.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOTTISH MEDIA MONITOR WAR^H^H^HVICTORY EDITION =============================================== Garry Otton Sentences his Prisoners of War! WE WON! Now Daily Record editor, Martin Clarke should watch his arse! ABC circulation figures show in the six months to April, circulation figures for the Daily Record have plummeted by almost eight per cent compared with the same period last year! And there seems no end to the slide! Redundancies have been suggested. (Err... See me in my office Clarke, Alba, Aitken, Old Mother Burnie, 'Brigadier' Brown, King, Shields (if you can make it...)! Face it: The now Religious Record - that once described Section 28 as "a backward and repressive measure..." that brought "very nasty prejudices creeping out of the woodwork" - has had it under Martin Clarke. His position is surely, now untenable. Statistics prove gays have unparalleled abilities to set trends. Go for it! GET YOUR GRAN TO BUY ANOTHER PAPER! Described as "criminally insane" in a letter printed in Scotland on Sunday, Gerald Warner's obsession with homosexuality has plumbed new depths. "Greetings, fellow homophobes and bigots - all 1,094,440 of you!" He chortled in SoS over the results of Sophie's mail shot. He wanted his readers to know that the Scottish Parly's "fag hags" were handing children "over to the missionary zeal of the homosexual lobby. A rebarbative subculture which, until recently, carried out its cloacal practices in subterranean public lavatories... That is a potential death sentence. During an Aids pandemic, any extension of homosexual influence is deadly. Spotty teenagers, unsure of themselves in the company of girls, will readily find a sympathetic mentor to offer them tea, sympathy and a reappraisal of their sexual orientation. Homosexual recruiting sergeants have the persistence of Mormons. Once insecure youths have been inveigled, the next Big Lie is the myth of 'safe sex'. For legal reasons, this term has lately been modified to 'safer sex' - the condom culture. 'Geraldine...?' Shut the fuck up! Before you say something you regret. Too late...! "Prophylactics (condoms) were designed to act as barriers to human sperm (gism) which, in relation to the HIV virus, resembles the Loch Ness Monster in size. The virus measures 1-10,000th part of a millimetre, while the inherent flaws in latex rubber are more than 50 times larger. It is like driving a golf-ball into a football net. You will not find homosexual activists advertising this fact to confused youngsters: 'Come on in, the water's lovely!' is the message." Stop there! Lest any readers are left in the slightest doubt about safer sex: The best scientific evidence tells us that condoms prevent the spread of HIV. 'Geraldine' deserves his pubes tarred for spreading such lies. 'Geraldine' can't handle women very well, particularly if they're called Wendy Alexander. He nearly put himself through the shredder at Scotland on Sunday, calling her an "infantile minister... uncontrollable... politically correct... the Walter Mitty minister..." with a "finger-wagging distaste for the public which clings to such outdated totems as marriage, heterosexuality or the democratic claims of majority opinion..." He demanded she "should be sent up the wooden hill without supper before this spoiled brat throws another tantrum or breaks something fragile - such as Labour's grip on power in Scotland... Virtual reality is her preferred domicile..." And added she should be "put beyond use." Nurse! The screens! 'Geraldine' even turned on his fellow Keep the Clausers at one point for defending themselves against charges of homophobia. They apparently infuriate the public "by spending four and a half minutes explaining that they are not 'homophobes' and about 30 seconds expounding their case." He called this "hypocritical" since "the majority of people are indeed so-called homophobes - with good reason." He defined homophobia as a "healthy and natural fear - of the corruption of children and of an aggressive minority representing 2.8% of the population gaining a disproportionate influence in government..." I found one other person's homophobia loudly proclaimed in the press a few days later. I hope David Copeland will go down for a very long time. Nexxxxt! Mother-from-Hell, Katie Grant believes: "People are now suspicious. They have now realised that behind Wendy Alexander's small frame was hidden a truck load of explosives... Let us not be complacent. That truck load of 'anything goes' explosives may be too damp to go off at present but it still remains parked just outside the school gates waiting for another opportunity." Or should it be the Scottish Mail's Katie Grant lurking around the school gates we should be more worried about? The Sunday Herald reported the next day: "Precious Life, the militant anti-abortion group, will start distributing 50,000 leaflets, graphically describing terminations, to children at school gates..." Wee free radio Isles FM was at it again. After sacking DJs for offending a minority of superstitionists on the Western Isles and playing Bloodhound Gang's The Bad Touch, "(Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel... Put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel nuts...)" Deejay Gordon Afrin was sacked for smuggling out a box of 250 condoms to give away as prizes! Carol Massey was also sacked with Afrin for reading out information about the sacking on the news. DJ Jim Black resigned in support after playing out the song on the radio. A station insider told the Sunday Mail: "This is Lewis for goodness sake... Goodness knows what he was thinking about..." But added: "We're not prudes..." No? So why do you do it like they do on the Daily Record? The Scottish Sun was up at the corporals' mess at Edinburgh castle after some hot, "sordid" man-on-man sex! "A military policeman had a sex act performed on him by a gay pal at a boozy bash..." (The prudish Sun can't call it a 'blow-job'). Army chiefs launched a "probe" and there was a sharp intake of breath as the Scottish Sun took the news right up their jacksee: "It's believed the man who performed the sex act is training to be a MINISTER." An Army insider spluttered: "This is the craziest thing I have ever heard anyone doing in the Army..." (Get out more). "He just stood there and let this man perform a sex act in front of everyone. It's the talk of the place... There had been a lot to drink but this pair's behaviour just went way over the top. No one could believe what they were seeing. His colleagues grappled the guy from the floor and turfed him out." Why...? Anyone hurt? After his moment of harmless pleasure, witnessed - as the Scottish Sun describes it, by "a dozen disgusted guests" - Ministry of Defence investigators had to take over because it involved a civilian and Corporal Steven Daniels was suspended. The sad "insider" told the prudish tabloid: "Most of the men didn't agree with it but put up with them. Then he rubs their noses in it and shames the army before he leaves." What a disgrace this gossip is to our Armed Forces! For the result of Souter's mail shot, the short-sighted Scottish Sun designed its front page like an optician's chart, asking the Scottish Executive: - "A RE YOU BLIND DEAFAND BONKERSTOO?" Its editorial begged: "Never in the field of human decency have so many been so badly served by so few." Wat? D'you think we're all religious nuts like yeez? Do 'Pot' and 'kettle' spring to mind, pal? The editorial gasped: "We told THEM they were off their rockers. Again and again and again and again." But, "they put us - by which we mean the Brian Souter campaign, The Scottish Sun, the vast majority of the people AND our children - through the inconvenience of a private referendum... And if the figure of 87 per cent isn't conclusive, then the moon's made of cheese. Honestly, the sheer arrogance of the Scottish Executive beggars belief. And so we had 11 men and women good and true sticking two fingers at us AGAIN, as if nothing had happened." And that is just how the Daily Record saw it. With wee Wendy's two fingers stuck up at everybody on their front page, they spat: "As Corporal Jones in Dad's Army would have been quick to say: They don't like it up 'em. Well, they've had it up 'em - one million, ninety four thousand, four hundred and forty times. We, the simple voters, may not be as smart as them. We may not be as cool as they like to think they are. But we don't want our kids taught gay lessons in schools. And we told 'em." Yes, the old fart, trapped in a 70s sitcom, told them, he did! The Scottish Sun, once again alienating its young readers blasted: "For each Cabinet member who STILL wants to repeal Clause 28 one hundred thousand Scots voters say: To hell with you." The Scottish Sun claimed Souter had revealed to them he had been "subjected to a barrage of attacks and threats from extremists". A "live BULLET" (their emphasis) had been sent with a ballot paper and "campaigners even tried to block me and my family as we made out way to church." Well, if you can't stand the heat, Sophie... As the clock ticked away toward the end of rotten Section 28, the Daily Record squeaked: "It's still not too late". The Scotsman claimed to have a mole in that dog of war, Jack Irvine's Media House in Glasgow's Robertson Street. He told Simon Pia's Diary that they had the "wizard wheeze" of mooning at MSPs on the Mound. "First in line to volunteer were Tom Cassidy and David McAulay, until Jack Irvine told them not to be so bloody stupid. Could they not see this would be construed as promoting homosexuality?" What a bunch of arseholes! Apparently, Irvine was last seen begging for any other sad cunt with enough bakery products to blow on a single-issue campaign. The Record's Old Mother (Joan) Burnie's advice to a woman dealing with sexual advances from her lesbian boss advised: "It's bad enough when women have to beat off men, but their own sex coming on to them is, if anything, even worse." (No wonder us men are kept so busy if women are so bad at 'beating' straight men off)! On a woman who's "hubby's addicted to porn," the old bint snapped: "Tell him what you've found and what you think about his disgusting 'hobby'... Does he really want his porn instead of a loving partner?" Can we all open our Him sheets at page 12... Wee Wendy got another roasting from Old Mother Burnie when she bitched: "I'm surprised Father's Day is still allowed. I should have thought Wendy Alexander and her Parliamentary pals would have banned it by now. After all, we can't have kids without fathers being made to feel that children with a daddy are better, can we?" Old Mother Burnie had a woman write to her for advice on her son who had "suddenly decided he's gay". Was it necessary to carry a photograph of a young man in a pinny pouring a cup of tea with the caption: "I hope they can accept me the way I am." The Daily Record really is the most despicable homophobic tabloid I have ever had the misfortune to read, and I've been through a few! (...Papers I mean)! garryotton@bigfoot.com http://www.bigfoot.com/~scotmedia (c) Garry Otton 2000 CUT IT OUT! * Anonymous letter to a sympathetic Scottish Mail over a "tiny minority of self-pitying and self-obsessed teenagers who, annoyingly, label themselves 'gay' in our schools." * Secondary school teacher, Avril Henderson explains to the Scottish Mail how we intend to infiltrate the classroom: "The promotion would stretch right across the curriculum. Instead of as now, for example, a modern languages textbook graphic showing a heterosexual couple into a French hotel, it would soon be a homosexual couple. Or, instead of a heterosexual family shown in a kitchen design graphic, it would be a homosexual family. This would be the law and you had better believe the aggressive homosexual lobby would increasingly push for these sorts of changes. The drip, drip effect would, in time, change what today seems perverse into something seen as normal. Scottish parents had better wake up quickly or in the near future their sons or daughters will be new recruits for the growing number of homosexual and lesbian organisations in the country." * Does the Daily Record's Tom 'Brigadier' Brown wear a faulty hearing aid? "It was only a matter of time before the Kirk's traditional tolerance became acceptance of homosexual love and gay marriages - and that is what finally happened yesterday." * Brian Souter in the Scottish Sun on the Liberal Democrats: "Someone should get them and give them a good verbal doing round the back of the bike sheds." * Place your bets on the paper you would trust most? First, The Scotsman's quote from John Curtice, professor of politics: "Brain Souter got his headline... But in truth he got little else for his money..." Or the Scottish Mail's version: "Mr Souter has got the headline he wants, that a million Scots are in favour of retaining Section 28."? With the Mail already forced to print two apologies in recent weeks, plus an out-of-court settlement to Paula Yates over inaccuracies, put it this way... William Hill won't take any bets. * Cardinal Winning in the Daily Record: "It's up to society to show that they do not accept the libertarian agenda the Parliament are proposing". But they have! They kicked the Tories out and burnt the pews to make a new bingo hall! What a vote winner for the Lib Dems! Pity no one can use a vote to kick Winning out on his arse. * Johnny No-Star, Hamish Macdonell, the Scottish Mail's lick-arse reporter:"...Liberalism appears to be running riot." Where? Show me! According to the Mail, even Thought For the fucking Day "has become infected with... propagandist attitude." * On School Boards' Ann Hill in The Scotsman: "In the middle of a thought the steady tones crack, the voice tails off and tears well up..." The woman who stood proudly in front of a huge blood-red banner spelt: KEEP THE CLAUSE snivelled: "There's not been a day in the last six weeks that I haven't cried". * A bemused 'Geraldine' Warner used mocking tones to ask in Scotland on Sunday: "Marriage? Ye gods! Isn't that something that chaps do in public conveniences and then have to resign from their clubs?" The best anthropological evidence we have is that men get married and then go 'cottaging'! And cooing over the Blair's baby: "Oh, frabjous day! We shall not experience such a spontaneous national outburst of joy again in our lifetimes, unless Peter Tatchell falls into a combine harvester." (Or, maybe you're caught with your pants down on Calton Hill)! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRANNY SPICE ============ Well Bonjour a Tous! I know in my absence you've all been glowering at the Homophobic Record slavering over Soapy's referendum. What was more astonishing was a former Catholic PR officer on Radio Scotland telling us all what we know already, Winning Poofbasher is not leader of all Scotland's Catholics. Well we know that, he only leads the bigoted Lanarkshire Irish version, and forelock touching politicians, terrified of the drag queen swiping sideways with her crozier and burning handbag! Enuf! If you are not men enough to put up a fight like those who trashed Soapy's Bus-you'll get what is coming to you! I was appalled at the lack of money given to those attempting to combat the lies spouted out by the odious MediaHouse hacks! I've been in Paris getting shagged. By lovely Arab men who don't have Catholic scruples that encourage them to beat up gays after sex. Or, is that just a West Coast Catholic trait? We do of course not include those priests and seminarians who shag all and sundry and we all know who they are! We can console ourselves they are preaching to an aging and hopefully dying audience. I'm always amazed at these Christian freaks-all they talk about is heaven and going to the Lord. Why don't they all fuck off there now and spare us having to put up with their shite? Mass suicide of more Christians sects please-they're all nutters! A little birdie told me in Paris that we are going to have some interesting outings very soon - some of those homophobes might be getting the surprise of their lives. Not all gossip nor hearsay either. Apparently people are going to repeat that they have gone down on, and in some cases had it up from persons in the homophobia department. Tongues are wagging that a well-known Fleet Street publicist is client-hunting in Scotland! And certain English tabloids are dangling greenback carrots. What price having been a naughty closet queen now? I daresay the greenbacks will entice even the most reticent out of the woodwork! Some say that they have kissed more than the bishop's ring! A faerie from Rome informed me in Paris a new dish has been created for Rome 2000 Gaypride-Spaghetti Ipocrita Scozzese-apparently created to favour a certain Tuscan variety of Scottish biretta closetta. Paris was as ever so Gay! Romping in the bois in full drag; relieving Frenchmen of all their EURO worries! Candlelight suppers with fabbie "Don't give a damn!" right on Queens - God, it was like another world! I hear Gordon's off to ZÅrich to report on Edelweis Faeries.. Where or where is he going to find Chinese Queens halfway up a Swiss toblerone? Still he should be able to whet your appetite for some slapping, yodelling and strapping youths in "heizenhosen!" (or, hot pants to you too!). Thomas the Tank has taken to sending E-mails from Strathclyde Park (how is this done she says looking at her quill? Yes quill not Quim says our benign editor!) According to Tank yes TANK - (I've seen him fill a very large champagne glass - crystal of course-and not just with liquid!)-the Lanarkshire outdoor set are out this year in shorts and little else in the highways and byways of Winning's Parish. Well well, why don't you all drop in some Sunday morning and give the geriatric crozier swiper something to really get on his knees for! Many ex-Blairentian clerics have been serviced in Lanarkshire, and elsewhere-Why shouldn't it, to use a Navy turn of phrase, not be time to "Bash the Bishop!" Glasgow has been very quiet. Although I'm told of people being threatened verbally on the street- So keep in groups when you leave bars late at night. Barbara (Lady Hamilton), is looking for a new pad so if anyone wants to buy a But-and-Ben on the racecourse- call her! Tweedledum & Tweedledee are back from the Big Pond and have been regaling me with mouth-watering details - but I'll save that. Off you go to Rome and Gaypride 2000. Hopefully a queen will take her camera into those Pissoires off St. Peter's Square, you know where those clerics hang about boldly in their soutanes, wanking at German boys' legs while gazing heavenwards and pretending to pee! Meantime, when Gordon gets back down the mountain with the tablets (and his arsehole intact!) one shall talk again. Love and Safe Summer Fucks Beti beti@drink.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WIN A TRIP TO ZURICH ==================== Zurich known as the 'little big city' offers all the cultural and leisure amenities expected of a large city while being gloriously situated by the lakeside with a stunning historical old town. Zurich is also host to the 'Street Parade' attracting all who love a good party. For one weekend a year you can just be yourself by joining in the Street Parade. Why wait? Free Trip! The prize is for 2 adults and includes 2 return flights, 2 overnights in Zurich and 2 first class complimentary Swiss Passes allowing free travel on all public transport. Just send a postcard to ScotsGay, before August 1st, and the sender of the first one drawn from the editor's ample hat will spend August 11th-13th in Zurich. Reader offer Find out more about Switzerland and for bookings to Zurich and the 'Street Parade' by calling the Switzerland Travel Centre on 00800 100 200 30 or E-mail: stc@stlondon.com. Packages start from as little as UKP199. Visit our website on http://www.myswitzerland.com/ for more on Switzerland. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LETTERS ======= Loyalty from gay friends? Pick up almost any newspaper these days, and among the items and headlines of the day one can read almost anything relating to gay issues. Recent events have been about Section 28 and the differing opinions far and wide on that matter; adoptions by same sex couples (and the uproar this can case by a so-called "normal" society). AIDS awareness campaigns and the many charities involved who are desperate to raise funds and the sincere work and time given by experts, agencies and the voluntary sector. All matters relating to gay issues are hugely important, especially in this climate of homophobia, bullying and violence etc., and to those people in the community who go out of their way to help others, I salute them. My experiences with gay friends however, are rather negative. Loyalty from that source has been very poor and the methods to which some people have gone to satisfy their own needs, despite my own, have been, as I see it: hurtful, damaging, and a considerable time wasted being used by these so-called friends who only ever saw me as some sort of rung on the ladder until their next "soft touch" or victim was in sight to them. When one is lonely and vulnerable (as I was), one can easily be spotted as a soft touch/mug and it is to this end I have had a great many personal sorrowing times which leave a very bad taste in the mouth. After all, when you surround yourself with people of your own sexual identity, mainly because you are lonely, or to give them a space to lay their heads (usually because of disapproving parents) and where they can have unlimited sex with their partner (of the day) with no thought of disturbance, then loneliness really is a much better option! Being used is not an instinctive thing for me, or at least it was not some five years back, but it has taught me a valuable lesson in life: respect yourself and others in the same way as you hope to be treated. Gay means : merry, lively, bright as well as meaning homosexual, but surely there should be more meaning to the word than that. It should also mean: to be sincere, loyal, trustworthy (on the homosexual meaning side) - not to use your friends when you want something, then dump them purely because you cannot have what you want at that precise time. At one point in my life, I was surrounded by gay people (mostly men), my house had an open door policy, and I tried to be everyone's "Agony Aunt". People stayed over practically every night of the week, used all the facilities when when it was not convenient for me to have someone stay - they baled! How true is that sort of friendship? The reader of this letter may form the opinion that I am quite bitter at the way in which I have been treated over the years, damn right I am, but at least I know that I do have friends who care for me as a person, as I for them. It has been a ling uphill battle to come to terms with bitterness and unhappiness from broken friendships, but I respect myself now and know the differences between acquaintances and friendship! I would like to take this opportunity to thank in my letter, Mr. Jim Liddle (known to many, many of us in Edinburgh), who has stood by me as a true friend, who has offered and given support on many occasions of my life - especially the last five years when I was very ill and in hospital. I owe a debt of gratitude to this man and could never repay him for all that he has done for me. Jim is the epitome of a true friend. he is a caring, gentle, sincere, Christian and I for one am very proud to know and love him. Thank you for your magazine and all the articles you print. Kenny Martin Rainbow Tartan I have now become aware of correspondence published by yourselves and emanating from Erica Muirhead. This is not the appropriate place to get into a detailed discussion of what has passed between Miss Muirhead and myself since litigation may well be necessary. I undertook the design work of this new tartan at my own expense and with no payment from Miss Muirhead. The risk was borne by me and she had no input into the design or production work whether by way of intellectual property or financially. She is an existing customer of ours and we regret the breakdown in communication but I utterly reject any suggestion of wrongdoing. I would also add that our current plans are that a percentage of profits from the sale of this innovative product line would be returned to the community by payment to a suitable charity, for example Gay Pride. I am writing separately to Miss Muirhead and given the above would hope that you will not give further house room to defamatory allegations of this kind. Ronnie Hek ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GLASGOW/GLASCHU =============== Arse bandit with Attitude I've been asked by one of my fans not to start this column with my usual "Hiya Scumbagz!" introduction cos it "shows disrespect to my readers". All I can say to that is: stop moaning, you whining tossers. So, for those of you who love this column - enjoy. For Colin - fuck off and read some other mag full of fluff, trivia, poofy kitsch and a scene listing where all the clubs and everything else is invariably fab, fab, fab!! You lot wouldn't believe the amount of trade I've had this month - been shagging absolutely non-stop, and none of it from the bars! Shame that so many of you lazy indifferent wankers couldn't be arsed to come through to Edinburgh for the march to celebrate the repeal of Section2A/28. There were about 5,000 of us there, and the march proceeded through the city, ending up in Parliament Square where we heard various speeches and messages of support read out by Tim Hopkins. There was a wonderful party atmosphere, and after it was all over, everyone else trooped off to the pub (Yes, it was nice to see the Bow Bar full of pooves and dykes drinking real ale. - Ed), and Goldilocks eventually finished his soft drink and headed off to a certain backroom for an afternoon's celebratory shagging! Thanks to all those who made the repeal possible including the East and West Coast campaign groups, Equality Network, all those who took the time to lobby their MSPs and write letters to the press, and also Stonewall who have been accused of hijacking the event and stealing the glory from the Scottish groups. Let's get one thing straight here - Stonewall paid for the bus on the Mayday march, sent their people up from London to help the campaign, and contributed considerable funds to the campaign. And finally, didn't you just love the Daily Record's editorial the day after the bill went through? Talk about being a bad loser-they waffled on about how we just had to gloat and talk of having "won". Yes, it was a battle, it was a fight where there would be a winner and a loser, and somebody would want to gloat at the result. We won, you lost, and after all the time and effort that was put into this campaign to fight Souter, we managed to beat you! And if you think I'm gloating, you'd better fucking well believe it! I had an e-mail in recently from Francine Fishpaw having a good old moan at the withdrawal of finance for The Rainbow Fund. I thought Fishpaw was well pished when she wrote it, but it turned out Fishy was just so pissed off at the whole situation the keyboard took the brunt of her venom! Quite justifiable too - bloody awful situation that one superstitious nutter can manage to get funding stopped to various HIV care and other groups in the city. Anyway, Fishy also wants me to tell you that the Sunday bingo session down at the Waterloo has now resumed. The same mix of abuse, fun and really tacky jokes that was always so popular. No doubt she's been rummaging around in the bargain bins at Missing Records again, looking for some really shite CDs to give away as booby prizes! The fun starts at 3pm, which gives you plenty of time to prise yourself out of bed, get a quick shag up in Kelvingrove then head down to the Waterloo before the bingo starts. I went along to check out the weekend party in Centurion yesterday, which was just being plain greedy after spending the previous day in The Townhouse. The new Call and Cruze system is now complete, and for those of you who've been wondering what it's all about - it's a sort of "shag-tag" without clothes. All the towels have a large number on them, and if you see something you fancy, you call them on one of the phones recently installed throughout the club and ask to speak to them. What happens after that depends on them. I got towel number 13 - don't know if this was intentional and Scott was trying to spoil my fun. If so, it didn't work! The redecoration is almost complete, but the club still has some other plans, including fitting an air purifier in the TV lounge to get rid of the fag smoke. Don't know why they don't just save money, and make the addicts stand downstairs with the Somerfield staff having a smoke. Don't you lot read the press? Smokers have smaller dicks, can't get a stiffy and are generally crap in bed. Give it up: now! I think the idea of the party was to get as many people in as possible to see the improvements, and the reduced entry price certainly attracted some nice talent. Usually a sauna's clientele is about 95% fat ugly bastards making futile attempts to chase a handful of good looking guys, so the 3 pound entry evened things up a bit. That will probably get the red-pencil, but I absolutely fail to see why these people think they have the slightest chance of pulling some drop-dead shaggable guy. (It has obviously never occured to you that there are lots of people about who find skinny obnoxious types like yourself totally unappealing. - Ed). Thomas who is currently running the Hype night up in Media is talking about getting regular PAs and strippers on Monday nights. The last stripper went down well, with over 100 in the club, so hopefully this will become a regular event. Thomas is also looking into the possibility of arranging a bus to go around all the pubs to take punters up to Media, then drop them off later in the city centre. I don't know why the LGBT scene are so fucking lazy that they won't make the effort to walk up to the club - let's face it, a lot of you could do with the exercise. I've also been asked by Hype DJ Stu to tell you that he now wants to be known as "Spin Doctor Stu". It really has to be said that although Hype doesn't attract the numbers that other club nights do, the ones there always seem to be enjoying themselves, which makes a change in these "I'm out to pose, not to get pished, have a laugh and get a shag" days. So, time to move on to the Pub and Club Awards. Best Pub was Austins at 34%, with The Waterloo in second place at 29%. Best Club Night went to Trade with 63% and best Club was Bennets on 74%. Best service as usual went to The Waterloo with 36% and Dels predictably got Biggest Dump award again with 40%. The GGLC have a few fundraisers and other events coming up shortly. Centaur have now started a reading group on Sunday evenings at 7.30pm. First meeting is still to be held at the time of writing - see Michael for details. The AGM is coming up on Sunday 9 July. Expect some fireworks, as there are various complaints going around: volunteers getting above their station, committee members on ego trips, the return to empire building, ageism, sexism and the recurring complaint of dirty old men pestering the younger customers. On 22nd of July, the third ABBA party goes ahead from 8pm onwards. Tickets are UKP2.50/UKP3.50, and are already on sale. Hard to believe they still have such a following 25 years on. I don't expect that talentless wankers such as Steps will be able to claim the same. The following day, the annual Treasure Hunt will be taking place. Full details have still to be announced, but this was extremely popular last year, and no doubt will be the same this time around. I'll take along a spare crash helmet if anyone wants to spend the afternoon sitting on the big throbbing thing between Goldilocks legs. And unlike my editor, who is threatening to ruin my image by publishing a photo of me riding his C90, I do have a big throbbing thing, unlike his throbbing thing (or his bike for that matter) oops, red pencil job there I think! Coming up very shortly is the joint Lesbian and Gay Switchboard/ GGLC Ceilidh on Friday 7th July. Price is UKP10 with UKP7.50 concessions which includes food and a raffle, free entry to Bennets afterwards, and tickets are available from the GGLC. Music for the night is from The Macappella Band and the fun goes on from 8pm 'til midnight down in The Trades Hall in Glassford Street. As usual, this is one of your rare chances to get a stiffy at the sight of Goldilocks all tarted up in highland dress, and looking dead smart. Over at Slave, Colin tells me that the stripper will now be a regular feature on the first Tuesday of every month, and has asked me to give a plug for the 4th of July Independence Day Party. OK, I'll try to keep a straight face here, and not mention how these things were so trendy back in the 80's, and should have remained there. Anyway, stripper for the night will be Adam, there will be drinks promos and entry is free for those wearing anything with stars and stripes on it. Slave will also be giving out goodie bags with toiletries, CDs, meal vouchers and T-Shirts, and I'd better also mention that Slave have reduced the prices of soft drinks for those of you who are driving, or just find that you shag better when you're sober. SNIPPETS AND WAFFLE t Austins now have Jason doing Karaoke on Sunday afternoons from 4-9pm. I don't know how long this will be for, as Jason may be going down to Blackpool for the summer season, so catch him now. t Jaye has asked me to pass on thanks to all of you who go out can rattling to raise funds for the GGLC every month. These people are all volunteers, and are giving up good drinking and shagging time to raise money, so open up your purse next time you see them out and about. I've also, been asked to pass on thanks to all of you who who have made contributions to the Centre funds. t Jamie tells me that he might be able to help out if my Small Bald Ginger Editor ever runs out of crap photographs for Sad Corner. Jamie is the one who sits in Bennets reading his model railway magazines. (Sounds like an interesting person - you must introduce me. - Ed) t Section 2A is now history in Scotland, but if anyone still needs a good reason why Section 28 needs to be repealed in Scotland, log on to the Government website http://www.number-10.gov.uk/forum/ Forum.asp?F=77 and read some of the postings being made by the bigots. Watch out for Average UK Voter - the best reason for repeal ever. Sad, inadequate, bigoted and stupid. Check out his website and let him know what a tosser he is. That's yer lot for this month! As usual, complaints, moans, boyfriend applications and gossip should be sent to the address at the back of the mag or to the e-mail address below. All you on-line queens can read the full unedited, unsanitised and non-politically correct version of this column (Full of spelling mistakes, mispunctuation and grammatical errors. - Ed) by visiting me at Glasgow's busiest gay and lesbian website (and the ONLY one with some decent porn) - URL at the bottom of the page. Keep those smutty e-mails coming in. Luv, Goldilocks Website:- http://www.gay-glasgow.co.uk E-mail:- goldilocks@gay-glasgow.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EDINBURGH/DUNEIDEANN ==================== Welcome to Edinburgh girls and boys! The capital's scene is still building towards that fabulous JOY! birthday party on July 22nd. This is your Must Attend event for this month. See you there... Other gay one nighters are doing the business in bundles, not least Queer Sunday (at Picardy Place, just opposite all-week venue CC Blooms). For the uninitiated, QS club is commercial. If QS was on TV it would be an ad break. And if you didn't catch the camp as fuck PA by 'popsters' Scooch, then you missed a tight promotion by four people who can dance. Then we reverted to Britney, Billie, Madonna and other tunes that Trendy Wendy at Tackno would refuse to play on grounds of taste. Still, the DJ scored ten out of ten for personality, and the bar staff were all very efficient and helpful. But was it worth seven or eight quid? The jury's still out on Queer Sunday. For the adults amongst us, a much better bet is the new club night UP! (upstairs at Studio 24). David, architect of the once a month gig, has used his space to maximum effect to create a happy friendly atmosphere. The music is Progressive House and the clientele is twenties/thirties sexy. Unlike other one nighters UP! has been busy from the outset. And unlike QS, it's on a Friday when people actually want to go clubbing. And only a fiver to get in! The photies we took were sadly lost, due to crap camera, but watch this space for pix next time, as long as they can keep it, er, UP! Sorry. Must say hello to the Blue Moon's Ed who I bitched about in the last issue. Scotland's oldest LGBT cafe is missing him just now, but he'll be back in time for the Edinburgh Festival so go and say hi in August. Mind you, many fab servers of good food remain at the Blue Moon Cafe, including, officially the happiest waiter in Scotland, Paul. Paul says that he's got lots of friends but he'd like some more. I couldn't see why he'd find it a problem. You'll be as pleased to see him, as he is of you. NEXUS, the cafe down the road is just as welcoming. And they've had a top refit to boot. Many on the scene unbelievably haven't sampled its delights as yet. We say you should check it out. It's located of course, in the LGB Centre (on Broughton Street), along with top queer shop, ATOMIX. It is also the best place to find information in Edinburgh, due to the record breaking size of its notice boards... So how did you vote in this month's poll? Best Pub: Planet Out Best Club: JOY! Best Cafe: NEXUS A strong vote for NEXUS since the refurb. The Blue Moon came a very close second. JOY! and Planet Out reign supreme in their respective categories as usual. Vote, and send your comments to the E-mail address below. Next month's report comes to you courtesy of myself and Ali. See y'all soon. Martin. mgwuk@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------- DUNDEE/DUN DEAGH ================ Everyone likes a bit of 'O' now and again, well so I'm told! But it was a big surprise to see it all going on, live on stage at Liberty! Hmm has Liberty owner/director philanthropist and friend to all paying customers everywhere Brian..finally gone too far? Is the next meeting of the Dundee Council licensing Board going to be a colourful one? Hello...It's Liberty remember so anything's possible! Aha but as with many things in life..like that fabled Brian Smile! It may well happen some time, but not today! The Big 'O' to which I refer, is none other than the superb JackieO of 'Queer as Folk' fame. She made a flying visit to Dundee's 'mainly gay and lesbian' nightclub and brought the house down with a medley of her hits. Oh but it ends not there, for just one week earlier the 'legend' that is 'Miss Sissey Striker' donned her wig and took to the floor in her own unique style. She wrapped Dundee round her little finger and took a big bite, so I'm told. When asked to comment on that unique 'Dundee flavour', and upon regaining her composure after a fit of gagging, was reportedly heard to say 'Dundee reminds me of one of those towns in the bible!' From which bit of the bible someone inquired (Our own 'Father Ian') to which she concluded 'aha....the bit right before god gets angry!!!!' Hee hee some may recognise this isn't an original. First person to tell me which film I've stolen it from wins a mystery star prize! Last month's chart competition went unclaimed so in true Dundee style we spent the UKP100 pounds on a new wardrobe for Gavin! Well those studded rubber suits aren't cheap you know and it was his birthday! Yeah Gavin held a wee get together at Bar XS and treated us all like royalty... well he did say he was inviting a bunch of queens! Thanks again Gav it was a fab night and one to remember... especially that trick you did with the cucumber and the frozen chicken! Phew it's gotta hurt-I don't care what you say about those 'special exercises'. Oh speaking of 'special exercises' it was rumoured that some people from Dundee sneaked out of the town in the early hours of the morning heading for Birmingham! Yes like moths to a flame the bright lights of the Mr Gay UK spectacular (or as one of the Liberty regulars, in a thick Irish accent once commented 'Mr Homosexual UK') beckoned these weak few, together with their disposable income! Barry did us all proud and received rapturous applause with his 'little kilt' routine. Major Congrats to the 'Scottish' winner, it's nice to see the title come north of the border for the First time ever. Summer is once again upon us...well I think it is anyway, and with it comes something nice! Yes Charlies Bar is getting the once over! It's being planned to give the bar a bit of a summer spruce up and it's certain to improve the ambience etc. One suggestion was to give Charlie a make over too! And it is believed those daytime TV gods; 'Richard and Judy' are in talks with a local construction company at the moment with regard to this! Seriously it's always nice to have a drink in somewhere with pleasant clean surroundings and if the 'spruce up' achieves this I'm sure everyone will be happy. Any luvvies in the house? It has reached my delicate ears that the 'must see' flag has been raised and is pointing towards the Dundee Rep Theatre. The Rep's production of 'Cabaret' is on just now and according to everyone I've chatted to it's a great show. So if you like that sort of thing, why not pop along, it's reasonably cheap you know! Last Line goes to 'Our Willie', he's off to London this month with his new job. He's Landed a Fab job so, although he'll be missed we're all pleased for him. So it's big 'Bon Voyage' To Our Willie! Perry XXX perryj@drink.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ABERDEEN/OBARDHEADHAIN ====================== Where did that month go? Here was me thinking that I would have another week before having to worry about writing words, but no such luck! I have said quite often that nothing really newsworthy happens in Aberdeen, but this month I luckily have something a bit more interesting to write about. Club 2000 will soon be no more. Don't panic though, your local favourite gay club is not closing. It would seem that a new owner has been found, in the form of Brian from the popular Dundee hotspot, Liberty. As with every new broom, there is the urge to sweep clean, so we should be seeing some changes in the near future, including a change of name. At present there is a competition running to find a new name for the club, for which the prizes are: A VIP trip to the DJ booth, an hour with Scorgie (although if I was to win that one, there's no way an hour would be sufficient to do all the things I'd like to do!!), and finally, a bottle of vodka. It's quite a good idea, as it will perhaps make people feel that they do have a say in how the scene is run. One thing that still continues to annoy me is when people come up to me and moan about my monthly scribblings - "When are you going to write something decent about us?" is the common question I get asked, and it's the same one I got from one of the off-duty door staff in Club 2k, followed by a short lecture. Well, sorry, but I will write something decent when there is something decent to write about. I was told that I don't paint a very good picture of the scene, but what am I supposed to do - lie? I see no point in saying that everything in the garden is rosy when quite often it isn't. The other thing people don't realise is that the opinions in this column are not necessarily my own, but those passed on from people that I speak to when I'm out. When more people come up to me and say "The Club's shite these days" than those who say nice things about it, obviously I'm going to voice the views of the majority. In all fairness, when there is something good going on in any one of our venues, I do say so. As my deadline is fast approaching, I have to be concise this month, although since I write so much shite anyway :-), hopefully you won't be too bothered. By the way, if anyone fancies taking over the writing of this column for a month or two, please get in touch with the editor by the usual means. In the meantime, take it easy. Gus gus@drink.demon.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- SAD CORNER ========== Mark Palmer writes: "At the request of Roger, I have taken a photo of my cheerful garden chums, guaranteed to delight your readership. Apart from the gnomes, there is also a concrete fox-cub and a couple of bunnies. Sadly, a number of them have passed away. The flashing gnome (not very WE) committed suicide by jumping off a ledge, The fishing one lost an argument with a lawnmower (he had only ever caught a boot, fortunately) and the saxophonist got knocked over and smashed by a cat." -------------------------------------------------------------------- MORAY/MOIREIBH ============== Ah, the hot, sunny days...the tanned bodies all around...talent coming out of the woodwork. It's these few weeks of summer that keep us all going during the miserable months that the rest of the year is made up of! Moray has basked in some glorious weather over the past few weeks, as has most of the UK right enough, and doesn't it make everyone suddenly much better looking?! So what's the news, then? Well the Moray Firth Social Group finally held their Annual General Meeting at the Park House Hotel a few Wednesdays ago. As was widely expected all but one of the original committee members stood down to allow a fresh committee to form and build on the foundations that they had made. As the departing Secretary said, being on the committee is hard. It involves a lot of dedication and a lot of work. Voting for the replacement members took place on the same evening so within an hour or so a new social group committee was formed and raring to go. The new Secretary thanked his predecessor and his colleagues for all the work they had done and made a short speech to the gathered faithful about some of the groups' possible future plans. They're a lively and eager bunch who are determined to make great strides to move the Moray group forward. These will surely be interesting times ahead! The same night saw Andrew the Plumm's farewell to the Moray crowd. As I mentioned last time he's away to Edinburgh to try his hand at something new. (!) I bumped into him when I was down there the other week...might have known he'd be in CC's! Moray folk get everywhere coz I also bumped into someone from Forres. Actually I tell you how small this world is...I went to the Millennium Dome at the weekend (you know, like you do) and I was talking to one of the performers. I said I was from Scotland and she said 'You're not from Fochabers are you because I was speaking to someone a few minutes ago from there!' I mean, Hello?! Out of thousands of people in the place! Spooky. I must say there is no nightlife like the London nightlife (he says writing in the Moray column!) Unfortunately we were there when England had actually won a football match and the City was heaving but the gay venues are fantastic. If you ever get the chance to go to G.A.Y. at the Astoria you've gotta go because nowhere I have ever been has an atmosphere like that place. It really is the best gay club in the world. Ever. And Kylie was performing...how cool is that? That woman is unbelievable...and that's from a gay bloke! Anyway, I digress! Big news! Just when you thought you had seen the last of the late, great Moray Gayzette a faint pulse is detected and life is restored. As with all reincarnations, though, it will be taking a slightly different form and you won't actually be able to touch it...but it might appear right in front of you. OK enough of the cryptic waffle! Yes, The Moray Gayzette is coming back to haunt us but this time it will be published only on the Web. In the next month or so you will be able to log-on and get all the local and not-so-local information for the gay and lesbian community in and around Moray. Not only will it have news it will have a full listing of contacts for help and advice for the whole country and many of the, err, infamous features of the original printed version. Well we couldn't just let it disappear forever, could we?! More information as we get it! Well didn't old Souter-boy waste a lot of money? Just think, all that cash could have actually gone into something positive like a charity or a hospital. Or even straight into the fire. Never mind, though, because good won over evil and the Scottish Parliament have really achieved something to be proud of! Well done, Donald! Right I think that's enough padding now... I'll leave you to it but next month hopefully there'll be an up-date from the new committee and possibly news of some events that will be taking place in the area, so be back here next issue! Take care and make the most of every minute! (Like, go to the Dome, or something it's actually pretty fab!!) Dr. Kenniff drkenniff@drink.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FILMS ===== Malcolm Epstein A schizophrenic hero is something I have never seen in movies before. In Some Voices, opening in August, Daniel Craig has been in a psychiatric hospital for years when he is collected by his brother, David Morrissey, who has offered to care for him. But David runs a cafe by day that becomes a fashionable restaurant by night. Daniel is left to his own devices and chooses to stop taking his medication. Without it, he starts hearing voices in his mind and develops paranoia. Most moviemakers won't touch the subject of schizophrenia knowing they would have to have an audience of schizophrenics plus their families to appreciate their problems. Here Daniel chooses to rip his clothes off in the street imagining he is invisible. TV viewers with a memory of "Our Friends In The North", will remember Daniel Craig as quite a stunner. His considerable appeal makes Some Voices, less distressing than it could be as he is extremely pleasing to look at. A different type of rare problem is explained in Gendernauts-a documentary set in San Francisco about sex changes by German director Monika Treut. There are many who have a morbid fascination in the subject of changes although they have no plans whatsoever to go in that direction themselves. Back to the big commercial market - Gone in 60 Seconds has Nicolas Cage as a former top car thief who finds his younger brother is soon to be murdered by a gang he owes much to if the debt be owes them is not paid very quickly indeed. Either he steals 50 cars of their choice in one night or his brother will head for the cemetery. Former car thieves he trained in the art come to his aid and if breathtaking car chases appeal this to the movie for you. The villain of the piece is British actor Christopher Eccleston whose northern accent is an amusing contrast to the all American cast. I love the way Hollywood producers have realised since "Silence of the Lambs" that if they really want to frighten their audiences, any kind of British accent with the right menace will do it Director Mike Figgis has tried something revolutionary with his latest film Timecode. Shot on digital video the screen is separated into four sections with each quarter having a different scene played in it. The sound rises or falls when he wants you to concentrate on the action in that quarter. The centrepoint is a Sunset Boulevard film production office with much discussion about a planned movie. A producer is taking full advantage of the fact that many girls who arrive in California will do absolutely anything to get into films. Into all this the British Julian Sands wanders as a masseur giving free samples to either sex to inspire them to book him later. I certainly don't like a film separated into four sections onscreen, but you just might like the novelty, Wedding Tackle is a British comedy set mostly in a pub and disco about the romantic dramas of a very desirable cast. James Purefoy is one of the most magnificent males in British show business right now and seeing his name in a cast list does put a spring in my step. If rough diamonds are your scene Leslie Grantham is on hand and the Irish Adrian Dunbar has his own very potent brand of sex appeal. The plot doesn't bear scrutiny, but the men definitely do. Donald Cammell is a film director who chose to commit suicide in 1996 after making a movie scripted by his wife called Wildside. Of the four feature films he made, the best known are "Performance" and "Demon Seed". In "Wildside" Anne Heche works in a bank, but is moonlighting on the side on the game to pay off debts that are never explained. A financial racketeer, Christopher Walken, is one of her clients who becomes furious when he learns his bodyguard, Steven Bauer, has made her have sex with him. To humiliate the bodyguard Mr. Walken insists on screwing him while Miss Heche watches. But just before the floorshow starts Christopher's estranged wife, Joan Chen, walks in who, as coincidence would have it, has been having an affair with Miss Heche. If this plotline appeals you are in for a very offbeat movie. Special effects movies rarely impress me, but one that does is Stuart Little (U) about a white mouse who is adopted by a married couple and their son. Voiced by Michael J Fox the mouse has a series of adventures with the family cat and it is all based on a forties book by E.B. White that has now been reissued. So has a book about the artists and the story behind the amazing movie. Clearly it is a film to be loved by children of any age for generations to come, Current Releases There could be those amongst us who remember the highly successful Noel Coward stage play in the fifties that has now been filmed, Relative Values (PG) bringing Julie Andrews back to the screen. As the Countess of Marshwood she is informed by her son, the earl, from the south of France that he has been romancing a Hollywood star, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and plans to bring her back to their stately home to marry. Julie's personal maid, Sophie Thompson, is highly embarrassed by the imminent arrival revealing Jeanne is her long lost sister who left home almost 20 years ago severing relations with her and their mother. Jeanne's former lover, Hollywood star William Baldwin, rushes to Britain to persuade her to forsake marriage into the British gentry. Some of the last class barriers still commonplace in the fifties amusingly show how much we have changed over the years. You need quite an imagination to think of Madonna, one of the world's wealthiest women, as a humble yoga teacher with man problems in The Next Best Thing (12). Like many women she realises a gay male best friend, Rupert Everett, is a far better idea than a female best friend as many women in the past have had no scruples about walking off with your husband or lover. The scriptwriter would have us believe that after an alcoholic night together sex takes place and Madonna has a son. They decide to bring him up together sharing the same house in separate bedrooms. "The Next Best Thing" is one of the most intriguing films of the year because offscreen Madonna and Rupert have been best friends for many years and she encouraged him to come out as gay. This gives audiences an added piquancy, as Rupert is not just playing a part. When the script loses impact, implying they fall out when she falls for another man, it is saved by a beautiful six year old boy whom anyone with maternal feelings will adore. Every Bette Midler film is likely to be a treat and Isn't She Great? (15) is no exception. It is the story of Jacqueline Susann, the best selling American author of "Valley Of The Dolls", who struggled as an unsuccessful actress for years before turning to writing. Many publishers rejected the sexual content of her book before one, John Cleese can you believe, realised her potential. Nationwide tours charming booksellers promoted her sales in a way books had never been promoted before. But deteriorating health with breast cancer marred the Susann success. Bette Midler, as always, explodes from the screen. There have been a spate of British gangster films in recent moons, but one with far more impact than the rest is 24 Hours In London (18) the first feature written and directed by Alexander Finbow. Set in 2009 Gary Olsen is a tough crime baron who dominates London. While carrying out a murder in a public place two of his staff let a female witness get away. She is prepared to testify in court and is given police protection in a hotel. But Mr. Olsen is determined she won't live that long. I was on the edge of my seat throughout. If there is not enough horror in your life you might like to consider Bats. The script tells us a virus has made them highly intelligent and insatiably carnivorous. The species in the film, Flying Foxes, can be as large as a small child and have a wingspan of six feet. They choose to terrorise a Texan town but Lou Diamond Phillips is there to cope. Take someone to see it if you want an excuse to cling to them or encourage them to cling to you. August sees the video release of a movie that could enthral anyone interested in the beginning of American male nudes being photographed in the forties and fifties called Beefcake. But in those days to send magazines through the post photographers and publishers had to use a water paint to cover the crotch that clients could wash off on receipt - otherwise the US postal authorities would charge them with sending obscene materials. Bob Mizer produced a great magazine called Physique Pictorial and through his agency, Athletic Model Guild, amateur photographers could book the impressive guys they saw in his magazines. Because of the sexual repression of the time the Californian police hounded him and the film recreates one of his court cases. Some of his great models of the past are interviewed 30 to 40 years later including Joe Dellesandro who became a fantasy for many in the Andy Warhol films. You won't see the extraordinary erections that are in the current volume 14 of Mike Arlen's Guys that shows British men are more than enough competition for anything America can produce. But "Beefcake" is an engrossing study of some incredible American males taken by a great photographer who was born too soon and suffered because of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS ===== Andy Martin Fresh And Frisky Edited by John Patrick Starbooks UKP11.99 Repetitive strain injury comes to mind when reading this bumper book of one handed stories. Surprisingly they are well written and I feel are of a much higher standard than the dross we sometimes get. I think this collection of stories are great. It is quite a thick book as well, being 576 pages long. Go on and treat yourself. Jagged Youth by Howard Roffman Pub Bruno Gmunder UKP22.99 Absolutely stunning Photographs. Howard Roffman is a name that I feel generations of people will learn about and study. He is a master in the art of photography, his images portray his outpouring of his love for beauty. Here's an invitation, dear Howard, if you happen to find yourself in Colne, Lancashire, sometime feel free to pop in for a cup of tea and biscuits and a chat. Homosexual Rites Of Passage A road to visibility and validation By Marie Mohler Pub Harrington Park UKP11.99 I must admit this made me shudder. All right, it may be helpful to read this and it explores a few good issues, but the writing is American and it just does not translate. There is a certain weirdness in the US culture that we thankfully have not been addicted to as yet and it may be a good book and very helpful if it was translated into English. I felt that this book preached instead of enlightened. Out And About Campus Personal accounts by gay, bisexual, and transgender college students By Kim Howard and Annie Stevens Pub Alyson UKP8.99 A wonderful collection of true life stories from twenty eight gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students describing how they not only survived college but also fought, endured and changed it. A real help and guide to other gay young people going off to college or university, these true tales will give you strength and courage to go on. Rough Stuff Tales of gay men, sex, and power Edited by Simon Sheppard and M.Christian Pub Alyson UKP9.99 The only thing they don't have in this book is sandstone dildos or sliding down a razor blade and using your balls as brakes, everything else is here. There are fists, needles, piss, shit, bondage, bone breakage, whips, paddles, boots and on and on and on. I have started to worry as I found myself being turned on by some of these tales, "peace loving hippy that I am". For people who feel that something is missing from their life, maybe after reading the book you can go and try some of the things out for real, if not you could always beat yourself up and see how you feel. Feel Good Food A guide to intuitive eating Susie Miller and Karen Knowler Pub The Women's Press UKP8.99 Informative and helpful in aiding us to seek a new and healthier way of responding to our body's needs. Having recently had a camera thrust down my throat and told I have a hiatus hernia I have been looking into a healthier and more sensible way to eat, I am down to only 2 pizzas a week and only one curry a week. I have been walking a lot as I have been working at the ranger station in a beautiful place called Wycoller, a wonderful country park. Humans have lived in and around Wycoller since mesolithic times, there are seven bridges over the small rushing river . One is said to date back as far as the iron age. There is also the Brontâ Way where the Brontâ sisters and their brother were said to travel along. There is also Wycoller Hall where it is said the Brontâs often visited. I think that if you take on another way of eating it also helps if you take on the discipline of exercise. P/C 20 Best of Sensual Men Jeff Palmer Pub Bruno Gmunder UKP5.95 P/C 19 Best Of Twins Steven Underhill Pub Bruno Gmunder UKP5.95 I adore these postcard books I often sit and ponder whether or not to send them to people or just keep them for me. I must say I prefer the twins set. Good clear photographs and well presented. This idea of postcard sets is excellent keep it up. Great to see the work of two professional image makers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ARTS ==== Martin Powell I'm developing a theory that you can tell a lot about a gallery from the windows. I started to realise this on a visit to Tate Liverpool where people were rushing past the exhibits to get a view out of the windows. Now looking out of a window on a sunny summers day to look at brilliant Victorian architecture by a river is one thing, but what are we to make of The Dean Gallery where the day after it opened people were looking out the window at a bulldozer in the unfinished car park? Probably that the gallery should have claimed it was the latest installation by some famous artist, given it a pretentious name, and sold it to the Saatchi collection for a million quid. If you want impressive windows The Collective Gallery in Cockburn St is for you. This place, which was recently done up, has replaced a perfectly serviceable shop window with a massive impressive piece of glass. Peering through this recently and seeing the exhibits inside I decided not to bother going in. Across the road from here is Stills. To be honest I haven't seen an exhibition here that I was totally happy with since it moved from a cramped location on the High St a few years back. OK, a recent exhibition there had a series of portraits by Hockney which were well worth seeing but I didn't rate the rest of the art. However not all is gloom and doom. At Edinburgh Printmakers in Union St there is "100 Years of Scottish Prints" until 22 July. Anybody who thinks that photography has in the last century done away with the need for art like this is sadly mistaken. These are mostly superb prints in a variety of styles. I was particularly taken with James McBey's 1926 work "The Critic", but then I suppose that's only to be expected. However looking at Iain Macnab's 1936 "Two Fat Ladies, Portofino" I found it impossible to put thoughts about a bloody TV programme from my mind. This gallery has on the first floor a large window overlooking a workshop where they make prints. If there were other windows I didn't spot them. If it's photography you're after get down to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in York St where until 3 September they have "The Art of Documentary". This focuses on groups of photographs by a number of photographers working in and from Scotland in the last 40 years. Photos of and about ordinary people and remarkably good they are too. At the other end of town in Bread St something interesting is happening where two - shortly to be three - down market shops have been turned into up market galleries. It's called Nexus Galleries and features the work of a number of contemporary artists in a variety of styles. I spotted this place when walking past, looked through the window, liked what I saw, and went inside. Be warned, if you do visit I would advise leaving your cheque book and credit cards at home otherwise this place could be dangerously tempting. I couldn't however say what you see if you look through the windows from the inside. ---------------------------------------------------------------- BI VOCAL ======== The Bi-Dictionary Is the bisexual lifetype a confusion for you? Thinking of the bisexual option? This probably won't help. What follows are excerpts from the latest Bi-Dictionary doing the rounds... Arse:. A bad person. eg. a no mark, a football hooligan, a biphobe Attitude: 1. A periodical for bisexuals as well as lesbians and gay men 2. A state of mind. S/he's totally fucking gorgeous but s/he's got attitude (man). B5: Babylon Five. Praise season's two through four, that's all you need to know. Bar: 1. A place to pick up members of a sex. 2. A place to get drunk. BF: Boyfriend. Usually not forever eg. 'Meet my current BF. BF, meet GF' Bidar: The instinctive ability to pick out a bisexual in a busy bar/office/sauna. Bisexual: Attracted to all genders and both sexes, being the total rejection of the sexual label. BIT: Bisexual In Training. Often someone who is not yet aware that s/he may be bisexual. Butters: A state of ugliness. "S/he may be president of the Student Union but s/he's totally butters" Catflap: slang. Bisexual. CB: Cosmetic effect of Bars. As in "S/he looked like Major Kira/Brad Pitt until we awoke next day. It was the CB's all over again". Cunt: A word you can never say out loud. Ever. Drama: A bisexual relationship after six minutes. E: A recreational drug used by people who like tunes with no words in them. Fuck: To fuck, to be nice to someone. Fucked: To be nice back. Gaol Bait: Your bisexual lover's younger spouse with those lovely eyes. Gay: Monosexual. The unnatural state of only being attracted to one sex. See Straight. GF: Girlfriend. Usually not forever. See BF. Goldilocks: To be Goldilocks, barred from every gay bar in Europe - a state of Goldilocks. Named after infamous ScotsGay columnist. Born 1950something. Goth: Cauldron resident with hair and multiple SF fixations. Usually bisexual. Often stoned. Hairdon't: A bad hair gay. Does not apply to Goths. Loaded: Opposite of Attitude. But in many ways the same. Plead: To insult a monosexual BF or GF with abusive, and usually true, desperation. "I can read you like a book, I know you're jealous, It didn't mean anything... it was only a week of passion with a member of your opposite sex." Queer: Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transexual/ SMer all in one word that nobody likes except Peter Tatchell. Rent: Bisexuals for a living. Sex: Far too complicated to go into now. Can be performed by one to one hundred people at the same time. Bisexuals tend toward the greater number. SF: Science Fiction. Definitely not Sci-Fi Tim: aka God. aka Tim Hopkins, spokesperson for the Equality Network. aka St. Tim. aka giraffe. Verge: Straight, but on the verge (of bending) Who: As in Doctor. Popular amongst bisexuals and fans of 'Queer as Folk' Zoo: The gay Scene If you want to add to the Bi-Dictionary email me at the address below. More excerpts next time, plus news of BiCon2000 and Bisexuals at the Edinburgh Festival. Martin Walker mgwuk@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL NEWS FROM REX WOCKNER =================================== LARGE TURNOUTS AT EUROPRIDES More than 200,000 people turned out for Paris' gay-pride march June 24, led by gay Socialist mayoral candidate Bertrand Delanoe who is favoured to win according to pollsters. "Whenever there is a demonstration for liberty, I'm there," Delanoe said. The parade, which ended at the Place de la Bastille, featured 60 floats and demands for laws to ban anti-gay discrimination and legalise gay adoption. France already has a partner-registration law that grants gay couples most rights of matrimony. There are similar laws in Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. state of Vermont. About 400,000 people attended Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade June 24, demanding passage of a comprehensive registered partnership law. A day earlier, the governing Social Democrats and Greens agreed on a rough outline of a bill that would grant all marriage rights except access to adoption. Opposition conservatives blasted the proposal. The parade ended with a huge dance at the Brandenburg Gate. Thousands of people marched in Tel Aviv, Israel's gay-pride parade through Rabin Square June 23. "You only see pictures of Israel when rocks are being thrown," marcher Kinneret Golan told AP. "I'm proud that despite everything we can still do this." Marcher Anat Schumaker told reporters: "We're here and they can't do anything to stop us." NORWAY COUNTS 759 GAY MARRIAGES There have been 759 gay marriages in Norway since the nation's comprehensive registered-partnership law took effect in 1993. The law grants more than 99 percent of the rights and obligations of heterosexual matrimony. Only adoption and church weddings are withheld from gay couples. Seventeen percent of the gay weddings have been between a Norwegian and a foreigner, often from the U.S., Thailand or Sweden. Sixty-five percent of the partnerships are between men. Males tied the knot at an average age of 37.3 and women at 38.5, several years later, in both cases, than the average for married heterosexuals. RAINBOW COLUMN ERECTED IN BERLIN A 15-foot (4.6 m) Rainbow Column was erected in Berlin's historically gay Nollendorf Square June 16. It was paid for by neighbours and gay bar owners. "The Rainbow-Column will become a landmark in this historic LGBT neighbourhood and will undoubtedly become a new, famous spot for visitors to Berlin from Germany and abroad!", supporters said in a press statement. FRENCH LESBIANS LAUNCH MAGAZINE Saying they are marginalized by France's main gay magazine, Tetñ, a group of lesbians has launched their own publication, called 'Tetñ, Madame,' reported London's The Times. In its first issue, Tetñ, Madame said Tetñ's claim to represent lesbians is a giant swindle. Tetñ Editor Thomas Doustaly responded by calling Tetñ, Madame's Axelle le Dauphin a "spiteful ... little madame." AUSSIE PSYCHOLOGISTS DENOUNCE CHANGE THERAPIES The Australian Psychological Society came out last week against therapies which attempt to turn gays straight. The Australian Council for Lesbian and Gay Rights said the statement will be helpful in deterring mainstream churches from supporting so-called reparative therapy. "The threat posed by groups advocating for therapies to change sexuality is significantly magnified when they dupe mainstream church groups into supporting their damaging and fruitless programs," said spokesman Rodney Croome. MEXICO CITY HOLDS FIRST GAY FILM FEST Mexico City's First International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival ran from June 23 to July 6 at the mainstream Plaza Condesa Theatres. It was staged by the film distribution company La Otra Propuesta and the video production company Telemanita. ACTIVISTS TARGET PANAMANIAN AUTHORITIES The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission is asking activists to write protest letters to Panama's government over its refusal to register the nation's first gay group, the New Men and Women Association of Panama. The Ministry of Government and Justice ruled that the association contradicts "moral and good habits." Without legal registration, the group cannot own property, pay salaries or take part in legal disputes. For sample letters contact sydney@iglhrc.org. GAYS SUE SASKATCHEWAN The Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Pride Committee of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, has filed a complaint with the provincial Human Rights Commission over the province's refusal to proclaim June 24 as Saskatchewan Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Pride Day. The province's Executive Council rejected the request because "a proclamation from the Government of Saskatchewan is intended to recognise activities that benefit all Saskatchewan people." RAPE AGENCY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST TRANSSEXUAL The British Columbia Supreme Court in Canada ruled June 7 that Vancouver Rape Relief can be sued under the provincial Human Rights Code for refusing to accept a transsexual volunteer because she used to be a man. Rape Relief tried to have Kimberley Nixon's complaint quashed by arguing that the Human Rights Code does not protect transgendered people from discrimination, but the court said "gender identity" protections are implied in the law. The case will be heard by a tribunal in December. AUSSIE GAYS REPORT ASSAULTS Four out of five GLBT people in the Australian state of Victoria have experienced some kind of anti-gay physical or verbal assault in the past five years, according to a new study by Attorney General Rob Hulls. The report -- based on data collected during 1999 from 929 GLBT people -- contains recommendations for a series of anti-hate initiatives by Parliament, the police, religious leaders, the Equal Opportunity Commission and the Department of Education, Employment and Training. CANADIANS MARCH Thousands walked in Toronto's Dyke March June 24 to the tune of Annie Lennox's Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves. "We're from China, we don't have this there," spectator Martin Wang told the Toronto Sun. "We can't understand it." About 500 people marched in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 24. "The last two years we changed significantly, from being militant to seeing the event as a celebration," Pride Day Co-chair Dan MacKay told the Halifax Herald. "We intend to keep moving in that direction." There was a rally at Sackville Landing following the march. THOUSANDS MARCH IN BRAZIL Police said 120,000 people converged on Sao Paulo, Brazil's main financial avenue June 25 for the city's fourth Gay Pride Parade. "We are going to march so that people see how many of us there are, how different we are from each other, and how we're just like the rest of the world," a parade pamphlet said. Banners called for an end to hate crimes and prejudice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOTSGAY VOICE FOR PERSONALS ============================ (We regret that this service is only available within the UK) To reply to ScotsGay Voice Ads, phone 09068 556613 (calls charged at 60p per minute) and use the number at the end of the ad. 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