Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 18:16:47 EST SCOTSGAY MAGAZINE ================= ScotsGay is a bi-monthly magazine for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Edited, printed and published in Scotland Issue 8 - February 1995 ELECTRONIC EDITION Now available on the Web: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ To subscribe: Send a mail message to listserver@drink.demon.co.uk The first (not subject) line of the message should be subscribe scotsgay-list (If you are subscribing for a different address from the one you are using to send the request, you should preface your request with a line of the form set address myotheraddress@my.other.system instead) To unsubscribe: Send a mail message to listserver@drink.demon.co.uk The first (not subject) line of the message should be unsubscribe scotsgay-list (If you are unsubscribing for a different address from the one you are using to send the request, you should preface your request with a line of the form set address myotheraddress@my.other.system instead) All Material Copyright (c) Pageprint Limited 1996. 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. The printed edition of ScotsGay is available by post at the following rates: 6 issue sub (UK & EC) 6ukp 6 issue sub (Overseas) 12ukp 12 issue sub (UK & EC) 10ukp 12 issue sub (Overseas) 22ukp Make Cheques and POs payable to 'Pageprint Limited' or 'ScotsGay' and send them to: Subscriptions ScotsGay Pageprint Limited PO Box 666 Edinburgh Scotland EH7 5YW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this edition: Editorial - The innocence of youth? News - Reports and investigations Soapbox - On the pains of coming out Opinion - Cruising: a private inconvenience Inside Out - the total scene guide Scene - who and how Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Boxes - The ScotsGay Meet Market International - News from around the world Story - Playing some ball games Music - Joy DJ Alan's latest chart Arts - Win tickets for Donna McPhail! Reviews - Curl up with a good book Listings - Checked and updated every issue Helplines - If you need a friendly ear ScotsDyke - The forgotten victims ----------------------------------------------------- EDITORIAL ========= If you believe what you read in the papers about 14 year old Claire Codona, you'd think that she was a poor wee thing who, after a terrible ordeal, was finally being allowed to return to being an innocent little schoolgirl. In fact, Ms Codona, who recently had a life sentence for murdering a gay man quashed on appeal, is not the little angel portrayed by the tabloids. She was, quite rightly, freed by the Court of Criminal Appeal after it was held that the police had acted unfairly towards her and that, even taking account of an admission that she had kicked Michael Doran, there was insufficient evidence against her. However, she was present when Michael Doran was murdered and was involved in several other attacks on gay men. It seems strange that she was not charged with lesser offences. Her 18 year old boyfriend, John Cairns, remains in gaol (as do others) for the murder. Presumably their relationship was completely chaste, otherwise he would have been charged with underage sex. If two gay guys aged 14 and 18 had gone on the rampage, beating up, robbing and killing heterosexuals chosen at random, you can bet your last condom that they'd have been charged with underage sex in addition to anything else. No doubt it will be argued that Ms Codona was lead astray - this may well be true - and we can only hope that she learns from her experience and becomes a better person. However, last year, she was certainly not the sort of person you'd like to meet on a dark night - as poor Michael Doran found to his cost. John Hein -------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS ==== SCOTSGAY GOES DIGITAL ScotsGay continues to push against the frontiers of technology by publishing the entire magazine on the Internet. Each month the current issue of ScotsGay or InsideOut will be available on the World-Wide-Web for anyone, anywhere in the world, with a suitable computer program (such as NetScape or Mosaic) to view from the comforts of home, the office or university. The address or URL of the Web site is http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ In the first few weeks on-line, and before being fully advertised, over 2,500 people visited the new site, which is now integrated into the Web's major search engines. As well as offering the entire text of the magazine, the site includes all the pictures and adverts in the paper edition, as well as an archive of all the previous issues (text-only) and a new automated system of submitting and replying to our increasingly popular personal ads, the Meet Market. We've also included links to some of the other popular Web sites, such as the world-spanning Queer Resources Directory, Pride Scotland and (believe it or not) Quentin Crisp Scotch Whisky. The text of ScotsGay has been available to Internet subscribers from the very first issue via a 3,000 member mailing list, but moving onto the World-Wide-Web opens up the magazine to a brand new audience, as well as offering greater coverage for our advertisers, both commercial and personal. ScotsGay is committed to offering the best and most modern magazine possible for all our readers. OFF THEIR PERCH The popular vegetarian restaurant Parrots at the top of Viewforth in Edinburgh's Bruntsfield district has broken several Valentine hearts this year. The diner, listed in the telephone directory as a "Non-smoking restaurant"", doesn't extend its sound principles to its lesbigay customers. When two Edinburgh women, Kate Fearnley and Nicky MacDonald, tried to book a table for 14th February, they were rudely told by the owners Conn Ruddock and Roger Lucas that lesbians weren't wanted. "We're a Christian establishment, and we don't want to embarrass our customers", they said. But Parrots is popular with Bruntsfield's lesbian, gay and bisexual residents, so how come this offensive policy on a day when lovers and good friends traditionally eat out over wine and candlelight? What possible offence to anyone can two men or two women dining together cause? This is where Parrots parrot the old myth: that heterosexual, "normal" customers are sick at the very sight, get angry, storm out, won't come back ... because ... because it's simply Bible-driven anti-gay bigotry. Speaking for OUTRIGHT Scotland, Convenor Ian Dunn said: "Mr Ruddock and Mr Lucas are, I imagine (You have too much imagination, Ian. - Ed), decent heterosexuals. But it seems that they are also the sort of Christians who are quite prepared to pocket homosexual money when it suits them, but on Valentine's Day become ill-mannered and irrational and operate a nakedly discriminatory ban." A public protest by lesbigay groups, co-ordinated by Edinburgh Bisexual Group, took place on Valentine's Day outside the restaurant. DOES NOT COMPUTE A West Kilbride computer software company has caused outrage by refusing to sell its products to a South London gay guesthouse. According to John Temperley, joint owner along with Paul Williams of Number Seven Guesthouse in Brixton, AFD Software Limited refused to sell to them when they discovered that they were running a gay business. AFD produces a number of packages including "AFD Postcode" - a database which assists the production of labels and which is sold under licence from the Royal Mail. It was this package for which Temperley dispatched a ukp186 cheque in December only to get it returned with a pompous letter from AFD's managing director David Dorricott. Temperley said that he was "gobsmacked". According to Darricott, "A large proportion of our staff, as committed Christians, feel strongly that a homosexual lifestyle is not consistent with the teachings of our faith. We would stress, nevertheless, that the Gospel of Christ reaches out to all men and women of every race and every sexual inclination." A spokesperson for Edinburgh Freethinkers, a lesbigay atheist network, laughed his head off when he heard this. "If they believe that load of old cobblers, I doubt if their software is up to much!". Our net subscribers may care to note that AFD is on the net: E-mail: postcode@afd.co.uk. WWW: http://www.afd.co.uk STEAMIE FOR GLASGOW A gay sauna for Glasgow has moved a step closer as Centurion Health Club enter negotiations over a Glasgow property. According to Centurion's Gordon McInnes, "The owners are fully aware of our intended client base. This has been a major stumbling block so far - although Glasgow tries to portray a cosmopolitan attitude, the landlords we have dealt with shy away from our proposal when they realise that the club is gay. All the equipment is standing by waiting for a property to occupy: 2 brand new saunas, one Jacuzzi spa bath, one commercial fast-tan sun-bed and on order is a commercial steam-room." Said McInnes, "We don't want to divulge too much information regarding our intentions and exact location, but everything going well, we will be opening very close to an existing gay business. The planning department have indicated that they see no major problems regarding the site. JACKETS Cruising workers with PHACE West Gay Men's Project Outreach Team are now more recognisable due to the introduction of special cruising jackets. The jackets have the PHACE West logo on the front and "OUTREACH TEAM" in clear letters on the back. The team provides information, support and advice on safer sex, personal safety and other practical matters. SAM TO FOLD Scottish AIDS Monitor, Scotland's oldest HIV/AIDS agency, has announced that it is to close. The decision was made by SAM directors on 19th February and was communicated to tearful staff and volunteers the following day as redundancy notices were handed out to all ten staff. SAM's offices in Edinburgh and Dundee are to close on 20th March. SAM claims that the impending closedown has come about as a result of lack of funding and will only be averted if funding is secured from Lothian Health, Tayside Health Board and Tayside Social Work Department. According to SAM's Board, "These decisions in no way reflect any crticism of the staff and volunteers who have worked tirelessly to provide services for people infected or affected by AIDS/HIV. The Board have every confidence that, if the funding is forthcoming for financial year 1996/97, projects in Lothian and Tayside will continue." The Board were also of the opinion that, due to the uncertainty relating to funding at National level, SAM's National office will cease to exist to all intents and purposes by 20th March. The current funding crisis comes after SAM had to shut its Glasgow office last year in the wake of the local health board's transfer of contracts to newcomer PHACE West. Over the past few months, SAM claim that they have been seriously addressing financial and structural problems in the organisation. The closure of SAM will leave a vacuum which other HIV/AIDS agencies will find well nigh impossible to fill in the short term. TYCOON QUIZZED Lothian and Borders Police have confirmed that no report has gone to the Procurator Fiscal after millionaire Scots travel agent Martin Frutin was quizzed as part of a child porn probe. Frutin, 53, had his ukp750,000 Edinburgh home raided as part of an enquiry into alleged child porn whilst he was in Thailand. Police interviewed him on his return to Scotland at the beginning of February. A police source said, "Some tapes we are studying are of a pornographic nature. They had obviously been filmed in Thailand." Mr Frutin did not return our phone call asking for his comments. PRETTY PICTURES The Route 66 Meeting Room & Gallery was formally opened at the Lesbigay Centre in Edinburgh on 7th February by Tennent Caledonian Brewery Area Manager Paul Burns. Burns, whose brewery owns popular Edinburgh gay bar Route 66 and donated nearly ukp1,000 for the refurbishment of the room, proudly declared the premises open and welcomed visitors to an exhibition of previously unpublished celebrity photographs from the 60's by Stanley Reilly and archive photographs coupled with modern photographs by Paul Ivison. LANTERN OUT The Lantern, the Edinburgh LGB Centre's Monday night social group, has folded due to lack of support. GRAND CEILIDH Lothian Switchboard has booked the Nor Loch Ceilidh Band for their annual fundraiser in Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms on Saturday 30th March. MASKED BALL JOY, Edinburgh's Saturday night gay club has teamed up with the deliciously trashy Tackno for a March Masked Ball Benefit Night on Friday 1st March. Held in the New Calton, all proceeds will go to Pride Scotland. GIGS Horse will be playing the MacRobert Centre in Stirling on 9th March and the Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy on 15th March. IN TUNE Glasgow Gay Men's Chorus are looking for men! (What's new?) No experience is necessary and training is provided. They meet Mondays in Glasgow and sing everything from Abba to Verdi. Contact them via Body Positive on 0141-332 5010. DATE LIST SAM's Gay Men's Project have produced a colourful calendar which can be ordered by phoning 0131-555 4850. FUNNY MAN Julian Clary will be performing at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh on 31st March. Pulse Magazine will be carrying an exclusive interview with him in its next issue. OOP NORTH A monthly dose of JOY will be travelling to Aberdeen. Starting 24th March, the Edinburgh based club will be doing its thing at The Exodus. FREE LUNCH PHACE West is running a lesbigay health day at the Borderline Theatre in Ayr on Sunday 3rd March. There's a free bus from Glasgow (phone 0141-332 3838 to book) and lunch is free too! SF Delaney's Children, the group for lesbigay science fiction addicts, will hold their next meeting in Eat Out in Edinburgh on 3rd March. It's called: "But why don't they kiss? Gays in the Movies." -------------------------------------------------------------------- ON THE PAINS OF COMING OUT ========================== Coming out is rarely easy. Whether it is the reaction of our family and friends (or those we thought were our friends) or that of our enemies, the path from latency to blatency can be strewn with unexpected obstacles. Jason Keenan is a Glasgow teenager who has justed started out on that path. You know the scene well - you're sitting down on the sofa, having a cosy chat with your mother and on the verge of telling her the most important thing of your life. But you can't quite manage to tell her you're gay. It's been nice just making smalltalk with her, and it has made you feel relaxed enough to drop a few hints about your innermost secret. As soon as you start showing her your camp' side by revealing that your favourite colour has always been pink and that you're heavily into ABBA, she looks at you with that You're-not-seriously-trying-to-tell-me-you're-gay look, you just clam up. Here's the perfect opportunity to do the dirty deed, but the thought of her disgust, disappointment or maybe even her anger, cripples you. There are many more situations when the time is right to spill the beans, but they all end in the same way. For instance, when you're watching one of your favourite comedies on TV, and you get carried away with your loud, girlish laughter, your mother gives you a withering look and says, "You sound like a poof with that laugh." You feel like replying "That's because I am one, mum." But of course you don't. When you eventually do tell her, you want to be subtle about it. It doesn't help, though, when part of you wants to scream it from the rooftops. So how can you possibly tell her? The gulf, it seems, is too wide between her ideas and your own about sexuality. When a tall, blonde, Pamela Anderson-type babe walks down the street, and you don't give her so much as a second glance, she looks at you again with that look of consternation "If you don't look at her, you won't look at anybody." How you wish you could say, "I'd quite happily look at Ronan from Boyzone, thank you very much." So you come to the realisation that there's no point in explaining to her your feelings for other guys. There's no way she'd ever be able to understand. You decide that you are just going to tell her the facts, the most important one being that you are gay. So, you don't give it any more thought. You rush into the living room, sit down next to her and say "Mum, I'm gay." You've prepared yourself for the myriad of reactions: you expect anger, disappointment, shock, disgust. What you don't expect is the reaction you actually get, that one of disbelief: "No, you're not," she quite calmly replies. "Yes, I am, mum," you persist. "No, you're not," she repeats unemotionally. The conversation turns into a sinister version of "I'm better than you". You realise that there's no point in continuing the conversation. You need to give her time to sort her feelings out. So you leave the room The next day, there is an awkward silence between both of you. You actually feel a little embarrassed by the knowledge that your mother knows you're sexually attracted to guys and not girls. It's hard to adjust to the fact that you're secret is now out in the open. The feeling of being "out" isn't at all the liberating experience you had dreamed of. In fact you just feel like having a good cry. Naively, you believed that once you told your mother (who would then tell your father) your problems would end, but really this is just the beginning. But it's well worth going through the anguish of the following weeks, although it most definitely doesn't feel like it at the time. Not when your mother rifles through your personal belongings and finds the letters your gay friends have written to you, and forbids you to write to them again. Not when she threatens that she'll throw you out if you go out to meet them. It also isn't a very pleasant experience overhearing your own mother worrying about catching something from you if she uses the bath after you. The atmosphere at home becomes unbearable so you make plans to move out. When you tell her this, she's genuinely upset. As you really love her, you tell her that you don't want to leave but must be allowed to live your own life. You can't believe it when she agrees to this. She tells you "At least I'll know you'll be safe whilst you're still at home." You can't believe your luck. You thank her and as you go out to meet your boyfriend you realise that all the pain has been worth it because you finally can have your cake and eat it too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRUISING: A PRIVATE INCONVENIENCE ================================= Cottaging, cruising, shagging in the bushes: all the sorts of things that can cause apoplexy amongst the blue rinsed brigade and frequently provokes considerable arresting behaviour from the blue serge uniforms. Garry Otton has been pounding the beats ... On the night of 2nd June 1995, a gang of three boys, aged between 18 and 20, and a 14 year old girl, went on a queerbashing rampage in Glasgow's Queen's Park. The boys cracked one man's skull and critically injured another before jumping on 35 year old Michael Doran. He received 83 blows to his body. They stabbed him several times in the groin, stamped on his face until they had broken every bone in his head and left him in the bushes, choking to death in his own blood. With their clothes still bloodstained, they joined their friends at a nearby party and bragged about what they had done. Already, in March last year, shocked Scottish television viewers had witnessed an attack on a gay man leaving Bennets, Glasgow's top gay nightclub. Two men, aged 21 and 25, were captured on video beating, kicking and stamping on him for a full twelve minutes before the police arrived. James, a middle-aged man cruising Strathclyde Park told me: "I received 25 stitches to my head after I was beaten up there. He ran off with my watch which was worth about ukp20. I was too afraid to go to the police and told my family I'd been involved in a car accident." Late one afternoon in April, I approached a well-built man in his thirties with cropped hair and torn jeans who was sitting by himself near a few other gay men in Queen's Park. Whilst we talked, watching the clouds scuttle across Glasgow's city skyline, a tall, slim youth of about 17 years approached us from some nearby shrubbery using abusive language and making obscene gestures with a large, empty, glass bottle of Irn Bru. He was joined by two of his young friends. They had just seen off another young man, identified to me as a gay teenager, probably still at school, who had fled in terror. The man I was sitting with was not going to be intimidated by this group and asked the tall youth if he had been there the previous Tuesday night. The man had recognised the youth from a vicious queerbashing he had witnessed in the park just before Easter, when he claimed a young man had a bottle smashed over his head. The youth knew about the incident and was warned by the man, with a discreet nod in the direction of the path, that the police were looking out for him. They walked away. I asked the man if he felt he should call the police, but he was dismissive. "I usually carry a mobile phone, but he'll have gone by the time I get to a phone box." Quite apart from the fact cruisers might be anxious to conceal their sexual identity, there is also a deep suspicion of the police. Alan, a guest on BBC Radio Scotland's Speakeasy' programme had been attacked four times and said, "The attitudes and the moral backlash I got from the police was as bad as the attack itself". Stephen, a caller to the programme, explained that after being attacked in Kelvingrove Park, all the police appeared to want to know was what he was doing there. They took no action, and left him with the impression that it was his own fault. At a talk given at the Collins Gallery in Glasgow during October's Glasgay! festival, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell revealed a gay man had confided in him that he had been arrested by police whilst cruising Kelvingrove Park, thrown in the back of a van and beaten up by police whilst in custody. When he attempted to make a formal complaint, the police denied being on duty in the area and the case was dropped. Whilst the magazine Gay Times has revealed an escalation of attacks on gay men in public, the gay lobby group Stonewall has carried out a large survey which revealed that up to 52% of teenagers and a third of all gays have been physically attacked. Reports of attacks on gay men at Glasgow's top three favourite cruising areas: Strathclyde Park, Kelvingrove Park and Queen's Park are frequent. Lothian and Borders Police work closely with the gay community to combat violence on the streets and have already secured the arrest of some queerbashers. On the other hand, Strathclyde Police do not monitor the frequent attacks, have no liaison officer for the burgeoning gay community, and - unlike most other police services in the country - cannot even guarantee the rights of its own lesbian and gay police officers with an inclusion of sexual orientation within the force's equal opportunities policy. Chief Superintendent Robert Jarvis to The Herald newspaper, "... we are not aware of an identified problem of gay people being assaulted". Since the early 18th century, married men and bisexuals have sought places to negotiate gay sex privately, away from the police, the public and the stigmata of homosexuality. This has been steadily brought about by the aggressive collusion of church and state to regulate and promote heterosexuality within marriage as the supreme ideal. Today, as our landscape becomes increasingly congested, with fewer opportunities for privacy, men who "cruise" (or, in the coded gay vernacular, "troll"), are ever more likely to find themselves hounded from the darkest corners of parks, sand-dunes, walkways and buildings by increased state surveillance and progressively prohibitive laws. To stop gay men meeting in public places, the police conduct budget-busting surveillance operations that can involve sitting in unmarked cars; taking down car numbers; compiling dossiers; secretly filming with fibre optic cameras; dressing provocatively to bait offenders or abseiling down from the rafters of a public convenience to catch some poor wretch of a company director in stockings and suspenders! (In this case, the wealthy, married member of the Gilbey Gin family sued the Suffolk police and was awarded a hefty sum in damages once the courts were satisfied that the lingerie' was purely for health reasons). Such is the tyranny of heterosexual supremism, that gay men or women themselves can sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to assimilate into heterosexist culture, values and lifestyle. Some might vociferously deny their own sexuality whilst denouncing others or execute a pathological denial of their sexuality. Queerbashers are often discovered to be gay themselves. Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Neilson and Michael Lupo were all gay serial killers of gay men. Despite such tyranny, behind the doors of many gentlemen's public conveniences up and down the country are Britain's last remaining portals of uncensored art and literature. Representing a veritable cornucopia of uncompromising expression, some of the graffiti left behind has served to keep homosexuality visible throughout decades of its oppression. Outside the sexual arena of cruising and cottaging, the media agitate the nation's armchairs, church-pews and back-benches toward a more aggressive collusion with the constructed notion of church and state: that sex should be conducted in private, (the bedroom); between two consenting adults, (male and female; married). It sets an extraordinary example of double standards, since the same public can be found on any night of the week, bonking merrily away behind the parking lot, in the hayrick, or in the back of a car parked up in a lay-by. These randy couples are tidily dismissed as courting' and - unless your name is Gillian Taylforth - are likely to be reprimanded with nothing more than a polite knock on the misted windows. Men who cruise are bisexual, married and gay men - probably in that order - looking for drive-in, fast-food sex as quickly and discreetly as they know how. They are not interested in children, who are, in any case, at much greater risk of sexual abuse within a heterosexual family. They don't want to be seen by straights and are certainly not getting off on the risk of being caught. For the police, eager to swell their clear-up rates, they provide easy pickings. Britain actually boasts Europe's highest arrest rate for sex al fresco. According to Peter Tatchell, during the eighties, 20,000 gay men were convicted and around 2,000 gaoled for the consensual, victimless crime' of gay sex. The police usually say that they are acting on complaints from the public, but rarely appear in court to support police evidence. Gross indecency, the charge police still generally use against English gay men who are caught in flagranti delicto, was helped onto the statute books by Henry Labouchere MP in 1885, backed by a campaign by the National Vigilance Association. Heterosexual couples cannot commit an act of gross indecency. In Scotland, gay sexual behaviour is defined as lewd and libidinous. Since policing sexuality was not always considered entirely appropriate for an all-male police force, during the First World War, the torch of Nanny Britain was shone in the faces of young soldiers by Women's Patrols, paid by the police authorities to police "foolish, giddy and irresponsible conduct" by girls. Patrolling the streets, parks and open spaces, they "saved" drunken soldiers from "women of evil reputation" by administering black coffee laced with bicarbonate of soda, which made them violently sick. One astute patrol was so outraged by the sight of a "heaped mass of arms and legs and much stocking" on one of the benches along a towpath, she had the seats boarded up! Scotland has recently been awash with posters of an early policewoman attempting to stamp out "immoral behaviour" in one of London's parks, chasing a gang of boys on the banks of the Serpentine in Hyde Park in 1926. The poster was used to advertise the soft drink, Irn Bru. Before the foundation of such organisations as the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, the National Purity League, the Public Morality Council and the National Vigilance Association, it was quite usual for the public to bathe naked at ponds and beaches up and down the country. William Coote, the founder of the NVA, believed his organisation to be in an "energetic legal crusade against vice in its hydra-headed form", declaring in his book A Romance in Philanthropy', published in 1916, that it was a "hand-to-hand fight with the world, flesh and the devil". In 1959, the Street Offences Act was introduced, ostensibly to stop women prostitutes soliciting on the street, but was also used to prosecute gay men. Numerous other laws have been used to regulate the public' expression of gay sexuality, like Section 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act, originally introduced to curb rioters and football hooligans, but successfully used to prosecute men for such offences' as kissing in public. The Common Law offence of outraging public decency and even the Local Authority and Transport By-laws have been used to prosecute hundreds of gay men. In 1989, the London Borough of Richmond arrested 150 men for staying in a public convenience "longer than is necessary". Rather than regarding cruising as a means of negotiating sexual contact, the general public have always focused on the element of vice. For most people, this has usually meant buggery, and for many years, gay men have been scapegoated for this, one of the perceived ills of heterosexual society. The Council of London first tried to legislate against the practice (never considered the exclusive realm of homosexuals) in 1102 but was defeated by the intervention of the gay Archbishop of Canterbury, Anselm, who felt it too widespread and popular with the masses to require legislation. Buggery was finally outlawed in England in 1533 and only partly repealed for gay men over the age of 21 by the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. (The practice remained illegal for straights over the age of 16 until 1994). By awarding this special right' to English and Welsh gays in 1967, to Scots gays in 1980 and finally, Northern Irish gays in 1982, the Act reinforced the public's perception of homosexuals being largely preoccupied with anal sex. But has this been fair? In 1994, a Government-funded survey by Project SIGMA revealed that only 8% of gay men participate in anal penetration during sex. Anal penetration is more frequently performed by straight men on women. >From the Dutch word kruisen, cruising opens a gaping paradox in the term public sex'. Can sex ever be described as public' just because it takes place outdoors, when everything about cruising is so private? Secret codes like rings on little fingers; pierced right ears; Levi 501s and coloured hankies dangling from back pockets. That discreet nod and the tell-tale silence of a man pressed up against a urinal without pissing. The discreet hesitation and search for confirmatory glances before buttoning-up; walking out and - since home' is usually private only in the heterosexual context - seeking out a bit of heavy shrubbery, a dark alley or driving to a quiet lay-by to shield them from prying eyes. These secret codes are designed to protect the rutting gay male from police, queerbashers, blackmailers, schoolboys and the ubiquitous straight male, whose swift, purposeful entrance into a urinal is likely to keep him blissfully unaware of the sexual negotiating that might be going on around him. There are many cruising sites across Scotland that now trip easily off the tongue of the sexually adventurous; more than a dozen in and around Glasgow alone. When details of police arrests are published in newspapers, "attendance figures" can actually rise, since people find out where they are. In London, police now turn a blind eye to the sexual activity erupting across Hampstead Heath every night. Indeed, during the summer of 1995, top cabaret artiste, Amy Lam staged a late night show for the benefit of cruisers on the Heath. The popular stereotype of old men shuffling about in raincoats is a long way from reality. There may be rent-boys, students seeking to supplement their grant, or even teenagers from as young as 13 looking for sex or a stable, long-term relationship. Most are men who don't identify as gay, leading a double life, married, often with children. There can often be a disproportionate number of older men since it can take any number of years for gay or bisexual men to venture out of their heterosexual constructs. Sociologist Tim Edwards points out in his book Erotics And Politics' (Routledge 1994): "Public sex is paradoxically only public to the extent that it is not practised at home", pointing out that "local councils and police authorities deploy prison-like restrictions of these activities. The history of cottaging is, in fact, one of increasing sexual regulation whilst sexual activity has constantly widened and spread further into other areas". Quite apart from the risk of arrest and homophobic violence, there are other considerations: As Edwards explains: "Cruising sexuality as instrumental, unemotional and orgasm-oriented is male sexuality, par excellence." Divorced from any form of affection or emotional bonding, it is the pursuit of the hot-blooded male; even talk can be superfluous to requirements. The type of sex performed in the cruising areas around Glasgow copies that performed by the former Glasgow street gangs, already documented by social historians. Frantic, urgent, stand-up sex, carried out with an ever watchful eye over the shoulder, taking place in the relative privacy of the closes of tenements, often under the noses of police. With a generally longer time needed to reach orgasm, the speed of such sex could hardly have afforded the young women many benefits. This may be why the subject is so sensitive amongst men. In truth, it is much less about gays as it is about the hallowed cloisters of male sexuality. If so, prudery, patriarchy and censorship provide the perfect camouflage. Gay men, taking their first irresolute steps toward coming out' are likely to be confused by the persistent rebuff of their affections or expression of any emotion. The abundance of married men, gays and bisexuals they meet are only out for "a bit of sex". The expression of affection and emotion is either acted out in sexual play or is held back; reserved for what they consider to be their normal' lives outside this sexual arena. This is a damaging contribution to oppression and self-loathing in anyone trying to meet societal expectations of a stable long-term relationship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INSIDE OUT ========== Scotland's best all-round guide to the whole lesbian, gay and bisexual scene. As well as listing the bookshops, cafes, pubs and clubs we find out what they're up to. And if you're still looking for your Valentine, then get bona and have a vada at our dolly old Meet Market... In this edition: Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Boxes - The Meet Market Venues ABERDEEN It's Monday, it's freezing, it's Aberdeen, and this town is dead!! Just been down Union Street and I've seen more bodies on a flag day. As usual, the scene is moaning that there's not much happening this month including myself. Well don't despair - take a look at the straight clubs. They're all quiet too with quite a few no longer open during the week, so the hettie disco dollies are having a spot of post-Christmas hibernation too!! Hopefully this week's scene news will be reaching you via the Internet, as the editor can't decipher my writing!! I've been informed this method of communication is the greatest technical innovation since the self-lubricatin, auto-calibrating, hyper-oscillating, variable thrust, reverse mode double-ended strap on (with optional attachments) and only slightly more difficult to use. Personally, I always found it so much more stylish to have my ramblings hand-delivered on a silver tray by the butler. So, it's quiet now, but things are improving on January and by March you should be back in with getting a chance of getting a trap again. Strange but true, some days there are more people out on the scene at 5pm than there are at midnight. Am I the only one who doesn't like early nights? It would appear that Aberdeen will not be taking part in Mr Gay UK after all. not surprising really, there aren't any REAL men up here. If you find anything up here with a REAL man's body, it's probably straight, not house-trained and thick as two short planks. Don't any fairies work out any more?? All I seem to see are stick-thin disco-dollies and chubbies. Last month I said that we were all fed up hearing the previous year's rumours about clubs closing, going straight etc. Well, you've done us proud Aberdeen!! The following are just the latest stories I've heard, and I don't doubt that there are others circulating that I'll hear about in due course. So here you have them, a world Press SCOOP revealed exclusively for the first time in ScotsGay: Both clubs are closing (YAWN); One club is being turned into a block of flats; One club is being bought by the shop next door, and this must be true, otherwise why would they be painted the same colour?? Both clubs are in the hands of the receivers; Both club owners have been declared bankrupt; One club is about to have a mysterious fire, which is actually an insurance fiddle; and one of the managers has been declared clinically insane!! Remember these are only the ones I've heard, and all in the space of a month. The nights are starting to draw in noticably later now, and I'm looking forward to a busier scene in the next few months - Can't Wait! Minerva DUNDEE Good news from Bonnie Dundee! Yet another disco has opened its doors to gay punters although it is unfortunate that this has only happened because it failed to attract the straight clientele it was intended for! Liberty's is open Thursday to Saturday and is located directly opposite Dundee Bus Station. After a quiet start the disco is becoming increasingly popular, possibly as it is only a stone's throw away from Deva's so punters don't have far to stagger. It has a good dance floor and is clean and pleasantly decorated which makes a nice change from what we've been used to in the past. This brings me on to Club Cruise. I paid a visit last weekend to see how things were going and was quite impressed. The venue has benefitted from a much-needed lick of paint and the regular Saturday DJ is now the superb Jan who really tries to meet the needs of most tastes in music. Cruise also has a promotion running at the moment with 50p off admission and only ukp1 for a pint and 80p a nip. You'd be crazy to miss these prices! Moving on to Trash at the Tay Hotel, I can't seem to find anyone who knows much about it, but I believe there are gay nights on Friday and Saturday and that it attracts a predominately young clientele and plays a lot of rave music. However if I'm totally wrong someone out there must know something about it so please write and let us know! The next women's disco at Sinatra's is on 23rd February 8-12pm. So I gave duff info the last time - apparently that 9th and 16th were unavailable. Hopefully things are back to normal(?) and the disco should return to its usual every-six-weeks slot. Finally, I offer apologies to Karen at Deva's. In the last issue I suggested that there was doubt over live bands appearing in the forseeable future due to flood damage. Well I did mean the near future and indeed that future has already arrived! As I write the all-female band Diva are doing a two evening stint 14th and 15th February with more regular gigs booked. Karen must be congratulated for not resting on her laurels and achieving all the repairs and redecoration without any inconvenience to the punters. Anyway enough grovelling for one issue - the good news is that after the usual slow January-nobody-has-any-money-month, things have picked up and the pub is getting back to its usual hive of activity. See ya there! Jol EDINBURGH All right, no snide comments, please. I'm back from my weekendette in Wolverhampton all refreshed and ready to get back into the somewhat busier scene here in Edinburgh. - And busy it certainly has been with a lot of changes major and minor taking place in Scotland's Capital City. Just off the Rose Street Beer Bugger Crawl, the small but perfectly formed French Connection is a welcome oasis under the capable hands of Babs and her team. The gorgeous (in and out of drag) Paulette Dubois can be seen there regularly and I hear that he'll be supporting Dockyard Doris when she's up towards the end of March. Should be a good turnout for that! Talking of drag, Raymond over at Picardy's Burlesque Show Bar has been moaning at this organ's frequent mention of his decorating materials. 'It's not black emulsion, Dear', he tells me. 'It's Dulux's best Queen's Velvet!' So, no expense spared there, or rather, down in Scandal which is the bar beneath Picardy's. It has recently re-opened at the weekends but as a mixed venue except on Saturdays when there is a strict LADS only door policy. The black emulsion - whoops, sorry! - the Paint with a Pedigree is much in evidence as is a much needed new larger bar. El Raymondo tells me that he's got Angie Gold appearing there on 30th March - one for the diary. The new licencing hours are starting to bite in Edinburgh. It seems that Edinburgh District Council's parting gift to the City will be an earlier chucking out time with all the pubs throwing out at 1am. Just what we needed with loads of drunk hetties roaming the streets and causing trouble at exactly the same time. And our pubs will have to close then too - really great, isn't it? When did you ever see any trouble in a gay pub (unless it was the very capable bouncers keeping out pissed hets from CC Blooms)? But we have to suffer because a few cretins can't hold their drink. It will all end in tears - but by then most of the Licensing Board won't be on the new Council to take the flak. That's the New Labour Party for you! OK, that's me got down off my high horse for the moment. - And into my high hat. Or not. Actually, the hats down in Plakativ are rather good and maybe I could do with one in this cold weather - my present baldie has its disadvantages! When I was down in the new hat shop in the Lesbigay Centre, I didn't get a chance to speak to the Mad Hatters themselves, but there were certainly some rather fun and novel designs around. Route 66 continues to be its usual busy self with the affable Stevie dispensing good cheer and not a bad pint of real ale. I see that the Gas Board Showrooms (aka The Theatre Royal) now has lots of tradespeople banging around repairing all the fire damage from last year. I hope it will soon be back to normal as a lot of people miss the place for that off-scene pint that's close enough to the scene to be quite handy! On the food front, I had lunch at CC Bloom's the other day. Not the pie and chips I'd been expecting, but some rather reasonable grub at fairly reasonable prices. Whilst at Over The Rainbow, the new regime seems to be helping trade a bit. Gone is the restaurant style operation and, in its place, there's a much brighter cafe with style. Cafe Kudos and Eat Out both remain busy as does that other stalwart of Broughton Street, the Blue Moon. At the New Town, things are also busy - especially at the weekends. The Bear Crowd who have made themselves at home there manage not to be cliquish but seem happy to welcome even young cubs like myself! The old Buster Brown's is the venue forthe new Club Orange. Run monthly by the Gay Preservation Society, (Jungle Jessabell and Morgan Marsalis), launch is on 24th March with a PA by the Wild Wimmin of Wonga! See you all next month. Marcc GLASGOW Hi from the Holy City once again! Well! That was a turn-up for the books at GHQ! No sooner had the young and perfectly formed Scott changed the name to Phoenix Arizona (or was it Arizona Phoenix?) than Bobby Gibson of Bennets walks in the door, takes the place over and changes the name back to GHQ! The gregarious Mr Gibson tells me that the place will be closing down soon for a full refurbishment which, if it's anything like the new front door at Bennets, will certainly be worthwhile. And it should be like Bennets' new front door because it's going to be designed by the same talented guy! Bobby is also looking for a new name for the place but chased me out of the premises with his broomstick when I suggested St V's! Another change that caught most of us napping has been over at Madame Gillespies where the debonaire Brendan Nash has taken over as manager. He's still involved with Eat Out in Edinburgh, so Jessieburgers ain't going to lose him completely. In the few weeks that he's been there, he's lined up a rare old selection of talent. Hazell Dean was due to make a return visit to the club on 23rd February whilst Sybil is lined up for a first visit to Glasgow on 8th March. Over at Bennets, things are continuing as usual. I hear that the St Valentine's Night Party went with a swing and a little bird tells me that there's a really big act lined up for next month - but Bobby is keeping the wraps on that one for the moment. I must mention that the Gay Ball at the Central Hotel last month was a humdinger of a success. Over ukp6,000 was raised by the event and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves although I know that there were a few sair heids in the morning! A big thank you to all who made it such a success and a special big cheer to Jim Glenn and the rest of the Glasgow Bars AIDS Welfare Fund Committee. At the Waterloo, I gather that Georgia is no longer on Cal's mind - she's no longer appearing there. Instead DJ Stella is doing her thing on Wednesdays. Cal tells me that the Sunday Karaoke with Betty Hutton and Big Gordon is going great guns. You'd think that the karaoke kraze would have passed, but it seems that Ms Hutton's talents still manage to get a lot of folk to have a go. Another couple of karaoke nights that are still popular are at Austins - Friday and Sunday are the nights in question and mine hostess is Betty-B who is most definitely NOT to be confused with La Hutton unless you want a thick ear! Talking of thick ears, Big Karn is no longer doing her Thursday nights at Austins - she's moved over to GHQ along with the crap prizes for her Wednesday Quiz Nite! If you fancy something different (and don't we all?), why not try the Country and Western Line Dancing which goes on every Wednesday from 7-8.30pm at Partick Burgh Halls (Lesser Hall - well, some of aren't size queens). I haven't made it down there myself, my limit being a couple of Gay Gordons, but I'm told that it's becoming quite popular - especially with the Bears. Cafe Delmonica's remains its merry old self but there's a new innovation on Sundays - now renamed Soap Sunday! At first, I thought that this was some sort of promotion by Lever Bros, but it turns out that it's a chance to watch all the TV soap operas whilst munching one of Delmonica's famed all day breakfasts. It's been a wee while since I was in at the CCA along Sauchiehall Street, so I took a trip down there the other day. The place hasn't changed much and the food is still of extremely high quality and tasty too. But the talent!!! Much better than Queen's Park and it's all wandering around in the warm and dry! Just a shame that there aren't any bushes! Another place I've just realised I haven't been to in ages is Club X-change. I've heard that it's been a bit quiet of late, but I'll really have to pop along to find out for myself. I'll report back to you all next month. Until then - Be safe, not sorry! PJ BOXES - THE SCOTSGAY MEET MARKET ================================ To reply to a Contact Ad: By e-mail: We can now accept replies by e-mail for Box Numbers. 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Young Attractive Lesbian Fem lesbian, young, slim, auburn hair, great figure, seeks similar for friendship and possibly relationship. Loves cinema and candlelit dinners. ALAWP. Light hearted replies welcome. Write soon. Box SG08001. Strathclyde Inexperienced butch lesbian, 20s, seeks understanding woman willing to indulge in watersport and/or dyke daddy fantasies. Box SG08002. Gay Female I am 33, slim, fit, enjoy going out, cosy evenings in, good, food, travelling, walking, good conversation and fun. Looking for similar whos honest and caring (NOT butch). Will travel. Box SG08003. Perth Area Shy, loving and inexperienced 22 year old, looking for friendship/possible (hopefully) long term relationship with a lesbian aged 25-40. Please enclose photograph. Box SG08004. MEN Edinburgh/Fife - Rescue Me! 5'11", 22 bloke, VGSOH, med build, dark haired, fairly good looks, seeks similar guy for fun/friendship/romance. Likes nights in/out, pubs, cinema, kisses?! Write and find out more! Box SG08005. Edinburgh - London Passive guy, 5'2", 7st9lb, young looking 50, seeks tall slim guy (any race) for friendship or maybe more. Box SG08006. Mature man seeks young guy 38 year old guy offers his experience to younger guy - student type maybe. I'm mature, friendly and discreet. First timers especially welcome. Go on, take a chance and drop me a reply! Box SG08007. Glasgow Your fantasy is to meet a 40 year old WE leather master and learn about leather, rubber scene. Mine is to meet novice horny boys keen to learn new safe skills. 18E. Box SG08008. Peterhead & Fraserburgh Area Country boy, 27, seeks friends into running, training, cycling around, 25 to 32 years old. If you're out there, why in OZ's name aren't you here? ALAWP. Box SG08009. Northeast/Anywhere 22 year old Capricorn guy needs THAT special person into nights in/out. You: 20-25, into similar. Must have sense of humour. ALAWP. Box SG08010. Edinburgh - Scotland Mediterranean professional: 27, 5'11", slim, latino look, WE, active, resident in Edinburgh, seeks ginger/redhead/strawberry-blond professional: 25-33, slim, passive, Scottish accent, cleanshaven, for fun and friendship, more? Can travel. Box SG08011. Where Are All The Chubby Chasers? Large, lonely, leftish guy seeks big bulky bear or caring cuddly chaser for fun and friendship. Only genuine chubby chasers need apply as I have been let down before! Box SG08012. Ayrshire - Glasgow - Friends Sought Me: 30, 6ft, medium build, tanned, WE, horny, pierced. Seeking new friends for safe fun times. You: 25-30, horny, GSOH, WE, clean. No time wasters please. ALAWP. Discretion assured. Box SG08013. Caged Young Bear Prisoner, 24, 5'11", 16st, straight but interested, looking for older man to lead the way. If I'm going to change, I want it to be with the right person. Box SG08014. Ayrshire - Glasgow Gay guy, 26, very horny, likes pubs, music. Seeks guys (especially policemen) for friendship and fun times. Box SG08015. No Size Queens, Please! Big may be beautiful, but it doesn't half make your eyes water! Five and a half inches of sheer pleasure available to the right guy! I'm 40, you're much younger (student?). Non-smoker essential! Can travel or accommodate. Box SG08016. Butts Needed For Spanking Gay guy, 40, seeks butts (novice or experienced) in tight jeans or bare for exciting times with strap, paddle, cane or your choice. Also like poppers, bondage, leather, SM. Box SG08017. Fife - Edinburgh - Anywhere 40 year old guy, 5'9", medium build, s/a, seeks slim guys 18 to 50. Jockey type lads most welcome (short and slim). Active or passive. Can travle or accommodate. ALAWP - I promise! Box SG08018. Central Scotland - Anywhere Attractive guy, 29, loves dressing in leather, rubber waders, requires guy(s) 35-50 for fun. Loves older attractive guys who are active, genuine, adventurous. Photo/telephone number. Box SG08019. Edinburgh Area Good looking 27 year old with GSOH and wide interests seeks friendship or relationship with a slim cute guy under 25. Own flat so can accommodate. ALAWP. Box SG08020. Glasgow - Greenock Looking for friends - maybe more? Me: 28, 5'9", enjoy theatre, foreign films, travel, pub! You: 18-30, similar interests. Go on, take a chance! Photo preferred. ALA. Let's have fun. Box SG08021. Glasgow - Edinburgh 29 year old guy, good body, fit, VWE, seeks other guys (18-32) for safe fun and friendship. Can travel/accommodate. Box SG08022. Edinburgh Gay passive 41, moving to Edinburgh mid March, would like to meet and make friends with active guys 35-45. Into antique fairs, boot sales and making friends. ALAWP. Box SG08023. Dundee - Tayside Mid forties slim guy looking for caring and affectionate younger/older active guy to liven up our routine boring lives with uncomplicated fun and friendship. Can travel/accommodate. Write soon. Box SG08024. Glasgow Guy - Adult Baby Guy, 38, into nappies, plastic pants, etc. wants to meet other guys into same or any guy who wants to try the adult baby scene. Lots of nappies, plastic pants. Box SG08025. Early 30's And Over The Hill? I don't think so! Slim, dark hair, professional looking for similar guy to relax in sauna. Looking for someone who can make me feel alive again. Come on - any offers? ALAWP. Genuine ad. Box SG08026. Glasgow Young guy (25) seeks affectionate, open and honest guy (18-30). I'm 5'8", blond, blue eyes, slim build. I like reading, writing, getting pissed. You: red hair(?) or blond, medium or slim build, funny. ALAWP. See you soon. Box SG08027. Edinburgh - Anywhere 32, looking for Mr Right. All letters answered. Likes theatre, walking, nights in or out, so put pen to paper and get writing straight away. Box SG08028. No Children Please! 22 year old Glasgow student, 5'11", would like to hear from mature men (bearish guys with facial hair positively welcomed!). Box SG08029. Glasgow Businessman Seeks slim young guy to put over his knee. Can accommodate. Photo helps. ALA. Box SG08030. Dundee 47, slim, OK looks, passive, fit, caring and sensitive guy seeks younger or older guy for fun, passion and adventure. Maybe the romance you are looking for. Photo/phone appreciated. Box SG08031. Ayrshire Friends Wanted 36 year old male seeks friends in Auchinleck area. Into sports, meals out, nights in, videos. Can accommodate or travel. Leading to possible 1-2-1. Photo please ALA. Any age. Box SG08032. Stirling - Glasgow - Anywhere Good looking guy, 22, 5'9", dark hair, well-built, seeks genuine horny guys 18-30 for no strings hot safe fun. Can travel. Photo appreciated (will be returned). Box SG08033. Counsellor Wanted Me - Gay (Bi?) 30's, articulate, able, keen, needy, interesting, informed - you - similar, but also accredited and experienced. Box SG08034. Dundee - Edinburgh - Glasgow - Anywhere Two genuine gay lads interested in leather scene. We are 28 and 32 and would like to meet other gay lads of similar age. We can travel or accommodate. ALAWP. Cheers. Box SG08035. Glasgow VWE Stocky Teddybear Mid 40s, active, into denim/occasional leather, seeks guy(s) who want affection and good times. Me: beard, 5'8", OK looks, arts interests. You: 30E, balding/cropped, possibly WE, discreet. Box SG08036. Inexperienced Needs Teacher Fed up being Mr Nice Guy, ready to live life to the full. Are you ready to show me the ropes? All letters answered. Breakfast included. Box SG08037. Glasgow - Anywhere - Looking For Fun? Genuine good looking student, 18 years, looking for friends 18/35 for fun and maybe more. I'm fit, athletic and looking for adventure. Photo or horny letter will get definite reply. Box SG08038. Anywhere In Britain 49 years of age, live alone, like to meet someone same age or older. I am lonely and want 1-2-1 relationship and love. A lot to offer right person. Box SG08039. Glasgow - Anywhere - Black Guys! Dying to see if the myth is true. I'm white, very good looking, 18 years, looking for black guy 18/28 for friends or maybe more. MN8 type welcome. Photo gets reply. Box SG08040. Fife - Edinburgh Slim and fit smooth skinned mid 40's guy, seeks dominant active friend. Into spanking. Bondage is fine, but nothing heavy. Box SG08041. Glasgow Leather, denim, booted master, 40, wants to meet trainee boys for hot sessions with BD, WS, masks, army and leather toys. Novices or experienced welcome. Discrete, safe and friendly. Box SG08042. Ayrshire Male, 42, long dark hair, seeks TV who is female looking. TLC given. Box SG08043. Fun Loving 24 Year Old Would like to make new friends. Good looking, smooth, likes photography, will pose in sexy underwear. Go on guys. Photo please, mine by return. Can accommodate or travel. Box SG08044. Central Scotland Guy Wants Action Gay guy, 23, slim build, 5'10", good looking, seeks similar for some hot fun times. You will be 18-26, clean and discrete and enjoy safe adult fun. Box SG08045. Are you 5'7" or less? If so, and you are also under 26, then hairy 5'6" guy, 39, would like to hear from you. Clean shaven, smooth and slightly chubby/stocky a distinct advantage. Box SG08046. London Scotsman living in South London would welcome visits and can accommodate if you need somewhere to stop over in LONDON. I am 5'10" high, 40" chest, 32" waist, 33" inside leg, 7" hanging between them. Blue eyes and brown hair with a good looking countenance. I am randy and versatile. Sometimes guys just come and stay over and go out on the town. We have all night buses and some bars are open all night. E-mail: iain_macleod@Planet.intermedia.co.uk. Box SG08050. Horny Penpals Wanted Handsome horny 23 loves reading about what straight boys get up to in private. Let's exchange hot stories. Enjoy DIY and maybe briefs. You 18-28. Box SG08051. Easy Going Hippy 40 year old guy with long hair and laid back attitude would like to hear from young guy who would like to relax with him. Box SG08052. Aberdeen 26, smooth, slim build, good looking. Love to dance the night away or smooch to the blues. You: young, fun, attractive! Good times guaranteed. Your photo gets mine. Box SG08053. Glasgow 35, 5'10", 12st. We would like to meet a business man around 28-45 for safe fun. Better if you are non-smoker and even better if VWE. Box SG08054. Bear Seeks Babe You're 18-26, with smooth (but not skinny) body and like the company of older guys. I'm 38, hairy, fat, bearded and like the company of younger guys. Isn't it time that we met for some safe fun? Box SG08055. Hairy Seeks Smooth You: Young, smooth, boyish. Me: 40, very hairy, mature, GSOH, non-smoker. Can accommodate or travel. Photo, please - returned with mine. Box SG08056. Looking in Birmingham American post-grad studying in Birmingham would like to meet outgoing, sane, adventurous men for friendship and maybe more. Me: non-smoker, non-imposing vegetarian, 26, fit, with a warm sense of humour. Box SG08057. Glasgow Gay male, 30, straight acting likes music, sports, pubs, clubs, seeks guy aged 18-25 for a good friendship, some horny fun and a possible relationship. Discretion assured. Can accommodate. Box SG08058. Edinburgh Guy 33 years, 5'9", short crop, blue eyes, into DM's, army gear, rubber, leather and used pants, wants to meet guys into hot wet times. ALA. Phone number appreciated. Box SG08060. Glasgow Non-scene south european gay guy, slender 5'6", 30 yrs old student, not bad looking. Honest, caring, romantic, discreet, likes pictures, theatre, internet, nights in/out. Looking for similar type. Box SG08061. Glasgow Non scene inexperienced guy looking for friendship or maybe more. I am aged 20 looking for guys 18-25. I like eating out and going to the cinema. Box SG08062. CQ CQ CQ Are there any radio amateurs around? GM1 would like to hear from any other Hams. 2m phone or packet. Box SG08063. Looking For Love? 24 year old graduate, ingenuous and open-hearted, looking for a charm filled romance with an intelligent, affectionate, arts-loving man in his twenties. ALA. Box SG08064. Edinburgh Lingerie Wearer 30, seeks similar gay friends or TVs for hot and horny fun. Photo and phone number if possible. ALA. Box SG08065. BISEXUAL Bisexual Couple - Moray Area We are seeking other bisexual couples to share fantasies and fun times. Please contact with frank letter and photo if possible. Box SG08047. Edinburgh Bi-guy, 40's, slim and attractive, seeks woman for fun and friendship. Box SG08048. Aberdeen Slim, fit, attractive bi-guy, 25, seeks a funloving girl for fun and friendship. Box SG08059. EMPLOYMENT OFFERED Gunge Girls Required! Renegade Productions require two female models for fully clothed messy video shoot - must be willing to enjoy covering each other with custard/Angel Delight. Clothes provided. For full info contact John at 01475 630438 (Evenings) or e-mail 100623.2700 @compuserve.com. FRIENDS ABROAD USA 35 y/o gay South American, blk hair/eyes, olive skin, in shape, educated, sensitive but masculine, looking for friends and maybe love, lets get to know each other. E-mail: NEWLIF7646@AOL.COM. Write: Leo Sandoval, 7761 S.W. 77Th St #D306, Miami, Florida 33156, USA. Phone: 00 1 (305) 596-2788. Holland 29 year old guy from The Netherlands, slender build, 1.86 m., brown eyes and hazel eyes. Which muscular bear-daddy wants to share his ideas about intimacy and find a very loyal, dedicated, good looking friend in Holland? Write: Floris F. Wijers, Okeghemlaan 25, 4837 AS BREDA, The Netherlands. Telephone: 00.31.76.65.19.64. E-mail: floris@euronet.nl GAM in Nederland GAM from Indonesia with Chinese looks in Holland would like to meet Scottish guys under 36 for penpals, fun times, visits. My dream/fantasy men are blond or hairy or blue eyes - no moustache. Me: 177cm tall, slim - smooth body, 31 years, cute. You: terrific guy and ready for action. Write with photo: Richard Birne, Germanenlaan 258, 7312 JE Apelafoorn, Nederland. Canada 38 year old Canadian bear who wants to hear from Scottish guys with facial hair. I'm 5ft.10in., 180 lbs., auburn hair/beard with handlebar 'tashe hairy chest, furry butt! Contact: Ron Kearse, #216-1422 East 3rd. Ave. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V5N 5R5. E-mail: fosters@direct.ca. Friendship Or More Indian born Australian, living in Hong Kong, 29, 182cms, straight acting, sexy and hairy, looking for friends or more from all over the world. Write: Boney Dhar, Block 25, 16-G, Laguna City, Cha Kwo Ling, Kowloon, Hong Kong. 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Tel: (01382) 226840. Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight, Sun 12.30pm-11pm. Formerly the Gauger, Dundee's long established gay bar. Something for everyone! Pool table. TRASH Tay Hotel, 2 Whitehall Crescent. Tel: (01382) 203087. Fri & Sat eves. Loud and popular establishment much frequented by the younger crowd. Edinburgh BLACK BO'S 57/61 Blackfriars Street. Tel: 0131-557 6136. Mon-Fri 12.30pm-2.30pm and 6pm-10.30pm, Sat 12.30pm-10.30pm, Sun 6pm-10pm. Superb little vegetarian restaurant. Friendly staff. Mixed clientele. Good value lunch menu. BLUE MOON 1 Barony Street/36 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-556 2788. Popular lesbigay cafe/bar complex. The Cafe opens Daily 11am-1am. The Buzz Bar is open Nightly 5pm-1am, and the new Pool Room is open Nightly 5pm-1am. CAFE KUDOS 22 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-556 4349. Daily Noon-1am. Food Noon-9pm. Fresh, stylish and always crowded. CAFE LUCIA 13-29 Nicolson Street. Tel: 0131-662 1112. Generally 10am-10pm but hours vary according to performances. Mixed bar attached to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Full of luvvies and their friends! C.C. BLOOM'S 23 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-556 9331. Daily Noon-3am. Bar/diner serving superb food in the Hole in the Wall restaurant (Noon-10pm). Karaoke on Thursday and Sunday. Male strippers Sun at 4pm. Disco every night from 10.30pm. CITY CAFE 19 Blair Street. Tel: 0131-220 0125. Mon-Sat 11am-1pm, Sun 11am-Midnight. Not as outrageously mixed as it used to be, but still seriously conventional. CLUB ORANGE 33-39 Market Street. Tel: 0131-226 4224. Monthly club run by the Gay Preservation Society (starts 24th March - then 1st Sun of Month from May 10pm-4am). A Women's Disco will open on 7th April (10pm-4am) - thereafter quarterly. COLLETTE AT WEST & WILDE 25a Dundas Street. Tel: 0131-556 0079. Beauty and Body Therapist. DRONDALE LIMITED 60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-556 1471. Open Mon-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 12-8. At the front of the Edinburgh Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Centre. Undoubtedly the largest gay shop north of Manchester, with a large selection of magazines, cards, toys, underwear, swimwear, leather and rubberwear. Well worth a visit even if only for the cute staff (if you like that sort of thing). Worldwide mail order service. EAT OUT IN EDINBURGH 60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-556 0152. WWW: http://www.colloquium.co.uk/www/eponym/eatout.html. Daily 11am-11pm. Licensed cafe (situated at the rear of the Edinburgh Lesbian Gay & Bisexual Centre) wherein Brendan Nash provides a superior set of comestibles. EDINBURGH LESBIAN GAY AND BISEXUAL CENTRE 58a and 60 Broughton Street. Owned by OUTRIGHT Scotland, it houses Calosa Publishing Limited, Drondale Limited, Eat Out in Edinburgh and Plakativ as well as providing meeting and noticeboard space for many lesbigay organisations. Private mailboxes available. FANTASIES 8b Drummond Street. Tel: 0131-557 8336. Mon-Sat 10am-9pm. Sun Noon-9pm. Scotland's ONLY licenced SEX shop where you'll be made welcome by the very bearish Vince (who's straight) or Paddy (who isn't). Toys galore, video rental too! FOUR BBBB's CLUB 26b Dublin Street. Tel: 0131-538 7775. Big Beary Bulky Boys have their own club at Intense in the New Town Bar on the 4th Friday of the month. 8-10pm - bar opens to non members 9pm-1am. FRENCH CONNECTION 89 Rose Street Lane North. Tel: 0131-225 7651. Mon-Wed Noon-1am. Thur-Sat Noon-2am. Sun 1pm-1am. After a period as Maggie Rayes, this old favourite has reverted to the old name and the old management has returned. Camp and bijou with intimate staff. Karaoke Tue & Fri. JOY AT THE NEW CALTON 20 Calton Road. Tel: 0131-558 3758. Sat 11pm-late. This One Nighter is Scotland's largest gay club. Reduced entry before midnight. For membership: write: JOY, PO Box 13456, Edinburgh. EH6 8YA. Wheelchair accessible. KUBHLAI KHAN 43 Assembly Street, Leith. Tel: 0131-555 0005. Mon-Sat 6pm-2am. Sun 12-Midnight. 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Back to being the sort of place you'd like to be seen in, this cafe/bar specialises in live music. PICARDY'S BURLESQUE SHOW BAR 2 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-556 5414. Noon-1am. Cabaret Show Bar with show starting at 10pm. Mainly straight clientele. ROUTE 66 6 Baxter's Place. Tel: 0131-556 5991. Sun-Fri 3pm-1.30am. Sat Noon-1.30am. Food served all day. Quiz night Wednesday. Discos Fri and Sat. Real Ale. SCANDAL 2a Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-556 5414. Fri, Sat, Sun 9pm-1am. Fri and Sun are mixed, but this basement bar is strictly for the LADS on Saturdays! TASTE AT THE VAULTS 15-17 Niddry Street. Sun 11pm-3am. Weekly mixed members' club with DJs Fisher and Price. Visitor's passes from West & Wilde. WEST & WILDE BOOKSHOP 25a Dundas Street. Tel: 0131-556 0079. Tue-Sat 10am-7pm, Sun Noon-5pm. Scotlands only lesbian and gay bookshop. Lots of books and quite a few magazines! Falkirk DROOKIT DUCK 16 Grahams Road. Tel: 01324 613644. Mon 11am-3pm and 5pm-11.30. Tue-Thu 11am-3pm and 5pm-12.30am. Fri-Sat 11am-1am. Sun 7pm-Midnight. Straight bar used by a few discrete local gays. Glasgow AUSTINS 183a Hope Street. Tel: 0141-332 2707. Mon-Sat Noon-Midnight, Sun 12.30am-Midnight. Friendly and busy basement pub. Food lunchtimes (until 5pm). Entertainment every evening. BENNETS DISCO 80-90, Glassford Street. Tel: 0141-552 5761. Tue-Sun 11pm-3am. Very popular busy long established gay disco. Tuesdays straight. CAFE DELMONICA'S 68 Virginia Street. Tel: 0141-552 4803. Daily Noon-Midnight. Food Noon-7pm. Busy pub with backroom area (not THAT kind of backroom!). DJ: Mon, Thur, Fri, Sat. Bingo: Tuesdays. Games/Quiz: Wed. Karaoke: Sun. Happy hours: 5-7 and 9-10 every night. Mondays: Becks at ukp1.15 all night. Soap Sunday features all day breakfasts and cheap bevvy all day whilst you watch the TV soaps ... CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street. Tel: 0141-332 7521. Centre open Mon-Wed 9am-11pm Thur-Sat 9am-Midnight Sun Noon-10.30pm. Bookshop Mon-Sat 10am-6pm Sun Noon-5pm. Galleries Mon-Sat 11am-6pm Sun Noon-5pm (admission free). Two galleries, two performance spaces, cafe bar and bookshop. Lesbigay friendly place bustling with life, the universe and everything. Wheelchair accessible apart from upstairs performance space. CLUB X-CHANGE 25 Royal Exchange Square. Tel: 0141-204 4599. Tue-Sun 11pm-3am. Large basement club, popular with young crowd. Wednesday nights are straight (though still quite mixed). Not as busy as it used to be. COURT BAR 69 Hutcheson Street. Tel: 0141-552 2463. Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight, Sun 8.30-11pm. Small bar beside former Sheriff Court. Straight until mid-evening. GHQ CAFE/BAR 8-10 West George Street. Tel: 0141-332 8005. Bar: Noon-Midnight. Bar meals Mon-Sat Noon-7pm. Named after a public lavatory in Edinburgh, this establishment is under new management (again!), the cafe is now shut and the whole place will be closing down soon for refurbishment and a change of name. GLASGOW GAY & LESBIAN CENTRE 11 Dixon Street. Tel/fax: 0141-221 7203. Daily 10am-10pm. Glasgow's community centre for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Two large meeting rooms available for hire. Businesses in the centre include Asset Mortgages, Calosa Publishing, and Maya Vision. Cafe and shops opening soon. E-mail: gglc@gglc.org.uk. WWW: http://www.gglc.org.uk/gglc/ LA CAGE RESTAURANT 26 Cheapside Street. Tel: 0141-221 7078. Nightly 6pm-11pm. Scotland's first top class restaurant catering for a lesbigay clientele. Highly recommended - premiere cuisine in sumptuous surroundings. Reservations strongly advised! MADAME GILLESPIE'S 26 Cheapside Street. Tel: 0141-204 4606. Daily 9pm-3am. Scotland's first gay revue bar. Duplex complex incorporating disco with fab light show. A quality venue featuring regular PAs. Regular theme and party nights. SQUIRES LOUNGE 106 West Campbell Street. Tel: 0141-221 9184. Mon-Fri Noon-Midnight, Sat 12.30pm-Midnight, Sun 8pm-Midnight. Long narrow intimate basement bar, DJ Sun, Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri & Sat. Packed at the weekend. Nightly happy hours 11pm-midnight (all night Sun). VICTORIA BAR 157-159 Bridgegait. Tel: 0141-552 6040. Mon-Sat Noon-Midnight, Sun 12.30pm-Midnight. Basically straight, but justly popular with real ale queens and dykes. THE WATERLOO 306 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-221 7359. Daily Noon-Midnight. Popular, crowded, down to earth gay drinking shop. Scotland's oldest gay bar - what more can we say? Inverness NICO'S BAR/BISTRO Glen Mhor Hotel, Ness Bank. Tel: 01463 234308. Wed and Fri 9-11pm. Smart relaxed bar popular with local gays especially on Wednesday and Friday nights (9.15pm onwards). Mixed clientele. Kilmarnock KAYPARK TAVERN 27/29 London Road. Tel: 01563 523623. Straight pub - the lounge is used by some local gays on Mondays evenings. Stirling BARNTON BISTRO 3 1/2 Barnton Street. Tel: 01786 461698. Mon-Thur 10.30am-11.45pm, Fri-Sat 10.30am-12.45am, Sun Noon-11.45pm. (Food: Day and early evening). Near to railway station, Mixed, busy, bohemian and friendly bar/bistro. Popular with students and Sons/Daughters of the Rock alike. Good food. Real Ale. --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL ============= SWISS DEMAND PARTNERSHIP Angry that their petition demanding equality for gay couples has been ignored for one year, 600 Swiss gays and lesbians have picketed the federal parliament in Berne. They erected a 40-metre-long waiting-room bench and took turns sitting on it impatiently. Media coverage of the stunt was heavy. The petition, which contains 85,900 signatures, demands equal legal status for same-sex couples but leaves the mechanism (such as marriage or registered partnership) open to debate. "For most people, our demands constitute obvious fundamental human rights," said Ruth Howald, president of the Organization of Swiss Lesbians. "For example, actual restrictions mean that many lesbians and gays are not allowed to live in partnership with their foreign partners, or they have to hide illegally." Yves de Matteis of the gay umbrella organization Pink Cross said gay marriage cannot be viewed as "utopian" given that Denmark, Norway and Sweden already allow it. A parliamentary committee will probably consider the petition this spring. ISRAELI GAY ACTIVISTS RECEIVE DEATH THREATS Israel's leading gay organization, the Society for the Protection of Personal Rights (SPPR), has run full-page newspaper ads to respond to an anti-gay hate campaign. The ads carried signatures of around 200 intellectuals, artists, professors, community leaders and civil-rights activists. Problems began in December after a rabbi who is a member of the Knesset said homosexuals deserve death. Since then, several SPPR activists and gay-friendly Knesset members have received death threats and the homes of two SPPR members were ransacked. The written threats promise "strange and unusual deaths" and praise Yigal Amir, the man who shot Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. SPPR is seeking donations from abroad to pay for the ads, which will cost $7,500. Their address is P.O. Box 37604, Tel Aviv 61375, Israel. Phone: 00-972-3-620-4327. Fax: 00-972-3-525-2341. E-mail: rkaplan@hum.huji.ac.il The newspaper ad reads: "On December 12, 1995, a member of Knesset and Rabbi in Israel speaking from the Knesset floor issued a death sentence for homosexuals. Immediately afterwards, activists in the gay, lesbian and bisexual community received threatening letters and the home of two of them was broken into. The letters continue to arrive and are becoming more severe, to the point of threatening cruel and unusual deaths,' expressing praise for Yigal Amir and promising to continue in his path. We, the undersigned, in condemning in the harshest manner this incitement and violence, support the struggle of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals for equal rights. We call to all of Israel, religious and secular, to express openness and tolerance, in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, toward all segments of society." ARGENTINA The Argentinean Association of Transvestites has sued the Buenos Aires municipal police force, charging discrimination, persecution and illegal incarceration. Spokespersons said about 100 transvestites are arrested nightly in the city. They are usually charged with the crime of wearing clothes of the opposite gender and frequently are physically abused at the police station, whilst other crossdressers are nabbed when they take food and clothes to their detained friends. AUSTRALIA An Australian lesbian was ordered to pay her former lover a $113,000 lump sum for support of two children the couple conceived via artificial insemination. The women lived together from 1986 to 1994. "It is unconscionable for the defendant now to seek to make no contribution whatsoever to the upbringing of these children," ruled Supreme Court Judge David Hodgson, noting that the woman had led her partner to believe they would raise the children together. CANADA Labatt Ice beer has launched a gay-themed ad campaign in Toronto gay newspapers, reports its ad agency, Lowe SMS. Placements in other markets will follow, the agency said, along with sponsorships of gay events. After a year of studying how to market to gays, the agency said it learned it should avoid "political symbols like pink triangles or rainbow flags" as well as depictions of "drag queens or leather-clad guys." The current ads show homosexuals in bars, and street signs at Toronto's gayest intersection. ITALY The Provincial Council in Pisa, Italy, has passed a resolution urging the national parliament to pass a gay-partnership law. The council also asked city councils in the province to establish partnership registries and urged the people of Pisa to support the proposals. Catholics on the Provincial Council opposed the resolution. NETHERLANDS Amsterdam gay groups compete aggressively for government money, fight with each other, and implement programs and projects that are not what the gay community needs or wants, said a new city report. City Councilwoman Jikkie van der Giessen responded with a call for local gay organizations to produce "what their constituents want," reported De Gay Krant. SINGAPORE Singapore has announced that post-operative transsexuals will be permitted to marry people of the opposite sex. A government statement said an individual who undergoes "a sex-reassignment procedure" will be identified as the "same sex to which he/she has been reassigned." In the past 25 years, more than 500 people from around Asia have gone to Singapore for gender-change surgery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BALL GAMES ========== Judging by all these American porno movies set in baseball locker-rooms, it's a wonder that any baseball gets played. But what happens in Scotland when guys get off the footie pitch and into the showers? Find out in Jack Dickson's erotic romp ... Man! Why do I do this? I wrap my arms around my chest and I try to hug myself warm. Way down the other end of the pitch I can see a line of red and white. Don't ask me what's happening now, man - this weird game these guys call football's a complete mystery to me! I start to walk about a bit, try to get my circulation going. The whole country's a mystery to me. Been here two months and still can't understand half what the guys say. But there's one word I don't need translated: poof. I stop walking, kick a divot free from frost-hardened ground. Suddenly I'm real hot and sweat's prickling my face. Narrowing my eyes, I watch Shug kick the ball between the other team's goal-posts. A whistle blows twice, there's a cheer and my heart sinks as two guys from our team rush up and grab him. His long red hair's come loose from the ponytail and I watch the way it flicks back and forward across his face. My mouth's dry as the two guys hug him. Couple of seconds later there's more guys around Shug and they've hoisted him onto their shoulders. My heart's somewhere in my football boots. Ninety minutes of this, three times a week. Ninety minutes of freezing my ass off just to be near ... "Okay, Darren, intae the showers..." The PhysE teacher's beside me, grinning, slapping my shoulder. "...mebbe ye'll see a bit mair action next time - git a chance tae show aff thae goalie-skills!" He winks and jogs off down the pitch. I make to follow him, then stop and pretend to tie my lace. Despite the freezing temperature I can smell my own sweat ... but no way I'm having a shower. Not yet. By the time I reach the locker-room things have quietened down a bit. And I see it's still there ... what Shug and a couple of his buddies were grinning at before the game. Someone's tried to clean it off, but the words are inscribed on my heart, ten feet high. Darren Young is a ... ' I find a corner and start to undress. If I take my time the rest of the guys'll go. If I take my time I'll be late for class, but that's just the way it's gotta be. Okay, so dad's posting over here's only for a year. In ten months' time I'll be back in sunny Greensboro, North Carolina. Back home. But no way these feelings gonna go away, never mind where I am. And maybe I could live with that, man - and the loneliness - if it wasn't for these stupid football-games ... and knowing the guy I really like really hates ... poofs. The sounds of laughter are way off in the distance. Couple of laggards are dressing in silence beside me. I try not to look at them, not wanting them to look at me. Eventually they leave; I take my towel and walk through to the shower-block. The hot water stings my skin. Clouds of steam condense around me. I stretch under the jets, enjoying the burning needles on my face and shoulders. Then I grab the soap, start to wash. I've sort of filled out a bit over the summer, and I like touching my body ... when I'm alone. My nipples harden and tingle as I brush the tips ... and somewhere below I can feel another tingle. Then a twitch. Closing my eyes, I think about Shug - his pale body, long muscled legs, tangled red hair ... the way his chest is dusted with soft-looking ginger tufts. I'm soaping my cock and balls, groaning as the hard shaft quivers under my slick hand. I try to draw myself back, but I can't. Shug's face is filling my head ... the way his green eyes twinkle when he smiles. But I know he'll never smile at me. My right hand lingers on my cock, my left cupping my balls. Through the steam there's movement somewhere, but I'm miles away, stroking myself and there's only me and ... .. another hand. A dry hand. On my wet cock. I nearly jump out of my skin! I take a step back and bump into something. Then the dry hand on my cock moves to cover mine, his other hand tight around my waist holding me steady. Or stopping me turning. I moan as lips then teeth brush the skin of my neck and start to nibble. And I can feel a hard cock pressed against my ass. Before I know it, I'm grinding back against that cock while a rough hand starts to move my fingers up and down my shaft. I gasp, shivers flying up and down my spine. The shower's still running, pouring down onto us and lathering the soap into a foam. And over the sound of water I can hear our breathing ... his and mine. Christ, his hand's moving faster now, guiding mine, and I can feel the head of his cock dragging against the top of my ass-crack. Somewhere in the back of my mind there's thoughts - like, we're gonna get caught and who the fuck is this anyway? But the electricity in my cock and the moans in my ear sweep all that away. He's jacking me furiously now, the arm round my waist holding me tighter. My head's against his shoulder, my free hand twining into his soaking hair and I can feel his thighs behind mine as he bends his knees, thrusting up and along my ass-crack. Everything's just water and flesh and muscle and motion ... .. then my balls spasm unexpectedly and it feels like the top of my skull's blown clean off! Man, there's cum all over my fingers ... and my head's everywhere and nowhere all at once. I'm vaguely aware of his hand leaving my cock and gripping my waist as he starts to grind more vigorously against me. My other hand moves up, cupping the back of his neck. He's moaning, muttering my name ... Seconds later the body behind me tenses, and as he grabs my balls and shoots over my ass-cheeks I bite my lip, twisting his wet hair between white knuckles. His mouth is open on my neck, kissing and licking... then he's gone and I collapse to my knees, warm water already starting to wash him from my body. When I finally open my eyes, all that's left of him is a mushy feeling in my guts ... and the long red hairs twined around my fingers... ----------------------------------------------------------------- ALAN'S CHART 1. Renegade - Feel It (Aura) 2. TLC - Creep (Tin Tin Out Remix) (BMG) 3. Spanish Fly - Sustain (Whoop!) 4. X-Press 2 - The Sound (Nush Mix) (Junior Boys Own) 5. Sloane Strangers - A Mike Of Minstrel / Mind Over Matter (Yeti) 6. Subsonic 808 - Good Times (Subsonic 808 Mix) (Force Inc.) 7. Castle Trancelott II: Second Crusade - Resonance (Slate) 8. Brutal Deluxe - Brutal Deluxe (Brutal Mix) (Whoop!) 9. DJK - Girls (Babe Mix) (Tuff Tunes) 10. Razor's Edge - Starburst (Anthem Mix) (Metropolitan) 11. DJ Scot Project - U (V-Mix) (DMD) 12. Stone Factory - Sunset / Secret Worship (Stone Factory) 13. Mother's Pride - Night Flight (Original Mix) (SkinnyMalinky) 14. Ganesh - Crisis (The Dentist's Old Skool Mayhem Mix) (Phoenix Rising) 15. Earthquake - Mango (Solid Silver) 16. Canyon - Planet 10 (Hook) 17. Judge S - Here Is Justice (Influence) 18. Lighthouse Family - Lifted (Dekkard Dub) (Wild Card) 19. Twinax - Get Up! (Wicked Vibe Remix) (Tetsuo) 20. Tyro - Pressure (All Around) (Harder In The West Mix) (Yeti) Joy - the Gay Club for Happy People Saturday, Calton Road, Edinburgh ---------------------------------------------------------------- DONNA McPHAIL ============= An out lesbian on stage in Kirkcaldy? Whatever will the neighbours think? And what will they think in St Andrews, Paisley and Aberdeen (it'll not worry them in Edinburgh)? British stand-up's top bovver-bird and most dapper dyke, Donna McPhail, is going on a short Scottish tour in March to all these places. A stalwart of radio and TV (starring most recently in BBC2's The Sunday Show), Donna McPhail is no stranger to Scotland having sold out a two week run at the Edinburgh Festival. Described by the Scotsman as Bolshie, bad and bawdy', McPhail creates much of her humour by stating that which ought not to be stated. For example, on her trip to Buck House, she bemoaned the ukp8 spent on viewing the royal apartments: "What we want to see is a pair of trousers over the radiator or a pee stain on the carpet from one of the corgis". Martin Powell 3rd March - Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh. 4th March - St Andrews Union. 5th March - Adam Smith Centre. 6th March - Paisley Arts Centre. 7th March - Play House Aberdeen. Free Tickets Three pairs of tickets are available for ScotsGay readers for the Aberdeen date. If you'd like to be our guests, just write to: Donna McPhail Ticket Offer, Pageprint Limited, PO Box 666, Edinburgh, EH7 5YW. You should enclose your name and address, and answer the following question: "What was Donna McPhail's TV programme called?". Closing date: 5th March at noon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPETITION =========== My love is like... To mark the bi-centenary of the death of Scotland's National Poet - Rabbie Burns, ScotsGay - Scotland's National Lesbigay Magazine will be running a major competiton. What you have to do: Imagine what Burns might have written if he'd been gay and stick it down on paper. We'll be giving full details of prizes and how to enter in our next issue. ------------------------------------------------------ REVIEWS ======= 'ware: Queers In History - Deluxe Edition Quistory, ukp29.99 (For Mac or PC) It seems strange to be reviewing a computer program for a gay magazine, but then this is a gay program. It's been around in the USA for a while but has only recently been released this side of the pond. Frankly, I'm not too impressed. Installing is easy (under Windows on the PC), but the result is rather disappointing. It turns out to be a database of Queers written in Visual Basic. You can query the database in various different ways and, if you select one of about six entries, you'll get a relevant graphic as well as the potted biography which comes with all the entries. There's also a text based trivia quiz called Queeries. As a labour of love, passed around as shareware or freeware, this might be commendable. As a piece of professional software costing nearly thirty quid it's a let down and is no longer on my hard disk. books: Neons by Denis Belloc Quartet Books, ukp8.00 Another novel by this gifted French writer. This one follows the life and loves of a little French lad from an early age right through to his days of pulling tricks in Paris. It didn't have the impact on me like the other book by him reviewed last time, but nevertheless a riveting read. This author understands how to keep his readers in a constant, page turning state of tension with his style of unrelenting and uninhibited tales of violent sexuality told in a matter of fact and stark prose, which seems to be very much the way this writer is making a name for himself. Definitely one to be considered. Unto the Soul by Aharon Appelfeld Quartet Books, ukp8.00 I think I'm developing a love hate relationship with this author. In this book he explores the sustenance of faith in the face of tremulous guilt. It's one of those books that doesn't have many surprises, yet to call it predictable would not do it justice. It's beautifully crafted and throws open a plethora of questions about faith, morality, honour and all the other attributes of so-called civilised society. It's the story of a brother and a sister who take on the tremendous task of protecting the last resting place of some Jewish martyrs on top of a inhospitable mountain. This task was bequeathed to them by their dying uncle and at first they accept this daunting privilege wholeheartedly, but soon the rot sets in and the realisation that after all they are only human looks as if it might be their doom. Definitely another of those books I'll be coming back to in the future and one I'm really glad I read. SM Resource 4 from SM Gays BM SM Gays London WC1N 3XX This is the fourth in a series of guides to all things SM that those perves at SM Gays have produced. Like its predecessors, it covers a wide range of issues, from First Steps into SM, through Classic Bondage to that guarantee of Ooohs and Aaaahs, Piercing. Written in a very accessable and matter-of-fact style, each article covers the why, the how, the tools and most importantly the safety of each of the disciplines. It is well-illustrated throughout, from a wonderful chest-clutching pic of a well-abused nipple and a clothes peg on the inside front cover, to rather graphic (and maybe too graphic for some!) diagrams of various male genital piercings - I'm sure you've already noticed that we've reproduced some of them here... A comprehensive bibliography is included, as well as a Guide to First Aid, helping to get the message across that SM should always be Safe, Sane and Consensual. An invaluable guide for those already "practicing" SM (you mean you haven't got it right yet?) as well as those who have a healthy curiosity as to what it's all about. Tales from the Geronimo by Scott Frank Quartet Books, ukp8.00 In the introduction to this book on the inside front cover it says that this is a beautifully written and evocative book. It also says that it carries the tradition of deQuincy and Burroughs into the nineties which just goes to show that you really can't judge a book by it's cover. This book is written by a very, very sad junkie, who unfortunately learned to spell and imagined that this was all that's needed to write a novel. I would not insult deQuincy or Burruoghs by mentioning their names in the same breath let alone associating them with this author. This man has got no writing ability at all and is about the most boring wordsmith one could have the misfortune to read in a lifetime. I would suggest if you wanted to spend some money on a book you might do a lot better to go and buy the next book I have reviewed for you. A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kennan Abacus, ukp6.99 There are very few novels which can transport the reader - this is one of those it is a journey to the deep south of America. It is an evocative, painful, happy, angry journey of discovery. It shows that even the black community is riddled with strife, prejudice and personal conflict. This really is a book worth buying, it is original and it has a spark of genius to it. Considering that this is the first book that Randall Kennan has ever written, we will hopefully see much more of the work of this promising writer and I for one shall eagerly await the next novel with baited breath in the hope that it too will be a winner. Do yourself a favour, go out and buy it now. video: Making It - Making a gay blue movie Prowler Press, ukp14.99 It's no secret that I'm a fan of Prowler's mucky movies and this one is even better than the last. Instead of the usual improbable story lines, this is a documentary showing how Prowler actually shoot their filth. And quite a revealation it is too. Apart from a goodly selection of Hungarian lads wandering around with no clothes on, we at last get to see the lovely Bjorn Andersen who is the man behind not only Prowler Press but the stills camera on Prowler's shoots. If you really want to make an old man happy, Bjorn: get your kit off and appear in Prowler's next video! Justin Milne ------------------------------------------------------------------- LISTINGS ======== We TRY to provide Scotland's most up-to-date and accurate listings. If your group isn't listed, - or if your entry needs updating - please write to ScotsGay with full details. We're not clairvoyant: If we don't know about it, it just won't go in! We'd also like to know about your forthcoming events and meetings. Although many of the listings are for specific towns, they often cover a much wider area. If in doubt, you can always phone one of the Switchboards for more information. Write to:- ScotsGay Listings, Pageprint Limited, PO Box 666, Edinburgh EH7 5YW, Fax them to: 0131-558 1262 or e-mail them to scotsgay@drink.demon.co.uk. NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND is Scotland's oldest lesbian, gay and bisexual rights organisation. It was founded in 1969 as the Scottish Minorities Group, later became the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and changed its name to OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND in December 1992. OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND owns the Edinburgh Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Centre. To contact, write to: The Secretary, OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND, 58a Broughton Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3SA or send e-mail to tmh@dcs.ed.ac.uk DUNDEE: OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND Dundee Focus Group for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals meets 4th Thursday of each month at 7pm in the YMCA Special Projects Office, 76 Bell Street. Write to: PO Box 104, Dundee. DD1 3DU. Why not join OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND? Membership is ukp12 waged, ukp6 low-waged (under ukp10,000 pa) and ukp3 unwaged. Life membership is ukp150. Please make out your cheque/Postal Order to OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND and send to The Membership Secretary, OUTRIGHT SCOTLAND, 58a Broughton Street, EDINBURGH. EH1 3SA. LESBIAN ARCHIVE AND INFORMATION CENTRE: The UK's largest and most significant collection of materials relating to lesbian lives. LAIC (at Glasgow Women's Library) 109 Trongate, Glasgow. G1 5HD. Tel: 0141-552 8345. Open Tue-Fri 1-6pm and sat 2-5pm. PRIDE SCOTLAND: Pride Scotland has been established to organise the annual lesbian, gay male and bisexual Pride event in Scotland, which will be held in Glasgow on 22nd June 1996. Phone: 0131-556 8822. Or write: c/o GGLC, 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AL. E-mail: pride@tardis.ed.ac.uk. WWW: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/pride/. All kinds of help are urgently required! LOCAL ORGANISATIONS ABERDEEN: Aberdeen Gay Group caters for all ages and meets 3rd Sunday of every month. Phone Ron on Aberdeen (01224) 640996 for information or write to: AGG, PO Box 129, Aberdeen. AB9 6EY. Swim or Social most Wednesdays: Phone David on Aberdeen (01224) 317552. Icebreakers is a social group which meets on Friday evenings. Contact Aberdeen Switchboard for details. AYR: Ayrshire Forum is a group for gay men, lesbians and bisexuals providing support and acting as a social focus. Meets every Wednesday 7.30-9.30pm. For info: contact Ayshire Switchboard or write c/o The Leisure Centre, 24 Wellington Square, Ayr. Ayrshire Gay and Lesbian Switchboard operates Mon/Wed/Fri 7-10pm (answerphone outwith these periods). Phone: Ayr (01292) 619000. Or write to: PO Box 1043, Ayr. KA6 5JQ CAITHNESS GAY AND LESBIAN CONNECTION: A friendly informal group which meets regularly. Write to: Box 689, Journal Office, 42 Union Street, Wick, Caithness. KW1 5ED. CENTRAL REGION: Forth Friend has a disco (1st Saturday of most months) and a social group which meets every second Wednesday. The Forth Friend phoneline operates each Monday from 7.30pm to 9.30pm on Stirling (01786) 471285. Or write to: PO Box 28, Stirling. FK9 5YW. DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY: Regular social meetings - usually every second Thursday. For details of all events: phone Dumfries (01387) 269161 Thursdays 7.309.30pm or write to Dumfries and Galloway Lesbian and Gay Group, PO Box 1299, Dumfries. DG1 2PD. DUNDEE: Tay Friend, holds regular social meetings for gay men. Write to: Tayfriend, PO Box 182, Dundee. DD1 9UP. EDINBURGH: Icebreakers is an alternative to the scene and takes place between 7pm and 8pm on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each calendar month in the Blue Moon, 36 Broughton Street. Phone Lothian Switchboard for details. ELGIN: Elgin Gay Switchboard is trying to get off the ground. For more details, telephone Bobby on Elgin (01343) 542928. Moray Gay Group meets second Wednesday of each month 8.15pm in the lounge (enter from car park) of the Cat's Whiskers pub in New Elgin. Phone Douglas on Elgin (01343) 547107 for details. FIFE FRIEND: Small voluntary phoneline offering support, advice and information to lesbians and gay men within Fife. Friday: 7.30pm10.30pm. Telephone: Kirkcaldy (01592) 266688. Write to PO Box 19, Kirkcaldy, Fife. KY1 3JF. Runs a monthly disco. GLASGOW: Glasgow Gay & Lesbian Centre Project, fundraising, campaigning and social group. Committee meetings held on 1st Saturday each month at 2pm in the Centre, open to all. Write to Glasgow Gay & Lesbian Centre, 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AL or contact 0141-221 7203 (phone/fax). Childcare expenses and BSL interpreter available - please give advance notice. E-mail: gglc@gglc.org.uk. WWW: http://www.gglc.org.uk/gglc/ Glasgow Gay Group is an informal social group for gay men. Has a regular weekly pub night as well as running other social events like theatre, cinema, bowling, etc. Phone: Steve on 0141-339 7395 - preferably on Mon or Tues evenings. Icebreakers Cafe - An alternative to the gay scene - First Sunday in each month. 12.303.30pm in Austin's Bar, 183a Hope Street, Glasgow. Details from Strathclyde Switchboard. HAMILTON: Lanarkshire Gay Men's Group is a new group which meets regularly. Details from Kenneth Henry at Phace West: 0141-332 3838. INVERCLYDE: Inverclyde Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Group imeets every Tuesday 7-10pm. Details from Joe Hammill on Greenock (01475) 729174. INVERNESS: Gay Group meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 28 Huntly Street. Phone Andrew on Inverness (01463) 711585 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) or write to: PO Box 67, Inverness. IV1 2XX. PAISLEY: Paisley Forum is a social group for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and our allies. Meets Paisley Arts Centre, New Street on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month 8.30-10.30pm. Details: Phone Sandra on 0141-887 2649 or contact Strathclyde Switchboard. WOMEN'S GROUPS ABERDEEN LESBIAN GROUP: Meets every Wednesday 8-10pm in the Women's Centre, Shoe Lane. Phone Aberdeen (01224) 625010 or 627415 for details. EDINBURGH: AD Group: For lesbians 45+ (younger lesbians who support the concerns of lesbians 45+). Meetings for discussion and support, first Saturday (15pm) of month in The Women's Centre, 61a Broughton Street. For more details, phone Edinburgh Lesbian Line. Dykes Nytes Out: social events for couples and singles in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Write to: PO Box 169, Edinburgh. EH1 3LU. Lesbian Line 0131-557 0751, Mondays and Thursdays 7.3010pm. For information, advice and counselling in confidence. Write to: PO Box 169, Edinburgh. EH1 3UU. Edinburgh Bisexual Group meets every Thursday at 8pm-9.30pm in the Edinburgh Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Centre, 58a Broughton Street. All welcome. Women's Network: PO Box 159, Edinburgh. EH7 5EL. GLASGOW: Dykes Nytes Out: social events for couples and singles in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Write to: PO Box 169, Edinburgh. EH1 3LU. Glasgow Women's Library, 4th/5th Floors, 109 Trongate, G1 5HD. Tel: 0141-552 8345. Open Tue-Fri 1-6pm. Sat 2-5pm. Closed Mon. Lending and reference library - books, magazines, journals, videos, leaflets and information. UK and overseas feminist and lesbian publications. Contains the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre - a unique national collection of publications, journals and ephemera by and for lesbians. Lesbian Avengers: Meets regularly. Phone 0141-552 8345 for details. Lesbian Line: 0141-552 3355 Wednesdays 710pm. Write to: PO Box 686, Glasgow. G3 7TL enclosing an sae for monthly 'Lavender Listing'. Lesbian Mothers Group: Meets every second Monday at 7pm. Support group, pub nights, informal chat. Creche and fares help available. Phone Lynne on 0141-221 7150. Lesbian Networking Meeting: Contact Glasgow Lesbian Line for meeting details and Lynne on 0141-221 7150 for childcare information. Lesbian Sports Group: Squash, badminton, tennis. Meets weekly. Phone Glasgow Lesbian Line for details. Lesbian Youth Action: Contact Lindsay Jane Morgan c/o Glasgow Lesbian Line. Olderwomen's Group: Contact Glasgow Lesbian Line for details. Team Caledonia West Women's Cycling Group: Phone Women in Sport on 0141-227 5933 for details. Women's Softball Group: Meets weekly. Contact Glasgow Lesbian Line for details. INVERNESS: Out and About is a friendly lesbian social group that gets together once a month. Write to: PO Box 91, Inverness. IV1 2GJ. LESBIAN INFORMATION SERVICE: PO Box 8, Todmorden, Lancashire. OL14 5TZ. Please enclose an sae. Phone/Fax: Todmorden (01706) 817235. BISEXUALS EDINBURGH BISEXUAL GROUP: Meets every Thursday at 8pm-9.30pm in the Edinburgh Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Centre, 58a Broughton Street. There's an excellent programme of talks and speakers usually followed by a visit to a local pub for socialising. Phone Bisexual Line on 0131-557 3620. ATHEISTS/HUMANISTS EDINBURGH FREETHINKERS: An informal network of militant atheists (with one militant humanist agnostic atheist). Write to: PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7 5YW or e-mail god@drink.demon.co.uk GAY AND LESBIAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION (GALHA): A group for non religious lesbians gays and bisexuals which promotes an enlightened, rational Humanist approach to homosexuality. Details from GALHA National Office, 34 Spring Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. CV8 2HB. Phone/Fax: Kenilworth (01926) 58450. BEARS BEARS' CLUB UK: For hairy men and admirers. Meets in the New Town Bar, Edinburgh on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 8.30pm. Write to: BCUK, 56 Albert Street, Beswick, Manchester. M11 3SU. BEREAVEMENT LESBIAN & GAY BEREAVEMENT PROJECT: Lesbians and gay men needing advice and support can ring 0181-455 8894 at any time. Or write to: Lesbian & Gay Bereavement Project, Vaughan M Williams Centre, Colindale Hospital, London. NW9 5HG. BIKERS GAY BIKERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB: A UK-wide club for women and men. Active Scottish section. Write for details to GBMCC, PO Box 33, Nottingham. NG10 2BF. CHRISTIANS EVANGELICAL: Lesbian or gay? From an Evangelical tradition? So are we. Phone: Ewan on Polmont (01324) 715542 or write: EF(LGCM), 13 Westbrook Drive, Macclesfield, Cheshire. SK10 3AQ. L&GCM: Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. Scottish Helpline 0141-334 2286 Thurs 710pm or write to PO Box 1436, Glasgow. G31 2NY. METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: An inclusive church for the lesbigay and trangendered community in Edinburgh. Meets every third Sunday in the Chaplaincy Centre, 1 Bristo Square, at 6pm. Write: MCC Edinburgh, PO Box 12433, Edinburgh. EH1 3FU or phone Middlesborough (01642) 534344. QUAKERS: Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship (formerly Friends' Homosexual Fellowship) is a welcoming and supportive national group for people of all sexual orientations and their friends. Write to: Ruth, 3 Hallsfield, Cricklade, Swindon, Wilts. SN6 6LR. QUEST: Organisation for Roman Catholic men and women who are gay. Telephone: Linkline Glasgow on 0141-552 8328. Sunday 710pm. Or you can write to: Quest, PO Box 280, Glasgow. G12 0AW. COMPUTER BUFFS BORDERS BULLETIN BOARD: Computer based info every evening 6pm-8am. Hawick (01450) 377877. To get at the Gay areas, leave a message for the SYSOP asking for access. CHAPPS BBS: 24 hour board operating at speeds up to 28,800. 0131-539 1132 or 0131-538 3345 (speeds up to 14,400) Fido echoes. LAMBDA BOARD - EDINBURGH: A free 24 hour computer based bulletin board system. Private mailboxing, areas for Women, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Leather Enthusiasts, TV/TSs, etc. 0131-556 6316. Scrolling (8N1) and Viewdata (Prestel) formats at speeds up to V22bis (2400/2400). CULTURAL GAY CALEDONIAN ASSOCIATION: Social group for kilt wearers and friends. Meets in GHQ on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month. Phone Bill on 0141-646 1513. INTERNATIONAL KILT APPRECIATION SOCIETY (IKAS): Contact and social group for guys interested in viewing/wearing kilts. Regular newsletter: SAE Mervyn Tacy, Ziveli', 20 Ordsall Park Road, RETFORD, Notts, DN22 7PA. LONG YANG CLUB: An international organisation for gay orientals and interested people of other nationalities. Promotes social events, education and mutual help services and publishes a magazine. Phone Ray: 0131-336 1287. WILD WILD WEST: C&W line dancing group. Every Wednesday. Partick Burgh Halls (Lesser Hall), Glasgow. 7-8.30pm. Phone: Brian Ross on 0141-333 0827. DRINK PROBLEMS If you are a lesbian or gay man with a drink problem and want help and advice, ring Tom on 0141-770 6599, 7 days a week anytime. Tom refers to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), but does preparatory work. FORCES AT EASE: An advice service to armed forces personnel and their families on any subject. Free, independent, confidential, impartial. Write: 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6LS or phone (Sundays 5-7pm only) 0171-247 5164. RANK OUTSIDERS: Support group of Lesbian and Gay Ex Armed Forces Personnel. No rank distinctions. Write to Rank Outsiders, PO Box 10133, London. SW2 2ZD or telephone the Regional Director Robb Nunn on 0131-332 9662. National Helpline: 0171-566 0044 Wed 7-9pm. HEALTH MATTERS AYRSHIRE AIDS AWARENESS PROJECT: Support and assistance for those living with AIDS/HIV. Befriending and buddy services. Phone: Ayr (01292) 619000 Or write: PO Box 1043, Ayr. KA6 5JQ. BODY POSITIVE (GLASGOW): Providing support for those HIV+ and with AIDS in the West of Scotland. Phone: 0141-332 5010. Or write: 3 Park Quadrant, Glasgow. G3 6BS. BODY POSITIVE (GRAMPIAN): Support and assistance for gay men with HIV/AIDS. Phone: Aberdeen (01224) 404408. Or write to: PO Box 83, Aberdeen. BODY POSITIVE (LOTHIAN): Phone to speak to a gay positive person 1:1 on 0131-652 0754 Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 10am-4pm, Thur 10am-7pm. Or write to: 37-39 Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh. EH7 5DJ. CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH: 6 Sandyford Place, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G3 7NB. Open Tue-Thur 10am-4.30pm (other times by arrangement). Fully accessible. Telephone: 0141-211 6700 (Minicom: 0141-211 6701). GALUP: Gay and Lesbian United Programme. Promotes health issues among lesbians gays and bisexuals in the Dundee area. Write: c/o YMCA Special Projects Office, 76 Bell Street, Dundee. GLASGOW BARS AIDS WELFARE FUND: Raises funds for various HIV/AIDS projects in the Glasgow area. PO Box 3954, Glasgow. G51 4RA. GLASGOW HIV CARERS SUPPORT GROUP: Phone: 0141-353 2979. Or write to: Church House, 340 Cathedral Street, Glasgow. G1 2BQ. GRAMPIAN AIDS LINE: Aberdeen (01224) 574000 Tuesdays and Fridays 79pm or write to GAL, PO Box 250, Aberdeen. PAISLEY SUPPORT GROUP: For people with HIV, partners, friends and family. Meets Tues 1.30-3.30 at The Wynd, School Wynd (off Moss Street). Phone: 0141-842 7203. PHACE WEST: A locally based and managed agency for people affected by HIV/AIDS serving Glasgow and the West of Scotland. 49 Bath Street, Glasgow. G2 2DL. Phone: 0141-332 3838 (Fax: 0141-332 3755). POSITIVE HELP: Practical help for people who are HIV+ or who have AIDS and their families, children, friends and carers. 64a Broughton Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3SA. Phone: 0131-558 1122. PSORIASIS GROUP: A new self-help group for lesbians, gays and bisexuals affected by psoriasis. Write to: Stuart Easton, 7/9 Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh. EH11 2DU. REACH OUT HIGHLAND: encourages and supports people throughout the Highlands - whether living there or visiting - to take responsibility for, manage, and make informed choices about their sexual health and well-being. 28 Huntly Street, Inverness. Phone: Inverness (01463) 711585. SCOTTISH AIDS MONITOR: provides information and support on all matters relating to HIV/AIDS, including welfare rights and legal advice, charitable relief fund, Buddy support and counselling for friends and family. Phone: 01382 461167 (Dundee), or 0131-555 4850 (Edinburgh). Or write to c/o SWT Dept, Northern College, Gardyne Road, Broughty Ferry, Dundee or 26 Anderson Place, Leith, Edinburgh. EH6 5NP. SOLAS NATIONAL HIV INFORMATION CENTRE: 2/4 Abbeymount, Edinburgh. EH8 8EJ. Information, advice and cafe. Information centre: Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri - 11-4pm. Wed, 5-9pm. Phone: 0131-659 5116. STEVE RETSON PROJECT: Weekly sexual health service for gay men. Tuesday 5.30-9pm. Department of GU Medicine, Main Outpatient Department, Royal Infirmary, 16 Alexandra Parade, Glasgow. NATIONAL AIDS HELPLINE: 0800 567123. A Freephone, 24 hour service for confidential advice and information. LEATHER MSC SCOTLAND: MSC Scotland, PO Box 28, Head Post Office, Edinburgh. EH3 5JL. MSC Scotland is a member of the European Federation of Motorcycle Clubs. LEGAL GAY AND LESBIAN LEGAL ADVICE: GLAD is a London based advice line run by lesbian and gay lawyers. Phone: 0171-831 3535 (Mon-Fri 7-9.30pm). State clearly that you seek Scottish legal advice as our law is very different from that of England and Wales. ORDERS ORDER OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE: The Sisters and Brothers of the OPI are part of a world wide order of queer men and women of all sexualities which is open to all who feel the habit. Its tenets are: The expurgation of stigmatic guilt and the promulgation of universal joy. Contact Sister Solicitation OPI, c/o Eat Out, 60 Broughton Street, Edinburgh. EH1 3SA. OUTDOOR CLUBS GAY OUTDOOR CLUB: Holds regular events including walking, cycling, swimming, hillwalking, windsurfing, cross-country skiing, camping and youth hostelling etc. Also holds regular swimming/social meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow. For more details about GOC, write (enclosing an A5 sae) to: GOC, PO Box 24, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 8YZ or ring one of the Scottish Contacts:- East: Grant on 0131-556 8705 (Hill-walking), John on 0131-226 2341 (Swimming), Iain on 0131-539 0715 (Cycling). West: Douglas on 0141-848 6643. North: Michael on Inverness (01463) 230651. GAY RAMBLING GROUP: Walks on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Phone Robert on 0141-427 1511. OVER FORTIES PHOENIX: The only national group for the over forties and friends of any age. Write (enclosing an sae) to: Phoenix, PO Box 103, Wallington, Surrey. SM6 9SJ. THEATRE PROJECT: A collaboration of lesbians and gay men working on a project leading up to a theatre production in Glasgow in Autumn 1996. They are interested in meeting women and men who had homosexual experiences and/or relationships in Scotland pre-1970 and are willing to share their stories for research purposes. Write: MCT, c/o GGLC, 11 Dixon Street, Glasgow. G1 4AL. PARENTS PARENTS' FRIEND: Phone: 0113-267 4627 from 7.30-10pm. Or write to: Voluntary Action Leeds, Stringer House, 34 Lupton Street, Hunslett, Leeds. LS10 2QW. SCOTTISH PARENTS ENQUIRY SERVICE: Support for parents of lesbians and gay men. Contact via Lothian Switchboard or write to SPE, PO Box 169, Edinburgh. EH1 3UU POLITICAL DELGA: Democrats for Lesbian and Gay Action - write to 4 Cowley Street, London. SW1P 3NB or e-mail archdruid@cix.compulink.co.uk LABOUR CAMPAIGN FOR LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS: Works within the Labour and Trades Union movement to secure equality for lesbians and gay men. Contact PO Box 306, LONDON N5 2SY. Local Groups throughout the UK. LESBIAN AND GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT: LGFM is a movement to bring Anarchist ideas and ideals to lesbians, gays and bisexuals, and to make sexuality a major campaigning issue for all anarchists. Details (3 postage stamps please) from LGFM, BM Box 207, LONDON. WC1N 3XX LIBERAL PARTY LESBIAN AND GAY CAMPAIGN: Phone: Southport (01704) 500115 (day), 0151-259 5935 (ansaphone), write to: Liberal Party Lesbian & Gay Campaign, 41 Sutton Street, Liverpool. L13 7EG or e-mail: libgay@libparty.demon.co.uk TORCHE: Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality - write: BM TORCHE, London WC1N 3XX. RAPE/SEXUAL ABUSE RAPE AND ABUSE LINE: For male and female survivors. Women: Dingwall (01349) 865316 7-10pm nightly. Men: Dingwall (01349) 862686 Mon and Wed 7-10pm. Or write: PO Box 10, Dingwall. IV15 9LH. SCIENCE FICTION DELANEY'S CHILDREN: Meets every 1st Sunday of the month at Eat Out in Edinburgh from 3-4.30pm. Contact Jane on 0131-556 6109. GLASGOW GAY SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY: Meets every 3rd Sunday of the month. Contact Paul on 0141-339 9176. S/M SM GAYS: Write to SM Gays, BM SM Gays, London. WC1N 3XX. E-mail: bandanas@dircon.co.uk SPORTS ALTERNATIVE WRESTLERS EUROPE: A European-wide gay/bisexual wrestling organisation organised from Glasgow. Contact c/o Alternative Sports, PO Box 437, Glasgow. G42 8HU, phone 0973 310416 or e-mail 100022.2554@compuserve.com BRITISH GAY AND LESBIAN SPORTS FEDERATION: Encourages participation in sport. Write (with sae) to BGLSF, Central Station, 37 Wharfdale Road, London. N1 9SE. EDINBURGH ALTERNATIVE WRESTLING CLUB: Phone Derek on 0131-467 1465. EDINBURGH GAY MEN'S RUNNING CLUB: Meets for 3-4 mile casual local run. Call Alistair: 0131-661 0008. GAY BODYBUILDERS/WEIGHTRAINERS CLUB: contact Winston Duncan on 0171-379 3480 for contact with Scottish members and nationally. Club produces "Iron-Up" magazine as part of ukp25 membership. GAY FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS NETWORK: Glasgow group holds monthly meetings in Squires Bar. For further details, please contact Ewan on 0141-779 2321 or write enclosing sae c/o Phace West, 49 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 2DL. STUDENTS Many Universities and Colleges have Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Societies. Contact these via your Student Union or Student Association. Many are open to non-students living in the area. There are also groups covering wider areas run in conjunction with the National Union of Students - East of Scotland: Write to Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Officer, East of Scotland Area NUS, 11 Broughton Market, Edinburgh. EH3 6NU or phone on 0131-556 6598. North of Scotland: Write to Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Officer, North of Scotland Area NUS, University of Aberdeen, 50/52 College Bounds, Aberdeen, AB2 3DS. West of Scotland: Write to Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Officer, West of Scotland Area NUS, Cathcart House, Langside College, 50 Prospecthill Road, Glasgow. G42 9LB. You can contact the NUS Scottish Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Officer on 0131-556 6598 or write to NUS Scotland, 11 Broughton Market, Edinburgh. EH3 6NU. E-mail: nus-scot@dircon.co.uk. TEACHERS EIS GAY AND LESBIAN NETWORK: Write c/o 46 Moray Place, Edinburgh. EH3 6EH. Or contact Simon Macaulay, Assistant Secretary, on 0131-225 6244. TV/TS ABERDEEN: Crossdressing Group. Contact Aberdeen Switchboard for details. EDINBURGH: Scottish TV/TS Group meets in private rooms every last Saturday each month except December. Ring Lothian Switchboard for further information. GLASGOW: Crosslynx meets second Wednesday of each month from 7pm-10pm. Phone Strathclyde Switchboard for more details. VISUAL IMPAIRMENT VISUAL IMPAIRED GAY GROUP SCOTLAND (VIGG): Offers a listening ear and support to women and men in close co-operation with the Lesbigay Disability Forum. Phone Colin and Jim: Dumfries (01387) 261679. WORKPLACE MSF: Lesbians and Gays in MSF. Phone: 0171-738 5469 or write c/o 39b Pentonville Road, London. N1 9LP. UNISON NATIONAL L&G CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE: Phone: 0131-469 3880. Or write: c/o 18 St Giles Street, Edinburgh. EH1 1PT. WRITERS INDELIBLE INC: LGB Writers' Group based in Glasgow. Poetry, plays, exchange ideas, collaborations, informal meetings. Phone: Brian 0141-946 2078. YOUTH GROUPS LESBIAN YOUTH SUPPORT INFORMATION SERVICE: PO Box 8, Todmorden, Lancashire. OL14 5TZ. Please enclose an sae. Phone/Fax: Todmorden (01706) 817235. STIRLING YOUTH GROUP: Meets Mondays fortnightly. Details from Forth Friend on Stirling (01786) 471285 Mon 7.30-10pm. STONEWALL YOUTH GROUP: For lesbians, gays and bisexuals under 26. New members group meets Wed night and Core Group and 20+ Groups meet Fri night. Phone: 0131-556 4040 Tues 7.30-9pm (answering machine outwith these times). Or write: Stonewall Youth Project, Dunford House, 7 Boroughloch, Edinburgh. EH8 9NL.. STRATHCLYDE LESBIAN AND GAY YOUTH MOVEMENT: Friendship and support for under 28s. Meets Tuesday 7.30pm and Sat afternoons. Details from Strathclyde Switchboard or Glasgow Lesbian Line. ---------------------------------------------------------- SWITCHBOARDS AND HELPLINES ========================== AYRSHIRE GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD: Mon, Wed & Fri 7-10pm Phone: Ayr (01292) 619000 BISEXUAL PHONELINE: Thurs 7.30-9.30pm Phone: 0131-557 3620 DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY L&G PHONELINE: Thurs 7.30-9.30pm Phone: Dumfries (01387) 269161 DUNDEE LGB SWITCHBOARD: Mon 7-10pm Phone: Dundee (01382) 202620 EDINBURGH LESBIAN LINE: Mon, Thurs 7.30-10pm Phone: 0131-557 0751 FIFE FRIEND: Fri 7.30-10.30pm Phone: Kirkcaldy (01592) 266688 FORTH FRIEND: Mon 7.30-9.30pm Phone: Stirling (01786) 471285 GLASGOW LESBIAN LINE: Wed 7-10pm Phone: 0141-552 3355 GRAMPIAN LESBIAN, GAY & BISEXUAL SWITCHBOARD: Wed & Fri 7-10pm, some Tues 2-5 Phone: Aberdeen (01224) 633500 Minicom: Aberdeen (01224) 634055 Fax: Aberdeen (01224) 634066 LOTHIAN GAY & LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD: Nightly 7.30-10pm Phone: 0131-556 4049 STRATHCLYDE GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD: Nightly 7-10pm Phone: 0141-332 8372 LONDON LESBIAN AND GAY SWITCHBOARD: 24 hours Phone/Minicom: 0171-837 7324 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOTSDYKE ========= ROBERT'S RULES: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? It was something in her eyes. Or rather it was something that wasn't in the eyes any more. Terror. Fury. Tears. For five decades, she had been speaking her story. So perhaps the healing in the telling had surgically separated emotion from her side of the podium. It had not, however lessened her impact. A Polish Nazi prison camp survivor, she had come to teach us. Expecting the worst, most of us learned more. The devil was in these details in a far more forceful way than any book, or movie or docu-footage, which could never quite bring you close enough to absorb the realities. The knowledge that to stand in the front of the soupline was to risk a bowl of thin, warm water as your nourishment. That the opposite end offered both the promise of the life-giving, sparse vegetables from the bottom, but also risk of the empty pot. That survival might hinge on frontliners and backliners combining meager portions so that all might continue. Horror after horror. Detailed after detailed indignity. I had come as a volunteer for training to join the Survivors of Shoah (the Hebrew word for Holocaust) Video Project, begun by Steven Spielberg, to capture the testimony of holocaust survivors. These depositions will be digitally transformed into a multi- media computer archive available to scholars and researchers worldwide. I'd held a microphone before. So I signed on to learn the delicate discipline of permissive, non-intrusive interviewing that assists the remainees to express their experiences. And it was impossible to sit through the lecture about the fateful chronology, and not think of you. "How was it possible." asked Professor of History, Alan Berger, in his orientation presentation, "for a modern nation-state to carry out the systematic murder of a whole population, not for any crime, but for the mere crime of the condition of their birth?" I know that he speaks of people born Jewish, but I also know that he, now more than ever, speaks of people born homosexual who were once the most despised of the bunkmates. And who, even now, without order or cogent organization, are the most vulnerable to the extremes of the kinds of scapegoatism that history has shown can result from foundering economies, and extremists occupying power. Professor Berger detailed a national logbook that once did, and could once again, have your name carved on it. He refers to "Jews." I ask you to transpose "homosexuals". "The Jews," he said, "were diabolized, demonized. Judged less than human. In demonization, the victim is banished from your world, the victim is outside the universe of moral obligation. If you think that someone is not human, sub human, anti-human, a virus, a vermin, than you owe that thing, nothing. In fact, it is your duty to kill it." Later he added, that "the act of being born Jewish was all it took to be eligible for extermination." For the first time in history, birth itself was considered a crime punishable by death. At Dachau after the word "crime" was written the word "Jew." (And, we know, "homosexual.") The good Doctor also outlined for us, other than fate, the kinds of factors that might well have meant the difference between extermination, and protection, support and survival: "The prewar status of Jews determined their fate under Nazism. Acculturation, strong kinship ties, economic tolerance, good interpersonal relationships with non-Jews, all of these were factors in determining if you lived." The Danes, who gave up none of their Jewish citizens, said, "We helped the Jews because we knew them as our fellow citizens." Now, I wonder how there can be a single soul of us left who still prefers to live in hiding? I wonder how she or he, knowing the rising tide of current extreme religionists working toward government domination, can think that the pulled curtain is preferable or even viable? Who doesn't fathom that to declare yourself in the normal course of your business or industry, without fanfare or undue attention, and to work toward the normalization and legalization of our lives, creates a familiar safety that can never be achieved in hiding. That it works directly to deflect the danger that could someday again require our having to secret ourselves, not in closets, but in holes under floorboards or in cellars. We say, frequently, in the Out Community, that no one can hate you if they know you. The Jews say, "Never again." So should we. (c)1995. Shelly Roberts. All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted only in its entirety with written permission. Shelly Roberts is a nationally syndicated columnist, speaker, and author of The Dyke Detector, and Hey, Mom, Guess What! Paradigm Publishing. Let's Not be Left Out of History Again. If you are a Jewish gay or lesbian holocaust survivor, and you understand the benefit of having your experience on record, please contact the Shoah Foundation on 00 1 818 777-7802 or 00 1 800 661-2092. If you are a non-Jewish gay or lesbian survivor, or know someone who wishes she or he had a place to leave a record of what happened, please contact the foundation as well and strongly request that your voice be added to the documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScotsGay: a bi-monthly magazine for lesbians, gays and bisexuals edited, printed and published in Scotland. ISSN: 1357-0595. (c) Pageprint Limited, Feb. 1996. Non profit use by the lesbigay community of material in the magazine will normally be permitted free of charge - but contact us first for permission. We haven't had sex with most of the people who appear in the magazine so we don't actually know what their sexuality is. Editor: John Hein. Contributors in this issue: Dick Wilson (News), Jason Keenan & Garry Otton (Features), Minerva, Jol, Marcc & PJ (Scene), Rex Wockner (International), Jack Dickson (Smut), Alan Nicholls (Music), Martin Powell (Arts), Justin Milne (Videos, Software), Dirk, Andy & Seumas (Books), Shelly Roberts (ScotsDyke). Editorial Enquiries: Write to: ScotsGay, Pageprint Limited, PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7 5YW. Telephone: 0131-539 0666. Fax: 0131-558 1262. E-mail: scotsgay@drink.demon.co.uk We welcome news, articles, photos, cartoons, etc. - especially lesbian and bisexual material. Advertising Enquiries: Telephone: 0131-558 1279. Fax: 0131-558 1262. World-Wide-Web: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ Subscribing by Internet: Send a 'subscribe scotsgay-list' message to listserver@drink.demon.co.uk and the text files of future editions will be delivered to you by e-mail. END