SCOTSGAY MAGAZINE ================= ScotsGay is a monthly magazine for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Edited, printed and published in Scotland ScotsGay 60/- Light - Issue 42a - November 2001 ELECTRONIC EDITION ***Now available on the Web: http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/ How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe information is now at the END of the magazine. All Material Copyright (c) Pageprint Limited 2001. 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) 12ukp 12 issue sub (Overseas) 24ukp Make Cheques and POs payable to 'Pageprint' or 'ScotsGay' and send them to: Subscriptions ScotsGay Magazine PO Box 666 Edinburgh Scotland EH7 5YW Inside this issue: Scottish Media Monitor Special: Ian Beggs Letters Pride Scotland Edinburgh Scottish Media Monitor Glasgow Nun Sense Inverness Aberdeen Dundee ScotsGay Voice Personals Boxes - The ScotsGay Meet Market Venues -------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOTTISH MEDIA MONITOR ====================== Special Feature: When Men Hurt Men (William 'Ian' Beggs) Garry Otton It was as gruesome as anyone could have imagined. Someone had thrown a bin-liner filled with a lad's arm with a hand attached into Loch Lomond. Another bag contained a foot and part of a leg. A torso was found too. By Balmaha Pier a lower leg was found attached to the foot of young Barry Wallace from Kilmarnock. His head was washed up on a beach wrapped in a carrier bag from a passing ferry. William 'Ian' Beggs was accused of murder. In his defence, Donald Findlay QC suggested Barry Wallace did gay sex because he was drunk, was handcuffed with his consent and died before Beggs, panicked and cut him up. When Barry's father, 51-year-old Ian Wallace addressed the cameras after the trial of William 'Ian' Beggs he was understandably bitter. "We are just a normal family who have sat quietly for 22 months trying to maintain our dignity while our young son's name and reputation has been dragged through the gutter by some aspects of the media. We now think that it is time to put the record straight. Anyone who knew Barry would know that he was not an individual who, after having a good night with everyone else at his work's Christmas party, would decide of his own free will to go away with this perverted, murdering homosexual". This was all that now mattered. Clearing Barry's name. His son had been blind drunk and involved in a punch-up before he had the misfortune to meet with Beggs. Now, doubts over his son's sexuality hung like a heavy cloud over Mr Wallace. Filled with indignation, he added defiantly: "Our Barry was a normal, healthy, fun-loving teenager..." But what if young Barry had been gay? Who would have known? His father? Such speculation had been deeply disturbing to Barry's family, but, ironically, this was just the sort of thinking that had contributed to his murder. The stigma attached to gay sex meant many who had been attacked by Beggs, refused to come forward and give evidence in court. Was this also the same stigma that turned William Beggs from being just a closeted homosexual into a pathological killer? Beggs was a young man whose personal morality was at odds with his sexuality. Much has been said of the liberal Quaker secondary school he attended, but the dye had already been cast. His parents Winifred and William Beggs were both devout religionists with strong links to local politics. While he was being ostracised at school Beggs took refuge in hard-line Loyalist views and as a student joined the right-wing Federation of Conservative Students of which he became a chairman. On the surface he came across as an entrenched homophobe, demonstrating support for Ian Paisley's 'Save Ulster From Sodomy' campaign. This was not just the perfect cover; it was a symptom of self-hate. Research in both Italy and the US has already confirmed links between homophobia and the suppression of homosexuality. Up in court at the same time was 25-year-old John Dean who kicked, stamped and stabbed his 39-year-old pal Michael Munro to death after a drinking session in Buckie, Banffshire in the summer of 1998. Although Dean was originally charged with murder, the jury heard Munro had previous convictions for violence so Dean was charged with culpable homicide on the grounds of provocation and jailed for seven years. He received a further three years for perverting the course of justice by burying Munro's body in the garden and burning the bloodstained carpet. His brother James told the court: "He was always in tears about it". Michael Munro was bisexual. Christian evangelists have already identified this niche market and come up with 'conversion therapy'. Andrew Comiskey, a soft-spoken, jet-setting American says: "To be dominated by erotic and emotional feelings for the same sex is, for many people, not something that is a source of ease, or peace, in real life". He certainly wasn't alone. Drag queen 'Candy' claimed he first saw the light, kneeling at the foot of his waterbed. Now, with that vital heterosexual component of a wife - herself a former lesbian conversion-job called Ann - he set up Love In Action and declared himself "dedicated to helping people coming out of homosexuality". Not everyone finds this transformation so easy. 26-year-old Simon Harvey filled his car with exhaust fumes and left a suicide note explaining that as a gay Christian, he was "too filthy to live". His father, believing gay sexuality to be driven by little more than "impious thoughts", promptly tore it up and opened the doors of U-turn Anglia. He too dedicated himself to the curing of the 'perverted'. When morally conservative gays 'come out'; all too frequently, a deep sense of shame follows them. Over 40 years ago, Peter Wildeblood, former diplomatic correspondent for The Daily Mail, served time for 'homosexual offences' as a result of the notorious Lord Montagu scandal in the fifties. He wrote: "I am no more proud of my condition than I would be of having a glass eye or a harelip". (He went on to give evidence to a Departmental Committee set up by the Government on the subject)! Sexual conservatives are as much in evidence today. Theatre impresario, Cameron Mackintosh who lives with his boyfriend and made a GBP10,000 donation to the Conservative Party was unhappy about his name being added to a list defending Sir Ian McKellen's right as a gay man to receive a knighthood. He told a newspaper: "Why does one owe it to the gay population to come out? It's nobody's business but mine. And I certainly resent the suggestion that I am any kind of gay rights campaigner. I am the exact opposite. I just want to be as integrated as any human being". When the gay sexuality of playwright John Osborne was revealed after his death by his lover, so too were accusations that Osborne had mocked the "clamouring AIDS lobby", supported Section 28 and condemned equal rights campaigns by "fairies" and "poofs". Russian playwright Nikolai Gogol went one better. At the age of 42, his sense of gay shame led him to starve himself to death. It can be equally baffling why so many MP's in the House of Commons, allegedly gay or bisexual, should have wanted to vote against an equal age of consent. Such a paradox - a thorn in the foot of gay emancipation - has a morbid parallel, because some of the world's worst serial killers of gays were themselves gay: Fraserburgh-born Dennis Nilsen, Jeffrey Dahmer and Michael Lupo, to name a few. Behind the repression of sexuality, all too often, pathology and crime follows. In September of 1995, 21-year-old fish-packer, Daniel Harding went out for a drink with his soon-to-be married neighbour, Allan Williamson, and murdered him on Broadsea Shore, near Fraserburgh. He was charged with repeatedly striking his alleged victim with rocks and pieces of wood, stripping him naked and having sex with him before throwing him over a 30-foot cliff. Moral conservatism, homophobia and sexual repression cut right across our society. Gay societies and organisations are not exempt. The Gay Outdoor Club (GOC) boasts groups throughout Scotland, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and the Borders. It has a full calendar of events, which include swimming, cycling, windsurfing, badminton, rock-climbing, caving, canoeing, hillwalking, hostelling and camping weekend events across the country. There are a high proportion of professional men within its membership. Organised walks have attracted civil servants, company directors and even a Tory MP. Many are sensitive to public exposure. Requests to film a GOC event for a recent Scottish Television programme on gay life had to be abandoned. In the past, fears of exposure have been openly expressed in the club. One teacher privately expressed to me his a fear of young people being "openly recruited" to the club. Another teacher from the Midlands told me he feared if that happened he would have to leave the club. A few years later, he was 'outed' at his school following a serious blackmail attempt by a young man he had met. Fortunately, he had the school's support during the ordeal. Threats to politicise the club by involving the Gay Outdoor Club in campaigns for gay equality were met with a barrage of protest in its newsletter. "I go out with GOC to get away from all the political crap", wrote one committee member. "I for one am not prepared to man the barricades every time some issue or other crops up and certainly prefer to walk up a small hill in northern Britain rather than march in London on some demo..." wrote another angry member. "Do we want some sort of frivolous group to organise 'pink picnics?'" added yet another. Although more inclusive than it has been in the past, young people have not always been made welcome in the GOC. "There are enough screaming queens on the scene without GOC becoming Priscilla, Queen of the Pennines", wrote one indignant member in its newsletter. Another suggested "we should be trying to attract the thousands of totally closeted gays within organisations such as the Ramblers Association, rather than letting GOC degenerate to a level that may attract youngsters with no sports interests out of the gay clubs". Yet another was more forthright: "If you want an outdoor club for the 'out' under 25's... Why not start one? But don't call it GOC". When a 16-year-old gay youth turned up at a weeklong Hogmanay bash at the start of 1997 organised by the Gay Outdoor Club outside Stirling, he walked into the epicentre of a shock-wave of hysteria that was still sweeping the country in the wake of Thomas Hamilton's massacre of a classroom of kids in nearby Dunblane. One man holding a sensitive government position panicked and promptly booked in at a nearby hotel. Another spent the night in his van before driving home. A small group, including a doctor and a couple of teachers, gathered in the lounge to decide the fate of the tearful youth before he was sent packing shortly before midnight. Said one man: "I'm sorry for him, but this is all too close to Dunblane". The youth later turned up at an organised gay badminton group in Glasgow. The leader, a gay teacher, was forced to abandon the group, citing his presence as one of the reasons. Those with a more realistic knowledge of sexual practices in society and the more liberal, better sexually educated in Scotland, have to calm the waves of moral panic following major sexual misdemeanours and lay the ground toward a society with less sexual pathology, crime, disease and accident. It will be difficult. Every move will be watched, monitored and criticised by moral conservatives in the shape of highly-funded religious groups like the Catholic Church, the Church of Scotland and the Christian Institute in Scotland. Extracts from 'Sexual Fascism' published by Ganymede Books, priced GBP 8.99 -------------------------------------------------------------------- LETTERS ======= NUN SENSE In his Glasgow column in ScotsGay 42, Goldilocks mentions the possibility of a commercial enterprise being brought in to run the Pride Festival. We are told "remember you heard it from Goldilocks first!!" Well, those of us who could be bothered to go to the Pride Consultation in the Glasgow LGBT Centre a couple of months ago not only "heard it first" (straight from the Pride committee) but heard of many other possibilities, got to add ones of our own and to discuss the whole lot in groups both small and large. Perhaps your correspondent ought to spent more time actually getting involved with the community, rather than complaining that no-one else does. Bless you and play safe, Novice Brother Bimbo del Doppio Senso OPI, Convent of Dunn Eideann BALLSUP? Ref the recent LGL Switchboard Ball, we compelled to speak, but we would like some anonymity within ScotsGay publication. As a participant at the ball it can be summed up as "Lamentable"'. The Tea Dance could not be heard for Trendy Wendy in the other hall. Dear knows what place a parade of modern kilts has at a ball when people want to dance and be entertained, again unable to hear most of it because of the music from the other hall, and as for a ceilidh it sounded for what you could hear like a cross between a lesson in dance history and maths, also since when did half a dozen dances create a ceilidh ? Whilst this disaster was unfolding in front of us, the queues at the bar were horrendous, 40 minutes is not an exaggeration, only to be served by a waiter, who had no earthly idea of how to work at a busy bar, could not figure the prices and could not work the till. To add insult to injury a round of drinks 13 in total came to GBP35.50. When speaking to a representative of Guiliano's he stated quite clearly that the prices were set and agreed by Jean of LGL Switchboard. At GBP15 per ticket GBP1 per item at the cloakroom and GBP5 for raffle tickets it is already an expensive evening. Jean should be ashamed of herself, ripping off her gay brothers and sisters, in such a blatant manner. Finally as a company who regularly put up a prize for LGL Switchboard events we shall be taking a rain check in future, unless the committee of LGL Switchboard have a rethink on their pricing policy. Name and address supplied -------------------------------------------------------------------- PRIDE SCOTLAND ============== Pride Scotland announce plans for biggest Pride event to date in Scotland. Pride Scotland 2002 is going to be the most adventurous that has ever been staged in Scotland. Set around the theme ' BE YOURSELF - CHANGE THE WORLD ' next year's event, will be the biggest and best Pride party to date organised in Scotland, lasting over a week and covering the whole of the country. Launching on Friday June 7th with a spectacular surprise party, a week of nationwide celebrations the length and breadth of Scotland with Focus days in the major Scottish cities. This will be followed by a rally and march through Glasgow city centre on Saturday June 15th, followed by ' Pride in the Park ' a massive celebration of LGBT community life on Glasgow Green (subject to license and confirmation) featuring music, arts, and lifestyle attractions. Pride will close with an evening extravaganza at Fruitfly @ the Arches. Festival director Stuart Hammond commented ' We want to take Pride back to the people of Scotland, and have even got plans for a touring "Pricilla Performing Pride Bus". We will be arranging events all over the country, using the slogan "Something inside so strong". I would urge the LGBT community all over Scotland to get behind this and get in touch with us at Pride with ideas and events for your area ' Pride Chair Jaye Richards said, ' We will put the fun back into Pride with next year's program. The LGBT community in our country deserves an event to be proud of. I would urge the Scottish Parliament and every council in Scotland to designate Saturday June 15th, National Pride (in Diversity) Day, and fly the Rainbow flag. I am confident the team will deliver a Pride festival to remember next year.' -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edinburgh / Dun Eideann ======================= It's getting ever closer to Christmas, and we're in the middle of that awkward time for club promoters; When the students come back in September, the clubs are historically busier, and that usually lasts for about a month, when the freshers get their loans and think they're millionaires! About a week later, they panic, because Christmas is coming, and they realise that they get no more money until January, and the clubs usually get quieter again. A few clubs are balking this trend, the obvious are JOY, Mingin, UP! And Luvely. All these clubs are getting busier and busier every time. Mostly because they don't rely on student business. whilst having a healthy gay and straight student contingency. Pub wise, most of the bars are busy at this time of year, with Planet Out's having had its 3rd Birthday, with Trendy Wendy providing the tunes all night, and a surprise cabaret to entertain the troops. They were open 'til 3am, and it was a night not to be missed. A bar often overlooked is Frenchies in Rose St, with a fantastically friendly crowd and regular cabaret and other shenanigans, it's well worth checking out. The Blue Moon, Nexus and the other bars are still packing them in, including Habana, who have apparently upgraded their sound system somewhat, well done to them! We have a warning for all you clubbers out there this month. Whilst ScotsGay cannot condone drug use (Really?-Ed.), we have a responsibility to educate and warn about ongoing situations; GHB, (Gamma Hydroxil Butate) or Liquid Ecstacy has been becoming more and more popular as a recreational drug over the last few months in Edinburgh, and many of you appear to be unaware of the dangers. 1)GHB should NEVER be taken with alcohol! A chemical reaction can occur which can cause comas or even death 2) Due to the "Home Made" element of the substance, there is an inherent unknown quantity, therefore dosages can be very different from one batch to another. A difference of 5 millilitres can mean the difference between life and death! 3) A number of the capital's venues have completely banned the use of the substance in their premises. GHB is not, as such, illegal, as yet, but these responsible venue owners are trying to protect their customers, and their licenses, as every time someone is collected by an ambulance from a venue, it is registered against the venue and will more than likely come up at their next licensing hearing. Our suggestion, is simply to avoid the substance altogether, surely it's not worth the risk of dying or falling into a coma, simply for a rush? On a happier note, looking forward to New Year, and the most eagerly awaited night will no doubt be JOY's New Years Eve party at Studio 24. For JOY regulars, this will be a trip down memory lane, as this is where the legendary night cut its baby teeth, and gained its reputation as Scotland's leading gay club. Tickets will be available from JOY or Mingin' and also from Out of the Blue. Another club having a New Year's Eve party to get excited about is Atomic Baby, who, are leaving their regular space at La Belle Angele, and hosting a one-off special at The Liquid Rooms in Victoria St. With Stuart Duncan, and Michael Kilkie at the helm, this should be a fantastic night for the club who's reputation has been growing more and more every month. Anyway guys and girls, I'll be back in December, with all the most up to date Christmas and New Year news. Take care, and be good to one another. Tottytastic tottytastic@drink.demon.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOTTISH MEDIA MONITOR ====================== Garry Otton Tells Why Wendy Was Right For Scotland It should come as no surprise to many of you to learn that Gerald Warner is uncomfortable with women. (Women serving in the army, I mean). In Scotland on Sunday he wrote: "It is a perversion of the female identity for feminists to promote the exposure of women to the horrors of combat... The US Navy has extended the length of time that pregnant women can remain aboard warships, while formerly rigorous military training programmes have been made less demanding to accommodate women". And just how tough it is to be a professional woman in Scotland today was also amply demonstrated by Allan Brown on Wendy Alexander in Scotland on Sunday: "It hasn't gone unnoticed that Wendy has lately been deploying the henna and foundation powder with alacrity, leading those who are skilled in matters of the heart to conclude that some manner of chap is now figuring in the equation". After First Minister, Henry McLeish jacked his job in; Wendy was in for a rough ride! Rikki Brown in the Scottish Sun thought: "Wendy Alexander's makeover hasn't exactly made her Miss Fanciable sexy Pants, has it?" Alex Massey in Scotland on Sunday wrote: "Fears... that Wendy may have a new man in her life appear groundless. At a ministerial briefing this week highlighting Scotland's potential as a retreat for young lovers, she was heard to sigh wistfully: "Romantic breaks - not much relevance for me then". In the Sunday Times Scotland, Atticus contradicted the 'sighing wistfully' bit: "The minister said she hoped there would be a new push on romantic short breaks, before adding ruefully that it would be, "sod all use to me". Scotland had a choice. Was it to be another former cooncillor in a grey suit (yes, another one who compromised his way through the Clause 28 scandal); cheered on by the Daily Record as one of the 'three Macs'; recently in meetings with religious militants addressing their 'concerns' of gay 'propaganda' infiltrating schools; praising Catholic schools despite their oppressive sexual 'education' programmes and producing carefully orchestrated saintly, Pierres et Gilles-like pictures of himself with schoolchildren. Or was it to be led by a charismatic, intelligent woman who not only proved herself strong enough to stand by her principles, but saw her way forward into a new and modern Scotland? Labour democracy or Catholic theocracy? I knew which red frock I was choosing! Then the poisonous Scotland on Sunday presented Jason Allardyce- yes, you might have seen his name circling above religious propaganda in The Times. The "feminist minister" versus "family values champion" springs to mind during the Clause 28 campaign- now front-paging it over one of those Keep the Clausey 'opinion polls' that conveniently showed Jack McConnell yards out in front. (The Record admitted most people don't even know who the hell they all are)! After faithfully reporting the McConnell camp's charges of dirty tricks, SoS reminded readers: "Alexander, who controversially led the scrapping of Section 28 last year, also appears to have a 'negative publicity' problem with voters, of whom four in 10 said she would not make a good First Minister... Although the Section 28 affair dates back to 1999, the enormous moral controversy which pitted church against state has clearly damaged her standing". Sorry... It filled me with admiration! All the same, Wendy sadly chucked in the towel. An article on Scotland's gay magazines is about as likely as seeing Vulcan given away free with the The Scotsman, so I can be excused for gawping while I read about the odd "death threat... outraged complaints" and readers "seething..." over a couple of footballers snogging on the front of GI, an Irish Gaelic gay magazine reviewed in the broadsheet. The Sunday Herald also celebrated Glasgay! overseas with a guide to gay Cologne. Like the Dutch cap, or French ticklers, how much easier it is to manage the subject of sex when it's portrayed as somehow being 'over there'! So Glasgow's Evening Times, overcome by the "pressure of space", can't review my book. What a difference it might've made if I'd taken some pictures of Loch Lomond; had the book bound in tartan cloth and got a friend of Jimmy Shand's to write the foreword! The Herald found this a good time to throw in another glowing article on Cardinal Winning. Jim McBeth cooed: "Winning was outspoken in the campaign against the repeal of Clause 28 in order to prevent the so-called promotion of homosexuality in schools. It was a dirty campaign, but even Winning's enemies conceded that he was driven by principle and not homophobia". And pray... who were they, love? What a difference an editor makes. Reviewing the legacy of the late First Minister Donald Dewar under its former editor Ramsay Smith, the Scottish Daily Mail would have seized the chance to castigate him for his support for the repeal of Section 2a (Clause 28) in Scotland led by Wendy Alexander. But alas, editor Ramsay Smith is no more. He's off to work with Jack "slobbering old queers" Irvine of PR outfit Media House. All that was left of the Mail's customary homophobia was a report submitted by Isabel Oakeshott who managed to muscle in on some of the religious propaganda spouted by the militant Christian Institute Scotland: "His administration is also still suffering from the fallout over its repeal of Section 28, the law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools. Many parents lost faith in the Executive over the affair and were not reassured when education chiefs backed lurid sex education teaching materials this year". For his feature in The Scotsman on Michael Barrymore's TV confessional Stephen McGinty turned to Jack Irvine of Media House. (A bit like asking the National Front for their opinion on asylum seekers I would've thought). Irvine behaved himself long enough to liken Barrymore to a "politician who cheats on his wife and then arranges a photocall with all the family at the garden gate". Commenting on Geri Halliwell's "lewd" show for 'our boys', (as the tabloids like to call them), Ephraim Hardcastle in the Scottish Daily Mail repeated a reader's recollection of a similar show in Cyprus in 1956 when Lita Roza - who recorded 'How Much is That Doggie in the Window'?- was supposed to have left the stage in tears as soldiers chanted, 'Bring back the queer!' for a "Liberace type" who had performed earlier. Lita, now 75, called the paper to tell them they were talking bollocks. Despite a plummeting circulation, The Scotsman's resident anti-porn campaigner still makes her contribution. After it was announced those found guilty of downloading sexual images involving children could face up to 12 months imprisonment. Linda Watson-Brown wondered where the police were hiding. "Maybe they are behind the sign in an Asian Edinburgh newsagent's which pleads for 'tolerance and respect' as punters go indoors to access their healthy men's lifestyle mags which show schoolgirl models being ejaculated upon as fear is etched across their faces". Over moves to give child witnesses "greater rights" in court cases involving abuse, Linda Watson-Brown stomped: "Where is the equity and efficiency in a system which says that alleged abusers must not have their human rights infringed by excessive delay, but that the abused can have no such protection?" I would've thought if there were any delays it is because the accused needs time to prepare a proper defence. Ms Watson-Brown sometimes forgets that the whole point of a court of law is to do whatever is necessary to convict the guilty. "Who knows? Once everything has been sorted, perhaps I can move on and start writing about shoes, while those sensitive people who are just down-right fed up with reading about this nasty stuff can go back to Never-Never Land". And to those who were just plain fed up of her daily rants? "To those bored little souls, there can only be one printable response: tough". It just shows. When the going gets hot, it's not enough to just close the door. Aberdeen Central Library has closed their public toilets because too many people were having sex in them. The city council is installing toilets with an alarm that goes off when more than one person goes in! It is unlikely that the claim of a heterosexual serial killer to have erotica in prison could have lifted the sheet of a journalist's notepad, but 54-year-old Fraserburgh-born Dennis Nilsen managed it. Nilsen requested copies of boy-babe magazine, Vulcan. It became a story, not on human rights, but whether prisoners who have committed serious sexual crimes should be treated equally at all... "The serial killer... took the Home Secretary to court yesterday for the right to read gay porn in prison. He is being given Legal Aid, and his case will cost taxpayers thousands of pounds", stormed the Daily Record. The Scottish Daily Mail's Michael Clarke weaved in the paper's grudge against human rights to shriek: "Dennis Nilsen is using the controversial new human rights law to demand porn magazines in prison". Allow me to explain something about human rights. They are for everybody. And there are absolutely no exceptions to this whether you are a light-fingered fly-boy from Forres or General Pinochet from Argentina. Blunkett also seized Nilsen's manuscript of his autobiography, claiming entitlement to seize "objectionable material". Quite apart from the fact this money would have gone to charity, it would have been an opportunity to learn something about the workings of a criminal mind. Wouldn't it have been more useful to seize Blunkett? What was more disgraceful was the Sunday Mail's use of this story. To demonstrate that other, more worthy causes were being trampled on to ensure Dennis Nilsen doesn't run out of wank fodder, they juxtaposed the story with news of the refusal of the Scottish Legal Aid Board to fund court action against monks of the De La Salle order who were accused of torturing young boys. Garry Otton's book SEXUAL FASCISM is published by Ganymede Books priced GBP8.99. You can read Scotland's newspapers every day online. The Scottish Media Monitor: http://www.scottishmediamonitor.com/ cut it out! _ The Herald's Jackie McGlone tiptoeing round a five-knuckle shuffle after watching a performance by Scottish dancer Michael Clark: "Bare buttocks and breasts, a prosthetic penis, and a video of the back view of a young man who is patently not washing his socks, but is energetically engaged upon- how to put this in a family newspaper?- five-finger exercises". _ Ephraim Hardcastle on Geri Halliwell ordering room service during a banquet prepared by chef and Scottish Daily Mail columnist Gordon Ramsay at the Hilton in Dubai: "Taste prevents us revealing what she managed to force down". _ At last! John Macleod speaks out in The Herald on "the feeding frenzy" over Section 28. "Christians, a naturally persecuted species, should never impugn the civil freedom of others. They have a stake in gay liberties as they have a stake in their own". _ Old Mother (Joan) Burnie's advice to the son of a braless mum in the Daily Record: "Personally, I've never seen the attraction of the let 'em all hang out Charlie Dimmock look for anyone on the wrong side of 30. ...A snatched snap of how she sags might get her into M&S's lingerie dept". _ Joyce McMillan in New York in The Scotsman: "...There's mounting anecdotal evidence that after decades of obsession with ever more sensational forms of sexual imagery- gender-bending, S&M, serial infidelity - people are suddenly rediscovering an interest in ordinary, affectionate sex with people they love; a baby boom is predicted for next summer, often involving couples previously reluctant to 'commit'." _ And 'Geraldine' Warner, touching on homosexuality (again) in Scotland on Sunday: "Our legislators are as drunk with power... Such ideological infantilism betrays how unfitted they are to govern Scotland. It began with gross indulgence in salaries, allowances, medals et al. It progressed to the dictatorial arrogance of Section 28". (And referring to the campaign to ban fox-hunting, opposed by the Countryside Alliance whose PR is run by Jack 'Keep the Clause' Irvine's Media House). "Now the parliament's incompetence and divorce from reality are threatening to destroy, irretrievably, the economy and society of rural Scotland. It is time to call a halt to such childishness". -------------------------------------------------------------------- Glasgow/Glaschu =============== HIYA SCUMBAGS!!! Bloody November - don't you just hate it? Cold and wet, and we all just know we've only got another month before some of the venues jack up the prices and screw the scene for as much as they can because they know you're all dumb enough to let yourself get screwed for as much money as possible. Don't you just love the Glasgow Pink Pound? With all the venues being straight owned except the Revolver, Centurion and The GLC Cafe, aren't you sad little bunnies happy to know that the money you work so hard to earn in your crappy job will be worth even less over the coming month "because it's Christmas". Do the breweries charge the pubs more for beer "because it's Christmas"? Does Scottish Power charge them more for electricity "because it's Christmas"? Does the Council charge more rates "because it's Christmas"? Of course not. You lot are simply being screwed because we all know that the Pink Pound buys less than the Straight Pound at the best of times, and less still over the festive season! And don't even think of believing the predictable bullshit some of the pub owners will give you about increased staffing costs - most bar staff are on minimum wage, and will only be paid double time for 4 days. Thankfully, some of you are finally realising that the scene is simply viewed as something to be screwed as much as possible over the coming weeks, and are not prepared to pay through the nose for a few bits of tinsel and a personal appearance by some washed up alleged star who hasn't been famous since the seventies! The predictable queues of a few years ago are a good bit shorter now, as more of you are refusing to be treated in this appalling fashion. Of course, not all the straight owned venues will be out to shaft you - I'm sure The Waterloo, Court, Candle and others will be packed out the door, and won't be charging over the odds either. And don't come whining to me next month about how you had to pay some exorbitant price to get into the clubs. It was your decision to pay up, nobody forced you, and the final cost of your Christmas will be dependent on your own stupidity. Which moves me on to the regular clubnights for all you lovers of Hard House, Pumping House, Dark House, Chicago House, Up-for-it House and all the other pretentious shite they send me in the press releases.. FRUITFLY, easily the most popular of these goes ahead at the Arches on Saturday November the 17th with usual DJs Fisher and Price, and a guest appearance from the John Pleased. Tickets are GBP8 for members and GBP 10 for guests, and remember there is a pre-club pissup at Bar Soba in Mitchell Lane beforehand. Also on Saturday the 17th is MELTING POT, which is held in the Fox Club, Riverside Street from midnight til 3am. Tickets for this are GBP10 on the door and resident DJs Simon Cordiner and Billy Woods are joined by guest DJ Bill Brewster this weekend. The BEDLAM Goth night is held on Saturday the 24th of November up at the Queen Margaret Union, Hillhead, and entry is GBP5 this month as there are live bands on- Lecch Woman and Kaos Engine. FOOT THERAPY is held on Friday the 7th of December at ALASKA, 142 Bath Street Lane from 11pm til 3am, and tickets are GBP10 on the door. DJ Raoul plays Quality House in room one, and some other guys play stuff that isn't in the other room. TRAXX returns to the Soundhaus (more bloody German haus music?) at 47 Hydepark Street on Saturday the 1st of December from 11pm til late. Tickets are GBP6 for members/GBP8 for guests, and I've no idea about how you become a member so don't ask me - call them on 07855418745 for details. I think that's all the clubnights for the next few weeks - if any promoters want a plug, e-mail me with details and I'll give you a mention. As the scene becomes increasingly pissed off with our two part time allegedly gay clubs and go elsewhere at the weekends, more mixed clubs seem to be appearing trading on the "no attitudes" bandwagon and asking me for inclusion in his column. At least you can snog your boyfriend/girlfriend in these places without getting chucked out, which is more than you can say for the tired and jaded Benetts. Don't forget that Saturday the 1st of December is World Aids Day, and a service is being held at the Queen Margaret Union in University Gardens at 6.30pm. This is a non religious service, so those of all religions and those with none are all welcome to attend. If you would like more information, call 0141-332 5925. John Roberts from The Steve Retson Project has asked me to point out a few improvements to the services they provide. The Project is open at the Sandyford Initiative from 5.30 til 8.30pm on Tuesdays, and will also be opening the same hours on Wednesdays from January 9th. You can also contact them at The Glasgow LGBT Centre on Thursdays from 5.30 til 8.30pm and between 1 and 3.30pm on Saturday afternoons if you're under 25. The Project is currently looking for people help promote the service to the scene, so if you want to get in touch, give John a call on 0141-211 8630. Remember that the service is free, and counsellors will talk with you about any other problems you may have that are not related to sexual health. I mentioned last month about the comments from Reverend Pat Robertson trying to blame the Trade Centre bombing as being God's revenge for adulterers, pro abortionists and of course the gay community. Only a few weeks later we see pictures in the Press of a bomb on a US aircraft carrier due to be dropped on Afghanistan with "Hijack this fags" scrawled across it - later dismissed as the actions of "relatively uneducated kids" by the US embassy. Sort of explains all that "collateral damage" and "friendly fire" a few bombed hospitals and the occasional Chinese Embassy blown to bits!! As you all probably know, The Candle Bar was closed recently when the street had to be shut due to demolition work opposite. Anyway, they've asked me to point out that they're back open and have all sorts of drinks promos on the go. There's plenty of entertainment too, with Barbra Bush on Mondays doing the games night, Robert and May Miller on Tuesdays and Karaoke on Thursdays. Also - DJs on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and don't forget Angie O on Sunday evenings. Centurion Spa have now secured new premises, and will be opening a brand new health club in the New Year. Gordon tells me that the venue will be larger than the current club, and will have individual private cabins which customers seem to want. The new club will be in the city centre, and will be split over 3 levels. I've also been asked to point out that Centurion wrote to the managers of all the gay bars in Glasgow offering reduced entry to their staff, and was disappointed that not one bothered to reply. Come on guys - the pub trade is hardly well paid - Is it asking too much for you to pick up the phone and give the names of your staff so the club can let them in at reduced rate? Got to say a HUUUGE thanks to all those who helped out at the Switchboard/GLGBTC Ceilidh and made it such a great success. The move to the Saint Andrew's Hall was much needed, as the event has simply become too big for the Trades Hall. For those of you who don't know the St Andrew's Hall, it's a big beautiful old building which has been lavishly restored, and was just perfect for the Ceilidh. There was plenty of room for dancing, and at least everyone could get a seat this time! The hall also has a large balcony, where you can sit and watch all the fun going on down below. I certainly hope this will become the regular venue for this event, as everyone I've spoken to agreed it was absolutely perfect. Once again, all the tickets sold out fast, and it was nice to see so many people who rarely venture out to the pubs and clubs. Once again - a big thanks to all those from Switchboard and The GLGBTC who helped out. (Pity about all the scruffy buggers who just don't know how to dress properly for these events!) OOPS!! - Almost forgot the Pub and Club Awards for this month, where YOU get the chance to nominate the best and worst venues in Glasgow. The Waterloo and The Revolver won joint first place this month for Best Pub with 32% each - not surprising really as there is usually only ever a few votes difference. Best Club Night was Cube with 67%, Best Club was Bennets with 86%, Prettiest Bar Staff went to The Candle Bar on 43%, and Biggest Dump goes to Dullmonicas with 54%. Keep those votes coming as the pubs like to know what you think of them. (OK, so some of them don't like me publishing the results - too bad!!) Jaye, recently elected chair of Pride Scotland tells me that the event will cover the whole of Scotland next year, and will last over a week. This will start on Friday the 7th of June with a surprise party, continue with a week of local celebrations, and end with the march through Glasgow on Saturday the 15th followed by a rally on the Green, and finally closing with a massive party at Fruitfly in the Arches. There are plans to have a Pride Bus touring Scotland organising local events, and Jaye wants other cities to get in touch to discuss local events. There have been complaints the past 2 years that Pride has been badly organised, but this has been simply due to the lack of volunteers. As usual, the LGBT community sits on its fat arse expecting everything to be laid on a plate for them, then complains when not enough is done. Pride is organised entirely by volunteers, and if you're not happy with it, stop snivelling and whining and offer to help out. If you want to volunteer, give Jaye a call on 0781 5106163, or Stu on 0141-429 4672, and help make next year's Pride the biggest and best ever. I've been meaning to do a write up about the comedy club Out On Tuesdays which is actually held on the second Sunday of the month at The Stand in Woodlands, so it was a bit of luck that Chaz With The Added Fetishes got some freebie tickets for last week's show and we went along with Mrs Goldilocks for a night out. For those of you who've never been, OOT is hosted by gay stand up comedian Craig Hill, and at only a fiver, it's a really good cheap hilarious night out. Unsurprisingly - a large number of the audience are gay, and the rest are gay friendly, so you don't have to worry about holding hands and snogging etc. Guest artistes change monthly, but Craig is joined each month by Jill Peacock who does her own set, and also comperes the "Straightest Link" game. (I don't think Rose from The Revolver will be volunteering quite so quickly to get up on stage after the last show!!) Definitely a night to go along to - I can't recommend it highly enough!! And finally - It seems that easyEverything are no longer open 24 hours during the week. Staff and security have been cut back due to the lack of customers, and I notice that the Gay.com chatrooms are considerably quieter during the week! No doubt this will have an adverse affect on the 30,000 visitors who watch the Goldilocks webcam every day - sad wankers.. Well, I think that's enough shite from me for this month. Get in touch by e-mail below if you want something included in next months issue, or if you just want to send me more filthy messages. Happy shagging!! Goldilocks E-mail: goldilocks@btclick.com Webshite: http://www.gay-glasgow.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nun Sense ========= It's that time of year again. The slogan for World AIDS Day 2001 on December 1st is "I Care... Do You?" and this year spotlights the many ways in which men contribute to the AIDS epidemic and the powerful roles they can aso play in tackling it. This year's campaign challenges men everywhere to make a difference in the struggle against AIDS. Continuing on from last year, this year we intend to make sure that, for one night at least, you have absolutely no excuse for not practising safer sex. The Convent of Dunn Eideann will be distributing free condom packs in many venues in Edinburgh, which will also include information on a couple of sources of further free condoms. As the World AIDS Day Organising Committee (Lothian) notes, the emphasis on men this year does not suggest an end to prevention programmes for women and girls. Rather, the Campaign complements those endeavours by recognising that until men everywhere dare to care, the struggle against HIV/AIDS will only be half-won. Last year, we had a few complaints from exclusively lesbian women who neither use toys nor know the the trick for turning a condom into a dam in a dire emergency. They quite rightly pointed out that they have absolutely no use whatsoever for condoms so this year we plan to have a limited number of dam packs available. Most of them will include a vanilla flavour dam, but there will be a tiny number of cola flavour sexy black dams. Meanwhile, Sister Athletica de la Bain has been a blur, dashing hither and thither searching out information on World AIDS Day events throughout Scotland. The main World AIDS Day events in Edinburgh take place on the afternoon and evening of December 1st. It all kicks off at 3pm in the Central Hall at Tollcross with I Care... Do You? - a selection of music, drama, verse and speakers. At 4pm, there will be the traditional Candlelit March from there to Princes Street - your chance to show solidarity in the worldwide fight against HIV and AIDS. The entire Convent of Dunn Eideann plans to be there, including our newest recruit Novice Nun the Wiser. At around 4.30pm, there will be a Candle Laying Vigil at the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens, a chance for remembrance with fire, drummers and a lone piper but not, alas, acrobatic nuns! Several venues will be providing sustenance after the event with offerings of tea, coffee, soup, mulled wine, sandwiches and mince pies - more details on the day. Waverley Care Trust will present A Celebration of Life at St. Mary's Cathedral on Palmerston Place - an evening of the best of music and the spoken word hosted by Sheena McDonald. Starting at 7.30pm, tickets are GBP8 (GBP6 concession) and are available from Waverley Care on 0131-556 3959. There are many other World AIDS Day events taking place all over Scotland. Staying in Edinburgh for now, Telford College presents Sex and Drugs - Thru' the Decades on Wednesday 27th November. This is apparently not the personal reminisciences of some of our more senior Sisters. Between 1 and 4pm on November 30th, A Time for Reflection with chaplain Marion will be provided at Waverley Care Milestone House, 113 Oxgangs Road. Featuring the Waverley Care Milestone House Quilt and Book of Remembrance, this informal quiet space will also be available between 12 noon and 2pm on December 1st. Positive Voice will be taking over the Solas theatre for a "positively fabulous party" and celebration of people living with HIV on December 1st. Open to all, but especially those who use their services and their families, the entertainment will include comedy, drummers and singer Subie, and will be followed with a buffet and DJ. Tickets are free from Positive Voice (37-39 Montrose Terrace; Tel: 0131-652 0754), though donations are welcome. Waverley Care Solas plans a10th Birthday Party on November 30th at St. Andrews Hall. More information from Solas on 0131-661 0982. Gay Men's Health will be open for support, Monday-Friday during office hours. The SATA Riverside Project, 22 Broughton Place, will have an Info Spot on the day for service users, visitors and workers. The North Edinburgh Drug Advice Centre will also host and Information Stall between 12-2pm on December 1st, although they're not saying where! On the scene, Cafe Habana has a huge fundraising event planned on the evening of December 1st. It will feature Blind Date, Open the Box, a prize draw, charity bingo, a Shag-tag night (the mind boggles, but at least you'll have your Sister condom/dam pack) plus mulled wine, mince pies and other Sister-attracting goodies. CC Blooms will be open until 3am and will host a World AIDS Day Benefit with live acts, promos and a big prize raffle. The Claremont Bar hopes to attract all you men who like it any way but vanilla with their men-only Heavy Boyz Night (at this point, Novice Brother Bimbo del Doppio Senso was heard to mutter something. We're not sure exactly what she said, but it included the words "sexist", "my great big fuck off new Rock boots", "stomp" and "riding crop"!). There will be a raffle in aid of World AIDS Day and drink promos from 9pm till late. To help you keep it safe, a special "heavy" version of our World AIDS Day condom pack will be available on the night. Frenchies (formerly Hot Stuff, formerley Frenchies, formerly French Connection) will be offering post-march tea, coffee and pies in a cosy, safe space. Nexus Cafe in the LGB Centre on Broughton Street is also providing hospitality to marchers with mulled wine, music and time to reflect. Later on, they host Stonewall Youth Project's private party. The Newtown Bar repeats its Red Night from 8pm till 3am. Apparently the 1st prize in the big prize raffle will impress your pals with its 'size'. Chillout is assurred. Planet Out is another venue providing post-vigil hospitality, where you can warm yourself up with soup and hot drinks in a supportive chillout environment. Following an AIDS Awareness Day at the Potterow Student Center in Bristo Square, Edinburgh University Chaplaincy Centre will hold its own World AIDS Day vigil between 5 and 7pm. There's surprisingly little going on in Scotland's most populous city, Glasgow. A non-religious service is being held at the Queen Margaret Union at 6.30pm - see Goldilocks' Glasgow column for more information, and an open day in the Garden of Reflection at the GGLC. Clone Zone has National AIDS Trust merchandise for sale; Body Postive Strathclyde and PHACE West are planning something but the details had not reached the Convent when we went to press and the Waterloo will be hosting a fundraising disco. Over in Denniston, from 7pm on November 22nd, RONA has an event at The Parade, 200 Meadow Park Street. GBP25 gets you a meal and cabaret, and there will be a raffle with "fab prizes". And that's about it. West Lothian Gay Men's Health plans to take over part of Livingston Football Club for an HIV/AIDS Awareness Raising on December 1st. Heading northwards, Fife Men will be holding a World AIDS Day Ceilidh in the Beveridge Suite of the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy. Tickets are GBP10 in advance and include supper and entertainment. Children infected with, or affected by, HIV and other blood-borne viruses such as Hepatitis C will be welcome, along with their parents, at a Children's Christmas Breakfast on Sunday December 9th at the Feuars Arms, Kirkcaldy. Transport can be arranged to and from the venue. Tickets are free, but limited as the accomodation is limited to 60. They will be allocated through the Fife Men Project, Fife Positive Support and Fife HIV Awareness. More information on these events from the Fife Men Project Administrator on Kirkcaldy (01592) 265666. Despite the fears of our Dundee correspondent that the health needs of gay men are completely ignored in that city, Body Positive Tayside has arranged a couple of events which will hopefully act as a reminder to the relevant local authorities. At 6pm on Friday November 30th, there will be a World AIDS Day Celebration in St. Paul's Cathedral. All are welcome and there will be a chance to get together for cheese and wine afterwards. A Red Ribbon Ceilidh will take place between 8pm and midnight on December 1st at the Mirage Function Suite, St. Andrew's Lane, Dundee. Tickets are a very reasonable GBP5 and available from Body Positive Tayside. In Grampian, a multi-agency partnership (including NHS Grampian, PHACE West, Body Positive, Aberdeen City council, The Buddy Group, Drugs Actions and Moray and Aberdeen Switchboards) has organised a week full of events. Cases of HIV in Grampian are on the increase and the campaign will reinforce the message that HIV and AIDS are not "Out of Sight - Out of Mind". A World AIDS Day Information Evening will take place at Health Promotions, 181 Union Street, Aberdeen from 5.45pm on Monday November 26th. A similar event will take place the following evening at the Registrars, 240 High Street Elgin. Representatives from the various agencies will outline the local picture, national and local trends, routes of transmission and prevention, and will inform the Grampian community about the local facilities and support available. On Friday 30th November, a Candlelit Celebration will take place in the Winter Gardens, Duthie Park, Aberdeen. Red Ribbon Ceilidh III follows on December 1st at the Jarvis City Hotel, Market Street, Aberdeen. Throughout the week. Info Bags containing facts and condoms will be given out at nightclubs and there will be a special World AIDS Day displays at Health Promotions in Aberdeen and at 239 High Street, Elgin. A cinema and poster campaign promoting condom use and access to condoms will be launched across Grampian during World AIDS Week. Don't forget that Sister Bobby du Sade provides Sister Bobby's Safety Pack to the Gathered Faithful in the North East of Scotland. Containing 5 condoms and 5 sachets lube, the pack can be obtained by sending 2 first class stamps to the Convent of Moravia, 2-4 Lamb Street, Elgin IV30 2DG. Reachout Highland will have a World AIDS Day Remembrance and Dedication at 7pm on December 1st at the Chapel, Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Inverness/Inbhir Nis ==================== Hi there, everyone. Kuddels reporting in from Inverness once again with news and views about what's going on or has been happening in and around the Inverness area... Actually, there isn't really very much to report for this issue. Even though Inverness has been granted official city status, there is very little happening at the moment and it is sometimes quite difficult to "dig deep" and try to find newsworthy items... after all, Inverness can hardly be compared with Glasgow or Edinburgh, and, as far as I am aware, there seems to be more going on in Aberdeen and Dundee than in Inverness at present. Anyway, I shall attempt to write something for the readers out there, so, here goes... Firstly, I must report that Inverness recently played host to an international jamboree of boy scouts and scout leaders. They came from all over the world and there were many different shapes, sizes and colours of boy scouts and scout leaders parading around the town, much to the amusement of the local citizens... some of the scouts were wearing large hats and uniforms which don't seem to have changed since Baden-Powell originally set up the scout movement. I did "encounter " a couple of adult scout leaders from Germany and spent an enjoyable time at my house with them, enabling me to practise my German and a few "other things"... After all, not all scout leaders are 100% straight, you know... Enough said. November 5th came and went with a "bang". The weather was very wet , cold and windy, but it didn't seem to stop the hordes of "happy revellers" parading down to Bught Park for the bonfire and firework display. There were plenty of hot drinks, hamburgers and hotdogs to keep the revellers warm and cosy whilst they watched the night sky being illuminated with rockets, roman candles and assorted "whizzbangs"... It seemed as though a good time was being had by all who attended and I did notice several of the partygoers heading into the shrubbery to enjoy some "merrymaking" of their own, and they certainly seemed to be having a good time with each other. I certainly enjoyed the evening, anyway, as, I actually ended up with not 1, but 3 (I am a greedy sod) of them back at my house for more "fun and games" (and I 'm not talking about Monopoly)... I'll let you work the rest out for yourselves... but I had a great time and was really "shagged out" by morning... both my bum(big as it is) and mouth had been well exercised... mmmmmm... more please... Attendances at Sleepers Bar next to the railway station continue to be well supported by members of the local (and not so local) gay community on Friday and Saturday nights. However, there's always a friendly welcome for new faces... just turn up around 8pm and you'll be made very welcome... and hopefully enjoy yourself. I hear that a pre-Christmas party is being planned and when I have details, I shall let you know. Finally, a warning... I have heard that over the past week or so, there have been at least 4 cases of people being cautioned by police at the 2 main cruising areas in the Inverness area... Apparently, names and addresses were taken... So, please be very careful if you use or intend to use the places in question. Well, that's all for now. Until next time, have lots of safe sex and happy shagging... Kuddels kuddels@drink.demon.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aberdeen/Obar Dheadhain ======================= Hello everybody! The first meeting of the LGB&T forum had a big turnout, and some great ideas were generated in the brainstorming sessions. The main point that seemed prevalent was the lack of information about LGB&T issues in and around Aberdeen, with ideas for tackling this including the creation of a newsletter and even a drop-in centre, perhaps even similar to Glasgow's LGB&T centre. The next meeting will be held again in the Jarvis Hotel at 8pm on Tuesday the 27th of November, and the focus will likely be on how the forum is to be organised and run. Hallowe'en was fun at Bar Castro's, with more than the usual crowd actually turning out in fancy dress. The big cash prize went to Mark as the Devil, and second prize to Alister, who was one of the Freddy Mercuries. An impromptu "sick in the head" prize was awarded to the two who were dressed as the twin towers. This month there will be a "Cum in your pants" night on Friday the 16th of November. It is recommended that they be clean, and that you bring other clothes for going home, as the weather is a little chilly these days. Should you not be ready to bare that much skin in one night then you could consider wearing your pants in other ways, such as superman style. Another upcoming event to look out for is the bars first birthday, sometime in early December - no further details on that at this time however. On the first of December the Red Ribbon Ceilidh III takes place at the Jarvis Hotel, on Market Street. Kick off is at 7:30 for 8pm, with music being provided by Hallyracket. Tickets are very generously priced at GBP5.50 and GBP4.50 concession, and are available by calling Aberdeen (01224) 691198 or e-mailing cjmckay24@hotmail.com - leave your name, contact number / e-mail address and the number of full price / concession tickets required. There are a couple of special offers on for those who attend the ceilidh: the Jarvis Hotel are offering B&B for the night at only GBP15, very handy if you don't want to share the bit of stuff you've picked up with the missus; and Bar Castro's will let you in for half price. Despite the increase in the number of cameras in Bar Castro's, it seems that they are all only for security, and none of them are the webcam so long awaited by net-heads. It seems there have been a few "moral" issues raised to the staff about outing people who do not want to be seen at the club. Someone has already been making a noise about the pictures on the bar's website, taken with the digital camera. At first some faces were blurred out in a few pictures, then a little later they were completely removed. I guess it does mean that I can still use the excuse "just off out to walk the dog, be back soon..." without being caught! Also, check out my new webshite - http://www.cutearse.co.uk/ - it offers all the latest news, uncut articles and various details of the Aberdeen scene, and there are lots of places where you can add your own comments and tell me what I should be writing. That's yer lot for this month, I'm off to get a big throbbing beast between my legs - and I'm not talking about Goldilocks! I do of course refer to my shiny new motorbike, mobility at last! Chris, chris@cutearse.co.uk http://www.cutearse.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dundee/Dun Deagh ================ We eagerly awaited the sight of naked males at Liberty the other Saturday. Nothing new in seeing naked men at Liberty you may say. These were singers who belted out a make over of an old dance hit. The promotion posters had them all naked and whilst we are sure that's not why the Liberty crew booked them, we are sure it helped. Still another busy Saturday, and I got some flesh later as did some others at a party which turned into an orgy. I'll get you an invite for the next one! Moans about female DJs of late. Liberty had some straight women who played dance classics which is DJ speak for getting more gigs out of your old 78s and not buying the latest. Well, it was not long before manager Barry twigged her game and she was gone. Some nights recently in Charlie's have been a bit like that. That shouldn't be a surprise in our gay community centre. Keeping on the DJ front, the fabulous Ross has been given a second night following his great success in boosting numbers at Liberty on Sundays from 6 upto 60 and the rest. They have moved the karaoke to Brooklyn's on a Thursday and it is still presented by Frankie who will later DJ in Libs that night. With Ross doing Wednesdays with recent chart stuff, we disco bunnies may be tempted along. Have been reading the flyers that have been put out. Sorry that I told you Brook's prices of pints were up ten pence. That was wrong - I am only learning. I have now learnt not to listen to former staff and especially former managers. (I wish I hadn't had to listen to the moans of Madame Grumpy on the subject - make sure you get it right in future.-Ed) Not many are listening to the former manager now as he goes on and on about how he was got rid of and what a mistake it was and how they'll pay for it. I know that if they pay for it we will have to pay more at the door so are you not suing the gay community, Gavin? The club and pub are busier now you're gone. Everybody sees that. No response from the Health Board despite our concerns and theirs for Gay men's health. Last issue we raised the question of what was being done. The resounding reply was silence. This issue will not go away, so let's hear more about what you are doing. The cruising areas have been a little quieter lately. Queens have never liked the winter. 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[47a] Edinburgh The Alexander Guest House is a gay friendly guest house (owned and run) with a mixed clientele. Every detail has been thought of in our recently refurbished bedrooms to make your stay a more memorable one. They are equipped with refreshment trays, ironing facilities, hairdryers etc. We serve a full Scottish and continental breakfast menu. We are located 1 mile from the city on the south side with private parking. You can check out our web site at http://www.thealexanderguesthouse.co.uk/ Please call Glenn or Alex on 0131-258 4028 or E-mail: alexander@guest68. freeserve.co.uk A warm welcome awaits you. Mention ScotsGay and get 10% discount. [45a] Sutherland On A9 to Wick, B&B. Roadside, 60 miles from Inverness. Double or single. GBP13 per person. Tea and sandwiches included. Phone: Helmsdale (01431) 821570. [45a] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Venues ====== * indicates that the venue stocks ScotsGay ***ABERDEEN ABERDEEN WOMEN'S CENTRE* Shoe Lane, off Queen Street. Tel: (01224) 625010. Fax: (01224) 625777. Tue-Thu 10am-2pm. LESBIAN NIGHT 3rd Wed of each month from 7.30-9.30pm. Latest video always starts at 8pm for those interested. E-mail: LesbianNight@hotmail.com or Tel: (01224) 713336. LESBIANS AND FRIENDS LUNCH first Sat of each month 12.30-2.30pm. Tel: (01224) 625010 or (01224) 212600. BAR CASTRO'S* 47 Netherkirkgate. Tel: (01224) 639920. Sun 5pm-2am, Mon-Thu Noon-2am, Fri-Sat Noon-3am. Bright, friendly and open venue with DJs 7 nights. Regular theme nights. E-mail: bar@castrosbar.co.uk WWW: http://www.castrosbar.com/ CAFE 52 52 The Green. (Go down steps by Virgin Records and turn left). 1st Sun of each month, 7-11pm. A new cafe venue for LGBT people - and their friends. Tapas served all night, licensed, good coffee - staff friendly. ***COATBRIDGE PULLMANS BAR AND PUNJAB EXPRESS RESTAURANT* 22 West Canal Street. Tel: (01236) 440643. Comfortable bar with restaurant upstairs. Run by Kally. Food served 11am-Midnight, children's certificate and carry out food. Popular with local LGBTs who gather through in the back room round the fire. Gay friendly, warm welcome, and no bad attitudes from the local troggies allowed. Veggie nosh and bits of dead animals for the carnivores. Live music Wed to Sun eves, Karaoke on Thu and Quiz on Sun. Nice place! ***DUNDEE BROOKLYN'S BAR 2 St Andrew's Lane. Tel: (01382) 200660. Wed-Sun 7pm-Midnight. Well appointed gay friendly bar next door to Liberty Nightclub and under the same management. CHARLIE'S BAR* 75-79 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 226840. Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight, Sun 12.30pm-Midnight. Gay friendly bar with free disco Fri & Sat 8-11pm. Free use of premises for pre-booked groups. LIBERTY NIGHTCLUB* 124 Seagate. Tel: (01382) 200660. Wed-Sun 11pm-2.30am. Good atmosphere, very popular disco with wide selection of sounds and the occasional act/PA. ***EDINBURGH BLUE MOON* 1 Barony Street/36 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-556 2788 (Bar) or 0131-557 0911 (Office). Mon-Fri 11am-11.30pm, Sat-Sun 9-12.30am. Food served until 10pm. Popular lesbigay cafe/bar complex. BOBBIE'S BOOKSHOP* 220 Morrison Street. Tel: 0131-538 7069. Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm. Mixed bookshop selling a selection of UK and imported gay magazines. BO'S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 57/61 Blackfriars Street. Tel: 0131-557 6136. Fri-Sat Noon-2pm. Daily 6-10pm. Superb little vegetarian restaurant. Friendly staff. Mixed clientele. Excellent value lunch menu. C32 CAFE 32c Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-557 2012. 10am-11pm. Stylish gay friendly licensed cafe with extensive menu including vegetarian selection. C.C. BLOOM'S 23 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-556 9331. Mon-Sat 6pm-3am, Sun 8pm-3am. Two floors. Karaoke on Thu and Sun. Disco every night from 10.30pm. CLAREMONT BAR & RESTAURANT* 133/135 East Claremont Street. Tel: 0131-556 5662. FAX: 0131-558 3539. Bar: Mon-Sat 11am-1am, Sun 12.30pm-1am. Restaurant: Mon-Wed 11.30am-2.30pm and 6pm-10pm, Thu-Sat 11.30am-10pm, Sun 12.30pm-10pm. Gay owned, gay friendly and renowned for courtesy, comfort and good food. First and Third Sats of month from 8pm: a male only night aimed at leather, denim, rubber, skinhead, uniform and bears run in conjunction with the MSC Scotland Monthly Meeting and BearScots. E-mail: robin@scifipub99.freeserve.co.uk WWW: http://www.scifipub99.freeserve.co.uk/ DIVINE DIVA'S The Venue (Top Floor), 15 Calton Road. Tel: 0131-557 0751. 2nd Sat of each month. 10pm-3am. Women only one nighter with all proceeds going to LGL Switchboard and Lesbian Line. E-mail: jean@lgls.org EASYEVERYTHING 58 Rose Street.. Large Internet Cafe from which many gay men seem to troll the net instead of just picking up each other! EDINBURGH LESBIAN GAY AND BISEXUAL CENTRE* 58a and 60 Broughton Street. Houses Nexus Cafe-Bar, OUTRIGHT Scotland, Pride Scotland and Massage for Health. Also provides meeting and noticeboard space for many lesbigay organisations. Private mailboxes available. FRENCHIES BAR* 89 Rose Street Lane North. Tel: 0131-225 7651. Mon-Sat 1pm-1am. Sun 1pm-Midnight. This vibrant gay bar (Edinburgh's oldest) is in the heart of Rose Street. Happy Hour 6-8pm every day. Karaoke Sun from 4-9pm. HABANA* 22 Greenside Place. Tel: 0131-558 1270. Mon-Sat Noon-1am, Sun 12.30pm-1am. Centrally located pre club bar. Open and bright as well as quite intimate. Increasingly busy. Quizoke every Thu with John. Drink promos throughout the month - see ad for details. HOLYROOD TAVERN* 9a Holyrood Road. Tel: 0131-556 5044. Noon-12.45am. Edinburgh's best kept secret. Real ale in a gay friendly atmosphere. "If you must go on the scene, why not have some beer first?" Diverse Drinkers meet there on the first Mon of the month from 8pm - WWW: http://www.antipope.org/feorag/drinkers/ Goths meet every Wednesday (perverts of all shapes and sizes most welcome!) from 9pm. JOY Ego, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7435. JOY Info Line: 0131-467 2551. 10.30pm-3am. Fortnightly Sat. Next dates: 10th & 24th Nov, 8th & 22nd Dec. Joy is Scotland's most upfront gay club. GBP8 members/GBP10 non-members. E-mail: clubjoy@blueyonder.co.uk. WWW: http://www.clubjoy.co.uk/ LEATHER AND LACE* 8 Drummond Street. Tel: 0131-557 9413. FAX: 0131-557 8336. 25 Easter Road. Tel: 0131-623 6969. Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun Noon-9pm. Scotland's ORIGINAL licenced SEX shops (formerly Fantasies) where you'll be made welcome by the very nice assortment of folk who work there! Toys galore, video rental too! Larger sizes stocked. LUSH! Ego, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7434. 10.30pm-3am. 1st and 3rd Sun of each month. Club night with DJ's Dale Wilkinson and Craig Dempster: funky dance, pop, house, anthems. GBP3. WWW: http://www.clublush.co.uk/ LUVELY AT THE HONEYCOMB 15-17 Niddry Street. Tel: 0131-530 5540. Info Line: 07711 307997. Monthly. Next date: Sat 17th Nov. 10pm-late. Mega club night with resident DJ's Tommy Kay, Newton & Stone, Jared and GP. E-mail: Luvely_Team@hotmail.com MASSAGE FOR HEALTH 58a/60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-669 8039, 0131-478 1090 or 07970 921209. By appointment only. Therapeutic massage and a range of complementary therapies from qualified practitioners Anne, Alan, and John. Concessions available. E-mail: info@massageforhealth.co.uk WWW: http://www.massageforhealth.co.uk/ MINGIN' Studio 24, 24 Calton Road. Info Line: 0131-467 2551. 10.30pm-3am. Fornightly Sat. Next dates: 17th Nov, 8th & 22nd Dec. Alan Joy's dark, sexy, dirty trance night features Alan Joy himself on the decks plus Brian Dempster. GBP6 entry. E-mail: mingin@blueyonder.co.uk MSDEMEANOUR Ph_nix Cellar Bar under the Ph_nix Bar at 46 Broughton Street. 8.30pm-1am. Next dates: Sats 17th Nov & 22nd Dec. Edinburgh's only regular TV/TS night club. TG's GBP4, Regular Mortals GBP5. E-mail: MsDemeanourUK@aol.com WWW: http://www.msdemeanour.co.uk/ NEW TOWN BAR* 26B Dublin Street. Tel: 0131-538 7775. Mon-Thu Noon-1am. Fri-Sat Noon-2am. Sun 12.30pm-1am. Especially popular with men. Real ale. Cellar Bar open Fri & Sat with resident DJ from 10pm-2am - "Formerly Men Only - Now Mixed"! Also available for hire Sun-Thu. NEXUS CAFE-BAR* 60 Broughton Street. Tel: 0131-478 7069. 11am-11pm. Great food and drink at reasonable prices. Internet access available. E-mail: nexus1cb@aol.com No EIGHTEEN* 18 Albert Place. Tel: 0131-553 3222. Sun-Fri Noon-10pm, Sat Noon-11pm. Long established sauna club for gay gentlemen! Facilities include large sauna cabin, 14 man steam room, 10 (very popular) private rooms, 8 man filtered jacuzzi, TV lounge with hot and cold refreshments available and friendly staff. GBP8 (GBP5 concessions). WWW: http://www.number18sauna.co.uk/ OOT: OUT ON TUESDAY* Stand Comedy Club, York Place. Tel: 0131-558 7272. Second Tue of each month. 9-11pm. Monthly gay comedy club in established comedy venue. Hot food. E-mail: admin@thestand.freeserve.co.uk OUT OF THE BLUE* 1 Barony Street. (Downstairs at the Blue Moon Cafe). Tel: 0131-478 7048. Mon-Fri 11am-7pm. Sat 11am-6pm. Sun Noon-6pm. Gay and lesbian store selling books, mags, videos, toys, wearing apparel, etc. PLANET OUT* 6 Baxter's Place. Tel: 0131-524 0061. Mon-Fri 4pm-1am, Sat-Sun 2pm-1am. Popular and busy gay bar with friendly staff. THE STAG & TURRET* 1-7 Montrose Terrace. Tel: 0131-661 6443. Noon-1am. Friendly gay local just round the corner from the Solas Centre. Karaoke: Wed, Fri, & Sun 8.30pm-12.30am. SOLAS CAFE* 2/4 Abbeymount. Tel: 0131-661 0982. Tue & Thu 11am-7.30pm, Wed & Fri 11am-4pm. Attached to Solas National HIV/AIDS Information Centre. Good home cooking (everything cooked on the premises). Vegetarians and carnivores catered for. TACKNO Club Mercado, 36-39 Market Street. Tel: 0131-226 4224. Last Sun of each month. 10pm-3am. DJ Trendy Wendy. Mixed and crowded club night. WWW: http://hello.to/trendywendy/ TASTE AT THE HONEYCOMB 15-17 Niddry Street. Tel: 0131-530 5540. Info Line: 0131-557 4656. Sun 11pm-3am. DJs Fisher & Price play a progressive mix of garage and house in the Main Room with guests and Martin Valentine and Marco Smith play garage and US house in the Back Room, to an up-for-it mixed/gay crowd. GBP6 Members/GBP8 (GBP10 with guest nights). Preclub bar at Gilded Saloon, Cowgate with Marco Smith and Martin Valentine. E-mail: contact-us@taste-clubs.com WWW: http://www.taste-clubs.com/ TOWNHOUSE SAUNA AND GYM* 53 East Claremont Street. Tel: 0131-556 6116. Sun-Thu Noon-11pm, Fri-Sat Noon-Midnight. Scotland's largest, featuring steam room, 20 person sauna, large Jacuzzi, new Kruze Video Zone, licensed bar and cafe, free weights gym, massage by appointment. Admission GBP9 (Concessions GBP6), Mon 18-22 years old FREE entry, Tue GBP2 before 2pm, Wed GBP12 per couple, Thu GBP6 entry before 4pm, Fri half price beers/spirits all day, Sun GBP5 for students. Annual Membership GBP2. Proudly gay owned and operated. WWW: http://www.townhouse-sauna.co.uk/ UP! The Venue, 15 Calton Road. Tel: 0131-557 0751. First Sat of each month. 10.30pm-3am. Progressive and Tribal trance for a pan-sexual crowd. With DJ Nic Cavendish and monthly guests. Monthly surprises including bouncy castle and bubble machine. GBP7 Members, GBP9 Guests, GBP6 NUS. Pre-club party every month at PIVO Cafe/Bar (Calton Rd) - 9pm-1am. E-mail: up.up@talk21.com WWW: http://www.upclub.co.uk/ WEB 13* 13 Bread Street. Tel: 0131-229 8883. Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun Noon-6pm. Informal mixed cybercafe with homely and approachable staff. E-mail: queries@web13.co.uk WWW: http://www.web13.co.uk/ WORK? Ego, 14 Picardy Place. Tel: 0131-478 7435. 10.30pm-3am. Next date: Fri 21st Dec - Big party night with Pete Owen and Special Guests. Monthly one nighter. GBP6 members/GBP8 non-members. ***GLASGOW AURALL Bar Soba, Mitchell Lane. Tel: 0141-204 2404. Info Line: 0141-429 8484. First Sat of each month (not Jan) 11pm-3am. Two rooms: funky garage upstairs, deeper more progressive sounds with the occasional anthem, brought to you by the cream of Scotland's independent DJs. Entry GBP6 Mixed club. WWW: http://www.aurall.com/ E-mail: clubwilde@yahoo.co.uk BENNETS DISCO 80-90 Glassford Street. Tel: 0141-552 5761. Tue-Sun 11pm-3am. Beautifully appointed busy club on two floors. Frequent PAs. Tuesdays are straight. WWW: http://www.bennets.co.uk/ E-mail: BennetsWeb@aol.com CANDLE BAR* 20 Candleriggs. Tel: 0141-564 1285. Noon-Midnight. Food served Noon-5pm. Upmarket bar in the heart of the Merchant City. Beautiful place with comfortable seating. Nice staff get the Goldilocks seal of approval. Easy parking. Regular cabaret, karaoke and disco. CENTURION SPA* 19 Dixon Street. Tel: 0141-248 4485. Fax: 0141-400 1080. Sun-Fri Noon-10pm, Sat 11am-7am (All Nighter). Facilities now include 2 saunas, steamroom, Jacuzzi, gymnasium, Construction Zone, large rest area, recently refurbished luxury private rest rooms, television lounge, smoking and non-smoking lounges, Loyalty Scheme for regular clients, video monitors installed throughout premises. E-mail: centurionspa@gay.com CLONE ZONE* 11 Dixon Street. Tel/FAX: 0141-248 2593. Mon-Sat 11am-9pm, Sun Noon-7pm. Clothes, videos, magazines, toys. E-mail: admin@clonezone.co.uk WWW: http://www.clonezone.co.uk/ COURT BAR* 69 Hutcheson Street. Tel: 0141-552 2463. Mon-Sat 8am-Midnight, Sun 12.30pm-Midnight. Intimate bar beside former Sheriff Court. Straight until mid-evening. CUBE 34 & 44 Queen Street. Tel: 0141-226 8990. Mon-Tue 11pm-3am. Formerly Planet Peach, two nighter with DJs Shawn and George. Various drinks promos. Entry GBP3. DELMONICA'S BAR 68 Virginia Street. Tel: 0141-552 4803. Daily Noon-Midnight. Large pub - popular with the younger crowd. Nice if your face fits. EASYEVERYTHING 57/61 St. Vincent Street. Large Internet Cafe from which many gay men seem to troll the net instead of just picking up each other! FRUITFLY The Arches, Midland Street. Tel: 0901 0220300. Info Line: 0141-429 8484. 3rd Sat of each month (not Sep). 10.30pm-3am. DJs Fisher & Price play a progressive mix of garage and house in the Main Room. A hassle-free night in like-minded company - guaranteed. Preclub bar at Soba, Mitchell Lane. Entry GBP8 members/GBP10 guests (GBP 12 with guest DJs). WWW: http://www.fruitfly-club.com/ GLC CAFE/BAR* GLGBTC, 11 Dixon Street. Tel: 0141-400 1008. Daily 11am-Midnight. Full breakfast always available. Home cooking. Friendly and busy! Karaoke on Fri, Sat and Sun. GLASGOW LGBT CENTRE (GGLC)* 11 Dixon Street, St Enoch. Tel/FAX: 0141-221 7203. Reception: 0141-400 7203. Daily 11am-Midnight. Welcomes lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered. Services include: Cafe Bar, Clone Zone shop, Info Box, Health Info, Interest Groups, Free Newspapers, Diary of Events, Reading Room, Garden of Reflection, Function space for hire and innovative Art Gallery. Increasingly busy and popular! Fully wheelchair accessible venue. E-mail: lgbt.glasgow@gglc.org.uk WWW: http://www.gglc.org.uk/ also see their Art Gallery: http://www.gglc.org.uk/index2.html THE LANE 60 Robertson Street Lane (off Argyle Street). Tel: 0141-221 1802. Mon-Fri 1-10pm, Sat-Sun Noon-10pm. "Exotic Gay Men's Club" with sauna and private cabins. Not as busy as it used to be. MacSORLEYS BAR 42 Jamaica Street. Tel: 0141-248 8581. Mon-Sat Noon-Midnight, Sun 12.30pm-Midnight. Glasgow's second oldest pub which is seeking LGBT trade! Live music Fri, Sat & Sun eves. OOT IN GLASGOW Stand Comedy Club, 333 Woodlands Road. Tel: 0870 600 6055. Second Sun of each month. 8.30-10.30pm. Monthly gay comedy club. E-mail: admin@thestand.freeserve.co.uk THE POLO LOUNGE 84 Wilson Street. Tel: 0141-553 1221. Mon-Fri 5pm-1am, Sat-Sun Noon-3am. Upmarket bar with low seating. WWW: http://www.pololounge.co.uk/ REVOLVER BAR* 6a John Street. Tel: 0141-553 2456. Mon-Sat 11am-Midnight, Sun 12.30pm-Midnight. A refreshing antidote to the current gay scene. Pool table, state of the art free jukebox (with over 5,000 tracks on it), reasonably priced drinks, good quality service, no karaoke. Food available. E-mail: info@revolverdotbar.com WWW: http://www.revolverdotbar.com/ SADIE FROST'S 8-10 West George Street. Tel: 0141-332 8005. Noon-Midnight. Bar meals Noon-7pm. A mere shadow of its former self. SILKS AND SECRETS* 308 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-572 1017. Mon-Sat 10am-5.45pm, Sun Noon-5pm. Clothes and toys catering for gay, transvestite and fetish tastes. Friendly understanding staff. Larger sizes stocked. TRON THEATRE CAFE BAR* Chisholm Street. Tel: 0141-552 8587. 10am-Late. Friendly theatre bar. Mixed. Good food. E-mail: boxoffice@tron.co.uk WWW: http://www.tron.co.uk/ VICTORIA BAR* 157-159 Bridgegait. Tel: 0141-552 6040. Daily 11am-Midnight. Basically straight, but justly popular with Glasgow's many Real Ale queens and dykes. VIOLATE PO Box 808, Glasgow. G71 7YN. Violate Club Line: 09099 108174 (60p per min at all times). BDSM and general pervery. Operates in Glasgow and Edinburgh. E-mail: info@violate.co.uk WWW: http://www.violate.co.uk/ THE WATERLOO* 306 Argyle Street. Tel: 0141-229 5891. Mon-Sat Noon-Midnight, Sun 12.30pm-Midnight. Semper idem! Popular, crowded, down to earth gay drinking shop. Scotland's oldest gay bar - what more can we say? Busy, busy, busy! Awarded the Beti Hutton seal of approval. ***INVERNESS SLEEPERS Station Square, Academy Street. Tel: (01463) 231926. Mon-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 11am-12.30am. Sun Noon-11pm. Inverness's main gay-friendly establishment. Smart hotel bar. Gayest on Wed and Fri evenings. STIRLING BARNTON BISTRO* 3 1/2 Barnton Street. Tel: (01786) 461698. Mon-Thu 10.30am-Midnight, Fri-Sat 10.30am-1am, Sun Noon-Midnight. (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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ScotsGay: a monthly magazine for lesbians, gays and bisexuals. ScotsGay 60/- Light appears in odd numbered months, whilst ScotsGay 80/- Heavy appears in even numbered months. ISSN: 1357-0595. Edited, printed and published in Scotland (c) Pageprint Limited, November 2001. PO Box 666, Edinburgh. EH7 5JW. 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. 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