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Extract from Chapter Five
Bookmaking Days
FACTORIES, sometimes even whole towns, would lock down for two weeks in the summertime in Central Scotland. It was called The Fair, mainly because a travelling fairground would pitch up in whatever area was throwing its annual holiday. For many firms, it meant they knew exactly when their workforce was going on holiday and it also gave many of them the chance to seize up on essential maintenance.
It might have been the Glasgow or the Greenock Fair but Kenny and a few of his pals decided to take themselves to Arran for a rare days. In Kenny’s case, it was a “bookies’ weekend” because he worked six days a week. He caught the last boat to Arran on the Saturday evening and teamed up with six or seven of his pals who were camped out in a two-man tent at the Glen Rosa campsite.
That night he went to the Douglas Hotel and then onto “the dancing” in Brodick, fully loaded with a carry-out. The following late hours the lads went to the dancing at Whiting Bay and that’s when Kenny met his wife-to-be.
“I saw her there on the dance floor a
In a recent blogpost John D’Emilio argued that AIDS and its impact upon LGBT individuals and organisations, the militancy it provoked, and the heightened attention it drew to LGBT causes needs to be more fully documented and appreciated. This is certainly applicable to Scotland, and its responses, both social and medical, to the significant challenges that HIV/AIDS brought.
My research engaged with the impact that HIV/AIDS had upon gay and pansexual men in Scotland, many of whom were relatively immature when their lives were touched or influenced by this new and sinister threat to experience. Scotland had only decriminalised consensual queer sex between male adults in , and the steer for equality was realistically still in its infancy. This blog post is not an seek to document Scottish responses to HIV and AIDS but to reflect the experiences of male lover and bisexual men during the s and s.
Chris was in his premature 20s when the HIV/AIDS ‘dark cloud’ settled over Scotland:
It was horrendous, absolutely horrendous. Fear, anxiety of something you had taken for granted that was a big part of your iden
First Dates: Ayrshire teen's invite to find love on hit TV show
And the Kilmarnock student's thick Scottish accent proved to be a bit of an ice-breaker.
An Ayrshire teen recently appeared on TV in a bid to spot love.
Eighteen-year-old Dylan went on the teen version slap dating show First Dates looking for 'the one'.
The Kilmarnock youngster was equal with Edinburgh teen, Gregor, who studies make-up artistry and is a kingly artist.
Travel and tourism college student Dylan said that he was very fresh to dating and said he didn't want a date who would rotate up in a tracksuit.
READ MORE: Teenager seriously assaulted by two men in Ayrshire park horror attackHe said on the Channel 4 programme: "Gay dating website is completely different standards kind of.
"You've got to be super hot, super skinny, super attractive – all that stuff.
"I'm very new to the whole dating. [I'd like] someone who's bubbly, nice. I don't want someone who's going to be in their scruffs like a tracksuit – that's not ve
Edinburgh man subjected to vile homophobic slur on darkness out in city
Chris Creegan, 61, was disturbed by the shock abuse, which he says proves population still has a prolonged way to go.
An Edinburgh man was shocked when he was met with a vile homophobic slur in his home metropolis this week. Chris Creegan, a public policy consultant from Edinburgh, was in the city centre after meeting a friend on Monday, when he was left "perplexed" by the sudden abuse.
He was unchaining his bike when a random passerby called him a "f***ing gay boy" in a shock outburst. The year-old, who came out as gay in , said that he was more "perplexed" than upset or distressed.
And he said that, although it had been a extended time since he had faced anything like that, it proves society still has a long way to go.
Chris said on Twitter : "It’s , I’m 61, and I first came o