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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 bisexual men in Scotland, many of whom were relatively young when their lives were touched or influenced by this brand-new and sinister threat to life. Scotland had only decriminalised consensual gay sex between male adults in , and the pilot for equality was realistically still in its infancy. This blog post is not an attempt to document Scottish responses to HIV and AIDS but to reflect the experiences of gay and bi-curious men during the s and s.
Chris was in his early 20s when the HIV/AIDS ‘dark cloud’ settled over Scotland:
It was horrendous, absolutely horrendous. Anxiety, fear of something you had taken for granted that was a large part of your iden
&#;It&#;s always open season on gay kids.&#; So begins Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick&#;s essay &#;How to Convey Your Kids Up Gay,&#; published as an article in and then, three years later, calm in her manual of essays Tendencies, which I decipher yesterday and today in the Upper Reading Room, compulsively toggling back to social media every few pages in order to grab in the tragedy that happened preceding Sunday morning in Orlando. Of those of the over 50 victims who have been identified, over half were under For those of us who teach college—the slow and lamented EKS, me, maybe you—many of them were the age of our students. The youngest was Sedgwick writes in the introduction to Tendencies that she had young people, her students, in brain when she was writing. At the time she was writing some of these essays, surely some of her students were dying—certainly, she writes in Tendencies of a very close ally who did—and she was one of many people who put their gay shoulders to the wheel, putting pressure on the US government and the public to do something about a
Shadows from the past…
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It’s midsummer, the time when the sun never fully sets this far north – a time the Shetlanders call the white nights. Well-known local artist Bella Sinclair and her younger friend, Fran Sportsman, have arranged to hold a joint show of their art and are expecting a giant turnout of locals and tourists, not to mention people who have come specifically from afar to admire Bella’s work. But they are disappointed when the show is sparsely attended, and then to make matters worse a man, a stranger to them both, suddenly bursts into loud sobs in front of one of Bella’s paintings and falls to his knees. A reluctant Jimmy Perez, feeling it’s his responsibility as a policeman even if he’s off-duty, steps in to remove the guy and to try to find what the problem is. But the man declares he has lost his memory, and then disappears when Jimmy goes support into the showroom for a moment leaving him in the kitchen. The next day the man is found dead, hanged in the boathouse used by the locals. It’s made to look like suicide, but it is soon clear that he w
A Christian organisation has been criticised for displaying material opposing same sex marriage in a Lerwick youth club.
New Life Shetland is an evangelical group that regularly meets in the Sandveien Neighbourhood Centre. However, the centre is primarily a base for youth clubs, with young people using the facility most days of the year.
Last week, Saul Day, who has been employed as a youth worker for six years, found postcards on display in the hall. The cards were titled “Speak now or forever hold your peace”. But Mr Day was surprised to find they were urging people to sign a petition contradictory same sex marriage.
“We are deeply concerned about the implications of what will be taught in schools if marriage is redefined”, the postcards read.
“We are also concerned that the definition of marriage may be rewritten further so that, for example, polygamy may be legalised at some future point.”
It goes on, “Our chief interest is the general welfare of people in Scotland. In addition, we perform not wish to observe the rights of conscience eroded for those who disagree with homosexual marr