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duck wrote:....................
and the "club" - the SHRG centre somewhere up in the Park Circus area- that was "dead" sophisticated 'cos you could have a meal in the restaurant or a quiet drink in the bar or dance the night away in the disco!
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onyirtodd wrote:^ I can't imagine but, if you want to know the extent to which Presbyterianism is still alive and well in Scotland, try running a swingers club
crusty_bint wrote:onyirtodd wrote:^ I can't imagine but, if you want to know the extent to which Presbyterianism is still alive and well in Scotland, try running a swingers club
pmsl ::):
onyirtodd wrote:Are you thinking of the Queen's (titter ye not!) Crescent venue?
[The building] was vacated by the shrinking Seaforth Highlanders Regimental Club when they decided the premises were too large for their declining membership.
"Sheriff yesterday rejected claim that giving a homosexual club a drinks licence would morally endanger the public. But he REFUSED to grant the club a licence—because the application had been made when the club had not been properly formed.
Members of the Royal Institute for the War Blinded had objected to the licence being given to the Glasgow branch of the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group.
The gay club, at 4 Queen's Crescent, Woodside, is next door to the ex-soldiers premises.
Another 700 locals and a chief constable also objected.
Glasgow Sheriff Court was told that drink was likely to lead to an increase in homosexual activities, presently contrary to Scots Law.
And the club would probably have males who had broken the law and who would be likely to make sex advances to people near the club.
Given that male homosexuality was only decriminalised in Scotland in 1980 (a full 13 years after England... god bless Presbyterianism), what was it like to go to gay bars in the '70s? Or indeed to be gay then?
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