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       - Part One - TIBET
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    This is a selection of features on sexuality, most of which have been published in various magazines.

    1 Marriage: They're Pinching Our Word! - October 2012
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    Cutting through swathes of religious privilege, Scotland has almost made it to deliver full equality for gays for the first time.

    2 FREE TO SAY SO - BBC Bias: Believers Broadcasting Christianity - March 2012
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    The BBC shows blatant bias towards Christianity in a democracy that is turning its back on religion.

    3 FREE TO SAY SO - The Hand-Wringing Path to Equality - February 2012
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    Part 4 on the hand-wringing path to equality blocked by the Churches.

    4 FREE TO SAY SO - Redefining Marriage (Continuing) - December 2011
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    Part 3 of the struggle against religionists in bringing about the destruction of the last brick of legal discrimination against gays: Marriage.

    5 FREE TO SAY SO - The Frocks Consult on Who Wears the Gown - November 2011
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    When the Scottish Parliament consulted on same-sex marriage, it opened up a can of religous worms.

    6 FREE TO SAY SO - The Catholic Church: The Party's Over - October 2011
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    The Catholic Church have been quick off the mark in attacking homosexuals' quest for marriage equality, but who is this organisation to point the finger?

    7 FREE TO SAY SO - Pope... Nope! - October 2010
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    We didnae want him, and we're no huvvin' him!

    8 FREE TO SAY SO - Church Business - December 2009
    Magazine: Scottish Media Monitor
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    It's not all about helping people. Don't forget they have a business to run.

    9 FREE TO SAY SO - The Scottish Daily Mail - October 2009
    Magazine: The Guardian
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    Has homophobia in The Scottish Daily Mail finally had its day?

    10 FREE TO SAY SO - Religion and the SNP - September 2009
    Magazine: Scottish Media Monitor
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    Some things you might like to know about the SNP

    11 FREE TO SAY SO - 'Desecrating' the Bible - August 2009
    Magazine: Scottish Media Monitor
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    Glasgow permits the public to write on the Bible at its Gallery of Modern Art.

    12 FREE TO SAY SO - Gay Sex in the Kirk - June 2009
    Magazine: Scottish Media Monitor
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    My Thought For The Day

    13 FREE TO SAY SO - Jesus Fucks Me - May 2009
    Magazine: Scottish Media Monitor
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    Does the BBC treat the subject of religion fairly?

    14 OPINION - Religion on the NHS! - November 2008
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    Who pays?

    15 OPINION - The Bank of Scotland is Buggered - October 2008
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    The last breath for the bank that railed against liberals.

    16 OPINION - Under The Arches - September 2008
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    Should the police have raided a Glasgow gay club?

    17 Protecting Women's Sex Rights - January 2003
    Magazine: Centrepoint
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    Protecting women's rights in the face of a campaign of moral vigilance by Glasgow City Council.

    18 Brian Souter - November 2002
    Magazine: Centrepoint
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    The end is nigh for Stagecoach boss

    19 Michael Barrymore - October 2002
    Magazine: Centrepoint
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    The Silliness of 'coming out' late

    20 Gay Marriage - September 2002
    Magazine: Centrepoint
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    Who wants 'gay marriage'?

    21 Gay Conservatives - August 2002
    Magazine: Centrepoint
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    Gays are just as conservative as 'straights'

    22 Exercise Your Sex Rights - July 2002
    Magazine: Centrepoint
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    Glasgow's efforts to prohibit sex workers and ban lap-dancing clubs.

    23 Scotland's Gay Serial Killer - October 2001
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    When Men Hurt Men. (William 'Ian' Beggs)

    24 Sexual Fascism (Sex In The Scottish Media) - October 2001
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    'SEXUAL FASCISM' BY GARRY OTTON (Ganymede Books 2001, Price £8.99 UK)

    25 Cardinal Thomas Winning - June 2001
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    The tributes to Cardinal Winning are filling the very pages of the Scottish press they have manipulated for years, writes Garry Otton

    26 The Vigilantes - April 2001
    Magazine: ScotsGay
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    With a stake through the heart of Clause 28 in Scotland, Garry Otton warns of being vigilant of the vigilantes!

    27 Five Years of the SCOTTISH MEDIA MONITOR - January 2001
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    Garry Otton is no stranger to the media. Fifteen years ago, in a former incarnation, his London agents were distributing his sensitive illustrations of teen romance to magazines in nine countries. Dundee's DC Thomson, publishers of Jackie magazine, was a regular buyer. Despite such success, his first love has been his work for gay magazines, which began as a young student freelancing for Gay News before its demise after the famous blasphemy trial led by Mary Whitehouse and Garry went on to champion sexual rights in England.

    28 Tom ‘Brigadier’ Brown - January 2001
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    29 Christians should hurt the church that hates them... says TERRY SANDERSON Garry Otton on holiday this month - April 2000
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    30 Name and Shame! - January 2000
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    Who are these sinister, shady figures lurking in the shadows and willing to put their hands in their deep pockets to help fund Brian Souter’s mail shot and endorse this homophobic Keep the Clause campaign?

    31 Keep The Clause! - January 2000
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    32 Lewd and Libidinous - January 2000
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    33 Part Two Summertime... And The Living Is Sleazy! (A History of Gay Sex In and Around Glasgow) - January 1998
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    34 Summertime... And The Living Is Sleazy! (A History of Gay Sex In and Around Glasgow) - January 1998
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    So Glasgow wants to make it big as a European capital? Garry Otton whips out his ruler and measures her up for sexual tolerance against one of the big boys.

    35 Old Mother Burnie - Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble - January 1998
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    36 Iain’s Story: Worse Than Murder - January 1997
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    Cottaging (using public conveniences to negotiate gay sex) is dangerous. Apart from the risk of queer bashing, there are the police. In Stirling, monitoring the activities of a 13-year-old rent-boy with hidden cameras, resulted in the arrests of 11 men, two of who went on to take their own lives. You are also leaving yourself open to the mercy of a homophobic judiciary and press who think nothing of dragging something private and consensual into the open for public scrutiny. In the case of Iain MacDonald: he also got 18 years behind bars!

    37 Rum Goings On - January 1997
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    On the lonely Scottish island of Rum, I stumbled on George Bullough, an absolutely minted S&M queen who managed his own football team from a castle he built out of pink rock at the turn of the century.

    38 Victims - January 1997
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    When, at the end of 1996, a 16-year-old gay youth turned up at a weeklong Hogmanay bash organised by the thousand-strong Gay Outdoor Club outside Stirling, he walked into the epicentre of a shock-wave of hysteria that had swept 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 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, abandoned the group citing his presence as one of the reasons. By Christmas, Edinburgh’s department store, Jenner’s only allowed children to sit on Santa’s knee with parental permission and the ‘innocent little angels’, the children of Dunblane, climbed to the number one slot of the nation’s charts singing, “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”.

    39 Outing the Pink Pound - April 1996
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    Teacher’s whisky wants to attract younger drinkers. In a ground-breaking as that went out on Scottish Television last Christmas, Allied Domecq did something to meet the approval of the young and send most older, traditional, paunchy, grey-haired board-room whisky drinkers to an early grave: they advertised their drink to gay men. And all without a single bubble rising to the surface of the media cesspit. Garry Otton has a tipple…

    40 Part One - TIBET: Forbidden Fruit in the Forbidden Land - January 1996
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine/Attitude
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    As the first western journalist to interview gays in Tibet, Garry Otton dodges Himalayan landslides and the Chinese secret police searching for the abominable homosexual living on the Roof of the World.

    41 Spies On Beachy Head - January 1996
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    Britain’s nudist beaches, with their open-air sex appeal, have provided a target for moral campaigners. Garry Otton reports on the gaywatch brigades who have become laws unto themselves.

    42 Final Part - TIBET: Forbidden Fruit in the Forbidden Land - January 1996
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    As the first western journalist to interview gays in Tibet, Garry Otton dodges Himalayan landslides and the Chinese secret police searching for the abominable homosexual living on the Roof of the World.

    43 Age Of Consent and Bugger the Press! - January 1996
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    44 Rocking the Boat - January 1996
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    45 Elsi, Queen of the Munros - January 1995
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    46 Cruising: A Private Inconvenience - January 1995
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine
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    Cottaging, cruising, shagging in the bushes: all the sorts of things that can cause apoplexy amongst the blue-rinsed brigade and frequently provokes considerable arresting behaviour from the blue serge uniforms. Garry Otton has been pounding the beats …

    47 Clause 159: Silencing Free Radio - January 1995
    Magazine: ScotsGay Magazine/Offshore Echos
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