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Philipp Tanzer today (screen capture via BBC)
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A new poll shows almost one-third of men in Scotland disapprove of same-sex relationships, reports UK news site iNews.
The survey, conducted by polling company Survation, found 28% of male Scots feel same-sex relations are ‘wrong.’
This is in stark contrast to only 13% of women in Scotland who feel the same way.
Across the board, 1 in 5 Scots (20%) do not approve of gay relationships.
This data comes as a bit surprising for a country often viewed as LGBTQ-friendly.
Same-sex marriage became legal in Scotland on December 16, 2014.
The government has announced plans to introduce the world’s first LGBTQ school curriculum and could soon be the first country in the United Kingdom to officially recognize a third gender as recent polling shows 56% support for full legal recognition of non-binary people.
The director of Stonewall Scotland, Colin Macfarlane, says the new survey underscores why the LGBTQ community can’t become ‘complacent.’
“We know that in Scotland one in five people have experienced a hate crime in the last year because of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” Macfarlane told iNews.
“We know that only half of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people feel comfortable being open about their sexual orientation or gender identity with their family and two in five trans people avoid certain streets because they don’t feel safe,” he added. “Scotland has changed for the better over the course of the last 30 years, but there is much more to be done before everyone is accepted without exception.”
Gordon MacRae, chief executive for the Humanist Society Scotland which commissioned the survey, said, “It is disappointing to see continued opposition to same-sex relationships amongst a minority but nevertheless sizeable proportion of the community.”
“There clearly continues to be work done to ensure Scotland is a fully inclusive nation for LGBT people,” he added.
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• Chicago the Musical celebrates 22 years on Broadway today!
I was lucky to be part of the Broadway cast as one of the earliest replacements. The show would end up hiring me 14 times from 1998 to 2013 to get down in ‘all that jazz.’ Thank you, Ann Reinking.
This pic was from my last stage appearance in 2013 at the Hollywood Bowl in Chicago as I turned 50. #TheGiftThatKeepsGiving #BlackSexyClothes
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• Scottish First Minister Ncola Sturgeon, the head of government for Scotland, led Glasgow’s Pride parade Saturday, becoming the first serving prime minister or first minister in the U.K. to lead any Pride event.
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• Appearing on a panel with Pose co-creator Ryan Murphy in Los Angeles last Thursday, transgender writer/director Janet Mock, shared she never dreamed of directing television. “Directing was never on my list of things — I didn’t think it was a possibility.” Mock recently made history as the first trans woman of color to write and direct an episode for mainstream television.
• In an interview airing today with CBS News, Donald Trump says it never occurred to him to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to extradite the dozen Russian officials charged with hacking Democratic emails earlier this week.
Isn’t he supposed to defend the United States???
WATCH: President Trump tells @CBSEveningNews‘ @jeffglor that he is going into the Helsinki summit with “low expectations” and that he will consider asking Russia to extradite agents indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. More on @FaceTheNation Sunday. https://t.co/59FYX8FTIg pic.twitter.com/u0rwS8rkxk— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 15, 2018
The government in Scotland has issued an official apology to gay men who were convicted of same-sex activity in the past. In doing so, the men or their families will be able to clear their names.
From Reuters:
“It is only right that we address this historic wrong,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament.
“Discriminatory laws, although abolished, continue to have implications for people to this day,” she added. “The wrong has been committed by the state to them, not by the individuals.”
She added: “I categorically, unequivocally and wholeheartedly apologize for those laws and for the hurt and the harm they did to so many.”
Watching from the gallery, same-sex couples wept, held hands and applauded.
Consensual homosexual acts between men aged over 21 in Scotland were decriminalized in 1981.
“(The) apology will give a great deal of comfort to many who were unjustly prosecuted and will help draw a line, once and for all, under a dark period in Scotland’s history,” gay rights group Stonewall said in a statement.
GOP presidential candidate gloating over Britain voting to leave the EU earned this response to his tweet.
If you read the news, Scotland voted to STAY in the EU by a vote of 62% – 38%. Scotland is now looking at a referendum aimed at leaving Britain so as to stay in the EU.
Brexit vote has been counted and Britain has has voted to leave the European Union.
From the New York Times:
Britain has voted to leave the European Union, a historic decision sure to reshape the nation’s place in the world, rattle the Continent and rock political establishments throughout the West.
With 309 of 382 of the country’s cities and towns reporting early on Friday, the Leave campaign held a 52 percent to 48 percent lead. The BBC called the race for the Leave campaign shortly before 4:45 a.m., with 13.1 million votes having been counted in favor of leaving and 12.2 million in favor of remaining.
The value of the British pound dropped to a 31 year low as financial markets absorbed the news.
World stock markets fell dramatically, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average which fell 500 points upon opening today.
$56 billion wiped from the Australian stock market as a result of the Brexit vote, @Ross_Greenwood reports. #9News https://t.co/Cr9vDubgid— Nine News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) June 24, 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned over the news saying Britain needs “fresh leadership.”
Scotland is now looking at a new referendum on independence from Britain in light of the decision to leave the EU. Scotland, as a whole, voted 62% – 38% to stay in the EU.
Video – Nicola Sturgeon says a new Scotland independence referendum is ‘on the table’ #EURefResults #BrexitVotehttps://t.co/StwCPXkL5V— 5News (@5_News) June 24, 2016
Congratulations to everybody taking part in the first same-sex marriage ceremonies in Scotland tonight #equalmarriage pic.twitter.com/ttbJbGf6yC
— LGBT Labour (@LGBTLabour) December 30, 2014
Check out Joe and Malx, who were the very first gay couple to marry in Scotland last night at the stroke of midnight. Congratulations Scotland!
Scotland’s new law on same-sex marriages has come into effect http://t.co/PRlKep0Kc3 pic.twitter.com/SVibusNyva
— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) December 16, 2014