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‘Queer Voices in Post-War Scotland: Male Homosexuality, Religion and Society’ by Jeffrey Meek (Palgrave) When you read about government ministers and other busy folk falling over themselves to be witnesses…
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Hearing voices can be a symptom of mental illness. We don’t yet know if the suspect in the Jo Cox murder was hearing hallucinatory voices but the media was quick…
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This piece appears without paragraphs at the author’s request I don’t really go on to the gay scene much these days. But I am pleased that it’s there and I…
Last year I spent 69 nights in NHS beds – 48 in hospital and 21 in a rehabilitation centre funded by the NHS. Plenty of time for reflection but, although…
Scotland came top in a recent survey of 49 European countries of legal measures to guarantee LGBT equality. Older readers of SR will remember that it was not always thus….
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