ScotsGay
ScotsGay is a bi-monthly magazine published in Scotland for the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.[2] Its website carries textfiles of all issues and, since 2005, pdf files of the whole magazine. Martin Walker became Editor in May 2006. John Hein edited it from Issue 1 in December 1994 until Issue 69 in April 2006. He remains the publisher of the title.
| Editor | Martin Walker (from 2006) |
|---|---|
| Former editors | John Hein (1994-2006) |
| Staff writers | Andi Watson David Jackson Stevie Harkin[1] |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Founder | John Hein |
| First issue | December 1, 1994 |
| Country | Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Based in | Edinburgh |
| Language | English |
| Website | scotsgay |
The magazine has been in hiatus since issue 179, dated October 2016, due to John Hein suffering a minor stroke (he had resumed editorship of the magazine). However the website has been recently updated and ScotsGay expect to recommence publishing during Summer 2017.[3]
In the summer of 2019, it was announced that Taylor Crockett has taken over as editor with a brand new relaunch scheduled for April 2020
Controversies
On 26 May 2018 Scotsgay Fife writer David Jackson was exposed by the Wolfpack Hunter UK group attempting to meet a 12 year old boy for sex in a Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, with the video of the group confronting Jackson viewed over 200,000 times. Jackson admitted to a charge of sending sexual images, video and messages to an adult posing as a child under the age of 13 and wsas sentenced to 190 of hour of unpaid work and placed on the sex offenders register for two years.[5][6]
See also
- List of magazines published in Scotland
References
- http://www.scotsgay.co.uk/pdf/sg158.pdf
- About. ScotsGay website. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ScotsGay Magazine: Scotland's gay magazine and news
- ScotsGay Magazine: Groups and Organisations
- https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/738957/pervert-who-planned-to-meet-12-year-old-boy-for-sex-only-to-be-confronted-by-online-vigilante-group-spared-jail/
- Fife child sex predator snared in online sting – Fife Reporter