A room in Glasgow, second floor. There’s a good view of West Nile Street where a man and woman are pushing cages full of multi-coloured banners and streamers up the hill. Just behind them is a guy and his girlfriend, bedecked in flags, and another young man in micro-skirt and suspenders. It’s Pride day in the city but a group of gay men, who in days-gone-by might have been at the parade themselves, have decided to come to this room instead. It’s a measure of how much things have changed.
The group is a pretty mixed bunch really: different ages, different backgrounds, different opinions, but they all have a couple of important things in common. They’re concerned about what’s going on with gay rights, they’re disturbed by the concept of gender identity and its consequences for women and gay people, and they’re downright sceptical about LGBTQIA+ and the shenanigans going on in the street below. The reason they’ve got together is to try and work out what needs to be done about it.
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