Lgbt Culture in Scotland - Pride Scotia, Glasgay! Festival, Lgbt Youth Scotland, Pride Glasgow, Scotsgay, (Paperback)

Chapters: Pride Scotia, Glasgay Festival, LGBT Youth Scotland, Pride Glasgow, ScotsGay, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pride Scotia is Scotland's national LGBT pride festival. Since 1995, volunteers have organised a Pride March and a community-based festival in June, alternating between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Between 1995 and 2002, the pride marches were organised by "Pride Scotland," until it went bankrupt in December 2002 with debts of around 60,000. A new organisation, Pride Scotia, was founded in 2003 to continue the tradition of the annual march and festival. This organisation changed its name to Pride Scotia (Edinburgh) in 2004 and a separate organisation Pride Scotia (Glasgow) was created with the two organisations organising Pride Scotia in their respective cities in alternate years thereafter. Both organisations are Companies Limited by Guarantee but are not Scottish Charities. In 2008, the Glasgow arm of the organisation announced it was splitting completely, and has since used the name Pride Glasgow. In 1994, Laura Norris and Doogie Hothersall, both members of the University of Edinburgh LGBT society "BLOGS," decided to organise a Pride Parade to take place in the city of Edinburgh. The first Pride march in Scotland gathered on Barony Street in Edinburgh on the 17th of June. Police estimated that around 3000 people attended. The route followed was Broughton Street, Leith Street, Princes Street, the Mound, George IV Bridge, and down Middle Meadow Walk into the Meadows. The first Pride Festival on the Meadows began as the procession arrived, and had a stage and surrounding stalls. It continued regardless of the rain, until it was eventually unplugged by Lothian and Borders Police at 9pm following complaints from resi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=624425