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.

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.^{[4][citation needed]}

The magazine is based in Edinburgh.^[5]

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 was sentenced to 190 hours of unpaid work and placed on the sex offenders register for two years.^[6][7]

Ex-Dundee writer Douglas Latto was also convicted of sex offences against an 8 year old boy in 2017,and including possession of child pornography images. Latto was caught when police raided his home looking for depraved images, Dundee Sheriff Court heard. Officers raided Douglas Latto’s home in search of child abuse images, but also found sick online sex chats in which he admitted an attack on a child. His victim had kept quiet for more than five years and the court heard that the child might never have revealed the depraved incident had officers not found sickening chat logs on 25-year-old Latto’s computer. Police raided Latto’s home near Baxter Park last November on suspicion that he was in possession of indecent images of children. They found exactly that — but also an online confession by Latto of a sex act committed towards the child. A sheriff told Latto, of Park Avenue, that his crime “put him in the realms” of a jail term, but opted to impose a community payback order instead. Fiscal depute Charmaine Gilmartin told the city’s sheriff court that about 300 indecent images — 100 at each level of the three-tier scale used to assess such pictures — were found on Latto’s computer. She said: “In the course of the investigation, they came across chat logs in which he stated he had abused the complainer in this charge. On one occasion when the child was alone with the accused, Latto committed a sex act.” The child’s statement, which was read out in court, said that afterwards, it was like a “switch flicked” and conversation continued as normal. Latto pleaded guilty on indictment to possessing indecent images of children between January 26, 2010 and November 12, 2016 and using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards a child at an address in north-east Fife between 2010 and 2011. Defence solicitor Anika Jethwa said: “He has been assessed as suitable for a community payback order and would benefit greatly from this. “He had taken steps prior to this case coming to court to get assistance and there is a report from the psychologist he’s been meeting with. “He has a difficulty and he very much wishes help and assistance with that.” Sheriff Alastair Carmichael imposed a community payback order with three years’ supervision, 120 hours of unpaid work and a requirement to take part in a sex offenders programme. <ref>https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/dundee-abuser-25-admits-attack-child-sick-online-sex-chats/

See also[]

• List of magazines published in Scotland

References[]

External links[]

• ScotsGay - official website