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Explore the progress of LGBTQ+ rights across the world all in an easy to read charts, graphs, and tables. Contact Us Site Map. It was the early summer of By now it was clear to me that I was attracted to other men. Two of their team met me in town and we went for tea where we talked about being gay and what it meant for me. It was really helpful and professional and obviously a well-established non-directive counselling service with trained volunteers the Samaritans clearly saw fit to recommend it and I assume they had done their due diligence.

My befrienders were John Compass who was an established estate agent and also the person who had project-managed the acquisition of the gay centre in Broughton Street and a guy called Ted who was a teacher. I remained friends with John for many years. Both of these wonderful men have now long since passed away. I saw many others come into the community via the Befrienders.

I joined the Befriending team myself some years later. This was August I am completely clear about this date. It was on two floors at 60 Broughton Street. When I first went there it was fully up and running and I think I recall being told by John that it had been so for at least two years so that dates it back to On the upper ground level there was a coffee shop and 'information centre', which contained a small bookshop and some leaflets about matters of interest to LGBT people.

The befriending team used a room at the rear of this floor. The front window contained a large Lambda sign and the words 'Scottish Minorities Group' clearly emblazoned around it. The centre was, I think, open 7 days a week. It was open to casual callers, regulars seeking sanctuary, interest groups and more than the occasional brick through the window a local glazier got a lot of business from us!

Downstairs there were meeting rooms for the political activities and further group meetings. I recall that there was a busy diversity of social groups but with a big emphasis on groups for lesbian women and transgender people. Downstairs kind of became the women's area. Edinburgh in also had a vibrant commercial gay scene. MSC Scotland had regular wild leather parties in its den of iniquity off the Grassmarket.

There were many private parties. ABBA released 'The Album', John Travolta strutted his stuff on the disco floor, SMG released its charter for gay equality and we all made great tea and coffee and were there for every gay and lesbian person who needed someone to reach for. However, I was a teenager. The Sexual Offences Act did not apply to Scotland then, and Scots law was not brought into line with this until A number of the men in the gay centre were very worried that the presence of teenagers in the Centre was dangerous for them.

My befrienders were concerned that my pals and I should not be seen in the gay bars or GHQ. So the gay youth group came into existence and reached, at its height, perhaps regular participants and met every fortnight. We were young kids then.