Scott Cuthbertson
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Scott Cuthbertson
@ScotCuthbertson
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ Campaigner & CEO @TRPNI Formerly @LGBTIScotland 🏴 Scotsman in Belfast 🌍Travel 🛸Sci-fi 👨👦👦Uncle 🗣 EN/DE He/Him Own Views
- On this day 65 years ago, Alan Turing (41) killed himself. He had played a pivotal role in WWII by cracking German enigma codes, thus saving millions of lives. In thanks the British state chemically castrated him for being gay. Words cannot express what we all owe to Alan Turing
- Let’s be clear BBC, Alan Turing’s life and career weren’t ‘overshadowed by his homosexuality’, they were overshadowed by Alan’s treatment by the state because of his homosexuality.
- So a friend just told me that for the first time there were protesters outside his church on Sunday in Edinburgh. They were protesting because the church is LGBT inclusive. Something very bad and very dangerous seems to be happening.
- Growing up gay in 90s Scotland. It was a sin. I worked everyday for 25 years to change that. Then the anti-trans mob came along and they throw the same insults & rhetoric I heard growing up. For everything I longed to do, no matter when or where or who…it’s once again a sin.
- They are attacking pride events. They are protesting queer bars. They are storming Drag shows. The are calling for us to be rounded up. They are calling for us to be killed. Every bit of progress we’ve made is at risk, and so are we.
- We lost a generation of LGBT+ folk to the AIDS crisis. We lost a generation of LGBT+ folk to Section 28. That’s why LGBT+ folk and our allies will not allow another generation of LGBT+ folk to be lost to an anti-trans culture war. Our lives are worth more than your ignorance.
- We lost a generation of LGBT people because of government ideology around HIV/aids. We lost a generation of LGBT people because of government ideology and section 28. There are reasons we will never accept losing another generation of LGBT people due to government ideology.
- Everything they said about LGB people in the 80s they are now saying about trans people. They shouldn’t get to use our changing rooms They’re doing it to abuse us They’re not real women/men They’re turning or kids gay It wasn’t true then, and it’s not true now. Be smarter.
- To my trans friends. You deserved better. To Scotland. Your democracy deserves better. To the UK Gov. This isn’t over.
- While you’re all stanning ‘sexy Maggie’ here’s a reminder how how toxic she was.
- Growing up gay in the 90s you were made to feel like a criminal. The media frequently and deliberately conflated the worst of us to tell the world all of us were the same. To see the wizard lady doing it all again to trans people brings back just how vile a tactic it was.
- Teachers outing LGBT kids to parents before they are ready is wrong and will impact on kids ability to feel safe and supported at school. It’s wrong to out gay kids. It’s wrong to out bi kids. It’s wrong to out trans kids. It’s wrong.
