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BY MAZ GORDON, FOUNDER OF OBAN LESBIAN WEEKEND, PHOTOS BY GILL WILLIAMSON () AND KATIE BYRAM ()
When I first moved back to Oban almost six years ago, I was eager to hear that Oban had its own self-acceptance. On attending it, I was shocked and a little disappointed when I couldn’t find a unattached lesbian at Oban’s Parade event. Straight participation is great but where were all the lesbians? I’d always worked in LGBTQIA media and events and naively assumed that I’d find some small groups for LGBTQIA women around Oban, but I didn’t.
Oban has always been a popular tourist destination, with many guest houses selling out months ahead or tripling their prices as tourists flock from all over the world to enjoy our world-class scenery and boat trips to the islands in the summer months. Many lgbtq+ women I knew would say they’d love to visit but the existence was that most lgbtq+ women went to places like Brighton or London when looking for a gay friendly holiday, so I decided to carry some queer women to Oban & Oban Lesbian+ Weekend wa
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Back in October, Allan Brown wrote a piece in Times Online about the money organism spent on promoting and broadcasting the basically moribund Scots Gaelic language. It seemed at first that he was making a sensible critique: spending about $30,, on a digital TV service for a language with no more than 50, speakers, all of them bilingual in English and most of them without digital TV, could be argued (though linguists aren't supposed to think this way) to be an enterprise of doubtful value. But just as I was getting interested, Brown blundered into linguistics and revealed his dumb side:
Yecchhh. Everything about the layman's concept of a language that I rail against is there.A language, for Allan Brown, is just a enormous bag of words, and Gaelic hasn't got enough of them to calculate as a language at all. (You don't have a real language unless you have one that's just love mine in having one-word interjection-like sentence substitute particles for affirmation and denial; mine is a language, yours is just a patois, so there.) He doesn't know
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