Gay Quiz Night in SelkirkThere is some disappointment that the first event in the Borders as part of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and
Transgender History Month is to be a quiz in Selkirk. (
Thankyou Paxton
bloggee for drawing my attention to page 8 of the
Berwickshire) Why Selkirk? What
is wrong with Eastern
Berwickshire asks Professor 'Pink' Pryde , the expert on
sexuality and diversity who occasionally advises the Hutton Think Tank. He claims that there is an honourable local connection to
LGBT history as there is a theory that the ancient name of the village pub , the Cross Inn, is the Cross Dressing Inn-with the 'dressing' later dropped by the sanctimonious, homophobic and strait laced Victorians. Prof. Pryde has written a number of papers on 'sexual variety' as he calls it in ancient Scotland:
'The Ambiguity of the Kilt-transgender discourse in the Western Highlands' was widely acclaimed . He also wrote '
How gay were the Gordons?: nocturnal fumblings in a Scottish Glen. ' and 'The Campbells are coming' -a seminal work as he modestly describes it.
Anyhow best of luck for the first Gay Quiz night, even if it is in far off Selkirk. A leaked quiz paper reveals the first question to be' Name one event in Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender History in the Scottish Borders? The official answer is:
Pass.