Douglas Stuart talks about the changing face of masculinity and gang culture in 1990s Glasgow
Douglas Stuart: I came of age in the very early 90s. We were living under Section 28, it was a time of fear because of the Aids crisis, and masculinity was very narrow. There was no queer visibility in my youth – the first Gay Pride march in Scotland didn't take place until 1995 – so as a teenager I was doing everything I could to conceal my queerness. And at the same time, because I was part of such a tight knit community, I had to try and fit in with the lads around me.
“I understood loss and grief and I understood what it meant to be gay and to have the shit kicked out of you for it. I think that’s important for the authenticity of the work” – Douglas Stuart DS: I think he’s really courageous, too. He wasn’t in the book when I sat down to plot it, but he kind of showed up at the side of the page and said: ‘I have something to tell you.’ I was thinking about how so much of our queer canon comes from a place of middle-class life and privilege. There are a lot of boarding schools, a lot of private clubs, a lot of sexual exile to large liberal cities.
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