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Proud Scotland award goes to Highland LGBT magazine


By Staff Reporter- NOSN

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Caithness-based writer Kevin Crowe and his husband Simon Long collected the Arts & Media Award at the first LGBT Proud Scotland Awards ceremony on behalf of the Highland LGBT magazine UnDividingLines.

The magazine was on a shortlist of four which also included Civil Disobedience, a company of arts producers who support LGBT artists, Watercolour Music and the major independent TV company Channel 4.

UnDividingLines was set up in 2014 by LGBT activist David Downing, who continues as editor, and aims to provide a platform for Highland LGBT writers, artists, photographers and activists to contribute to removing barriers between different groups and communities and to provide information and entertainment for readers. Its listings also provide signposts to organisations that can provide support.

It is published twice a year and is free to subscribers who receive a copy in their email inboxes. Past issues can be read at and downloaded from its website.

Kevin (left) and Simon with the Proud Scotland award for the Highland LGBT magazine UnDividingLines.
Kevin (left) and Simon with the Proud Scotland award for the Highland LGBT magazine UnDividingLines.

Each issue contains a range of material including fiction, poetry, interviews, articles on a wide range of historical and contemporary issues, book, film, theatre and music reviews, the work of local artists and photographers and much more.

It was a great honour to represent the magazine at the awards ceremony in Glasgow.

Kevin Crowe is a Regular UnDividingLines contributor who was guest editor of the autumn 2018 issue and recently read his work at the Scottish Parliament, Glasgow's Aye Write Literary Festival and the John O'Groats Book Festival.

He said: “It was a great honour to represent the magazine at the awards ceremony in Glasgow. David's vision was to create a truly community resource that could survive and grow without advertising and without public funding, and that would be inclusive and diverse, helping people to explore their creativity and encouraging debate.

"It was also important that it be attractive, entertaining and readable and look professional. This award demonstrates just how successful we have been and is a result of the hard work of editor David Downing and all those who have written for the magazine, contributed art and photography and who volunteer as proof readers.”

UnDividingLines wasn't the only Highland winner at the awards. The Community Award went to ProudNess, which organised the successful LGBT Pride event in Inverness last year that attracted 5000 people to a march followed by social events, and is organising this year's event due to take place on July 21. Also shortlisted for the Community Award was NetworQ Orkney.


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