Edinburgh in August continues to be an exciting – yet safe – place for LGBT people, as Paul F Cockburn – born and bred in the Scottish capital – explains. Dandy Darkly isn’t a man who’s ignored. New York City’s finest raconteur specialises in lurid tales of sex and death, and dresses appropriately, adorned with […]
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Brave New 3D World
Could 3D printing usher in a golden age of inexpensive living aids? Paul F Cockburn looks at how recent developments in ‘additive layer manufacturing’ could benefit disabled people of all ages. “Two years ago it was on the boundaries of up-and-coming technologies, now it’s seems everywhere,” says Paul Doyle, Head of Access, Research and Development […]
Home Truths
Are planners and developers doing enough to ensure that new-build properties are sufficiently accessible? Paul F Cockburn asks those in the know. I listen as Conrad Hodgkinson explains how, “For the last 10 years of her life, my wife Christine – who had progressive multiple sclerosis – was completely quadriplegic and dependent on a wheelchair. […]
Money Really Matters
“The diversity profile of the workforce across the professional services industry does not reflect society or our client base. We need to change and I believe a crucial part of achieving a meaningful shift is providing more transparency in the make-up of our current staff against where we would like to be. It means we […]
Blood Wedding
Graeae’s Artistic Director Jenny Sealey talks to Paul F Cockburn about her company’s new co-production with Dundee Rep Ensemble and Derby Theatre, setting Lorca’s classic Spanish Play in the city. Blood Wedding is an acclaimed tragedy by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. First performed in 1933, it focuses on the troubled inter-family feuds reawakened […]
Queer As (Telefantasy) Folk
For many years LGBT people have found a ‘safe place’ in television science fiction and fantasy fandom. Paul F Cockburn asks why. Back in the late 1980s, I joined a group of Doctor Who fans in Glasgow, a rather anarchic get-together of young men who shared their love of the show not just with fanzines […]
Turing Test
60 years after his death, Paul F Cockburn looks back on the life and legacy of the ‘father of computing’, the gay mathematician Alan Turing. “You have to understand the measure of what Alan Turing did,” former cryptographer Captain Jerry Roberts told BBC News back in September 2009. “In 1940/41 the German U-boats were sinking […]
