Last words.

It’s the end of an era as Scottie decides to calls it a night.

” I was wasting my time on the wrong type of guy, and he certainly wasn’t the first. I had been wasting my time on the wrong guys for years.”

A Cooler Climate Up North…

Scottie visits his beau in the North but circumstances make it less than a satisfactory visit.

“For almost the entire day, both of us acted like we would’ve preferred to have been in bed, but for nothing more, other than to sleep for the afternoon.”

When love comes to town…

Scottie’s cross-border beau drops into Dublin for a surprise date.

“The evening Sun was now just right to give you a warm kiss, which is exactly what I got off my date when we met up.”

Across the Border.

Scottie ends up in a cross-border romance.

“I’m not exactly afraid of people knowing I’m on a date with a guy, but I don’t think anyone likes to make their first date a public performance.”

Pushed Crush.

Scottie follows his crush, or is pushed that way by his friends, whichever way you chose to look at it ….

“My friends, quick to ensure that my awkward suffering wouldn’t stop there, convinced me to go to the nightclub that he said he’d be in. I should’ve decided not to, but I’ve never been good at playing it cool.”

Crushed Crush?

Gay Relationship Column. Scottie has a crush, and it makes him blether, possibly in another language …

“I’m not exactly a Picasso painting, I think to myself, but I’m hardly a Mona Lisa either; why would he want to see me?”

There To Be Broken?

Gay Relationship Column. Scottie assesses his rules of dating, at least one of which brands him a prude on the gay scene, and how it took a megadate to break almost all of them.

“Experienced in the lottery of first impressions, I keep a brave face and an upbeat tone, wondering how on earth this was going to turn out. “

Time for an other view.

Scott de Buitléir talks about the new online magazine Eile, a new voice in Irish media.

“In Irish ‘an pobal eile’ means the other people, the other community, and that suits the idea perfectly. It’s not the mainstream.”

The Perfect Man?

Gay Relationship Column. Scottie is caught out by the idea of the perfect man, which then falls down between first impressions and the eventual truth.

“Had we been a few months into the relationship, I might have let him have a bit of a moody strop, but when it’s only weeks into it – no thanks.”

Protecting the Innocent.

Gay Relationship Column. Scottie wonders about the responsibility of ‘the other man’ when he sleeps with someone who is in a relationship that is supposed to be monogamous.

“I couldn’t condone my friend’s actions or attitude, but for some reason, I didn’t feel the need to scold him either. Maybe it was because I hoped that his conscience would take over once he made his confession to me.”