A few words to begin with:  I don't regard myself as a 'Gay Man' -  just as an ordinary guy who happens to be gay.

I'm happy (and lucky)  to be living in a place, and at a time, when this fact is pretty unremarkable.

The Scottish Highlands are I know perceived by outsiders to be populated mainly by fundamentalist bigots but people here have learned to live with each other.

Scots tend to be pretty egalitarian in the sense that we like to include people, and we're saddened when people choose to exclude themselves.

Thus our ridiculous affection for little grey houses.