John Hein

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John Hein

John Hein is publisher and former editor of Scotsgay magazine - a monthly magazine that reports on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender life in Scotland. He previously edited Pulse and Gay Scotland, and he had a regular column in Outcast.

He is also director and chair of Pride Scotia (Edinburgh) (which organises the annual Pride Scotia March and Festival every two years in Edinburgh - next in 2007) as well as being director and chair of the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Community Project Limited, the Scottish charity which owns the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Centre (the UK's oldest) at 58a/60 Broughton Street, Edinburgh.

In the 1980's, he was convenor of the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (previously called the Scottish Minorities Group and subsequently Outright Scotland).

Hein was born in Kenya in 1957 and moved to Scotland in 1962.

John Hein has stood for election on several occasions for the Liberal Party (a minor party not to be confused with the Liberal Democrats) at European, UK and Scottish Parliament levels, having previously been a member of the original Liberal Party. He is currently chair of the party.

He also played a part in the Liberal Party's notoriously homophobic campaign against Peter Tatchell in Bermondsey in 1983 when he scrawled "Peter Tatchell eats babies" on walls in the constituency in protest at both "the over the top homophobia of the press and the lamentable closetry of Peter Tatchell".