On Wednesday, the Scottish Parliament voted 98-15 to move an equal marriage bill forward to a parliamentary committee. If the bill passes out of committee and through its third reading before the full parliament, same-sex couples could begin marrying in Scotland next year. We congratulate Scotland on this important civil rights advance, and we take the opportunity to note some famous queer Scotsmen and Scotswomen.
John Barrowman is a Scottish-American actor-dancer-singer (b. 1967, Glasgow) was raised in Illinois following his family's emigration to the United States. He starred in Miss Saigon, Matador, Rope, Anything Goes, and Hair at London's West End, and is best known to U.S. audiences as Captain Jack in Torchwood. He auditioned for the role of Will in Will & Grace but was rejected for being "not gay enough."
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