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Ross Hunter

  • Communications Officer, RSPB Scotland
Edinburgh
As seen in: Forbes, Medium, Wirecutter, The Daily Mirror, The Guardian, Emergency Medicine Journal, Flipboard, The Seattle Times, Medscape, Scotland on Sunday and
Comms for @RSPBScotland. Likes birds n that. Views my own, naturally.
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Taking to the Mat: In praise of the straight boys at gymnastics

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By Ross Hunter
| The Skinny Verified
Gymnastics is a girl’s sport. At least, that’s what I thought as a closeted pre-teen trying not to give people any further reason to harbour suspicions about my sexuality. Football, of course, was the masculine choice. So, I joined a team and got called gay anyway. Still, to my mind that was preferable. I’d rather play football and be suspected than do gymnastics and be confirmed. Eventually I quit football and never bothered replacing it. I came out, moved away and shelved my dreams of sporting glory.
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Stories of Space: Keeping the doors open to Scotland’s queer spaces

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By Ross Hunter
| The Skinny Verified
Scotland’s longest-running queer cabaret night, Queer Theory, is not for the faint of heart. “I didn’t want to produce something mainstream,” says Dean Cargill, the 33-year-old musician, DJ and creator of Queer Theory, ahead of its 10th birthday party at Drygate Glasgow on 25 April. “When I started the show I was very inspired by John Waters and the idea that queerness is meant to be transgressive...
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Small cities like Edmonds need levies to stay strong | Op-Ed

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By Ross Hunter
| The Seattle Times Verified
In 2007, the Washington Legislature took a vote that set Washington’s cities and counties on a collision course to financial emergency for the next 20 years. I was one of the legislators who supported it, and it was the single worst vote I took in my career. We voted to reinstate a 1% annual cap on property tax increases for cities and counties, after the State Supreme Court had struck down an earlier version.
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