On this day, 10 May 2000, gay rights activists in Glasgow climbed atop a Stagecoach bus – owned by wealthy homophobe Brian Souter – and covered it with pink paint until police arrived. They were protesting against Souter’s £1 million bankrolling of a campaign to keep the homophobic Section 28 law.
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