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SPEEDO BIRTHDAY Happy birthday dear Speedo, happy birthday to you! Yes, one of the world’s most famous makers of swim and sportswear is celebrating its 80th birthday this year. During that time it has continued to innovate and create revolutionary and cutting- edge designs, most recently the controversial Fastskin® LZR Racer® – which has helped cut speed swimming records. To commemorate its birthday, the brand has launched its 80:08 collection, which blends retro prints with modern design. Menswear items include coloured aquashorts, classic white trunks with yellow COCKTAIL COLOUR drawstrings and a selection of A gay-friendly brand since its inception, Absolut has produced a limited-edition bottle to bright T-shirts. commemorate the 30th anniversary since the invention of the rainbow fl ag as a symbol of gay Stockists: www.speedo.com and pride. The Absolut Colours bottle is available for £21.99 from Selfridges. From the end of 0115 910 5267 June, both the bottle and the book, the Absolut Colours Cocktail Collection (£8), will be on sale from Vintage House on Old Compton Street, with proceeds from the sale of the book going to Pride London! www.absolut.com
MONEY BAGS The new range of Timo wallets are somewhat pricey (starting at £45) but each eco-friendly design has been created from recycled and sustainable materials, and handsewn by New York-based artist Timo Weillard. Each piece features bold graphics and images that are sure to catch the eye when pulled from the pocket, and the design is slender enough to slide easily into a pair of skinny jeans. For more details, check www.timowallets.com
LIBERTY FOR MEN Liberty Of London opens its new fl agship store this month, throwing open the doors at 197 Sloane Street, SW1. Spread over two fl oors, the 1,800 square foot space has been designed by Creative Director Tamara Salman with Paris-based architects Pierre Beucler and Jean- Christophe Poggioli. It will showcase the store’s leather accessories, scarves, swimwear, jewellery and – most importantly for us – men’s collections. The brand has launched this new store as a step in its development as a luxury retailer, and it will act as a blueprint for further stores across the globe. www.libertyofl ondon.com
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SAT-SUN 05-06 JULY: The divine Dolly Parton returns to these shores for two big dates at the O2 Arena. Expect a selection of hits from her extensive back catalogue (having penned over 3,000 songs she has plenty to choose from!) including the likes of ‘I Will Always Love You’, ‘9 To 5’ and ‘Jolene’, as well as tracks from her new album Backwoods Barbie. Tickets £50-£75. www.dollyparton.com and www.livenation.co.uk
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This much-loved, camp classic has been directed by the Southbank’s own aritistic director, Jude Kelly, who says of the story; “The Wizard of Oz has left an indelible impression on over four generations. From its beginning as an American folk-fairy tale, it has grown into something that lies at the very heart of what we feel about courage and homecoming. With its stunning visual iconography, glorious music, and the unabashed vulnerability of its cast of characters – be they lions, wizards or men of tin – it fulfi ls the evergreen role of a true classic.” This production will be the RSC version of the show, fi rst staged in 1987, which closely follows the plot of the famous fi lm. Tickets cost £10-£50, and for more details check www. southbankcentre.co.uk CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS//JULY 2008 TUE 08::WUVba^SSR a]Sf^SQbcab]PS RcSb]ObSQV\WQOZTOcZb 1VO[^W]\^S`T]`[ R]e\bVST`]\bT]`bVS eee ZORgb`]\ Q][ Ob9]Y]W\1O[RS\ `SaQVSRcZSRUWUT`][ Oa^O`b]TbVSWBc\Sa :ORgb`]\³bOYW\U MON 14:BVS@SdS`S\R :WdS(:]\R]\4SabWdOZ ^ZOQS]\bVS $bVOb 5S\S@]PW\a]\³bVS 3f^SQbb`OQYaT`][VWa bVS/ab]`WOOTbS`ZOab ]^S\ZgUOg0WaV]^ T]ZYgRSPcbOZPc[4OZZ []\bV¸aO^^SO`O\QS ]TbVS3^WaQ]^OZWO\ W\U=TTBVS:OdS\RS` VORb]PSVOZbSR[WR 1Vc`QVW\ =C bT`]\b 27/@G ! =C 27/@G bT`]\b HIGHLIGHT EVENTS//JULY 2008 03-26 JULY: Photography genius Mario Testino is the subject of an exhibition at Phillips de Pury & Company (Howick Place, SW1). The show – Obsessed By You – is a carefully selected group of 32 exhibition prints from Mario Testino’s body of work for advertising clients, his books and publications such as Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Face and Visionaire magazines, that include iconic images of Kate Moss, Amber Valetta and Natalia Vodianova alongside group shots of bathing models and landscapes – all displaying the high voltage colour and energy that is the inimitable style of Testino’s work. 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If so, you may TO\a]TbVS0`Wba]cZ well be interested in joining a rather novel fundraiser for The aW\US`b]USbc^QZ]aS Food Chain. London Paranormal will be hosting a drag ghost O\R^S`a]\OZb]bVS hunt at the London Dungeon! The event will take place on abO`O\RR]\ObSa][S Friday 11 July from 8pm till 3am, and event organizer Ian []\Sgb]OU]]R Shillito tells us, “This is a totally unique way to raise awareness, QOcaS AVS¸ZZPSV]abW\U highlight a lesser known HIV charity, and a big excuse to O\SdS\W\UObaeO\Yg combine my passions of ghost hunting and being a self FRI 18:4]ZZ]eW\UVS` BVOW`SabOc`O\bBVS confessed drag hag. The dungeon is frightening enough during abO``W\U`]ZSW\bVS ;O\U]B`SSW\DWQb]`WO SAT-SUN 19-20 the day but turn off the lights, sprinkle in a few drag queens 001¸a<] :ORWSa¸ ^S`T]`[W\UOaSZSQbW]\ Head over to Victoria Park in East London for the annual amongst the mutilated dummies and alleged ghosts and 2SbSQbWdS/US\Qg ]TVS`VWba BWQYSba Lovebox Weekender. This medium-sized festival is one of the anything could happen!” 5`O[[gOeO`ReW\ Q]ab PcbbVOb country’s most gay friendly, and will feature ten arenas with The cost to join this paranormal event is £59, but all profi ts will \W\U`¸\¸PO\Ra]cZ W\QZcRSaOTcZZ[SOZO\R live performances, cabaret, circus acts and a fun fair. Headline go direct to Food Chain. www.londonparanormal.com - 0798 aW\US`8WZZAQ]bb^ZOga Q]QYbOWZaOZ]\UeWbV acts include Groove Armada, the Flaming Lips, Goldfrapp, the 223 0208 (mobile rates) O]\S]TTRObSObbVS 0Sd¸a^S`T]`[O\QS Human League, Jack Peñate, Alphabeat, Dandy Warhols and 1O`ZW\U/QORS[g ;]\Sg`OWaSReWZZPS Stanton Warriors. Guest clubs include NYC Downlow (from 0`Wfb]\ a^ZWbPSbeSS\1O\QS` Vauxhall’s HorseMeatDisco team), plus a guest DJ appearance @SaSO`QVC9O\RbVS from house legend Frankie Knuckles. Tickets £38.50 per day or SAT-SUN 19-20: BS``S\QS6WUUW\aB`cab £65 for the weekend. www.loveboxweekender.com 1][WQUSSYOZS`bBVS eee [O\U]b`SS ]`U " =C bT`]\b 27/@G # =C 27/@G bT`]\b 14-19 JULY: Following its debut at Bistrotheque earlier this year, and ahead of a trip to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival, Jonny Woo will be bringing his avant-garde drag performance International Woman Of Mr E to the Soho Theatre. Expect a touching, disturbing tale, created by Woo before and after a near-death experience prompted by two decades of partying hard. Tickets £10-£17.50. www.sohotheatre.com You can also catch Jonny bringing his famed Gay Bingo to the ICA for one night only on Saturday 12 July (show starts 8pm prompt). 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Expect music from the PPQ Q] cY ^`][a likes of Franz Ferdinand (pictured), Sigur Rós, Interpol, Blondie, M.I.A and Elbow, and comedy from Simon Amstell, 26 JULY-04 AUG: BVS Lucy Porter and Stewart Lee. There will also be book readings [OaaWdS9gZWSF & and talks from the likes of Hanif Kureishi and Irvine Welsh, THUR 24:7Q]\WQ b]c`aeW\UaW\b] activities for children, plus much more besides. London’s own QO[^b`OaV^]^abS`a :]\R]\eWbVOeV]ZS 22 JULY-31 AUG Vauxhallville will be bring some queer arts to the proceedings, 0# abc`\1O[RS\¸a eSSY]T^S`T]`[O\QSa A major new production of the classic West Side Story comes led by Nathaniel de Ville and those fabulous Bearlesque boys. @]c\RV]caSW\b]]\S ObbVSU]`US]ca= to the Sadlers Wells this summer. Expect cutting-edge Latitude has properly established itself as distinct from other PWU:]dSAVOQYeVS\ /`S\OW\5`SS\eWQV choreography from the legendary Jerome Robbins, plus the summer festivals, and attendance is growing. 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It might well alienate fans of the band’s heavy rock numbers, but let’s not forget that the Primals were one of the first rock outfits to submerge themselves in dance culture with 1990’s classic Screamadelica. First single, ‘Can’t Go Back’, offers the more frenetic, amphetamine-charged Scream of yore, while prime candidate for future single must be ‘Zombie Man’, a Bolan-esque slab of foot-stomping dance rock with a chorus so big it’s probably visible from space. The cosmic strut of Bolan is again summoned on the sublime ‘The Glory Of Love’, while ‘Uptown’ is an amazing PRIMAL SCREAM marriage of Philly soul strings and predatory bass, with a befuddled Gillespie seemingly mumbling through a haze of Beautiful Future narcotic oblivion as to the wonders of heading ‘uptown on a Saturday night’. (B-Unique) And on the downside? Lovefoxx from CSS adds little to the duet ‘I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt)’ and the tempo baton is momentarily dropped on the album’s second duet; Even diehard fans would have to admit that the quality of ordering, Beautiful Future is the Scream’s most an unnecessary cover of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Over & Over’ Primal Scream’s output has been variable over the years. unashamedly pop offering. Psychedelic, blues-infused, (with Brit-folk singer Linda Thompson).Thankfully, to keep Despite the top five success of ‘Country Girl’ from album retro-flavoured pop, but pop nonetheless. This is perhaps the rock fans happy, Josh Homme (Queens OfThe Stone number eight, 2006’s Riot City Blues didn’t exactly set the due to the fact that it was part recorded in Sweden with Age) contributes guitar to final track ‘Viva!’, ensuring the world alight and they subsequently parted ways with Sony. producer Björn Yttling (of Peter, Björn and John fame), album closes with all guns blazing. Now they’re back on the B-Unique label, and as befits a at studios previously used by Abba. Gillespie has even Just when you may have been tempted to write them off, band with a fresh deal, they’re returned intent on sticking joked that the piano used on ‘Waterloo’ lurks somewhere Primal Scream convincingly prove that their future remains two fingers up at those who may have doubted their hit- amongst these grooves! unwritten. making potential. Opening track, ‘Beautiful Future’, with its handclap beat, Out: 21 July With a title that’s perhaps an optimistic stab at cosmic chiming bells and shimmering chords, is a clear indication +++++ HELOISE & THE MÊLÉE TEMPOSHARK SAVOIR FAIRE Devils & Angels The Invisible Line Trash, Rats & (Warners/Hopeless) (Paper and Glue) Microphones When a band cites Coldplay Considering that their (Simian/Yep Roc) as one of their primary demos were doing the Raid a dressing-up box and set your drum machine to ‘disco’, influences, alarm bells might justifiably start ringing. rounds as far back as 2004, you could hardly accuse London and sooner or later people will begin to tout you as the When the same group thanks ‘God’ first and foremost synth-poppers Temposhark of rushing their debut. Indeed, next Scissor Sisters. Given that Heloise & The Savoir Faire on their album sleeve-notes, you could be forgiven for even Kate Bush might be tempted to snort, roll her eyes herald from the same underground New York club scene, contemplating the benefits of silence. And, sure enough, OC and call them “slackers”. Fortunately, The Invisible Line is the comparison is perhaps not quite so lazy or unwarranted. pop-rock quartet Mêlée produce music so deathlessly dull an assured strut of an album: in a Venn Diagram covering Ahead of their first single, the outfit – led by flamboyant that, in the right concentration, could be weaponised. The the dark industrial tunes of Nine Inch Nails and the fizzy chanteuse Heloise Williams – have already performed on fact they’re signed to Hopeless Records somehow seems pop hooks of McFly, Temposhark would represent the The Friday Night Project and Graham Norton Show. Such apt. intersection. ‘Joy’ rides a sleazy, contorting beat worthy of prominent slots were possibly swung more by their signing It’s semi-legend that when the Sex Pistols played their Free Goldfrapp at their most tail-feather-shaking; while the to actor Elijah Woods’ Simian record label than any talent- Trade Hall gig in Manchester, it inspired the likes of The gleaming ‘Knock Me Out’ sounds like a Richard X-helmed spotting credentials the shows’ producers might possess. Buzzcocks, The Smiths and Joy Division. Similarly, did Mêlée Spandau Ballet comeback. July finally sees the release of debut single ‘Illusions’, frontman Chris Cron have a Road-to-Damascus moment Frontman Rob Diament’s emollient, boy-band vocals mask followed by this, their debut album, and unfortunately, when he heard Chris Martin’s esperanto-indie while a tar-black heart. On the egomaniacal ‘Don’t Mess With behind the glitter, lies a messy, cacophony of funk bass, shopping for organic veg in Tesco: “Eureka! I have to pen a Me’, he kills time with a ‘quick fuck’ before dismissing his 80s keyboards and yelping vocals. Dubbed ‘Madonna-punk’ collection of mid-tempo ballads as creatively bankrupt at conquest: ‘I’ve come/It’s been fun/But won’t you please by one US commentator, it’s the punk of Lene Lovich and this!”? disappear/You can’t further my career’, while on ‘Little White Flying Lizards, but lacking the novelty appeal of either of The thing is, you can’t deny that Coldplay are accomplished Lie’, he admires how a married man ‘swallows me whole’. those acts. ‘Illusions’ may scrape the lower reaches of the songwriters: Mêlée, on the other hand, have Van Gough’s Sonically, The Invisible Line is uniformly exquisite: charts, but there’s little else here that’s likely transcend the ear for a melody. As one portion of tepid 80s drive-time shimmering synths that pairs beeps and blips with soaring club circuit. Only on the ambitious and epic ‘Memorial Day’ rock seeps into the next – replete with nasal emo vocals strings and textured soundscapes. One-time Madonna do the band hint at something more deep and engaging. andTeflon choruses that refuse to stick in your head collaborator Guy Sigsworth lends his touch to a few tracks, Debbie Harry provides backing vocals on a couple of tracks, – distinguishing one tune from another proves an arduous while fellow Frou Frou alumni, oddball singer-songwriter but her contribution is minimal. Plinky-plonky keyboards task. In fact, what’s most telling is that a cover of MOR- Imogen Heap duets on the brooding ‘Not That Big’. and amateurish fretwork dominate elsewhere on a peddlers Hall and Oates’ ‘You Make My Dreams’ emerges as Camp, theatrical, and with hooks aplenty: remember, each self-produced debut that may have benefited from a more their best, shining moment. What a horrible thought. What time you listen to it, a Pigeon Detectives fan dies. 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This veteran of COULD IT BE MAGIC? stage and screen will be bringing her amazing, autobiographical show to the Shaw Theatre on Euston 2/<0@=E<3@3D73EA<3D3@4=@53B Road between Thursday 31 July and Sunday 10 August. Expect anecdotes and musical numbers as Ms Stritch looks back upon her long and illustrious career. =\O^ZSOaO\bZObS;OgSdS\W\U[gQ][^O\W]\ VW[O\]TTS`bVObXS]^O`RWhSaP]bVT`WS\RaVW^a Tickets cost £60 and for box offi ce or more details, call 0870 O\R7T]c\R]c`aSZdSaeOWbW\U]cbaWRSbVSAOd]g O\RZ]dS 033 2600. 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Its former head chef, 26-year-old Marcus Eaves, has now opened his fi rst restaurant – the aptly titledL’Autre Pied – in conjunction with his former Pied mentors, Shane Osborn and David Moore. L’Autre Pied lies just off Marylebone High Street, in the heart of the quaintly dubbed ‘Marylebone Village’. Like its sister venue, it off ers an imaginative selection of modern European dishes. The interior is tastefully subdued yet stylish, with dark wood furniture, a large red leather banquette running along one of the walls, and hand- painted botanical murals of delicate vines. The menu is small and simple, with fi ve starters, mains broad beans, and an amazing caulifl ower and horseradish and desserts. We started with Cornish crab, avocado purée, cream. My dining partner went with pan-fried plaice with tzatziki mouse and crispy Parmesan tuille (£9.95) and pan- Charlotte potatoes (served in Dolly Mixture-sized cubes) fried foie gras with an apricot and vanilla purée with a bay and spring vegetables, served in a ladleful of herb broth. leaf foam (£14.95). Eaves seems keen on his foams, purées Moving to London from Germany, he said it was the best and emulsions. The portion of foie gras was generous, and thing he’d ever eaten here. High praise indeed. the combination of apricot, vanilla and bay leaf a revelation. Business was quiet on the Tuesday lunchtime that The crab mousse was so sublimey subtle it risked being we visited, with only two other tables occupied by bland, but the Parmesan tuille added some desired bite and businessmen. This is a shame, as if you choose from the crunch. Thankfully, as much as we may have tried, it was fi xed lunch menu it’s only £16.50 for two courses or £19.95 impossible to fi nd any fault with our main courses. I enjoyed for three courses. The choice might be limited but the a confi t of organic salmon (£17.95), served with peas, quality is outstanding. The main dining area at L’Autre Pied !& =C bbVS`S 4==2 !' =C 4==2 bbVS`S Little Bay, 228 Belsize Road, Kenza, 10a Devonshire Square, Bar Milkshake at 5am? Then 7240. Delightfully charming café NW6. Wonderfully down-to- EC2. 020-7929 5533. Delightful 24-hour, subterranean American off ering tea, scones, cakes and EATING OUT earth and charming restaurant and sumptuous subterranean diner Tinseltown is the place other delights for an eclectic OUR FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS AND serving Modern European Middle Eastern restaurant a to head. Round the clock diner crowd. Brit camp fabulousness. GAY-FRIENDLY DINING OPTIONS cuisine at very reasonable prices stone’s throw from Liverpool (24/7) popular with late-night www.royalteascafe.co.uk (particularly at lunchtime). Street station. Arabic interior and clubbers – very near Fabric. Excellent value for money. mezza menu – approx. £35 per Cool when quiet but avoid if The Stonhouse, 165 there’s a queue for entry. www. Stonhouse Street, SW4. Lovely CENTRAL W1. 020-7314 4000. Large, tinseltown.co.uk Clapham gastropub with great glamorous Cuban-themed steaks, burgers, salads and Amato, 14 Old Compton Street, restaurant and bar, with regular SOUTH sandwiches. Approx. £22 a head. Soho, W1. 020-7734 5733. Busy music acts and even occasional www.renaissancepubs.co.uk/SH café and patisserie, off ering drag. Great food and cocktails. Bonnington Café, 11 Vauxhall pasta dishes and a huge array Approx. £36 per head. www. Grove, SW8. Cheap, cheerful Upstairs Bar and Restaurant, of cakes. Very popular with gay fl oridita.co.uk and very gay-friendly co- 89b Acre Lane, SW2. Hidden Soho. www.amato.co.uk operatively run vegetarian café gem and local secret. Critically Ristorante Biagio, 189 in Bonnington Square. Pig out acclaimed, eclectic European Balans, 60 Old Compton Street, Piccadilly, W1. 020-7434-1921. on three courses for £10! http:// menu, with emphasis on French W1. 020-7439 2183. The nearest Great, authentic Italian food s208303316.websitehome.co.uk cuisine. Limited choice each day, Soho has to a gay restaurant, in contemporary and smart but menu changes daily. Open busy throughout the week and surroundings, spread over four El Panzon @ The Dogstar, Tue-Sat. www.upstairslondon. open throughout the day and fl oors. Approx. £32 per head. 389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9. com night. Traditional British dishes www.ristorantebiagio.co.uk Authentic Mexican and Tex-mex with Meditteranean and Asian restaurant and fantastic prices WEST fl ourishes. Approx. £28 per head. Stef’s, 3 Berners Street, W1 020- in the trendy Dogstar bar. Don’t See also the nearby Balans Café 3073 1041. Huge, gay-friendly miss the burritos or the taco Balans Knightsbridge, 239 at 34 Old Compton Street. www. Italian – formerly Linda’s Pasta plate to share. Approx. £14 per Old Brompton Road, SW5. balans.co.uk Bar on Poland Street – moved to head. www.elpanzon.co.uk 020-7244 8838. More Earls the other side of Oxford Street in Saf in Shoreditch Court than Knightsbridge! Very Bodeans, 10 Poland Street, 2007. Pizza and pasta heaven. The Hill, 89 Royal Hill, SE10. gay-friendly restaurant, off ering W1. 020-7287 0506. Cheap and Pick More Daisies, 12 Crouch head. www.kenza-restaurant. 020-8691 3626. Attentive British and Mediterranean cheerful barbecue restaurant, Steph’s, 39 Dean Street, Soho, End Hill, N8. Californian café bar co.uk service and very gay-friendly. A dishes. Approx. £28 per head. with counter service upstairs and W1. 02-07734 5976. Long- - great for a weekend brunch bit pricey for what’s essentially www.balans.co.uk restaurant down below. Popular running, gay-friendly restaurant or Sunday lunch – attracting Les Trois Garcons, 1 Club Row, an upmarket gastropub, but with visiting Americans, plus the in Soho, presided over by hostess trendy-ish North London crowd. Whitechapel, E1. 020-7613 worth it. Modern British/ The Fat Badger, 310 odd bear from the nearby Kings Steph and off ering classic British www.pickmoredaisies.com 1924. A former Victorian boozer, European menu. Portobello Road, W10. Upmarket Arms! Branches also in Clapham, comfort dishes. A favourite with stuff ed with baroque decor and classy gastropub, serving Fulham and Westbourne Grove. the theatre crowd. World Café, 130 Crouch Hill, and antiques, creating a camp, The Loft, 67 Clapham High fi ne British cuisine. Good Sunday www.bodeansbbq.com Haringey, N8. 020-8340 5635. culinary haven near Old Street. Street, SW4. 020-7627 0792. roast. www.thefatbadger.com Wagamama, 10a Lexington Trendy, chic, gay-friendly café British/French menu. www. Upmarket and stylish restaurant, Boulevard Bar & Dining Street, Soho, W1. 020-7292 for Crouch Hill crowd, serving loungelover.co.uk bar and late-night haunt. Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Room, 57-59 Old Compton 0990. Our favourite branch snacks, main meals and fab Classic British dishes and lots of 131 Chiswick High Road, W4. Street, W1. 020-7287 0770. of the noodle chain, off ering cappuccinos. Saf, 152-154 Curtain Road, cocktails. Approx. £40 per head. Delicious burgers, shakes and American brasserie-style cheap, healthy Japanese delights Shoreditch, EC2. 020 7613 www.theloft-clapham.co.uk onion rings at popular American restaurant, off ering a ‘modern – great gyoza and… well, EAST 0007. A stylish and upmarket eatery – other branches across British menu with an Italian noodles! £16 per head. Check vegan and raw food restaurant The Riverside, 5 Hamilton London. www.gbkinfo.com infl uence’ in the heart of gay website for other branches Bistrotheque, 23-27 Wadeson Soho. www.boulevardbrasserie. - www.wagamama.com Street, Bethnal Green, E2. co.uk Modern, contemporary classy NORTH restaurant with basement bar Coff ee, Cake & Kink, 61 and cabaret room, and fi ne Endell Street, Covent Garden, Gilgamesh, Camden View, dining upstairs – modern British WC2. 020-7149 2996. ‘The only Camden Stables Market, Chalk cuisine and French bistro dishes kinky café gallery in the UK’, Farm Road, NW1. Huge, ornate – approx. £35 per head. www. this small little café features and lavish pan-Asian restaurant bistrotheque.com erotic art exhibitions, books, with one of London’s most prints, Fairtrade coff ee, pastries stunning interiors. Food good The Easton, 22 Easton Street, and cakes. Naughty, but nice. rather than outstanding, but WC1. 020-7278 7609. 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There was a storm of very gorgeous men from Hot ;`:SObVS` &eW\\W\U]dS`OTWSZR]T ]\ZgbW[SeWZZbSZZPcbeVWQVSdS`WbWa7¸[ac`S House and Titan - one of whom spent the next day with me # Q]\bSabO\baT`][ CAabObSaO\RaWf OZ[]abSdS`g]\S]TbVS $ ObbS\RSSa]T at the beach in a glorious 87 degrees of sunshine teaching me Q]c\b`WSaO\ReOZYSROeOgeWbVO\SfbS\aWdS 7;:FFFVOROPZOabO\RO`SOZ`SORg^ZO\\W\U how to roller blade! I had already won ten times over; I didn’t ^`WhS^OQYOUSW\QZcRW\U# W\b`OdSZTc\Ra \SfbgSO`¸a]cbTWb 7Y\]e7O[ need to be IML as well! EVWZabVSeOaRS^S\RW\U]\g]c`^S`a]\OZ eee W[`Z Q][ WORDS AND JEPSON CHRIS PHOTOS "& "' =C A13<3 bbVS`S # CLUBS>BARS>FASHION>GOSSIP>NEWS>TRENDS>SCENES>QUEENS>FACTS> =CbbVS`S PAGE 54 XXL London's biggest club for bears and friends threw its annual Bear Pride party last month PAGE 64 HUSTLABALL Chi Chi LaRue was just one of the many guests who turned up at London's fi rst Hustlaball in Vauxhall PHOTOGRAPHY © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM PAGE 66 GAY BINGO CIRCUS... Johnny Woo presides over the madness that B6383E3:7<B631@=E<=4B63A=6=@3DC3 is Gay Bingo at Profi le 0/@17@1CA13:30@/B327BAA31=<207@B62/G on Wardour Street Jodie Harsh's ground-breaking and celebrity-heavy Friday nighter was rammed for its second birthday celebrations - and plenty of the regulars dressed up for the occasion. Check our review of the party on pages 58-59... #! @3D73E =CbbVS`S XXL BEAR PRIDE This year’s Bear Pride weekend (Angie Brown lifted the roof with a at The Arches was judged late-night set on the evening of our another resounding success by visit), and giving punters free CDs all those who attended, with the and some very nicely-designed Bear Saturday night XXL party – as our Pride commemorative t-shirts, no- pictures show – proving a particular one could argue about getting value highlight. Organiser Mark Ames had for money. In fact, if you brought a events running over three nights at £15 triple-whammy ticket, allowing the venue, with the Saturday night you entry to all three nights at the party and Sunday night Fusion event Arches, it must have counted as one both attracting capacity crowds. of the year’s best bargains. Fortunately, having an extra cloak The club would like to thank room and additional toilets ensured everyone who turned up to support that the venue easily coped with the this year’s event, and promise that thousands that passed through the it will be back – bigger and better doors over the course of the weekend. – in 2009. In the meantime, get XXL always goes to town for Bear down to the Arches any Saturday or Pride, and this year’s event left us Wednesday night for a hefty dose of wondering whether they actually XXL hospitality. make any more at all from the whole aff air. After making charitable XXL, The Arches, 51-53 Southwark donations, fully decorating the Street, London Bridge, SE1. www. club, paying for guest DJs and acts xxl-london.com #" =C bbVS`S @3D73E PHOTOS © DICK GOOSE ## =C @3D73E bbVS`S 8=2736/@A6A1C:B4@72/G CIRCUS @ <756B3@13:30@/B327BA A31=<207@B62/G/BB63 SOHO REVUE BAR A=6=@3DC30/@7<8C<3 Is it really two years since the Harsh Circus Train The Feeling's Richard Jones pulled in to the Soho Revue Bar? Well, apparently so, as and Jodie Harsh last month the team celebrated their cotton anniversary… but judging by the sparks fl ying from those man-made fi bres, they were wearing anything but cotton! When Jodie Harsh started Circus she was an up and coming go-getter with a penchant for PR and a knowledge of where to be to get papped by the gossip column paparazzi. She has fallen in and out of cabs with Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse and is now named in nearly every glossy weekly and monthly across the land. In the back biting world of nightclubs and hosting, she is a success story, with Circus one of the products of her Midas touch. Packed with celebs, sexy boys and fashionistas, the queue outside is always around the block, and not all those who want to enter are successful – thanks to the discerning door whores and security. Plate spinning for the birthday bash came courtesy of Sophie Ellis Bextor, while The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie Sells grooved around in the DJ box and a couple of queens had a fi st fi ght outside cause they both turned up in the same waistcoat. A circus indeed. Happy birthday little’un. The Circus, every Friday night from 10.30pm till 3am at Soho Revue Bar, 11-12 Walkers Court, W1. www.sohorevuebar.co.uk #& =C bbVS`S @3D73E Dan Gillespie Sells and Sophie Ellis Bextor WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CHRIS BY PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS #' =C @3D73E bbVS`S 63/D3<A;72E339<756BB6@3E/ WORK @ HEAVEN :/C<164=@C90:/19>@723 & The organisers of this year’s UK casual passers by could have been Black Pride (www.ukblackpride. forgiven for thinking it was an Easter org.uk) have announced that event – such were the number of the event will again be taking religious themed entrants! The four place at the prestigious Regent's categories of the catwalk strut-off College on the Inner Circle of Regents were held in front of celebrity judges Park. The annual celebration to including Queer Eye’s Julian Bennett, promote unity among black people songstress Beverley Knight and diva of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Victoria Wilson James. and Latin American descent who After what seemed like an age, the 50 identify as lesbian, gay, bi-sexual or so contestants were whittled down and transgender, the launch party to 4 winners. But the choices didn’t took place in the Departure Lounge stop there. Oh no! Now we had to at Heaven during the club’s midweek decide whether to throw shapes with outing Work! The event was hosted by Freddie Thomas in the Housey main the fabulous Miss Kimberley (pictured room or shuck our jeans two inches right) and LB (who will also host on lower and groove to the R&B with the day), while the legendary Beverley Jeff rey Hinton. So many decisions, and Knight (pictured centre above) was on it’s only a Wednesday! That must be hand to off er her support and superb why they call it Work! R&B and urban music came from Urban Desi. Work! at Heaven - Wednesday Elsewhere in the club, Miss Kim also 11pm-4am. Under The Arches, hosted a Vogue competition where Villiers Street, WC2. 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We certainly can’t think of anywhere that stands out quite so loudly and proudly. The super-stylish establishment lies on Charing Cross Road. The two-fl oor venue features fl oor- to-ceiling windows allowing passers by to gaze in upon the… well, pink punters, and those inside to look out. The interior is dominated by bright pink walls at the front of the venue, with delicate, Japanese-inspired murals adding the obligatory Oriental touch. We’re also admirers of the chrome lampshades above the bar, bunched together like a collection of metallic bubbles. The venue hosts a range of nightly events, and we popped along on a Saturday evening for the new S.H.A.G promotion. No, it’s nothing too saucy – it stands for Saturday Highlight At Geisha! Your hostess is Tamsin, and each week a diff erent name DJ takes to the decks to spin the sounds. Other attractions include the Sunday Meltdown with DJ Devilish spinning the house and electro, and Uncut each Friday with DJ Eduardo de la Torre working a Spanish underground vibe. Now that summer’s here, expect the venue to open its concertina doors for additional al fresco drinking. In fact, why not treat yourself to one of the bar’s refreshing cocktails, such as its Lychee Mojito or the Limoncello? Geisha, 75 Charing Cross Road, WC2. www.geisha-bar.co.uk JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CHRIS BY PHOTOGRAPHS $! =C @3D73E bbVS`S 7 London has never really taken off on the international circuit party scene – somewhat surprising given our diverse and thriving night culture. There have been occasional attempts to launch circuit party style mega-events (the old Famous Five parties at Bagley’s Warehouse spring to mind), but none have returned year after year. Well, that could all change following the huge success of Hustlaball in Vauxhall in June. Circuit afi cionados will already know about Hustlaball as it has an enviable reputation for full-on, no-holds-barred, testosterone- charged partying, with a history stretching back over the last ten years and events across Europe. Hustlaball London was a joint venture between rentboy.com and Alex Erfan, and it took place on 14 June in the Vauxhall railway arches of both Area and Depot – the fi rst time that both arches have been open for a joint venture. Fortunately, they didn’t have to worry about the fi lling the space. The night was rammed. Suzie Krueger and her Hard On crew took care of the Depot half (bringing with them a huge, maze-like playroom), while DJs Jack Chang, David Hernandez and Sammy Jo took care of the main fl oor, with Binomio and Hugh Stevenson on the third dancefl oor. Shows took place throughout the night, courtesy of top porn producer Chi Chi La Rue and some of her roster of famed porn stars, like the stunning Francois Sagat (shorter in the fl esh than you might expect but just as cute!). The night was a huge success, and is guaranteed to return to the capital again in 2009. Here’s hoping it perhaps kick-starts a trend for more, big, annual special events. For details of other Hustlaball events, check www. hustlaball.com CHRISJEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM © PHOTOGRAPHY $" =C bbVS`S A13<3 $# =C @3D73E bbVS`S GAY BINGO @ LO PROFILE If you like avant-garde cabaret an hour before casually gliding across Stories are interspersed with songs, Ma with its tongue planted fi rmly the dancefl oor-cum-arena and calling Butcher has her fi nger on the number in its cheek and pound shop 26 – 32 – 68, etc. This is no bingo for cruncher, lines are called and prizes couture done up to look a million the blue rinse brigade; this is hardcore, awarded, but pity the person in the dollars, then you’ll love Gay Bingo. guerrilla, subversive digit-calling where Woo’s sights when the number 69 Originating way out east, it has the numbers are cunningly hidden in comes up, as, like a lamb to slaughter, recently successfully transferred to an ad-libbed libretto that fl ies at you they won’t stand a chance. Superb guest Gaydar’s subterranean hideaway, faster than the bullets in the Matrix cabaret fi lled the gaps between games Lo Profi le, in the West End, and and that no amount of bobbing and (on the night of our visit it was Amanda is an unforgettable experience. weaving can avoid. It is all too easy Pett), ‘Chariots Of Fire’ was played out, Like a whirling dervish on crack, to get caught up in the story and Woo-style, in slo-mo and the whole Johnny Woo swooped in, grabbed entirely miss the fact that 5 numbers shebang climaxed in a Rio poolside the audience with both hands and have just fl own by… “Melissa, the fi nale of Baywatch bathing beauties and throttled it into submission. Having 1 legged prostitute, left her fl at at chicken fi llets. Sensational. repeatedly stamped on the head of number 28 Acacia Avenue and, after good taste and driven a battered avoiding 2 Bichon Frises in the street Lo Profi le, The Basement, 84-85 stiletto through its eye, he launched proceeded past the gang of 5 hoodies Wardour Street, W1. www. into a fabulously kitsch rap ballad on the corner, 3 of whom were of gaydarprofi le.com about a sports kit tranny at 100 miles indeterminate gender.” $$ =C bbVS`S @3D73E PHOTOS AND WORDS © CHRIS JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM $% =C @3D73E bbVS`S A=6=A4/D=C@7B31=C@BG/@20/@7A3<8=G7<5 THE YARD /<=B63@0C;>3@AC;;3@¬ Given that it’s the only gay bar in central London to possess its very own secluded courtyard, the aptly titled Yard bar is very much an Out In The City favourite during the summer months. You can choose to drink outside in the yard, inside the ground fl oor bar area or upstairs in the stylish, woodbeamed Loft Bar, with its own outdoor balcony for smokers. Both bar areas feature video screens and off er a rotating soundtrack throughout the week. The venue gets busiest at weekends, and therefore lays on DJs, with the best in classic disco and funk on Thursdays, followed by DJ Small Sam spinning the anthems on Fridays. Sam’s back at the decks again on Saturdays for the ‘Upfront’ session, while there’s more of a chilled- out vibe on off er on Sundays, with ambient grooves and deep’n’sexy house from 4pm onwards. A light lunch menu is served daily from 1pm (3pm on Sundays) and there’s a happy hour on Mondays to Wednesdays from 5 till 7pm, when glasses of wine or bottles of Becks beer cost just £2. Fans of cocktails will also want to know that the venue boasts one of the best selections in all of Soho. Whether you’re looking for post-work drinks, a pre- club rendezvous, or even a romantic spot for lunch, The Yard and The Loft cover all bases… and if the sun is shining, both are hard to beat! The Yard and The Loft, 57 Rupert Street, Soho, W1. 020-7437 2652. www.yardbar.com JEPSON/LONDONCLUBLAND.COM CHRIS © PHOTOS $& =C bbVS`S A13<3 $' =C @3D73E bbVS`S WALK LIKE A MAN? 2C1973¸A/< E6G16==A3 hyper-masculinised anus self-obsessed. Straight ·;/A1C:7<7BG¸/A/ of the gay man and bust men should learn all the B63;3- it apart. Metaphorically obvious things from us Robin: It’s so rich speaking, of course. – like not being afraid of - we are all obsessed with E6G2=G=CB67<9 their emotions or of shaving masculinity. But masculinity 5/G;3</@3A= their balls. today is in ruins. All the 6C<5C>/0=CB Amy: From straight blokes, strong positive notions 037<5·AB@/756B gay men can learn to like like loyalty, courage and /1B7<5¸- women and confront the strength that were the Robin: We live in a cunt. From gay blokes, masculine ideal years ago heterosexually-dominated straight men can learn have become either corrupt society where we are not better grooming. or cosmeticised. Now, the norm. We have to do all 4=@/ to be far too scaff olding and they’re serves a function – if only themselves and stay alive. PHOTOS © MANUEL VASON % =CbbVS`S % =C <756BA bbVS`S HIGHLIGHTS XXL The well-endowed XXL has another great month planned this July, kicking off with its Super-Sized Pride Party on Saturday 5 July. This huge London Bridge institution for bears, hunks, rugger buggers and lads of all shapes and sizes, will be throwing a Pride party with DJs Christian POST-PRIDE PARTYING M, Kamishake, Mark Ames, Joe Egg and Alex Logan. PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON “Expect super-sized drink specials, larger than normal tunes on the dancefl oor and the biggest beef in the capital,” with The Orange crew have been granted the honour of hosting this year’s offi cial Post-Pride parties! They’ll be kicking of doors open from 9pm through till 6am. a mega-weekend of partying by hosting the dance stage in Soho Square on Saturday 5 July. After that, there will be The Saturday night club recently launched extended just enough time to get home and freshen up before heading out for the fi rst of three offi cial post-Pride celebrations. opening hours. “We’re opening the doors an extra hour early The festivities will begin at Juicy at Fire, which will run from 10pm through till 8am the next morning. Providing the from 9pm. As a special incentive to get through the doors, post-Pride soundtrack across the four rooms will be Steve Pitron, Rob Sykes, Sean Dickson, Gonzalo, Steven Artis, David we’re off ering the ‘Happy On Happy In Door Discounts’. What Jimenez, Elliot J Brown, The Oli, Stevie B, Dave Cross and Alan K. Advance tickets cost £13 from www.clubtickets.com, does that mean? Well, between 9pm and 10pm you’ll get in Prowler, Clone Zone and The Box. Fire will be donating £1 for every person through the door to Pride. got £6 if you are a member and £10 if you are a guest. You can then continue the partying at Beyond at Area, which will run from 4am till midday Sunday. The Sharp Boys, Now that you’ve saved a couple of quid though the door, Paul Martin and Terry Bryan will be on hand to provide the funky, uplifting house sounds. Again, a donation to Pride will you can take advantage of the Double Whammy Happy be made for everyone through the door, with advance tickets £12 from the outlets mentioned above. Hour from 9–11pm. What’s on off er? £2 pints on super Finally, for those still with any energy left, Later will be running at Fire from 11am till 5pm on Sunday 6 July. Expect chilled cold beer and £3 for house doubles and mixer.” more top sounds, plus the Later Garden Party and barbecue. Admission will be £5. Also, look out for the relaunched www.xxl-london.com You can also purchase a special Pride Weekend Pass for £25, entitling you to entry to Juicy, Beyond, Later and pre- website. The guys have been working on a major redesign, parties at the Embankment Bar on the Saturday and Sunday evening. www.fi reclub.co.uk promising a new, improved, interactive site. G-A-Y JUST HIGH PROFILE Italian motorcycle cop Fabrizio Caiazza, WANTS TO the winner of Gaydar’s hotly-contested Sex HAVE FUN! Factor 08 competition, was fl own over to G-A-Y may be winding down its 15-year London in mid-June for residency at the Astoria, but that doesn’t a meet and greet session mean that there will be any lowering of with fans and admirers quality control over the fi nal few weeks. at Gaydar’s very own The G-A-Y Porn Idol on Mondays and the HUDSON DAVID © PHOTO Profi le bar in Soho. The G-A-Y Thursday night session have now 33-year-old hunk – pictured here at the bar with TV’s come to an end, but you’ll still fi nd the Julian Bennett – seemed taken aback and touched by G-A-Y Camp Attack running each Friday the interest he received, and we’re sure that there was no and the fl agship Saturday night hosting shortage of London lads off ering to show him the sites of live acts on the weekend. Acts confi rmed our wonderful city! for July include a special double headline As always, both Profi le and Lo-Profi le have plenty performance on Saturday 5 July from of events and promotions throughout the month of July. Swedish pop sensations Alcazar and You’ll fi nd the glamorous, three-fl oored Profi le at 56 Frith BWO, performing hits such as ‘Crying At Street, Soho, and regular attractions include the Open The Discotheque’, ‘This Is The World We Live Deck DJ session each Tuesday and Hooley’s Hopefuls each In’ and new BWO single ‘Lay Your Love On Me’. Wednesday, when host Jonny Hooley presides over a They will be followed on Saturday 12 July by an exclusive show from Cyndi Lauper, performing past hits like ‘Girls singles’ night with a diff erence, thanks to the high-tech Just Wanna Have Fun’ and ‘I Drove All Night’, plus tracks from her disco-tastic new album, Bring Ya To The Brink. This is text screens. DJs on rotation at weekends include Gary H, sure to be another classic G-A-Y night, and probably one of the very last at the Astoria, do put it in your diary now! Mark WestHenry, Ben Parkes and Craig Daniels. The Happy At the time of going to press, host Jeremy Joseph was still in the process of booking an act to perform at the very fi nal Hour runs from 4-7pm on Sundays to Wednesdays, with G-A-Y Saturday night at The Astoria – the date of which is still to be announced. For all the latest information, cocktails at £4 and Becks and Corona at £2.50 a bottle. keep checking www.g-a-y.co.uk www.gaydarprofi le.com % =C bbVS`S :7AB7<5A and basement club, off ering greencarnationsoho.co.uk members-bar atmosphere but sophisticated, open to all. www.enclavesoho.com HALFWAY TO HEAVEN, 400-capacity late- 7 Duncannon Street, WC2. 020 night basement bar and GOING=Cb ESCAPE, 10a Brewer Street, W1. 7321 2791. Charing Cross tube. club space – from the people KU PRIDE 020 7734 2626. Piccadilly Circus Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat that bring you gaydar.co.uk. Open If you want to celebrate Pride at a bar tube. 5pm-3am. Cover charge after 12pm-12am. Old-style gay pub till 2am midweek, 4am weekends, that’s right in the thick of the action, 11pm. Every night’s a party at this spread over two fl oors. and 10.30pm Sundays. www. then get yourself along to Ku Bar on late-night video dance bar. gaydarprofi le.com Saturday 5th July. Midway between HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers Trafalgar Square and Old Compton EXILIO, LSE Underground, Street, WC2. Charing Cross Road LONG YANG CLUB, long-running Street, the venue celebrates the day Houghton Street (off Kingsway), tube. Huge, world-famous gay social group for East Asian gay with one long party. We popped in Aldwych, WC2. Saturday night gay club. www.heaven-london.com guys and friends. They host a PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON last year and found the place heaving Latin and salsa night. regular Sunday evening social in with one of the friendliest and most diverse crowds in the THE KINGS ARMS, 23 Poland the basement of Village Soho (81 capital. All three fl oors of the venue will be open from FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St Giles Street, W1. 020 7734 5907. Wardour Street, W1) from 7pm midday through till 3am, with DJs in the basement club High Street, WC2. 020 7240 8042. Oxford Circus tube. Mon-Thur onwards. Check website at www. from mid-afternoon spinning the feel-good anthems. Tottenham Court Road tube. 12pm–11pm, Fri-Sat 12pm-12am, lyclondon.com The Ku Bar off ers a full roster of entertainment, club 10am-11pm. Sun 10.30pm. Over Sun 12pm-11.30pm. London’s bar promotions and drinks off ers throughout the week. Check 20 years old and still going strong. for bears and blokes. Traditional PROFILE, 56 Frith Street, Soho, it out at 30 Lisle Street, Leicester Square, WC2. 020-7437 Long-running community café bar. atmosphere, pool table upstairs W1. Tottenham Court Road tube. 4303. www.ku-bar.co.uk and BearHug each Friday. Stylish, big gay bar, owned by the FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street, team at Gaydar.co.uk – spread over W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly v KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2. three fl oors, with internet access capacity. Now home to G-A-Y club Circus tube. Opulent style bar, with 020 7379 4573. Charing Cross and Gaydar radio. VENUES: nights. www.g-a-y.co.uk late-night club promotions for a tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat noon-11pm, CENTRAL LONDON metorsexual crowd. Sun noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street, W1. www.freedombarsoho.com stylish café bar (great food!), with Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159. 79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road, 020 7734 3342. www.bar-code. clubbier vibe and video screens Marble Arch tube. Huge pub, on WC2. 020 7734 0769. Leicester co.uk. Piccadilly Circus tube. FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 Wardour in the basement. Popular with two fl oors, attracting an older Square tube. Mon-Sat 1pm-3am, Mon-Sat 4pm-1.30am. Sun until Street, WC1. Trendy and unique, Asian crowd. crowd. www.thequebec.co.uk Sun 1pm-10.30pm. Cover charge 10.30pm. Dance bar on two fl oors, intimate basement bar, which after 11pm. Large, cruisy, late-night with club-style basement. Comedy attracts a mixed crowd. KU BAR, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester RETRO BAR, 2 George Court, bar. Camp stand-up night each Tuesday. Square, WC2. 020 7437 4303. WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton Leicester Square tube. Large, Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sat ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth Street, W1. 020 7494 2756. award-winning, upmarket gay bar 5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-11pm. Compton Street, W1. 020 7437 Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020 7240 Leicester Square tube. 12pm- spread over three fl oors, open till A traditional boozer for the gay 5300. Leicester Square tube. 5828. Leicester Square tube. 11am- 12am. Huge, poptastic gay bar, 3am daily. www.ku-bar.co.uk scene’s indie, alternative and Friendly, traditional gay pub. 11pm. Stylish and award-winning with a multitude of video screens, student-types – Tuesday’s pop quiz gay café bar popular with scene and pop tunes and drinks promotions. LO-PROFILE, The Basement, is an institution. ASTORIA, 157 Charing Cross muscle queens. www.g-a-y.co.uk 84-85 Wardour Street, W1. Swanky, Road, WC2. 020-7734 6963. Tottenham Courtg Road tube. CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, W1. G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard, BARCODE BARGAINS Huge, former theatre, with 2,000 020 7494 4041. Tottenham Court off Charing Cross Road, WC2. Barcode in Soho and Vauxhall Road tube. Mon-Thu 5-11.30pm. Tottenham Court Road tube. are currently off ering some PRIDE IN HEAVEN Fri & Sat 5pm-2am. Sun 5-11pm. 11pm-3am. Late-night sister very tempting summer drinks Heaven’s fl agship Long-running and famed lesbian venue to G-A-Y Bar – more video off ers, with £2 for a pint Saturday night bar. screens, camp pop fun and cheap of Kronenbourg, £1.50 for promotion has a drinks. single spirits and £1.50 for a huge post-Pride COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton pint of Fosters. Furthermore, event planned for Street, W1. 020 7479 7961. GEISHA, 75 Charing Cross Road, Barcode Blue Tag holders Saturday 5 July. The gay Leicester Square tube. Noon-11pm. WC2. 020-7734 6887. Recently- are entitled to further off ers, mega club will be hosting a whole selection A Soho institution. Large, traditional launched, designer gay bar – a including two-for-one on of live acts and DJs across its fi ve rooms, ensuring that gay boozer on two fl oors. riot of pink and oriental chic! Open small bottles of Merlot Rose, you’ll be partying with pride right through until sunrise. noon-midnight seven days a week, and two-for-one on bottles On the main stage look out for Britain’s Got Talent THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, with DJs nightly. www.geisha-bar. of Becks. You can become fi nalistsStrike (that’s the two fi t hunks who did martial 77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439 co.uk a Barcode Blue Tag holder arts-style dancing) and drag queen Tracey Scott Collins, 1274. Piccadilly Circus tube. by signing up free for the along with glamorous burlesque troupe The Adora Girls Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat GHETTO, 5-6 Falconberg subscription at www. (pictured above). Music will come from DJs Pagano, Jacob noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm on Mews, W1. 020-7287 3726. bar-code.co.uk. Members Moss and Andy Alder, with Nick Tcherniak whipping up a Sun. Traditional and fun gay pub Subterranean, trend-setting gay will be entered into a special Pride set. Up in the Star Bar you’ll be able to catch over two fl oors. club venue, with nightly alternative monthly prize draw, free a show from new girl band Stonefoxx, plus commercial promotions, such as The Cock (Fri) entry on selected nights, pop sounds from Dusty O and Manny. There’s more live THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square, W1. and Wig Out (Sat). www.ghetto- access to a monthly DJ action in the Dakota Bar, with a PA from Laura Critley, 020 7439 1313. Tottenham Court london.co.uk mix download, plus a guest list while six of the club’s sexiest go-go’s will be straddling the Road tube. Noon-1am, Sun 2pm- for themselves and fi ve friends on their birthday, amongst podiums throughout the night. 11.30pm. Stylish, hip gay bar THE GREEN CARNATION, other benefi ts and attractions. This is sure to be one of the busiest parties taking place spread over four intimate fl oors, 4-5 Greek Street, Soho, Barcode Soho can be found at 3-4 Archer Street, W1, on Pride night, so arrive early to guarantee smooth with regular nights from top DJs. W1. 020-7434 3323. New, while Barcode Vauxhall can be found at Arch 69, entry. Limited early bird tickets for Heaven Pride are three-fl oored late night gay Albert Embankment, SE11. available at www.heaven-london.com for THE ENCLAVE, 25-27 Brewer venue, with bar, dancefl oor www.bar-code.co.uk only £15. You’ll fi nd Heaven under-the- Street, W1. Intimate, lounge bar and nightly promotions. www. %! =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S RUPERT STREET, 50 Rupert outdoor balcony and loft bar. SOHO NIGHTS Street, W1. 020 7292 7141. The Soho Revue Bar (11 Walker’s Court, W1) Piccadilly Circus tube. 12-11pm, Sun NORTH LONDON continues to pull in the punters throughout the week 10.30pm. Large, designer style bar, with a mixture of live performances, cabaret and late- popular with professional gay boyz THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden night disco action. The intimate and opulent venue now and post-work crowd. High Street, NW1. 020 7428 2721. hosts Pop every Tuesday, off ering the best in commercial Camden Town tube. Shuffl ewick pop sounds and chart classics. Get along early on Tuesday SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat 1 July for the monthly Pop-Rocktic session, which is Street, W1. 020-7287 7988. 12noon-2am, Sun Noon-10.30pm. a live showcase of new pop talent (www.myspace. Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, gorgeous, Club: Mon-Thu 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat com/poprockticspace). It’s followed on Wednesdays by late-night bar and club for A-list 10pm-3am, Sun 10pm-1am. Trannyshack, a midweek celebration of gender- gays and celeb-spotters. Long-running, famed gay pub bending glam and glitz presided over by DJs Dusty O www.theshadowlounge.com – probably the most famous (pictured), Tasty Tim and Prince Nelly. Put the 16 July cabaret pub in London, with nightly in your diary, as that’s when Dusty will be throwing her SOHO REVUE BAR, 11 Walkers DJs and entertainment. www. annual birthday ball, this year with a burlesque theme. Court (off Brewer Street), W1. theblackcap.com Expect a full show and erotic pole dancers, with free 020-7734 0377. Legendary Soho entry to anyone who makes an eff ort to dress up (£5 cabaret club, attracting very gay CENTRAL STATION, everyone else). crowd with nightly cabaret, gigs 37 Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020 Jodie Harsh’s Circus is rammed to the gills each Friday, attracting and burlesque. 7278 3294. Kings Cross tube. Mon- possibly the most dressed-up freakish crowd in town and a good Wed 5pm-2am, Thur 5pm-3am, smattering of celebrities. It’s followed on Saturdays by the newly launched TRASH PALACE, 11 Wardour Fri 5pm-4am, Sat 1pm-4am, Sun House Party, when top name DJs spin the club classics, funky house and r’n’b Street, W1. 020 7734 0522. 1pm-12am. Big gay bar on three from 10pm till 3.30am. Piccadilly Circus tube. Sun-Thu fl oors, with ground fl oor cabaret Monthly or one-off cabaret attractions in July include Electric Empire’sMagic 5pm-midnight. Fri & Sat 5pm-3am. and infamously cruisy cruise nights Night on a ‘BBC Comedy Presents’ showcase on Monday 7 July, the Indie, rock and trash fun on two in basement. www.centralstation. Hurly Burly Cabaret Burlesque on Saturday 19 July. fl oors – very popular with students co.uk and alternative club freaks. THE LOAD OF CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine EGO, 82 Norwood High Street, CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1 HAY, 207 Pinner Road, Watford, Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Huge, SE27. 020 8761 5200. West VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, W1. Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, 01923-441113. Watford‚s only late-night venue for after-hours Norwood BR. Sun-Thu 8pm-late, 020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Circus N19. World’s biggest lesbian and gay pub, with big beer garden crowd – hosting various monthly 7pm-4am. Door charge on tube. 12-1am, Sun 11.30pm. Late gay Asian music night, running and regular entertainment! www. promotions such as Bootylicious weekend. Large, popular bar and night door charge. Soho’s original every third Friday of the month. loadofhay.co.uk and Megawoof. club, attracting big crowds at gay café bar, spread over four fl oors, www.clubkali.com weekends. and now with basement dancefl oor THE OAK BAR, 79 Green Lanes, DEPOT, 66 Albert Embankment, and discos. COSMO LOUNGE, 43 Essex Road, N16. 020-7354 2791. Manor SE1. 020-7793 9262. Cruisy dance FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, SE11. N1. Tel: 020 7688 0051. Angel tube. House tube. Friendly, divere gay bar club which hosts monthly parties Stylish, railway arch Vauxhall venue, THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, W1. Sun-Wed 2pm-Midnight, Thu-Sat with late-night club promotions, such as Rent, Manhunt and Prowler hosting occasional dance and 020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Circus 2pm-1am. Long, narrow, intimate open ‘til 3am at weekends. www. on Saturday nights, plus Cruise on cruise nights. tube. Mon-Thur 4pm-11pm, Fri gay bar popular with locals girls oakbar.com Friday nights. & Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun 1pm- and boys. THE FORT, 131 Grange Road, 1.10.30pm. Busy gay bar with ON THE ROCKS, 25 Kingsland THE EAGLE, 349 Kennington SE1. 020-7237 7742. Small cruise hugely popular courtyard area, THE GOLDEN LION, 2 Britannia Road, E2. Underground Shoreditch Lane, SE11. 020 7793 0903. Mon, club, open till 11pm throughout Street, WC1. 020 78374734. venue that hosts the weekly Trailer Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 9pm-late, Tue week, with regular boots-only and Friendly, local gay pub with Trash club night each Friday – the 7.30-10.30pm, Sun 4pm-2am. underwear parties. HAWAII FRUIT regular cabaret and late opening at ‘Dirty Eastend Gay Ravebox!’ www. Vauxhall tube. Large, club and www.thefortlondon.com Brighton might not weekends. clubtrailertrash.com cruise bar with nightly promotions. quite match the beaches Horse Meat Disco (Sundays) is FIRE, South Lambeth Road, of Hawaii, but get along to THE GREEN, 74 Upper Street, PLAYPIT, 76 Caledonian Road, particularly popular. Vauxhall, SW8. Vauxhall tube. bumper once-a-monther N1. 020-7704 0713. Angel tube. N1. Intimate, King’s Cross sleaze Wild Fruit on Sunday 6 London’s fi rst ‘gay gay-stropub!’ club. Open Thur-Sat 9pm-3am, July for a Waikiki-tinged Stylish, Islington bar, serving full Sun 3pm-7pm and 8pm-1am. WOTEVER BIRTHDAY ‘Aloha’ party. All those attending are invited to dress up food menu and wide range of www.londonplaypit.co.uk Many happy returns to in their loudest Hawaiian shirts, sarongs, grass skirts and cocktails. Mixed, chilled crowd the Club Wotever crew. beach wear for what promises to be one of the club’s - now run by the same team as The SOUTH LONDON The monthly club night for busiest summer bashes. Special guests jocks Prok & Fitch Edge in Soho. “genderqueers, drag kings, will be joining Wild Fruit residents Mr Haywood and Neil AREA, 67-68 Albert Embankment, femmes, trans, homos, Duffi e, and the bar will be off ering drinks deals all night. KING EDWARD VI, 25 Bromfi eld SE1. Gorgeously-designed, hard dykes, friends and admirers” Wild Fruit is one of the south coast’s biggest and longest- Street, N1. Tel: 020 7704 0745. dance club and cabaret rooms, with will be celebrating its fi fth running gay nights, pulling in plenty of London clubbers Angel tube. Sun-Thu 12noon- eclectic roster of diff erent gay nights birthday with a double- and others from all over the Southeast. It takes place at 12midnight, Thu 12noon-1am, (Juicy on Saturdays) and one-off headed post-Pride celebration on Saturday 5th July. The Tru, West Street, Brighton, between 10pm and 3am. Entry Fri-Sat 12noon-2am. Very promotions. www.areaclub.info fi rst part of the evening runs from 5pm till midnight at is £8 Members or with fl yer before 11.30pm, £10 queue- long-running gay pub, with ‘local’ The Horseshow, 24 Clerkenwell Close, EC1 (free entry jump advance, or £12 guests. www.aeonevents.co.uk atmosphere and character, plus BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch 69, before 6pm and then £5 after). Expect cake, giveaways and The Wild Fruit crew will also be hosting the Rebel popular beer garden. Albert Embankment, SE11. 0207 surprises. This will be followed from 9pm till 5am at The afterhours club directly after Wild Fruit at 2 One One 734 3342. Vauxhall tube. Open 7 Masters Club, 12 Denman Street, W1 (near Piccadilly). (Kings Road Arches), from 3am onwards. Other promotions KW4, 77 Hampstead High Street, days a week. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, Entry is £8 or £5 for those dressed up or sporting a stamp include the summery Sunday Sundae terrace session NW3. 020-7435 5747. Large, cost, Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. Recently opened from the Horseshoe party. Acts performing at the Masters on the 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th July, from 6 till 11pm at traditional old gay pub, with regular and very popular club bar, with will include Josephine Wilson and Killpussy, plus DJs Vicki Audio, Marine Parade. For full details and listings, entertainment, beer garden and dancefl oor and mezzanine chill-out Lester, Hausfl y and Seymour. Expect goodie giveaways, check www.aeonevents.co.uk food. www.kw4.co.uk space. special drinks off ers and partying till the wee hours... www.woteverworld.com %" =C bbVS`S A13<3 %# =C :7AB7<5A bbVS`S ARE YOUR JACKIE’S JUKEBOX, Rivoli XXL, The Arches, 51-53 Southwark Traditional boozer with nightly EXPERIENCED? Ballroom, 350 Brockley Road, Street, SE1. www.xxl-london. WEST LONDON entertainment – open noon- As the Duckie crew SE4. First Saturday of the com. London Bridge tube. Huge, 11pm throughout week. will be relocating to the month, 7pm-midnight (£7). world-famous club for bears, big BROMPTONS, 294 Old Brompton Coronet in Elephant & Gay ballroom and Latin dancing men and admirers, on Saturday Road, Earls Court, SW5. 020 7370 THE RICHMOND ARMS, 20 Castle on Pride night for night, attracting up to 300 and Wednesday nights. 1344. Earls Court tube. Big, long- The Square, off Princes Street, their annual Gay Shame dancers a month to the glam running gay pub and club, open Richmond. 020-8940 2118. Long- festival, Vauxhall’s Royal 1950s-style Rivoli Ballroom. EAST LONDON late throughout week. Regular running local gay pub, regular Vauxhall Tavern will Crofton Park BR. www.therivoli. cabaret and club nights. cabaret and entertainment. be throwing an extra co.uk THE ANGEL, 21 Church Street, special S.L.A.G.S/Chill- E15. Tel: 020 8555 1148. Stratford COLEHERNE, 261 Old Brompton TED’S PLACE, 305a North End Out party on Saturday KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High Street, BR and tube. Big gay pub, always Road, Earls Court, SW5. 020 7244 Road, West Brompton, W14. 0207 5 July. Simon Le Vans, SW4. 020 7622 0070. Clapham popular at weekends, with regular 5951. Earls Court tube. Noon- 385 9359. Earls Court or West PHOTO © MIKE KEAR Andy Almighty and Sean North tube. Mon-Thu 4pm- cabaret, DJs and disco nights. midnight. Large and legendary Brompton tube. Mon-Fri from Sirrs will be spinning the midnight, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat noon- pub. The spit’n’sawdust feel has 7pm-late, closed Sat & Sun. West house and dance anthems, while cabaret will come from 1am, Sun noon-midnight. Clapham THE BACKSTREET, Wentworth gone, but still popular with mixed London cruise club. Sleazy… but the D.E. Experience (pictured). Doors will be open from video bar, popular throughout the Mews, off Burdett Road, E3. crowd of male drinkers. that’s why the regulars love it! 8.30pm till 4am (show at 10pm), with advance tickets £8 week, with DJs at weekends. 020-8980 8557. Over 20 years old or £10 on the night – and you’d be wise to buy early if you – small but legendary dress code THE CULVERT, 54 Cowley Mill WEST 5, Popes Lane, South want to secure entry! LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington leather club, open Thur-Sun. Road, Uxbridge. 01895 256 690. Ealing, W5. 020-8579 3266. Large, Regular events at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern include Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039. Uxbridge tube. Mon-Wed 4pm-1am, popular gay pub with Piano Room the BrouHaHa comedy club each Wednesday, and Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days a THE BLACK HORSE, 168 Mile Thu noon-2am, Fri & Sat noon-3am, and cabaret bar, open till late at ‘spit’n’sawdust’ spectacular Vauxhallville each Thursday week. Small, traditional gay boozer End Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 Sun 3pm-1am. Regular discos, cabaret, weekends with entertainment with Nathaniel De Ville, Timberlina, Bearlesque and DJ for local gay boys and girls. 1684. Mile End tube. Mon-Thurs karaoke and one-off events. and DJs. Dawn Right Nasty. Duckie runs every Saturday (except for 8pm-1am, Fri-Sat 8pm-3am, Sun www.theculvert.com 5 July), followed by the S.L.A.G.S/Chill-out on Sundays MANBAR, 82 Great Suffolk Street, 8pm-1am. Late-opening,East End WINDSOR CASTLE, 152 Bath for the end of the weekend, club comedown crowd. SE1. 020-7928 3223. London cabaret bar and disco. THE HOPE & ANCHOR, 20 Road, Hounslow, TW3. 0208577 Timberlina’s back with her Bingo session each Monday, Bridge tube. Late-night cruise bar Macbeth Street, Hammersmith, 6590. Large, local gay pub with while the venue is available for private hire on Tuesdays. (with showers!) for men-only. BISTROTHEQUE, 23-27 Wadeson W6. (contact mobile regular cabaret and entertainment. One-off or monthly events taking place in July include www.manbar.info St, E2. Tel: 020 8983 7900. - 07858281995). New gay pub www.windsorcastlehounslow.co.uk Ernesto Sarezale’s Glam Slam UK on Tuesday 1 July, a Bethnal Green tube. Very mixed, for Hammersmith and Chiswick. ‘vogue ball cum poetry slam’ inspired by similar Glam ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN, gay/straight crowd of trendy Slam parties in Manhattan – check www.myspace. 372 Kennington Lane, SE11. metrosexuals. Great bar, restaurant, TRASHED ON THE THAMES com/glamslamuk for more details. Alternative bears 020 7840 0596. Opening times plus separate cabaret room. Those kooky club kids at Trailer Trash have a couple of night Ursus returns on Friday 4 July, this time with cabaret, vary. Vauxhall tube. Door Charge. very special summer events lined up for July. On Sunday while new Spanish night Viva takes place on Friday 11 July. Huge, traditional and historic gay CHARLIE’S BAR, 124 Globe 6 July they’ll be teaming up with Radio Egypt and Gill Manly’s popular live jazz session Diversion returns on pub, with long history of hosting Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 1007. Council to host the Shoreditch Summer Cruise boat Friday 18 July (www.gillmanly.com). www.rvt.org.uk cabaret. Packed to rafters on Whitechapel tube. Recently party. Running from 7pm till midnight, this cruise trip will Saturday (Duckie) and Sunday refurbished, Moroccan style take place on the Thames, with the vessel (the Sundance) (Chill-Out). www.rvt.org.uk – friendly, local gay bar. leaving from Temple Pier, opposite Temple Tube. Confirmed Infamous, late-night gay venue DJs and performers include Jonny Woo, Mikki Most, Jon beneath the Vauxhall railway THE STAG, 15 Bressenden Place, THE JOINERS ARMS, 116 Sizzle, Hannah Holland (pictured below), Richardette arches, host to the likes of Orange, SW1. 020 7828 7287. Victoria Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 7739 (George & Dragon), Ian Robinson, The Lovely JonJo, Bo A:M, Horizon and Gravity. Open tube. Mon & Tue midday-midnight, 9854. Debauched decadence Bella Selecta, DJ Rokk and the Gutterslut DJs. around the clock at weekends. Wed-Fri midday-2am, Sat 5pm- – old-skool boozer popular with Tickets priced £10 are available from George & Dragon, www.allthingsorange.com or 2am, Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark and post-club crowd at weekends. Trailer Trash, or online at www.ticket.web.co.uk.There will www.fireclub.co.uk atmospheric gay bar in Victoria. also be an afterparty at The Joiners Arms from midnite KINGS HEAD, 11 Church until the early hours of Monday morning, “for all you people THE GEORGE & DRAGON, 2 286, 286 Lewisham High Street, Street, E15. Tel: 020 8534 0197 without responsible stuff to do!” BlackheathHill, Greenwich, SE10. SE14. 020-8690 7648. Large, late- Stratford BR and tube. Intimate This will be followed on Saturday 19 July by the Trailer Trash 020 8691 3764. Deptford Bridge opening gay pub and club, with and welcoming East End gay pub ‘Summer Camp’, taking place at a secret outdoor location in DLR. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, Fri & regular entertainment and cabaret. – regular cabaret. Shoreditch. Running from 9pm till 6am, the event will feature Sat 4pm-4am, Sun 4pm-2am. Open till 2am Sun-Thur and till 4am two stages of music from Trailer Trash, Horse Meat Late-night pub with nightly Fri-Sat. www.two8six.co.uk THE OLD SHIP, 17 Barnes Disco and Disco Bloodbath, plus Girlcore’s super games entertainment and cabaret. www. Street, E14. Tel: 020 7790 4082. area, karaoke, ice cream and booze aplenty! The Trailer Trash gandd.org.uk THE TRAFALGAR ARMS, Limehouse DLR. Open from 7pm stage will feature the likes of Brodinski and Danish production 148 Tooting High Street, SW17. Mon & Tue, from 6pm Wed-Sat, genius Tomboy, while the likes of Severino, Luke Howard, HIDDEN, 100 Timworth Street, 020-8767 6059. A spacious, lively, from 4pm on Sun. Small, local, James Hillard, Dan SE11. Railway arch venue, home attitude-free pub. Excellent food traditional pub, with regular Beaumont, Damon to infamous Hard On night once a served all day. Weekly DJs on Friday cabaret. Martin and Ben month (www.hardonclub.co.uk). and Saturday nights. 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The date was announced at a launch party Heaven’s midweek night Work!, attended by celebrity guest Beverley PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON Knight (pictured). The gay pride festival will host a fun-filled day of music and artistic entertainment, live performances by the hottest new acts, sounds from London’s best DJ’s, a market place and information stalls. The event will take place WALK FOR LIFE in Regents College, Inner Circle, Regents Park, and for more information check: www.ukblackpride.org.uk Dannie Minogue, Alan Cumming and 4 Poofs & A Piano PAIR JAILED FOR LONDON BUS ATTACK joined over 2,000 walkers at this year’s Walk For Life on Two young men have been sentenced to a combined total of Saturday 1 June. The Crusaid fundraiser – Europe’s biggest two years and one month imprisonment at Wood Green Crown fundraising walk for HIV and AIDS – has so far raised Court, North London, for grievous bodily harm (GBH) and more than £175,000, and is on target to raise £400,000 common assault following an unprovoked homophobic attack to support poor and marginalised people in the UK and on a 29-year old man on a bus in central London just before Africa. Individual walkers were joined by various groups, Christmas. including the pink and colourful gang from London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard (pictured right), who were led by RELIGIOUS REGISTRAR ‘BULLIED’ Switchboard’s chief executive, Tim Gutteridge, dressed in an 47-year old London Christian registrar Lillian Ladele has told a eight-foot high and six-foot wide “telephone frock”. tribunal that she has been bullied because her faith “prevents” her from performing civil ceremonies for same-sex couples. She is claiming “discrimination on the grounds of religion” in a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS landmark case. Ab]\SeOZZVOaZOc\QVSROT`SS^V]\S MP CLAIMS GAYS CAN BE CURED \c[PS`³ & # ³b] Whilst reacting to news of a vicious homophobic attack in the `Sa^]\Rb]_cSabW]\aQOZZS`aVOdS Province, Iris Robinson - wife of the First Minister of Northern O`]c\RUOgZSaPWO\O\RPWaSfcOZWaacSa Ireland and MP for Strangford - condemned the assault BVS\SeaS`dWQSac^^]`bSRPgbVS but then told a local radio station that homosexuality was 0WU:]bbS`g4c\R`Sa^]\Rab]OVcUS “disgusting” and “loathsome”, adding: “I have a very lovely U`]ebVW\RS[O\RT]`UOga^SQWTWQ psychiatrist who works with me. He tries to help homosexuals ORdWQSO\RW\T]`[ObW]\OP]cbbVS turn away from what they are engaged in. And I have met abObca]TZSaPWO\O\RUOg^S]^ZS people who have turned around to become heterosexual.” She 0S\Ac[[S`aYWZZAb]\SeOZZ1VWST now faces calls for her resignation. 3fSQcbWdSaOWR(·Ab]\SeOZZVOa acQQSaaTcZZgZ]PPWSRT]`[OX]`ZSUOZ DRAFT BILL TO PROMOTE GAY EQUALITY QVO\USaW\`SQS\bgSO`abVObPS\STWb A new draft equality bill, to be formally announced in the O\R^`]bSQbZSaPWO\O\RUOg^S]^ZSW\a][O\geOga BVWa[SO\abVS`WUVbaeSS\X]gb]ROgO`SdS`g Queen’s Speech later this year, will seek to place a duty on \SeO\R^S]^ZS]TbS\eO\bb]QZO`WTgeVS`SbVSgabO\R 4c`bVS`Sf^O\RW\U]c`W\T]aS`dWQSWa^O`b]T public bodies to actively promote LGBT equality in all their Ab]\SeOZZ¸aQ][[Wb[S\bb]SRcQObS^S]^ZSO`]c\RbVS\SeZSUOZabObca]T0`WbOW\¸a! $[WZZW]\UOg services - from fostering to health clinics. This is in addition ^S]^ZS ¸ & # ]^S`ObSa;]\ROgb]4`WROgT`][' ! O[b]# ! ^[ G]cQO\OZa]Q]\bOQb to existing, recently won anti-discrimination legislation. If Ab]\SeOZZ¸a7\T]AS`dWQSObW\T].ab]\SeOZZ ]`U cY approved by Parliament the bill should become law by summer 2009. TOGETHER AGAIN EURO U-TURN ON DISCRIMINATION /\OQQZOW[SRb`O\aaSfcOZOcbV]`VOa·`S[O``WSR¸bVSe][O\bVObaVS]`WUW\OZZgeSR$ gSO`aSO`ZWS` Contrary to earlier indications, and following repeated calls, 8O\;]``Wa& WaPSabY\]e\T]`bVS>Of0`WbO\\WQOb`WZ]UgO\ReOaOeO`RSRO103PgbVS?cSS\ the European Commission has announced that previously- W\ ''' 0]`\8O[Sa6c[^V`Sg;]``WaW\ '"'VS[O``WSR3ZWhOPSbVBcQY\WaaO\RbVSQ]c^ZSVOR missing stipulations on sexual orientation, disability, religion or TWdSQVWZR`S\ 6Sc\RS`eS\baSf`SOaaWU\[S\bac`US`gW\ '% O\Rb]]YbVS\O[S8O\³OX]c`\Sg belief and age will now all be included in a new pan-European VSR]Qc[S\bSR^]WU\O\bZgWaVWaP]]Y1]\c\R`c[ BVSQ]c^ZSZObS`RWd]`QSRPcb`S[OW\SRZWdW\U anti-discrimination directive. Campaigners await fuller details b]USbVS`W\:ZO\gabc[Reg5eg\SRREOZSa ;]``WaQ]\TW`[SRbVObaVSO\RVS`T]`[S`eWTSVOROQWdWZ and to see how such a directive will actually be enforced. ^O`b\S`aVW^QS`S[]\gW\;OgeVWZaba^SOYW\U]\001@ORW]"¸a0]]YQZcP^`]U`O[[S && =C b\Sea <3EA NEWS FLASHES INTERNATION OUTSPOKEN: NEWS RICHARD RETRO’S EUROVISION BAHRAIN BARNES The government in the QUEER LIFE IN THE Bahrain have set out a CAPITAL CAN ONLY FUNDRAISER number of initiatives GET BETTER UNDER in an eff ort to stamp NEW MAYOR BORIS homosexuality on the JOHNSON, ARGUES 16/@7<51@=AA0/@@/7A3A;=<3G Persian Gulf island. They TORY RICHARD 4=@B6@3327443@3`SaS\bS`>ORRg=¸1]\\SZZ homosexuals and for COMMUNITIES. bc`\SRc^ObbVS@Sb`]0O` homosexuals to be “rooted W\1VO`W\U1`]aa]\ 8c\S out” of “hair salons” and For too long equality and diversity issues have b]^S`T]`[a][SQVS_cS “massage parlours”. Ministers been treated as a “bolt-on” in London Government ^`SaS\bObW]\a BVSPO`³O\RWba have further instructed - the crassest example being the paragraph that is tacked []\bVZg3c`]dWaW]\QSZSP`ObW]\ teachers to look out for onto reports, 2]chS>]W\ba³`OWaSR]dS` % homosexual tendencies in just above PHOTO © TIM PURCELL ]dS`bVSQ]c`aS]TaWf3c`]dWaW]\ children and to “punish them the “fi nancial SdS\baW\/^`WZO\R;OgO\R accordingly.” Homosexuality implications” a^ZWbbVS[]\SgS_cOZZgPSbeSS\Ab]\SeOZZ:]\R]\:SaPWO\O\R5Og is illegal in Bahrain and statement, stating THE GAY COMMUNITY AeWbQVP]O`RO\R1VWZR`S\7\ PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON appreciation.” residents. The gay community is interwoven within the tapestry of BROKEBACK OPERA London. It plays a vital part in our commercial, cultural, Brokeback Mountain, the Annie Proulx novella that was turned into an Oscar-winning fi lm intellectual, and artistic success. I look forward to working starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger, is to be turned into an opera. Composer with all of you in that community over the coming years to Charles Wuorinen, 70, has been commissioned by the New York City Opera to compose the build and sustain a London of which we are all proud. piece. “Ever since encountering Annie Proulx’s extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it,” commented Wuorinen on the commission. “It gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier [email protected] and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so.” &' =C <3EA b\Sea NEWS FLASHES UK NEWS YVES ST LAURENT: ARMY MARCHES WITH PRIDE 1936-2008 Following a Ministry Of Defence (M.O.D) ruling that will finally allow serving army personnel to PHOTO © GETTY IMAGES/REG LANCASTER march in their uniforms, this year’s Pride London (5 July) will mark the first time that all three branches of the military have been permitted to march in uniform. Both the RAF and Royal Navy have previously allowed their personnel to march in uniform at Pride. The Equality and Human Rights Commission, which helped broker the arrangement with the M.O.D, welcomed the decision, with its chair, Trevor Phillips, commenting, “Just nine years after the landmark ruling to allow gay and lesbian people to serve openly in the military, I am delighted the Ministry of Defence has bravely given the go-ahead to march at Pride in uniform. It will be a historic moment, and a true sign of how much has changed.” HIV+ TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS CHALLENGED The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) has said that travel restrictions on people who are HIV+ are discriminatory and without public health warrant. In a separate development, MEPs have agreed an amendment urging the European Commission to raise the issue specifically with the US, one of 13 countries worldwide – including Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Sudan – that bans travel for those who are HIV+. DRUG MISUSE – MORE MUST BE DONE More needs to be done to combat the growing problem of drug and alcohol misuse within the gay community, concluded a new review published last month by the Metropolitan Police Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Advisory Group (LGBT AG). The review concluded that drug and alcohol misuse amongst the gay population more widespread than in the population at large, and that there was a need for a distinct approach to the problem within London, which shows of patterns of misuse different from those seen in wider UK population-based studies. Bob Hodgson, Co-Chair of the LGBT AG, said “In the last couple of years over ten deaths in London have been linked to drug overdose or alcohol misuse in the Yves St Laurent, the celebrated and acclaimed St Laurent fashion empire. Amongst his most notable LGBT community, we cannot just continue to think one size fits fashion designer, has died at his home in Paris at the fashion moments was introducing leather jackets to couture all for drug and alcohol response - it is time that the specific age of 71. fashion, turning Safari jackets and capes into chic catwalk needs of the LGBT community are addressed.” Born in 1936 in French Algeria, he had an unhappy items, and creating the trouser suit. However, the problems Dr Justin Varney, author of the report, added, “This is small childhood, later claiming to have been bullied at school that brought on his breakdown persisted, and he suffered snapshot of the challenge facing London. The Met and because of his sexuality. A precociously talented teenager, from depression for much of his life. He survived a period their strategic partners need to grasp the challenge and do he moved to Paris and immediately began working for of drug and alcohol addiction in the 70s and 80s, followed something strategic and targeted. Crystal is an issue, but so is the House Of Dior in 1954, and made such an immediate by a somewhat reclusive life in his Paris home. In 1999, he cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol, and the brutal truth is that these impact that he became chief designer when Christian Dior and Berge sold Yves St Laurent Rive Gauche to Gucci, after deaths could be prevented.” died three years later. St Laurent was only 21 at the time. the company found itself in financial difficulty. Friends The full report, including its recommendations, can be His designs for Dior were a huge success, and he quickly claim that it was a decision he regretted and that haunted downloaded from the LGBT AG website at www.lgbtag.org.uk became one of the most famous designers in the world. him during his final years. He will be remembered by many In a seperate substance abuse-development, a new website In 1960 he was conscripted in to the French Army, but for his revolutionary ideas, and for being amongst the first has been set up which aims to tackle the increase of GHB use suffered a nervous breakdown and was discharged. He to take note of the changing role of women in society in among clubbers, and to get “parent substance” GBL similarly briefly returned to Dior, but then, in 1962 with business the 50s and 60s and incorporating these changes into his banned in the UK. 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