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CHARLIE 25, HOTEL RESERVATIONS MANAGER MATT 31, OFFICE WORKER I‚m very romantic. With one of my boyfriends I once organised a picnic with champagne under the stars. Yes, I would like to be more romantic but sometimes it doesn‚t happen. It’s all about being with the right person really.

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I’m not that romantic. I don‚t mind if other Yes, I love sunsets and love holding people are romantic hands with my boyfriend looking at the towards me though! stars and moonlights and stuff like that PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS: CLEO LENG, WITH THANKS TO TRASH THANKS WITH LENG, CLEO PALACE TO WORDS: AND PHOTOGRAPHS

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AMY WINEHOUSE G-A-Y Anyone who attended G-A-Y to catch Amy Winehouse in January may want to cut out and keep these photos as a reminder of the 23-year-old singer’s all too brief appearance. In fact, it will probably go down as one of the shortest G-A-Y sets ever! We arrived at the cavernous Astoria at 12.45am to fi nd a queue stretching halfway down to Soho Square, with the signs outside the venue proudly boasting ‘Amy Winehouse – from rehab to G-A-Y!’. Despite it being the weekend after NYE, the club was packed out, with the soul-tinged diva attracting a diverse bunch of fans. The main fl oor danced itself dizzy to the camp pop sounds and dance classics laid down by the G-A-Y jocks, with Whigfi eld’s ‘Saturday Night’ and Donna Summer’s ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ proving ever-popular highlights. Come 1.45am, the stage was cleared and we were treated to a suitably camp routine from the G-A-Y danc- ers (the club’s very own version of Pan’s People… for those of you old enough to remember) to the tune of Björk’s ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’. Host Jeremy Joseph then took the stage and announced the evening’s headliner, and a diminutive and slightly disheveled Miss Winehouse took the stage to croon her way through current album track ‘Back To Black’. ‘She looks like she’s been up all night after doing the Friday Night Project yesterday,’ bitched one clubber next to us, and little were we to know how prophetic his words would prove... The song over, Amy then rushed off stage, leaving her band to launch into an instrumental jam. Had she rushed off to change her outfi t? The jam went on… and on… until Jeremy returned to the stage to explain that Amy had been taken ill and was throwing up backstage! ‘The DJs will take to the decks, and hopefully she’ll be back in fi ve minutes.’ Sadly, it wasn’t too be, and Jeremy again returned to the stage to explain that Miss Winehouse too ill to continue and that the gig would be re-scheduled for another time. Many boo-ed, which we thought a tad unfair – it’s not like she hadn’t bothered turning up at all, and she was obviously looking a little under the weather. The offi cial word from her management was that she’d had food poisoning, while the Monday tabloids later insisted that she’d been on a bender with pal Kelly Osbourne in the hours preceding the gig. ‘What can I say,’ Jeremy told us afterwards. ‘It was one of those memorable nights that no one will forget but not for the right reasons. It was really unfortunate, but if she returns to do another gig, we’ll take precautions to ensure she doesn’t have to leave the stage again. We’ll put two buckets out for her!’

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BEXTOR’S BACK She’s back! Sophie Ellis Bextor will be kicking off the campaign for her CULTURE CLUB new album with an exclusive club appearance at G-A-Y on Saturday 17 February. Tallulah is one of the scene’s longest-serving DJs, with a career Following the disappointing sale of her second album, Shoot From The stretching back to the early 70s. The fi rst inductee into the Hip (why didn’t they release ‘You Get Yours’ as a single?), Sophie has House Of Homosexual Culture’s Hall Of Fame, Hudson caught taken a hiatus over the last couple of years, concentrating on being a up with him to talk about his historic career… mum to son Sonny. However, she’s now back with a new single (the brilliant Cathy Dennis-penned ‘Catch You’), and an album. Titled Trip Firstly, how does it feel to be inducted into a Hall Of Fame? The Light Fantastic, we’re hoping it lives up to its name and delivers Well, I’m quite honoured, to tell you the truth. I’ve never been much some dancefl oor stormers! of a publicity seeker, but the reason I’m doing it is because I think it’s Expect renditions of ‘Catch You’, plus past hits such as ‘Murder On The quite a good thing. I don’t think we necessarily celebrate individuals Dancefl oor’, ‘Music Gets The Best Of Me’ and ‘Mixed Up World’ when she in our community enough, so I applaud the concept – it’s about time hits the stage at the Astoria on the 17th. we looked to our own people. Beyond that… well, it’s embarrassing The Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, WC2. www.g-a-y.co.uk talking about myself, but I am honoured! Who do you think deserves some additional recognition on the scene? I can give you one person straight off and that’s Bette Bourne, of Bloolips Theatre fame. On the political side, Peter Tatchell. And also Jo Purvis, who has been running gay nights in this country longer than anyone else alive, and proving that you can’t go wrong with a bit of eclecticism! I think it’s important that younger people look into gay culture a little bit more – it’s so easy to be forgotten, particularly where music’s ALL RISE concerned. People don’t even know who Sylvester was. I was chatting It’s been a few months since a new afterhours ventured out on to the with some people this week about Cleo Roccos on Celebrity Big scene, but that all changed at the end of January with the launch Brother and I said that she was really only famous for appearing on the of Rise Up – the fi rst big club launch of 2007. This new hard dance Kenny Everett Show, and someone said ‘who’s Kenny Everett?’ session is taking place every Saturday night/Sunday morning at There are a lot of people totally forgotten. Songwriters such as Paul Club Colosseum (1 Nine Elms Lane, Vauxhall SW8) – home to some Jabara – he wrote ‘Last Dance’. We lost so many to AIDS. You must legendary afterhours clubs over the last few years. DJs in the main have seen many changes in DJ’ing since you fi rst started back in the room include Faye Lanson, Justin Ballard and Kami, while Craig Daniels 70s – changes for the better or worse? and Pier Morrocco take over the Back Room. DJ Shuffl e looks after the Yes, many changes, obviously, but it really still comes down to Long Chillout Room entertainment. I fi nd it easy because I just enjoy entertaining, but Rise Up packs in a sweaty, 24-hour crowd of gay dance addicts from technically, it’s changed radically. People turn up with laptops now. 5.30 till midday each Sunday morning. Advance £12 tickets (plus I bumped into Rusty Egan [former co-promoter of seminal 80s club booking fee) are available from Trax, Clone Zone (Soho) and Prowler Blitz] the other day and he told me that he now DJs from home, and (Soho). It’s £12 with an advert or fl yer before 6.30am, then £15 after. downloads it to the club! When I started DJ’ing there were probably about fi ve gay DJs on the scene who were known and mentioned in the very small gay press. There were no fl yers – it was mainly word of mouth. Nowadays there are so many diff erent categories of music, and I think drugs have made a huge diff erence with regards to a Saturday night out – very few places exist just for a drink and a dance. What was your fi rst DJ job? HAVING A LAUGH I started off in a little club in 1972 called the Escort in Pimlico. It was The Soho Revue Bar continues to be W1’s premiere gay location for a little cabaret club where Hinge & Brackett started. I was a hotel late-night cabaret, comedy and avant-garde entertainment (not to manager at the time, , but they asked me because I knew a lot of mention glamorous showbiz parties and launch events). On Friday 2 people in the music business. They had a DJ called Jimmy Flipside, so- February, leading comedy promotion agency Off The Kerb will again called because they only had one deck and he’d fl ip the records over! I be taking the stage, showcasing some of its best acts. The evening will had to operate the coat check at the same time as DJ’ing – it was good be hosted by Shappi Khosandi, and treading the boards will be the fun and that’s where I started. likes of Reginald D Hunter (Winner of the 2006 Writers’ Guild Comedy Award for his show Pride and Prejudice and Niggas) and Terry Alderton. Tallulah will be honoured at the Homosexual House Of Doors open at 7.30pm and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets £10 (£8 Culture’s Hall Of Fame event, taking place at the Bush Hall concessions) from Ticketweb 08700 600 100 (www.ticketweb.co.uk). (310 Uxbridge Road, W12 – 020-8222 6955) on 22 February. Soho Revue Bar, 11 Walkers Court, W1. www.sohorevuebar.com For full details, check www.homoculture.org and www. bushhallmusic.co.uk. 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MEGAWOOF DIDDY’S Wayne Shires (left) and Johnny Slut When it comes to the percentage of customers who choose to go topless in a club, monthly muscle bash CURRENT Megawoof must be up there as one of the most popular. Despite it being the depths of winter, the heating at Crash TOP FIVE in Vauxhall was cranked up high for the night’s most recent outing, and in no time at all, the main dance fl oor was heaving with bare-chested… well, bears. Not to mention plenty of muscle boys and other Vauxhall regulars. Promoter’s Daz Saund and Diddy’s monthly orgy of hard dance and hairy hunks is now approaching its fourth anniversary (there’s a birthday bash planned for April) but its popularity and international reputation continues 01Diddy – ‘Give Me Love’ to grow. The night is perfectly suited to the dark and atmospheric arches of Crash, and it regularly attracts several (2007 Andy Allder Bootleg) hundred guys to each of its monthly outings, all seeking a sweaty, intense, testosterone-packed dancefl oor and Listen at uplifting house beats. www.myspace.com/ January’s party was a Leather-themed aff air, and we were surprised by the huge number who made an eff ort with andyallder their outfi ts. We can’t remember that last time we saw so many leather harnesses in a club. If clothes maketh the man, then labels give a good impression of a night – and Megawoof is very much a Fred Perry, Oakley, Mr Chaps, 02Myore –‘No More Lies’ Carhart, Levis, RoB and Expectations sort of aff air! Listen at DJs wise, Mach 1, Ben Addict, Joe Public and David Junior took care of the smaller front room, while on the main www.myspace.com/myore Promoters Daz Saund and Diddy fl oor, David Eph, Daz Saund and Diddy did the honours, with Paul Coles bringing proceedings to a close, spinning EKA’s ‘Something More’ as the lights went up. 03Deux –‘Xpand’ ‘The most enjoyable thing about running Megawoof is seeing the crowd go wild when the music is peaking,’ Diddy Listen at yelled at us, his beard tickling our ear. ‘Nothing beats that feeling of knowing that you’re making people happy www.juno.co.uk playing the music you love. There’s a wide diversity of guys who are part of the Megawoof “crowd” and they’re really into their music. 04Kaskade –‘In This Life’ ‘Daz, myself and many of the other DJ’s have been involved with DJ’ing worldwide, writing and producing since (Cabin Crew mix) the early house scene exploded in London, and it gives us a broad experience upon which to draw. The crowd that Listen at comes along is just so clued up and they really respond to new sounds and innovative mixes. We think they’re the www.musicremedy.com hottest crowd in town.’ 05Dan Welton – ‘Lisopain’ Megawoof runs every fi rst Saturday of the month at Crash, 65 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, Listen at SE11. www.megawoof.com www.3beatdigital.com © CHRIS JEPSON/ WWW.CHRISJEPSON.COM JEPSON/ CHRIS ©

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THE BLACK CAP CAMDEN TOWN

LONDON’S PREMIER CABARET & DANCE BAR 171 CAMDEN HIGH STREET, NW1 020 7428 2721 www.theblackcap.com

LGBT Charity Event Valentines Night Wed 14th Feb 9pm-2am

Featuring Sylvester & The Disco Divas Mrs Moore Trindy Sandra Millie Turner

DJ Demon

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SHINKY SHONKY One of North London’s best-kept secrets, The Oak Bar on Green Lanes plays home to a wide-variety of diff erent club promotions. Formerly a traditional pub, the place has been given a makeover, and is now more a late-night bar and club space, hosting likes of Yalla (a Turkish, Greek and Arabic gathering) and O.C.D (Obsessive Clubbing Disorder). One of the jewels in its crown is the monthly Shinky Shonky. The night will be celebrating a decade of clubbing come August, but has been at the Oak for just over a year now. Imagine Vic Reeves’ original Big Night Out given a queer, cartoonish twist, with host Boogaloo Stu presiding over smutty cabaret, childish stage games and a disco that takes in everything from Dusty Springfi eld to Lily Allen, by way of Blondie. DJ ALBERT The January bash was a typically sociable aff air,with around 200 gay boys and girls getting down to the sounds from DJ Albert Twatlock. TWATLOCK’S ‘He has DJ’ed at Shinky Shonky since it began,’ Stu told us, ‘and defi nitely gives the music policy its unique SET LIST edge - there’s nothing too obscure but equally there’s no cheese - it’s a veritable smorgasbord of non-stop cool pop tunes.’ 01‘We Are Your Friends’ – Stu himself mingled with the punters, distributing sweets and the club’s famed pin badges. The night Justice vs. Simian attracts its fair share of… erm, characters, and with the bar selling shooters such as the Dildo Basher, 02‘Love At First Sight’ – Slippery Nipple and Quick Fuck at £3 a go, things were getting very merry indeed in some quarters. Kylie At half midnight the stage was cleared and the cabaret began. January saw the long-awaited return of 03‘Theme From S’Express’– Brighton’s own Dolly Rocket, who belted out a sterling version of ‘These Boots Were Made For Walking’, S’Express before Princess Twinkle Knickers performed a burlesque striptease with the aid of a washing line and 04‘Something Kinda Ooh’ – powder! Girls Aloud Stu then picked the hapless Sophie and Noel from the audience to take part in the evening’s gameshow 05‘Somebody Told Me’ – – the charmingly titled Shit Lips. Get the wrong answer to the question and Miss Twinkle Knickers daubed The Killers your lips in poo (or it could have been chocolate body paint…). Poor Noel left the stage looking particularly 06‘SexyBack’ – messy! Justin Timberlake Has Stu always been so scatologically obsessed? 07‘LDN’ – ‘No, not really! Bodily fl uids in general have somehow become a consistent part of my witty repartee and Lily Allen cum, bumjuice, ladyjam and pee all make regular appearances. There is no particular bias towards poo!’ 08‘Music’ – It’s a club night, it’s a disco, it’s a right old Carry On… The one and only Shinky Shonky. Join the fun when it Madonna returns on Saturday 9 February. 09‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters Shinky Shonky, The Oak Bar, 79 Green Lanes, N16. 020-7354 2791. 10 ‘R.E.S.P.E.C.T’ – www.myspace.com/shinkyshonky or www.boogaloostu.com Aretha Franklin © [email protected] ©

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THE TWO BREWERS If there’s one act guaranteed to pull a crowd to the Two Brewers in Clapham, it’s Aussie air hostess Pam Ann. The aquamarine-suited comic has long been a favourite at the South London cabaret bar, and it would appear that the love aff air is mutual. It’s known that Pam loves to perform at the venue, and often treats the appreciate audience to new material. The high-fl ying performer has recently taken up a new Sunday night residency at the bar, appearing live on stage each week at 8pm. The run continues until the end of February, ahead of her UK ‘One World Alliance’ tour in March. We popped along in January to check out the show, which in true trolley-dolly fashion kicked off with a hilarious ‘safety video’ on the screens, before Pam launched into her routine. Be warned… you don’t necessarily want to be standing in the fi rst row unless you want to be included in her barbed banter! Pam’s show is one of the weekly highlights at this famous South London institution. Other regular events include Kevin Walsh’s karaoke each Tuesday, an audience with Julie Paid each Wednesday, and the quiz night with Chris Reardon on Thursdays. Top name cabaret acts are always booked in for the Friday and Saturday night entertainment, with the partying continuing till late in the Club Bar. For full details of February entertaiment, check out www.the2brewers.com, or log on to www.pamann.com for the latest news on your favourite mile-high heroine.

The 2 Brewers, 114 Clapham High Street, SW4. 020-7498 4971. © [email protected] ©

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VENUES: floors, with club-style basement. Comedy Camp stand-up night CENTRAL LONDON each Tuesday . 79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road, THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth WC2. 020 7734 0769. Leicester Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020 Square tube. Mon-Sat 7240 5828. Leicester Square XXL 1pm-3am, Sun 1pm-10.30pm. tube. 11am-11pm. Stylish and Cover charge after 11pm. Large, award-winning gay café bar XXL will be celebrating cruisy, late-night bar. popular with scene and muscle Valentine’s Day with not one but queens. two parties in mid-February. Ex- ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old pect romance to blossom at the Compton Street, W1. 020 7437 CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, big Saturday bash on February

© HENRI JEAN BAPTIST 5300. Leicester Square tube. W1. 020 7494 4041. Tottenham 10th, and another cupid-struck Friendly, traditional gay pub. Court Road tube. Mon-Thu session at the smaller midweek ALLTHAT JAZZ 5-11.30pm. Fri & Sat 5pm-2am. Wednesday night shindig. ASTORIA, 157 Charing Cross Sun 5-11pm. Long-running and London’s biggest club night for The Royal Vauxhall Tavern continues to offer a nightly line-up of entertainment throughout Road, WC2. 020-7734 6963. famed lesbian bar. bears, it all takes place at The February, including the launch of a new Tuesday night jazz session entitled Body & Soul. It Tottenham Courtg Road tube. Arches, 51-53 Southwark Street, launches on Tuesday 6 February, and is, as far as we are aware, the first and only gay jazz Huge, former theatre, with 2,000 COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton London Bridge SE1. Doors open night on the London scene! Your host is Gill Manly (pictured) of the Adam Glasser Trio, and capacity. Now home to G-A-Y Street, W1. 020 7479 7961. 10pm till 3am each Wednesday, spinning the sounds is DJ Doctor Sin (otherwise known as Bob Sinfield from Jazz FM and club nights. www.g-a-y.co.uk Leicester Square tube. and till super late each Saturday. Radio 3). There will be weekly guest appearances, such as saxophonist Jimmy Gallagher Noon-11pm. A Soho institution. Admission is free for members, (13th Feb), the JazzCotech Dancers (20th) and singer Jonathan Paul Hellyer (28th). BAR AQUDA, 13-14 Maiden Large, traditional gay boozer on £3 non-members on Wednes- The RVT’s Thursday nighter, Vauxhallville, hosts regular entertainment from Nathaniel-De- Lane, WC2. 020 7557 9891. two floors. days, and £8 for members, £12 Ville, Bearlesque, Timberlina and guests, while BrouHaHa hosts stand-up comics every Covent Garden tube. non-members on Saturdays. Wednesday. February highlights include Kitty Flanagan on the 14th, Topping & Butch on the 11am-11pm. Stylish, Covent THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, Your DJs are Christian M, Kami, 21st and Adam Bloom on the 28th. Garden gay bar. 77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439 Mark Ames and Mario. There’s brand new and retro new wave every Friday at Joan Dairy Queen’s Lippy club, while 1274. Piccadilly Circus tube. www.xxl-london.com Chick & Dick’s Boner Bingo takes care of Monday evenings. Finally, the weekend institutions BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street, Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat include Duckie on the Saturday and the hugely popular Chill Out and S.L.A.G.S session each W1. 020 7734 3342. www.bar- noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm on Sunday afternoon and evening. code.co.uk. Piccadilly Circus tube. Sun. Traditional and fun gay pub The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11. 020-7820 1222. Mon-Sat 4pm-1.30am. Sun until over two floors. www.rvt.org.uk 10.30pm. Dance bar on two

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THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square, 7240 8042. Tottenham Court W1. 020 7439 1313. Tottenham Road tube. 10am-11pm. Sun Court Road tube. Noon-1am, 10.30pm. Over 20 years old and Sun 2pm-11.30pm. Stylish, hip still going strong. Long-running gay bar spread over four intimate community café bar. floors, with regular nights from top DJs. FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street, CENTRAL STATION W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly ELEMENT, 4-5 Greek Street, Circus tube. Opulent style bar, Central Station has long-ruled W1. 020 7434 3323. Tottenham with late-night club promotions the N1 scene, and in February, Court Road tube. Mon-Sat for a metorsexual crowd. guv’nors Martin and Duncan 5pm-2am, Sun 12pm. Loungey, celebrate their 15th anniversary, sophisticated gay bar on three FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 with a lavish party arranged floors, with Orange club DJs Wardour Street, WC1. Trendy and for Saturday 3 February. Expect providing the late-night sounds. unique, intimate basement bar, a packed pub to enjoy cabaret which attracts a mixed crowd. from Maisie Trollette. THE END, 18 West Central The bar is also helping celebrate Street, WC1. 020-7419 9199. G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton CLOWNING AROUND LGBT History Month with a Gorgeous, designer club, home to Street, W1. 020 7494 2756. C variety of events. This includes Discotec every Thursday. Leicester Square tube. Scottee, otherwise known as Yr Mum from Yr Mum Ya Dad, branches out with his first an audience with Auschwitz 12pm-12am. Huge, poptastic one-man solo show, One Clown Too Many, at Bethnal Green’s Bistrotheque on Tuesday 13 survivor Yani Kowaski at 3pm ESCAPE, 10a Brewer Street, W1. gay bar, with a multitude of February. on Sunday 11th, and a ‘Fashion 020 7734 2626. Piccadilly Circus video screens, pop tunes and ‘Over the last year I’ve been researching traditional performance skills like clowning and In Our Times’ catwalk show on tube. 5pm-3am. Cover charge drinks promotions. www. mime,’ the 21-year-old tells Out In The City. ‘One Clown Too Many depicts the life of two Friday the 15th. On Sunday 18th after 11pm. Every night’s a party g-a-y.co.uk 1930s middle class women who don’t really like each other’s company. Using film, physical you can catch Ray Reynolds’ at this late-night video dance bar. theatre and good old drag with sponge noses to tell the story of death and drama.’ Pictures and Tunes show at 3pm, G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard, We’re sure the audience will be packed with anyone who’s anyone from the alternative club while on Friday 23rd Ingo from EXILIO, LSE Underground, off Charing Cross Road, WC2. scene. Out wondered if the prospect of taking the stage alone made him nervous...? Bar Wotever will be curating an Houghton Street (off Kingsway), PHONE. Tottenham Court Road ‘I do get nervous before performances, but without sounding like I’ve fallen off the back of art show throughout the build- Aldwych, WC2. Saturday night tube. 11pm-3am. Late-night the RADA lorry, you can use that in your shows, sometimes it’s good to have a bit of that ing. The bar’s ‘Pink Factor’ talent gay Latin and salsa night. sister venue to G-A-Y Bar – more nervous energy jumping about. At least because my solo work is mainly mine, I don’t have final takes place on Wednesday video screens, camp to worry about learning lines!’ 28th February. FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St pop fun and cheap drinks. Admission is £5 and the show starts at 9pm on Tuesday 13 February. Bistrotheque, 23-27 Giles High Street, WC2. 020 Wadeson Street, E2. www.bistrotheque.com www.scottee.co.uk!

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GHETTO, 5-6 Falconberg 5pm-11pm. A traditional most famous cabaret pub in popstarz.org). Mews, W1. 020-7287 3726. boozer for the gay scene’s indie, London, with nightly DJs and Subterranean, trend-setting alternative and student-types entertainment. SOUTH LONDON gay club venue, with nightly – Tuesday’s pop quiz alternative promotions. are an institution. CENTRAL STATION, 37 AREA, 67-68 Albert P.U.S.H FM Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020 Embankment, SE11. HALFWAY TO HEAVEN, 7 RUPERT STREET, 50 7278 3294. Kings Cross tube. Gorgeously-designed, hard Can’t wait till Sunday for your REBEL REBEL Duncannon Street, WC2. 020 Rupert Street, W1. 020 7292 Mon-Wed 5pm-2am, Thur dance club and cabaret rooms, weekly fix of DTPM at Fabric? 7321 2791. Charing Cross tube. 7141. Piccadilly Circus tube. 5pm-3am, Fri 5pm-4am, Sat with eclectic roster of different Check out P.U.S.H FM every Following the success of their Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & 12-11pm, Sun 10.30pm. Large, 1pm-4am, Sun 1pm-12am. gay club nights. Thursday between 4 and 6pm. NYE bash, the Rebel Rebel Sat 12pm-12am. Old-style gay designer style bar, popular Big gay bar on three floors, The Blue Cube team takes control crew took a well-earned break pub spread over two floors. with professional gay boyz and with ground floor cabaret and BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch of the decks, with an ever- in January, but return this post-work crowd. infamously cruisy cruise nights 69, Albert Embankment, SE11. changing line-up of DTPM jocks month with another date at The HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers RUSH, 24 Old Compton Street, in basement. 0207 734 3342. Vauxhall tube. showcasing their favourite tunes. Phoenix. Join them in the pub’s Street, WC2. Charing Cross W1. 020 7734 9992. Leicester Open 7 days a week. Mon-Thu There are also guestlist spaces basement on Saturday 3 Febru- Road tube. Huge, world- Square tube. Recently-opened, CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1 4pm-1am, Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. up for grabs for DTPM and sister ary for a typically mashed-up famous gay club. late night dance bar on three Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Recently opened and very club Fiction. and eclectic mix of indie, pop, www.heaven-london.com small floors. Park, N19. Big lesbian and gay popular club bar, with Log on the internet at www. rock and classic guitar sounds. Asian music night, every first dancefloor and mezzanine pushfm.com or at 107.7FM The club’s current top ten records THE KINGS ARMS, 23 SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer and third Friday. chill-out space. include new hits from the View Poland Street, W1. 020 7734 Street, W1. 020-7287 7988. www.clubkali.com and Kasabian to classics from the 5907. Oxford Circus tube. Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine Cure and Bowie – it ain’t called Mon-Thur 12pm–11pm, gorgeous, late-night bar and COSMO LOUNGE, 43 Essex Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Rebel Rebel for nothing! Fri-Sat 12pm-12am, Sun club for A-list gays and celeb- Road, N1. Tel: 020 7688 0051. Huge, late-night venue for www.clubrebelrebel.co.uk 12pm-11.30pm. London’s bar spotters. Angel tube. Sun-Wed 2pm- after-hours crowd – home to The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish for bears and blokes. Traditional Midnight, Thu-Sat 2pm-1am. Sunday morning club Rise Up Square, W1 (behind BHS on atmosphere, pool table SOHO REVUE Bar, 11 Walkers Long, narrow, intimate gay (5.30am-midday) Oxford Street). Open 10pm upstairs and Court (off Brewer Street), W1. bar popular with locals girls till 3am. BearHug each Friday. 020-7734 0377. Legendary and boys. CRASH, 66 Albert Soho cabaret club, attracting Embankment, SE11. 020-7793 KU BAR, 75 Charing Cross very gay crowd with nightly THE CROSS, King’s Cross 9262. Large hard dance club Road, WC2. 020 7437 4303. cabaret, gigs and burlesque. Freight Depot, off Goods Way, beneath railway arches – hosts TRASH PALACE Leicester Square tube. N1. 020-7439 9009. Home to different nights each weekend. Celebrate Sunday with the new 12pm-11pm. Small, chic little TRASH PALACE, 11 Wardour popular, mixed, funky house Kamikaze Karaoke session, bar, hugely popular with the Street, W1. 020 7734 0522. Friday nighter Fiction. EGO, 82 Norwood High Street, running every week at Trash younger end of the scene. Piccadilly Circus tube. Sun-Thu SE27. 020 8761 5200. West Palace. ‘Think Pearl Harbour 5pm-midnight. Fri & Sat 5pm- THE GREEN, 74 Upper Street, Norwood BR. Sun-Thu - the musical’, the team tell us KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, 3am. Indie, rock and trash fun N1. Tel: 020 7704 0713. www. 8pm-late, 7pm-4am. Door by way of explanation... which QUEER NATION WC2. 020 7379 4573. Charing on two floors – very popular the-green.co.uk. Angel tube. charge on weekend. Large, we presume means that singers Queer Nation, that ‘sociable boys Cross tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat with students and alternative Mon-Wed 4pm-midnight, Thu popular bar and club, attracting of all strengths and weaknesses club for mixed ages and all races’, noon-11pm, Sun club freaks. 4pm-1am, Fri 12noon-2am, big crowds at weekends. are welcome! Drinks start at the returns for its monthly outing to noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and Sun 11am-midnight. London’s bargain price of £1.50 and doors Crash in Vauxhall on Saturday 17 stylish café bar (great food!), VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, first ‘gay-stropub!’ Stylish, FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, are open from 5.30 till 11pm. February. The finest purveyors of with clubbier vibe and video W1. 020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Islington bar, serving full food SE11. Stylish, railway arch Trash Palace is Central London’s disco house and New York dance screens in the basement. Circus tube. 12-1am, Sun menu and wide range of drinks Vauxhall venue, hosting own alternative pub and late- sounds on the London scene for Popular with Asian crowd. 11.30pm. Late night door charge. and cocktails. Mixed, chilled occasional dance and cruise night drinking den for lovers more than ten years, promoter Soho’s original gay café bar, crowd. nights. of indie, rock, pop and leftfield Patrick Lilley will be joined by LONG YANG CLUB, the spread over four floors, and sounds. www.trashpalace.co.uk DJs Jeffrey Hinton, Supadon, basement, Thai Square, now withbasement dancefloor KING EDWARD VI, 25 THE FORT, 131 Grange Road, Vicki Edwards, DH Philly and 21-24 Cockspur Street, Trafalgar and discos. Bromfield Street, N1. Tel: 020 SE1. 020-8549 4339. Small guests. Expect funky, soulful Square. Sunday evening 7704 0745. Angel tube. cruise club, open till 11pm electro house in room one and club for Asian men and their THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, Sun-Thu 12noon-12midnight, throughout week, regular funk, soul and r’n’b in room admirers. W1. 020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Thu 12noon-1am, Fri-Sat boots-only parties. two. Admission is £10, or £8 for Circus tube. Mon-Thur 4pm- 12noon-2am. Very QN members. Crash, 66 Albert THE PHOENIX, 37 Cavendish 11pm, Fri & Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun long-running gay pub, with FIRE, South Lambeth Road, COCO LATTÉ Embankment, SE1. Square, W1 (behind Deben- 1pm-1.10.30pm. Busy gay bar ‘local’ atmosphere and Vauxhall, SW8. www. Coco Latté returns to Area www.QueerNation.org hams on Oxford Street). Straight with hugely popular courtyard character, plus allthingsorange.com. Vauxhall in Vauxhall on Saturday 24 pub with basement club, which area, outdoor balcony and New popular beer garden. tube. Infamous, late-night gay February, incorporating Ultra plays host to gay indie night York-style loft bar. venue beneath the Vauxhall Latté... from 11pm on the Rebel Rebel once a month THE LOAD OF HAY, 207 Pinner railway arches, host to the likes Saturday till 11am on the (www.clubrebelrebel.co.uk). NORTH LONDON Road, Watford, 01923-441113. of Rude Boyz, Orange, A;M and Sunday! Featuring stunning Watford‚s only gay pub, with Gravity. Open around the clock fashion-inspired production THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden big beer garden and regular at weekends. courtesy of Kevin Arpino plus the Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159. High Street, NW1. 020 7428 entertainment! fierce-ruling Coco Latté resident Marble Arch tube. Huge pub, 2721. www.theblackcap.com. www.loadofhay.co.uk THE GEORGE & DRAGON, DJs led by Mark Bambach plus on two floors, attracting an Camden Town tube. Shufflewick 2 BlackheathHill, Greenwich, DJ Philly, older crowd. Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, THE SCALA, 275-277 Pentonville SE10. 020 8691 3764. www. Luigi Rosi (Italy), Luke Hope, Fri-Sat 12noon-2am, Sun Road, N1. 020-738 2336. King’s gandd.org.uk. Deptford Bridge Femi B, Jon Dennis, DJ Diablo RETRO BAR, 2 George Court, Noon-10.30pm. Club: Mon-Thu Cross tube. Large former cinema, DLR. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, Fri & and guests. Admission’s £10 WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat 10pm-3am, now huge club and live gig Sat 4pm-4am, Sun 4pm-2am. with a flyer or £10 advance Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sun 10pm-1am. Long-running, venue – home to Friday night Late-night pub with nightly queue-jump ticket fro Sat 5pm-11pm, Sun famed gay pub – probably the indie/rock club Popstarz (www. entertainment and popular

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Tel: 020 7790 1007. West London London’s most famous dress- midday-2am, Sat 5pm-2am, Whitechapel tube. Recently code and cruise clubs and packed Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark and refurbished, Moroccan style BROMPTONS, 294 Old Bromp- with men-only crowd. Open atmospheric gay bar in Victoria – friendly, local gay bar. ton Road, Earls Court, SW5. 020 Friday-Sunday and occasional – weekend cabaret. 7370 1344. Earls Court tube. Thursdays (SM Gays). THE EAST, 80 Brunner Rd, Big, long-running gay pub and STONEWALLS, 286 Lewisham E17. Tel: 020 8520 4836. club, open late throughout the KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High High Street, SE13. www. Walthamstow tube. Wed 5.30- week. Regular cabaret and club Street, SW4. 020 7622 0070. stonewalls.info. Mon-Wed 5pm- 1am, Thu-Sat 5.30pm-2am, Sun nights. Clapham North tube. Mon-Thu 1am, Thur 5pm-2am, Fri-Sat 1pm-midnight. Large, popular Since launching last spring, Friday nighter Circus has attracted more 4pm-midnight, Fri 4pm-1am, 5pm-4am, Sun Walthamstow gay cabaret pub. COLEHERNE, 261 Old than its fair share of celebrities and club kids to the revamped Soho Sat noon-1am, Sun noon- 5pm-12.30am. Large, Big beer garden and weekend Brompton Road, Earls Court, Revue Bar. The likes of Kelly Osbourne, Boy George, Sadie Frost, Zadie midnight. Clapham video bar, late-opening gay pub and club, DJs. SW5. 020 7244 5951. Earls Smith and Alexander McQueen have all been spotted tucked away popular throughout the week with regular entertainment and Court tube. Noon-midnight. behind those dinky red lights and tables, and there’s every reason to and DJs at weekends. cabaret. FABRIC, 77a Charterhouse Larfge and legendary pub. The believe that 2007 will be even more star-studded. Street, EC1. 020-7749 1199. spit’n’sawdust feel has gone, but If you’ve yet to have sampled its delights, then stick this weekly Friday LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington THE TWO BREWERS, 114 Big, trendy club venue, home still popular with mixed crowd session down in your February diary now. Your hostess for the evening Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039. Clapham High Street, SW4. 020 to legendary funky house night of male drinkers. is one of London’s up’n’coming drag stars; Jodie Harsh. The resident Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days 7498 4971. Clapham Common DTPM each Sunday. jocks are Knights Of Sound, who spin an eclectic mix of pop, rock, a week. Sun-Thu 12pm-12am, tube. Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, THE CULVERT, 54 Cowley disco, electro and mashed-up madness. Each week they’re joined by a Fri-Sat 12pm-1am. Small, Fri & Sat 5pm-4am. South GEORGE & DRAGON, 2-4 Mill Road, Uxbridge. 01895 236 special guest, which in the past has included the likes of Peaches Gel- traditional gay boozer for local London’s most famed gay Hackney Road, E2. Liverpool or 690. Uxbridge tube. Mon-Wed dof, Patrick Wolf, Queens Of Noize and Pete Bennett (BB6). Upcoming gay boys and girls. cabaret venue. Large bar and Old Street tube. Gay-friendly 4pm-1am, Thu noon-2am, Fri & DJ guests include a famous fashion designer and an infamous ‘It’ girl! separate dancefloor room. Busy pub run for hip Hoxton-ites Sat noon-3am, Sun 3pm-1am. Live performers such as pole dancer, go-go’s, fire-eaters and jugglers MANBAR, 82 Great Suffolk at weekends. – attracts very mixed crowd Regular discos, cabaret, karaoke add to the circus atmosphere. Street, SE1. 020-7928 3223. with eclectic promotions and one-off events. ‘This is my first foray into club promoting and, so far, it’s going amaz- London Bridge tube. Late-night WYVILS, 8 Wyvil Road, SW8. and DJs. ingly,’ says Jodie. ‘There have been so many highlights at Circus so far. cruise bar (with showers!) for 020 7627 8175. A traditional THE LEINSTER, 57 Ossington The ultimate achievement for the club had to be flying transsexual men-only. boozer attracting mixed straight/ THE JOINERS ARMS, 116 Street, W2. 020 7243 9541. Not- icon Amanda Lepore over for her first ever performance in the UK. She gay crowd. Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 ting Hill tube. Noon-midnight. rocked the house when she came out in a bejeweled leotard singing MASS, St Matthews Church, 7739 9854. Smart, friendly gay pub over ‘My Hair Looks Fierce’.’ Brixton Hill, SW2. Stylish Brixton XXL, The Arches, 53 Southwark Debauched decadence – old- two floors. As for plans for 2007, Jodie tells Out, ‘Circus will be having a big club, hosting Friday night bears Street, SE1. www.xxl-london. skool boozer popular with birthday celebration in May to celebrate one year of the club, and there club Big In The City. com. London Bridge tube. post-club crowd at weekends. THE MARQUIS OF LORNE, are sure to be many more celebrity DJs and shows. When I started Huge club for bears, big men 117 Haydons Road, Wimbledon, the club I wanted to get people from the public eye - whether it be THE POWDER MONKEY, 1 and admirers, on Saturday and KINGS HEAD, 11 Church SW19. 020-8542 3306. Friendly, art, fashion, music, or something more C-list - to have a go at DJ’ing. King William Walk, Greenwich Wednesday. Street, E15. Stratford BR and local gay pub. I’d love Madonna to stop by and spin a few tracks when she has SE10. 020 8293 5928. Greenwich tube. Intimate and welcoming something to promote in the future, but on my more realistic wish-list BR and tube. Stylish, designer EAST LONDON East End gay pub – regular THE RICHMOND ARMS, 20 are Jordan and Peter Andre!’ gay bar spread cabaret. The Square, off Princes Street, And does she have any advice for Circus virgins? over three floors. THE ANGEL, 21 Church Richmond. 020-8940 2118. ‘I’d say dress to impress when coming to Circus. The days of putting Street, E15. Tel: 020 8555 The Old Ship, 17 Barnes Long-running local gay pub, maximum effort into outfits are well and truly back. I spend two hours THE RENAISSANCE ROOMS, 1148. Stratford BR and tube. Street, E14. Tel: 020 7790 4082. regular cabaret and entertain- getting my look together on a Friday night so when someone steps off Miles Street, SW8. Warehouse Big gay pub, always popular at Limehouse DLR. Open from 7pm ment. through the door looking fantastic I get a good feeling inside. You style club venue, hosting weekends, with regular cabaret, Mon & Tue, from 6pm Wed-Sat, don’t have to dress up to get in though. It’s all about having fun. Don’t occasional gay all-nighters. DJs and disco nights. from 4pm on Sun. Small, local, TED’S PLACE, 305a North End come if you’re easily offended - the go-go dancers and pole dancing traditional pub, with regular Road, West Brompton, W14. girls don’t leave much to the imagination!’ ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN, THE BACKSTREET, cabaret. 0207 385 9359. Earls Court or Doors are open from 10.30pm till 3.30am, and admission is £5 before 372 Kennington Lane, SE11. Wentworth Mews, off Burdett West Brompton tube. Mon, Tue, 11.30pm with a flyer or advert, then £10 after. 020 7840 0596. Opening times Road, E3. 020-8980 8557. Royal Oak, 73 Columbia Rd. E2. Wed & Fri from 7pm-late, Thu vary. Vauxhall tube. Door Charge. Over 20 years old – small but Tel: 020 7739 8204. Liverpool 8pm-late, closed Sat & Sun. Soho Revue Bar, 11-12 Walkers Court (off Brewer Street), Huge, traditional and historic gay legendary dress code leather Street tube. Mon-Sat 1pm- Admission charge. West London Soho, W1. pub, with long history of hosting club, open Thur-Sun. 11.30pm, Sun 8am-10.30pm. cruise club. Sleazy… but that’s entertainment and cabaret. Formerly gay, now just gay- why the regulars love it! Packed to rafters on Saturday THE BLACK HORSE, 168 friendly, but particularly popular (Duckie) and Sunday (the post- Mile End Road, E1. Tel: 020 on Sunday mornings for flower WEST 5, Popes Lane, South club Chill-Out). 7790 1684. Mile End tube. market. Ealing, W5. 020-8579 3266. Mon-Thurs 8pm-1am, Fri-Sat Large, popular gay pub with SOUTH CENTRAL, 349 8pm-3am, Sun 8pm-1am. Late- The White Swan, 556 Piano Room and cabaret bar, Kennington Lane, SE11. 020 opening,East End cabaret Commercial Road, E1. Tel: open till late at weekends with 7793 0903. Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, bar and disco. 020 7780 9870. Limehouse entertainment and DJs.

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A recent survey reveals that 51% The NHS Smoking Helpline is imploring gay and bi guys to quit smoking after a poll showed biggest hint yet that he feels of gay men and 30% of lesbians are bullied, physically, at two in five (41%) of queer men smoke, rising to three in five (60%) for 25-34 year olds powerless to stop his blessed school. What’s even more disturbing, perhaps, is that four – way above the national average of one in four (25%). The NHS estimates around 12,000 Church from falling asunder. in five teachers are totally unaware that this suffering is gay men die from smoking-related diseases in the UK each year - far more than die from happening under their very noses! HIV/AIDS. All enclosed public spaces and workplaces in the UK must be smoke-free from 1st July 2007 under the country’s rolling-out smoking ban. Beat the ban: quit now! 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John Barrowman as Jack in 01 ELTON JOHN AND DAVID FURNISH The star-studded bash of 2005, no expense THE Torchwood tied the knot was spared for arguably the biggest gay couple in the world to lead the way on the fi rst day before hitting the stage in of civil partnership. Earlier Elton and David wed at the Windsor Guildhall on the fi rst day BIGGEST Jack and the Beanstalk of civil partnership on 22 December, followed by a massive party which caused a celebrity WEDDINGS traffi c jam. 02 MATT LUCAS AND KEVIN MCGEE In January 2006, the Little Britain star and BY THE his TV producer partner had a serious ceremony at the Home House private members’ club followed by a pantomime-themed party in Whitehall for 400 guests including Barbara BEST Windsor and Will Young. CELEBS 03 JOHN BARROWMAN AND SCOTT GILL The Torchwood star donned a kilt whilst celebrating the union with his architect partner in December. The couple, who have been SO FAR together for 16 years, registered at the countryside setting of St David’s Hotel in Cardiff . He later said: “It feels great and I think more gay men and gay women should go ahead and do it as long as they’re serious about it.”

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ONE-STOP LAW SHOP VISIT OUR RESIDENT SOLICITOR IF YOU HAVE A DIFFICULT LEGAL PROBLEM AND NEED THE ANSWERS.GABRIELE GIAMBRONE GETS YOUR PROBLEMS ANSWERED, PLEASE SEND ANY QUESTIONS TO [email protected]. DEAR GABRIELE, I would like to CP my partner who is Brazilian, mainly to help gain him a UK citizenship. However, I am worried that if anything happens to me, he will be able to claim my estate which I have left to my son and want him to solely inherit. Anonymous DEAR ANONYMOUS, Entering a civil partnership can, as you fear, have signifi cant fi nancial consequences for you. Your civil partner may be entitled by law to make a claim against your estate in the event of your death even if you Pre-agreements may be the make a will excluding him. You have apparently left your last thing on your mind, but estate to your son presumably by way of a will. You need to they could save you a lot of be aware that any existing will is automatically revoked by time, money and arguments the creation of a civil partnership. So you will need to make another will as soon as practicable after registration of your PRE-AGREEMENTS civil partnership. 2`OeW\Uc^bVS You also need to be aware that even if you do not make 7B;/G<=B03@=;//>@3>/@B<3@A67> Q]c^ZS]TVc\R`SR in the event of your death. Section 1 of the Inheritance /5@33;3@/1B71/: b]aSdS`OZbV]caO\R (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 has added :/C@/;11/44@3G@3>=@BA ^]c\RaRS^S\RW\U]\ civil partners and former civil partners to the people entitled V]eQ][^ZWQObSRWbWa to make an application for fi nancial provision from the 7baV]cZR^`]bSQbP]bV estate of their deceased civil partner. Note that this Act also ^O`bWSa³WTWbWabV]cUVb allows an application for fi nancial provision from a person G]c¸dS^]^^SRbVS >`S^O`b\S`aVW^ µ>`S^O`b\S`aVW^ b]PSc\TOW`ZSOdW\U who is not a civil partner provided they were living in the _cSabW]\O\RVSVOa OU`SS[S\baQO\ OU`SS[S\baO`SO ]\S]TbVSQ]c^ZS same household (as if they were a civil partner) of the aOWRgSaBVSZOab ]\ZgVSZ^b]W\RWQObS bS``WTWQOZZgU]]RWRSO¶ V][SZSaaT]`SfO[^ZS deceased for a period of two years immediately before the bVW\Ug]ceO\bb] eVObbVSQ]c^ZSP]bV PSZWSdSa8OQ_cSZW\S bVSXcRUSWaTO`ZSaa date of death. bVW\YOP]cbWaa^ZWbbW\U W\bS\RSRObbVSPSUW\ 2¸6OhhO`R6SOR]T ZWYSZgb]Q]\aWRS`Wb Bear in mind that if your civil partnership is dissolved before c^`WUVb-GSb[O\g \W\U]TbVS`SZObW]\aVW^ >`WdObS1ZWS\b2S^O`b eVS\RSQWRW\UbVS your death, your civil partner may apply to the court for aO[SaSfQ]c^ZSaO`S O\ROQ]c`baV]cZR [S\bOb3\UZSVO`ba aSbbZS[S\b fi nancial provision which could reduce the assets which you bOYW\UO`ObVS`[]`S bOYSbVWaW\b]OQQ]c\b A]ZWQWb]`aµ/ZbV]cUV Be]]cb]TbV`SS can leave to your son on your death. Your civil partner could ^`OU[ObWQdWSeAW[WZO` OZbV]cUVbVSgO`S\]b bVSgO`S\]bZSUOZZg ab`OWUVb[O``WOUSaS\R apply to the court for a transfer of property order in respect b]^`S\c^bWOZOU`SS ZSUOZZgPW\RW\U PW\RW\UbVSgVOdSbVS W\RWd]`QSQVO\QSaO`S of your house although whether he would be successful [S\baT]`VSbS`]aSfcOZ 7bWae]`bV\]bW\U ^]bS\bWOZb][OYSWb bVOba][SaO[SaSf would depend on numerous factors including the length of [O``WOUSa^`S^O`b bVObbVSW[^]`bO\QS QZSO`S`O\RQVSO^S` Q]c^ZSaO`S\]bU]W\U the civil partnership. \S`aVW^OU`SS[S\ba ]TeV]P`]cUVbeVOb eVS\RWaa]ZdW\UO1WdWZ b]abOgbVSRWabO\QS Any matrimonial home rights that your civil partner may O`SR]Qc[S\baeVWQV W\b]bVS`SZObW]\aVW^ >O`b\S`aVW^7TOQ]c^ZS /\RWTWbR]SaTOZZO^O`b have acquired during your partnership entitling him to aSb]cbObbVSPSUW\ TW\O\QWOZZga^SOYW\UOb R]a^ZWbO\OU`SS[S\b O\RPSQ][SOQ`W[]\W remain in your shared home would expire on your death, \W\U]TbVS`SZObW]\aVW^ ZSOabRW[W\WaVSabVS [OgeSZZVSZ^YSS^Wb ]cag]c[OgeSZZPS so it is unlikely that he would retain any legal right to stay eVObeWZZVO^^S\b] Z]\US`bVS`SZObW]\aVW^ ]cb]TZWbWUObW]\O\R UZORg]cR`Sec^O there after your death unless he had acquired another g]c`TW\O\QSaaV]cZR ZOaba [OYSbVSeV]ZSbVW\U ^`S^O`b\S`aVW^ interest in the property. bVS^O`b\S`aVW^S\R ZSaaOQ`W[]\W]ca¶ OU`SS[S\b Kind regards, Gabriele

For further advice, please speak to Avv. Gabriele Giambrone at When it all goes tits up, TOP TIPS: PRE-ARRANGE [email protected] , or who gets the pooch? call him on 0870 0427 631. www.gaylawyers.co.uk If you are thinking of doing an agreement give yourselves PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS plenty of time to discuss it and agree what you want before VERY GENERAL ADVICE AND you register. Remember, you don’t want to be arguing about WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND it in the run up to your big day. Think about all the possibili- YOU SEEK ADVICE FROM A ties. For the agreement to work, you must consider a possible SOLICITOR SPECIALISING IN future in which you no longer want to be together. Not knowing SAME-SEX COUPLE ISSUES if or when that will happen means an agreement should be AND WILL AND PROBATE. reviewed every few years. For assistance, see our Civil Partnerships Directory: www. civilpartnershipguide.com, or check www.bindmans.com.

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ON TRIAL: JOSIAH LAKE We put solicitor David Josiah-Lake through the Out legal inquisition

COMPANY: JOSIAH-LAKE SOLICITORS Do you think you’d ever register your partnership and in AGE: 38 what circumstances? SINGLE/CIVIL PARTNER: HAVE A BOYFRIEND Absolutely I would – at the right time.

Has there ever been legislation that you haven’t agreed with? What is the weirdest case you have ever had? Yes lots, but most recently the proposed reducing of Not sure about the weirdest but the funniest involved a sentences in cases of rape and domestic violence and husband who had applied for divorce from his first wife certainly the government’s proposed further eroding of civil on the basis that he had been separated from her for more liberties under the guise of anti-terrorism. that five years and had lost contact with her and could not trace her to serve her with the relevant papers, and as What’s the hardest part of the job? a result she hadn’t been informed of the divorce. He then I guess what I find most difficult is the fact that some re-married. When he came to me, the first wife had just parents still continue to withhold contact to punish the discovered she’d been divorced and was applying to set it other parent or to get their own way in negotiations. aside. It turned out that not only had he seen her in the previous five years, but that they’d had a child together who What do you love about the job? he’d been photographed with and apparently regularly saw. Getting a great result for a client, persuading the court to The second wife was clearly not amused as the full details make unusual but necessary orders in difficult cases and slowly came to light! meeting clients with different stories. How has your firm prepared for Civil Partnership? What is the most successful achievement of your career? We have some information on the website and advise That is so hard to answer. I’ve had some great results over clients routinely on the legal and financial implications of the years and even had cases reported. One case I’m proud registering and the possible consequences of dissolution. of involved the High Court requiring a husband to honour I am a huge supporter of pre-registration agreements payment of a dower sum (dowry) to a wife despite only a (pre-nups). few weeks of post-wedding co-habitation. Something ever so very slightly showbizzy is that I currently advise the BBC’s Josiah-Lake Solicitors: 47 Dean Street, Soho. Tel: 020 7439 2900. Doctors on family law related storylines! www.josiah-lake.com.

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