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DATE MATES
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for dates in London
Editor
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OUT THERE
Upcoming scene
highlights for July, plus
coverage of Popstarz,
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Tavern, Fusion and
Profile
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OUTREACH
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community listings
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HUDSON’S LETTER
Pride London is again
upon us, and in this
issue we have details of
this year’s festival. Just as
we were going to press
we received late news
from the Pride organisers
about changes at this
year’s event. The major
celebration remains the
same: the parade will kick
off at 1am on Saturday 3
July, and the rally will take
place in Trafalgar Square
afterwards. However, due
to the ongoing Crossrail
road works around the
Soho Square area, the
organisers have now
decided to move the Soho
Square Dance Stage down
to Leicester Square. They
were still awaiting final
approval from Westminster
Council but didn’t “foresee
any problems”. If this is the
case, it would, sadly, mean
the Women’s Stage in Soho
would be dropped this
year. Do keep checking for
the latest updates at www.
pridelondon.org.
Last month, I wondered
exactly how gay-friendly
the new government
would prove to be, and
how many of the Lib
Dem’s LGBT manifesto
pledges might be retained
or cast by the wayside.
Credit where it’s due,
though. I was a little
surprised how quickly
the new government has
published details of its
intended work to tackle
LGBT equality issues
– including helping LGBT
asylum seekers, addressing
homophobic bullying
and the formulation of a
Government Action Plan
on transgender equality
– issues which I had
the chance to discuss
at the LGBT reception
ahead of Pride London
held at Downing Street
on 16 June 2010. I look
forward to the coalition
government honouring
these and other pledges
over the coming months.
hudson@outmag.co.uk
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MY LONDON
Marc Massive and
Oliver Frost, curators
of Act Art, give us their
capital highlights
PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON
CONTENTS
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FUSION
PAGE 08
SHOPPING
Bear University and
Humor shoes
PAGE 30
INJU5TICE
The UK’s newest boy
band on the block…
PAGE 11
DIARY
July’s cultural
highlights in and
around London
PAGE 32
FILM
Splice, Skeletons,
The Collector and The
Rebound reviewed
PAGE 20
PRIDE LONDON
A preview of the
upcoming Pride
London festival and
parade
PAGE 36
THEATRE
After The Dance
reviewed plus theatre
news and an interview
with director and actor
Tim McArthur
PAGE 24
LEE RYAN
PAGE 38
The ex-Blue star is back FOOD
with a new record deal
and new album. We
caught up with the
comeback kid
PAGE 28
MUSIC
New albums from
Kylie, Tom Jones and
Feeder
PAGE 82
OUTNEWS
All the gay news from
home and abroad
PAGE 86
CAREER
Mark Palmer
Edgecumbe on
implications of the
new Equality Bill, plus
Ben Summerskill of
Stonewall
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PROPERTY
Living in Borough, and
the latest products for
the home
PAGE 102
MOTORING
We test drive the new
Clio Renaultsport 200
Bug
PAGE 104
TRAVEL
Norway
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HOROSCOPES
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MY LONDON
PAGE 112
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HEARTBREAKER
Even if you never normally
drag yourself to the cinema
to see French flicks, make
an exception for France’s
funniest and coolest romcom, Heartbreaker – out
this month.
GELUPO
Delightful new gay-run
ice-cream parlour from the
boys at Bocca di Lupo – a
couple of doors down from
BarCode Soho at 7 Archer
Street, W1.
GRAFFITI 6
Hot debut single (‘Annie
You Saved Me’), and a hot
singer (the lovely Jamie
Scott), we predict Graffiti
6 to be one of the year’s
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BACK TO SCHOOL
Any regulars on the London bear scene
may already have spotted clothing designs
by fashion company Bear University
(www.bearuniversity.com). The
team produces a selection of collegecouture inspired T-shirts and hoodies
emblazoned with the words ‘Bear’, ‘Cub’,
paw prints or their own Bear University
shield logo. The full range is available
from www.bearuniversity.com, priced
from £15 upwards – with everything
from small to 2XL sizes!
GLAMOUR GIRLS
We’ve always thought it a shame that
more clubs don’t pictorially capture
themselves for posterity. Someone
who clearly thinks on the same
wavelength is photographer James
Andrew Yardley – a regular at cult
Wednesday-nighter Trannyshack. His
self-published tome of photographs,
simply entitled Trannyshack UK, is out
now – featuring 74 pages of glorious photographs of Trannyshack regulars, plus an
introduction by co-hostess Dusty O (who graces the book’s cover). It’s available
for £19.99 in softback or £24.99 in hardback from www.blurb.com or www.
trannyshack.co.uk
MUSIC MEN
FUNNY SHOES
Add a dash of blue to your summer wardrobe with the latest range of footwear from
Danish brand Humor. The label has designed a range of colourful, soft suede desert
boots and deck shoes – many in blue-ish hues, in denim or with blue piping. Shoes
start at £45 and boots/trainers at £70. Stockists: 0207 436 0986.
www.humorclothing.com
&
Everyone has heard of the Village People,
if only for their camp classic ‘YMCA’… but
can many of you remember that at the
height of their fame, the boys also featured
in their own movie? In the wake of the huge
success of Saturday Night Fever, Hollywood
producers reckoned Can’t Stop The
Music could have been cinema’s next big
disco mega-hit. Unfortunately, even with a
clutch of well-known hit songs, an early star
turn from Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy,
Cocoon), and lead roles for each of the Village
People boys, the film proved something of
a flop. However, 30 years down the line, it’s
a true camp gem from a lost era. It’s finally
getting released on DVD on 28 June from
all good DVD stockists and online retailers
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House (NW3) on the same day as this year’s Pride London
Parade. Wainwright has had a busy spring with both album and
opera releases – as well as featuring on the front cover of Out
In The City in April. Tickets cost £30. www.picnicconcerts.com
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touring worldwide to promote
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Work. They return to London
for one date in July at the
Roundhouse in Camden. The
gig will kick off the iTunes
Festival, which will feature 62
bands over 31 nights at the
iconic North London venue.
www.scissorsisters.com and
www.itunesfestival.co.uk
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Promising to offer a rather unique theatrical outing is a new
production of The Railway Children, which will be taking place
in the old Eurostar terminal at Waterloo Station! Given that
so much of this beloved story revolves around railways and
steam trains, this production will take place on the station
concourse, with an historically accurate steam train lending an
authoritative air to the action. The audience will sit on either
side of the original train track. The production commemorates
the 40th anniversary of the original 1970 film. Adapted from
the novel by E Nesbit, The Railway Children tells the story
of Bobby, Peter and Phyllis – three children whose lives
change dramatically when their father is mysteriously taken
away. They move from London to a cottage in rural Yorkshire
with their mother where they befriend the local railway porter.
www.railwaychildrenwaterloo.com
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HIGHLIGHTS//
JULY 2010
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The Wireless Festival is set to grace Hyde Park for the sixth
summer on the trot this month. The line-up this year is possibly
the most impressive so far, especially if you are into R&B and
dance. Pink headlines on the Friday (the Pink Day), with LCD
Soundsystem and Missy Elliot on the Saturday (the Dance Day)
while Jay Z and Lily Allen will finish the event on Sunday (the
Jay Z day). A one day ticket costs £47.50; two days £85 and a full
weekend ticket £110.
www.wirelessfestival.co.uk
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TUE 06 JULY
Singer-songwriter Kate Nash will undoubtedly be one of the
highlights at the iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse in Camden.
London-based Nash is promoting her second studio album
My Best Friend Is You, which reached the top ten upon its
release in April this year. www.katenash.co.uk
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SAT 03 JULY:
The annual Pride London parade returns to the
capital, drawing hundreds of thousands to both
watch the march and join the rally in Trafalgar
Square. Expect Soho to be packed to the gills with
homosexualists! Check pages 20-21 for full details.
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wear something appropriately scarlet.
www.pridelondon.org
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Penn & Teller – who specialise in wowing their audiences with
spectacular stunts before revealing the tricks of their trade
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returns this July to Henham Park in Southwold, Suffolk.
This year’s event will feature its strongest line-up yet, with
confirmed appearances from Florence and The Machine, Belle &
Sebastian, Vampire Weekend, Empire of the Sun (pictured), The
Maccabees, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Horrors, Corinne Bailey Rae,
Mumford & Sons, The xx and The Feeling. There’s also a wealth
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HIGHLIGHT EVENTS//
JULY 2009
12-13 JULY:
IMAGE © ALIYA NAUMOFF
One of last year’s brightest
new discoveries, The xx come
to the Roundhouse this month
(12 July) as part of the iTunes
festival. The Wandsworth
three-piece will be airing
plenty of tracks from last
year’s acclaimed debut album,
XX, while support will be
provided by Wild Beasts. They
also play Somerset House on
the following night (13 July).
http://thexx.info
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There’s something gloriously appealing about the thought of
Florence & The Machine performing at Somerset House – it’s
exactly the kind of grandiose venue in which you’d want to
catch the stately and slightly eccentric Florence Welch.
http://florenceandthemachine.net
22 JULY
Although its singles have criminally not troubled the charts,
we are still loving the latest Goldfrapp album. Catch Alison and
Will (above) when they perform at the Roundhouse on 22 July
– supported by the much acclaimed Marina & The Diamonds.
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O’Hanlon, Jo Caulfield, Alistair McGowan, Rufus Hound and
Emo Phillips. The closing gala on Friday 23 July features Bob
Mills, Topping & Butch and Sean Moe. www.ealing.gov.uk
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HIGHLIGHT EVENTS//
JULY 2010
Hot Chip
16-18 JULY:
Lovebox – the annual music festival in London’s Victoria Park
– has cultivated quite a gay following over the past couple
of years, always offering a mixture of the cutting-edge and
nostalgic. This year will be no exception. In fact, taking place
over three days, the Sunday Loveboxevent is aiming to be
particularly popular with gay music and clubbing fans. Get
along on Sunday 18 July to catch live performances from
Grace Jones, Hot Chip, Peaches, Hercules & Love Affair and
Hurts, while scene favorite Jonny Woo acts as host on the
main stage. There will also be club tents from Horse Meat
Disco (with DJs Jim Stanton, Severino, James Hilliard and Luke
Howard) and Disco Bloodbath (Dan Beaumont and Damon
Martin), while the Bear Your Soul boys will be looking after
the VIP tent.
The Friday date (16 July) will feature Dizzee Rascal, Anisettes,
Ellie Golding, Maccabees and Chew Lips, while Saturday (17
July) will feature Roxy Music, Mark Ronson, Paloma Faith,
Wild Beasts and Grandmaster Flash.
One day tickets cost £45, or it’s £80 for two days and £99 for
three days. Full details at www.lovebox.net
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Festival. This year’s event takes place on the 24-25 July on
Clapham Common. Back for the sixth year in a row, this
fun-filled family fête-style festival will feature fairground
attractions, social activism, live music (this year from Billy
Bragg, Doves and Cherry Ghost, among others) and plenty of
free dollops of Ben & Jerry’s 19 different flavours.
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drum’n’bass duo Pendulum. www.tiesto.com
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confirmed at the time
of going to press,
but confirmed acts
include Nick Mager,
Scarlettz, Massive
Ego (pictured), Greymatter, Kelly
Pepper, the cast of Wicked The Musical,
Waterloo, Tight Fit, Same Difference, MC
Env, Christopher James, Big Dance, Dirty
Flag, Q Boy, the Freemason featuring
Amanda Wilson and Kym Mazelle.
Planned to take place at the junction of
Dean Street and Romilly Street, Soho
– however, do check the Pride website
for confirmation. Due to Crossrail roadworks in the area, the Women’s Stage
was under threat of cancellation at the
time of going to press.
If it does go ahead, it will offer an
eclectic mix of music, dance and DJ acts.
Listings as follows:
DJ
Emily Capell
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Genniva (r’n’ singer)
Sarah Campbell
Scarlettes
We Rock Like Girls Dont
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Black Nazarene
DJ Lala
Nicolette Street
DJ Lil Jo
MC Angel (Hip Hop)
DJ Sandra D
Laura Steel (electro/pop)
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You could never accuse Kylie – these days – of not knowing what her audience
wants. Aphrodite is – incredibly – her eleventh studio album, and like 2007’s
X, it’s another sumptuous collection of dance-pop thumpers. In fact, featuring a
pick’n’mix selection of acclaimed dancefloor luminaries, it could in fact just have
been titled X2. Calvin Harris, Stuart Price, Richard X, Jake Shears and Nerina Pallot
have all had a hand in its creation, seemingly out-competing one another to come
up with the quintessential Kylie track.
For fans, there will be highlights aplenty. You’ll already be familiar with lead single
‘All The Lovers’. ‘Get Outta My Way’ bounces along like the step-sister of ‘Love At
First Sight’. ‘Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)’ completes a strong opening trio
of power pop. Penned by Stuart Price, ‘Closer’ is euro-disco cheese, with some
distorted Mozart-style piano that makes it sound like Falco humping Giorgio
Moroder. It’s an album track rather than a single, as is ‘Everything Is Beautiful’. Cowritten by Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane), it’s a piano-driven disco cut that fails to make
an impression. Vocally, even Kylie sounds a little bored.
Fortunately, things pick up again for title track ‘Aphrodite’; an album highlight.
It’s the first number where Kylie drops the breathy, synthesised vocals and adds
a dollop of genuine attitude into the mix. A strong contender for future single is
‘Better Than Today’, which bounces along with a genuine sense of joie de vivre.
“What’s the point in living if you don’t take a chance… what’s the point in living if
you don’t want to dance?” chirps Kylie on one of the album’s most addictive tunes.
Similarly, ‘Looking For An Angel’ (another Price offering) drops
all pretence towards cool sophistication, and offers instead
heavenly backing vocals and an irritatingly simple chorus.
Kylie herself has described the record as ‘euphoric’, and she’s not
far wrong. If there was anything missing, it’s that sense of Kylie
herself. Lyrics have never been Miss Minogue’s strong point,
and we again get little sense of what’s really going on beneath
the surface. Perhaps that’s expecting too much. If you want
something to lose yourself to beneath the mirror ball, Aphrodite
hits all the right notes. DH
ALBUMS OUT
IN JULY 2010
KYLIE
Aphrodite (Parlophone)
+++++
Out: 5 July
FEEDER
Renegades
(Big Teeth Music)
They say life begins at 40, but
when Feeder launched their
sixth studio album, Silent Cry, two years ago, you might
have been forgiven for thinking that these 40 year-old
rockers had reached their sell-by date and ought to settle
down with a pipe and slippers. Indeed, following the
record’s mixed reception and underwhelming sales, the
London trio seemed to quietly edge away into hiding
– that is, until last December, when the Feeder website
mysteriously featured the word ‘Renegades’, pre-empting
the release of one of the most exciting alternative rock
albums of 2010.
Earlier this year, the band played a number of ‘undercover’
shows under the name Renegades, road-testing new
material. Though the new guise seemed to hint at a
desire to break ties with the old Feeder and start afresh,
Renegades harks back to their grubbier, grungier roots.
Reminiscent of ‘Polythene’ and the ‘Swim’ EP, the album is
driven by heavy bass hooks and crunching guitar riffs.
Self-releasing on their new label, Feeder are enjoying
a newfound creative and commercial freedom which is
reflected in the raw, unharnessed energy of Renegades.
Geared towards fans rather than airplay, tracks such as
the gritty, fast-tempo ‘Barking Dogs’ are certainly no ‘Buck
Rogers’. Though less radio-friendly however, ‘Renegades’
retains the sing-along factor of ‘Echo Park’, with the
anthemic title-track and upcoming single, ‘Call Out’, just
begging to be played live at this summer’s festivals. IB
TOM JONES
Praise and Blame
(Island Records)
Now aged 70, Sir Tom Jones
is perhaps contemplating his
musical legacy. Either that or he’s eyed the success that Rod
Stewart has reaped with his American Songbook series
of albums and thought ‘I fancy some of that!’. New album
Praise & Blame takes him as far away from the kitsch ‘Sex
Bomb’ image that he’s been lumbered with over recent years
and into all-together more bluesy direction. It’s described,
somewhat portentously on the accompanying press release,
as an album that ‘examines choice and responsibility via a
musical journey through the traditional spiritual repertoire’.
Hooking up with producer/musican Ethan Johns, Jones
offers a collection of 11 covers, kicking off with a brooding
version of Bob Dylan’s somewhat funereal ‘What Good Am
I’. What follows is a selection of gospel (Mahalia Jackson’s
‘Didn’t It Rain’), traditional blues (Blind Willie Johnson’s
‘Nobody’s Fault But Mine’) a bit of country (Don Gibson’s
‘You Don’t Knock’), and a couple of Jonny Cash songs, with
the odd contemporary number (such as Cat Power’s ‘Lord
Help’) demonstrating that Sir Tom can still belt them out.
It’s a consistent and lovingly crafted piece of work, and
whatever the motivation behind making it, Jones never
comes across as anything less than sincere is his treatment
of these earthy, bluesy numbers. That said, with a lack of
obvious singles, it’s not entirely clear who the audience for
this work will be, but it definitely deserves to be heard. DH
+++++
Out: 26 July
PROFESSOR GREEN
Alive Till I’m Dead
(Virgin Records)
Having already scored a
massive hit with his re-working of the old INXS hit ‘I Need
You Tonight’, London’s own Professor Green looks set to
consolidate his success with the release of his debut album.
An underground star of the London rap scene, plenty
of Alive Till I’m Dead comes across as straightforward
macho rap, but the references are firmly rooted within the
UK – whether it be name-checking George Best or his
neighbourhood Hackney streets. Green also likes his ladies,
and he even gets sensitive and reflective towards the end of
the album on tracks such as ‘Where Do We Go?’ and ‘Closing
The Door’.
The pace remains fairly fast and frenetic, and musically,
Green draws upon a range of influences – from electronica
to drum’n’bass, De La Soul to The Streets. The album
undoubtedly kickstarts with its three best tracks – all of
which tellingly feature strong backing vocals from some
feisty females – most notably Lily Allen on ‘Just Be Good
To Green’ (the next single). It’s a rap mash-up of the SOS
Band’s ‘Just Be Good To Me’ and Beats International’s ‘Dub Be
Good To Me’. As such, it can’t really fail. ‘Monster’, featuring
Example, re-asserts the impression that Green is at his best
when playing off another act. The tracks that are Green
alone are less satisfactory.
That said, this remains a decent opening salvo from
Professor Green, who takes his place amongst the UK’s
growing number of audacious rap talents. MS
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Out: 5 July
Out: 19 July
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GAY SEX IN THE 70S
HEARTBREAKER
This really should be subtitled
Gay Sex in the 70s (in New
York), as the bulk of this film
concentrates on that city (and
nearby Fire Island). However,
don’t let that put you off. Told
mainly through interviews
with those who lived through
the period, it’s a fascinating
glimpse at a decade of Bacchanalian excess; the ‘free-love’
period following the 1969 Stonewall riots, through disco,
gay liberation and bathhouses, until the party ended with
the advent of AIDS in 1981.
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THE GIRL WITH THE
DRAGON TATTOO
Adaptations of bestselling novels can often
be disappointing, but this
Swedish take on the first
novel in the late Stieg
Larsson’s Millennium trilogy
is a gripping and atmospheric
success. It follows journalist
Mikael Blomqvist and goth computer hacker Lisbeth
Salander as they battle to solve a 40 -year-old mystery:
Don’t be put off by the subtitles – this is a cracking thriller.
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RAGING SUN,
RAGING SKY
When his lover, Ryo, is
abducted, Kieri sets out on
a quest to find him under
the watchful eye of a female
spirit. A stylish, sensual and
award-winning epic from
underrated Mexican auteur
Julián Hernández, Raging Sun,
Raging Sky is not going to be to everyone’s tastes – if only
for its 191-minute duration. However, those who persevere
be rewarded with a ravishing piece of world cinema.
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Anything by radical queer
filmmaker Bruce La Bruce is
pretty sure to divide opinion
and unlikely to reach out
beyond the cult film circuit.
However, if you’ve previously
enjoyed his work then you
might warm to this – possibly
the world’s first gay zombie romance. Otto (Jey Crisfar) is
the undead character of the title, staggering around Berlin
seeking to find a lost love. Not quite porn, horror or love
story, but as always with La Bruce, rather unique.
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The people at Trafalgar Studios (SW1) do enjoy their
gay-themed plays. After Holding the Man and Dirty White
Boy, get ready for Wolfboy. Described as a “psycho-sexual
musical thriller”, it will be the first full-scale musical to be
performed at the Trafalgar 2. It’s about two boys having
an intimate adventure – one being a street hustler who
may or may not have the powers of a wolf! Gregg Lowe
and Paul Holowaty, the latter known as the badboy Macki
in Hollyoaks, play the two boys. Wolfboy premiered at last
year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the same cast, and was
described as one critic as: “Mind-blowingly brilliant.” It runs
between 5 July and 31 July with tickets at £30.
A DIFFERENT DANCE
Box Office: 0844 871 7632
www.trafalgar-studios.co.uk
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was awarded an Oliver Award for Best Comedy of the year.
The play is set in 17th century France and is inspired by
the works of Molière, arguably the most prominent French
playwright of all time and famous for his farces (la bête
means ‘the beast’). This new production will feature Mark
Rylance, David Hyde Pierce (Niles from Frasier) and Joanna
Lumley. It’s playing between 26 June and 4 September at
the Comedy Theatre (SW1) with tickets costing £10-45.
Box Office: 0844 871 7622
www.labetetheplay.com
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The revivals of Willy Russell’s
Educating Rita and
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so successful at the Menier
Chocolate Factory earlier this
year that the productions
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the Trafalgar Studios. The plays are among Russell’s most
famous and were both made into highly-acclaimed films
in the 80s, receiving BAFTA awards and Oscar-nominations.
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Santos as the hairdresser Rita and Larry Lamb as her
drunken Open University-teacher.
Glen Walford is directing Shirley Valentine, a monologue
telling the story of a housewife (Meera Syal) experiencing
a midlife crisis and whose life suddenly changes after a
holiday abroad. They will run between 20 July and 30
October with full price tickets for £44.50.
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www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk
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FANTASTIC FUSION
JOHN O ‘CEALLAIGH REVIEWS SUSHINHO
312-314 King’s Road
020 7349 7496. www.sushinho.com
As fusion food goes, splicing Japanese sushi with
Brazilian cuisine sounds as appetising as merging
Icelandic herring with Indian curry. However, there’s
a good reason for it. The largest Japanese community
outside of Japan is based in Brazil and its members have
reinterpreted staple Japanese dishes to capitalise on the
bounty of exotic ingredients and foreign flavours available
in their new home. It’s a development that King’s Road
restaurant Sushinho is committed to bringing to the
masses: Latin flair and Japanese style integrated in subtle
ways.
We arrived on a Wednesday night to find the restaurant
near capacity, our table buffered by bamboo screens and
shaded by a miniature palm tree. At first glance, the menu
seems just as Japanese as any other – sushi and sashimi
dishes form its bulk and it was only when our waitress
guided us through the (somewhat confusing) plethora of
dishes available that we were able to make sense of it. The
sushinho roll of salmon, crab and cream cheese is served
warm, with a crunchy exterior, while beef and raw carrot
are the primary ingredients in the wagyu sirloin tataki roll.
We chose both as starters, with the sushino roll winning us
over completely despite our initial hesitation. The crackle of
the exterior was offset perfectly by the soft fleshiness of the
salmon and warmth of the melted cheese – a few bites in
and we suddenly thought that Japanese-Brazilian cuisine
seems a very good idea indeed.
Suitably emboldened, we chose the sushi platter as a main
course (£20). A selection of the restaurant’s signature
dishes, the chunky cuts of fresh fish were excellent although
less experimental than our starters. If we’d known how
HAPPY HOUSE
MAZ OGDEN REVIEWS BLANCH
HOUSE
17 Atlingworth Street, Brighton
East Sussex, BN2 1PL
01273 603 504. www.blanchhouse.co.uk
Discreetly placed in the heart of
Kemptown, Blanch House has
achieved legendary status among
fine dining Brightonians and tourists
alike. We rang the doorbell and were
greeted by the first in a parade of charming
staff. We were immediately enchanted by
the venue’s classy but intimate cocktail bar,
and even more pleased to find that it’s open
to the public – whether they wish to dine
or not.
The pre and post-dinner cocktail list could
have kept us busy even without dinner.
The bar staff were also extremely helpful,
whipping up a ‘Virgin Surprise’ for my
pregnant lady friend.
The restaurant is a delightful affair, with
plush, cream-coloured banquettes along
the back wall and exclusive romantic
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amazing the Brazilian-style sushi starters would prove to
be, we’d have perhaps been more adventurous with our
main course selection
That said, our second main course (dishes are served as
soon as they’re prepared rather than in tandem) was
more Brazilian inspired; pork loin with sweet potato
and mozzarella gratin (£16). Apparently it came with
pancetta too but while that was undetectable, the dish
itself was delicious, and we struggled heroically to finish
it, already being full. At this stage, dessert wouldn’t have
corners. The one problem with the menu
is that we quickly knew we were going to
have to come back quite a few times to
sample it properly!
However, after much debate, we decided
to share our starters and opted for the
crab, crayfish and lemon salad with rocket,
cucumber and Bloody Mary sauce (£6.75),
with the local asparagus, watercress and
quail’s egg salad with parmesan shavings
and walnut oil (£5.95). We were not
disappointed. The crab and crayfish was
not so much a salad but a tower of seafood
delights.
For our main course, my partner had
the poached fillet of halibut with local
asparagus, pesto mash and red pepper
and star anise sauce (£15.50) while I
enjoyed a medium rare sirloin of Sussex
beef with garlic wild mushrooms, Sussex
blue cheese Dauphinoise and red wine and
rosemary sauce (£16.95). On our waitress’s
recommendation, we also had a side dish
of duck fat and rosemary roast potatoes
(£2.50).
A visit to Blanch House would not be
complete without at least sampling their
extensive dessert, teas and coffee and
recommended digestifs menus. Once
been possible so we finished instead with cocktails (from
£8.50). My companion chose The Brazilian, a refreshing
concoction made with Salto (a citrus-flavoured cachaca)
while I ordered from Sushinho’s low-calorie cocktail menu.
A new development, it features a small range of drinks
containing 86-140 calories. Not that you’d guess from the
taste. My cucumber sour (gin, midori and cucumber) was
excellent, refreshing and reassuringly potent despite its
virtuous calorie count. Yet another pleasant surprise from
our revelatory dining experience.
again, we agreed with our waitress’s
recommendation had the very unique
baked chocolate tart with Turkish delight,
ice-cream and fresh strawberries (£5.50)
and the raspberries in an amazing
elderflower jelly with white chocolate and
raspberry sorbet and a zingy raspberry and
mint coulis.
Then of course, we retired to the cocktail
bar as we didn’t want the evening to end.
Overall – with a restaurant, cocktail bar and
boutique hotel by the beach – what more
could we ask for from a dirty weekend in
Brighton?
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EATING OUT
OUR FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS AND
GAY-FRIENDLY DINING OPTIONS
CENTRAL
Aqua, fifth floor, 240 Regent
Street (entrance on Argyll
Street), W1. 020 7478 0540.
Big, signature restaurant from
Hong Kong’s Aqua group
– split into two halves; Spanish
themed Aqua Nueva and
Japanese-inspired Aqua Kyoto.
Around £40 per person. www.
aqua-london.com
Balans, 60 Old Compton Street,
W1. 020-7439 2183. The nearest
Soho has to a gay restaurant,
busy throughout the week and
open throughout the day and
night. Traditional British dishes
with Meditteranean and Asian
flourishes. Approx. £28 per head.
See also the nearby Balans Café
at 34 Old Compton Street. www.
balans.co.uk
Bocca di Lupo, 12 Archer
Street, W1. 020 7734 2223.
Gay-run, hugely-acclaimed,
upmarket Italian restaurant,
opened November 2008 and
running Monday-Saturday.
Approx. £29 per head. www.
boccadilupo.com
Bodeans, 10 Poland Street,
W1. 020-7287 0506. Cheap and
cheerful barbecue restaurant,
with counter service upstairs and
restaurant down below. Popular
with visiting Americans, plus the
odd bear from the nearby Kings
Arms! Branches also in Clapham,
Fulham and Westbourne Grove.
www.bodeansbbq.com
Cha Cha Moon, 15-21
Ganton Street, Soho, W1.
020 7297 9800. Very popular
noodle restaurant from Hong
Kong-born restaurateur Alan Yau
(Hakkasan). Great selection of
soup-based dishes, wok-fried
noodles and sides.
Ed’s Diner, 12 Moor Street, W1.
020 7434 4439. Delightfully
kitsch, American-style 50s diner,
at the Shaftesbury Avenue end
of Old Compton Street, great for
burgers and milkshakes. www.
edseasydiner.co.uk
First Out, 52 St Giles High
Street, WC2. 020-7240 8042.
Long-running, gay-run café
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and bar, serving homemade
vegetarian dishes, coffee and
cakes. Lots of gay magazines,
community info and flyers.
www.firstoutcafebar.com
Floridita, 100 Wardour Street,
W1. 020-7314 4000. Large,
glamorous Cuban-themed
restaurant and bar, with regular
music acts and even occasional
drag. Approx. £36 per head.
www.floridita.co.uk
Wagamama, 10a Lexington
Street, Soho, W1. 020-7292
0990. Our favourite branch of
the noodle chain, offering cheap,
healthy Japanese delights!
£16 per head. Check website
for other branches - www.
wagamama.com
NORTH
Gilgamesh, Camden View,
Camden Stables Market, Chalk
Farm Road, NW1. Huge, ornate
and lavish pan-Asian restaurant
with one of London’s most
stunning interiors. Food good
rather than outstanding, but
worth a visit for the décor.
EAST
Bistrotheque, 23-27 Wadeson
Street, Bethnal Green, E2.
Modern, contemporary, classy
restaurant with basement bar
and cabaret room, and fine
dining upstairs – modern British
cuisine and French bistro dishes
– approx. £35 per head. www.
bistrotheque.com
The Easton, 22 Easton Street,
WC1. 020-7278 7609. Cool
gastropub just off Exmouth
Market. Sunday lunch is packed
with Clerkenwell-istas and
the food is top notch. www.
theeaston.co.uk
The Luxe, 109 Commercial
Street, E1. 020 7101 1751. Large,
recently-opened Spitalfields
venture offering several dining
areas – including takeaway
kiosk, ground-floor café and fine
dining restaurant. It offers a wide
selection of classic British and
European dishes, and is great for
breakfast, lunch or dinner. www.
theluxe.co.uk
Saf, 152-154 Curtain Road,
Shoreditch, EC2. 020 7613
0007. A stylish and upmarket
vegan and raw food restaurant.
Approx. £24 per head. www.
safrestaurant.co.uk
The Landau, Langham Hotel,
Portland Place, W1. 020 7965
0165. Grand and glamorous
hotel restaurant, offering a
pricey but imaginative modern
European menu. Approx. £60 per
head. www.thelandau.com
Ristorante Biagio, 189
Piccadilly, W1. 020-7434-1921.
Great, authentic Italian food
in contemporary and smart
surroundings, spread over four
floors. Approx. £32 per head.
www.ristorantebiagio.co.uk
Stef’s, 3 Berners Street, W1 0203073 1041. Huge, gay-friendly
Italian – formerly Linda’s Pasta
Bar on Poland Street – moved to
the other side of Oxford Street in
2007. Pizza and pasta heaven.
St Pancras Grand, Upper
Concourse, St Pancras
International, NW1. 020 7870
9900. Old-fashioned, art-deco
glamour at this stunning, all-day
restaurant from Searcys (who
also operate the neighbouring
Champagne Bar). Approx. £40
per head. www.searcys.co.uk
Donna Margherita
Restaurant, 183 Lavender
Hill, SW11. 020 7268 2660.
Traditional, Southern Italian
restaurant that’s very gay-friendly
– even offering a ‘Pizza Gay’ on its
menu! Pizzas from £5.90. www.
donna-margherita.com
El Panzon @ The Dogstar,
389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9.
Authentic Mexican and Tex-mex
restaurant and fantastic prices
in the trendy Dogstar bar. Don’t
miss the burritos or the taco
plate to share. Approx. £14 per
head. www.elpanzon.co.uk
The Loft, 67 Clapham High
Street, SW4. 020-7627 0792.
Upmarket and stylish restaurant,
bar and late-night haunt.
Classic British dishes and lots of
cocktails. Approx. £40 per head.
www.theloft-clapham.co.uk
L’Autre Pied, 5-7 Blandford
Street, Marylebone Village, W1.
020 7486 9696. Chic, stylish,
upmarket restaurant from the
same team that created the
Michelin-starred Pied-à-Terre on
Charlotte Street. Approx. £40 per
head. www.lautrepied.co.uk
Profile, 84-85 Wardour Street,
Soho, W1. Daytime gay bar
and diner. Upmarket and smart
surroundings, with gorgeous
yellow leather banquettes.
Offering food and drink
from 11am till 11pm. www.
gaydarprofile.com
in Bonnington Square. Pig out
on three courses for £10! http://
s208303316.websitehome.co.uk
The Riverside, 5 Hamilton
House, 5 St George Wharf,
Vauxhall, SW8. Great pub food
in upmarket, riverside gastropub
that boasts terrific views of the
river Thames.
We’ve always loved Inn The Park in St James’s Park, but this summer the venue is offering even
more reasons to pay it a visit with the unveiling of its new Roof Top Bar. Enjoy cocktails such
as the Cucumber and Mint Martini or Ginger and Lemongrass Mule, or head downstairs to the
restaurant an enjoy such dishes as mackarel tartar with watercress and asparagus salad or
Highbury Farm chicken with spring vegetable and herb and barley broth. There’s also plenty of
al fresco seating for when the temperature really rises.
Inn the Park, St James’s Park, SW1A 2BJ. 020 7451 9999 www.innthepark.com
Cheaper at lunchtime than the
evening. www.gilgameshbar.com
La Porchetta, 141-142 Upper
Street, N1. 020-7288 2488.
Great value pizza and pasta
restaurant, with possibly some
of the biggest pizzas in London!
Sister branches in Finsbury Park
and Bloomsbury. Approx. £17
per head.
Little Bay, 228 Belsize Road,
NW6. Wonderfully down-toearth and charming restaurant
serving Modern European
cuisine at very reasonable prices.
Excellent value for money.
Spotted Dick, 292 Caledonian
Road, Islington, N1. 020 7607
5577. Gay-friendly café/bar/
restaurant offering modern and
traditional British grub. Open
from breakfast till late. www.
spotted-dick.co.uk
Green and Red, 51 Bethnal
Green Road, E1. 020 7749 9670.
Fiesta-style restaurant with
Mexican food and a huge tequila
selection - with basement
bar and dancefloor area for
afterwards. www.greenred.co.uk
Kenza, 10a Devonshire Square,
EC2. 020-7929 5533. Delightful
and sumptuous subterranean
Middle Eastern restaurant a
stone’s throw from Liverpool
Street station. Arabic interior and
mezza menu – approx. £35 per
head. www.kenza-restaurant.co.uk
Les Trois Garcons, 1 Club Row,
Whitechapel, E1. 020-7613
1924. A former Victorian boozer,
stuffed with baroque decor
and antiques, creating a camp,
culinary haven near Old Street.
British/French menu. www.
loungelover.co.uk
Tinseltown, 44-46 St John
Street, Farringdon, EC1. Want a
double cheeseburger and Mars
Bar Milkshake at 5am? Then
24-hour, subterranean American
diner Tinseltown is the place to
head. Popular with late-night
clubbers – very near Fabric.
Cool when quiet but avoid if
there’s a queue for entry. www.
tinseltown.co.uk
Volupte, 7-9 Norwich Street,
EC4. 020 7831 1622. Trendy,
popular supper club offering
avant-garde cabaret and
burlesque performance. Approx.
£37 per head. www.voluptelounge.com
SOUTH
Bonnington Café, 11 Vauxhall
Grove, SW8. Cheap, cheerful
and very gay-friendly cooperatively run vegetarian café
Roxy Bar and Screen,
128-132 Borough High
Street, SE1. 020 7407 4057.
London’s unique, gay-friendly
cinema restaurant. Free film
screenings – everything
from recent blockbusters to
arthouse documentaries. www.
roxybarandscreen.com
Royal Teas, 76 Royal Hill,
Greenwich, SE10. 020-8691
7240. Delightfully charming café
offering tea, scones, cakes and
other delights for an eclectic
crowd. Brit camp fabulousness.
www.royalteascafe.co.uk
Upstairs Bar and Restaurant,
89b Acre Lane, SW2. Hidden
gem and local secret. Critically
acclaimed, eclectic European
menu, with emphasis on French
cuisine. Limited choice but menu
changes daily. Open Tue-Sat.
www.upstairslondon.com
WEST
Balans Chiswick, 214 Chiswick
High Road, W4. 020 8742 1435.
Gay-friendly service and British
and Meditrerranean dishes.
www.balans.co.uk
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POPSTARZ
The Popstarz crew
celebrated the club's
15th anniversary with a
wild 'Bondage Birthday'
party at The Den and
Centro...
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KUBAR
The Ku Bar threw a big
Eurovision Party in its
basement at the end of
May, while the ground
floor offered some sexy
May Pole dancers!
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PROFILE
Visit Profile in Soho
on any Saturday night
and it's sure to be busy
- as we discovered on a
recent trip to the stylish
venue...
Staged at Fire and Area, the event took place over the late May bank holiday weekend, with eight different events offering a
smorgasbord of hedonistic delights. Check out our full review of the 'Main Event' on pages 50-51...
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We do love a big name club
event and in the past have
travelled far and wide for that
‘special’ experience. Fortunately,
for the last bank holiday of May we
didn’t have to go far at all as every
ass-kicking DJ and club promoter
descended on Vauxhall for a marathon
of parties under the moniker ‘London
Global Dance Festival’. The highlight
of the weekend was Sunday night’s
‘Main Event’ where club brands
from Madrid, Paris, Rome, Moscow,
Lille, Cologne and Cape Town came
together with their top name DJs (and
some household names) for a ninehour clubbing extravaganza – which
is where these pictures were captured.
The music was house throughout but
with each room having its own special
blend: we experienced everything
from deep and tribal to progressive
tech beats through to uplifting
anthems. The ‘Face of Ibiza’, Baby
Marcello, hosted the Lightbox room,
but was risking life and limb atop his
eight-foot stilts as punters danced
like whirling dervishes.
Over in the Mirror Arch, a posse
of muscled-up gladiators from
Rome’s Muccassassina heralded
the arrival of a show from club diva
Anna Buckley with her ‘Express
Yourself’ dance anthem. We couldn’t
decide which room we liked best
as each showcased the best of our
international friends. Even the outside
garden terrace had a make-over – all
new grass and potted plants for that
summery tropical vibe. A-ma-zing!
www.londonglobaldancefestival.com
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Popstarz went over to the dark
side in mid May to celebrate its
anniversary with a huge Bondage
Birthday bash at The Den and
Centro. We arrived to find leatherette
lads and pervy punks being seduced
by ridiculously cheap drinks and even
cheaper blokes! Upstairs in the Skybar,
Madame Whiplash was taking any
naughty revellers in hand and dishing
out S&M treats. At midnight, boxes
of pervy party favours were tossed
from the indie room’s stage into the
out-stretched arms of the packed dance
floor… cue the donning of fake boobs,
leather caps and dog collars. Later in the
evening, the main room hosted a series
of perverted performances from ‘Ride
of the Valkeries’. These included such
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delights as a large lass singing opera
while her skinny side-kick jumped up
and down on broken glass – before
machete-ing open a melon on her
stomach! Downstairs, in the pop and
r’n’b rooms, DJ Philly and a plethora
of DJ deck talent kept the dance floors
moving and grooving. The place
was packed with a predominantly
young crowd of über cute lads and
ladies, many of whom were taking
advantage of the fact that they could
lie in late the following morning,
and were, therefore, free to enjoy
the ‘Popstarz After Dark’ after-party
launch – a new late-night session
following the main Popstarz session.
Poptastic!
www.popstarz.org
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After the massive success of Ku
Bar’s first May bank holiday, the
team dusted off the pole once more
for the second bank holiday at the end
of the same month. It was a weekend
of hot, professional pole dancing with
boys (and girls) strutting their stuff
in tight, white underwear. First up,
the lovely Lola wrapped her thighs
around the shaft of steel while doing
tricks and moves the right way up and
upside down – before handing over to
the drop dead gorgeous Owain, whose
inverted sit-ups and crunchees had us
baying like depraved banshees until
our throats were dry and we had to
force our way to the bar. Downstairs,
Lady Lloyd was hosting the Eurovision
party with much merriment and
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flag-waving, and lots of booing at
the point scoring! Just as we thought
we’d experienced everything Ku
had to offer us, we walked through
the main bar and straight in to
four of the most physically perfect
specimens of manhood dressed
only in ‘Lick’ underwear, and as we
pressed them into a huddle for a
photograph we couldn’t help but
notice that they packed out their
pants as well as their pecs! When
we caught up with guv’nor Gary a
couple of days later he said it had
been a fabulous weekend and the
bar was heaving with young cute
hotties every night, which you gotta
love, right?
www.ku-bar.com
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Every year Bear Pride goes
from strength to strength, with
bigger and bolder events to attract
an international crowd and offer a
choice of things to see and do.
One of the main events right from
the start has always been Fusion
and this year was no exception as
Mark Ames and the team invited
back the fantastic Freemasons
with their legendary brand of club
anthems and remixes. Also playing
to the dancefloor in the main room
were XXL resident Christian M and
new boy, the RVT’s fabulous Simon
Le Vans, while the back arches
rocked to the beats of the Kimono
Krush DJs, who had popped along
as special guests.
The club was packed with a really
diverse crowd that, although
stacked with hirsute hunks, also
featured loads of cute, young, fit
guys and even a few women.
With all five arches open and
outdoor areas also packed to the
rafters, it wasn’t long before the
muscled-up, fur-clad shenanigans
sent the temperature soaring as
the masses worshipped at the
alter of high-energy funky house.
We might not all be big and we
might not be hairy, but we do love
this party!
Expect the next Fusion party to hit
London around the August bank
holiday.
www.xxl-london.com
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Street is a great venue for
food, with a range of classic
American and British dishes and
– in our opinion – legendary
fajitas. However, by night, Profile
is transformed by just the flip of a
dimmer switch into a fabulously camp
gay bar with yellow and black décor,
sexy bar staff and almost naked go-go
muscle boys in the window. They
host pre-parties for all the best circuit
shenanigans the London scene offers,
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with top-notch totty knocking back
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parading the fruits of a long winter in
the gym. DJ Nathan6 mixed an upbeat
housey soundtrack while sexy, oiledup go-go boys provided steaming
visuals that made our throats dry. Cue
more cocktails!
The equally hot bar boys were bursting
out of their tight black vests and
working up a sweat, keeping up with
the demands of the party crowd until,
at the allotted hour, the doorway at
the back of the bar was thrown open
and the crowd moved downstairs to
continue their revelling in what is fast
becoming Soho’s venue of choice for
the in-crowd.
www.profilesoho.com
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gay scene for more years than
we care to remember, we
can occasionally believe that
we have seen pretty much
everything there is to see in
terms of cabaret and ‘out there’
performances. However, a simple
Thursday night trip to see David
Hoyle acts as a sharp reminder that
some things still have the power to
shock. The hugely talented and arch
Mr Hoyle bounded onstage to the
strains of Cliff Richard’s ‘Devil Woman’,
before warning the audience that this
evening’s entertainment aimed to
demonstrate that we should live in a
world without limits and values. Cue
a performance from female artiste
Mouse, which prompted jaws to drop
throughout the venue and the entire
front row to pick up their drinks and
retreat to a safe distance when she
started to insert water into various
body orifices and then impressively
squirt it back across the auditorium.
“I look forward to you all giving that
a try later,” quipped Mr Hoyle, in
true Generation Game-host fashion.
Perhaps fortunately, no-one took him
up on his challenge!
The rest of the evening included some
more spontaneous art from Mr Hoyle,
and a routine from porn performer
Ashley Ryder and his boyfriend,
which again, resulted in a very messy
stage. Licking wounds? We're not
sure about that, but it must certainly
have taken staff a while to mop up
the blood!
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The Duckie crew will
be turning back the clock
and staging an authentic
London club night set back
in the swingin’ sixties on
Saturday 3 July. Hostess
Amy Lamé hosts the retro
set-up and there’ll be
appearance from queer
performance stalwarts
The Actionettes, Bird La
Bird, Scottee and more,
with the resident Readers
Wifes spinning a very,
very retro set up to 1967.
There is a strict dress code
of 1960’s style clothing.
'Gross Indecency' is at the
Camden Centre, Euston
Road, Kings Cross on
Saturday 3 July from 9pm
till 3am. Tickets are ‘sixteen
Guineas’ from the Retro
Bar – see www.duckie.
co.uk for more details.
After a rather secretive
sabbatical, scene hostess
Megan and DJ Stevie B
return to clubland with the
launch of new tea-dance
Revolución on Sunday
4 July. Fat Tony and Stevie
B will be layin’ down the
their unique brand of kickass house music all night
– together with Danny
Gilligan who’ll be mixing
up a tougher vibe. It all
goes off in Opal (formerly
Motion and Rock),
which has undergone
huge refurbishments.
Revolución is Sunday 4
July at Opal, Hungerford
House, Victoria
Embankment. Doors are
open from 6pm till 1am
and entry’s £5 in advance
from Soho outlets.
See www.opalbar.co.uk
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PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON
FOLLOW THE YELLOW
BRICK ROAD…
Freemasons
PRIDE LIBERATION
The organizers of Pride London will themselves be throwing an official party for this year’s
event. Liberation will take place on the night of 3 July 2010 at Koko in Camden and will
feature a world-class selection of DJ talent. Presiding over the decks will be the Freemasons,
Wayne G, Andy Almighty and Stewart Who?, while the assembled crowd will also be
treated to some fire-breathing, stilt-walking drag queens, dancers, acrobats and other visual
delights. There will also be a suprise PA to accompany the stage show. VIP ticket holders will
be hosted by scene legend Dave Lynn and will enjoy a great view of the whole event from
a glamorous balcony at the centre of the club. The night will be run by Pride London’s own
team, and as the only ‘Official Party’ on 3 July, 100% of profits will be returned to the charity
to help fund next year’s free Pride event.
Liberation will be on 3 July 2010 from 10pm-5am at Koko in Camden. Tickets are
£20/£25 VIP and are available online at www.pridelondon.org/liberation, or in person
from Prowler, Clone Zone, DV8 and Ku Bar (Frith Street).
Promoter Logan returns with another mega dose of clubbing giant SuperMartXé on
Saturday 3 July. This wild night always attracts a capacity crowd to whichever venue it
chooses to visit – with recent parties taking place at the 2,000-capacity Coronet in
Elephant and Castle. The July bash will be a post-Pride special, and is sure to be a sell-out.
Logan and his team always pull out all the stops when it comes to production, with lavish
sets and stage shows. Given that it’s Pride night, the team are upping the camp factor with a
giant Wizard Of Oz theme party – with all friends of Dorothy very welcome to attend!
For this special party, the SupermartXé team will be teaming up with Jodie Harsh and her
Circus gang. Expect the likes of Hugo Sanchez, Pagano and Tony English to be spinning the
Spanish house beats and Ibiza sounds on the main floor, while Jodie Harsh, Kris Di Angelis
and Fat Tony take care of Room Two. Abigail Bailey (‘I Just Can’t Get Enough’, ‘Touch Me’)
will provide the live PA on the main floor, and you can expect the usual dazzling go-go boys
and pyrotechnics.
Doors will be open from 10pm till 7am, and you’ll find the Coronet at 26-28 New Kent
Road, SE1. To help get you in the mood, there will be a SuperMartXé pre-party at Profile/
Lo-Profile in Soho on Friday 25 June. Tickets available now from www.clubtickets.com
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The Duckie crew will be celebrating Pride night with a one-off event entitled ‘Gross
Indecency’ at the Camden Centre on Euston Road on Saturday 3 July. Billed as a ‘Pre-Gay
Lib Gay Club’, Amy Lamé and the team will be turning back the clock, hosting a night
fictionally themed in the mid-60s – before homosexual acts were decriminalized in the
1967. The event has been designed by Laura Hopkins and Simon Kenny, and will strive to be
as authentically ‘early 60s’ as possible. To this end, there will be a strict dress code; “Please
wear 1960s style clothing: Effeminate dilly boys, dusty dykes, modest mods, retrosexual
rockers, sister george, closet cases, toffs, spivs, belgravia brasses, married men, Jamaican
sailors, ladies in tweed and the criminal underworld.”
Taking part in the event will be Readers Wifes, Amy Lamé, The Cloths, Scottee, Bird La Bird,
Tony Rebel-Rebel, Lucille Power, Harold Offeh, Robin Whitmore, Wrnech & Franks, Russell
Harris, ‘Dusty Springfield’ and The Actionettes – with choreography by Luca Silvestrini.
Tickets cost “16 guineas in advance in person from the Retro Bar”. For more details, check the
‘Gross Indecency’ page on Facebook.
www.duckie.co.uk
WORDS BY LOREM DELOREM | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAET IPSUM
Long-running indie club Popstarz has recently extended itself to include an after hours
session. After the main party has wound down at The Den, you can now enjoy Popstarz
After Dark – within the same venue. Admission is free after 3.15am, whether you’ve been
to Popstarz earlier in the evening or not. The DJs will be offering slightly more danceoriented tunes, and there will also be drinks deals at the bar.
Popstarz at The Den (formerly The End), 18 West Central Street, off New Oxford Street,
WC1. www.popstarz.org
Meanwhile, the Popstarz team have told us that
they will be celebrating Pride with a massive
‘Ghetto Superstarz’ party – reuniting
many of the nights that they used to
run at the Ghetto (which sadly closed
to make way for Tottenham Court
Road’s Crossrail development). The
event will take place at The Den &
Centro on Saturday 3 July, and will
offer pop, r’n’b and electro all under
the one roof. They’re attempting to
squeeze seven different club nights
into the one event – WigOut, The
Cock, Miss Shapes, Gutterslut, Babe,
Work and PYT.
“Since the closure of the Ghetto people have begged
us to bring back some of our old events,” explains head honcho Tommy Turntables. “After
the successful relaunch of Wig Out on Saturdays at Centro we couldn’t resist bringing back
some old nights alongside it for a post-Pride party like no other!”
Expect pure pop madness in the Wig Out main room, The Cock ‘Bass Basement’ with guest
DJs from Gutterslut, a joint R’n’B Lounge from the Work and PYT crews, plus a free ‘Tunnel of
Love’ and free “Ghetto-trash makeovers”. Doors will be open 10pm till 6am. Advanced £10
tickets available from Popstarz every Friday (no booking fee), or online (plus booking
fee) from www.popstarz.org – tickets on the door cost £12 before midnight
and £14 after.
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HIGHLIGHTS
DUSTY O’S BIRTHDAY BASH
PHOTO © CHRIS JEPSON
The fabulous Trannyshack is one of London’s best midweek outings, attracting a camp
and colourful crowd down to Madame Jo Jo’s in Soho every Wednesday night. Fresh from
launching their first-ever Trannyshack UK book (a beautiful hardback collection of
photographs compiled by James Andrew Yardley), the team have a gaggle of performance
Sagat
and appearances lined up for the coming weeks. The exotic Lady Imelda Francois
will be gracing
the
stage on Wednesday 30 June, with her own inimitable brand of cheeky comedy, song and
risqué humour. One of the biggest dates in the Trannyshack calendar, hostess Miss Dusty
O (pictured above) will be celebrating her birthday on Wednesday 7 July with a Marie
Antoinette-themed party entitled ‘Let Them Eat Cake’. The amazing Globe Girls will
provide the cabaret, and you can expect a capacity crowd of drag lovelies.
Miss Laquisha Jonz will be celebrating her birthday at Trannyshack on 14 July, while
the legend that is Sandra will be turning the air blue on Wednesday 21 July. There will be
a tribute to Lady Gaga on Wednesday 28 July, with many of the regulars performing their
own tribute routines, while August will kick off with an appearance from Lady Rue.
As always, expect camp dance and retro pop tunes from Tasty Tim, Lady Lloyd and Dusty
O. Munroe Bergdorf works the doors, while regular performers and hostesses include Miss
Ritzy Crackers , Miss Vanilla Lush and Miss Glendora Mucklefanny!
Trannyshack takes place at Madame Jo Jo’s from 10.30pm tll 3am, with admission free
for anyone in drag and £5 everyone else.
Organised by the guys at Recon.com,
Barbara Tucker
Fetish Week London is a raunchy
weekend celebration hitting the capital
from 14-18 July 2010. The festival will
include a host of special events and bar
nights, with six official Fetish Week parties.
These will include Leather Nexus (at Fire
in Vauxhall) on Friday 16 July, Full Fetish
at the Scala in King’s Cross and a Skinhead
party at the Eagle in Vauxhall (both
Saturday 17 July). There will be a Fetish
Week BBQ at the Lightbox in Vauxhall
(Fire) on Sunday 18 July, followed by a
Rubber Party and Closing Party at the
Hoist in Vauxhall (18 July). Sponsors for the
festival include Folsom Street San Francisco
and Folsom Street Berlin, The Hoist, RoB
and Nighttours.com, among others. Folsom
Street will be joining forces with Recon to
host the opening party at Fire on the Friday night (Leather Nexus), and all involved are
working hard to promote the weekend internationally and attract as many guys as possible
to the UK for this unique celebration of all things fetish-related. The full diary of events is as
follows:
FRIDAY 16 JULY
• Welcome drinks at Novotel Hotel, 113 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7LS. From 7-10pm.
Admission free.
• Leather Nexus at Fire, South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall SW8 1RT. From 10pm-6am.
Admission £15 in advance or £20 on door.
SATURDAY 17 JULY
• Skinhead at The Eagle, 349 Kennington Road, Vauxhall SE11 5QY. From 3-9pm.
Admission £6 in advance or £8 on the door.
• Full Fetish at the Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross N1 9NL. Open 10pm-6am.
Admission £15 in advance or £20 on the door.
Sunday 18 July
• GT Spit Roast Sunday at the Lightbox, South Lambeth Place, Vauxhall SW8 1SP. From
4-10pm. Admission £5.
• Rubber Gear Party at The Hoist, South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall SW8 1RH. From
6-11pm. Admission £6 in advance or £8 on the door.
• Deconstruction – Official Closing Party at The Hoist, South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall
SW8 1RH. From 10pm-late. Admission £8 in advance or £10 on the door.
Full details at www.fetishweek.com
DALSTON
PARADISE
Dalston Superstore offers no end of
boutique club nights and delights. One
that’s currently picking up plenty of critical
acclaim and kudos is Body Talk, which
– according to the promoters – even gave
name to Swedish star Robyn’s new album!
The people behind Body Talk started
Following the success of previous such events, the guys at Horse Meat Disco host their
arranging miscellaneous club nights
next vogueing ball on 11 July. Entitled Vauxhall Is Gurning V (in homage to classic
at Dalston Superstore last year, which
Guy Williams
documentary Paris Is Burning), expect teams of flamboyantly dressed competitors. The
eventually evolved into this monthly
competition will be split into the following categories: “Town and Country”, “Body Art”,
event. The music has been a vital part of the club’s success and the team – led by DJ Rokk
“High Fashion Parisienne”, “Butch Queen Bride’s Maid” and “Get your freak on”. Don’t forget to – play everything from 80’s soul and funk to house. The club has recently been graced by
register by emailing the housemother (horsemeatdiscoball@hotmail.com).
guest appearances from DJs such as Disco Damage, Jeffrey Hinton, Jim Stanton and Jim
The competition will be judged by a celebrity jury which is yet to be announced. Filthy
Warboy. There is no cover before 10pm and then it’s £5 after. There is also a limited £3 guest
Luka is your hostfor the evening, the Italian artist Hard Ton will be making a guest
list (email: bodytalkguest@gmail.com). The next edition of Body Talk will be on 26
appearance, and resident DJs James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Severino and Luke Howard will be June.
playing the cult disco sounds.
Meanwhile, Paradise 45 is a new, monthly underground disco/Italo/electronic funk night
The doors open at 8pm and close at 3am, with entrance at £8 (free for everyone in
running every first Friday of the month at the Dalson club. Guy Williams spins the sounds,
and each month he’s joined by a special guest. For July it will be Peter Herbert. Upstairs, Ian
drag). It takes place at the Eagle, 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 5QY.
Robinson (TrailerTrash) spins the 80s pop. Taking place on Friday 2 July, doors are open from
www.eaglelondon.com
10pm and entry is free. Dalston Superstore at 117 Kingsland High Street, E8.
VAUXHALL GURNS AGAIN
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W1. 020 7439 1313. Tottenham
Court Road tube. Noon-1am, Sun
2pm-11.30pm. Stylish, hip gay bar
spread over four intimate floors,
with regular nights from top DJs,
regular piano bar and tasty food.
ESCAPE, 10a Brewer Street, W1.
020 7734 2626. Piccadilly Circus
tube. 5pm-3am. Cover charge after
11pm. Every night’s a party at this
late-night video dance bar.
FIRST OUT CAFÉ, 52 St Giles
High Street, WC2. 020 7240 8042.
Tottenham Court Road tube.
10am-11pm. Sun 10.30pm. Over
20 years old and still going strong.
Long-running community café bar.
BEST OF BRITISH
One of London’s biggest post-Pride parties will be the one taking place at Fire in
Vauxhall (Saturday 3 July). Entitled ‘The Best Of British’, this mega bash will run from
9pm till 7am, and as its name suggests, aims to celebrate “the finest UK-based gay
talent, and the fabulous diversity within the gay community in Great Britain.”
“Pride is a very special time of year, and the Fire crew is proud to be a part of the fun.
Once again, as London’s premier gay club group we have the honour of hosting the
official dance stage during the afternoon, and we will also be bringing you this incredible
and unique night, showcasing the absolute finest of gay DJs.”
The whole of Fire will be utilised for this very special night, with highlights including
the ‘Best of British’ main room, featuring the best Fire and Area residents, a ‘London
Underground’ room with UK-based tech house and progressive DJs such as Manchester’s
Nik Denton, an ‘International Room’, a ‘Brit Pop’ room headed by Dusty O, and a ‘New Brits
On The Block’ room, showcasing up’n’coming talent. There will also be a live PA, plus a
British Garden Party to kick off proceedings in the infamous Fire Garden.
Advance tickets are available now for £10 from www.clubtickets.com
VENUES:
CENTRAL LONDON
79 CXR, 79 Charing Cross Road,
WC2. 020 7734 0769. Leicester
Square tube. Mon-Sat 1pm-3am,
Sun 1pm-10.30pm. Cover charge
after 11pm. Large, cruisy, late-night
bar - always busy after 10.30pm
with those who don’t want to head
home too early.
ADMIRAL DUNCAN, 54 Old
Compton Street, W1. 020 7437
5300. Leicester Square tube.
Friendly, famous, traditional gay
pub - just look out for the purple
and pink exterior!
BARCODE, 3-4 Archer Street,
W1. 020 7734 3342. www.
bar-code.co.uk. Piccadilly Circus
tube. Mon-Sat 4pm-1.30am. Sun
until 10.30pm. Dance bar on three
floors, with club-style basement.
Comedy Camp stand-up night
each Tuesday, and more danceoriented sessions at
weekends.
THE BOX, 32-34 Monmouth
Street, Seven Dials, WC2. 020
7240 5828. Leicester Square tube.
11am-11pm. Stylish and awardwinning gay café bar popular with
scene and muscle queens. Frequent
exhibitions on the walls and
great food.
CANDY BAR, 4 Carlisle Street, W1.
020 7494 4041. Tottenham Court
Road tube. Mon-Thu 5-11.30pm. Fri
& Sat 5pm-2am. Sun 5-11pm. Longrunning and famed lesbian bar.
COMPTONS, 52 Old Compton
Street, W1. 020 7479 7961.
Leicester Square tube. Noon-11pm.
A Soho institution. Large, traditional
gay boozer on two floors, attracting
a butch and manly crowd. www.
comptons-of-soho.co.uk
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON,
77 Wardour Street, W1. 020 7439
1274. Piccadilly Circus tube.
Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat
noon-midnight, ‘til 10.30pm
on Sun. Traditional and fun gay
pub over two floors, attracting a
good cross-section from across
the scene.
THE EDGE, 11 Soho Square,
FREEDOM, 66 Wardour Street,
W1. 020 7734 0071. Piccadilly
Circus tube. Opulent style bar, with
late-night club promotions for a
mixed, metrosexual crowd.
www.freedombarsoho.com
FRIENDLY SOCIETY, 79 Wardour
Street, WC1. Trendy and unique,
intimate basement bar with
quirky decor and fun atmosphere
– attracts a mixed crowd.
G-A-Y BAR, 30 Old Compton
Street, W1. 020 7494 2756.
Leicester Square tube. 12pm12am. Huge, poptastic gay bar,
with a multitude of video screens,
pop tunes and drinks promotions.
www.g-a-y.co.uk
G-A-Y LATE, 5 Goslett Yard,
off Charing Cross Road, WC2.
Tottenham Court Road tube.
11pm-3am. Late-night sister
venue to G-A-Y Bar – more video
screens, camp pop fun and cheap
drinks.Gets very busy most nights
of the week.
www.g-a-y.co.uk for details
THE KINGS ARMS, 23 Poland
Street, W1. 020 7734 5907.
Oxford Circus tube. Mon-Thur
12pm–11pm, Fri-Sat 12pm-12am,
Sun 12pm-11.30pm. London’s bar
for bears and blokes. Traditional
atmosphere plus pool table.
Sunday night karaoke very popular.
KU BAR, 30 Lisle Street, Leicester
Square, WC2. 020 7437 4303.
Leicester Square tube. Large,
award-winning, upmarket gay
bar spread over three floors, open
till 3am daily and always busy
throughout the week. www.
ku-bar.co.uk
KU BAR SOHO, 25 Frith Street,
W1. Leicester Square tube. New,
smaller sister venue to Lisle Street
Ku Bar, with entrances on Old
Compton Street and Frith Street
- open till 11pm daily. The first floor
houses a Gay Tourist Office from
noon-6pm throughout the week
(www.gaytouristoffice.co.uk).
www.ku-bar.co.uk
KUDOS, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2.
020 7379 4573. Charing Cross
tube. 3pm-11pm, Sat noon-11pm,
Sun noon-10.30pm. Beautiful and
stylish café bar, with clubbier vibe
and video screens in the basement.
Popular with Asian crowd upstairs,
plus a basement women’s bar.
LO-PROFILE, The Basement,
84-85 Wardour Street, W1. Swanky,
sophisticated, 400-capacity
late-night
basement
bar and club space
– from the people that
bring you gaydar.co.uk. Open
11pm-3am Thursdays, and 10pm4am on Fridays and Saturdays.
www.loprofile.com
LONG YANG CLUB, long-running
social group for East Asian gay
guys and friends. Regular parties
and social events. Check website
at www.lyclondon.com for full
details.
MADAME JO JO’S, 8-10 Brewer
Street, W1. Long-running, late
night gig venue, nightclub
and cabaret bar - open to very
mixed crowd. Home to popular
Wednesday nighter Trannyshack.
www.madamejojos.com.
MOLLY MOGG’S, 2 Old Compton
Street, W1. 020 7434 4294.
Tottenham Court Road tube. Small,
intimate little gay pub, with regular
drag shows attracting a mixed
crowd of theatre folk and tourists.
PROFILE, 84-84 Wardour Street,
W1. 020 734 3444. Piccadilly Circus
tube. Upstairs bar above Lo-Profile,
owned and run by the team behind
Gaydar. Stylish gay bar/diner,
open for food and drink from early
morning through till 11pm – when
the action moves downstairs.
www.profilesoho.com
THE QUEBEC, 12 Old Quebec
Street, WC1. 020-7629 6159.
THE GREEN CARNATION, 4-5
Greek Street, Soho, W1. 020-7434
3323. Stylish, three-floored
late night gay venue, with
bar, dancefloor and nightly
promotions. Attracts a very mixed
crowd. www.greencarnationsoho.
co.uk
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN,
7 Duncannon Street, WC2. 020
7321 2791. Charing Cross tube.
Mon-Thu noon-11pm, Fri & Sat
12pm-12am. Old-style gay pub
spread over two floors.
HEAVEN, The Arches, Villiers
Street, WC2. Charing Cross Road
tube. Huge, world-famous gay
club, which is now home to
G-A-Y, along with mixed/studenty
Monday nighter Popcorn. Check
MARVELLOUS RETURN
Long-running south London indie mash-up
Marvellous is set to return! Tentatively returning for a
one-off reunion soirée spectacular, the inimitable Joan
Dairy Queen will again be your hostess. The event
will take place at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372
Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, on Friday 16 July.
DJs Lush, Jonny Slut, Wayne Shires and Felix will spin
the indie, rock, punk and retro tunes, and are also
promising visuals and live acts.
Doors will be open from 9pm till 3am, and
admission will be £6.
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Marble Arch tube. Long-running
and huge pub, on two floors,
attracting an older crowd. Open till
3am at weekends. Off the beaten
Soho track but well worth checking
out. www.thequebec.co.uk
THE QUEEN’S HEAD, 25 Tryon
Street, SW3. 020-7589 0262.
Sloane Square tube. Popular, very
long-running, cosy gay pub – a
Chelsea institution.
RETRO BAR, 2 George Court,
WC2. 020 7321 2811. Charing
Cross tube. Mon-Fri noon-11. Sat
5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-11pm.
A traditional boozer for the gay
scene’s indie, alternative and
student-types – Tuesday’s pop quiz
is an institution.
RUPERT STREET, 50 Rupert
Street, W1. 020 7292 7141.
Piccadilly Circus tube. 12-11pm, Sun
10.30pm. Large, designer-style bar,
popular with professional gay boyz
and post-work drinkers.
JULY AT THE TAVERN
Jodie Harsh’s infamous club night Circus holds
a Summer Ball on 2 July (the day before the
Pride Parade) in the gorgeous Bloomsbury
Ballroom (WC1B). Circus normally takes
place at the Paramount Club at the top of Centre
Point, and has earned a reputation for offering
one of the wildest and most eclectic nights in
town. In the spirit of Studio 54, it aims to make
its customers the centre of attention, and so
warns all attending to “dress to impress”. Expect
everything from drag queen and indie kids to
neon-painted fashion followers and celebrities
–people such as Amy Winehouse, Will Young,
the Noisettes, The xx, Ladyhawke and Robyn
have all passed through its doors or taken
control of the decks.
Peaches
The club often features guest DJs, and the
Summer Ball will be no exception as it will feature a guest deck appearance from
Canadian electro-rock artist Peaches (of ‘Fuck The Pain Away’ fame). She’ll be joining
the residents in the DJ booth – Jodie Harsh, Kris Di Angelis and newcomer Erol
Sabadosh. There will also be a dedicated ‘Beach Bar’, sponsored by the St Tropez tanning
products company.
The doors of this very special party open at 9.30pm and close 4am. Tickets cost £13 in
advance (through www.thisiscircus.com) and £16 on the door.
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SHADOW LOUNGE, 5 Brewer
Street, W1. 020-7287 7988.
Piccadilly tube. Exclusive, gorgeous,
late-night bar and club for A-list
gays and celeb-spotters. Open from
late each evening.
www.theshadowlounge.com
SWEATBOX, 1-2 Ramillies
Street, Soho, W1. 020-3214 6014.
Exclusively gay gym (ground
floor) and sauna (first floor), with
occasional late-night parties. Open
Sun-Thurs noon-2am, and till
7am Friday and Saturday. www.
sweatboxsoho.com.
VAULT 139, 139 Whitfield Street,
W1. 020-7388 5500. Central,
daytime and evening intimate
cruise club, for a men-only crowd.
Open 4pm-1am seven days a
week. www.vault139.com
VILLAGE, 81 Wardour Street, W1.
020 7434 2124. Piccadilly Circus
tube. 12-1am, Sun 11.30pm. Late
night door charge. Soho’s original
gay café bar, spread over four floors,
and now with basement dancefloor
and discos. Popular with a youngish
crowd of boys and girls.
THE YARD, 57 Rupert Street, W1.
020 7437 2652. Piccadilly Circus
tube. Mon-Thur 4pm-11pm, Fri
& Sat 1pm-11pm, Sun 1pm10.30pm. Busy gay bar with hugely
popular courtyard area, outdoor
balcony and cosy loft bar.
SAUNAS
CHARIOTS WATERLOO, 101
Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1. 020
7401 8484. Waterloo tube. Wellpresented, popular sauna, open
24/7. www.gaysauna.co.uk
PLEASUREDROME, 124 Cornwall
Road, Waterloo, SE1. Waterloo tube.
Big venue with lots of different
areas – open 24 hours, 365 days of
year. www.pleasuredrome.com
SAUNABAR PORTSEA, 2 Portsea
Place, Marble Arch, W2. 020 7402
3385. Marble Arch tube. Small and
friendly gay sauna with masseurs.
www.gaysaunabar.com
SAUNABAR COVENT GARDEN,
29 Endell Street, Covent Garden,
WC2. 020 7836 2236. Covent
Garden tube. Basement sauna with
pool, sauna and rest rooms. Check
website for discount entry.
www.thesaunabar.co.uk
SWEATBOX SOHO, Ramillies
House, 1-2 Ramillies Street, Soho,
W1. 020 3214 6014. Oxford Circus
tube. Gay-owned and run gym and
basement sauna.
www.sweatboxsoho.com
Camden Town tube. Shufflewick
Bar: Mon-Thu Noon-1am, Fri-Sat
12noon-2am, Sun Noon-10.30pm.
Club: Mon-Thu 10pm-2am, Fri-Sat
10pm-3am, Sun 10pm-1am. Longrunning, famed gay pub – probably
the most famous cabaret pub in
London. www.theblackcap.com
CENTRAL STATION,
37 Wharfdale Road, N1. Tel: 020
7278 3294. Kings Cross tube. Big,
late-opening gay bar on three
floors, with ground floor cabaret
and infamously cruisy cruise nights
in basement. Upstairs restaurant
offering gastropub menu, plus
B&B accommodation. www.
centralstation.co.uk
CLUB KALI, The Dome, 1
Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park,
N19. World’s biggest lesbian and
gay Southern Asian music night,
running every third Friday of the
month. Always busy and rather
unique. www.clubkali.com
EGG, 200 York Way, King’s Cross,
N7. 020 7609 8364. King’s Cross
tube. Bespoke club space on three
floors, hosting occasional gay club
nights and after-hours sessions
(mixed afterhours every Saturday
night/Sunday morning). www.
egglondon.net
NORTH LONDON
THE BLACK CAP, 171 Camden
High Street, NW1. 020 7485 0538.
THE GREEN, 74 Upper Street,
N1. 020-7226 8895. Angel tube.
London’s first ‘gay gay-stropub!’
Stylish, Islington bar, serving full
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PLAYPIT, 357 Caledonian Road,
N7. Caledonian Road tube. 0333
700 1231. Intimate, King’s Cross
sleaze club – basically a basement
darkroom. Open Thur-Sat 9pm3am, Sun 3pm-1am. Take your
own booze.
www.londonplaypit.co.uk
SOUTH LONDON
AREA, 67-68 Albert Embankment,
SE1. Gorgeously-designed, hard
dance club and cabaret rooms, with
eclectic roster of different gay nights
and one-off promotions, including
Friday nighter Onyx and new
Sunday nighter Booster, amongst
others. www.areaclub.info
BARCODE VAUXHALL, Arch 69,
Albert Embankment, SE11. 0207
734 3342. Vauxhall tube. Open 7
days a week. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am,
Fri-Sun 4pm-4am. Very popular
club bar, with dancefloor and
mezzanine chill-out space - gets
busy at weekends.
JULY AT THE TAVERN
As we report elsewhere,
the Royal Vauxhall
Tavern goes into
overdrive later this month
when it hosts the return
of its annual Hot August
Fringe festival. Read
Duckie
more details about that
on page 60. However, that isn’t, of course, the only thing
that’s going on at the establishment, and the teamRobert
Owens
have plenty of delights lined up in the run up to that.
Boogaloo Stu and his crew will be in the house on Friday
25 June for Splosh-A-Rama’s first birthday – which is
guarateed to be a messy, pop-laden affair. Rosie Wilby
returns with her Femmes by the Thames session on
Wednesday 30 June – a sassy sister cabaret that will
feature entertainment from Lady Carol, Helen Arney, Alsion
Brumfitt, Suzi Ruffell, Roxy Rawson and Rose France.
Dr Sketchy returns on Wednesday 14 July with a special
event to tie in with Bastille Day. Expect cabaret, live
life drawing and burlesque. All audience members are
encouraged to pick up a pencil and express their inner
artistic talents! Open from 7-11pm, tickets cost £10
(www.drsketchylondon.co.uk). Thursday nights in
July will feature Barry and Stuart’s Séance Show (part
of a comedy double bill preview show with Shazia Mirza)
on 1 July, Myra Dubois and Miss Annabel Sings on
Thursday 8 July, Flay and Deville’s Great Escape on
Thursday 15 July, and the return of the Magic Faraway
Travel Agency on Thursday 22 July (with Mister
Meredith, Claire Benjamin and guests).
Besides this, regular events include the Monday Pub Bingo
with Timberlina, Bar Wotever on Tuesdays, Duckie on
Saturdays and the hugely popular S.L.A.G.S/Chill-Out
on Sundays. www.rvt.org.uk
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cocktails. Mixed, chilled crowd
- now run by the same team as The
Edge in Soho.
KING EDWARD VI, 25 Bromfield
Street, N1. Tel: 020 7704 0745.
Angel tube. Sun-Thu 12noon12midnight, Thu 12noon-1am,
Fri-Sat 12noon-2am. Very
long-running gay pub, with ‘local’
atmosphere and character, plus
popular beer garden.
KW4, 77 Hampstead High Street,
NW3. 020-7435 5747. Large, cosy,
traditional old gay pub, with regular
entertainment, beer garden and
food. One of London’s longestrunning gay establishments.
www.kw4.co.uk
THE LOAD OF HAY, 207 Pinner
Road, Watford, 01923-441113.
Watford’s only gay pub, with
big beer garden and regular
entertainment.
www.loadofhay.co.uk
THE OAK BAR, 79 Green Lanes,
N16. 020-7354 2791.
Manor House tube. Friendly,
diverse gay bar with late-night
club promotions, and open ‘til 3am
at weekends. Very popular with
lesbians and male friends.
www.oakbar.com
CABLE, 33a Bermondsey Street,
SE1 2EG. 020 7403 7730. London
Bridge tube. Huge, purpose-built
clubbing venue in railway arches.
Host to occasional one-offs and
monthly promotions. www.cablelondon.com
CLUB COLOSSEUM, 1 Nine
Elms Lane, Vauxhall, SW8. Huge,
late-night venue for after-hours
crowd – hosting various monthly
promotions such as Bootylicious
(www.bootylicious-club.co.uk)
and Exilio.
THE EAGLE, 349 Kennington
Lane, SE11. 020 7793 0903. Mon,
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 9pm-late,
Tue 9pm-2am, Sun 9pm-late.
Vauxhall tube. Large, club-bar
with nightly promotions. Tonker
(Fridays) and Horse Meat Disco
(Sundays) are particularly popular.
www.eaglelondon.com
EXILIO, Bar Rez, Club Colosseum,
1 Nine Elms Lane, SW8. Vauxhall
tube. Long-running, Friday night
gay Latin and salsa night. Open
11pm till 4am. www.exilio.co.uk
FACTORY, 65 Goding Street, SE11.
Stylish, railway arch Vauxhall venue,
hosting occasional dance and
cruise nights.
THE FORT, 131 Grange Road,
SE1. 020-7237 7742. Small cruise
club, open till 11pm throughout
week, with regular boots-only and
underwear parties. Check website
for full listings.
www.thefortlondon.com
FIRE, South Lambeth Road,
Vauxhall, SW8. Vauxhall tube.
Infamous, late-night gay venue
beneath the Vauxhall railway
arches, host to the likes of Orange,
A:M, Later and Juicy. Open
around the clock at weekends.
www.allthingsorange.com or
www.myspace.com/firelondon or
www.clubtickets.com
THE FRIDGE, Town Hall Parade,
Brixton, SW9. 020 7326 5100.
Brixton tube. Large and legendary
venue - formerly a theatre. Now
home to occasional gay club nights
such as Love Muscle. www.fridge.
co.uk and www.lovemusclexx.co.uk
THE GEORGE & DRAGON, 2
BlackheathHill, Greenwich, SE10.
020 8691 3764. Deptford Bridge
DLR. Mon-Thu 4pm-1am, Fri &
Sat 4pm-4am, Sun 4pm-2am.
Late-night pub with nightly
entertainment and cabaret.
www.gandd.org.uk
COME TOGETHER FOR PRIDE
One of the highlights of the Pride London festivities
is a joint venture between Pride London and Queer
Question Time. ‘Come Together’ will take place on
Saturday 26 June at the Electric Cinema, 191 Portobello
Road, Notting Hill, W11. Pride London will this year be
commemorating the 40th anniversary of the formation
of the Gay Liberation Front, and Come Together will be
re-examining the GLF’s original eight-point manifesto
in greater detail – looking at what has been achieved
and what remains to demanded. The demands were as
follows:
1) That all discrimination against gay people, male and
female, by the law, by employers, and by society at large,
should end.
2) That all people who feel attracted to a member of their
own sex be taught that such feelings are perfectly normal.
3) That sex education in schools stop being exclusively
heterosexual.
4) That psychiatrists stop treating homosexuality as
though it were a problem or sickness, thereby giving gay
people senseless guilt complexes.
5) That gay people be as legally free to contact other gay
people through newspaper ads, on the streets, and by any
other means they may want, as are heterosexuals, and
that police harassment should cease right now.
6) That employers should no longer be allowed to
discriminate against anyone on account of their sexual
preferences.
7) That the age of consent for gay males be reduced to the
same as for straights.
8) That gay people be free to hold hands and kiss in public
as are heterosexuals.
Come Together will feature film screenings, including
original documentaries and early 70s interviews with
GLF members, followed by a panel debate with plenty
of audience participation. The event will be hosted by
Stewart Who?, and panel members will include trans
poet and activist Roz Kaveney, Shami Chakrabarti
(Director of Liberty), Peter Tatchell, artist Stuart
Feather and journalist Andrew Lumsden.
The event will run from 1-3pm, with entry £7.50 (£4 NUS
and unwaged). All door proceeds will go to Pride London.
Tickets from www.ticketweb.co.uk
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HIDDEN, 100 Tinworth Street,
SE11. Railway arch venue, home
to infamous Hard On night once
a month (www.hardonclub.co.uk),
and now also Megawoof (www.
megawoof.com) and popular urban
night Work on Wednesdays.
THE HOIST, Arch 47c, South
Lambeth Road, SW8. 020 7735
9972. 10pm-late. Door charge and
strict dress code. One of London’s
most famous dress-code and cruise
clubs - busy with a men-only
crowd. Open Friday-Sunday and
occasional Thursdays (SM Gays
every third Thursday of the month
- www.smgays.org).
www.thehoist.co.uk
JACKIE’S JUKEBOX, Rivoli
Ballroom, 350 Brockley Road,
SE4. First Saturday of the month,
7pm-midnight (£7). Gay ballroom
and Latin dancing night, attracting
up to 300 dancers a month to the
glam 1950s-style Rivoli Ballroom.
Crofton Park BR. www.therivoli.co.uk
KAZBAR, 50 Clapham High Street,
SW4. 020 7622 0070. Clapham
North tube. Mon-Thu 4pm-
midnight, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat noon1am, Sun noon-midnight. Clapham
video bar, popular throughout the
week, with DJs at weekends.
LITTLE APPLE, 98 Kennington
Lane, SE11. 020 7735 2039.
Kennnigton tube. Open 7 days a
week. Small, traditional gay boozer
for local gay boys and girls - open
till 1.30am Fri-Sat.
PARIS GYM,
73 Goding Street, Vauxhall, SE11.
020 7735 8989. Vauxhall tube.
Huge, well-equipped men-only
gym with large, devoted following.
Regular classes. Tourists welcome.
Check website for entry details and
membership. www.parisgym.com
ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN,
372 Kennington Lane, SE11.
020 7840 0596. Opening times
vary. Vauxhall tube. Door Charge.
Huge, traditional and historic gay
pub, with long history of hosting
cabaret. Packed to rafters on
Saturday (Duckie) and Sunday
(S.L.A.G.S/Chill-Out). Check
www.rvt.org.uk or the facebook
group RV Taverners for information.
THE STAG, 15 Bressenden Place,
SW1. 020 7828 7287. Victoria
tube. Mon & Tue midday-midnight,
Wed-Fri midday-2am, Sat 5pm2am, Sun 4pm-midnight. Dark and
atmospheric gay bar in Victoria,
with occasional cabaret and DJs
at weekends, and now an upstairs
theatre space.
286, 286 Lewisham High Street,
SE14. 020-8690 7648. Large, lateopening gay venue, with regular
entertainment, DJs and cabaret.
Open till 2am Sun-Thur and 4am
Fri-Sat. www.two8six.co.uk
JULY DICK
Quarterly club night Dick & Fanny – an East End mash-up that aims to appeal equally
to both gay boys and girls (hence the name) – returns for its summer outing on
Saturday 10 July. Following a packed affair in April, The Star of Bethnal Green will
again play host to an eclectic selection of DJs, gathered from underground disco and gay
scenes from all across the globe. First up will be DJ Kim Anh (www.kimanh.info), the
founder and resident of monthly L.A party Booby Trap – which attracts Hollywood’s
hip and alternative lesbian scene. Next up is Warboy, who has been at the forefront of
London clubbing over the last decade, through his involvement with nights like Kash
Point, All You Can Eat and Caligula. He also just recorded an acid-driven vocal track
with Vogue cover star Andre J to be released later in the summer (http://www.myspace.
com/warboy). They’ll be supported by Philippos N. Originally from Greece, but now
London resident, he’s head honcho of Freshit Records. Last, but by no means least, will
be British-Japanese DJ/Producer Maya Jane Coles. Between them, they’ll be offering
up a mixture of classic house, techno, Italo, hi nrg and disco. Basically, anything that will
get your feet moving! Dick and Fanny takes place from 9pm till 3am on Saturday 10
July at the Star of Bethnal Green, 359 Bethnal Green Road, E2. Admission is just £3
before 10pm and then £5 after.
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THE TRAFALGAR ARMS,
148 Tooting High Street, SW17.
020-8767 6059. A spacious,
lively, attitude-free, gay-friendy
pub. Excellent food served all day.
Weekly DJs on Friday and Saturday
nights. Karaoke on Wednesdays.
THE TWO BREWERS,
114 Clapham High Street, SW4.
020 7819 9539. Clapham Common
tube. Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri & Sat
5pm-4am. South London’s most
famed gay cabaret venue. Large
bar and separate dancefloor room.
An institution for over 20 years.
www.the2brewers.com
UNION, 66 Albert Embankment,
SE1. 020-7793 9262. Cruisy
dance club which hosts regular
HEY MISTER DJ
July at the Ku Bar is all about Pride London and the
World Cup.
Although there will be no cabaret stage in Leicester Square
this year, both Ku Lisle Street and Ku Frith Street
will be celebrating Pride with big parties on Saturday 3
July. The Frith Street Bar will stay open until 2am, while
all three floors of the Lisle Street bar will stay open until
5am. Don’t forget that you can watch the remaining World
Cup matches at the Lisle Street Bar – and the bar boys
have been getting into the World Cup mood by donning
sports kits. Like they needed much excuse to show off
their legs…!
Finally, the bar’s DJ Quest continues throughout July, with
entrants in the contest showing off their deck skills at the
bar’s basement club O Zone session on Fridays, alongside
the more established talent.
The Ku Bar on Lisle Street offers non-stop entertainment
throughout the week, with a nightly rotation of different
promotions – for full details, check www.ku-bar.com
promotions. Plays areas and hot
go-go’s. www.clubunion.co.uk and
www.ma1.co.uk
XXL, The Arches, 51-53 Southwark
Street, SE1. www.xxl-london.
com. London Bridge tube. Huge
world-famous club for bears, big
men and admirers, on Saturday
and Wednesday. Pulls in 1,000+
customers each Saturday with
uplifting dance anthems and
occasional guest DJs.
STEAMWORKS, 309 New Cross
Road, New Cross, SE14. 020 8694
0606. New Cross/New Cross Gate
station. Small, long-running
establishment.
www.steamworkslondon.co.uk
EAST LONDON
THE ANGEL, 21 Church Street,
E15. Tel: 020 8555 1148. Stratford
BR and tube. Big gay pub, always
popular at weekends, with regular
cabaret, DJs and disco nights.
SAUNAS
CHARIOTS STREATHAM
292 Streatham High Road, SW16.
020 8696 0929. Streatham station.
Large sauna, with weekly theme
nights (bears, men of colour, etc).
www.gaysauna.co.uk
CHARIOTS VAUXHALL
63-64 Albert Embankment,
Vauxhall, SE1. 020 7247 5333.
Vauxhall tube. Large, modern
sauna in converted railway arch.
www.gaysauna.co.uk
THE LOCKER ROOM, 8 Cleaver
Street, Kennington, SE11. 020
7735 6064. Kennington tube.
Long-running, intimate gay-owned
and run sauna.
www.the-lockerroom.co.uk
THE BACKSTREET, Wentworth
Mews, off Burdett Road, E3.
020-8980 8557. Over 25 years
old – small but legendary East
End dress code leather club, open
Thur-Sun. Very strict rubber and
leather dresscode, ensuring a
wide and loyal following. www.
thebackstreet.com
BISTROTHEQUE, 23-27 Wadeson
St, E2. Tel: 020 8983 7900.
Bethnal Green tube. Very mixed,
gay/straight crowd of trendy
metrosexuals. Great bar, restaurant,
plus separate cabaret room.
www.bistrotheque.com
CHARLIE’S BAR, 124 Globe
Road, E1. Tel: 020 7790 1007.
Whitechapel tube. Recently
refurbished, Moroccan style
– friendly, local gay bar.
DALSTON SUPERSTORE, 117
Kingsland High Street, E8. 020
7254 2273. Highbury & Islington
tube. New, two-floor mixed
gay-straight venue - café by day
and fashionable performance
space and club promotions at
night. Open noon-2am seven days
a week.
GAY LICK, Club Lick, 58 Hoe
Street, E17. Walthamstow tube.
Twice-monthly gay promotion at
a cruisy club space. Every first and
third Friday from 9pm-4am. Entry
£4 before midnight and £7 after.
www.gaylicke17.co.uk
THE JOINERS ARMS, 116
Hackney Road, E2. Tel: 020 7739
9854. Debauched decadence
– old-skool boozer popular with
post-club crowd at weekends. Gets
busy later in the evenings.
KINGS HEAD, 11 Church
Street, E15. Tel: 020 8534 0197
Stratford BR and tube. Intimate
and welcoming East End gay pub
– regular cabaret. Open till late
throughout the week.
THE OLD SHIP, 17 Barnes
Street, E14. Tel: 020 7790 4082.
Limehouse DLR. Small, local,
traditional gay pub, with regular
cabaret - five minutes’ walk from
BJ’s White Swan (see below).
BJ’s WHITE SWAN,
556 Commercial Road, E1. Tel: 020
7780 9870. Limehouse DLR. A
large, legendary, long-running gay
pub and club, open throughout
the week. Wednesday’s Amateur
Strip is an institution. www.
bjswhiteswan.com
SAUNAS
CHARIOTS LIMEHOUSE,
574 Commercial Road, E14. 020
7791 2808. Limehouse rail station.
Multi-level, well-established
sauna. Themed parties such as ‘Big
and chunky’ each Monday evening,
FLESH RETURNS!
Think that the best gay clubs are only found in London?
One of the most famous and influential gay nights of
the last two decades must be Flesh – the monthly gay
night at Manchester’s infamous Hacienda – which ran
throughout the early 90s. There’s not been a Flesh party for
several years, but to commemorate the 20th anniversary
of the club’s first party in 1990, promoter Paul Cons will
be throwing a one-off Flesh party on the August Bank
Holiday Sunday (29 August) – to coincide with the annual
Manchester Mardi Gras. This one-off spectacular will
take place at Peter Hook’s Fac 251 – The Factory (the
building that was originally Paradise Factory). If you’re
planning on attending Manchester Mardi Gras, the Flesh
party – which will act as a fundraiser for the Albert
Kennedy Trust and the Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund
– is sure to be one of the weekend’s highlights. The night
will feature original Flesh DJs Dave Kendrick, DJ Paulette
and Kath McDermott, and there’s the promise of a very
special Live PA, as well as exciting stage happenings to
celebrate the Flesh years, with contributions by a host of
stars inspired by their patronage of the night.
“I’ve been asked many times to bring back Flesh and I
have always resisted,” promoter Cons told Out In The City.
“However, this time it felt right. The Flesh generation is
now in its 30’s and 40’s and fast approaching mid-life.
It’s a good time to look back and celebrate our lives, yet
we also need to look to the future and what comes next.
I’d love the night to be a kind of ‘queer reboot’ – a night
of memories , passion and excitement that might inspire
who knows what?! For me this isn’t about nostagia – it’s
necessary.”
Tickets cost £15 plus booking fee and are
available now from www.ticketweb.co.uk
www.fleshclub.co.uk
amongst others.
www.gaysauna.co.uk
CHARIOTS SHOREDITCH,
1 Fairchild Street, Shoreditch, EC2.
020 7247 5333. Liverpool Street
station. Biggest gay sauna in UK,
with a maze of rest rooms. Very
popular (particularly at weekends).
www.gaysauna.co.uk
BRIGHTON
E15 CLUB, 6 Leytonstone Road,
Stratford, E15. 020 8555 5455.
Stratford tube. Deceptively large
sauna behind a discreet facade.
www.londonnoise.com/e15
WEST LONDON
ESCAPE, 184 London Road,
Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, KT2.
020 8549 9911. Revamped, longrunning gay club open WednesdaySunday. www.therclub.co.uk
THE HOPE & ANCHOR, 20
Macbeth Street, Hammersmith,
W6. (020 8748 1873). Gay pub
for Hammersmith and Chiswick.
Traditional boozer with nightly
entertainment – open noon-11pm
throughout week, with popular
karaoke at weekends.
THE RICHMOND ARMS, 20
The Square, off Princes Street,
Richmond. 020-8940 2118. Longrunning, traditional gay pub, with
regular cabaret and entertainment.
One of gay London’s better locals.
TED’S PLACE, 305a North End
Road, West Brompton, W14. 0207
385 9359. Earls Court or West
Brompton tube. Mon-Fri from 7pmlate, closed Sat & Sun. Small, West
London cruise club. Dark and sleazy.
www.tedsplaceuk.co.uk
WEST 5, Popes Lane, South
Ealing, W5. 020-8579 3266. Large,
popular gay pub with Piano Room
and cabaret bar, open till late at
weekends with entertainment
and DJs. Attracts a big local crowd
- particularly at weekends.
www.west5ealing.com
WINDSOR CASTLE, 152 Bath
Road, Hounslow, TW3. 020 8577
6590. Hounslow West tube. Large,
local gay pub with regular cabaret
and entertainment throughout
the week.
www.thewinz.co.uk
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AUDIO, Marine Parade, BN1.
www.audiobrighton.com. Club
venue with outdoor terrace
– making it a summer favourite.
Hosts regular club nights such
as Sunday Sundae (www.
aeonevents.co.uk)
AMSTERDAM BAR, 11-12
Marine Parade, BN2. www.
amsterdam.uk.com. 01273
688825. Long-running
establishment, with an adjoining
hotel and sauna. Great outdoor
terrace for the summer months.
AQUARIUM, 6 Steine Street,
Brighton. 01273 605525. www.
the-aquarium-theatre-bar.
co.uk. Long-running, traditional
style pub popular with gay guys.
Regular entertainment.
BLANCH HOUSE, 17
Atlingworth Street, Brighton,
BN2. 01273 603504. www.
blanchhouse.co.uk. Plush, hip,
mixed hotel cocktail bar that’s
popular with a cross-section of
Brighton residents and visitors.
Open late at weekends.
BRIGHTON TAVERN, 100
Gloucester Road, North Laine,
BN1. 01273 680365. A stylish
but homely venue with wooden
flooring, open fire, real ales and a
friendly welcome.
THE BULLDOG, 31 St. James
Street, Brighton, BN2. 01273
696996. www.bulldogbrighton.
com. Legendary scene bar
(nearly 30 years old!), attracting
a bloke-ish crowd with drinks
promotions, entertainment and
long hours thanks to a 24-hour
licence in operation at weekends.
CHARLES STREET BAR, 8
Marine Parade, BN2. 01273
624091. www.charles-street.
com. Large, stylish and popular
gay bar overlooking the seafront
– particularly busy with pre-club
crowds at weekends.
DOCTOR BRIGHTONS, 16-17
Kings Road, BN1. 01273 208113.
www.doctorbrightons.co.uk.
Another long-running scene
institution, ideally placed for the
seafront, shopping on The Lanes, or
Brighton’s club life.
THE HONEYCLUB, 214 Kings
Road Arches, BN1. 01273 202807.
www.thehoneyclub.co.uk.
Acclaimed club venue, which hosts
occasional gay nights and parties.
THE KING’S ARMS, 56 George
Street, BN2. 01273 245128.
www.kingsarmsbrighton.co.uk.
Brighton’s bar for bears and blokes,
with promotions throughout the
week and occasional dress-code
parties.
LEGENDS, 31-32 Marine Parade,
BN2. 01273 624462. www.
legendsbrighton.com. A true
scene stalwart, and part of the
New Europe hotel complex. Longrunning bar that’s still going strong
– open late throughout the week.
MARINE TAVERN, 13 Broad
Street, BN2. 01273 681284. www.
marinetavern.co.uk. Small, cosy,
traditional-style bar.
QUEEN’S ARMS, 7 George
Street, BN2. 01273 696873.
www.queensarmsbrighton.com.
Long-running scene pub with
camp tunes and fun entertainment
throughout the week.
R-BAR, 7 Marine Parade, BN2.
01273 608133. www.revenge.
co.uk. Sister bar to the longrunning and famous Revenge
nightclub. A hip and stylish
establishment that’s popular with
its own crowd of regulars.
REVENGE, 32-34 Old Steine,
BN1. 01273 606064. www.
revenge.co.uk. Brighton’s famous,
long-running, full-time gay club,
offering two floors of music and
club promotions. Attracting a
wide range of customers from all
sections of the city’s gay scene, and
a hot spot for visitors.
VAVOOM VIDEO BAR, 31 Old
Steine, BN1. 01273 603010.
www.vavoom.co.uk. As its name
suggests, a bight and glitzy video
bar, next door to Club Revenge.
WILD FRUIT, Tru, West Street,
BN1. 01273 327083. The biggest
gay night on the south coast. A
huge, monthly party that’s been
running for years – pulling in
clubbers from far and wide. Check
the website at www.aeonevents.
co.uk for details of upcoming dates
and ticket prices.
THE ZONE, 33 St James’s Street,
Brighton, BN2. 01273 682249.
Friendly, mixed venue with regular
entertainment and laid-back
attitude.
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ART CLASSES
The Gay Tourist Office (above
Ku Bar on Frith Street, Soho,
W1) is running two classes
for LGBT people wishing to
explore their creative side.
There’s a ‘Demystifying
Digital’ photography
class and a ‘Gay Social Art
Class’. Prices range from
£10 for a basic art lesson
or £60 for four two-hour
photography classes. For
more information: email
michele@gaytouristoffice.
co.uk for photography and
joey@gaytouristoffice.co.uk
for art classes.
GROUPS//ORGS
Albert Kennedy Trust: 020
7831 6562 (London). Housing
advice for under 21s.
Antidote: 020 7437 3523.
Counselling, Thursday drop-in,
complementary therapies
around alcohol and drug issues.
BKY - Alternative Jewish
Community: www.bkylondon.
org.uk
Islington LGB Forum:
Rachael: 07989 747824. An
initiative between local police,
the council and victim support.
Regard: Regard, BM REGARD,
London WC1N 3XX, secretary@
regard.org.uk/www.regard.org.
uk. Disabled LGBT group.
Jewish Gay and Lesbian
Group: 020 8952 0137.
Step Out Tower Hamlets:
Social & support group for LGBT
and questioning young people.
5-8pm Tues 079 4633 7160
Kairos: 020 7437 6063, www.
kairosinsoho.org.uk. Soho project
promoting health and wellbeing among LGBT community.
Lesbian Gay Christian
Movement: 020 7739 1249,
lgcm@lgcm.org.uk/www.lgcm.
org.uk.
London Friend: 020 7837
3337. Groups in Islington.
Quaker London Lesbian &
Gay Fellowship: Religious
group – 020 8675 6740.
Metro Centre: 020 8265 3311,
www.metrocentreonline.org.
Greenwich-based LGBT support.
Croydon Area Gay Society:
Friendly social group in Croydon.
020 8645 0943 - www.cags.org
One-Up: LGBT under-18 youth
Gay and Lesbian Humanist
Association, (GALHA):
National campaigning
organisation, founded 1979.
Monthly meetings in central
London, all welcome. www.
galha.org - secretary@galha.org
- 0844 800 3067
Outrage!: 020 8240 0222.
Political campaiging group.
group, meets every Monday
4-7pm (based in Hendon - North
West London) - contact Theresa
(PACE) 07504226793 (mobile).
OutZone: London-based social
and support group for gay and
bisexual young men under
25. Every Friday 6.30-9.30pm
- info@outzone.org - www.
outzone.org
PACE: 020 7700 1323.
Counselling and support groups.
Quest LGB Catholics: 0808
808 0234.
GAY GOLFERS WANTED
Brighton Lesbian and Gay
Sports Society (BLAGSS) has
been meeting the sporting and
social needs of the gay and lesbian
community of Brighton and Hove
since 1997.
BLAGSS initiated a golf group in
2005 and the organisation had its
first Open Championship in 2007.
Its fourth Open Championship golf
tournament will be taking place this
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South London Gays: 020 8672
5268/020 8674 5191.
www.slago.org.uk/slg. Friendly
social group.
Stonewall: 020 7593 1850.
Campaign group for LGBT rights.
KINGS CROSS STEELERS RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB
Lesbian & Gay Immigration
Group: – 020 7922 7811.
www.uklgig.org.uk - Every
Mon 2-6.30pm, Tue 10am-5pm
and Wed/Thur 10am-1.30pm.
Helpline and meetings.
Mosaic: 0800 0433 411. www.
mosaicyouth.org.uk. Youth group
based in Brent.
ELOP: 020 8509 3898. Support
and community events in
Walthamstow. Youth, advice,
counselling and groups.
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Gay Police Association:
Action Line 07092 700 000
(24hrs), info@gpa.police.uk.
Galop: 020 7704 2040. www.
galop.org.uk. Advice and support
for victims of hate crime.
HIV//AIDS
Crusaid: 020 7539 3880,
www.crusaid.org.uk.
The Kings Cross Steelers Rugby Football Club is the full name of the world’s first
rugby team for gay and bisexual men. It was founded in 1995 and played its first game the
following year in the Surrey County Union. The club currently has two teams represented in
the Essex Rugby Union. The club was founded in the Kings Cross district, but are currently
based in West Ham at the East London Rugby Club. The club welcomes experienced players
who want to get back in the game as well as beginners. They offer training every Tuesday
and Thursday as well as fixtures. Training restarts 1 July.
The club aims “to be a role model to the gay community, and a successful example of
friendly cohabitation between people of different sexual orientation” – an aim that
contributed towards its nomination in last year’s Stonewall Awards.
Rugby has been in the pink spotlight lately. Former Welsh international Gareth Thomas came
out in December last year and was on the front cover of Out In The City last month. Thomas
plays for Crusaders in the European Super League. The KC Steelers also like to party. If you
want to meet the members you are very likely to find them in Comptons of Soho, which
currently sponsors the team. www.kxsrfc.com
GMFA: 020 7738 6872. Gay
men’s health charity.
Grace’s Cricket Club: The
National AIDS Trust: 020 7814
6767, www.nat.org.uk.
world’s only gay cricket club!
www.gaycricket.org.uk or 020
8376 0630.
Terence Higgins Trust: 02078121777. Counselling Services.
Irons: www.ironsgolf.org.uk .
Gay golfing, events for all levels.
SPORTS
King’s Cross Steelers Rugby
Football Club: 07090 421 367,
www.kxsrfc.com. Gay men’s rugby.
Cruisers basketball: 020 8960
0750 (Debbie)/ 020 7582 7009,
www.cruisers.org.uk (Jordi).
Mixed basketball.
Frontrunners: 07092 346340,
www.londonfrontrunners.org.
Gay running group.
Goslings Swimming: 07814
258 055. Gay social swimming
group, Thur 8.30pm-9.30pm.
www.goslingssportsclub.com
July (16-18 July 2010). The event
has rapidly become a big date in
the UK’s LGBT sporting calendar. The
organisers say “Equality for all is the
name of this game, and it’s open to
any LGBT golfers who want to take
part in a competitive, social and fun
event.”
There are two trophies to be
won: the BLAGSS Open Golf
Championship Shield (20
handicap and below) and the
London Amateur Wrestling:
www.law-wrestling.org
The London Royals Hockey
Team: Mixed hockey for all
levels. www.pinkhockey.com
or email iainkimmins115@
hotmail.com
Out to Swim: 07090 422
526, www.outtoswim.org. Gay
swimming group.
BLAGSS Rainbow Challenge
Shield (handicap 21 and above).
There are also three medals to be
won in each of three categories of
play: Gold, Silver and Bronze. All
this takes place at the wonderful
Singing Hills Golf Course just outside
Brighton, one of the UK’s leading
weekend destinations.
For more information, contact
golf@blagss.org or visit www.
ukblagssopengolf.btik.com/
London Raiders: Gay and
lesbian softball club – both
beginners and experienced
players welcome. www.
londonraiders.com
Stonewall Football Club:
07090 422 390. Sunday soccer.
3337. Counselling service.
PACE: 0808 1807 223. Helpline
open Monday 9.30am-12.30pm
and Thursday 6.30-8.30pm,
offering structured telephone
counselling or 30-minute
counseling sessions. Or email
pacehelpline@pacehealth.org.uk
HELPLINES
POSITIVELINE: 0800-1696806.
Broken Rainbow: LGBT
Domestic Violence Helpline.
0300 999 5428 (Mon and Thurs,
2-8pm/Weds, 10am-1pm).
www.broken-rainbow.org.uk.
Dazz-elle: 020 8257 3068.
London drug/alcohol support.
HIV info and counselling
(weekdays: 11am-10pm and
weekends: 4pm -10pm). www.
eddiesurmantrust.org.uk
Stonewall Housing Advice:
020 7359 5767.
Stonewall infoline:
London Lesbian & Gay
Switchboard: 020 7837 7324
London Friend: 020 7837
Information on all LGB rights
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NEWS FLASHES
CRUSAID AND TERRENCE
HIGGINS TRUST MERGE
Two of the UK’s best-known HIV
charities, Crusaid and Terrence
Higgins Trust, have announced that
they are to merge.
Jordan Hay, Chief Executive of
Crusaid, said: “We initiated this merger to ensure that our
hardship fund can continue to make a vital difference to the
ever-increasing numbers of people diagnosed with HIV each
year in the UK. THT shares our vision and values and we are
excited about the opportunities to support people with HIV
that this merger presents.”
Sir Nick Partridge, Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust said:
“I’m delighted to confirm that Crusaid and Terrence Higgins
Trust have merged. The merger will preserve the Crusaid
Hardship Fund in a very challenging economic climate and help
ensure that people with HIV have the ongoing support that
they so vitally need.
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and research for a renewed anti-poverty strategy in support of
people living with HIV in the UK.”
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OVER EXPENSES PROBE
BORIS SCRAPS PRIDE LONDON RECEPTION
London Mayor Boris Johnson has cancelled the Pride London
mayoral reception. The decision is part of a broader strategy to
end receptions aimed specifically at minority groups. Instead,
the Mayor plans to hold “borough community receptions”,
aimed at geographical districts of London – which would
welcome LGBT representation. Pride London’s spokesman Colm
Howard-Lloyd said: “Things in the public sector are pretty tough
right now but City Hall does still sponsor us a decent amount.”
City Hall is Pride London’s largest sponsor and is expected
to contribute about £100,000 to the festival this year;
approximately a third of the event’s estimated costs.
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CONSERVATORY FUNDRAISER FOR THT
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Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws MP, has resigned
from his position after the Daily Telegraph newspaper ran a
story detailing his expenses claims. The Liberal Democrat MP
– a high-profile member of the new coalition government
– claimed around £40,000 in expenses between 2001 and
2009 for renting a room from a man that it now transpires was
his partner. Since 2006, MPs have not been allowed to claim
expenses if they are renting rooms from a spouse or partner.
In his defence, Mr Laws – the MP for Yeovil, Devon – said that
his motivation in not declaring the arrangement, besides not
thinking he was in breach of parliamentary rules, was a desire
to keep his relationship with the man private and not have to
reveal his sexuality.
“At no point did I consider myself to be in breach of the rules
which, in 2009, defined partner as ‘one of a couple… who,
although not married to each other or civil partners are living
together and treat each other as spouses’,” said Mr Laws.
“Although we were living together we did not treat each other
as spouses – for example, we do not share bank accounts and
indeed have separate social lives. However, I now accept that
this was open to interpretation and will immediately pay back
the costs of the rent and other housing costs I claimed from the
time the rules changed until August 2009.”
Once the revelations came to light, Laws – a former top banker
from the City – referred himself to the Parliamentary Standards
Commissioner. Laws then resigned from his role at the Treasury,
but has expressed the desire to remain an MP if he has the
backing of his constituents.
Terrence Higgins Trust supporters gathered at
the Conservatory at the Barbican on Wednesday
2 June for the sexual health charity’s ninth
annual Cocktail Club.
Paying £50 per ticket, those who attended enjoyed free
canapés and cocktails throughout the evening, as well as the
exotic flora of this unique venue. An estimated £35,000 was
raised at the evening event.
Debbie Holmes, Director of Fundraising at Terrence Higgins
Trust said: “We’re thrilled to have had such a wonderful
turn-out to this year’s Cocktail Club. A huge thank you to
all our guests for such generous support, donating funds to
help Terrence Higgins Trust safeguard essential services for
people affected by HIV.”
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RUSSIA
Despite the mayor of
Moscow again banning an
official Gay Pride march
from taking place in the
city, around 30 Russian
LGBT activists held a
ten-minute ‘flashmob’ Gay
Pride demonstration in the
Russian capital on Saturday
29 May.
“The guerrilla-style hitand-run Moscow Gay Pride
march was over before the
police arrived. When they
turned up, officers scurried
around aimlessly, searching
for protesters to arrest. All
escaped the police dragnet,”
said British campaigner
Peter Tatchell, who took
part in the event.
CANADA
A report in the Canadian
Medical Association Journal
has suggested that gay
men who have lived in
monogamous relationship
for at least one year should
be allowed to donate blood.
The lifetime ban on gay men
giving blood has been in
place in North America and
the UK since the early 80s.
It was issued following the
outbreak of HIV.
...AND FINALLY
ELTON WOWS MOROCCO
Sir Elton John defied anger from local Islamists and pulled off a performance at the Mawazine
music festival in Morocco’s capital, Rabat, last month. Several politicians had complained
that Sir Elton’s performance would “spread un-Islamic values” and possibly enhance the spread
of homosexuality in the country. However, the 63-year-old rock star received support from the
government, the royal palace and thousands of fans in the audience – who were reportedly
singing along to his hits despite limited knowledge of English.
Morocco was known for being a tolerant country up until the middle of the 20th century, but has
grown politically more conservative in the last couple of decades. However, in a possible indication
of shifting attitudes, the country’s first regular gay magazine was recently launched.
SLATER’S LIFE TOASTED
Gay cook and food writer Nigel Slater is to have his best-selling memoirs turned into a BBC film. The company has bought the
rights to his book Toast, which revisits his 60s childhood and passion for food – recalling foods that have fallen in and out fashion
over the course of his early life. The writer talks about seeking solace in food after the death of his mother when he was aged
nine, and his sometimes difficult relationship with his father and step-mother. Helena Bonham Carter has been confirmed to
play the role of his step-mother. The casting was announced at the Cannes Film Festival. BBC 1 controller Jay Hunt said: “Toast is a
wonderfully nostalgic drama that will be a real treat for BBC One viewers.”
JANE LYNCH MARRIES PARTNER
Jane Lynch, the lesbian actress who has shot to worldwide fame in her role as bitchy coach Sue
Sylvester in American series Glee, has married her partner Lara Embry in a Memorial Day ceremony
in Massachusetts. The small ceremony and reception – attended only by a small number of close
family and friends – took place at the lesbian-owned Blue Heron restaurant. The venue’s chef and
co-owner Debra Snow said afterwards that the couple had been planning the event for several
months.
OUTSPOKEN:
ARSHAM PARSI,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OF THE IRANIAN
RAILROAD FOR
QUEER REFUGEES
(IRQR) HIGHLIGHTS
THE PLIGHT OF LGBT
PEOPLE IN IRAN.
“On September 2007, the world was told that
‘there are no homosexuals in Iran. We do not have
this phenomenon’. Such a denial makes me proud to again
state that I am an Iranian homosexual, that we do exist,
and that we are fighting for our rights, because queer
rights are human rights.
I am the founder and Executive Director of the Iranian
Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR), an international queer
human rights non-governmental organization (NGO)
based in Toronto, Canada. The mission of IRQR is to aid
and assist to the best of our abilities Iranian gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered refugees in countries around
the world. We aid
Iranian queers who
face the threat of
deportation back to WE AID IRANIAN
Iran. We also assist
QUEERS WHO FACE
Iranian queers in
obtaining asylum in THE THREAT OF
safe countries. IRQR
assists those refugees DEPORTATION
through their legal
and social processes BACK TO IRAN
and, whenever
possible, financially.
We provide funds for
safe houses through
donations. These are necessary because most of our queer
clients find themselves in physical danger – both in their
native countries and countries of transit.
Today, IRQR is the only active NGO that works on behalf
of the global population of Iranian queers. We document
human rights violations against Iranian LGBTs on the basis
of their sexual orientation; provide letters of support for
Iranian queer asylum seekers and refugees; and vigorously
support anti-homophobia and anti-persecution efforts
in Iran.
As founder and ED of IRQR, I consider the work I am
doing today to be an investment in that freer and brighter
tomorrow for all Iranians in my now-troubled country. We
are working to simplify our structure to focus exclusively on
supporting Iranian queers in fleeing Iran, processing their
asylum applications, preventing their deportation back to
Iran and in maximizing their safety.
Most Iranian LGBT refugees are scattered throughout
Europe, primarily in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany,
Switzerland, and Norway. Many also live in the United
Kingdom, where the British government has been
extremely reluctant to grant permanent asylum status to
queer Iranian refugees.
I recently visited the UK for the first time in my life and
spent time with refugees and listened to their sad stories
and difficulties – assuring them that there is at least a
person who knows what they have been through.
There are many people who wants to support and help.
There is a long way ahead of us. We had dark days in the
past and difficult days now, but the most important thing
is that tomorrow is us. Help us to achieve this dream.”
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NEWS FLASHES
WALK FOR LIFE 2010
NEWS
MALAWIAN COUPLE FREED
Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, the Malawian
gay couple who were sentenced to 14 years in prison because
of their gay relationship, have been pardoned and released.
Their conviction and sentence received worldwide attention
and condemnation, and high-profile donors and human rights
groups had been putting pressure on the Malawian Government
to repeal the sentence and free the men.
Madonna, who has adopted children from the country and
invested money in building a Malawain orphanage, spoke
out against the sentence and launched a petition against the
judgement. Amnesty International also took up Monjeza and
Chimbalanga’s cause and campaigned for their release.
Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika issued the pardon
during a visit to his country by UN chief Ban Ki-moon in
late May. Ban, who it is believed is encouraging Malawian
government to reform its anti-homosexuality laws, hailed the
president’s decision as “courageous”.
However, in granting the pardon, Mr Mutharika again reiterated
his own belief that homosexuality was wrong.
“In all aspects of reasoning, in all aspects of human
understanding, these two gay boys were wrong – totally
wrong,” he said. “However, now that they have been sentenced,
I as the president of this country have the powers to pronounce
on them and therefore, I have decided that with effect from
today, they are pardoned and they will be released.”
Monjeza, aged 26, and Chimbalanga, 20, were released on
Saturday 29 May, and were returned separately to their
home villages. However, Malawian authorities have stated
that the pair could be re-arrested if they continue with their
relationship.
News of the couple’s release was welcome by campaigners
around the world, with many vowing to continue to apply
pressure to the African state. Michael Nastari of Right2Love
– a group which had organised protests against the pair’s
incarceration on the day that it was announced that they would
be pardoned, said, “whilst this is fantastic news for Steven and
Tiwonge, we should not be celebrating it as an outright victory.
The world needs to continue watching Malawi and encourage
the government to review their colonial legislation.”
At the time of going to press, it was believed that Monjeza
and Chimbalanga has ended their relationship, following their
incarceration, death threats and media attention.
PETER TATCHELL
TO PRESENT POPE
PROGRAMME
Channel 4 Television have
announced that human rights
campaigner Peter Tatchell
will present an hour-long
documentary on the Pope, to
be broadcast shortly before the
pontif’s State Visit to Britain in September this year.
“My aim is to make a robustly factual programme that explores
the Pope’s personal, religious and political journey since the
1930s, as well as the motives and effects of his controversial
policies,” said the 58-year-old campaigner.
“I intend to ensure that we hear the voices of the Pope’s
defenders, as well as his critics. I would like to interview the
Pope himself. It would be ideal for Pope Benedict to be able
to explain himself in his own words, but I doubt that I will be
granted an audience.”
A spokesperson for Channel 4 added: “The programme will give
voice to a range of views on the Pope – featuring interviews
with both critics and supporters.”
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‘We’re off to see the Wizard...”
The Feeling perform for walkers and supporters
Relaxing after this year’s Walk For Life
Over 2,000 took to the streets of the capital on
Sunday 6 June to help leading HIV and AIDS
charity Crusaid celebrate the 21st Birthday of
Crusaid’s Walk for Life.
Walkers of all ages attended the event – many clad
in fancy dress – in a bid to raise funds for the charity’s
work helping adults and children living with HIV and
AIDS in the UK and internationally. They were joined
by a host of famous faces including 4 Poofs and a Piano,
Hollyoaks star Glen Wallace and pop band The Feeling,
led by out gay singer Dan Gillespie Sells. At the time
of going to press, it had been estimated that this year’s
10km event had raised around £250,000, with further
money continuing to roll in – walkers are allowed
to continue to raise sponsorship funds up until the
beginning of September.
EMMERDALE IS GAY FAVOURITE
Voters in Stonewall’s latest social media
poll have decided that of the three main
soap operas on British TV, Emmerdale is
the best for gay storylines. The online poll,
with 1,025 responses, was a close call
with Emmerdale narrowly taking the top
spot at 44%, and EastEnders coming a
close second with 43 per cent. Coronation
Street received 13% of the vote.
Emmerdale’s high ranking was partly
prompted by its recent storyline involving
bad boy character Aaron Livesy (played by
Daniel Miller - pictured right) coming to
terms with his sexuality.
Commenting on the results of the poll,
Emmerdale series producer Gavin Blyth
said, “From the outset, we always wanted
to be very truthful and honest in the
story of Aaron’s sexuality and how he as
an individual attempted to deny himself.
While we obviously recognise this doesn’t
mirror the journey of every man and
woman, we were aware that it would
resonate with very many. The enormous
positive feedback we have received
has proved it to be the case and to be
recognised by Stonewall in this way is a
huge honour to all involved.”
Actor Daniel Miller
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Borough. Located near both
Borough and London Bridge
stations, it also provides
easy access to the rest of the
capital.
www.foxtons.co.uk
020 7033 1414
On the twelfth floor of a
popular development, this
two-bedroom apartment
(left) benefits from access
to an on-site gym and
swimming pool. Even more
impressive are the views
towards Westminster.
www.foxtons.co.uk
020 7033 1414
THE ROXY
128-132 BOROUGH HIGH
STREET, SE1
A popular and acclaimed
gay-friendly bar, restaurant
and cinema. Enjoy fine
cuisine and a cult movie, or a
beer and football screening.
VINOPOLIS
BANK END, SE1
A magnet for wine
aficionados, Vinopolis offers
wine-tasting tours to groups
large and small.
THE GEORGE INN
BOROUGH HIGH STREET,
SE1
London’s only surviving
galleried coaching inn, The
George Inn is also considered
one of London’s most
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Continuing its foray into interior
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Available in a range of finishes,
colours and sizes, the design
shown here is simply titled
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tasteful array of petals, leaves and
flower buds.
02 PLATNER CHAIR
With its wicker-like appearance
boasting universal appeal, this
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easily on a shaded porch in
Louisiana as a fancy apartment
in London. That said, the base
is actually constructed from
nickel-coated steel wire while the
plush seating looks just as stylish
and inviting now as when Warren
Platner designed it in the 1960s.
03NOTCH CABINET
Its sturdy design may give this
bedside cabinet a timeless quality
but it’s unlikely you’ve seen it
before – it’s newly available this
month. Subtly curved at the edges
and supported by tubular legs,
the table is more classic than
contemporary but the warmth of
the walnut veneer should ensure
it remains a stylish addition to
the home.
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www.nest.co.uk
RRP £2,930
www.aram.co.uk
RRP £99
www.dwell.co.uk
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July marks the start of the Pride
season, so this rainbow-coloured
clock by Dutch brand Karlsson
seems an appropriate tool with
which to count down the minutes
to the next party. Encased by
sleek stainless steel, it continues
Karlsson’s tradition of producing
quality, dependable clocks with a
vibrant flash of personality.
RRP £29.99
www.giftmonger.com
05 BCN STOOL
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is made from a special plastic
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insulate electronic components,
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Interwoven strands of coloured
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look that’s perfect for summer. Its
iridescent finish is enhanced by
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affordable household essentials,
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this polished and pretty Blanda
Bowl. Available in a range of
colours and sizes, we think the
tropical hue and the promise of
barbecue weather means the
larger-sized fruit bowls are best
reinterpreted as fruit punch bowls
for the remainder of the summer.
RRP £225
www.urbansuite.co.uk
RRP £35
www.habitat.co.uk
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www.ikea.com
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Whatever your design desires may
be, you can count on this ‘Toolbox’
storage unit from Emmebi SRL to
satisfy them. The disorganised can
gain a semblance of control with
its numbered drawers while those
with a structured sense of style
can find their own perfect fit by
selecting from the range of sizes,
colours and finishes available.
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For information visit: www.renaultsport.co.uk/roadcars/clio200
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Although
it bears
more than
a passing
resemblance
to an oldfashioned
carriage, the
experts at
MercedesBenz claims that this roadster is what the car of the
future may well look like!
Built by 150 students based at Daimler AG, this car
combines traditional design features
dating back from the first Benz car of
1886 with the very latest technology.
So, while it has large, spoked wheels
reminiscent of a Penny Farthing, it is powered by a
hybrid drive system using an advanced, emission-free
fuel cell. It can reach a socially responsible 15.5mph and
has a range of 220 miles. The car, which is controlled by
drive-by-wire technology and a joystick – in place of a
conventional steering wheel, comes with carbon-fibre
bucket seats with hand-stitched leather covers and
a striking front-end design inspired by Formula One
racing cars. Good effort boys, but where do you put the
shopping and the dog?
Price: Ask us again in 2050!
Visit: www.daimler.com
WORDS BY ADRIAN FOSTER/DRIVELINES
YELLOW PERIL
Those clever people at Volkswagen have been at
it again. This time, they have developed a customer
magazine as an app – especially for the new Apple
iPad. Named ‘DAS’, the product coincides with the
launch of the new Apple product in Europe. The title
stands for ‘Digital Automotive Space’ and will be
published quarterly in five languages and can be
accessed here in the UK.
Apparently, VW’s app “transforms the user into a
player who can enjoy the magazine’s themes in an
innovative virtual reality using the familiar functions
of the iPhone”. Five chapters tell stories from the
Volkswagen world and the German manufacturer
makes comprehensive use of the iPad’s digital potential.
The 360° images, for example, give the user a realistic
impression of technical features on the Volkswagen
Touareg such as ‘Area View’.
Price: No charge
Visit: www.volkswagen.co.uk/volkswagenworld
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Gay visitors have been drawn to the welcoming
atmosphere and hedonistic nightlife of this infamous
White Isle for decades, but there’s another reason to
consider a trip to Ibiza this summer. Further recognising
the value of the gay market, the island’s tourist board has
this year launched its first brochure aimed specifically at
gay visitors. Downloadable from the organisation’s website
(www.ibiza.travel), the publication includes not only
a lengthy list of gay-friendly accommodation, restaurants,
bars and clubs but also recommendations for boutique
spas, cultural pursuits and notable attractions.
It’s an encouraging sign of yet another tourist office
formally recognising the contribution that the gay market
can make to local economy, with the tourist office explicitly
referencing “the high-spend per-person-contribution this
market makes to the total value of tourism to the island”.
AMERICAN LUXURY
That times have been tough for the
travel industry is well documented,
but there are signs that those longawaited “green shoots” of recovery
are finally sprouting – Stateside
at least. Launching in America this
summer, gay hospitality brand G Worldwide bills itself
as the first ever luxury-resort brand to cater to the LGBT
community. Still expanding its portfolio of properties, the
company is currently concentrating on opening
its first
Torget
Bar
series of luxury resorts in five major US locations over the
next two years. New York, Las Vegas and California are
among the destinations so far confirmed but there are
also plans to expand the brand internationally. While the
company has been keeping specific details of the project
under wraps until they officially launch their website this
month, expectations are high.
www.gresorts.com
MOVING MOUNTAINS
TRANSPORT
ACCOMMODATION
Q Norwegian.com was Eurovision’s official airline. They
fly from London Gatwick to Oslo from as little as £34 one
way and from London to Bergen from as little as £29 one
way, including taxes.
Oslo
La DolceGate)
Vita resort
Top-end hotel Grims Grenka (5 Kongens
is widely
considered Oslo’s most stylish hotel. Central mid-range
hotel Folketeateret (21-23 Storgaten) is excellent value,
with rooms costing from £120 upwards.
‘Pensjonat’ – a mixture of B&Bs and hostels – such
as Central Cochs Pensjonat (25 Parksveien; www.
cochspensjonat.no) are best for budget travellers.
www.norwegian.com
Q For more information about visiting Oslo and the rest
of Norway see www.visitnorway.co.uk. Oslo’s official site
is www.visitoslo.com; Bergen’s is
www.visitbergen.com
Q Norway’s national rail service is NSB (www.nsb.
no). Fjord Tours is the official organiser of ‘Norway in a
Nutshell’ trips from Oslo:
www.norwaynutshell.com
$
Bergen
Directly by the station, the imposing but unpretentious
Grand Hotel Terminus (6 Zander Kaaesgate; www.
ght.no) is one of Bergen’s most popular hotels.
How quickly things can change.
Three years ago, homosexuality
was classified as a crime in Nepal
and could be punished by a jail
term of up to two years. Now, this
isolated nation – probably best
known to tourists as the location
of Mount Everest – is introducing
legislation that should see it become the first country in
Asia to allow same-sex marriages.
A welcome step towards equality for Nepal’s LGBT
community, the country’s tourism minister Sharat Singh
Bhandari is also hoping the move will encourage larger
numbers of gay visitors to consider visiting the country.
Writing to the International Conference on Gay &
Lesbian Tourism, which in itself is an unprecedented act
for an Asian minister, he stated his intention to “invite and
welcome all the sexual and gender minorities from around
the world [to Nepal].”
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VIRGO
It’s holiday time, Virgo. You
deserve it and you certainly
need it. However, don’t be
tempted into a cheap sex ‘n’
sunshine holiday, as it has the
potential to leave you more
exasperated than before you
went. You need a nice chilledout vacation so you can return
looking fabulous and healthy.
23 SEP-22 OCT
LIBRA
After a lean period, when
it looked like nothing was
happening for you, you’re
suddenly finding opportunities
popping up everywhere.
Although this is a positive
development, don’t bite off more
than you can chew when trying
to demonstrate your abilities.
Pace yourself.
22 DEC-19 JAN
Don’t be too concerned
about experimenting, or,
more accurately, your lack
of experimentation. Do what feels right for you and not what you
think you should be doing. Not everyone is comfortable being
uninhibited; if it’s not your cup of tea you shouldn’t feel obliged to
try it. Stay true to yourself and you’ll never go wrong.
CAPRICORN
Neil Tennant
10.07.1954
From being assisant editor
of Smash Hits to one half of
one of Britain’s best-loved
synth-pop duos – Pet Shop Boys
– Cancerian Neil Tennant may
utilise his hard crab-like shell
to protect his inner feelings but
he’s also made excellent use of
Cancer’s creative nature to rack up
42 top 30 singles and millions of
worldwide album sales.
The boys play Glastonbury
this month, while Mr Tennant
celebrates his 56th birthday on
10 July.
22 NOV-21 DEC
SCORPIO
SAGITTARIUS
You need to be wary of the
sting that’s in your tail, Scorpio.
You may think that you’re a
strong and confident person,
well equipped to deal with any
situation, but every time you lash
out you lose a bit of respect. Love
for you is infinite, patience is not.
Temper that tongue – before it
gets you into trouble.
It’s all very well being good with
money, but there’s a difference
between frugality and being an
outright miser. Pinching pennies
is fine, but splash out a bit now
and then – if only to improve
your social image. Being known
as generous will do you no harm
– you may even feel good about
it. Hurry up and get a round in!
20 JAN-18 FEB
Someone who has been
your existence pretty
AQUARIUS making
miserable will be making an
exit from your life very soon. A considerable amount of angst and
irritation will disappear with them, and you will slowly begin to
move forward and reclaim some much-needed happiness. It may
feel strange at first, but allow yourself to go with the flow.
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21 MAR-19 APR
20 APR-20 MAY
21 MAY-21 JUN
22 JUN-22 JUL
23 JUL-22 AUG
PISCES
ARIES
TAURUS
GEMINI
CANCER
LEO
You’ve been looking for love
in all the wrong places again
Pisces, haven’t you? Open your
eyes a little more and you may
find it staring you in the face.
Sometimes love is so obvious
that we miss it and when we
eventually do see it, it seems
like the most natural thing in
the world. Look harder!
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GEMINI
A delicate situation is likely to
arise this month, Aries – you
need to tread very carefully.
Think things through very
thoroughly before you decide
upon any specific course of
action. If you keep your head
together then you’ll find the
outcome should be very much in
your favour.
Take a little time out for your
friends this month, Taurus.
You’ve been so busy with other
issues in your life that you’ve
neglected those people that
make life worth living. Focus on
having a good time with your
pals because you need to relax
and they need to know that you
still hold them in high regard.
Recent disappointments in
your romantic life may have
taken the wind out of your
sails, but do not let that deter
you from trying to get a little
bit of loving. You have so much
to offer – allow someone
close and they will repay your
affections ten-fold. Throw
yourself back into dating.
Get passionate! You’ve been
coasting along recently and
not feeling very positive. Kick
yourself into action. Revisit
things that make you excited
and seek out things that
arouse your curiosity. Involve
friends, too – they can keep
check that you don’t fall back
into ‘sleep’ mode.
Normally, I would advise you
to stay away from gossip and
bitching, but for once you need
to hit back – if only to show
that you’re no pushover and that
if someone wants a fight then
you’ll retaliate with more venom
than Malcolm Tucker in a bad
mood. Show your claws and
watch them retreat.
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Out In The City was
lucky enough
to be invited
to the recent
grand launch of a
spanking new gym
space in central
London. Urban Kings
can be found in the
revamped Regents
Quarter of King’s Cross
(behind Starbucks on
Pentonville Road).
It’s different from other gyms in
that it’s selling itself as a ‘Luxury
Martial Arts Gym’. Not only will
it boast state-of-the-art equipment,
but it will also cater for classes and
one-to-one training in Thai boxing,
MMA, K1, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing
and wrestling. The two-floor
facilities include a full-size (19’)
boxing ring, no less than 12 punch bags, a
cage wall and two large dojo areas. Besides
the standard array of gym equipment, you’ll
also find kettlebells, monkey bars, cable
machines and an Olympic lifting area.
As well as the specialised training sessions,
there are also classes specifically titled Abs
and Body Conditioning. The facilities also
include designer changing rooms, men and
women’s saunas and an upstairs Juice Bar.
Membership at Urban Kings includes use
of all facilities, including the sauna, and
unlimited access to all classes. It also allows
access to one-to-one training with highprofile trainers (additional fee applies).
Membership costs £95 per month for a 12
month period with an initial joining fee of
£150.
www.urbankingsgym.com
Urban Kings, 4 Bravingtons Walk,
King’s Cross, N1. 020 7837 7774
LOOKING FOR LOVE?
Are you looking for a boyfriend?
Do you want a relationship that lasts
longer than a night? If so, look out for the
‘Getting a Boyfriend’ course from gay
men’s health charity GMFA, which will be
running in several cities across the UK in
July. It’s a free one-day course to help you
understand more about yourself and what
you want in relationships. It also includes
advice on how to stick to safer sex when
you do find that special someone.
Matthew Hodson, Head of Programmes
at GMFA, says: “For many of us, having
some romance or even a partner to share
our life with is important. However,
finding and maintaining a relationship
can take work. This course will help
men take a fresh look at what they want
from a relationship and how to go about
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getting it.”
This course will encourage you to
think about whether you are ready for
a relationship, what you bring to and
want from a relationship, as well as
the qualities that attract you to a man.
You’ll have a chance to think about areas
such as whether you want an open or
monogamous relationship, what sort of
commitment you are after, and whether
you are looking for a boyfriend in the right
places.
The course also covers the sexual decisions
that are made in relationships, how your
safer sex strategy may change, and how
to minimise your risks of HIV and STI
infection.
“There’s no denying the excitement of a
new love,” says Hodson. “In the first few
months, emotions can run high, and it’s
in this time that men often take sexual
risks they wouldn’t normally take. The
course will help men to stay focused and
in control of the sex they have so they
can protect themselves and their partners
from HIV and other STIs.”
The course will run in London on 17 July,
Bristol, Plymouth and Southampton on 24
July, and Brighton on 31 July. All of GMFA’s
courses are free of charge but places are
limited and must be booked in advance.
To book a place, go to www.gmfa.org.
uk/national or call 020 7738 3712.