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JUICY EROTICA UPDATE

They say: "Juicy Erotica is shaping up to be the biggest Juicy of the year so far and promoter Andrew Harris can now confirmed that several major gay porn stars will be joining the strippers and gogo boys for the party-plus Andrew’s amazing production, sound and Lights, Pyros etc and the best house music in town from Juicy DJs including D’Johnny, Rob Sykes, HiFi Sean, Steven Artis and David Jimenez... advance tickets for only £10 available now on line http://www.clubtickets.com/gb/2009-11/21/juicy-erotica or in Soho."

WORLD AIDS DAY

It's World Aids Day on 1st December and there are lots of collections coming up. Sunday 29th Orange at Fire are donating £1 per customer to the Elton John Foindation; Monday 30th Barcode are supporting the Ian Charleson Day Centre; and Popcorn will be rattling their cans harder at a safe sex ball; Hard sex toys are donating 10% of their profits for two weeks; and GMFA are organizing a  campaign along the lines "Many HIV-negative men believe it’s up to positive men not to infect others, while many HIV-positive men believe HIV-negative men should take responsibility to protect themselves. The truth is we are all responsible for our own health as well as that of our partners." GMFA are collecting at The Eagle on Saturday 28th November, Kazbar, The Green, Kudos, The Edge, The Rose & Crown in Greenwich, Comptons, The Two Brewers, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. You can't escape, empty your pockets!

ONYX OFFERS

This Friday 20th Onyx are giving away free goodie bags before midnight. And what's in them? Lots of stuff including an Onyx membership card and a ticket to Orange @ Fire on Sunday. Onyx is at Area, 67 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall from 11pm.

HARD ON 28TH NOV

It's Mr Sleazy Hard On competition at Hard On on Saturday Nov 28th. In association with RoB they're giving away 100's of pounds worth of prizes for the sleaziest man on stage. Anyone can enter and the audience choose the winner. Djs for the night are Brent Nicholls, Hifi Sean, Dmac, Hugo’sland,  Halo-is in three rooms + play rooms, cruising and free cloakroom. Club Hidden is at 100 Tinworth Street, Vauxhall and it's in the gay London calendar.

ORANGE TRADE XMAS

Orange and Trade are getting together again on Christmas day to help you digest that turkey. Yes, it's on Friday 25th form 10pm to very late with DJs Nick Tcherniak, Pagano, Lisa German, The  Sharp Boys, Gonzalo Rivas, Fat Tony & Tonnic on the mic, Dave Cross, The Oli, Lady Bianca and Terry Bryan. Advance £12 tickets now available from: www.clubtickets.com. £15 on the door. It's in your gay London christmas calendar.

CLUB JOLENE TOMORROW

It's a lesbian party for every gay?! At Club Jolene, Visions Video Bar, 588 Kingsland Rd, E8 tomorrow Friday 20th Nov from 10-3 £5 (dressing like Dolly gets you in for FREE) and it's 2 for 1 before 11. DJ's: charlie bird, ninska and guest daftkunt. "A lesbian party for everygay, Club Jolene promises a dolly mixture disco-rave-up with electro-love, synth sleaze, 80's loves and eclectic whims." And they want more gay boys! www.clubjolene.com/

MATINEE SAT 5TH DEC

Matinée, victims of their own success, are bravely back on Saturday 5th December with THREE cloakrooms, more staff and a new cloakroom computer system at Cable. It's La Noche Roja - the Red party - with special guest DJ Lydia Sanz from the Matinée Group Spain and regulars Oliver M, Guy Williams, Pier Morrocco, Paul Heron, Jonny M, Alessandro, Brent Nicholls and Saki. Matinee staff say the rush starts at 1am, so get there early to avoid the roadblock and get a free shot. Club Cable is at 33 Bermondsey Street. Next party early on 1st Jan. Both parties are in that gay London calendar.

WORLD AIDS DAY SAFE SEX BALL

Heaven are raising £30,000 for Amnesty International in the next 8 months and making a special effort Monday 30th with their Safe Sex Ball. Donate on the door or at www.justgiving.com/g-a-y. Amnesty are campaigning for gay civil rights and the rights of people with aids worldwide. And they're giving away free Popcorn membership.

WHAT ACTION ON HATE CRIME?

Here's your chance to influence police policy. Eren Bessim, Lambeth police's Diversity and Hate Crime coordinator, is running a consultation process to direct strategy to 2013. He wants your view on this question, which covers all aspects of Hate crime so please take into account the diverse Borough of Lambeth.
"What are the main key areas that are needed to improve partnership responses to hate crime and prevent it from occurring?"
Answers by 27th November please.

WORLD AIDS DAY @ BARCODE SOHO

Barcode are having a World Aids Day fund raiser raffle in aid of the Ian Charleson Day Centre at the Royal Free Hospital on Monday 30th November. Raffle tickets are only £1 and the top prize is £500 cash. And lots more. You can buy tickets at Barcode Soho and Vauxhall. Read on for all those prizes and more Barcode dates.

VISIONS ON FRI 27TH NOV

Visions gets its second outing at the Lightbox on Friday 27th November with DJs Daz Saund & Trevor Rockcliffe and special guest HiFi Sean. 10pm to 4am. £7.00 before 12am, £10 after. This is  kind of a party  for the hunks who funk as there is no Megawoof in December. Club Lightbox is at 6A South Lambeth Place, Vauxhall, just by the Starbucks. It's in that gay London calendar.

WORK AIDS JAMAICA LGBTS

Work is the mid week gay party at club Hidden and on December 2nd they are having a fund raiser to support JFLAG the human rights group working for civil rights for gays and lesbians in Jamaica. Read on for line-ups to December 2nd.

POPSTARZ CHRISTMAS / NYE

Popstarz at the Den is closed Friday 25th December and 1st January. They're having their Christmas party on the 18th Dec and a masked NYE party on Thursday 31st. Tickets for the masked party £10/£14. The Den is at 18 West Central Street, WC1. It's in that gay London calendar.

POPCORN XMAS

XMAS at Popcorn in Heaven is with the Sharp Boys and Royal House – "a legendary monthly party at Heaven". Doors: 10pm - 6am. Drinks from £2.50, entry £2 b4 midnight £8 after. Free entry b4 1am if you have a wristband.

SUPERMARTXÉ 1ST BIRTHDAY 28TH NOV

SuperMartXé is one year old on 28th November. Doors open 10.30pm and DJs for the night are AB Garcia, Steve Pitron, Nick Tcherniak and Marlon K Jones. Advanced tickets from £15 or up to £50 for VIPs. Club SuperMartXe is at The Coronet Theatre, 26-28 New Kent Road. It's in that gay London calendar.

WHINGERS OF THE WORLD HEAR THIS!

God we can be a bunch of ungrateful sponging whingers. When will folks learn that moaning from the sidelines don't get you what you want? 

Here's the story: Brighton Pride is working hard to find ways to survive and has come up with radical plan to save the event. As you may know:
- despite local people gay businesses forking out most of the £300k they're short
- they're going to ask straight businesses who profit hugely from it but don't expect too much
- local gays are asking what it's for any more as it's more like a party for everybody and his nan than a Pride event
- there's the usual internal wrangling but with none of the horrors of London's Close-It Queens who jump from one committee to the next ruining things
- scaling back the amount of tents as they can't afford them all
- that rain didn't help much

So, what has the collective response of the gay community been? Well, it's the inevitable Facebook groups - the first refuge of the really bothered couch campaigner and scourge of evil tyrants the world over. What are we calling for? Well, you've heard of people withdrawing their labour in the past? Well gay men have gone one better - we're to withdraw our *presence*. Great, we hear organisers saying, less rubbish to clean up as that to date has been most our contributions to Brighton Pride.

Why boycott? To save all of the tents primarily... One Facebook group wants to save the women's tents. Other complaints we've heard include "Well, did you know the person that spends all year organising it is paid a comparable wage to other event organisers?!" Yeah! "Why don't all gay festivals and events have Madonna concert production values but be free".. cause.. like you know, we're gay men - you know, the ones with the highest disposable income? Shouldn't Brighton people be glad that train loads of ungrateful sponging queens travel down once a year and trash their town and pay nothing to the clean-up?! We made the last few up but you get our drift.

Christ knows there are issues, detailed above that need addressed: what's it for, who benefits and who contributes, how it's organised and managed... But for fecks sake, what is it with gay people expecting a free ride? They can't afford all the tents as nobody pays! Want segregation - pay? Want to dance your tits off? Pay! It's time we realised that if we want something you have to pay for it and pay properly or put up with what you're given. Whilst we've seen many gay events f*ck that deal up, we somehow reckon Brighton and it's organisers would deliver. 

Ungrateful Whingers of Sidelines Fame hear this: contribute, get involved or shut the f*ck up. You can give money via the Brighton & Hove (!) Pride website. How's that for a start?

SECRETSUNDAZE NYE 2009

They saw the video and the Christmas / New Years Eve gay London party announcements are trickling in. Secretsundaze is the first with a party on Thursday 31st December 9pm-6am at the CAMP.  DJs / performers will be Delano Smith, Wbeeza – Live, Giles Smith, James Priestley, To The Bone and Cosmic Truth. Advanced tickets - £14.50 - £24.50. £30 on the door. Club CAMP (City Arts & Music Project) is at  70-74 City Road, London, EC1. It's in that gay London Christmas calendar.

NEW YEAR COMETH

Quick shout out to promoters to get their festive plans in to us soon please:)  In the meantime, watch this...

GROW YOUR OWN GAY!

"According to a new report"... by US researchers, chemicals in plastics are altering the brains of baby boys making them more feminine. Yip, males who are exposed to high doses of certain plastic toxins in the womb grow up to be more girly and less likely to play with boys toys (!) or "rough and tumble games. 

Things to avoid rearing a gay in your womb include something called phthalates which are found in vinyl flooring and shower curtains - we don't know if mother has to lick the lino... However, if you want to grow your own gay and know of somebody that's pregnant, we're sure secretly feeding her bits of your cheap kitchen floor over the gestation period should suffice.

Thanks to Martin for this tale which he spotted on the BBC.
 

BEENIE MAN AXED

Big Day Out, a music festival in New Zealand, has finally pulled Beenie Man from their festival. It's not entirely clear if he quit or was pushed out. Nor is it clear as to whether the organisers thought having a misogynistic homophobe who condones the murder of gay men and lesbians at your festival was okay or if they had no idea who they were programming. 

Interestingly, this rather backward figure is trying to claim that his lyrics aren't homophobic at all and are misinterpreted - they're actually all about rich gays raping children or something. What do you think?
"I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays". At least stand up for what you believe in you twat.