* All tickets include a £5 donation to Pride in London
Details about the day below or on the excellent Pride Festival website that's also set-up for mobiles. Oh, the theme's Love (...and marriage). More soon...
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern in June: Sundays S.L.A.G.S. chillout with Moto Blanco on Pride day, Saturdays Duckie and a special for Pride, Mondays Bingo, Tuesdays Bar Wotever, Wednesday-Friday variety including a run of David Hoyle on Thursdays. Click the headline for details. Gay bar / club / cabaret Royal Vauxhall Tavern is at 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall and it's all in your gay London calendar.
Trannyshack monthly at the Eagle starting on Saturday with DJs Lady Lloyd and Dusty O. They are at 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11 5QY and http://www.eaglelondon.com and it's in the gay London calendar. Click the headline for more.
Peter Tatchell writes: Join us tonight outside the House of Lords from 6pm, as peers vote on the same-sex marriage bill. The Christian fundamentalists will be there. Don’t let them grab all the media attention. Make sure your voice is heard for equal marriage.
Con-sumer news! Since switching to BT we've been struggling to get online to post to Damaged.
After much technical gibberish on their part, we've now been told that "five instances of no service per day for up to ten minutes is acceptable to BT". It's much worse than that but they say we're wrong and they won't do anything.
A quick check on Twitter under #BTbroadband confirmed that many of their victims have been told this - including for BT Infinity which is the superfast service?! We know most broadband providers take the p*ss but thought this was so bad it was worthy of a heads-up.
We're stuck with them for another 18 months sp apologies for what will now be an intermittent Damaged.
DJ Paskal Tzellos from Berlin joined the team over there a month ago and started the Discodamaged Channel. He promises one volume per month. Here's the first two. Listen up!
Tonight, Monday 3 June: 5.30pm until late - rally by the statue of George V in Old Palace Yard, London SW1, diagonally opposite the main entrance to the House of Commons. Bring placards and rainbow and pink jack flags.
Did you make it Canalival on the Regent’s Canal at the weekend? Organisers tried cancelling it when they realised how big it would be and didn't get a license.
Thousands turned up and local gardens became huge pissoirs and the canal was completely rammed with chaotic "merry festival goers" getting hammered and occasionally capsizing. Depending who you speak to it was a dangerous disaster and it's lucky nobody died or huge fun. The emergency services were well p*ssed off at the extra unplanned work. The canal was left full of rubbish (no bodies) but a call for help to clean it up got a great response - it's now almost back to normal!
Damaged made a documentary a while back about barebacking - above. Why? Just Say Know. We could have made a film about something less controversial but heck, this is DiscoDamaged and we give a f*ck... according to rumours most of which you can take with a pinch of lube.
Directed by Berlin's Alexander Huber it gives voice to folks assumptions and explores this taboo subject in a fun engaging way:) It got standing ovations at various German film festivals and here in London we had a great screening and debate hosted by the RVT and expertly chaired by Stewart Who?.
Anyhoo. it's recently been entered into the Film Skillet best documentary contest and we'd love it if you voted for it - it's up against easier non-gay subjects so would be good to raise it and this issue's profile.
You can view and vote for it and the other nominations here... Scroll down to vote.
If you like the film we've also lots of films about people with interesting stories in Berlin - you can view under the Damaged Film category.
Larry Tee's SUPER ELECTRIC PARTY MACHINE, SONGS OF PRAISE, and QUEER NATION at the East Bloc this weekend. They are at 217-219 City Rd, London, EC1V and https://www.facebook.com/EastBlocLondon and it's in the gay London calendar. Click the headline for more.
Sink the Pink is Fit at Bethnal Green Working Mens Club. Aerobics for trannies! Weight watchers for fatties! Sweat box for horn bags! High kicks and an OTT amount of lycra! Sink The Pink bring you the most ridiculous shows this side of Xanadu. They are at 42 Pollard St,London E2 and http://sinkthepinklondon.com and it's in the gay London calendar. Click the headline for more.
Manic Panic & District XXX is at Area. DJs Pagano, Tom Stephan, Maze & Masters, Sam DMS; house music from HiFi Sean, Zach Burns; and super hot porn star performers. They are at 67 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London, SE1 7TP and http://www.arealondon.net/ and it's in the gay London calendar. Click the headline for more.
For those who haven't heard, Washington State just passed both laws -gay marriage and legalized marijuana. The fact that gay marriage and marijuana were legalized on the same day makes perfect biblical sense because Leviticus 20:13 says: "If a man lies with another man they should be stoned." Sent in by Carlos .
Now That's What I Call Carpet Burn including DJs Johnny Kalifornia and Simon Kilner is on this Saturday at the Eagle. They are at 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11 5QY and http://www.eaglelondon.com/ and it's in the gay London calendar. Click the headline for more.
Rubber Rut vs Classic Hoist, Boys & Sirs, SBN (Stark Bollock Naked) on this weekend. The Hoist are at Railway Arches 47b and 47c, South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1RH and www.thehoist.co.uk and it’s in the gay London calendar. Click the headline for more.
- If we get any rest after getting all hyped up during Wayne G's set til 4am on Sunday (aren't his promo pics sweet/ buffed?!) we got to thinking about ways to chill out and recover afterwards.
We know many folks just check into St Thomas' or go all Shoreditch, but not us. Option One was sleep in a Victoria Park hedge. Option two was way more inspired and realistic...
June parties at the Superstore including Tutti Frutti, White Leather Viper Club and Bust Yo Nut. They are at 117 Kingsland High Street, Dalston and it's in your gay London calendar and http://dalstonsuperstore.com/Click the headline for more.
The Boy Scouts of America voted yesterday to allow gay kids to be part of their organisation. Before, if you came out you were kicked out. Scouts were taught being gay was unacceptable. The obscured video below, currently featured on PinkNews, shows what that meant for real gay kids in practice... This kid has gone on camp, plucked up the courage to come out and is told he has to get out.
XXL in June / July / August at Pulse. It's every Wednesday and Saturday with resident DJs Christian M, Alex Logan, Joe Egg and Mark Ames. Advance tickets for Saturdays available at the Discodamaged ticket shop. Pulse is at 1 Invicta Plaza, Sothwark and it's all in your Discodamaged gay Berlin calendar. Click the headline for details.
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