CIRCA-CLUB MEMBERS

We had a great event here last month and once again The Arts Club Garden and Terrace will be exclusively ours for the night so come and join us for complimentary wine (for members and guests who arrive between 7-8pm) at The Arts Club. A Special Supper Menu will be available to Circa-Club members and their guests.

So chat, flirt or talk shop its up to you. Our members and guests are all ages and professions. There is NO admission charge and the drinks prices are very reasonable. .

Enter our LUCKY DRAW for "In To The Light"” a superb oil painting on canvas (24”x20”) and by special arrangement, continue the evening on by collecting one of the 30 Guest Passes for you and your guests for complimentary admission to Shadow Lounge, 5 Brewer Street, Soho, London W1 (before 11pm) Europe’s No 1 gay members club.

Curtis your Host and Co-Hosts – Jean-Francois, Ian, Markus and Alastair will be meeting and greeting, so there will be no excuse for you to be shy !!

Guest List places are limited to 150 members and their guests. Click Here for more details and to RSVP using our automated system for members! The Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4NP

Beyond the Grave: Great British Dead Gay Hate Icons - Times may change but some things stay the same. Circa’s own shameless Adrian Gillan roll-calls our first “Hall of Shame”: Great British Gay Hate Icons from amongst the dead - lest we forget…

1. Mary Whitehouse (1910 - 2001) - Self-styled one-woman antidote to the 60s, Mary-So-Contrary shut Gay News by suing them for blasphemy when they published a poem where Christ professes gay love. She founded the Clean Up TV Campaign, which became the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association (now Mediawatch), nagging broadcasters to keep the "moral darkness" of homosexuality off-screen. The Gay Liberation Front famously infiltrated one of her public meetings in 1971 to release mice, snog each other, dress up as clergy and conduct an impromptu sermon urging all present to "Carry on Sinning!" Halleluiah.
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Gay Icon: Who? When? Where?

Back to my roots on Sunday afternoon - in Chelmsford, Essex - to celebrate a kind of Pre-Pride, ahead of the town’s main September extravaganza. Star attraction is Sing-along-Grease, The Movie, plus a 70's party. Kerry appears, with one of her flirty nurses! Her liver’s defo on the mend and she’s allowed out on day-release if supervised and stays sober. Mum comes to join us and we pass a pleasant afternoon telling our favourite Essex Boy jokes. Q: How does an Essex boy turn the light off after sex? A: He shuts the car door. Q: Why do Essex boys wear briefs? A: To keep their ankles warm. Q. What does the label in an Essex boy’s briefs say? A. NEXT! more

The weekly diary-blog of Circa’s high-flying membership secretary, Spencer - his life and loves, work and play, dreams and fears.

All Member Profile Searches give top listing to Member Profiles that include a main photograph. Photographs that are 400x400 pixels or 64 kb can be accommodated. Should you wish to have a modesty flash across your face for privacy then please email your photograph with your Screen Name to photos@circa-club.com and we will do this for you. Photographs will maximise your chances to connect with other members. Please note that Gallery Search is a search by main photograph only, so if you do not upload a photograph you will not be able to be included.

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Menno, star of Sky TV’s “Naked Angels” and creator of the smash hit show “The Gaydar Diaries”, stars in his debut one-man show “BUTCH – A Queen’s Struggle To Become A King” at The Pleasance as part of the Pride Festival 07 on 22 & 23 June (21:45). "Honest, heartfelt and hysterical" - Fringe Report, May '07

Fed up with always being the token gay guy and tired of his effeminate mannerisms (“I’m so girly I nearly have periods”), Menno decides it’s time to ‘butch up’ get in touch with his masculine side.

This becomes especially important when he falls head over high heels for a closeted, black, ultra-masculine, straight-acting army captain who hates anything camp or even slightly ‘gay’.

However, his feminine side doesn’t take too kindly to his growing manhood, and it isn’t long before she sharpens her claws to stage a spectacular revolt – Two nights only! For more info and to book call 020 7609 1800 - click here for more details

With a chance of earning commission in excess of £100K they want to find the brightest and most dynamic the UK has to offer! This is not a programme for the faint hearted; you will be led by one of the world's top professionals in the field of sales and will have to do battle with the crème de la crème to win the coveted commissions.

Anyone from a sales background can apply: from Stockbrokers, Avon ladies to Estate agents etc. For the opportunity to find out more and an online application form visit: http://www.closethedeal.co.uk ASAP! (Closing date for applications is 17th June 2007)

The Pride London Festival will feature the very best of LGBT arts, entertainment and sports. Last year's Festival was the capital's biggest event of its kind, and this year they will be showcasing over 300 exhibitions, film screenings, sporting events, concerts, theatre, comedy and cabaret performances, as well as special galas and one-off parties.

With more gay and lesbian tourists than ever before celebrating Pride 2007 in the world's most diverse and exciting city, this year's Pride Festival will be even bigger, better and brighter than ever before. ...more...

Join Stonewall, the gay and lesbian charity, on their fantastic Barcelona Equality Walk and raise money to support their Education for All campaign which aims to tackle homophobic bullying in schools. Last years event as well as being lots of fun raised over £40k, help them to smash this target and register now!

They fly out Friday morning, checking in to the gorgeous Axel Hotel, (www.axelhotels.com/en), Barcelona’s premier gay hotel, with the welcome pool party on the Friday night, the weekend begins! Saturday’s 10k walk includes a treasure hunt and is followed by the prize giving party that evening at an exclusive seafront location. Sunday you are free to recover or perhaps explore Sitges before flying home.

Registration is just £300 which includes return BA flights, accommodation and the parties. They ask participants to raise an additional £400 to support the work of Stonewall and help put an end to homophobic bullying. For the top fundraiser they have a fantastic prize for two at the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik including flights and accommodation. Do you need any more reason to register?

To take part or for further information click here Contact Michaela on 020 7593 1874 or email michaela.greene@stonewall.org.uk. They hope to see you there!

We are delighted to say that Bernard Miller will be taking all our Circa-Club photographs.

Miller is a photographer who has agreed to an uneasy truce with the onrushing world of digital picture-making. But who still tries to keep alive a bit of the old ways of doing things. "I love the way Renaissance portraitists attempted to portray the effect of light on people's faces - often, people whom we might not consider conventionally beautiful - and in so doing to convey something of their character, their spirit.

"I try to capture some of the same warmth, the same soft but directional light, in my photography. That's a little easier to do with film...but I'm learning to do it with digital as well."

Miller prefers working with black and white film above all. "It's the perfect medium for portraiture, I believe. It shows what is there, without the distraction of colour...it's explicit--stark, even, at times - without revealing everything, so there's still a bit of mystery, of intrigue there."

Miller is available for portraiture of just about any type - and in any medium - digital or 35 millimetre, medium format, or even large format film. Whatever tool will best present what the sitter wants to achieve - and, I hope, a little of what I see in them as well." Some of his work can be seen at www.presquevu.com, and he can be contacted through the site.