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gay Blog -Diary of Circa-Club’s (the online club for gay men)
membership secretary, Spencer – his life + loves, work + play,
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Circa
Events
Join
us at our monthly gay Social and Business Networking Events for
gay men and their friends in London.
CIRCA enables
members to connect with thousands of gay professional
men around the world, around the clock –
at home, in the office, on their travels –
whenever, wherever !! Link up with new friends,
increase your business contacts or even find the
perfect partner and much, much more!!
CIRCA
invites all its members and their guests to our
March drinks party at The Games Room, a stylish
members club in Mayfair, off Berkley Square, London
W1. It will be a great night and the complimentary
white and red wine, available between 7-8pm, will
be flowing. The Games Room drinks prices are reasonable
with a bottle of House Wine @ £15 per bottle.
There is no ticket charge or entrance charge for
this event for members or their guests. Guest List
Places are limited to the first 150 members and
their guests that RSVP to spencer@circa-club.com.
To print out your invitation with the address details
please click on the link - http://www.circa-club.com/march-invite.html
PHOTO
GALLERY - CIRCA DRINKS PARTIES
Photographs
from CIRCA previous Drinks Parties can be viewed
in “Photo Gallery” in Library. To view
please click here.
CONGRATULATIONS
To
Stewart Hardman of The Adonis Gallery
Based
in West London’s Earls Court Stewart recently
staged his 100th exhibition of gay male art. Stewart
started some years ago in an antiques market in
Chelsea and graduated to his own gallery 9 years
ago. As well as regular exhibitions of artists both
young and established he maintains a stock of well-known
names like Duncan Grant and Cornelius McCarthy.
His 101st exhibition Blue Horizons II is now on
and features the vivid paintings of Andrew Potter.
The next exhibitions opens on Tuesday 2nd March.
For further details of the paintings and exhibitions
click on - www.adonis-art.com
GAY
TRAVEL FAIR
London
WC2 - GBA/IGLTA - Sunday 6 March 2005 – 1-
6pm
The
ideal exhibition for gay and lesbian travellers.
Time to plan your holiday with an international
range of gay travel companies. Find the latest gay
cruises, gay adventure holidays, new destinations,
exclusive hotels and villas, and more. Workshops
and Seminars. International gay connections. Exhibition
admission: Free. Table-top displays: From £100.
Organised by the Gay Business Association and the
International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association.
Venue: The New Connaught Rooms, 60 Great Queen Street,
Holborn, London WC2. Map.
Further details at www.gba.org.uk/travel.htm
Book
Tickets For The Tatchell Ball
14
March 2005
The
Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund’s 4th annual
Tatchell Ball will take place at The October Gallery
in Holborn, London WC1 on Monday 14 March 2005 –
from 6.30pm, to raise funds for Peter Tatchell’s
human rights work. The Tickets cost £20 (£10
concessions; £35 for two) and include drinks
and refreshments throughout the evening. Please
send a cheque made out to ‘PTHRF’ to
‘Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund, PO Box
35253, London E1 4YF’, including your name(s),
address and a contact telephone number. www.tatchellrightsfund.org
NEW
TO PRIDE LONDON
FESTIVAL
FORTNIGHT FROM 18 JUNE - 1 JULY 2005
Followed
by the FREE Pride Day on July 2nd. The festival
will comprise a selection of events from music,
visual arts, film, comedy, theatre, cabaret and
sport. Pride Chief Executive, Jason Pollock, says
‘PFF is very much a dress run for next years
massive Europride London where the tourist board
estimate that gay visitors to London will triple
during the June festival period”. The bedrock
to the festival will be three special galas in association
with Crusaid. Vue Leicester Square will host a film
premier on 19 June followed by a Pride ENO gala
of Eugene Onegin. Fin
ally on Tuesday 26 July a specially
produced evening entitled Odd Couples – Pairs
are Not the Only Fruit ! will grace the Prince of
Wales theatre. Not to be missed. For more details
on all Pride Festival Fortnight events check the
Pride web site by clicking on the link www.pridelondon.org
COMPETITIONS
MEAN PRIZES !!!!!
Solve
the clues in our crossword and then take the first
letter of each answer and rearrange them to give
the answer to the main clue: Ford dealership for
the discerning older gentlemen (6,8).
NEW
CHAT ROOMS
Powered
by PARACHAT
Fast and easy to use, connecting
in seconds, the new Chat Rooms link CIRCA members
on a local, regional, national and global basis.
The Chat Rooms feature “MemberChat“
and “HostedChat” and enable members
to click on another members “screen name”
to view the “members profile” without
leaving the Chat Room. “MemberChat”
offers the facility for chat 24/7 and Spencer the
Club Secretary will be available to host “MemberChat”
Monday to Friday between 9-11pm. “MemberChat”
also provides a facility for “private chat”
between 2 members and “private rooms”
for 3 or more members.
Charity
Newsflash
HostedChat
for gay charities and groups and associations
CIRCA has specially created a
“HostedChat” Room available to gay charities
as well as groups and associations, who may not
themselves be in a position to offer such a facility,
enabling their staff, volunteers and supporters
to link up on a local, regional and national basis.
For further details contact - spencer@circa-club.com.
The CIRCA monthly diary of “HostedChat”
sessions will be listed in the Chat Room and “Hosted
Chat” session details and times will be included
in the CIRCA April Newsletter that will be emailed
to all members.
CALM
WORDS WHEN YOU NEED THEM MOST
London
Lesbian and Gay Switchboard took its first calls
on 4th March 1974. The phones have not stopped ringing
since. Over 2 million times, in fact, with Switchboard
receiving almost 120,000 calls last year alone.
Whatever the call their volunteers are there to
offer a listening ear at the end of the phone and
give non-directive support, referrals and information.
You can help them to keep on listening by becoming
a Friend of Switchboard from as little as £5
per mont
h. They rely heavily on donations to provide
their services, so why not make a special gift?
If you think you might be able to help, would like
to become a volunteer or would simply like to find
out more then visit www.llgs.org.uk
for more information or call 0207 7837 6768.
A
PICTURE IS A 1,000 WORDS
Member
Profiles are accessed through the “Search
Results Pages”. For those members who have
not completed their Member Profile there is a default
setting in place which includes details sourced
from your Membership Application Form including:
occupation and town of residence. Without a Profile
Header you will not be found by other members so
upload your personal messages and photographs (head
and shoulder images - 10kb jpeg) and maximise your
chances to connect with other members.
Travel
Lounge
Reviews
of gay destination hotspots, weather forecasts, currency converters
and phrase translators. Click here for more.
Weekly
gay Blog -Diary of Circa-Club’s (the online club for gay men)
membership secretary, Spencer – his life + loves, work + play,
dreams + fears ! 
Join
us at our monthly gay Social and Business Networking Events for
gay men and their friends in London.
CIRCA
invites all its members and their guests to our
March drinks party at The Games Room, a stylish
members club in Mayfair, off Berkley Square, London
W1. It will be a great night and the complimentary
white and red wine, available between 7-8pm, will
be flowing. The Games Room drinks prices are reasonable
with a bottle of House Wine @ £15 per bottle.
There is no ticket charge or entrance charge for
this event for members or their guests. Guest List
Places are limited to the first 150 members and
their guests that RSVP to spencer@circa-club.com.
To print out your invitation with the address details
please click on the link - 
Based
in West London’s Earls Court Stewart recently
staged his 100th exhibition of gay male art. Stewart
started some years ago in an antiques market in
Chelsea and graduated to his own gallery 9 years
ago. As well as regular exhibitions of artists both
young and established he maintains a stock of well-known
names like Duncan Grant and Cornelius McCarthy.
His 101st exhibition Blue Horizons II is now on
and features the vivid paintings of Andrew Potter.
The next exhibitions opens on Tuesday 2nd March.
For further details of the paintings and exhibitions
click on - 
Followed
by the FREE Pride Day on July 2nd. The festival
will comprise a selection of events from music,
visual arts, film, comedy, theatre, cabaret and
sport. Pride Chief Executive, Jason Pollock, says
‘PFF is very much a dress run for next years
massive Europride London where the tourist board
estimate that gay visitors to London will triple
during the June festival period”. The bedrock
to the festival will be three special galas in association
with Crusaid. Vue Leicester Square will host a film
premier on 19 June followed by a Pride ENO gala
of Eugene Onegin. Fin
ally on Tuesday 26 July a specially
produced evening entitled Odd Couples – Pairs
are Not the Only Fruit ! will grace the Prince of
Wales theatre. Not to be missed. For more details
on all Pride Festival Fortnight events check the
Pride web site by clicking on the link 
London
Lesbian and Gay Switchboard took its first calls
on 4th March 1974. The phones have not stopped ringing
since. Over 2 million times, in fact, with Switchboard
receiving almost 120,000 calls last year alone.
Whatever the call their volunteers are there to
offer a listening ear at the end of the phone and
give non-directive support, referrals and information.
You can help them to keep on listening by becoming
a Friend of Switchboard from as little as £5
per mont
h. They rely heavily on donations to provide
their services, so why not make a special gift?
If you think you might be able to help, would like
to become a volunteer or would simply like to find
out more then visit 
Member
Profiles are accessed through the “Search
Results Pages”. For those members who have
not completed their Member Profile there is a default
setting in place which includes details sourced
from your Membership Application Form including:
occupation and town of residence. Without a Profile
Header you will not be found by other members so
upload your personal messages and photographs (head
and shoulder images - 10kb jpeg) and maximise your
chances to connect with other members.
