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JOIN CURTIS IN THE CHAT LOUNGE

Up for a chat? Curtis Gordon will be hosting a chat debating THE TRUTH ABOUT THE NEW CIVIL PARTNERSHIP LAW …Many people feel that the Civil Partnership recently introduced is a massive step in the right direction for gay and lesbian rights, I fail to agree. The government wants homosexual couples to have the same rights, but reading more closely into the legislation, one can see that they are not entirely the same as marriage.
What is really being offered? Civil Partnership is not a marriage, a Civil Partnership means that couples are not recognised as partners but as relatives. Marriage law contains over 4,500 co-habitation, inheritance and pension benefit rights. However, the Civil Partnership Act contains only 10. Heterosexual couples cannot register under the Civil Partnership Act. Where is the equality? Is accepting such an unequal law directed at homosexual couples fair? We should all demand true equality, which is what was campaigned for in the first place! Join Curtis for an extensive insight into this and put forward your opinion in the debate.

LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL

The Opening Night Gala for their 20th anniversary year will be held in the Odeon Leicester Square, making this one of the world's largest ever lesbian and gay film events.
The Opening Night Gala on 29 March, Happy Endings, is a teeming LA comedy of manners with an all-star cast, centering around love, betrayal, adoption and sperm donation. The Closing Night Gala on 12 April is Jan Dunn's award-winning debut feature Gypo, the UK's first certified Dogme film.
A strong and eclectic programme of feature films, shorts, artists' film and video and experimental work, as well as a whole host of discussions and special events will be presented. Booking opened on Monday 6 March, but as a subscriber to the festival's email bulletin you can book online from Friday 3 March, so log in now and start planning your personal festival calendar.

Directed by Chris Columbus and produced by Robert De Niro, 'Rent' is based on Puccini's 'La Boheme', and tells the story of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, 1989-1990. Among the group are our narrator, nerdy love-struck filmmaker Mark Cohen (Anthony Rapp); the object of Mark's affection, his former girlfriend, Maureen Johnson (Idina Menzel); Maureen's Harvard-educated public interest lawyer and lesbian lover Joanne Jefferson (Traci Thoms); Mark's roommate, HIV-positive musician and former junkie, Roger Davis (Adam Pascal); Roger's new girlfriend, the HIV-positive drug addicted S&M dancer, Mimi Marquez (Rosario Dawson); their former roommate, HIV-positive computer genius Tom Collins (Jesse L. Martin); Collins' HIV-positive drag queen street musician/lover Angel (Wilson Jermain Heredia); and Benjamin Coffin III (Taye Diggs) a former member of the group who married for money and has since become their landlord and the opposite of everything they stand for. Shows how much changes or doesn't change in the 525,600 minutes that make up a year.
Ticket Prices are as follows: Student £9.50, Senior £9.50, Adult £12.50. To book tickets, click here or telephone 08712 240 240

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