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Gay Shame
Celebrate Gay Pride in London at Duckie's genius Gay Shame event!
"You can visit a butcher's shop, have a fight with an Action Man, bet on the gee-gees, have a prison tattoo, work on a building site..."
For anyone who feels all gayed out after the Gay Pride festivities in London on Saturday, Duckie, the alternative artsy nightclub people, are laying on the antidote. It's their usual Gay Shame event and this year they will be highlighting all things masculine with everything from betting to boxing to transforming men's urine into aftershave. Yes, really!
The event at south London's Coronet, at Elephant and Castle, will offer up a variety of ways to celebrate masculinity and will apparently come across as something of a fun fair. "You can visit a butcher's shop, have a fight with an Action Man, bet on the gee-gees, have a prison tattoo, work on a building site, get a massage, go to a sauna, dress up as your dad and a myriad of other things that tests your competitive masculine instincts," organiser Simon Casson told Time Out magazine.
Partiers will be handed a bunch of nine-bob notes (get it? Queer as a nine-bob note) as they go in and will be able to redeem them at stalls offering some of the delights listed above. "The set is like a huge mini cab office," says Casson. "Sticky, brown, dodgy, stained and lacking a woman's touch. It's built from scaffolding and found materials, stuff salvaged from skips so it's dirty and real. Any attempt at aesthetics is considered effeminate."
And before anyone takes offence, next year's event will be about femininity.
Gay Shame: Masculinity is at The Coronet, 26-28 New Kent Road, London SE1 on Saturday 5th July. It starts at 9pm and costs £15.
