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Our regular digest of gay news and information includes: - new clubs, organisations and services - special offers, promotions and events - policy and campaign information If you have information to share please send it to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We look forward to hearing form you! ____________________________________________ GAY to Z DIRECTORY - Newsletter - April 2001 The Search Engine for Gay Britain ________________________________ CONTENTS 1. New PRODUCTS aimed at lesbian and gay consumers 2. GAY to Z heads for 260,000 impressions per month 3. Improved SEARCH, and a MAP showing your location 4. Pitcures of MARDI GRAS .... links to all UK Pride Events 5. Westminster Council to CLOSE CLUBS at 1am 6. COMMUNITY NEWS ....Christian Institute beaten ....nail bomber gets life ________________________________ 1. NEW PRODUCTS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY CUSTOMERS FREEDOM ISA Rainbow Finance has created the first lesbian and gay ISA, a unique savings plan with �10 gifts to Stonewall, THT and Amnesty every time a FREEDOM ISA is taken out. http://www.freedom-isa.com Other new products for gay people include: HIV TRAVEL INSURANCE http://www.thecard.uk.com or EQUALITY PENSION http://www.carvosso.com PET ACCESSORIES http://www.heavypetting.co.uk GBA RIVER CRUISE - Gay Business Association members will be holding their summer social on the Regents Canal. Saturday 22 July. Contact the GBA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you'd like to meet other LGBT business people, why not attend a GBA monthly NETWORKING MEETING held monthly in Holborn. http://www.gba.org.uk Got a new product or service - got a friend who desreves a free listing ? Let us know [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ 2. WOW - WHAT A MONTH Over 190,000 impressions in June, and on the Sunday after the Mardi Gras weekend over 8700 individual visitors to GAY to Z.com. That's a lot of lesbian and gay people looking for lesbian and gay businesses and organisations, and we're heading for a quarter of a million in July. You can reach all those people with a banner advert on our HOME and SEARCH pages for just 100 pounds per month. [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's why we are calling ourselves the SEARCH ENGINE FOR GAY BRITAIN. Our printed edition is to be published shortly, and for the first time it will include web addresses of all our 380 advertisers. This will make it the definitive internet guide for the UK. It will also link through to the thousands of web address we have listed, so now would be a good time to check that we have your listings and addresses correct at http://www.gaytoz.com ________________________________ 3. IMPROVED SEARCH AND A MAP OF YOUR LOCATION Our search system has been enhanced so you can type almost anything in to find what you want. From a single word such as LEATHER, to a more specific request like HOTEL TORQUAY, or SOLICITOR BIRMINGHAM, or a particular organisation NAME. Also enlarged is our escorts section, and we now have over 400 gay and gay friendly hotels ranging from from 5-star to B&B all over the UK. With so many free listings our visitors need help in making choices. For just �50 for six months you can have a banner advert which will bring your organisation to the front of the search requests. We can help create a banner for you. Just contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our NEWS section has also been changed to include BUSINESS NEWS, where we can promote new products and services. And you can fill in your own promotion at http://www.gaytoz.com/classifieds.asp ________________________________ 4. LONDON MARDI GRAS SUCCESS The large crowd at London Mardi Gras heard Ken Livingstone announce he is to set up a partnership register so that same-sex couples can have their relationships formally recognised for purposes such as hospital visiting rights. The massive event at Finsbury Park saw a string of top name entertainment and we danced in some of the biggest club tents we've ever seen. Only one downpour of rain did not dampen the fun. Earlier thousands of people, representing a wide variety of lesbian and gay groups, joined the March from Hyde Park to remind everyone that we are still fighting for equality. PICTURES http://www.londonmardigras.com http://www.OutRage.org.uk/pride2000.htm http://www.first-web.co.uk/richardb/pride2000.htm ALL OTHER UK PRIDE EVENTS and WORLDWIDE PARTIES http://www.gaytoz.com/bevents.asp ________________________________ 5. WEST END CLUBS MAY CLOSE AT 1am Westminster Council is considering forcing clubs to close at 1am - and new licenses at 11pm - because residents consider the area has reached saturation point for entertainment. The gay scene led the recovery of Soho after the last recession, but now areas such as Vauxhall are becoming the Mecca of gay venues where there are fewer residents living nearby. Search the GAY to Z for CLUBS CENTRAL LONDON http://www.gaytoz.com/bsearch.asp _____________________________________ 6. COMMUNITY NEWS CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE IN COURT CLIMBDOWN A nurse - who accused Glasgow City Council of contravening Section 28 of the Local Government Act by supporting local gay groups including HIV charity Phace West and Glasgay arts festival -has accepted defeat and let her court action fall before it was heard. Sheena Strain was backed by the Christian Institute which had threatened to mount similar action against some English councils, and possibly health authorities for distributing health education to gay men. 'Their attack on our services was founded on misinformation, hysteria and prejudice,'; said Charlie McMillan, chief executive of PHACE West. 'They would not listen to the facts, rather they chose a course of action that would get them maximum publicity and cause huge disruption...they have been left with egg on their face NAIL BOMBER GETS SIX LIFE SENTENCES... ...after unanimous guilty verdicts at his trial at the Old Bailey. Nail-bomber David Copeland admitted he was racist and homophobic, explaining that he chose the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho because it was 'full of gay men hugging each other'. He regarded homosexuals as 'perverted and degenerates' and 'no use to society'. While he heated black people he had told police 'I would prefer a black or Asian man to a gay white male'. Responding to the verdict Stonewall the lesbian and gay rights group, called for the Government to take urgent action to stem the increasing tide of hate crime against minority groups. Research undertaken by Stonewall reveals that one in three lesbians and gay men have been the victim of violent attack within the last five years. http://www.stonewall.org.uk http://www.OutRage.org.uk ______________________ We currently have a special offer of a banner advert on our web site, PLUS an advert in our printed edition for just 99 pounds. http://www.gaytoz.com/badvertise.asp ___________________________ GAY to Z DIRECTORIES 41 Cooks Road, London SE17 3NG Tel 020 7793 7450, Fax 020 7820 1366 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gaytoz.com ___________________________ GAY to Z is hosted by First-Web Network Solutions Ltd http://www.first-web.net
