Hi Girls,
Welcome to another midnight edition of lesbian life in our favourite city.
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High Energy with legwarmer - Saturday 17 October
Date: Saturday, 17 October
Time: 22:00
Venue: Adam & Eve, Napier Street (next to Anatoli's)
Info:
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Entrance: Free
Join DJ Legwarmer at Adam & Eve, the newest kid on de Waterkant block, for a night of handbag-hugging 80s and 90s.
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CODE @ Tank (Cape Quarter) - Saturday 17 October
Tank is starting a new gay night called CODE in the Cape Quarter. The debut night is saturday 17 October from 10pm - 2am. R35 on the door includes cocktail specials and give aways there will be Dj's and dancing.
For more info, contact Penny on 072 331 1185 for more info!
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MIRIAM DANCING – on sale now
On Women’s Day 2009 in South Africa, Elise van Wyk launched an anthology of true stories by lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. Women in the LGBTI community often have to deal with the tension between the internalised homophobic images of same-sex love, which fundamentalist Christianity regularly endorses, and commitment to their own passionate hearts. In Miriam Dancing a diverse group of South African women tell their personal stories of love for their own kind.
Illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, and printed on beige recycled paper, Miriam Dancing is also available under the Afrikaans title, Miriam Dans. These books can be ordered from Elise on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a special launch price of R100. (If you want the book to be mailed, an additional R20 will be charged for packaging and postage.) By the end of the year the books will be available at bookshops at an estimated retail price of R170.
To view an extract from Miriam Dancing, view http://www.capetownlesbians.co.za/article-archive/dating/213-lesbian-dating-two-love-letters.html
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Karen Bentley –“Little Miss Fix-It” Handy woman
In today’s society we are more aware of our need for safety and security, a lady handy woman in our space, doing all those jobs that we neglect due to lack of knowledge, time or interest is just what we ladies need!
Karen approaches every job, from maintenance and repairs, basic plumbing, basic carpentry and restoration, painting and decorating to standard electrical work with the highest regard for ones personal space and safety.
Not only is she a deft hand with her paintbrush but she is highly creative and finds solutions that are functional, beautiful and cost effective.
I can personally vouch for her as she has single handedly renovated my house!
Karen will give as a discount to all the lovely ladies on your site, a 10% discount, for quotes accepted, IF they are members of Cape Town Lesbians.
Karen Bentley 0797 1295 00
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Inclusive & Affirming Ministries (IAM)
IAM has a vision of Southern African religious communities that are welcoming and affirming, where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people can participate fully and be strengthened in their spiritual, psychological and sexual identity as human beings. Inclusive & Affirming Ministries (IAM) works towards this vision through programmes that support and empower the LGBTI community and stimulate dialogue as the alternative to debate in building welcoming and affirming religious communities.
Connect to them
* Visit their website: www.iam.org.za
* Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter www.iam.org.za homepage.
* Visit their fan page on Face book www.iam.org.za/facebook and become a fan of IAM.
* IAM is also linked with the ‘Vuurkairos’ blog www.vuurkairos.wordpress.com
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Beautiful Kitty Looking For Loving Home
I’m looking for a loving home for my beautiful, part-long-haired, 4-year-old cat called Egypt (female, spayed). Sadly, I can’t keep looking after her because I’m always having to travel at short notice. Egypt is fully house trained (doesn’t scratch the furniture, litter box trained, etc) although she prefers to spend the majority of her time outside, so she needs a place where she can be out and about. She is very good-natured and has never scratched or bitten anyone. She is friendly and loves being stroked. She’s used to children (although she doesn’t like being handled or played with roughly), and she’s also been used to sharing her home with other cats and dogs.
Egypt comes with her litter tray, a bagful of those special cat litter crystals, a month’s worth of food, and a carry-box.
If someone out there can give Egypt a good, loving home, please, please get in touch. I live in Diep River if you’d like to meet Egypt before making up your mind. Email me at
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, or call 072 7431362. Thanks!
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VERSES VS. CANCER CHARITY SESSION - WED 28 OCTOBER
Date: WED 28 OCTOBER
Time: 8:00PM
Venue: ZULA BAR, LONG STREET
October is breast cancer awareness month and to honour this, we’re hosting the VERSES VS. CANCER CHARITY SESSION. Breast cancer is a leading cancer faced by South African women with one in 29 women diagnosed each year.
All the artists at this session will be performing pro bono and the door takings are going to an enormously worthy cause – 2 sisters in Athlone are suffering from advanced breast cancer and are in dire need of funds to help fight this disease. Come and offer them your support!
The featured artists, doing their bit to help raise funds and awareness for breast cancer are: Chad Saaiman, Claire Phillips, JP & The All Elements Band, Blaq Pearl, Perspectif, Dianne Ferrus, Khadija Heeger and Shimmy Isaacs.
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Mini Cooper Party - Friday 30 October
Mini Cooper Party- mini is hosting a kick-ass party at Adam and Eve on Friday the 30th of October. Test drives available, and if you are one of the lucky few to own a mini, please present your key upon entry to gain access to the VIP section.
Date: Friday 30 October
Time: 20:00
Venue: Adam & Eve Lounge, Napier Street, Greenpoint
Info:
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Kickass Halloween Party! - Saturday 31 October
Adam and Eve presents (drum roll please)... TAAAAAA DAAAAAH!!!!!! A Kickass Halloween Party!!! Dress up as your favourite halloween or horror character. Best dressed will win a prize.
Date: Saturday 31st October
Time: 20:00
Venue: Adam & Eve Lounge, Napier Street, Greenpoint
Info:
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Pink Party! - Saturday October 31st
Albert Hall Night Club
208 Albert Rd Woodstock
(c) 084 5055 683
Entry Fee: R20.00
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Cape Town Lesbians Features This Week
Two love letters
Song of Songs is a story about the sacred union ceremony of Chrissi Smith and Morag McAllister. Two love letters form part of their ritual.
http://www.capetownlesbians.co.za/article-archive/dating/213-lesbian-dating-two-love-letters.html
Praying for my time to come
I often wonder why it is that I am so gay. Some people put it down to genetics, Freud said it was because of childhood trauma, and Simone de Beauvoir hinted that it might be narcissism. The more liberal and open minded say that human sexuality is fluid, like the Kinsey scale, we all float somewhere between preferring one gender or the other, and that most people rank somewhere around hetero with slightly gay tendencies.
http://www.capetownlesbians.co.za/article-archive/lifestyle/212-praying-for-my-time-to-come.html
“Parentals”: Guidance Is Advised
I think it is safe to say that meeting a girlfriend’s parents for the first time can and more likely will be an excruciating. And I say this with all the respect in the world.
http://www.capetownlesbians.co.za/article-archive/dating/211-lesbian-dating-parentals-guidance-is-advised.html
CTL Confessional - October 2009
(I have added the latest secrets to this month's confessional.) We all have secrets. Some are never revealed. But some, even though we want to keep them secret, we experience a need to share. This is a place for sharing those secrets. Anyone can submit and anyone can read. And the person it was written for could be reading this now. The person it was written for could be you.
http://www.capetownlesbians.co.za/ctl-confessional/210-lesbian-secrets-october-2009.html
Latest Poem added to the CTL Art & Literature section:
A thousand times - by Melissa Murdoch http://www.capetownlesbians.co.za/artandliterature/poetry/215-a-thousand-times.html
Latest Erotic Lesbian Short Fiction added to the CTL Art & Literature section:
Speaking my soul - by Tass http://www.capetownlesbians.co.za/artandliterature/eroticfiction/214-erotic-lesbian-story-speaking-my-soul.html
P.S. anyone can write for Cape Town Lesbians. And I'm always looking for more articles and more writers. If you've got talent, and you have something meanignful to say, drop me an e-mail ;-)
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Kind Regards,
Lara Aucamp
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