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Gay's the Word Might Close Drag performer Verka Serdyuchka's musical The United Kingdom’s last gay bookstore might submission to the Eurovision Song Contest close because of London’s high rents and loss of sparked demonstrations in Ukraine. sales to the Internet. Gay’s the Word is hoping to ward off disaster by incident caused extensive damage to the windows raising $40,000 before May 1 to pay bills and set up and interior of rhe Iontas Theatre at Bree. Nearby an online sales site itself. cars also were damaged. Among other steps, it has launched a “Sponsor A police spokesman told the Times, “We cannot a Shelf’ scheme. For $196, “your name/organiza- comment on whether there is any link between the tion will be listed in-store as an official Friend of (gay] nature of the drama festival presentation and Gay’s the Word,” says the store’s Web site. the criminal damage which took place.” Novelist Ali Smith told The Guardian, “It’d be a political, cultural, communal and human loss if it Blair: Civil Partnerships Profound' went four of business].’’ British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the Author Edmund White said: “It’s a shop that United Kingdom’s new Civil Partnership Act keeps gay titles on the shelves for years in a way no “doesn’t just give me a lot of pride, but it has actu regular b<x)k shop, even one with a gay section, ally brought a lot of joy.” would ever do. The staff know the Ixxiks and can Speaking to the Stonewall Equality dinner March give advice. It would be very sad to see it go.” 22, Blair said: “The change in culture and the civiliz Author Sarah Waters commented: “For me it’s ing effect of it has gone far greater than the gay and more than a bcx>k shop. It was one of those places lesbian community.... By taking a stand on this issue you went to when you first arrived in London.... and by removing a piece of prejudice and discrimina It felt very empowering that it was here, and it is tion, and by enabling people to stand proud as what still important that there is a visible place for they are, it has had an impact that 1 think is far more people to go.” profound on the way the country thinks about itself.” Assistant manager Uli Lenart told The Guardian Stonewall is the United Kingdom’s leading gay that teenagers arrive at the store “on the verge of lobby group. tears. This is a place where you can feel less alone.” City Funds Reykjavik Pride Normal Heart Theater Trashed A foreign national has been detained for ques tioning in an attack on a theater in Monaghan County, Ireland, that had just finished a perform ance of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. According to The Irish Times, the March 11 Meeting with members of the Gay Pride commit tee March 22, the mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland, Vilhjalmur Th. Vilhjalmsson, agreed to fund the city’s Pride festivities to the tune of $ 180,000 a year for the next three years, the Morgunbladid daily reported. During the meeting, Vilhjalmsson kissed the OLIVER PEOPLES oowoo Novelist Ali Smith said losing the United Kingdom's last gay bookstore would be a "political, cultural, communal and human loss.” Playwright Larry Kramer's the Normal Heart finished a performance at Iontas Theatre shortly before it was vandalized.
