The intrepid Carl Collison and Gerrit Visser teamed up at the Adam and Steve Heartland bash to ask a few of the revellers what they thought about life, love and everything else. See the answers.

Valentine's revenge
The time has come for the girls to have their say in Café Manhattan's latest offering. What is Valentine's Revenge?

Boys making noise with their toys
After marching to Pretoria with their "Army Camp" party you would have thought that MCQP would be tired or something, but then they throw a Cape Town party on December 16 and call it "Toy Box".

Who cares about good food?
Who Cares where we eat and spend our hard-earned pink rands? Even though Martin and I decided on a quick outing just to grab something to eat, it was important to us where we should go!
Rush samples Who Cares Restaurant

Pride 2000 in pictures
SEE our gallery of some 50 pictures from the 11th Annual Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade, the thrills, the chills and even some tired old numbers.

Glam bam, thank you M'am
A man pretending to be a drag queen pretending to be Shirley Bassey oozes raw talent at Joburg's eccentric dinner theatre, Jargonell's. Will Trueman was there to soak up the culcha one evening at "A Lady With A Song"

time out

Fashion goes drag
The dresses have been designed by a real woman, the garments are designed for real women but they will be modeled by men at the Alberton Civic Theatre next month in what is billed as the first ever fashion drag cabaret

Marching to Pretoria
The Mother City Queer Projects comes to Gauteng with their Absolut Army Camp [31/07/00]

THEATRE/CABARET

Playing in the kitchen
A year ago Peter Hayes got together with Gaetan Schmidt to see whether food could translate into theatre. A delightfully witty, wacky theatrical concoction that's already cooked up a storm in Cape Town Guy Willoughby reckons their recipe works

Here's looking at your vagina, kid
More than an anatomy lesson, Julia Beffon discovers that The Vagina Monologues opens up a new view on this much-maligned genital. Can you say the word in public?

Batty or birdy?
William Wharton's Birdy makes for an intermittently moving piece of stage drama, even though Naomi Wallace's adaptation is in a writing style that's somewhat out of date thinks Matthew Krouse

Camp concentration
Pieter-Dirk Uys's latest show, Concentration Camp, opened at On Broadway on yesterday. This world premiere event stars Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout's younger sister Bambi Kellerman in a cabaret-comedy, accompanied by her musical director Godfrey Johnson.

BARS/CLUBS

American in Paris
Edmund White has always trawled his own intensely sexual life in his novels, and since that sexual life has charted the course of gay liberation, his books have been beautifully candid political acts. Its narrator calculated that he had taken more than 3 000 lovers during the golden age of gay sex that began with Stonewall and ended with the onset of Aids. [20/04/00]