Coming events

Tony Porter provides a brief look at gay folklore.

Informal lunch club for CAGS members and their friends. Sir Julian Huxley, Wetherspoons pub, Addington Road, Selsdon CR2 8LB (64 bus from East Croydon Station to Old Farleigh Road.)

The CHE Quarterly Meeting and AGM at London Friend,86 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DN. It includes a showing of the vintage film David is Homosexual, produced by the Lewisham CHE Group in the 1970s. All welcome, no charge, refreshments provided, but please reserve on E-mail:membership@c-he.org.ukl

Join SLG members in Putney for Shakespeare’s late, great masterpiece play with freedom, treachery and forgiveness. £14, concs £10.

Inter-group pub evening in Balham Wetherspoons, (opposite Balham tube and rail stations). Food available until 10pm.

Two-course lunch for LGBT people over 50. £7. Meals provided by UNACC (Upper Norwood Association for Community Care). Booking required: note....PHONE UNACC on 020 8771 6886 by 12 noon of the day before, saying whether you'd like the vegetarian option. Don't forget to mention you're with Silver Rainbow.

S.L.G group are meeting at Regent Street/corner with Margaret Street (north of Oxford Circus) at 1pm to watch the parade, preceded by an optional snack or meal at 12 noon in the 5th floor restaurant in John Lewis, Oxford Street, W1C 1DX.

Suleika: Fragments of a Transgender Life: Rainer Schulze, Professor of History at the University of
Essex attempts to reconstruct the forgotten life of Suleika Aldini, a transgender cabaret artist in West
Germany in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, made all the more poignant by the fact that Suleika was a Roma
child survivor of the Holocaust.

Part of Green Chain walk. Matthew will lead us on the walk (about 5 miles) taking in some parks,quiet streets, Beckenham Place park and the River Ravensbourne .Nearly all flat and on good paths.Bring a picnic lunch which we shall have in the park and then carry on to finish in Beckenham for a pub stop if wanted. Return to Croydon by tram.Meet at East Croydon station ticket hall at 10.45 to catch the 10.57 train to Sydenham station arriving 11.10

The festival this year will be in Wandle Park. Provisionally, the Pridefest March is scheduled to set off at 2.15 pm from High Street, close to the entrance to St George's Walk, and proceed to the main Pridefest site in Wandle Park. More details to be announced.

Jeremy Kingston, playwright, critic and poet, will be talking about being a poet and also growing up as gay in the mid - 20th century. Meeting at St Botolph’s Church,very near Aldgate tube.

The second in the series of quizzes for this year's SLAGO Cup.
Tuesday 24 July CAGS MEETING 8pm Croydon
SLAGO Quiz. The second in the series of quizzes for this year's SLAGO cup. CAGS meet in The
Spread Eagle, 39-41 Katharine Street, Croydon CR0 1NX. All welcome, no charge.

BOOK EARLY FOR JULY Members of the former Guildford Area Gay Group are again organizing a garden party, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. It will take place from 1pm to 5pm on Saturday 28 July in Aldershot about 15 to 20 minutes walk from the station. (Bring a bottle or equivalent.) Tickets are £5 and are only available in advance (not on the door). Tickets will be available for distribution from Chris Kneeshaw.
Buffet from 2pm. This event features ample refreshments, BBQ, stalls,competitions, raffle, etc. Tickets at £5 each were advertised for sale in the June bulletin and may be ordered from George by email: george.fletcher01@btinternet.com or on 020 8442 0244 by 29 June at
the latest. Tickets will be available for distribution and payment at SLG's 9 July meeting. A direct train
leaves Waterloo at 11.53 calling at Clapham Junction 12.00 and reaching Aldershot at 12.49. Bring a
bottle or equivalent (eg 4 cans). Also donations of gay books, mags, videos, DVD’s for the charity
bookstall would be appreciated.

Two-course lunch for LGBT people over 50. £7. Meals provided by UNACC (Upper Norwood Association for Community Care). Booking required: note....PHONE UNACC on 020 8771 6886 by 12 noon of the day before, saying whether you'd like the vegetarian option. Don't forget to mention you're with Silver Rainbow.

Friday 10th 7:30 for 8pm start.Tony hosts a classical music evening. £3 donation for refreshments.

Informal lunch club for CAGS members and their friends.

We'll be discussing A Boxful of Ideas: Poetry & Prose by LGBT Writers edited by John Dixon and Jeffrey Doorn.

Two-course lunch for LGBT people over 50. £7. Meals provided by UNACC (Upper Norwood Association for Community Care). Booking required: note....PHONE UNACC on 020 8771 6886 by 12 noon of the day before, saying whether you'd like the vegetarian option. Don't forget to mention you're with Silver Rainbow.

Tuesday 18th September - Merrick Badger

We'll be discussing In A Hidden Room by Stella Duffy.

Two-course lunch for LGBT people over 50. £7. Meals provided by UNACC (Upper Norwood Association for Community Care). Booking required: note....PHONE UNACC on 020 8771 6886 by 12 noon of the day before, saying whether you'd like the vegetarian option. Don't forget to mention you're with Silver Rainbow.

Monthly meeting

We'll be discussing Lies we tell Ourselves by Robin Talley.

Two-course lunch for LGBT people over 50. £7. Meals provided by UNACC (Upper Norwood Association for Community Care). Booking required: note....PHONE UNACC on 020 8771 6886 by 12 noon of the day before, saying whether you'd like the vegetarian option. Don't forget to mention you're with Silver Rainbow.

7.00 for 7.30pm The third of the series of SLAGO quizzes for the 2018 SLAGO Cup. 3F is the central London group of OneBodyOneFaith (the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement).

Informal lunch club for CAGS members and their friends. A return to an old haunt, with good food, good service and a wide choice of menus.

Two-course lunch for LGBT people over 50. £7. Meals provided by UNACC (Upper Norwood Association for Community Care). Booking required: note....PHONE UNACC on 020 8771 6886 by 12 noon of the day before, saying whether you'd like the vegetarian option. Don't forget to mention you're with Silver Rainbow.