What's Inside Issue 7?
Belinda O'Hooley | Features | Regulars | Reviews | Advertisers
 | Issue 7 cover design by
AVRH Photography
Message from the editor:
"Watch this space for new developments in 2006 designed to
keep improving Velvet and ensuring that it reaches even more people."
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Northern Trash - Interview with Belinda O'Hooley
 | "My sexuality shouldn't have anything to do with my musical career. If I have to be a lesbian icon then so be it!"
Lesbian singer/songwriter Belinda O'Hooley talks with Alys Henley-Einion about her work, her life and what she thinks of lesbian chic.
"I'm sickeningly in love and not just with myself."
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| Find out more about Belinda's 'Northern Trash' tour at her website: www.belindaohooley.com
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Features
| Issue 7 is a 'Civil Partnership Special' and many of the features and regulars have a bearing on this breakthrough change in the law.
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- Mrs & Mrs Henley-Einion - The Civil Partnership of Alys and Josie (see below)
- Results of the 2005 Readers' Questionnaire
- Planning Your Wedding - Nicola Hill gives advice on how to plan your ceremony
- Hotel Los Olivos - Spanish Holidays for Women (see below)
- St. Valentine's Day or the Power of Marketing - Edurne Urien looks at the history of the day and how it is celebrated around the globe
- Diary of a Provincial Lesbian - our own V.G. Lee is interviewed about her new book (see below)
- Debate 'Integration or Segregation' - a new feature where we debate a contentious topic, in this instance whether straights should be allowed into gay-only clubs
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Regulars
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As usual, Issue 7 features news and events and our regular contributors:
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- V.G. Lee - Baxi the Combi-Boiler and Other Animals See also V.G. Lee book article
- Life Coach Lynda Benham - 'Til Death Us Do Part?
- Patty Nazo - Cooking is bad for your health (Chicken Soup for Dummies)
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Regular Features |
- Parenting - Lesbian Parenting - Recent Changes in The Law
- Media - What The Papers Had To Say About Civil Partnerships
- Down There - PMS
This issue also features short fiction THE BOOK CLUB by Nana Aba Odoom.
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Hotel Los Olivos
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"Last year we were looking for a women-only break in the sun and came across a small ad for Hotel Los Olivos." See also the ad for Spanish Holidays for Women below.
www.spanishholidaysforwomen.com.
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Mrs & Mrs Henley-Einion
 | We would like to announce The Civil Partnership of Alys and Josie Henley-Einion on 21st December 2005. It was celebrated in style and we are delighted to share the wedding photos with our readers.
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Diary of a Provincial Lesbian
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Question and answer session with V.G. Lee about her new book Diary of a Provincial Lesbian available from
Onlywomen Press in March 2006.
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Reviews
The following books/CDs/DVDs have been reviewed in this issue of Velvet.
As far as possible the website will link to a site where you may purchase these items. |
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| Breakfast on Pluto (at cinemas)
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