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Joy's Beauty Journal

Our favourite made up man, Joy scissor hands, has started a beauty blog. He can speak for himself "I've been wearing funny clothes and too much make-up for over 20 years. I've also managed to keep my daylight world together enough to run some of London's top hair salons and spas throughout, very successfully and very gorgeously. I do bang on, but there are nuggets of wisdom in amongst the mental stories, knee-jerk judgements and useless advice, read on darling, you could do a lot worse than listen to me."

Essential reading if you care about yourself. It's at http://www.joysbeautyjournal.co.uk.

EuroVision Song Contest results

Just so you can chat unintelligently to the EVST fans.

1. Denmark: Emmelie de Forest, Only Teardrops - 281 points
2. Azerbaijan: Farid Mammadov, Hold Me - 234 points
3. Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich, Gravity - 214 points
4. Norway: Margaret Berger, I Feed You My Love - 191 points
5. Russia: Dina Garipova, What If - 174 points
6. Greece: Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis, Alcohol Is Free - 152 points
7. Italy: Marco Mengoni, L'Essenziale - 126 points
8. Malta: Gianluca, Tomorrow - 120 points
9. Netherlands: Anouk, Birds - 114 points
10. Hungary: ByeAlex, Kedvesem - 84 points
11. Moldova: Aliona Moon, O mie - 71 points
12. Belgium: Roberto Bellarosa, Love Kills - 71 points
13. Romania: Cezar, It's My Life - 65 points
14. Sweden: Robin Stjernberg, You - 62 points
15. Georgia: Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani, Waterfall - 50 points
16. Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya, Solayoh - 48 points
17. Iceland: Eythor Ingi, Eg a lif - 47 points
18. Armenia: Dorians, Lonely Planet - 41 points
19. UK: Bonnie Tyler, Believe In Me - 23 points
20. Estonia: Birgit, Et uus saaks alguse - 19 points
21. Germany: Cascada, Glorious - 18 points
22. Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis, Something - 17 points
23. France: Amandine Bourgeois, L'enfer et moi - 14 points
24. Finland: Krista Siegfrids, Marry Me - 13 points
25. Spain: ESDM, Contigo hasta el final - 8 points
26. Ireland: Ryan Dolan, Only Love Survives - 5 points

From the Mirror.

Hep-C Update

An article in Brit medical journal the Lancet tells us that "In Europe, an estimated 9 million people are infected [with Hep-C], but only half have been diagnosed". It continues that only France and Germany have screening programmes and a European wide approach is needed. Read the article here.

Hep-C (HCV) is serious. A friend of mine died from it two months ago. He was not injecting before he got HCV.

Wannsee has moved

Just joking! Wanssee is still there and team Discodamaged visited yesterday. The walk from Nikolassee S-Bahn through the lush smelling forest, as green as an Irish meadow, is charming. The Hazel tree is still there with grass growing naturally under it in the shaded sand. At the end of the beach you will find some very handsome men and some of them are lurking in the toilet.

 

No photos allowed. Check the gay map for how to get there. More on Wannsee here. Click the headline for more photos.

Mindpirates Art Porn Week June 12 – 15

Art Porn Week (er three days in their week) is in June at Mindpirates, Schlesische Str. 38, Berlin-Kreuzberg. It's not in the Gay Berlin calendar. Click the headline for more info and links.

Kiev Gay Pride

It is Kiev gay pride this weekend and Discodamaged is sending its intrepid reporter Steffen into the thick of it to tell us what happens. Last year it was a disaster. Watch this space for our report and wish him well and a safe return.

Drugs In Berlin

The latest ExBerliner - the Berlin in English mag - is the "Drugs Issue". They have several features on drugs matters from heroin addiction to Vigil to the dealers story to the African child sex slave. It's in the shops now and you don't get it all on the interent. Worth a read.

Video: "I will always love you" nutter causes plane's emergency landing

A woman caused a US Airways flight to make an emergency landing so she could ejected because she wouldn't stop singing Whitney Houston's hit song, "I will always love you". More here...

Discodamaged at Strassenfest. Visit us!

Discodamaged just booked its stand for the Strassenfest on 15-16 June. Only a month to go. Come and visit us outside Reizbar, Motz Strasse 30. We've got lots of surprises for you.

Holiday season. Where to go

Our colleagues in London found this handy map of cock sizes in Europe. It's derived from 'targetmap.com Penis Size Worldwide', which the Berlin team reported in back in March 2011. And serendipitously London reader Amer shows us the Huffington Post report in Brit rag the Independent: 'According to a [not very] new study...'.

So we put together a table comparing the results. What does that prove? The French got shorter and Icelanders got longer. Or are they all liars?

Country	Indy Oct 2012	Target Map Mar 2011
Australia	13.2	13.3
Canada	14.0	13.9
China	10.9	10.9
Colombia	17.0	17.0
Congo	18.0	17.9
Ecuador	17.8	17.8
France	13.5	16.0
Germany	14.5	14.5
Ghana	17.3	17.3
Greece	14.7	14.7
Iceland	16.5	14.6
India	10.2	10.2
Ireland	12.7	12.8
Italy	15.7	15.7
New Zealand	14.0	14.0
North Korea	9.7	9.7
Romania	12.7	12.7
Russia	13.2	13.2
South Africa	15.2	15.3
South Korea	9.7	9.7
Spain	14.0	13.9
Sweden	15.0	14.8
Thailand	10.2	10.2
UK	14.0	14.0
USA	13.0	12.9

Brit not charged with trying to torch Gran Can Mardi Gras Yumbo Centre during Mardi Gras

The Briton arrested in connection with the fire that gutted seven Yumbo Centre venues during Gran Canaria's Mardi Gras has not been charged. There had been reports he's had a row with a doorman and drunkenly set the fire.

A spokeswoman for GLAY, the Gay and Lesbian Association of the Yumbo, who organise Maspalomas Gay Pride, said on Monday that the fire that occurred on the second floor of the Yumbo commercial center in Playa del Ingles was simply due to  ”bad luck” adding that in her opinion it had been caused by nothing more than “a spark. The local press also say the drunk guy was just a drunk and the piles of highly combustible materials left there were against local rules and even says some of the venue owners were trying to sell up - pretty blunt local press there. Nobody was hurt, it was at 8am. 

For those that don't know this Gran Canaria place it's somewhere nobody admits to going to but go to because it's warm when it's cold in Europe. Think Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre in terracota, menus with pictures, Blackpool and you're headed in the right direction.

So SchwuZ, So Neukölln!

SchwuZ will be moving to fashionable Neukölln in the Autumn.

Their new address will be Rollberg Strasse 26 and they will have a bigger party area, a fourth dance floor and, yes, "the biggest club toilet in Berlin".

Not as expensive as that diamond encrusted one we hope.

Marriage for all: A civil war in France?

You may have heard about almost daily demonstrations, almost riots, in Paris and all over France. France is that European country above Italy and was the home of "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité."

Fan of Discodamaged, Loran Concourdel sent in this article explaining what the French are up to, getting so excited about gay marriage.... It is a hilarious excellent summary of the situation and the hateful antics of the pathetic catholic church and associated fascists. Loran, we salute you!

Loran writes:

I'm French, gay and living between Paris and Berlin. The actual French debate and church hysteria surrounding opening civil marriage to all citizens became a recurrent questions from my Berliner friends these past few weeks.

Since 1999, same sex couples have been able to have their union recognized by French law. Well, almost… This contract is called the PACS and must be signed in front of a judge (like you are criminals), couples are not allowed to celebrate their union in the town hall and it does not give any rights concerning inheritance, mutual taxes, adoption or the legal relationship between parent and child. It was once again a treacherous way to categorize Gay and Lesbians into second class citizenship.

Then the struggle began to the extension of civil marriage to all.

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Margaret Thatcher up in Flames

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Attack in Theodor-Heuss-Platz

Police report that a 77 year old was attacked in Theodor-Heuss-Platz on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses described that at 16:00 the man ran out of a public toilet chased by a 27 year old man, who the police later arrested. The younger man pushed the older into the street so a car had to swerve. Police opined that the attack was motivated through homophobia. The victim was treated for multiple face injuries on the spot.

The toilet is one of the last 'cottages' in Berlin. Bastian Finke of the gay anti-violence-Project Maneo in Berlin said that there had been more and more violence against gays there in recent years and sometimes whole groups of gays are thrown out in order to clean up the area. From Siegessäule.

There must be scope for opening a gay bar with a huge toilet here.

Queer.de at number 33

Queer.de, who we often quote, are in the top 50 for online German media in March. They got 42,103 "Flies". Flies are likes, shares and comments on Facebook, Twitter links and +1s on Google+. That's behind number one Spiegel Online 911,452 Flies and ahead of number 44 Berliner Morgenpost with 30,776 Flies. Complete list here.

Well done queer.de. Discodamaged is proud to be associated with such distinguished company.

Cat sick at lab

Question: Who would design a T-Shit to promote their club that was the colour of cat sick? Answer: Lab.oratory. Maybe they were trying for a mixture of shit and piss - that figures.

Jack was there a few days ago and bought one for 10 €. In the gloomy light and after a few pints Jack was not sure of the colour and he asked (in German) if it was white. The burly doorman said 'Yes' very firmly. Typical Berlin customer service: Lie to them!

Bottomdar?

Well we heard of gaydar but bottomdar? Canadian scientists Konstantin O. Tskhay and Nicholas O. Rule tell us that Canadians can tell thether you're a top or bottom by just looking at your face.

They also say "In intercourse between men, one of the partners typically assumes the role of an insertive partner (top) while the other assumes a receptive role (bottom)." Maybe their research is flawed... More such drivel in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour.