Welcome to VELVET-CLUB the club that enables members to connect with 1,000’s of lesbians around the world – at home, in the office, on their travels!! Link up with new friends, increase your business contacts or find the perfect partner and much, much more!!

After what I can say was nothing short of an excellent September drinks party we are looking forward to our October drinks party so come and join us in THE PIANO LOUNGE/DOVER BAR for a complimentary glass of wine (for guests who arrive between 7-8pm)

Curtis your Host and Co-Hosts – Jean Francois, Patricia and Alastair will be meeting and greeting. Our members and guests are all ages and professions. A great night to network - so chat, flirt or talk shop its up to you !!  There is NO admission charge and the drinks prices are very reasonable …

Enter our LUCKY DRAW for “Summer Beach” a superb photograph on canvas and continue the evening on by collecting Guest Passes for complimentary admission to Shadow Lounge, 5 Brewer Street, Soho, London W1 (before 11pm)  Europe’s No 1 gay members club.

Guest List places are limited to 250 members and their guests. Click Here for more details and send an email to susie@velvet-club.com including your name and the names of your guests! The Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, Mayfair, London W1.

Keep up to date make the Daily Velvet your home page; World, UK, Lesbian/Gay and Velvet news, horoscopes, cartoon, quotes of the day, this day in history and much more,  

Melissa Etheridge:Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Angelina Jolie:  I always play women I would date.

Sheryl Swoopes: No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

Marlene Dietrich: It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ..more...

THE LESBIAN EVENTS GUIDE – Whats On and Where

The Velvet- Club Lesbian Events Calendar tells you What’s On and Where to Go !! – a monthly guide to lesbian social, sporting, networking and business events in the UK. Whether you're wanting to expand your social/business horizons or looking for love there's something to keep you entertained all year round from: Jessica Delfino at Soho Theatre to LGBT Sunday at London Zoo to a Global Summit drinks reception for LGBT Entrepreneurs !!!.

Check back regularly as our 1,000’s of Velvet-Club members and their friends/ business contacts view the Events Guide and we are adding new lesbian events every day. For more details about the individual events either click on the event “Title” or on “More Info”. Enjoy !!! ...more...

The evening starts with a champagne and canapés reception from 7.00pm before moving through to the spectacular Raphael Gallery for the Awards Ceremony. After which the evening continues with further champagne, canapés, food bowls and musical entertainment …

Now in its third year, the awards have become an essential fixture in the lesbian and gay calendar. Sponsored once again this year by Barclays, the ceremony is acclaimed for its celebration of those who have had a positive impact on the lives of lesbian and gay people in Britain. Last year's winners included Dan Gillespie Sells, Val McDermid and Alan Johnson MP

The awards recognise outstanding accomplishment in politics, the media, the arts and sport. A panel of expert judges will make the choice, although once again Stonewall's friends and close friends are being asked to vote in three categories - Hero of the Year, Community Group of the Year (worth £5,000) and the rather less salubrious Bigot of the Year …more...

Contact Michaela Greene on 020 7593 1874  or by email  michaela.greene@stonewall.org.uk

“Job Search” is the UK’s first fully-comprehensive online lesbian and gay-friendly jobsearch. It already showcases over 16,000 exciting job opportunities from over 260 recruitment agencies that have registered to date.

All Lesbian/Gay-friendly recruiters and employers are invited to have “A Month’s Free Trial” to post unlimited job adverts. All job adverts are posted within 24 hours and will be displayed for 2 months, or less if we receive notification that the vacancy is filled.

1st Page Search Results Listings for Google, Yahoo and the other major Search Engines for search terms inc: "gay friendly employment, "gay jobs" and " gay recruiters". For “A Month’s Free Trial” just click on this link, and we will email you your access codes and then you can start posting your Jobs for FREE - TODAY !!!

It's accessible only by you and you can store any information you need access to:  friends screen names, contact telephone numbers ( home, office, mobile) , their birthdays, notes etc and click through to their profiles.

Little Black Book facilities are available only for logged members. Please click here to Log In.

Nixon made theatrical history while a freshman at Barnard College in 1984, by simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols. These were “The Real Thing”, where Nixon played the daughter of Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski; and “Hurlyburly”, where she played a young woman who encounters sleazy Hollywood types. The two theaters were just two blocks apart so she could run from one to the other.

Nixon began dating education activist Christine Marinoni in January 2004; media reports of the relationship started surfacing in September of the same year. In February 2005, the New York Post and other sources reported that Nixon had moved to Brooklyn to live with Marinoni. Discussing her relationship in an interview in New York Magazine in 2006, Nixon stated that she never felt any struggle with her sexuality: "I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress. I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure." In an interview in May 2007, she said "In terms of sexual orientation I don’t really feel I’ve changed... I’d been with men all my life, and I’d never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn’t seem so strange. I’m just a woman in love with another woman." ...more...

Detailed biographies of world famous lesbians from the worlds of Art, Literature, Film/tv, Sport, Politics and Music … broaden your knowledge by clicking here!

See what Autumn 2008 has in store for you !!!  – click here to read  your Daily, Weekly and Monthly horoscopes on Velvet-Club.

Russell's rise to fame has been meteoric. Dubbed “Astrologer Royal” by the media, he has syndicated his Stars column to 450+ newspapers world-wide and Russell's Stars have also become a huge hit across the Internet with Britons and Americans alike flocking to read his stars. His best-selling books include: Russell Grant's Sun Signs, Russell Grant's Dream Dictionary, Russell Grant's Astro Tarot Pack and Russell Grant's Book of Birthdays. Russell's latest book 'You Can Change Your Life' published by Random House is already scaling the Best Sellers List...more...

All Member Profile Searches give top listing to Member Profiles that include a main photograph. Photographs that are 400x400 pixels or 64 kb can be accommodated. Should you wish to have a modesty flash across your face for privacy then please email your photograph with your Screen Name to photos@velvet-club.com and we will do this for you. Photographs will maximise your chances to connect with other members.  Please note that Gallery Search is a search by main photograph only, so if you do not upload a photograph you will not be able to be included. 

We very much look forward to meeting up with VELVET-CLUB members and guests at our VELVET October Drinks Party at THE ARTS CLUB in Mayfair on FRIDAY 3 October.