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LONDON - Celebrities mobbed a West End nightclub for a glitzy bachelor party to toast the upcoming civil union between Elton John and David Furnish. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Elizabeth Hurley, Bryan Adams, Gary Barlow and Kid Rock were among those who streamed into the gala event Monday night in London's Soho neighborhood. John and Furnish slipped into the Too2Much venue just minutes before the show started. Shirtless waiters wearing black ties and riding boots served guests flutes of champagne. The nightclub, once a strip club known as Raymond's Revue Bar, features an auditorium with red leather and banquette seating,...

The DUers think of everything!: Betsy Ross (261 posts) Fri Sep-09-05 09:49 AM Original message This is serious, and not an insult or joke I contacted OPTIC in San Francisco. This is a group that helps transgendered in crisis. I was told that three members of the TG/TV [transgender/transvestite?] community in NO were coming to SF as they are victims of Katrina. What had sparked my call to OPTIC was this idea: The professional TV performers in NO have also lost, homes, personal possessions, jobs. So I wanted to start collecting items that would allow them to re=establish their careers,...