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"Dear Editor, In reply to an article in last month's issue regarding the Leather and Denim Night in the Parliament Inn [see article ""Raunchy Splendour""] I would like to clear some points made by the Bombshell: 1. You do not remove carpets for a once monthly theme night. 2. I was the ""awful"" D.J. who played ""frantic"" music - which I might add were all requests (a ""good"" D.J. plays the music the crowd want to hear and not his/her choice); 3. The comments passed by the Bombshell were not taken lightly and in good heart by the Management, staff and patrons of The Parliament and I speak for them when I say that the Bombshell would be better off sitting at home ""listening to the sounds soothing and caressing"" his body. Yours sincerely, Derek O'Beirne, Rathmines, Dublin 6. P.S. Is the Blondie Bombshell a pseudonym - probably not!"

"9th September Captain (William) Bligh, whom we are told had a crush on Fletcher Christian, born in 1754. 11th September Novelist D.H. Lawrence, bom in Nottinghamshire, England, 1885. 12th September The Soup Kitchen at the Hirschfeld Centre, Dublin, closes - to be replaced by a franchised coffee bar, 1983. 14th September Writer and lesbian feminist, Kate Millet, bom 1934. 18th September The 1st Magnus Hirschfeld Award for outstanding contribution to Irish gay liberation is presented to Dr. Noel Browne, former Minister for Health, at the NGF AGM in Liberty Hall, Dublin, 1982. 19th September Henry III, King of Poland and France, who was so effeminate that he wore full drag and make­ up and frequently hid shrieking in cellars during thunderstorms, bom in Fontainbleau, 1551. 21st September The Daughters of Bilitis, first lesbian organisation in the US, founded in San Francisco, by Phyllis Lyons and Del Martin, 1956. 23rd September Emperor Augustus, born in Rome, 63 B.C. 25th September Swiss philanthropist Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross (his memoirs were mutilated and falsified by his family) bom in Geneva, 1828. 26th September Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin bom in New Jersey, USA, 1946. Also the birthday of poet/critic T.S. Eliot (1888). 28th September William II Rufus, one of William the Conqueror's two gay sons, bom 1056; and the painter Caravaggio, bom in the town from which he took his name, 1573. 29th September The first lesbian organisation in Ireland - Liberation for Irish Lesbians - founded at the Resources Centre, Rathgar Road, Dublin, 1978. 30th September Truman Capote, who once confided ""I was a beautiful little boy...everyone had men - men, women, dogs and fire hydrants. I did it with everybody"", born 1924. 3rd October Gore Vidal, author, bom in New York, 1925. 9th October James Whale, director of Frankenstein and some o f Hollywood's best horror films of the 1930's and who made no secret of his love affair with producer David Lewis - for which he never worked in Hollywood again - is commemorated today."