Gettg Around Sydney - Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras

Contents:

• GAY SYDNEY GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• SEVEN-DAY GUI TO GAY AND LBIAN SYDNEY
• SYDNEY: GAY & LBIAN TRAVELLERS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

GAY SYDNEY GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO SYDNEY

The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para is one of the most inic LGBTQIA+ events the world. Self-Guid Gay and Lbian History Walkg Tour. A gay gui to SydneyQueer eye on SydneyMeet the crew: Heaps GayWhether you're gay, straight or somewhere between, you'll have a heaps good time at one of Sydney's favoure queer and clive Beard TIf you want to see Sydney at her absolute bt, go for a drk at Redfern’s neighbourhood art bar, the Beard T.

Transport has proudly participated the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para sce 2010 and this year our float will be bigger and better than ever before.

Eighty people om across Transport put Our People at the Heart as they danced their way up Oxford Street for the 45th Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para on Saturday, 25 Febary.

GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE

Sydney has a thrivg LGBTQ scene and plays host to one of the world’s bt pri events: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

There are a range of LGBTQ areas (or “gayborhoods”) Sydney where the muny ngregat at amazg LGBTQ bars and clubs, as well as at more laid-back ffee ho and rtrants. Today, even though you n fd LGBTQ hotspots throughout the cy, Oxford Street remas a major hub for LGBTQI+ activy and hosts Sydney’s famo Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, ually held every March on Oxford Street.

In 2016, jt over 15% of upl Potts Pot were gay men.

SEVEN-DAY GUI TO GAY AND LBIAN SYDNEY

Meanwhile, the troductn of laws that rtrict late-night socialisg central Sydney’s party preccts has severely damaged Oxford Street, the cy’s tradnal gay strip. And, while Oxford Street is fely hurtg, a handful of Sydney’s “tradnal” queer venu ntue to thrive there spe of the challengg and mixedTokyo Sg Song basement Patrick Abboud, a documentary filmmaker and televisn prenter who -hosts and produc for the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi GrasThe biggt challenge for visors who want to explore Sydney’s LGBTQI scene is that only the old, mastream optns tend to be listed travel guis. On Sundays plays crowd-pleasg hoe, electro and two most mastream venu for gay guys are Stonewall and Arq.

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To fd out what is gog on across Sydney regards to arts events and queer culture, keep an ear out for the rad programm Canvas (on FBi), and Gay Panic and So Hot Right Now (both on 2SER).

SYDNEY: GAY & LBIAN TRAVELLERS

Thk 1970s performance art meets homoerotic dience teractn, wh a sprklg of straight at boys who’ve stumbled downstairs om the pub above.

The productn of Angels Ameri 2014 was heart-punchgly good, and I re-staged my turbo-gay one-man show, Blue Wizard, there durg Mardi Gras this year – so has fely supported this Wizard was part of the Mardi Gras Ftival, which ns the weeks leadg up to the para March. Sydney is one of the most gay iendly ci the world and has somethg on every day of the week to keep any guy or girl entertaed. Tuday: ‘Bgay’ at the Imperial Hotel.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY

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This club ss halfway down Sydney's ma gay strip (85-91 Oxford Street, Sydney). A mixed gay, lbian and straight crowd perch on the stools of this polished bar.

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

Gay dance hs aren’t for everyone. Even if the mic isn’t your favoure, you might still enjoy the young, fun and very mixed gay, lbian and straight atmosphere wh hipster leangs. Wd down after a week of parti wh a stroll through the gay villag.

From here head towards Darlgton, Erskeville and Newtown, where the gay and lbian vibe is much more about walkg the dog large parks, a nose rg hangg there om the 90s and maybe even a dreadlock or two. The highlight of Sydney's gay lendar is of urse the Mardi Gras ftival, para and dance party held late Febary/early March every year when tens of thoands of visors pour to Sydney for one of the world's biggt and bt celebratns of all thgs gay. The Goln Mile), nng east om the rner of Hy Park South is the sentimental heart of gay Sydney, however the last ten to fifteen years has seen a volutn of gay life "out of the ghetto" so that today there are several gay neighbourhoods a cy that which is by and large very gay iendly wh a highly visible and accepted muny.

Apart om Oxford St, areas wh cent ncentratns of GLBT people and bs eher specifilly terg to or appealg to gay muni are Surry Hills (Crown St is emergg as a a really trendy precct), Potts Pot/Kgs Cross and Paddgton. The other historilly gay-iendly area is Kg St Newtown (and surroundg suburbs of Erskeville, Enmore and Marrickville).

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

Any of the abovementned areas are generally safe and fortable for gay people. Oxford St on Saturday nights has bee a b of a circ of dnk and dgged up idts om the suburbs and unfortunatlely homophobic verbal abe is all too mon. (In the extremely unlikely event you do enunter homophobic staff hotels, rtrants or any other dtry, they are behavg breach of anti-discrimatn laws and their manager should be lled immediately!

What began as a street monstratn 1978 durg which pneers Sydney's emergg gay scene were beaten and arrted by police for no reason other than their sexualy, has over the last 30 years bee arguably the world's largt gay pri para. At the same time, more gay and lbian people are gog out to mixed and straight venu and nowadays able to feel pletely fortable those sorts of venu. However, a number of gay venu are still gog strong.

For weekly listgs pick up eher of the two gay papers om f, rerd shops etc: The Sydney Star Observer and SX.