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• GAY SYDNEY GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• SYDNEY GAY RTRANTS
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?
• MAPA GAY SYDNEY

GAY SYDNEY GUI | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO SYDNEY

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 parti.The Beard TIf you want to see Sydney at her absolute bt, go for a drk at Redfern’s neighbourhood art bar, the Beard T.SlyfoxCome here for regular queer nights, h band gigs, and the legends om Bad Deep dog a bi-monthly party.Sydney's nightlife, nowSydney’s nightlife scene has shifted dramatilly sce the ntroversial lockout laws were first imposed March of 2014. Sydney has a thrivg LGBTQ scene and plays host to one of the world’s bt pri events: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

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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.

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

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.

Away om the progrs flags, glter, drag acts, rporate pk washg, ncerts and parti, a largely unspoken si project is unr way as Sydney hosts WorldPri: rtorg the cy to s former glory as a global LGBTQ has always nsired self Atralia’s “gay cy” the home of Mardi Gras, Oxford Street, Darlghurst, Newtown, Stonewall. It was also the cy of the ’78ers, the killg of Stt Johnson, the Bondi Boys, the Darlghurst police has always been Atralia’s “gay cy”, but the 21st century, where do rank as a global LGBTQ pal?

Cred: Edwa PicklArguably, Sydney was one of the gay pals of the globe, along wh California’s hippie mec of San Francis. On the raw numbers, the party paradise of South Ameri is now the global gay pri pal, wh 3 to 5 ln people attendg Sao Plo’s pri ftival every year (though, as we know, size isn’t everythg).

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Sydney WorldPri boss Kate Wickett says that, for Sydney, is also an opportuny to turbocharge the attribut that be to make a great gay cy.

“I’m really exced about gettg the bs muny activated, revigorated, and havg our cy back on the map, as – and we once were the heyday of the ’80s and ’90s – the gay pal of the world, ” Wickett told a BsSydney lunch this Manhattan, Seann Miley Moore, Millie Syk, Norrie May-Welby and ’78er Robyn Kennedy prepare for Dylan Coker“We’ve got a lot to celebrate, we’re an open, diverse, novative cy, and I really, really hope that this year is the real kick-start for to get back to where we were. For a queer or a gay cy, I thk Berl has fely changed the landspe the last 10 years.

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

” So, what mak a great gay cy?

Nightlife and culture are val; for all the talk of hook-up apps such as Grdr stroyg the gay bar scene, queer spac for partyg and socialisg are still credibly important.

Sydney, Melbourne and Perth all enjoy AA ratgs, jt behd AAA-rated Boston, Toronto, London, Dubl and seven other ntental European ’s cultural pseSydney’s permanent natural assets – beach, the harbour, boats – will always attract a particular hort of gay men.

DEEP WATER: WERE 30 UNSOLVED SYDNEY ATHS REALLY GAY HATE CRIM?

But on the other onts, the Emerald Cy has hs and known as the gay goln e, Oxford Street’s wo are well-known.

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Garry Wotherspoon exam this “slow ath” of Sydney’s gay epicentre his 2016 book Gay Sydney: A timated crowd of 500, 000 attend the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para Dean SewellWhile he not skyrocketg rents, bad ernance and big shoppg centr played their role, he remds that dispersal of the queer muny away om s epicentre is not necsarily bad. “Wh greater acceptance, ‘gay life’ has spread, most obvly to the ner wt, to Newtown, Erskeville and Enmore, and Chippendale, Darlgton, Waterloo, Alexandria and Zetland, even perhaps to Stanmore and Summer Hill, ” Wotherspoon also c a distctn by Wtern Sydney Universy cultural geographer Andrew Gorman-Murray: “In amic terms, I look at Oxford Street as ‘gay’, and Kg Street [ Newtown] as ‘queer’.

While Sydney’s gay scene was not spared the rnage ed by lockout laws, survived better than, say, Kgs Cross. Then the panmic took s policy lecturer Christopher Pep-Neff has studied the revery of Sydney’s gay bars om COVID-19, ncludg has been “stunng”. Loadg“Ci like Sydney and San Francis and New York that were leadg avant-gar culture and gay culture, they did that when people didn’t have to have a lot of money to be there and people uld spend time beg creative, ” he 2023, Sydney is one of the most expensive ci the world; a huge terrent to creative youngsters and unter-cultural typ, and a handbrake on the vibrancy of ner-cy plac such as Darlghurst or Newtown where they would otherwise live.

“If you’re a rich gay man or lbian, Sydney’s fabulo, ” Davis says. ”In his 2018 book Global Gay, French thor and Zurich Universy of the Arts profsor Freric Martel exam the advent of LGBTQ rights around the world, and th the elevatn of other urban centr as great gay says Sydney’s lotn still mak one of the world’s gay pals – or at least a regnal one. “If you want a gay place that is exotic, I don’t thk there are that many.