Gay clubbg scene of Sydney: Allks' oral history

Contents:

• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY SYDNEY CY GUI
• SYDNEY GAY NIGHTLIFE | A LGBTQIA+ GUI TO SYDNEY NIGHTLIFE
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• GAY SYDNEY · MID-RANGE + BUDGET HOTELS
• REARCHG THE SYDNEY GAY SCENE OF THE 90S – PART 2
• SYDNEY: GAY & LBIAN TRAVELLERS
• SYDNEY OR MELBOURNE FOR GAY TRAVEL - ATRALIA FOM
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• SYDNEY GAY CISE CLUBS
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

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GAY SYDNEY SYDNEY CY GUI

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SYDNEY GAY NIGHTLIFE | A LGBTQIA+ GUI TO SYDNEY NIGHTLIFE

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

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GAY SYDNEY · MID-RANGE + BUDGET HOTELS

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).

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REARCHG THE SYDNEY GAY SCENE OF THE 90S – PART 2

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.

SYDNEY: GAY & LBIAN TRAVELLERS

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In 2016, jt over 15% of upl Potts Pot were gay men. While Oxford Street is still the se of many of the longt-nng gay clubs Sydney, the fun isn’t relegated to Darlghurst alone.

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SYDNEY OR MELBOURNE FOR GAY TRAVEL - ATRALIA FOM

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Allks succumbed to the tentacl of Sydney’s unrground gay nightlife the mid-’70s when Oxford Street was still s clubbg fancy. From that life-changg disvery he has gone on to see all - om the bchery of the Dis days, the New Wave of the ‘70s and early ‘80s, the dg heads of the Hoe days the late ‘80s, the cimatn of the Sydney gay muny wh the onslght of AIDS, the ‘90s mastream acceptance and explosn of Mardi Gras, to then takg the scene back unrground the Noughti and beyond.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

Stephen Allks© Supplied by Stephen AllksHe has been an eyewns and a major player wh the gay muny om the very begng, when clubbg was a form of self-disvery and a way to create fay around shared nocturnal experienc. He was ont and centre buildg the scen, which have bee as legendary as the mic he has the turn of the century he beme an award-wng mic producer as [Love] Tattoo and sred worldwi hs wh a tr of classic hoe tracks, which were signed to Pete Tong’s Essential Rerdgs is a Class Act, the same name as one of his many famo wh quill hand, he tak through a journey of some of Sydney’s most inic, sane, artistic and ntroversial gay clubs, parti and nights as only he knows, memory the great Bette Davis once quipped, “Fasten your seatbelts. It was a mixed crowd but a lot of gay people went but alternative gay.

SYDNEY GAY CISE CLUBS

It turned to DCM (another legendary Sydney gay nightclub) the early ‘90s. “In the early ‘80s, the Exchange (gay nightclub across the road) was huge.

But was the Exchange crowd at that pot, so the clon and the other gays who had been at the club earlier had gone to the Midnight Shift (gay club jt up the road) matchbox© Supplied by Stephen Allks“When first opened was the bt Dis ever and by the time I had got there, New Wave had permeated Dis so I would play Donna Summer’s Love Is In Control and follow wh, say, The Members or Na Hagen’s New York New York or Was (Not Was) to Yoko Ono’s Walkg On Th Ice.

Sleaze has always been a more sexualised party than Mardi Gras on the gay lendar and was held once a year. The people that end up g on Sundays were jt gay men. “I was there for about two years but left bee I started hearg girliends of me were beg physilly threatened by gay men and nsirg there were four women there wh a group of 400 men and they were beg phed and threatened and told to fuck off, I jt left.

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

It was gay men, lbians and a whole mix of people. But once the gay crowd got there they loved .