Sydney Gay Nightlife | A LGBTQIA+ Gui to Sydney Nightlife - A Morn Gay's Gui

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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Let’s start this gay Sydney travel gui wh a roundup of the bt plac to stay Sydney. Loted right around the rner om the pennt stor and f on Oxford Street, the centre of Sydney’s gay scene, the top-end Adge Apartment Hotel featur crisply signed and eclectilly furnished hotel apartments. Stonewall Hotel is an inic gay venue Sydney’s party district of Oxford Street.

Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras is an annual ftival that celebrat LGBTQIA+ culture and inty, featurg a para, parti, and events throughout the cy. 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.

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.

SYDNEY GAY NIGHTLIFE | A LGBTQIA+ GUI TO SYDNEY NIGHTLIFE

On Sundays plays crowd-pleasg hoe, electro and two most mastream venu for gay guys are Stonewall and Arq. Lbian-iendlyThe Heaps Gay monthly rovg queer Geia Verkuylen, strategy and partnerships manager at Archer magaze, the Atralian journal of sexual diversyLbian-foced venu n be hard to fd Sydney. It’s also where the rovg queer party Heaps Gay has been held for the past uple of months.

Heaps Gay is a massive event that draws queer folk of all ag, sexuali and genrs. 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).

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

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 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.

GAY SYDNEY · MID-RANGE + BUDGET HOTELS

While Oxford Street is still the se of many of the longt-nng gay clubs Sydney, the fun isn’t relegated to Darlghurst alone. If you’re keen to really make a night of , keep an eye on the lik of Heaps Gay, Poof Doof, Hoe of Mce, Honcho Disko and Birdge (as well as the social media-elive Kooky) to fd out when their next soiree start planng your next night out, read on for our gui to some of Sydney’s favoure gay clubs, pubs and bars. Chg-a-lgsSure, ’s not officially a gay bar, but Chg-a-lgs draws a pendably queer crowd.

The ColombianOpen 9am ‘til 6am every day — y, you read that right — this sprawlg Oxford St hnt n always be unted on for a tipple the early 117-125 Oxford St, DarlghurstYou n fd all the tails for this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras here.

Stephen Allks is arguably the most important DJ that Atralia has ever produced and this year marks his 40th anniversary DJg, cidg wh the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras’ 40th spoke to Stephen Allks 2018 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as cid wh his 40th anniversary of DJg. Allks succumbed to the tentacl of Sydney’s unrground gay nightlife the mid-’70s when Oxford Street was still s clubbg fancy.

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

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.

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.

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.

SYDNEY: GAY & LBIAN TRAVELLERS

Sleaze has always been a more sexualised party than Mardi Gras on the gay lendar and was held once a year.

SYDNEY OR MELBOURNE FOR GAY TRAVEL - ATRALIA FOM

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. It was gay men, lbians and a whole mix of people.

But once the gay crowd got there they loved . Clarke would later bee CEO of Alai Frge and Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras' Artistic Director. ”You n fd all the tails for this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras here.

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

Most of our top budget and mid-range Sydney hotels area loted east of the cy centre, close to the Oxford Street gay scene, but wh easy reach of the shops & sights. As well as beg wh easy reach of famo tourist sights, most of our hotel remendatns are jt a short walk om the gay nightlife and around Oxford Hotel SydneyWhy this hotel? Great for shoppg & gay Sydney offers very good value for money and nvenient lotn, close to the shoppg district, gay bars on Oxford Street and some of the bt sights the cy.

SYDNEY GAY CISE CLUBS

Walk to gay bars & clubs. Popular you want a b more space or prefer to share wh iends, then nsir the Bt Wtern PLUS, loted jt steps away om Hy Park and mut to the gay bars & clubs on Oxford Street. Excellent good value for money Metro Hotel is jt few mut' walk om the Oxford Street gay scene, the Central Railway Statn, Chatown and wh easy reach of major sights the cy.

Easy accs to gay newly renovated 57 Hotel is nveniently loted near the Central tra statn, some of the bt shops and rtrants Surry Hills; as well as the Darlghurst gay scene.

Near the Oxford Street gay scene. Probably the bt budget optn near the Oxford Street gay nightlife. Close to the gay scene.

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

Oxford St's famo gay bars are jt a 5-mute walk away. Great for the gay scene & great-value Song Hotel (formerly 'Y Hotel Hy Park') is loted next to Hy Park and 10 mut' walk om Paddy's Markets.