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Contents:
- THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
- GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
- GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
- GAY SNAS SYDNEY
- THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
- THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ALBURY, ONE OF SYDNEY’S MOST LEGENDARY GAY BARS
- FROM THE ARCHIV, 1983: A GUI TO GAY SYDNEY
- TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS NEWTOWN (SYDNEY)GAY CLUBS & BARS NEWTOWN
- GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
- NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
From Oxford Street's legendary gay clubs to the Inner Wt's olt small bars, the are some of the bt LGBTQIA spots Sydney. * gay sydney pubs *
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.
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GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
Top Sydney Gay Clubs & Bars: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Sydney, Atralia on Tripadvisor. * gay sydney pubs *
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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GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
Disver Sydney’s pumpg gay scene around Oxford Street’s Goln-Gay-Mile, then book the perfect hotel to soak all up. No cred rd fe. No bookg fe. * gay sydney pubs *
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). 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. 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. Stonewall is the club/ bar that ntu to party till the sun up, so if your lookg for a place to have fun till the wee hours, you have found your pot of gold s at the end of the gay rabow.
GAY SNAS SYDNEY
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Between the drag queens and gay boys sweatg out on the dance floor your fely for a damn good time!!
THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
Top Sydney Gay Clubs & Bars: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Sydney, Atralia on Tripadvisor. * gay sydney pubs *
Midnight Shift is an stutn the gay male club scene and popular wh men om all over the globe.
THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ALBURY, ONE OF SYDNEY’S MOST LEGENDARY GAY BARS
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Phenoix is Sydney's only gay day club - open all afternoon and very by om 6am. Recently refurbished, the Oxford Bar has a loyal followg of more mature gay men.
FROM THE ARCHIV, 1983: A GUI TO GAY SYDNEY
From drag palac at the Gay Goln Mile to queer-ky digs, here are 10 bars and clubs Sydney that will wele you wh a warm embrace * gay sydney pubs *
If you are lookg for the waterg hole of the suburban gay crowd, this uld be .
The crowd here is ually mixed gay/straight. If Noah had have been gay this would have been the disthèque he built to help every ltle gay boy and girl the land learn how to party style!
TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS NEWTOWN (SYDNEY)GAY CLUBS & BARS NEWTOWN
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Another favore waterg hole for gay boys on Sunday afternoons if you like a crowd. Tudays is Bgay (adults Bgo), hosted by the Mzi will leave you lghg all night and all money ma on the night go to the AIDS uncil of NSW. Brgg a massive gay and lbian crowd the ner wt - this is probabaly one of Sydney's largt pubs wh a gay crowd every day of the week.
Head to the Newtown Hotel on weekends for drag shows, heavg gay and lbian crowd set over floors and floors, rooms and rooms. This place is very relaxed and a much iendlier alternative crowd to the mastream gay bars on Oxford Street.
GAY SYDNEY HOTELS
The are some of the spots that sprg to md when you thk of Sydney’s inic gay until 2001, another tablishment was a hotspot for the cy’s queer nightlife.
So popular was the venue that crowd overflow om the bar even turned the adjacent pub, The Bechamp, to a gay tablishment. In fact, Kylie herself is quoted as sayg that wasn’t until she snuck to the Albury and watched the drag tribute the early 90s that she realised she’d bee a gay Kylie Show attracted A-list onlookers. “The gay bars those days were gay bars, ” says Petrie.
The populary of the film Priscilla, Queen of the Dert sudnly ma drag more mastream and brought onlookers om outsi the gay muny.
NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
NatnalNSWFlashbackThis was published 6 months agoThe Herald gave s rears a tour of Sydney’s gay bars, clubs and pubs - om the Cricketer’s Arms and the Green Park Der, to the Oxford Hotel and the Midnight Barry LoweFebary 14, 2023 — 12. 00amFirst published The Sydney Morng Herald on Febary 18, 1983Take a walk on the gay si of SydneyWhen I me out the mid-1960s, even the rarefied air of Asquh Boys’ High School, I had heard of gatherg plac for mal wh a siar sexualy to me that far-off mec of the ner cy.
” The Albury on Oxford Street, Paddgton on November 2, Staff photographerLeavg home I found the scene agmented and the few gay bars that existed were at the mercy of heterosexual management who, for the fickle gay dollar, gdggly allowed gay men to patronise their tablishments. A few ffee loung uld cram a handful of patrons after the bars closed, and spots like Doddy’s and The Renzvo beme “” plac to triangular strip of park outsi St Mary’s Cathedral beme a fol pot and took on a ftive “scene” was spread across the Cy and the ner cy suburbs, the non-gay proprietors barely toleratg their clientele, and police harassment everywhere evince. The bars those days were hardly gay male havens and the streets were cidly somethg happened.
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