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DAVID ALLEN, FOUNR OF MEN ON MEN GAY ART PRIZE, AWARD QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOUR

After more than 20 years givg gay artists a place to show their artwork, David Allen is listed the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours. * australia gay artists *

(Supplied: 1770 Art Show and Competn)The lnch of Men on MenIn 2001, Mr Allen and his partner Ron Watks found a gay art prize tled Men on Men Art Exhibn and Competn when they were nng The Laird Hotel Collgwood, pub is one of the longt nng gay-owned and operated venu Atralia and many of Mr Allen's regulars at the time were volved the arts, but unable to fd spac to display their work. (Instagram: The Laird, Melbourne)"Back the early 2000s, was very difficult to get to art galleri at any rate, let alone if you were g om a gay perspective, " Mr Allen said. "We had a lot of gay ctomers who were artists and they were really stgglg to fd plac where they uld exhib their artworks, so we created one.

" Men on Men Art Show and Competn provis a space for gay artists at The Laird, Melbourne. The fact that there are many mic artists who are openly gay is a big step for LGBTQ+ rights, which mak the artists important and fluential. And that’s why gay rockstars were so important – and Freddie Mercury was probably the most fluential.

THE MOST IMPORTANT LGBT INS ATRALIA TOM SMH 24 NOVEMBER 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FOR A UNTRY THAT WAS SO UNFASHNABLY LATE TO THE MARRIAGE EQUALY PARTY UNTIL THIS MONTH’S ROUNDG ‘Y’ VOTE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATRALIA SURE DO LOVE S GAY INS. AND THE ARE THE DOZEN ATRALIANS — GAY, STRAIGHT, OR WHEREVER THEY S BETWEEN — THAT HOLD A PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT PLACE AMONG THE NATN’S LGBT MUNY. VIEW ALL TRIPS KYLIE MOGUE BRISH TABLOID THE SUN NAMED KYLIE THE WORLD’S GREATT EVER GAY IN 2007, NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER TROUP OF DRAG QUEENS FIRST STARTED PERFORMG HER MIC SYDNEY BARS WAY BACK WHEN SHE WAS STILL JT CHARLENE ON NEIGHBOURS. THAT HUGE TERNATNAL LGBT FOLLOWG HAS LED TO SEVERAL FAMO PERFORMANC AT THE SYDNEY MARDI GRAS, AS WELL AS THIS LEGENDARY QUOTE: “GAY INS UALLY HAVE SOME TRAGEDY THEIR LIV, BUT I’VE ONLY HAD TRAGIC HAIRCUTS AND OUTFS”. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP TURKEY EGYPT ICELAND SOUTH AI MEXI THAILAND INDIA ECUADOR MOROC CROATIA JAPAN BALI GREECE SPA KYLIE MOGUE PERFORMG AT THE MARDI GRAS | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS IAN ROBERTS THE GBY LEAGUE HARDMAN WAS ARGUABLY ATRALIA’S TOUGHT SPORTSMAN BEFORE HE ME OUT AS GAY — AND THERE WAS NO ARGUMENT ABOUT AFTER HIS GROUND-BREAKG ANNOUNCEMENT 1995. ROBERTS REMAS THE ONLY PROFSNAL ATRALIAN TEAM-SPORT ATHLETE TO E OUT TO THE PUBLIC WHILE STILL PETG, AND HAS REMAED THE SPOTLIGHT POST-RETIREMENT WH A HOLLYWOOD ACTG REER AND A RPECTED PUBLIC VOICE ON LGBT ISSU. MAGDA SZUBANSKI MAGDA BEME ONE OF THE UNTRY’S FAVOURE IC ACTORS THANKS TO HER PERFORMANCE AS SHARON STRZELECKI THE BELOVED ASIE S KATH & KIM, BUT SHE’LL BE REMEMBERED FOR THE FAR MORE SER ROLE SHE PLAYED THIS YEAR’S MARRIAGE EQUALY POSTAL SURVEY. OUT SCE VALENTE’S DAY 2012, SZUBANSKI WAS THE PUBLIC FACE OF THE ‘Y’ VOTE, LENDG HER TSTED PERSONALY TO THE ENORMOLY SUCCSFUL MPAIGN. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MAGDA SZUBANSKI AT A MARRIAGE EQUALY RALLY | © ATRALIAN PROGRSIVE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ALEX GREENWICH MAGDA MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE HIGHT-PROFILE ADVOTE FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY, BUT HER GOOD IEND ALEX WAS THE DRIVG FORCE BEHD THE SCEN. A KEY FIGURE THE FIGHT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ATRALIA SCE HE MARRIED HIS GERMAN PARTNER VICTOR HOELD ARGENTA FIVE YEARS AGO, THE YOUNG PENNT POLICIAN IS A TIRELS MPAIGNER FOR FAIRNS AND EQUALY FOR LGBTI MUNI. RUBY ROSE THE TWTERSPHERE SHARED ONE UNIVERSAL REACTN WHEN THE SPECTACULARLY TATTOOED GENRFLUID ACTOR BUTED ON CULT NETFLIX SERI ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK 2015: “SHE TURNED ME GAY”. RUBY MA A NAME FOR HERSELF AS AN MTV PRENTER BEFORE TURNG HER HAND TO MOLLG AND ACTG, AND OF URSE, BEG RPONSIBLE FOR LNS OF PEOPLE’S SEXUAL AWAKENG. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. RUBY ROSE | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS PETER ALLEN THIS BOY OM THE BH HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS THE MAN WHO “GAVE ATRALIA THE PERMISSN TO BE MP. HE DRAGGED OUT OF A DIM, BUTTONED-UP ENGLISHNS AND TOOK ON A PERMANENT SUMMER HOLIDAY”. THE EX-MR LIZA MELLI ME OUT AS GAY THE 1970S AND LIVED WH PARTNER GREGORY CONNELL UNTIL THEY BOTH DIED OF AIDS-RELATED ILLNS 1984 AND 1992 RPECTIVELY — AND HIS LEGACY WAS IMMORTALISED BY HUGH JACKMAN’S 2003 BROADWAY MIL THE BOY OM OZ. - AME - CATE MCGREGOR THIS IS A WOMAN WHO BOASTS ONE HELL OF A CV. HIGH-RANKG MEMBER OF THE ATRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE, RPECTED CRICKET MENTATOR, AND — SCE SHE CID TO TRANSN TO WOMANHOOD 2012 — ATRALIA’S HIGHT PROFILE TRANSGENR PERSON. BORN MALLM MCGREGOR 1956, CATE WENT PUBLIC AS TRANSGENR 2013 — AND DOG SO, BEME THE HIGHT RANKG TRANSGENR ARY OFFICER ANYWHERE THE WORLD. IAN THORPE MUCH LIKE THE OTHER ATHLETIC IAN ON THIS LIST, ATRALIA’S MOST RATED OLYMPIAN WAS ALREADY BELOVED BY THE PUBLIC FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS THE SPORTG ARENA — BUT WHEN THE FIVE-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL-WNG SWIMMER ME OUT 2014, HE EARNED A NEW SET OF FANS THE LGBT MUNY. AFTER YEARS OF PUBLICLY NYG HIS SEXUALY, THORPE SCRIBED THE RELIEF HE FELT WHEN HE MA THE ANNOUNCEMENT: “I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL THE SAME WAY I DID… AND I HOPE THIS MAK EASIER FOR OTHERS NOW, AND EVEN IF YOU’VE HELD FOR YEARS, FEELS EASIER TO GET OUT”. IAN THORPE | © DOHA STADIUM PL QATAR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS PORTIA ROSSI HOW ULD WE POSSIBLY LEAVE MRS ELLEN DEGENER OFF THIS LIST? KNOWN AS AMANDA LEE ROGERS BACK WHEN SHE WAS GROWG UP RAL VICTORIA, PORTIA CRACKED HOLLYWOOD WH HER ROLE ALLY MCBEAL AND LATER ARRTED DEVELOPMENT, AND HER PROFILE HAS SKYROCKETED AS ONE HALF OF PERHAPS THE MOST FAMO SAME-SEX UPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. MOLLY MELDM WHEN MOLLY SUFFERED A LIFE-THREATENG FALL OM A LADR 2011, ATRALIA HELD S BREATH FOR A BONA FI NATNAL TREASURE, ONE OF THE UNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY TV STARS. THE 74-YEAR-OLD HAS THANKFULLY RETURNED TO HEALTH, GIVG THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY — AS WELL AS THE ATRALIAN PUBLIC AT LARGE, PARTICULARLY LGBT PEOPLE — A RENEWED APPRECIATN FOR THE LEGENDARY MIC PERSONALY. MOLLY MELDM | © EVA RALDI/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ANDREJA PEJIC ANDREJA BEME THE FIRST TRANSGENR MOL TO APPEAR ON THE ONT VER OF VOGUE MAY 2015… NOT BAD FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS DISVERED WORKG AT A MELBOURNE MCDONALD’S AS A 16-YEAR-OLD. BOSNIAN-BORN PEJIC MOLLED AS BOTH A MAN AND A WOMAN BEFORE UNRGOG SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY 2014, GIVG THE PUBLIC AN TIMATE SIGHT TO HER JOURNEY. “I WANT TO SHARE MY STORY WH THE WORLD BEE I THK I HAVE A SOCIAL RPONSIBILY… I HOPE THAT BY BEG OPEN ABOUT THIS, BE LS OF AN ISSUE.” PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DERT THE FAL ENTRY ON THIS LIST IS AN ANIMATE OBJECT — BUT, HEY, WHO SAID A B ULDN’T BE A GAY IN? AFTER ALL, THE INIC LAVENR TOUR B WAS THE VEHICLE — BOTH LERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY — THAT TRODUCED MASTREAM ATRALIAN DIENC TO LGBT CHARACTERS THE CLASSIC 1994 FILM OF THE SAME NAME, FERRYG TWO DRAG QUEENS AND A TRANSGENR WOMAN THROUGH THE ATRALIAN OUTBACK ON A ROAD TRIP FOR THE AG. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. * australia gay artists *

Although Mercury did keep his personal life private, he has been celebrated gay muny for s. In one of the terviews, the sger said he was spired by Elton John throughout his life, and he is also a famo gay sger.

THE ULTIMATE LGBTQ GUI TO ATRALIA COURTY SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PHOTOGRAPHER JEFEY FENG MONIQUE LA TERRA 30 JULY 2018 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DPE THE ERNMENT’S PROTRACTED NEGOTIATNS TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ATRALIA IS A UNTRY WH A LARGELY OPEN-MD POPULATN. CI LIKE SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE ARE PECIALLY WELG TO THE LGBTQ MUNY, WH FTIVALS SUCH AS MARDI GRAS AND MIDSUMMA ATTRACTG TOURISTS OM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HERE IS YOUR GUI TO MAKG THE MOST OF ATRALIA’S LGBTQ SCENE. VIEW ALL TRIPS BT CI SYDNEY TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ECUADOR CROATIA EGYPT BALI ICELAND TURKEY SOUTH AI MEXI GREECE INDIA MOROC JAPAN SPA THAILAND THE LGBTQ PAL OF ATRALIA, SYDNEY IS ONE OF THE MOST WELG AND GAY-IENDLY TRAVEL STATNS THE WORLD WH A SUBSTANTIAL PK TOURISM SCENE, PECIALLY DURG MARDI GRAS WHEN THE WHOLE CY SPARKL. PROUDLY OSTENTAT, THE CY BOASTS MANY GAY AND GAY-IENDLY BARS AND CLUBS CLUDG SLY FOX ON A WEDNDAY NIGHT, ARQ, STONEWALL HOTEL, PALMS ON OXFORD AND THE IMPERIAL HOTEL. FOR GREAT SHOPPG HEAD TO OXFORD ST DARLGHURST AND FOR A BEACH-TIME BAKE VIS NORTH BONDI. SYDNEY OPERA HOE | © PATTYJANSEN/PIXABAY MELBOURNE MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. VIEW TRIP OOZG WH SOPHISTITED, EUROPEAN CHARM, MELBOURNE IS A SMOPOLAN CY WH A STRONG QUEER PRENCE. KNOWN AS THE CULTURAL PAL OF ATRALIA, MELBOURNE’S LGBTQ MUNY ARE PASSNATE THEATRE-GOERS AND ARE PROMENT WH THE ARTS MUNY. POPULAR NIGHTLIFE HNTS CLU SIRCU, THE GH HOTEL, POOF DOOF, THE LAIRD HOTEL AND THE PEEL HOTEL. IN ADDN TO MELBOURNE, DAYLFORD ALSO HAS A LARGE GAY MUNY AND EVERY MARCH HOSTS ATRALIA’S LARGT UNTRY QUEER FTIVAL: CHILLOUT FTIVAL. THIS YEAR THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED PLANS TO TABLISH ATRALIA’S FIRST PRI CENTRE MELBOURNE WHICH WILL SHOWSE QUEER ART AND HISTORY, OFFER SUPPORT SERVIC AND PROVI MUNY SPAC. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. MELBOURNE | © NICHOLASPETRIDIS/WIKICOMMONS BRISBANE WH SCENIC ASTL AND IDYLLIC BEACH, QUEENSLAND IS A SLICE OF PARADISE. THE ‘BRISVEGAS’ NER-CY SUBURBS OF FORTU VALLEY AND SPRG HILL HAVE A LIVELY NIGHTLIFE SCENE WH THE BEAT MEGACLUB, THE WICKHAM, AND THE SPORTSMAN HOTEL. FURTHER NORTH, CAIRNS, NOOSA HEADS AND THE GREAT BARRIER REEF ARE POPULAR TRAVEL PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY – HOWEVER, YOU MAY FD REGNS THE UNTRYSI TO BE LS ACCEPTG. BRISBANE | © DAMDA/PIXABAY FTIVALS MIDSUMMA FTIVAL, MELBOURNE, JANUARY – FEBARY HELD ANNUALLY SCE 1988, MELBOURNE’S FOREMOST LGBTQIA+ ARTS AND CULTURE FTIVAL FEATUR OVER 100 EVENTS CLUDG THE MIDSUMMA CARNIVAL ALEXANDRA GARNS, WHICH ATTRACTS APPROXIMATELY 120,000 PEOPLE; THE INIC MIDSUMMA PRI MARCH ST KILDA; AND MIDSUMMA HORIZON, A PARTY FEATURG LIVE-PERFORMANCE, PROJECTN, VISUAL ART AND MIC. SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS, SYDNEY, FEBARY – MARCH CELEBRATG THEIR 40TH ANNIVERSARY 2018, THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS IS ATRALIA’S LARGT LGBTQ CELEBRATN. THE FTIVAL CLUS THE WORLD-FAMO MARDI GRAS PARA, MARDI GRAS PARTY, COMEDY FTIVAL, FILM FTIVAL, POOL PARTY AND THE FAY-IENDLY FAIR DAY, WHICH ATTRACTS ROUGHLY 70,000 PEOPLE. COURTY SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PHOTOGRAPHER JEFEY FENG BRISBANE PRI FTIVAL, SEPTEMBER BRISBANE’S MONTH-LONG PRI FTIVAL IS THE THIRD LARGT ATRALIA DRAWG 10,000 PEOPLE. THE FTIVAL KICKS OFF WH THE LNCH (A MASSIVE PARTY) FOLLOWED BY DOZENS OF EVENTS CLUDG THE UNIFYG PRI RALLY AND PRI MARCH AND FAIR DAY AT NEW FARM PARK. FEAST FTIVAL, ALAI, NOVEMBER ALAI PREMIER LGBTQ QUEER ARTS AND CULTURAL FTIVAL CELEBRAT THE ARTISTIC ENAVOURS OF THE MUNY WH EVENTS SHOWSG LOL AND TERNATNAL ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS. EVENTS CLU THE OPENG NIGHT STREET PARTY, PRI MARCH, THEATRE AND CABARET SHOWS AND PIIC THE PARK. PRIFT, PERTH, OCTOBER – NOVEMBER WHAT BEGAN AS A MUNY MOVEMENT PROTTG DISCRIMATORY LAWS AGAST THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY HAS SCE GROWN TO PRIFT, A FTIVALTHAT CLUS PERTH PRI FAIRDAY AND THE PERTH PRI PARA. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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Eher way, g out as gay was a life-changg (and liberatg) cisn for Ricky Mart, and he is now nsired one of the most fluential LGBT artists the world. He clared he is bisexual the 70s, but he officially me out as gay to Rollg Stone magaze 1992.

However, 2012, he scribed himself as gay, and he has been more open about his private life ever sce. All thgs nsired, Mika’s songs are an tegral part of morn pop mic, and he remas one of the most fluential gay pop stars.

Well, he is certaly makg a difference, pecially the metal genre, which mak him one of the most fluential gay sgers mic dtry. Wh the succs of his album Trspassg, Lambert was also the first openly gay sger to have an album reach number one on the Billboard 200 charts.

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That beg said, Gee Michael’s ntributn to LGBT right was immense, and he will always be remembered as one of the most proment gay sgers of all time. Regardg his personal life, he was married to his high-school sweetheart San Deixler the 60s, but he me out as gay 2007. In a way, he is an inic gay rock star – not bee of his inty, but bee he spired generatns of LGBT people.

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