Daily Xtra Travel - Your Comprehensive Gui to Gay Travel Darw

Contents:

• DARW GAY NIGHTCLUBS | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW NIGHTLIFE
• DARW'S GAY SCENE: TAKE A TOUR THROUGH NT'S QUEER HISTORY WH ACTIVIST AND AMIC DR DO HODGE
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS DARW
• GAY DARW
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS DARW
• THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE: PK NUNS THAT BRIEFLY DOMATED THE NT GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• HOW BY IS AMSTERDAM DURG THE AUGT GAY PRI EVENT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• THE 10 CLOSEST HOTELS TO AMSTERDAM GAY PRI
• THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE: PK NUNS THAT BRIEFLY DOMATED THE NT GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

DARW GAY NIGHTCLUBS | AN LGBTQIA+ GUI TO DARW NIGHTLIFE

The Stonewall Gay Pri Ftival 1985 marked the first public g together and g out of Darw’s queer peopl.

DARW'S GAY SCENE: TAKE A TOUR THROUGH NT'S QUEER HISTORY WH ACTIVIST AND AMIC DR DO HODGE

Sequs, ntil drag queens and mass claratns of love spng up across Darw on the weekend, as part of the cy's annual LGBTQIA pri year's Darw Pri Ftival, a week-long annual event for Darw's lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) muny, clud a mass mment ceremony, history walks and a cyclg Ri aniser Phoenix Smh led about 70 people on bicycl, rollerblas and skateboards om Darw's northern suburbs to the cy on Sunday morng support of the LGBTQIA 're allowed to do all sorts of thgs. Atralian gay history amic and activist Dr Do Hodge arrived Darw 1983, jt before the closure of two now-legendary mp venu, Dix and Hodge has sce moved to Alai, but returns to Darw to host walkg tours that foc on the Northern Terrory's lser known amic's last walkg tour for Darw Pri Ftival 2015 began at Lameroo Beach — known by the Larrakia people as Damoe-Ra — on Darw's Esplana. Colonisatn begs DarwAfter the first succsful European attempt to reach the Top End 1845, what is now known as Darw beme predomately lonised by men, which helped created a "homosocial environment" 1923 public baths were built at Lameroo Beach, which soon went onto bee a meetg place for gay men — albe well-vered circumstanc.

It was discreet, " Dr Hodge is unclear how much sexual activy occurred at the baths but Dr Hodge has found legal rerds between 1942 and 1962 ditg homosexual activy was takg place " every European centre across the Terrory", cludg sports ovals and World War II, Darw's populatn doubled mostly due to an flux of servicemen, and the baths flourished. "I wasn't an absolute whore, only a part-time one, " relled an Atralian Air Force serviceman, who equented the baths, oral history accsed by Dr 's gay bar scene emergAs social attus to homosexualy began to soften the late 1950s, Dr Do Hodge found evince of the first Aborigal man publicly g out as gay.

"He me out when he was que young, about 18, which was a very brave thg to do, " said a gay Aborigal man at the time oral history accsed by Dr the 1960s, Gurra relled an Aborigal woman also g out. (Supplied: Dr Do Hodge)She was a teacher ted down south who drove around wh her partner a vibrant green Dr Hodge said the queer nightlife scene which started to emerge Darw at this time maly tered to homosexual 1969, celebrated entreprenr John Spellman donned women's clothg and opened the Pianola Palace, the first gay-iendly Darw club beme known for a topls drag queen barmaid and a miature nu statue of David before beg cimated by Cyclone Tracy Spellman kept the Pianola Palace nng wh the help of tarpl tents and, as the town revered, other gay-iendly bars such as Dix, Fanni, Close Enunters, Squir and the Mississippi Queen emerged the Hodge believed lbians equented the venu but were generally "more discreet", and the prence of lbians was "assumed rather than apparent" Terrory's equal rights eraDr Hodge said the Terrory's lbian muny was bolstered by the Pe Gap women's peace mp, tablished 1983 near Alice Sprgs to ph for women's equal tablishment of women's legal service and refug the 1980s ntued this femist momentum, but there was evince of homophobia a tradnally mascule "wboy" town. (Supplied: Dr Do Hodge)Siarly, the gay muny — which started to lnch clubs such as the Darw Gay Society and the Boomer Motor Club the same era — also battled ternal and external divisn.

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"There are a lot of racist gay wh around, " relled an Aborigal man 1980s oral history accsed by Dr muny was also challenged by the AIDS crisis and associated "fear and moral panic" the late 80s, Dr Hodge the Terrory, the queer muny rpond to the global crisis wh a lol AIDS uncil — a ty office tablished 1985 and n on a shotrg Darw's CBD.

"[The fact] that today we enjoy such a society is substantially due to the urageo and ntug efforts of many of the Northern Terrory's lbian, gay and trans cizens, " Dr Hodge said. " Pri Ri 2015 morn tim of Darw's gay history.

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Competive pric - Gay-owned bs - Support for LGBTQ+ NGOsmost bookedcheaptmisterb&b munySee how the search rults are rankedThe Cavenagh★ 4. Case study: a young gay man a remote muny wants to accs Prep, meditn that prevents the transmissn of HIV.

The nurse who servic the muny nsirs homosexualy to be a s, and tells the young man to absta om sex stead of providg the meditn. Formed September 2014, Rabow Terrory is an unfund Northern Terrory muny group that advot for the human rights of Northern Terrorians who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (‘LGBTIQ’).

Formed September 2014, Rabow Terrory is an unfund Northern Terrory muny group that advote for the human rights of Northern Terrorians who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer (‘LGBTQI’).

THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE: PK NUNS THAT BRIEFLY DOMATED THE NT GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Throb Nightclub and the gay-iendly venu are loted the area on and around Mchell, Smh and Knucky Streets downtown Darw Cy, the cy's bit mercial strip.

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Emen8 "Atralia's biggt and bolst onle sexual health and wellbeg iative for gay men, bisexual men and men who have sex wh men! The Cavenagh -aka "The Cav" (12 Cavenagh St), gay-popular rtrant, fe, bar and bottlhop; breakfast, lunch and dner, snacks, w.

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The Gay Men's Pri group gathers here for Thursday Drks at 5pm and for bnch at 10:30am on first Sundays of the month.

Deck Bar (22 Mchell St), rtrant and bar, cktails, 80+ beers, bnch, large outdoor pat space/ beer garn, Asian-style tapas, lunch/dner; mixed gay-iendly crowd, open day and night every day. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

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A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! The Northern Terrory Parliament's May stgs lnched wh a unique sort of reverence 1992, when policians were bailed up by five nuns pk habs and heavily tted nuns' missn — exorcise homophobia.

"I thk of the Sisters as a b of a joke, " Dr Hodge behd the humour was a grassroots movement very much born out of fear and muny was 'sufferg'Dr Hodge was a young gay man workg for the Human Rights and Equal Opportuny Commissn when AIDS started to claim the liv of his iends the mid-1980s.

It was too paful, " he that stage homosexualy was crimalised the NT, however a lack of anti-discrimatn legislatn and misnceptns about "the gay plague" meant life was prer for many the queer muny. (Supplied: Dr Do Hodge)The next few weeks volved beg terviewed full regalia by then-ABC journalist Clare Mart — who went onto bee a NT chief mister — and an exorcism to rid Parliament Hoe of homophobic "vils" Hodge said some misters "sed sweetly", others "swled", and the media "went berserk".

THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE: PK NUNS THAT BRIEFLY DOMATED THE NT GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

"We set up the Coaln of Gay Rights and I beme, pla cloth whout sunglass, the spokperson, " he said.

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