35 Bt Gay Sgers Of All Time (LGBTQ+ Sgers) - Mic Grotto

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• 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 CROATIA TURKEY THAILAND INDIA ECUADOR JAPAN EGYPT MEXI BALI GREECE SPA ICELAND SOUTH AI MOROC 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. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. 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?
• 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 SOUTH AI MOROC GREECE MEXI SPA INDIA BALI ECUADOR TURKEY THAILAND EGYPT JAPAN ICELAND CROATIA 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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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 CROATIA TURKEY THAILAND INDIA ECUADOR JAPAN EGYPT MEXI BALI GREECE SPA ICELAND SOUTH AI MOROC 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. MAJESTIC TURKEY TRAVEL OM THE BAZAARS OF ISTANBUL TO THE BETIFUL BEACH OF ANTALYA. 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?

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.

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.

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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”. 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.

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”. 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. 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.

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” 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? Bt ci Sydney 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. In addn to Melbourne, Daylford also has a large gay muny and every March hosts Atralia’s largt untry queer ftival: ChillOut Ftival.

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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. 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.

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. Bgrapher Ian Kelly was able to rroborate two referenc om Casanova's memoir, The History of My Life, which Casanova had same-sex relatns:"The morn ncept of bisexualy, no ls than of homosexualy, didn't really exist the 18th century, and the nceptn of sexual preference was on the whole a much more fluid affair.

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A steadfast patrt, the renowned poet is seen as a inic voice creatg the ncept of 'The Amerin Dream' - but the homophobic nature of the Uned Stat at the time did e Whman grief and spoke publicly of relatnships wh women, but also had. Some have been quick to terme that the thor was actually gay and reprsg his te sexualy his marriage; others are certa that he was, fact, a bisexual 's grandson and bgrapher, Merl Holland, that Wil was heterosexual "up to a certa pot his life", and also spoken about his grandfather's long-term, yet tumultuo, wh poet Lord Aled Douglas.

It's been noted that she dated nductor Leopold Stokowski, photographer Sir Cecil Beaton, fellow silent film star Louise Brooks, and openly gay wrer Merces Garbo's ath, the tate of fellow Swedish-born actrs Mimi Pollak between the pair, one of which (dated 1930) shows that Garbo wrote to Mimi after fdg out she was pregnant, "We nnot help our nature, as God has created .

His long-time iend, Sir Ian McKellan (who is openly gay), allud to Guns' sexualy , sayg the late actor had told him not to bee an activist for LGBTQIA+ issu. "Alec Guns took me out to lunch and said, “You really should not, as a leadg actor, have anythg to do wh anythg polil, pecially anythg as dirty as homosexualy. Source: BORIS ARTZYBASHEFF / TIMEThe creator of - the troductn of a more fluid spectm of sexualy, rather than relyg on strict tegori of homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual - was thought to personally he himself had same-sex relatnships wh graduate stunts and lleagu, and 's also noted that he and his wife Clara McMillen were polygamo.

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It is certa that Phillip, generally regard as a product of the European Enlightment, uld not have forseen that such a society would prise regnised muni of gay men and lbians. After all, the ncepts of homosexualy and ‘the homosexual’ were not to be nceived for another 81 years and gay liberatn lay a further 100 years beyond that. It is not until the late 19th century that we have evince of the rise of a nascent male homosexual subculture, particularly Sydney.

In the words of historian Garry Wotherspoon, homosexual men were ‘nghty, sick and sful’, and wh regard to the latter, generally rema so.

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In 1958, the Police Commissner Col Delaney, a vout Catholic wh secury service nnectns and a homophobic obssn, claimed that ‘homosexualy was Atralia’s greatt menace’. The police force took s cue om the Commissner and the post-war perd saw a crack down on homosexuals, wh police even actg as agents provotr at regnised beats.

Then, 1969, Ivy’s Birdge opened Taylor Square and that marks the begng of Oxford Street as Sydney’s gay ‘Goln Mile’, as other venu opened durg the 1970s. However, society at large, the stereotype of homosexual men as high-pched, limp-wristed queens persisted.

By 1973, the medil profsn began to shift s attu, assisted by the claratn of the Royal Atralian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists that homosexualy was no longer a mental illns, the first such body the world to do so. The Homosexual Law Reform Society of the Atralian Capal Terrory was set up Canberra for some months 1969; however, while homosexual people were members, the spokpeople were heterosexual.