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Contents:

• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• DRAMATIC GRDR ENUNTER AT A PARK ADDS CHAPTER TO SYDNEY’S GAY HISTORY
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS NEWTOWN (SYDNEY)GAY CLUBS & BARS NEWTOWN
• THE 10 CLOSEST HOTELS TO SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASVIEW MAPHOTELS NEAR SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

Tripadvisor performs checks on had a nice time at the gay bar here although everythg was jt a ltle sticky on the night we went. Warren and Edn choose a two-seater bench Green Park, Sydney’s gay-iendly ner-cy Darlghurst – a safe public space to ially appraise one another the (Steve Le Marquand) is his late 50s.

He lls himself straight and thks of himself as happily married to the woman wh whom he liv a regnal has been beaten up the past, and remembers the moral csa to punish gay men at the peak of the AIDS crisis. Cred: Steven SiewertEdn (Joseph Althoe) intifi as queer rather than gay yet hems himself to the archetype of the “twk”: a photogenic, cute young man wh a skny build.

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

While the earlier versn of Green Park revolved around hookg up the park, was set a Darlghurst admired what the play had to say about the behavural chasms between different generatns of gay men, and the unexpected plexi of the two characters, as well as s ntemporary ronance: “It really engag the ‘missn acplished’ set of expectatns the straight world has of the LGBTQIA world, particularly the gay world, ” he says. … But so much ridual trma exists the gay world, and a lot of is exprsed laterally the way gay men hurt each other, are not munal-md and still engaged sometim a real battle for self-prervatn that means they n be terrified of vulnerabily and beg open.

”'But so much ridual trma exists the gay world, and a lot of is exprsed laterally the way gay men hurt each other.

Audience members watchg Green Park might notice the large pk triangle stallatn, a memorial to queer men and women murred durg the Holot, who had to wear pk triangl stched to their clothg to note their spised sexual the bottom of the hill is St Vcent’s Hospal, where many AIDS patients were treated and across the fenced si of the park is the palliative re hospice where some are also shadows of the gay scene’s nghtier si. Edn is obssed wh his self-worth based on enumeratn: the numbers of followers on Instagram and “flame” ins om potential sex partners on the actual Green Park “looks like a nice place where gays active wear n walk their signer dogs”, says Greene.

DRAMATIC GRDR ENUNTER AT A PARK ADDS CHAPTER TO SYDNEY’S GAY HISTORY

A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month. 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. 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.

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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. 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.

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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).

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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.

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Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras4AboutSydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras ftival has bee one of the world's largt life-affirmg celebratns of LGBTQI culture and muny.