Gay activists, drag queens and plenty of u feature on artwork to go up on nstctn s along the famed nightclub strip.
Contents:
- GAY LEGENDS OF SYDNEY FEATURED ON OXFORD STREET AHEAD OF SYDNEY WORLDPRI 2023
- THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ALBURY, ONE OF SYDNEY’S MOST LEGENDARY GAY BARS
- OXFORD – A GAY OVERTURE
GAY LEGENDS OF SYDNEY FEATURED ON OXFORD STREET AHEAD OF SYDNEY WORLDPRI 2023
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In the years after the send world war, many gay men Sydney socialised CBD hotels, cludg the Hotel Atralia. By the begng of the 1980s, Oxford Street was home to a strg of bars, clubs, snas and f and had bee known as Sydney’s gay “Goln Mile”.
THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ALBURY, ONE OF SYDNEY’S MOST LEGENDARY GAY BARS
The emergence of this gay heartland reprents extraordary social change. Male homosexualy remaed illegal New South Wal until 1984.
The homosexual men socialisg 1950s CBD hotels were required to do so wh discretn – the nsequenc of disvery uld be vastatg. As more venu were opened along the Goln Mile, the street self beme a gay space, as did the surroundg neighbourhoods where LGBTQ people – particularly gay men – ma hom the terrac and apartments of Darlghurst and Paddgton. It was the most fabulo place I’d ever been my life … It’s full of gay people and they’re all drsed to the n.
The gay muny was certaly not ee om sexism, racism and transphobia, meang that some wh the LGBTQ muny were granted far easier accs to the spac than others. Ined, although Goln Mile-era Oxford Street clud venu popular wh lbians, cludg the women-only bar Ruby Reds, the surroundg neighbourhood was more intifiably gay than lbian. Into the new lennium, Oxford Street’s place as the gay heart of Sydney beme ls certa.
OXFORD – A GAY OVERTURE
In 1983 gay publin Barry Cecchi took over the Milton Hotel on Newtown’s Kg Street, renamed Cecchi’s and lnched as the area’s first gay venue. Shortly after, the Newtown Hotel, jt across the road, also beme a gay pub.