From Troye Sivan to Padam Padam: Atralia is s gay era and the world should thank | Mic | The Guardian

Contents:

• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
• GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI / GLBTQ+ FRIENDLY COUNTRI 2023
• CANBERRA, NOT SYDNEY, IS THE GAY AND LBIAN PAL OF ATRALIA

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras – SGLMG is one of the olst and ntuoly operatg LGBTQ+ anizatns Atralia and was built on the foundatns laid by early muny activists who fought for queer rights a time of opprsn. Midsumma Ftival - this annual ftival  Melbourne is one of Atralia’s leadg and long-nng LGBTQ+ events and is nsired alongsi Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras as one of the major pri celebratns the untry.

Sydney and San Francis are sister ci, wh one of their strong lks beg a shared history of gay activism. Cosmopolan Sydney is nsired Atralia’s gay pal and boasts more LGBTQIA+-foced venu than any other cy the untry, spread across several neighbourhoods (see below). And the spa untry of ral Victoria, about a 90-mute drive om Melbourne, the town of Daylford (nicknamed “Gaylford”) is a thrivg getaway spot for rabow upl and sgl.

In Perth, you’ll fd a ncentratn of welg venu the cy centre and the nearby suburbs Maylands and Bayswater (between 10 and 15 mut’ drive away), which are affectnally referred to as “Gaylands” and “Gayswater”. November is also Pri Month Brisbane: annual events anised by Brisbane Pri clu the glzy Queens Ball, which origated on Tambore Mounta the Gold Coast hterland the 1960s, when homosexualy was still crimalised. And don’t miss Gaytim, a mic and mpg ftival held Febary the foothills of the Dannong Rang, jt over an hour’s drive om Melbourne.

JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA

Vis for the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Sydney, New South Wal © Jefey Feng. Atralia is s gay era: a time when all the arne and uy machatns of the untry une to discharge a torrent of queerns upon the world.

Jt sayg — Mch Feltscheer (@mchfel) July 13, 2023The cleart harbger of this era is the double whammy of gay pop that Atralia has produced recent months. It is pure gay smut: a paean to poppers spired, per his own admissn, by the sweaty clubs of Melbourne’s Smh Street. It is, perhaps, the bt fence of twk Rh is merely a chaser to that other tentpole of gay Atraliana: Kylie Mogue, whose sgle Padam Padam skyrocketed to the top 10 of the UK charts last month and has (mostly) stayed there sce.

But hear me out: this current era is by far Atralia’s gayt. )Sce Bartlett, the gay Atralian agenda has been full swg. How lucky we are to be livg through the entire spectm of queer all, evably, serv as a precursor to Sydney WorldPri – that 17-day party earlier this year rponsible for the stctn of every gay person’s sleepg habs.

GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI / GLBTQ+ FRIENDLY COUNTRI 2023

This current gay era may live and die, but Progrs Shark is forever. Meet Jake, a young gay Atralian who grew up a ral untry town. When I first realised I was gay.

I like to say to people that I realised I was gay right after I first had sex wh a du. Growg up, never occurred to me that I was gay. I gus I jt wanted to prove to myself that I was okay wh beg gay.

CANBERRA, NOT SYDNEY, IS THE GAY AND LBIAN PAL OF ATRALIA

For many years, I’d believed that people my town wouldn’t tolerate anyone gay. When I heard ments like ‘Oh, that’s gay’ or ‘Ha!

I thought they hated homosexuals. Once I was livg away, however, I realised that wasn’t my hometown that didn’t like me beg gay; I didn’t like myself for beg gay.

Beg gay the untry is hard. My sex life and my sexualy were the gossip sphere for such a small amount of time that, by the time I returned to Atralia, people had actually fotten that I’d intified as gay.