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Gay activists, drag queens and plenty of u feature on artwork to go up on nstctn s along the famed nightclub strip.

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GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE

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. 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.

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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). 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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Illtratns of Sydney's gay legends and key lotns will brighten up Oxford Street after cricism about the state of the strip ahead of pots:The artwork will be plastered on hoardgs verg nstctn s along the famed gay nightclub stripAmong those featured are Doris Fish, a Sydney drag queen, the Unirn Hotel and Black Ada's dance school, a ont for a gay dance club the 1920sThe project is part of the Cy of Sydney's attempts to betify the street ahead of WorldPri 2023Petersham queer artist Amy Blue has created what she scrib as a "sort of Gay-B-C" of Oxford Street. "I wanted this llectn of illtratns to pture a snippet of some of the people and events that have illumated Oxford Street throughout s brilliant and lourful history, " Ms Blue llectn will be plastered on hoardgs verg nstctn s on uncil-owned properti along the famed gay nightclub those featured are Doris Fish, a Sydney drag queen the 1970s, the Unirn Hotel and Black Ada's dance school, a ont for a gay dance club n the 1920s and 30s. Amy Blue's illtratns are a celebratn of the fg moments Sydney's gay history.

(ABC News)The al to revelop the properti was ma 2019 but work will not be fished time for WorldPri when tens of thoands of visors are expected to flock to the Blue's illtratns are part of the Cy of Sydney's attempts to betify the street at the centre of Sydney's gay scene.

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