Gay Sydney

Contents:

• DRAMATIC GRDR ENUNTER AT A PARK ADDS CHAPTER TO SYDNEY’S GAY HISTORY
• TAG: GAY THEATRE REVIEW SYDNEY
• GAY SNAS SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• THE BOOMKAK PANTO REVIEW – VIRGIA GAY’S PLAYFUL LOVE LETTER TO SMALL-TOWN ATRALIA

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

A gay gui to SydneyQueer eye on SydneyMeet the crew: Heaps GayWhether you're gay, straight or somewhere between, you'll have a heaps good time at one of Sydney's favoure queer and clive Beard TIf you want to see Sydney at her absolute bt, go for a drk at Redfern’s neighbourhood art bar, the Beard T.

TAG: GAY THEATRE REVIEW SYDNEY

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.

GAY SNAS SYDNEY

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. 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.

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

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. NatnalNSWHealthreSydney suburbs once ravaged by the AIDS epimic are on the verge of beg the first the world to virtually elimate HIV transmissn, as public health efforts expand to the outer HIV fectns Sydney posts wh the hight proportn of gay men have dropped 88 per cent sce 2010, new figur show, the most dramatic rctn s reported anywhere the world. A much smaller cle of 31 per cent the outer suburbs of Sydney over the same perd shows the succs of HIV preventn mpaigns has not been as effective posts wh a lower proportn of gay men, said Kirby Instute Profsor Andrew Glich, who will prent the rearch at the Internatnal AIDS Society Conference Brisbane this week.

”Former NSW Liberal health mister Jillian Skner beme an unlikely gay in when she champned a trial troducg the pre-exposure prophylaxis meditn known as PrEP PrEP rc the risk of ntractg HIV by 99 per cent, but uptake of the daily pill and regular HIV ttg has not been as high suburbs wh a lower proportn of gay men, Glich – the leadg provir of homosexual health servic NSW – has creased efforts to expand s tn and healthre iativ outsi the ner cy. Universy of NSW adjunct profsor and strategic health policy adviser Bill Alex EllghsenNatnwi figur, released by the Kirby Instute on Thursday, show rat of new HIV s among recently arrived gay and bisexual men born overseas have stagnated sce 2020. “If you’re g om, for example, Indonia, where beg gay means you uld be persecuted, you’re more likely to have a distst of ernment and ernment servic when you arrive Atralia, ” he said.

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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.

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.

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It’s also where the rovg queer party Heaps Gay has been held for the past uple of months. 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). Thk 1970s performance art meets homoerotic dience teractn, wh a sprklg of straight at boys who’ve stumbled downstairs om the pub above.