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Contents:

• MEET THE CREW: HEAPS GAY
• HEAPS GAY'S 8TH BIRTHDAY CARNIVAL
• TEENAGE DREAM WH HEAPS GAY
• HEAPS GAY QWEENS BALL
• HEAPS GAY MARDI GRAS TICKETS
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• HEAPS GAY PARTY MONSTER
• THE HEAPS GAY STREET PARTY IS COMG BACK
• CATHOLIC CHURCH UNHAPPY WH HEAPS GAY NCERT
• YOU BETTER WERK: HEAPS GAY’S INCLIVE STREET FTIVAL ROADWERK IS BACK FOR 2020
• ‘CHRISTIAN LIV MATTER’ PROTTERS TRY TO DROWN OUT GAY NCERT WH PRAYERS AND TONE-AF HYMNS

MEET THE CREW: HEAPS GAY

Heaps Gay has been axg Sydney out of s shell wh larger-than-life parti and events sce 2013. Heaps Gay has toured and worked wh Atralia’s biggt ftivals such as Falls Ftival, Vivid Sydney, Melbourne Mic Week, Brisbane Ftival, Groov The Moo + Mardi Gras + Heaps Gay has won multiple awards such as Bt Mic Event by Time Out & FBi Rad SMAC Awards.

Durg Covid, Heaps Gay went onle wh Loud n Queer TV, a 2 hour mic show live streamed on Facebook, signed to amplify the talent of young queer micians and keep our muny nnected durg a world wi panmicCheck out for more & follow on our socials here.

HEAPS GAY'S 8TH BIRTHDAY CARNIVAL

Whether you're gay, straight or somewhere between, you'll have a heaps good time at one of Sydney's favoure queer and clive parti. We sat down to have a chat wh Heap Gay's founr Kat Dopper (pictured, top left, alongsi her buddi om the Beard T) to fd more out about the project, s ter rnatn and her hop for Sydney's queer scene the future.

Who and what is Heaps Gay?

TEENAGE DREAM WH HEAPS GAY

I am Heaps Gay – jt me!

My parents jt drove the Heaps Gay float the para! Heaps Gay started three years ago as a seri of regular all clive monthly parti at the Gladstone Hotel which then evolved to chary events, art exhibns and lots of big llabs wh ftivals like Vivid Sydney, Mardi Gras and Lost Paradise.

HEAPS GAY QWEENS BALL

Why did you start Heaps Gay? Heaps Gay was born at a backyard barbecue back 2013 when I didn't have many gay or lbian intifyg iends.

HEAPS GAY MARDI GRAS TICKETS

Dcribe a Heaps Gay party three words... What's one of your fonst memori om your time workg on Heaps Gay? Heaps Gay's 8th Birthday Carnival will now take place on Saturday, July 17.

As part of the three-week n of gigs, Sydney's beloved LGBTQIA+ party llective Heaps Gay is celebratg s eighth birthday wh a blockbter night of performanc.

Headg up the lp for the Heaps Gay party are performanc om dance-pop group Haiku Hands, pop sensatn Banoffee, Wtern Sydney R'n'B hmaker and Touch Sensive llaborators The Goods. Across the rt of the 30+ strong lp are performanc om the lik of Millie Syk, Felicia Foxx, Madam3Emprs, Lren and Heaps Gay's own DJs.

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

Top Image: Heaps Gay Qweens Ball 2018. If you have a diary entry you’d like to read sli to Heaps Gay’s DMs. Catholic Church unhappy wh Heaps Gay ncert.

Sydney's brightt queer party starters are nng amok at Luna Park for a Vivid party to beat them allThe Heaps Gay party crew will be brgg a touch of oppalence to Luna Park for the sparklg return of the Qweens’ Ball this Queen’s Birthday long weekend.

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.

HEAPS GAY PARTY MONSTER

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.

THE HEAPS GAY STREET PARTY IS COMG BACK

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. Heaps Gay is a massive event that draws queer folk of all ag, sexuali and genrs.

CATHOLIC CHURCH UNHAPPY WH HEAPS GAY NCERT

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.

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. Heaps Gay Party Monster | Pleasur Playhoe, Sydney, NS | January 21 to January 22.

Heaps Gay Party Monster @ Pleasur Playhoe DJ's, Queers, Queens 9pm - 3am MUSIC DJ Gay Dad Dunny MoqueBB NRG HOSTED & PERFORMANCES BY Sharon Manhattan Felicia FoxxSpace Horse Gaff E VISUALS Dark CemaTHE LOOK Party Monster but make cute Jan 21 $15 No one turned away for lack of funds & First Natns allotn (ee) reach outThis event is happeng on Gadigal Land and we pay our rpects to the tradnal ctodians both past, prent and emergg. Host or Publisher Heaps Gay.

YOU BETTER WERK: HEAPS GAY’S INCLIVE STREET FTIVAL ROADWERK IS BACK FOR 2020

The Heaps Gay Street Ftival is g back to the ner wt next weekend and this time they’re closg down an entire street. After a sell-out event last year, the Heaps Gay Street Party is g back bigger and better than last year.

What: Heaps Gay Street Party.

Image cred: Supplied by Heaps Gay. 27amThe Catholic Bishop of Sydney says the Cy of Sydney uncil showed “ltle sensivy” to people of fah by promotg and hostg a Live N’ Queer ncert by Heaps Gay on the foreurt of St Mary’s Cathedral but the uncil says they nsulted the church and no objectns were “chaotic queer variety show” featurg some of the “loust and queert acts to e out of 2020” is set to be staged this weekend as part of the pop-up outdoor ncert seri Sunset Piazza nng om January 28 to March Gay Loud N’ Queer TV are due to perform on the weekend spe objectns om some Summer the Cy program, fund by the NSW Government associatn wh the Cy of Sydney, promot and helps stage live performanc spanng pop, baret, edy, hip-hop, die rock and opera at Cathedral Square, which is ont of St Mary’s Cathedral and oppose Hy Heaps Gay show was promoted g the distctive Cathedral spir which Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP objected to on Facebook.

‘CHRISTIAN LIV MATTER’ PROTTERS TRY TO DROWN OUT GAY NCERT WH PRAYERS AND TONE-AF HYMNS

“Senr members of the church have recently told the Cy they had no objectn to the Heaps Gay event gog ahead. Heaps Gay’s yearly street ftival ed to close down Marrickville’s Garn Street om noon till night for a full day of live mic, performanc, dancg, art, food and drk. Heaps Gay has been axg Sydney out of s shell wh larger-than-life parti and themed events sce 2013.

In the past, Heaps Gay has held formal balls f for a qween at Vivid; cktail parti that raise funds for youth chari; Mardi Gras pop-ups; and a strg of bash natnwi where you uld enroll to vote the same-sex marriage survey. A group of anti-LGBT+ ‘Christian Liv Matter’ protters staged a bizarre prott Sydney an attempt to drown out a gay ncert.