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

Contents:

• ATRALIA’S LGBTQ+ STATUE PROGRS SHARK IS THE GAY IN WE DIDN’T KNOW WE NEED
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

ATRALIA’S LGBTQ+ STATUE PROGRS SHARK IS THE GAY IN WE DIDN’T KNOW WE NEED

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

To memorate Progrs Shark’s inic reign over WorldPri, as well as the exuberant memori ma durg Sydney’s supersized Gay Christmas of 2023, we’ve piled a list of the most inic moments of Sydney WorldPri. That’s right, when Danni Mogue appeared on stage next to her sis matchg sparkly dance stum, the biggt Gay Christmas ever had tly begun. A psule llectn for the mm was tablished at the Bandstand Green Park (a historic lotn for Sydney’s gay muny) which is still on display now.

Marrickville’s own Anthony Albane ma history as the first stg prime mister of Atralia to march down Oxford Street (along wh more than 12, 000 participants) the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para all s 45 years. 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.

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

)Sce Bartlett, the gay Atralian agenda has been full swg.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

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. This current gay era may live and die, but Progrs Shark is forever. Tripadvisor performs checks on had a nice time at the gay bar here although everythg was jt a ltle sticky on the night we went.

A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”.

In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.