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Contents:

• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY
• GAY DATG SYDNEY
• THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY
• FEEL AT HOME AT THE BT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS SYDNEY
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN SYDNEY

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SYDNEY

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. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

Spectacular SydneyGay Mardi Gras. Cise through Sydney Harbour to lunch at the famo Doyle’s wateront rtrant, then stroll to Lady Jane, a gay clothg-optnal beach hidn below the cliffs. Gay Mardi Gras.

GAY DATG SYDNEY

Attus are different Atralia, where the entire Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras para is shown on natnal televisn. Gyms, gay swim teams, and other groups outdo one another wh elaborate floats and choreographed marchg bands. The extravaganza that rults is easily the most entertag gay para the world.

Sydney Mardi Gras is the largt gay party Atralia, and one of the biggt dat the LGBTQ Pri lendar worldwi. Beg the cy's ma gay pri event, Mardi Gras Sydney attracts thoands of partygoers every year. Sydney Mardi Gras first started through a gay rights para Sydney, on June 24, 1978.

THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

Followg a day memoratn of the Stonewall Rts of 1969, LGBTQ lols gathered on Oxford Street at 10pm to march for equal regn, fight scrimatn agast LGBTQ people employment and hog, revoke anti-gay laws, and end police harassment.

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

So if you are lookg to experience your pri down unr, the heart of the Atralian summer, be sure to pencil Sydney Mardi Gras to your gay events lendar this year.

THE 5 BEST SYDNEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SYDNEY

Then get planng your trip to Atralia’s hottt gay pri event. 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.

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.

FEEL AT HOME AT THE BT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS SYDNEY

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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. 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.

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

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. Tripadvisor performs checks on had trouble fdg reliable rmatn on the gay bar and club scene Sydney.

TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN SYDNEY

Once here, we disvered that Oxford Street is the qutsential gayborhood of Sydney and Universal is the only major gay bar open 7 days a week. Sydney has a thrivg gay scene and plays host to one of the world’s bt pri events: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. There are a range of gay areas (or “gayborhoods”) Sydney where the muny ngregat at amazg gay bars and clubs, as well as at more laid-back ffee ho and rtrants.

Gay areas Sydney: Darlghurst.

Darlghurst is one of Sydney’s ma gay neighborhoods and, back 2016, almost one five upl were men same-sex relatnships.