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A Tribute To The Inimitable Maxi Shield

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:22:58 +0000

There are some people who feel larger than the rooms they stand in — and then there are people like Maxi Shield, who somehow made entire cities feel smaller and ...

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Anarchic Artist Collective Briefs Has Officially Come Of Age

Patrick Lenton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:05:11 +0000

“Circus with attitude, drag with muscle, and burlesque with bite”: artist collective Briefs is celebrating 18 years of their anarchic, fabulous shows. “She’s of legal drinking age now, she’s off ...

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Bro-Mosexuals: Tim Collins And Hannah Conda Are Real-Life Brothers in Wigs

Lydia Jupp — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:39:06 +0000

The chance of two brothers from the same family both becoming professional homosexuals in wigs is not super high — but Hannah Conda and Tim Collins are living proof that ...

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Where Are Melbourne’s Lesbian Bars? Queer Women Are Building Their Own Nightlife Instead

Amelie Mcintosh — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:14:44 +0000

It’s a question you hear a lot: where are the lesbian bars in this day and age? Amelie McIntosh explores how lesbian nightlife has evolved, and how queer women in ...

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Peach PRC Is All Grown Up, Glowing Up & Bringing 17c��+ Australia With Her

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:51:28 +0000

There’s something just a lil radical about watching a young Adelaide girl with pink hair and a bedroom full of big feelings turn herself into a full-blown pop phenomenon — ...

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Loch The Fuck In, Because Deadloch Season 2 Is Nearly Here (And It’s Gone Troppo)

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:42:16 +0000

There are very few television shows that burrowed into the Australian queer psyche the way Deadloch did. The neo-noir detective-comedy didn’t just flirt with queerness — it was elbow-deep in ...

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Comedian Nick White On Absurd Characters, Being Queer In Comedy, & Loving The Sims

Patrick Lenton — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:22:13 +0000

“I guess quite a bit of my material is about being gay, because being gay is so funny sometimes,” says viral comedian Nick White, while chatting about his new comedy ...

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EXPLAINER: Lesbian Action Group Try Third Legal Attempt To Ban Trans Women From Events

Patrick Lenton — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:23:56 +0000

A trans exclusionary group called the Lesbian Action Group (LAG) has been in court this week, appealing a decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that ruled the group ...

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The Ongoing Fight Against Queensland’s Trans Youth Healthcare Ban

Michael James — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:07:01 +0000

What began as a “pause” on gender affirming healthcare for trans youth in Queensland has become one of the most controversial and legally contested healthcare battles in the country — ...

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2026 Gifts Us Yet Another Glorious Midsumma Night’s Dream

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:51:51 +0000

By the time the last glittering shows took their bows, Midsumma Festival 2026 had once again done something quietly radical: it carved out time and space for queer joy, creativity ...

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Mardi Gras 2026 Is Spotlighting The Huge Boom In Interest In 17c��+ Sport

Lydia Jupp — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:54:47 +0000

The glorious few weeks that is the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a time for community — in whatever capacity that means to you. While some feel most at ...

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Black, Fat & F**gy: A Born Diva, Milo Hartill Is Changing The Game

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:42:17 +0000

“Multi-hyphenate diva & dickhead”, reads the email signature of Milo Hartill. But a slightly more succinct descriptor for the stunning Hartill is ‘entertainer’: someone faithfully dedicated to making us laugh, ...

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Queer History Is Back In Style In Queensland’s ‘Make a Scene’ Exhibition

Michael James — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:23:37 +0000

When Queensland Museum curator Chris Salter envisioned Make a Scene: Fashioning Queer Identity and Club Culture in the 90s, it was more than an exhibition — it was a chance ...

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Engorge-ous: Reuben Kaye Is Standing To Attention & Ready For The Opera House

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:08:58 +0000

Reuben Kaye is marching into the Sydney Opera House with Engorged — a show so tumescent, ballsy, and bulgingly inappropriate that even the Concert Hall might blush. Returning as part ...

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Narelda Jacobs & Karina Natt On Rainbow Family & Writing Their Book As An Act of Resistance

Michael James — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:23:39 +0000

When celebrated Whadjuk Noongar journalist Narelda Jacobs and communications specialist Karina Natt join our interview with their eight-month-old daughter Sanna, it’s clear that their new book If Queers Weren’t Meant ...

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Sandra Bernhard Is Coming To Australia — And She Feels More Radical Than Ever

Lydia Jupp — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:12:14 +0000

At this point in her career, there’s not much that Sandra Bernhard hasn’t done. Her career has encompassed many different facets of entertainment — and she’s always refused to be ...

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Jess Mauboy Is Ready To ‘Bring The Confetti’ At Mighty Hoopla Sydney

Staff Writers — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:39:26 +0000

For almost a decade, London’s Mighty Hoopla has been the spiritual home of queer pop lovers — a technicolour playground where chart divas, drag royalty, nostalgic bangers and unapologetic camp ...

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Meet Mitch Brown: The AFL’s First Out & Proud Bisexual Player

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:49:55 +0000

The first thing you notice about Mitch Brown is how kind he is. And not the ‘media-rehearsed’ type of kind — just that down-to-earth, human sort of kind. When we ...

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Courtney Act’s New Children’s Book Is All Confetti & Rainbows

Michael James — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:00:41 +0000

Whether on stage, screen or the page, Courtney Act knows the magic that happens when someone feels truly seen. Her new children’s book, Confetti and the Rainbow Garden, is a ...

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Mardi Gras 2026: A Lean Mean Glittery Machine, In A Brand-New Era

Chloe Sargeant — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:48:17 +0000

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) is entering a new chapter. After some tumultuous years, the festival is stripping things back, finding its feet again, and returning to what ...

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