The Queer Variety Show is a variety show that features Queer/LGBTIQA+ and Disabled (includes, chronic illness, mental illness, neurodivergent) people, with the occasional ally.
For more than five decades, William Yang has captured the intimate, joyful, and sometimes painful realities of queer life. Rising to prominence in the 1970s and ’80s, his candid portraits of Sydney’s gay community became iconic records of identity and resilience. During the AIDS crisis, his photographs bore witness to both devastation and love, creating an invaluable archive of lives too often erased.
Elon Musk continues his aggressive anti-trans social media campaign, urging his 227 million followers on X to cancel their Netflix subscriptions, claiming the streaming service was promoting a “transgender woke agenda” through children’s content.
A special Canberra SpringOUT event at the Shine Dome. IN CONVERSATION with eX de Medici, an artist of almighty fortitude.
eX De Medic uses her work as a mirror to society’s insidious ills, using her mastery of the medium to detail and destabilise systems of injustice, abuses of power and violence that exist in our lives.
SPRINGOUT FESTIVAL EVENT
Sunday 09 November 20025 2pm-5pm Shine Dome, Academy of Science Bldg, Acton
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DADDY is a wild ride about what life is like as a Daddy and how much fun getting older really is. And it doesn’t stop there. In the wake of Pride and Drag Story Time events being cancelled across Australia and the world, DADDY is more than happy to give right wing conservatives exactly what they want.
Founded in 1982 by Les McDonald and Wayne Harrison, the Darlo Bookshop began on Crown Street and found a home on Oxford Street in 1984 — right at the heart of Sydney’s LGBTQ+ precinct. Over more than four decades, The Bookshop grew beyond retail, serving as a sanctuary during the AIDS crisis, a hub for author events, and an anchor for generations seeking community, affirmation, or simply the right book at the right time.
Give yourself over to absolute pleasure and be one of the first to see the new 50th Anniversary 4K re-release of the queer classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra
It’s astounding – time really is fleeting. In 1975, a spark from Australia’s creative underground ignited a wildfire of rebellion, expression and belonging. Fifty years on, The Rocky Horror Picture Show still pulses with the same energy, testament to both the wild, loud powerhouses behind its genius, and the rituals that have become folded into the film’s very being.
A JUMP TO THE LEFT. WHO GETS TO BELONG?
Australia in the 1970s was on the cusp of radical change, grappling with ideas of self-expression, gender, identity and sexuality. Into this upheaval burst a strange and irreverent little…
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