The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras organisation says a perfect storm of factors have placed it in a vulnerable position financially as it prepares to cut costs and consider what events it puts on for a leaner 2025 festival season.
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Ben Grubb is the founder and editor of Gay Sydney News, an independent publication covering LGBTQIA+ news. A journalist with more than 15 years' experience, he has reported and edited for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, WAToday, Brisbane Times, The Australian Financial Review, News.com.au, ZDNet, TelecomTimes and iTnews, primarily on the topic of technology. He previously hosted The Informer, a queer current affairs program on Melbourne’s JOY 94.9 radio station, and contributes to LGBTQIA+ media including Stun Magazine. Ben has also appeared as a technology commentator on Channel Ten's The Project, ABC RN’s Download This Show and commercial radio stations 2UE, 2GB and 6PR. Contact Ben: [email protected]
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About 15 staff from the Bodyline sex-on-premises business were left without a job over the Easter break after Sauna X by 357 took over the venue, GSN can reveal.
Poof Doof Sydney is moving house music downstairs at ARQ and pop bangers to the larger upstairs area during April in what appears to be a test to see if the change should become permanent.
The outgoing manager of Sydney CBD sex-on-premises venue 357 has signed a lease agreement to become the new tenant of the current Bodyline building.
Sex-on-premises business Bodyline has been sold to a new undisclosed company, Gay Sydney News can reveal.
The owner of Darling Harbour’s Home The Venue has signed a lease agreement to take over Darlinghurst’s ARQ Sydney nightclub for an undisclosed sum.
An anti-police message appeared below the controversial Potts Point graffiti believed to depict the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies by a serving police officer before it was later covered up, GSN can reveal.
Universal Sydney is investigating the structural integrity of its main upstairs stage after Sydney drag queen Coco Jumbo seriously injured herself during a performance of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”, resulting in an ambulance being called and surgery.