Australians’ views on homosexuality have steadily improved for more than two decades, but new research shows that trend has started to reverse.
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Drag performer Etcetera Etcetera was crowned Entertainer of the Year at Sydney's 2025 Drag Industry Variety Awards (DIVAs) on Monday night.
Key discrepancies in a Waverley Council contract disclosure document – modified at least three times since first being uploaded – could point to changes in the Bondi Beach Party planned for the 2026 Mardi Gras season.
The son of a publican who owns Sydney queer venues the Imperial Hotel, Universal Sydney and Oxford Hotel – who claimed on LinkedIn to be a "director" of the parent company that owns those pubs – has been charged after allegedly breaking into a woman's home with two other men to steal her car keys and registration papers.
Rival Mardi Gras factions are preparing to rally supporters, setting up a decisive contest over the future direction of the festival.
Serial Grindr fraudster and catfisher Dong Qiao Li has been sentenced to three months in jail for defrauding his latest victim after a magistrate heard of his decade-long history of scamming victims out of almost $120,000, many of whom he met on the gay dating and hookup app.
A new campaign group seeking to challenge the influence activist collective Pride in Protest hold over Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras says it will support board candidates who align with its views at the non-profit's annual general meeting later this year.
It may have been only 7 degrees on Monday morning, but that didn’t stop a line-up for the reopening of Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool, the swim spot beloved by Sydney’s gays that had been closed for 16 months for refurbishment.
Flash, the gay Sydney dance party that seems to have beef with Gay Sydney News for reasons that are not fully understood, is moving from its original venue on Oxford Street to new digs at Kings Cross Hotel following a run-in with council over capacity issues.
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has signalled its desire to move away from producing all of its events in-house, announcing it is inviting external promoters, community partners and creatives to co-produce “signature” celebrations while it focuses its energy on producing “hallmark” events alone.