Brandon Bear has stepped down mid-term as co-chair and board director of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, just months after being re-elected at the organisation's most recent annual general meeting in December.
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Gay voters are poised to play a bigger role than ever in the battle for Wentworth, after new boundaries pulled some of Sydney's most notable LGBTQIA+ suburbs into the electorate ahead of the federal election.
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras director Luc Velez has taken leave from the board to contest the federal seat of Sydney as the Greens candidate, challenging long-serving Labor MP Tanya Plibersek.
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg was forced to defend his party’s stance on gender and trans rights at a queer election forum on Tuesday night after being confronted with an unexpected question from the event's moderator.
Put your paws up Australia because Lady Gaga is coming Down Under for her first Australian shows in more than a decade.
David Polson, a lifelong HIV treatment advocate and founding chair of Darlinghurst queer museum Qtopia, will receive a state memorial after passing away aged 70.
Queer museum Qtopia, where Polson was founding chair, said he died as he lived “fighting valiantly until the end in the care of St Vincent’s Hospital”.
Drag queen Victoria Mami was crowned the winner of season five of Universal Sydney’s Slay 2 Stay drag competition on Wednesday night and plans to use her win to fund a long-awaited trip to visit her family overseas.