Drag queen Courtney Act, artist Jeff McCann, journalist Narelda Jacobs and Sydney Mardi Gras board chair Giovanni Campolo-Arcidiaco were among the many people and organisations recognised at the largest annual LGBTQ+ awards in NSW on Wednesday night.
The Drag Industry Variety Awards (DIVAs) were held at the Paddington RSL in Sydney on Monday night
The Australian Labor Party has passed a motion recognising the need to end the gay blood ban and adopt individual risk assessments for blood donations.
In just over two weeks’ time, the Imperial Hotel basement in Erskineville will host “Medusa” – a new party aimed at queer women, trans and non-binary communities.
Erskineville’s Imperial Hotel has welcomed Sydney’s cult pizza brothers Joey Pepperoni and Marty McFly to its rooftop, providing a permanent home for the duo known as “The Pizza Bros”.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has acknowledged the hurt caused to the LGBTIQ+ community by excluding them from the 2021 Census.
The popular Dumplings & Beer restaurant on Darlinghurst’s Stanley Street has closed after its owner passed away just over a month ago.
Big-name Sydney Mardi Gras corporate sponsors have decided to reduce their visual presence in this year’s tarot card creative campaign after deeming it too risqué to associate their brands with.
Surry Hills gay cruising club TRADE has been sold to the owner of Trough, who will run it as a sex-on-premises venue and nightclub for all people – not just men who have sex with men.
Gay men as well as men who have sex with men would be able to donate “whole blood” under certain circumstances in a major policy change being proposed by the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood service.
The NSW Police Force has been accused of taking an “adversarial or unnecessarily defensive” approach to engaging with the special commission of inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes in the commission’s final report to the government.
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras chief Gil Beckwith has called for an immediate and enduring ceasefire in Gaza and committed the organisation to not accepting any funding from organisations “which are complicit in the ongoing violence in Palestine”.
Drag queen Karna Ford says Sydney needs more drag competitions and has revealed how she intends to spend the $10,000 prize money she won after taking home the crown at Wednesday night’s Slay 2 Stay contest.
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