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.
ACON chief executive Nicolas Parkhill has announced his retirement from the Australian HIV and LGBTQ+ health organisation after serving at the helm for 15 years.
The organisation behind the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will rescind heavily discounted Bondi Beach Party tickets from those who cannot provide proof they were eligible for a program only meant for use by First Nations people and concession card holders.
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore says she will seek a meeting with NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb to discuss the findings of an LGBTI+ safety summit.
A group of men linked to the Christian Lives Matter group allegedly attempted to disrupt a drag story time event in Sydney’s inner west on Saturday.
The ABC will no longer film a “drag story time” event at Rockdale Library in Sydney’s south for the official Mardi Gras broadcast following backlash it has labelled “hateful and offensive”.
Hills Shire Council has passed a motion that rejects any encouragement or facilitation of drag events like drag story time, in which children are read books at public libraries by drag performers.
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