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Author » Danny Corvini
Boys back in Bondi’s glory
Summer is now with us and one event worth seizing on if you score a hot summer’s Saturday arvo is Bondi Boys, which has been turning a little patch of ... Read more
Wed December 17th, 2008 - No Comments
Tis the season to go crazy
If you missed the Non-Scene party Afternoon Delight last weekend don’t despair, Ben and Tobin will be doing another party in February. The promise of a “cute little bowling club ... Read more
Wed December 10th, 2008 - No Comments
Flinders get festive
After a great weekend at two different festivals, I’m feeling festival crazy, texting friends with every available digit, seeing who’s up for what. Melbourne may have the bars, but Sydney ... Read more
Thu December 4th, 2008 - No Comments
Giving just a little bit more
In Melbourne’s gay strip of Commercial Road, model/dancer/singer Ryan Stuart is known to most punters on a first-name basis. He’s trotted the stage as a back-up dancer to drag shows ... Read more
Wed December 3rd, 2008 - 10 Comments
A legend returns to the stage
It’s forecast to be an extremely pleasant 22 degrees in Sydney on Saturday and half of gaytown will be down at Summer Gay Day at Moore Park, now in its ... Read more
Wed November 26th, 2008 - No Comments
Spend a dollar and save a life
Bah humbug. Why is it always beautiful during the week and then rainy on the weekends? Yet another grey storm cloud descended on Sydney last weekend and once again summer ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 2008 - No Comments
Drinking in the full story
Only three more weekends until the lock-outs begin in earnest and you don’t have to be Fred Nile to realise that Oxford Street’s a war zone. If it’s not would-be ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Opinion divided over lockout
The hot topic on everyone’s lips this week, besides the Bali bombers’ impending executions, the Melbourne Cup and the US presidential elections, was of course the lockouts. It’s hard to tell ... Read more
Wed November 5th, 2008 - No Comments
Embarrasment of riches on offer
If you’re tired of Sydney, you’re tired of life — to borrow a line crafted for a better place. She ain’t perfect, this lady, but she’s definitely pretty and with ... Read more
Wed October 29th, 2008 - No Comments
Kooky hits adolescence
It’s a long time since I met Johnny Taranto, aka Seymour Butz of Club Kooky fame. I was about 18 and he not much older, and he’d just been photographed ... Read more
Wed October 22nd, 2008 - No Comments
Time to start thinking about NYE
It was quiet out on the streets of Sydney last weekend, with many people still nursing their heads and empty wallets after a huge long weekend. I checked out a ... Read more
Wed October 15th, 2008 - No Comments
Fun in a different corner
Let me let you in on a little secret: despite being the Star Observer’s party correspondent, there is something about big nights like Sleaze Ball, New Year’s Eve and the ... Read more
Wed October 8th, 2008 - No Comments
Party weekend approaches
This year, Mardi Gras’ naughtier sibling Sleaze Ball is joined by a swag of parties, so no matter what your taste there is a party or recovery happening for you. Faggot ... Read more
Wed October 1st, 2008 - No Comments
Weekends are getting sleazy
This week I’m all mad for the new dance craze come out of France called Tecktonik, an interesting hybrid of ’90s raving, that strange shuffling thing you see in Melbourne, ... Read more
Wed September 24th, 2008 - No Comments
White angels hit God’s kitchen
As gay males, we are now faced with some decisions that will bear a heavy consequence on our lives. Like, should I go to Sleaze Ball or the after-parties this ... Read more
Wed September 17th, 2008 - No Comments
Girls making their mark
Last Friday I went to the new R&B night upstairs at the Midnight Shift, expecting to shake it like a motherbrother. It was my second trip to the Shift club ... Read more
Wed September 10th, 2008 - No Comments
Mind your manners
If Clover Moore is reelected, once she has finished cleaning up Sydney’s laneways, opening small bars and has put the final nail in the final Just Say No To That ... Read more
Wed September 3rd, 2008 - No Comments
One weekend – two openings
What a hot little sizzler we have ahead of us this weekend with two of the biggest openings in recent scene history. On Friday all eyes will be on Petersham when ... Read more
Wed August 27th, 2008 - No Comments
Arq spinning around with talent
While Rhys and my personal favourite Graeme haven’t confirmed their places on the podiums yet, Sydney’s future superstar DJs will be out in force this Friday night for Arq’s So ... Read more
Wed August 20th, 2008 - No Comments
Making his mark on art
At the end of the ’90s I was hosting a radio show on a dance station that used to exist before FBi, and Pnau’s Pete Mayes was the volunteer manning ... Read more
Wed August 13th, 2008 - 2 Comments
Time to get sweaty
It’s hard to believe that it’s two Olympics Games on since Sydney played host. Like World Youth Day on much better drugs, Sydney 2000 was an unbelievably exciting period when ... Read more
Wed August 6th, 2008 - No Comments
Will Oxford St rise again?
When I moved back to Sydney from Melbourne in March, I knew a few things were going to be a bit different from the Sydney I remembered living in from ... Read more
Wed July 30th, 2008 - 1 Comment
Dirty dancing between the sheets?
The Kiss-In? Well, frankly I was underwhelmed, what with all of the necks craning around looking at what everyone else was doing, and the general look and feel being that ... Read more
Wed July 23rd, 2008 - No Comments
Throw a kiss into your Kooky weekend
Have you been wondering lately where you can find shit DJs, ugly chicks, crap bands and sleazy guys on a Thursday night? I know I have, so I was thrilled ... Read more
Wed July 16th, 2008 - 1 Comment
Getting a handle on the scene
Sssssh. It’s the beginning of something exciting. Don’t tell anyone but I think Handle Bar on Saturday nights at Gilligans could be the Sydney queer scene’s much-needed new mid-weekend melting ... Read more
Wed July 9th, 2008 - No Comments
GAMMA
GAMMA, a support group for married men who have sex with men, meets in secure confidential and non-sexual surroundings at the ACON building, 9 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 8pm. There is also a support line, Monday-Friday 6-10 pm, on 9267 4000.
www.gamma.org.auGAY BUSINESS
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association hosts Lemons With a Twist on the first Friday of each month and Fruits in Suits on the third Thursday of each month, at Slide.
www.sglba.com.auCOME OUT AUSTRALIA
Come Out Australia is a social group for our community, with branches in Canterbury-Bankstown, Epping/ Northern Districts and Penrith. You're invited to "Come Out"; get involved with a branch, event, project, or to start something happening in your area.
www.comeout.org.auQUEERSCREEN
Lovers of gay cinema are encouraged to become a member of Queerscreen, Sydney’s premier gay and lesbian film festival body.
www.queerscreen.com.au
Current Issue
Hope for lock-out rethink
Oxford St publicans have called on the newly-formed Sydney Liquor Task Force to review the 2am lock-out system and come up with more effective measures for handling alcohol-related violence. The state Government, with the City ... Read more
Oxford now with receiver
Oxford Hotel management insists it will be business as usual despite the pub’s holding ... Read more
Same-sex marriage push
The Greens have made good on a promise to introduce a private member’s bill ... Read more
ACON’s three-year vision
ACON CEO Stevie Clayton has declared a drop in HIV rates as a key ... Read more
Back on the trax
DJ Rob will be back at Bears Den Night Flinders Hotel on Friday, July ... Read more
They could get away with murder
With a name like KillaQueenz, one would naturally assume Kween G and Belizean Bombshell ... Read more