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Athlete of a generation
Olympic diving champion and gay icon Matthew Mitcham appears on Channel 10 game show Talkin’ Bout Your Generation this Sunday. Sydney Star Observer caught up with Mitcham one-on-one backstage after ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Giveaway
Pratten Accessories Pratten Accessories, the Australian accessories company known for their eel-skin purses in a variety of colours, launches a stunning new slimline range of men’s wallets as part of their ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Celebrating GLBT sport
Team Sydney has declared the 2010 Mardi Gras Sports Festival and Fair Day Sports Village a success. The Sports Festival featured 18 events highlighting the skills, diversity and team spirit of ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Bowling for charity
As part of last month’s Mardi Gras Sports Festival, Unbiased Bowling held its annual Lawn Bowls Barefoot Social Day to raise money for charity. Over 115 people attended the event, including ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
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Javier ready to get Extra Dirty
DJ Mandy Rollins’ trademark sound will be heightened this weekend when her Extra Dirty party makes its annual Mardi Gras appearance. Celebrating the end of the festive season, the popular party ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Drake set to shine
Transgender performer Sunny Drake is in town this week and brings his one-person show, Other-wise, to the Red Rattler. In this exploration of gender, boy tits and sexuality, Drake uses ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Women ready to serve it up
Amazon Tennis will host a social day at the Cintra Park Tennis Centre this Saturday, March 6. The event is an extension of the group’s usual social tennis days in which ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Gay fighters prepare for Cologne
The Gay and Lesbian Martial Arts Club (GLMA) will send a team of six to compete in the Cologne Gay Games this August. GLMA and Same-Sex Salsa founder Penny Gulliver said ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Temporary meditiation space found
Last month’s torrential rain damaged the roof of Club Swans, so the Sydney Gay Meditation Group is meeting at Meditation Space until the venue is repaired. The group meets every ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Freezone spikes the opposition
Fourteen teams took to the courts at the Olympic Park’s Indoor Sports Centre to compete in the Freezone Volleyball Mardi Gras Tournament at the weekend. Team Big W won A Division, ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
Open training for Stingers
The Sydney Stingers Water Polo Club will hold an open training session at the Ryde Aquatic Centre this Saturday, February 27. Starting at 9.45am, the event will introduce potential members ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
A smashing success
Last weekend, more than 120 players flocked to Tennis Sydney’s Mardi Gras Championships to celebrate its 21st year. Held over three days at the Illawarra Tennis Centre, the tournament held 145 ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - 2 Comments
Sydney Stingers get fundraising
Sydney’s gay and lesbian water polo club, the Sydney Stingers, is seeking community support to help them send a team to the Cologne Gay Games in August. “The Stingers have been ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Cruising the harbour
The Australian Sailing and Cruising Club (ASCC) will hold its annual Mardi Gras Regatta this Saturday, February 20. The club hires six-metre long Elliott dinghies and holds a series of short ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
A bent hockey day
The Bentstix Hockey Club will hold its annual Pink Hockey Championships on Saturday, February 20, at the St George Hockey Centre, Kyeemagh. Now in its fifth year, the social day starts ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Gay history repeating
The Seymour Centre will recount the chilling true story of the legendary gay duo who committed one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century. Under the direction of Jay ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Win tickets to Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening, the hit musical merging Frank Wedekind’s controversial, classic play with an indie-rock score by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, has its Australian premiere as part of the Sydney ... Read more
Thu February 11th, 2010 - No Comments
Wine, dine and be entertained
4Play is a collaboration by some of Australia’s best theatrical talent running at Slide this Mardi Gras. Under the artistic direction of Stephen Carnell, the show is a true feast of ... Read more
Tue February 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Play shows pink triangle’s origins
Embracing this year’s Mardi Gras theme, Focus Theatre and B Sharp thought it was essential to produce the Martin Sherman play, Bent, to give festivalgoers an insight into the treatment ... Read more
Tue February 9th, 2010 - No Comments
It’s carnival time
This year Mardi Gras brings a new concept to the festival — the Parade Carnival. With the 2010 Mardi Gras Party being moved from parade night, organisers created this event for ... Read more
Tue February 9th, 2010 - 1 Comment
Shining on the big screen
It’s no secret that as a collective, the gay and lesbian community is enormously talented. Nowhere more than on the silver screen has that talent resonated so much. Community members ... Read more
Mon February 8th, 2010 - No Comments
Fun at the fair
It’s an iconic event that brings all aspects of the community together. Fair Day will launch the Mardi Gras season on February 21. “It’s our biggest community event in that it ... Read more
Sun February 7th, 2010 - No Comments
The parade set to inspire
Since 1978 the parade has not only been one of the vital components of Mardi Gras but its history has helped shape the Australian gay and lesbian community. Initially a protest ... Read more
Sun February 7th, 2010 - 3 Comments
Party gets back on track
The Mardi Gras Harbour Party is an event with a history of highs and lows. Despite its many name changes, the sore pockets and a drug shutdown, 2010 hopes to ... Read more
Sat February 6th, 2010 - No Comments
In search of history
In search of to ensure GLBT history is not forgotten, the Order of Perpetual Indulgence will revisit our past on their annual colonial history walk. The walk is a one of ... Read more
Fri February 5th, 2010 - No Comments
Current Issue
Velvet in the garden
A new burlesque and cabaret show, The Velvet Garden, showcasing the debut work of up-and-coming performers will feature at the Red Rattle Theatre on Friday, March 19. With playwright Wayne Tunks as host, the ... Read more
PFLAG outrage: Shame on you, Tony Abbott
Parents, friends and relatives of gay and lesbian people are being encouraged to register ... Read more
We were wrong
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says a deal was struck to to force a vote ... Read more
Change to BGF service structure
Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) clients will be asked to take more responsibility for their ... Read more
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re shovel-ready!
The shriek of whistles pierces the air, dykes tease the crowd with their purring ... Read more
HIV+ migrant inquiry
Some of the nation’s peak AIDS bodies have used an inquiry into migration by ... Read more