Photographer William Yang on bringing Sydney’s queer underground to the surface
“The peak of the dance parties occurred in the late eighties and early nineties when a kind of dance craze swept through Sydney like a fever… now, it’s settled down.”
“The peak of the dance parties occurred in the late eighties and early nineties when a kind of dance craze swept through Sydney like a fever… now, it’s settled down.”
“We’re often excluded from sexual education or media depictions of healthy relationships.”
“We need HIV-negative people to stop seeing us as ‘risky’ and start seeing us as equals.”
“The church has to grow with the times in order to properly survive. Otherwise, it won’t.”
“When I came home after performing one night, my mum told me to wash off my eyeliner. I had glitter on my nails and she brought nail polish remover and removed it herself.”
“I told [the doctor] my sexuality wasn’t just a t-shirt that I’ve put on and her response was, ‘That doesn’t make any sense… I used to treat you when you were little.'”
“I’ve emailed over 300 venues and only got two or three replies back. It’s really hard.”