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.”
‘Consent is a right often withheld from LGBTIQ+ people’: Melbourne’s inaugural Consent Festival
“We’re often excluded from sexual education or media depictions of healthy relationships.”
What it’s like navigating HIV when you’re in a serodiscordant relationship
“We need HIV-negative people to stop seeing us as ‘risky’ and start seeing us as equals.”
Keeping the faith: reconciling sexuality and religion in the Greek Orthodox Church
“The church has to grow with the times in order to properly survive. Otherwise, it won’t.”
‘It’s a double life’: family rejection and finding a new home in the drag community
“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 fled to the city and never looked back’: LGBTI sex education in Sydney’s Bible belt
“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.'”
How Sydney’s drag scene has evolved with the lockout laws
“I’ve emailed over 300 venues and only got two or three replies back. It’s really hard.”