Posts in category Arts & Entertainment

By Mike Hitch Get your hands up in the air and your hips swaying – Sissy Ball is back for a third encore at this …

Star Observer asked Ann-Marie Calihanna to photograph six community floats and ask participants what matters to them.  Ann-Marie Calihanna These portraits convey the inspiration and …

Fighting For Our Lives is a new book by Nick Cook that looks at how the Australian LGBTIQ community fought AIDS and won. The AIDS …

By Mike Hitch What matters at Mardi Gras this year?  Eight edgy Asian comedians say: Parramattas! They’ll been dealing with humorous Asian queer matters when …

By Jessi Lewis 2020 marks the 30th year of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, an event that in the words of founding Festival Director, Lawrence …

By Rita Bratovich There are very few people who like to think about their own death, but Myra DuBois fully embraces her mortality in her …

By Rita Bratovich Gerry Connolly has been impersonating Queen Elizabeth for so long, he could be her understudy. It feels natural to ask him, as …

By Rita Bratovich It’s a sad truth that many of the significant turning points in LGBTQI history are also horrendously violent and tragic. The murder …

By Rita Bratovich If you need your funny bone tickled then come to Darlinghurst Theatre for Comedy Kiki. (If you need anything else tickled, please …

By Sarah Ward My passion as a performance artist, has and always will be the making of art, not entertainment. I’m not saying I don’t …