Posts in category New South Wales News

By Mike Hitch This year, just an hour north of Sydney’s bustling City, the Central Coast of NSW will be stepping up their LGBTQI festivities …

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

By Mike Hitch It turns out the Mardi Gras Parade will be having an extra pup in their line-up. In honour of the Sydney Gay …

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 …

By Mike Hitch The Star Observer magazine, through its 41 years of service to the LGBTQI community, has raised an entire generation loud and proud …

Two teenage boys have been charged with kidnapping and murder and a third teen has also been arrested in relation to the death of 56-year-old …

Star Observer sat down with Mardi Gras co-chair and Sydney Pride Interim CEO, Kate Wicket.  Kate Wickett remembers standing outside The Colombian several days before …

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 …

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

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 …