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 looking for photos that represent the full spectrum of our crowd… every age, shape, size, colour, culture, and gender.”
The brief called on the club’s photographers to take images of muscled men, “only the best” drag queens, and “hot boys”, while prohibiting images of women and “boys with bad skin”.
Freeman is still based in Rose Bay, which is the same suburb he stayed in when he first moved up from Tasmania and was enticed by the “huge gay world” in Sydney he had read about.
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