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Exploring Sydney’s LGBTQIA-friendly neighbourhoods
While you’ll find LGBTQIA+ communities across Sydney, here’s a guide to four suburbs — Darlinghurst, Enmore, Erskineville and Redfern — that speak to the city’s spacious range of gay venues and society, meaning you’ll always be able to find a home-away-from-home.
Darlinghurst
As the historic hub of Australia’s queer rights movement, Darlinghurst is rich with inspiring stories. Discover them with Sydney’s Pride History’sregular walking tours, led by leading LGBTQIA+ historians and lively ‘nuns’, known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Follow it up with a visit to The Bookshop Darlinghurst, a sanctuary of LGBTQIA+ knowledge since , and Qtopia, the largest museum and cultural centre for queer history and culture in the world, housed in the heritage-listed former Darlinghurst Police Station.
As Australia’s home of drag, you’ll locate shows seven days a week on Oxford Street, whether it be all-in dance productions at Universal, drag trivia at Stonewall, or more intimate affairs at Ginger’s,The Oxford Hotel’s loung
Gay Clay is a safe, welcoming and non-judgemental space for queer-identifying folks and allies who crave to learn basic ceramics skills. By coming together to function with clay, we practice embodiment and self-care within a people – important skills which anchor us in today's fast paced world.
This workshop will focus on nerikomi – a Japanese skill that involves stacking coloured blocks of clay and slicing them to reveal a pattern. We inlay these pieces onto clay slabs and make them into functional objects of our choosing
Gay Clay is taught by Annie Parnell, a graduate of the Australian National University School of Art and Design (Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours) in the Ceramics and the Sculpture and Spatial Practise Workshops. Their function is held in private collections both locally and internationally, and they have exhibited all the way from Munich to Petersham..
At the end of the workshop your pieces will dry out and then be fired and clear glazed by Annie. This means they’ll be functional pieces of pottery when you approach to collect them. You will be able to come a
10 Cool Things Every Same-sex attracted Guy Should Do in Sydney
If you’ve already ravaged the Northern hemisphere in terms of its lgbtq+ hotspots, by all means, head to the Southern hemisphere’s capital of all things gay! Not that the wonderful Aussie continent in its entirety isn’t rainbow-clad in its entirety, but Sydney remains on the throne as the most diverse and pretty city, so it makes perfect sense to rush and join its many queens.
From exotic beaches, cocktail bars, nightlife to shame many other a metropolis, and a vibrant lgbtq+ scene altogether, Sydney has much to offer, and it will make you fall head over heels in love with its insanely vivid gay customs.
1. Royal Botanic Gardens
While we’re on the subject of thrones and queens, this green oasis in the very heart of the urban jungle is optimal for all those among you who like to enjoy a few composed moments in nature, sipping a takeaway latte from a nearby coffee place. If you’re into yoga or similar relaxing activities, you might want to take a sneak peek at a summer-perfect yoga class in the park – or simply observe the chi