Tag Archives: Sydney

An Australian newspaper is breathlessly reporting that George Michael is spending his downtime in Sydney by cruising men on the iPhone app Scruff. And that’s apparently news because he usually works it on Grindr. Now a fixture on the Northern Beaches after arriving in town for New Year, the on-the-prowl performer has apparently joined Scruff, a new iPhone application marketed …

Featuring local drag stars Joyce Maynge and Auntie Mavis. Huge number of participants by the end and they even use a snippet of my favorite Kylie track.

Rev. Fred Niles, the longest-serving member of the New South Wales parliament and one of Australia’s leading anti-gay activists, is front-page news in Sydney today after an audit revealed that he’d used his government computer to view pornography. A really LOT of pornography, it appears. An audit of NSW parliamentary computers, which has already resulted in the resignation of a …

Today the legislature of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, narrowly approved adoption rights for same-sex couples. Sydney is the state capital. Members of the New South Wales state parliament voted 46-44 in favour of removing discriminatory clauses in the Adoption Act. In two other jurisdictions, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, gay adoption is already legal. The …

In Sydney’s historic Queen Victoria Building with drag star Joyce Maynge.

Dance diva and former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland headlined at the big dance party at Sydney Mardi Gras yesterday. Unless it was tomorrow. #datelineconfusion.

Famed American photographer Spencer Tunick was commissioned by the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras for a mass nude photo on the steps of the Opera House. From a Sydney Morning Herald reporter (and participant) account: There were elderly couples walking down Macquarie Street, single young women in cars and plenty of gay groups whooping it up as they headed …

The publicists of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras sent us this promo clip this morning. Sigh. One of these days, one of the days.

Summertime fun from Down Under: Local drag queen Joyce Maynge leads a flash mob of dancers on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Fab! (Tipped by JMG reader Andrej)