The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is one of the most iconic events in Australia's social calendar. Each year, thousands of people descend on Sydney to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community, with the parade being the pinnacle event. However, this celebration didn't come easy - it has a long history of resistance and progress. And there is always more progress to be achieved.
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Dust off your feathered headpieces, Mardi Gras is back!
Our fabulous Carmen Geddit spoke to Michael Koziol from the Sydney Morning Herald about the exciting 2022 Mardi Gras season that we are in store for, post-Omicron.
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It started with Victoria Scone on Ru Paul's Drag Race UK. At least that is what we were led to believe. In truth, cisgender female drag queens is not a new concept. Movies like Victor Victoria (1982) and Connie and Carla (2004) challenged the idea of real women pretending to be men pretending to be drag queens — well before Victoria Scone.
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We all have the unconscious idea that metropolitan areas are too sophisticated for bigots. I mean, as Bernadette Bassenger said in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, “I don’t know if that ugly wall of suburbia has been put there up to stop them getting in or us getting out.”
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With Australia’s first Drag Expo making its way to Melbourne this winter, we figured it’s high time to talk drag!
What does it take to become a fabulous drag queen? What must new queens know before taking on the industry? And what can the audience learn?
We sat down with Hannah Conda, a fabulous staple in Sydney’s vibrant LGBTQI community, to find out what it takes to be a drag queen.
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For far too long Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture has sat in the background covered up by colonisation. Only now, thanks to the recent publication of Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe and other research projects, do we know about their history pre-colonisation. Whether that be their solid and thriving communities, their sewed fields and fished waterways, their politics and customs. A deeper narrative compared to the “hunter-gatherer” label we’ve put onto Indigenous Australians for far too long.
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The 2018 DIVAs took place in the Cocktail Bar of the Stonewall Hotel on Saturday night. The evening was hosted by Charisma Belle and was a smaller event than many previous years ceremonies but were still full of glitz, glamour and campery that the DIVAs are renown for.
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Sydney Drag Royalty’s mission is to provide outstanding professional drag talent for our clients’ entertainment in a wide range of event and project areas including, but not limited to …
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The F, an Australian based lifestyle website, has featured our very own Hannah Conda in an interview for ‘Meet the Drag Queen’. Get to know more about Hannah here.
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Carmen Geddit set to rock the Jurassic Lounge at the Australian Museum as a featured act from this years Mardi Gras program.
Photo: Peter A Hoyle.
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