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Dragtastic fundraiser in Brisbane for World’s Greatest Shave
A Brisbane local has signed up for the World’s Greatest Shave, and her drag queen friends are pitching in to help fundraise for the important cause. The long-running annual event by the Leukaemia Foundation raises money to support those diagnosed with blood cancer. More than 50 Australians are diagnosed each day with leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma …
Drag Race UK queens caught up in bomb scare at gay nightclub
A group of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK stars were evacuated from London’s Heaven nightclub this week after a “sick individual” made a hoax bomb threat. The Vivienne, Tia Kofi, Veronica Green and their drag sister Shania Pain were rehearsing for a new tour at the venue on Monday (May 3). Then police arrived and ordered …
Queer venues issue apologies after drag queen blackface scandal
Two LGBTIQ venues in Western Australia have apologised after photos of drag queen Scarlet Adams and others wearing racist blackface on their stages resurfaced. Perth drag queen Scarlet Adams is among the queens competing on RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. However Indigenous performer Felicia Foxx called out Adams and others in a viral Instagram post …
The Prince Consort is throwing a huge Fortitude Valley Mardi Gras party
La La Land, Brisbane’s newest electronic music playground at The Prince Consort, has your Mardi Gras weekend sorted with a double bill this Friday and Saturday in Fortitude Valley. The Prince Consort is a massive dining and nightlife venue on the corner of Wickham and Brunswick Streets in the heart of the Valley. The sprawling, …
Outback pub in Bob Katter’s electorate planning big Mardi Gras party
An outback pub in regional Queensland is hosting its second ever Mardi Gras party the night of the 2021 parade on March 6. The Post Office Hotel in Cloncurry hosted its first ever Mardi Gras party last year, and it was such a success they’re doing it again this year. Cloncurry, population 3000, is located …
Lady Gaga addresses the COVID FOMO as Aussies club to Chromatica
Lady Gaga has given a shout out to Australia on Twitter as footage of clubgoers actually able to dance to her latest album Chromatica in our nightclubs goes viral. Over the Australia Day long weekend, Aussies posted footage to social media of crowded nightclubs blasting tracks from Lady Gaga’s 2020 album. The videos have racked …
Aussie gay club blasts Lady Gaga’s Chromatica and the whole world is jealous
Footage of a packed Melbourne gay nightclub blasting Lady Gaga’s Chromatica has gone viral, sparking jealousy and anguish online among fans stuck in COVID-19 lockdowns overseas. Victorian Twitter user Matt posted the footage of Lady Gaga’s “Chromatica II” transitioning into “911” at Poof Doof, the Melbourne queer club night, on Monday night ahead of the …
Sydney’s longest-running gay sauna Bodyline closes its doors
Sydney’s longest-running gay sauna Bodyline has closed its doors, citing COVID-19 in an announcement on its Facebook page. “Bodyline would like to thank our patrons and the community support for the last 30 years,” the Darlinghurst venue said in the statement on Thursday. They’d made the difficult decision to close “due to COVID, ongoing restrictions …