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A Mardi Gras exhibition celebrates the pioneering role of Sydney’s early gay and lesbian underground performers including Australia’s first “queen of soul” Wendy Saddington.
Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang They hung themselves from meat hooks, pelted their audience with offal – and blazed a trail for radical queer performance in Australia LoCarmen Thu 25 Feb 2021 11.30 EST Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 19.38 EST Sylvia and the Synthetics – Australia’s audacious drag provocateurs and underground LGBTQ pioneers – burned brightly and chaotically for the short two years of their reign. In 1972, Morris Sp...