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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.
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.
From the Archives, 1971: Hot pants on the rise Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss From the Archives, 1971: Hot pants on the rise 50 years ago, clothing manufacturer Paul Chalmers returned from an international fact-finding mission with a simple message for Sydney: get ready for hot pants. By Staff reporter Save Normal text size The Sydney Morning Herald on March 4, 1971 âHot pants are a feature of the new seasonâs playsuits. â May 3, 1971. Credit:Staff photographer Manufacturer returns: Hot pants are for us next summer At th...
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...