Acid, blood and police raids: the pioneering drag chaos of Sylvia and the Synthetics
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...
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