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public health order issued by the New South Wales government.It comes on a day when New South Wales recorded over 30,000 cases of COVID-19.According to the health order, “Singing and dancing is not permitted at a hospitality venue, entertainment facility, nightclub, major recreation facility or music festival.”Exceptions to this rule only apply to performers who are “performing” or “rehearsing,” a person who is “instructing” or “being instructed, in singing or dancing,” and a “wedding service” or a “gathering immediately following a wedding.”One of the four main ways to obtain an exemption would be to “ensure there is no dancefloor at the event” or that “any existing dancefloor is not used.”Yesterday, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) sent out the announcement stating that it was cancelling Party for the 2022 LGBTQI celebration.It wrote it was doing so with “very heavy hearts,” and Party is not “operable under the state’s Public Health Order.”It also acknowledged that the SGLMG team has “worked tirelessly with NSW Health, the State Government and venues at all stages of planning for our entire Festival.”It added, “This phase of the pandemic remains volatile, and the health and safety of our community will always remain our top priority.”Party would be a mainly indoor event with dancing.

Gay Stuff Markets for everything from fashion accessories, plants, homewares, jewellery to art, crafts, zines, books, and handmade goods. Harehole Mebourne – 63 Johnson Street, Fitzroy on 30 January at 12pm Star Observer’s Midsumma fg (Festival Guide)© Star Observer 2022 | For the latest in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTIQ) news in Australia, be sure to visit

Queer exhibition has been five years in the making. An Australian-first, the landmark exhibition opens on 10 March 2022 and trains a queer lens on the NGV collection, celebrating the rich diversity of the LGBTQI community and foregrounding the many untold stories. The exhibition originated as a themed issue of the NGV’s art journal around the time of the Marriage Equality debate in Australia in 2017. The bathers (1926-1933) by Duncan Grant“We realized very quickly that there was actually a lot of content and enough to really dive quite deep and explore the whole collection.

By Jacqualine HardyWe are just about to face one of our greatest challenges. If the Religious Discrimination Bill is passed by Parliament, in whatever form, the least it will do is push the LGBTQI cause back 20 years.This is not the time for division and strife.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World.  A post shared by BBC Three (@bbcthree)These are the following shady combatants:Baga is a British queen with great comedy chops. She displayed them time and time again throughout her season. Who can forget her uncanny impersonation of the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher? This performance earned her a Snatch Game victory with her bestie and the winner of the season, the Vivienne.

A man has finally confessed to killing a gay American college student in Australia, ending an almost 35-year mystery over his death.Scott White, 50, admitted to the murder of Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney in 1988. The 27-year-old gay mathematician was studying for his PhD at Australian National University after moving to Australia to live with his partner.Johnson’s clothes and belongings were found at the top of the cliff above his body, and he was in an area known to be frequented by gay men, which led investigators at the time to write his death off as suicide.His brother, Steve Johnson, was unconvinced with that verdict and pushed for the investigation to be reopened after learning at an inquest in 2005 that three other men had died in similar circumstances, the New York Times reports.“It was inconceivable to me that Scott went somewhere and jumped off a cliff,” Steve Johnson told the BBC in 2018.“The coroner quickly determined suicide, which is what the police told them,” Johnson said.

Seasons to Taste debuted on the streamer Revry earlier this year — to concoct a special holiday meal. One that pays tribute to the season, but one that’s also scalable.

Tom and Jerry cartoons.”To help usher in the holiday season, we asked Bardzik, whose informative and entertaining cooking show Seasons to Taste debuted on the streamer Revry earlier this year, to concoct a special holiday meal, one that pays tribute to the season, but one that’s also scalable — something that could feed dozens as well as more intimate parties of four, two, or even one.The meal Bardzik devised showcases a flawlessly prepared, reverse-seared steak.

Seasons to Taste debuted on the streamer Revry earlier this year — to concoct a special holiday meal. One that pays tribute to the season, but one that’s also scalable.

RuPaul’s Drag Race.“We were actually on the Season 8 finale of Drag Race where, spoiler alert, Bob The Drag Queen won,” says Spencer Brown, who portrays Trampolina. “We ended up performing an a cappella rendition of the theme song to Drag Race…cut down to about five seconds.”Mainstream interest in drag over the last decade has been a boon for the nearly 30-year-old ensemble.

In Spider-Man’s last film installment, and replayed at the top of high-spirited sequel Spider-Man: No Way Home (★★★★☆), the teen superhero’s ally-turned-enemy Mysterio (Jack Gyllenhaal) took to social media to let the biggest spoiler in the MCU out of the bag. As his last villainous act before dying, Mercurio revealed Spidey’s secret identity as New York City high schooler Peter Parker (Tom Holland).Instantly, and thanks to online troll J.

The Color Purple, and the glitzy “Anything Goes” opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

WUNDER GARTEN’S WINTERFESTNext Thursday, Dec. 16, Wunder Garten will host its second LGBTQ-themed party this month.

Jurassic Park nine times at the movies. Quadruple that viewing number once the VHS landed at my local Blockbuster.

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, Paul Verhoeven probably would have eagerly pushed that person down a set of stairs to get his hands on this material, because it’s tailor-made to suit his risqué sensibilities.Hence, the Dutch auteur’s Benedetta (★★☆☆☆) might not be the most divinely right adaptation of Brown’s account of real-life 17th-century Sister Benedetta Carlini, but it is exactly the overheated, mystic lesbian nun thriller that viewers might expect from the man behind Basic Instinct and Showgirls.Filled with sharp objects and sharper glances, lurid violence, and lots of slow undressing, the film isn’t as single-mindedly effective as Instinct, nor as uproariously camp as Showgirls.

AFI EUROPEAN UNION FILM SHOWCASEA total of 53 films from all 27 European Union member states screen in-person at this year’s 34th annual showcase, featuring some of the best new films and most promising new filmmakers from the continent, including the latest from legendary gay Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, whose Parallel Mothers closes out the showcase on Friday, Dec. 17.Other titles of LGBTQ interest include Great Freedom, a searing drama from Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Meise chronicling the real-life travails of Hans Hoffmann, a Holocaust survivor who continued to be persecuted and imprisoned by German authorities after the war simply for the “crime” of being gay (12/4 at 1:45 p.m.

Coming Out Colton (★★★★☆), a new reality show on Netflix, that feel like a Public Service Announcement for the struggles and rewards of admitting to everyone in your life that you’re a member of the LGBTQ community. This is not at all a bad thing, as the engaging, meticulously crafted, six-episode docu-series may help a closeted youth living in the middle of nowhere feel less isolated.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.The law, which only allows abortions in medical emergencies or cases of severe fetal abnormality, has been blocked from taking effect by both a federal district judge and even by the conservative-leaning 5th U.S.

Decked out in festive gay apparel, drag superstars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon drop into our Zoom chat looking primed and ready to spread holiday cheer with their latest extravaganza, The Return of the Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show, LIVE!.Since 2018, the delightful duo’s holiday musical-comedy spectaculars have become a perennial treat — although last year, the performers were forced by COVID lockdowns to pivot to a filmed version. The resulting 60-minute The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special was a hit with critics and audiences alike, joining the ranks of holiday favorites that fans can return to year after year.But the pair couldn’t wait to get their show back onstage.

America’s Next Top Model, the first transgender model to compete on the show. Hailed as a pioneer, King might have finished the season in tenth place, but she gained the confidence to believe that “anything is possible.”She brought that moxie to a second stint catwalking for prizes on ANTM: All-Stars, before turning her focus to acting.

As convicted schemer Patrizia Reggiani intones over the prologue to Ridley Scott’s erratic House of Gucci (★★☆☆☆), the famous family name was both a gift and a curse.So are the cast’s Italian accents, truly a spectacle unto themselves.

Little Girl (★★★★★) feels like a decidedly small-scale affair. Filmed cinéma vérité style, with no input from Lifshitz and no grandstanding from talking heads, it instead pulls tight focus onto a single French family, typical in every way except for daughter Sasha, who was assigned male at birth.Deceptively simple in its framing, Lifshitz’s film quietly establishes two protagonists: Sasha, and her mother Karine.

Julia, a delectable documentary about the improbably tall, enchantingly boisterous woman who, at 49, produced a groundbreaking cookbook that changed the course of America’s relationship to home cooking. We went from a nation of Jello molds bastardized with marshmallows and bland, frozen TV dinners to savory aspics and luscious boeuf bourguignon.“We’ve spoken to a lot of chefs, several generations after Julia, and it’s amazing how uniformly they revere Julia Child,” adds Cohen’s co-director Betsy West.

Lost Highway. Or, rather, I decided we’d see it. Beth had little say.

Gay Men’s Chorus: The Holiday ShowLast year Thea Kano, artistic director of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, had to give herself a crash course in video editing in order for the group to continue its tradition of producing an annual holiday show, albeit a strictly virtual affair. Fortunately, COVID-19 vaccines have made it possible for the chorus to return en masse to the Lincoln Theatre to perform a live, in-person run of its enormously popular “Holiday Show.” Expect tap-dancing elves and sparkly snow and an overall vibe that’s festive, frequently flamboyant, and outlandishly entertaining — and no doubt more heartwarming and heartfelt than ever, after all we’ve been through since the last celebration.

report honoring the 47 who lost their lives to violence, as well as a webpage honoring 13 other trans, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming individuals whose deaths have not yet been ruled homicides.The report authors note that stigma, bias, and systemic discrimination heighten and even exacerbate the vulnerability of transgender individuals. At the same time, legislators in various states have introduced more than 130 bills targeting transgender individuals, especially transgender youth, with at least 25 of those bills being enacted across eight states.

Throughout the years, and particularly at the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, BHT helped leverage critical funding to help grassroots organizations serving those affected by the disease — funding that was otherwise nearly impossible for smaller nonprofits to obtain.Since that time, the organization has raised more than $3.5 million benefitting over 200 different community nonprofits.BHT Foundation has also partnered with some of its grantees to provide training and leadership, collaborated on fundraisers, acted as a clearinghouse for donated goods and services, and served as an information resource for the LGBTQ community.The organization also hosted an extremely popular LGBTQ Pride Night at King’s Dominion for more than a

Pizzeria Paradiso: 30th Birthday Celebration“30 Days of Paradiso” is a month-long celebration marking 30 years since chef Ruth Gresser opened the first Pizzeria Paradiso in Dupont Circle. Gresser helped raise the quality of pizza available in the city, building a local chain of restaurants serving gourmet savory pies and developing strong community ties in the process.

certainly the world’s longest-running transgender film festival.”The 24th annual festival runs through this weekend and will mark the second year it is solely available virtually across the United States.The collected films, says Virago, “are centered on transgender and gender non-conforming experiences, and are also created by gender-nonconforming and transgender filmmakers, so the content can sometimes be larger than issues of gender.”The festival is comprised of seven programs, each consisting of various short films ranging from 2 to 30 minutes in length, and available for on-demand screening through Sunday, Nov.

Voyage (★★★★★), the supergroup has exceeded all expectations, triumphantly launching the final act of their careers.One of the most striking things about the album, and especially its lead singles, is just how “ABBA” it sounds. This shouldn’t be surprising, in theory, given this is the exact same group.

The season of somber action epics marches on, with Marvel’s Eternals (★★★☆☆) joining the ranks of recent brooding blockbusters like Black Widow and No Time to Die. Sagas of weary warriors reckoning with their losses would seem tailor-made to suit the zeitgeist of our weary world.

17th Street High Heel Race. The 34th Annual extravaganza, hosted by Mayor Muriel Bowser, is set for Tuesday, Oct.

The Dead Queen Rises under his Donna Slash alias. Sonic inspiration for the album came from “a lot of eighties slasher and Italian horror movies with super weird synth soundtracks,” he says.

Dune (★★★☆☆), and succeeds on a massive scale. It’s the film’s scale, in beauty and grandeur and impeccable detail, that’s most impressive.

We’re Here (★★★★☆) isn’t just feel-good TV. The Emmy-nominated HBO Max docu-reality series appears to truly do good, following drag stars Shangela, Eureka, and Bob the Drag Queen on a tour of small-town America, offering community, counsel, and uplifting drag to LGBTQ folk and their family and friends.The smiles are infectious, and the tears sincerely touching, almost in spite of a formula familiar from decades of daytime TV, makeover reality series, Queer Eye, and RuPaul’s Drag U.

DCist, Andrew Kline, a lawyer for Nellie’s accepted the offer, foregoing the right of Doug Schantz, the owner of Nellie’s, to defend himself or offer additional testimony about mitigating circumstances.Nellie’s must pay the fine within 120 days, and potentially faces another 17 days of suspension, which would be added to the current 7-day suspension, if subsequent complaints are filed against the bar and it is found to have violated the terms of its ABRA agreement. Nellie’s must also draft and submit a revised security plan to ABRA within 10 days — something that it either lacked or failed to comply with during Pride weekend.See also: Nellie’s is pledging to “do better” after protests.