bentART 2022 – Call for Artwork

bentART: Celebrating Australian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex+ visual art since 2005.

The 2022 bentART exhibition will be held in a Blue Mountains Gallery and online. Artwork will be judged using the online platform to ensure equity for all submissions. Fabulous prizes.

Entries close April 30. https://bentart.com.au/bentart-annual-exhibition-2022-entry/

Please Baby Please

Lonesome

Directed by Craig Boreham

Craig Boreham’s follow up to Teenage Kicks (SFF 2016) explores desire, sexuality and isolation as two very different young men form an unlikely and surprising connection.

After being embroiled in a small-town scandal, Casey (Josh Lavery) heads to Sydney where he connects with Tib (Daniel Gabriel) via an app and ends up in an intense sexual encounter. Tib makes it clear that his casual hook-ups aren’t meant to linger but there is more-than-usual chemistry bubbling here. Soon, Casey is staying on Tib’s couch and the pair take on odd jobs around the city to make some cash. But while they draw closer, each revealing traumatic incidents from their lives, they struggle to concretise their connection. Sexually explicit and romantic, gritty and tender, the visually splendid Lonesome is a moving story of two scarred individuals overcoming their pasts to become open to the idea of love.

Sydney Film Festival

Fashion Babylon

Powerhouse Late x Vivid Ideas: Queer Sydney

Join our celebration of Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ history and explore the lineage from the original Mardi Gras 78ers to now, before ending the night with a little ‘Disco Conversion Therapy’ and a big ol’ party.

Join dance floor anthropologist, Aunty Jonny for ‘Disco Conversion Therapy’, an edifying lecture on the history of radical music, sexed up dance floors and the people your mother warned you about.

Curated by Johnny Allen, C.Moore Hardy, Dino Dimitriadis, see drag performances, alongside talks and archival footage and photos of Sydney’s queer party scene. Hear different perspectives on the topic ‘From Camp to Gay to Queer — a Continuum or a Disconnection?’ and learn more about Sydney’s internationally acclaimed response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Proudly presented by Vivid Ideas and Powerhouse.

Powerhouse Museum
500 Harris Street
Ultimo
5pm – 9pm

Preventing And Managing Bullying Webinar – 16th June

This #StrongSafeFabulous online workshop for LGBTIQA+ parents, and parents/carers of LGBTIQA+ children, explores strategies to prevent and manage bullying. The 60 minute session will look at preventing bullying and cyber bullying, how to support a child who is being bullied, working with your child’s school/centre, what to do if your child is a bully and other important areas.

The program is open to parents and carers across Australia, but note the session is on Thursday 16th June from 6pm-7pm Sydney time and will be offered via zoom. The session will be recorded and available to view after the event. Please register below so the link can be sent to you.

https://www.rainbowfamilies.com.au/preventing_and…

LGBTQIA+ DJS

Every Fri & Sat

Fashion Babylon

Lonesome

Directed by Craig Boreham

Craig Boreham’s follow up to Teenage Kicks (SFF 2016) explores desire, sexuality and isolation as two very different young men form an unlikely and surprising connection.

After being embroiled in a small-town scandal, Casey (Josh Lavery) heads to Sydney where he connects with Tib (Daniel Gabriel) via an app and ends up in an intense sexual encounter. Tib makes it clear that his casual hook-ups aren’t meant to linger but there is more-than-usual chemistry bubbling here. Soon, Casey is staying on Tib’s couch and the pair take on odd jobs around the city to make some cash. But while they draw closer, each revealing traumatic incidents from their lives, they struggle to concretise their connection. Sexually explicit and romantic, gritty and tender, the visually splendid Lonesome is a moving story of two scarred individuals overcoming their pasts to become open to the idea of love.

Sydney Film Festival

Early at the station guys and gals !

06.15am:  Bright and early start this morning checking in at Sydney Central station for an on-time departure of 7am. Grab yourself a coffee (or something stronger) and some gorgeous nibbles prior to boarding.

07.00am: The GUYSADVENTURESXPRESS will depart bang on time so don’t be late!  Don’t worry, in true GuysAdventures style we’ll have a very special team of ‘conductors’ headed up by none other than the fabulous Miss Joyce Maynge to help you board on time and settle into your comfy coach ! And of course there’ll be a little bit of ‘in flight silliness’ curated by Miss Maynge to enjoy along the way!

10.40am: Welcome to Katoomba the camp capital of the Blue Mountains!

You’re just in time to celebrate the Winter Solstice at the fabled Carrington Hotel. Their Old City Bank Bar & Brasserie is open from 12noon, or pop into Champagne Charlie’s Cocktail Bar, serving a special all-day menu from 11am.  For the more energetic there’s oodles of bushwalking to be done (heels optional), or if you need to get high – ride a cable car. For truly royal treatment fit for a queen, chill out in a local day spa, or explore one of many local galleries. Whatever you decide, this Blue Mountains is all about you! Be cool, be fabulous!

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3.55pm: Your GUYSADVENTURESXPRESS will depart from Katoomba railway station 3.55pm sharp.  The fun isn’t over yet guys and gals – Paul Mac and Johnny Seymour will be DJ’ing onboard our private charter back to Sydney, so get your shoes and shawls ready, for our 7pm arrival.

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/b1692336-ac16-49a8-94f2-962cac08b89c?fbclid=IwAR199mVOa_PJcpDIT0f13SSX-pqGg048AIeCbqufxCb8ICvPECnEJFqQq2g

LGBTQIA+ DJS

Every Fri & Sat

Lonesome

Directed by Craig Boreham

Craig Boreham’s follow up to Teenage Kicks (SFF 2016) explores desire, sexuality and isolation as two very different young men form an unlikely and surprising connection.

After being embroiled in a small-town scandal, Casey (Josh Lavery) heads to Sydney where he connects with Tib (Daniel Gabriel) via an app and ends up in an intense sexual encounter. Tib makes it clear that his casual hook-ups aren’t meant to linger but there is more-than-usual chemistry bubbling here. Soon, Casey is staying on Tib’s couch and the pair take on odd jobs around the city to make some cash. But while they draw closer, each revealing traumatic incidents from their lives, they struggle to concretise their connection. Sexually explicit and romantic, gritty and tender, the visually splendid Lonesome is a moving story of two scarred individuals overcoming their pasts to become open to the idea of love.

Sydney Film Festival

Beats & Bevvies on the Rooftop with 4.thelove
4pm – 9pm

Wrap up the weekend with some Beats&Bevvies at your new local queerbourhood Sunday social – upstairs at Kings Cross Hotel.

▪︎ Free entry
▪︎ Sundays from 4pm
▪︎ Leafy & cosy rooftop bar
▪︎ Happy hour 5pm
▪︎ LGBTQIA+ friendly staff
▪︎ House/Disco DJs till 9pm

4the.love of Sundays

Kings Cross Hotel
244/248 William Street
Potts Point