John Voutos, Author at Star Observer

Photographer William Yang on bringing Sydney’s queer underground to the surface

John Voutos — Thu, 16 May 2019 00:58:13 +0000

"The peak of the dance parties occurred in the late eighties and early nineties when a kind of dance craze swept through Sydney like a fever... now, it's settled down."

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‘Consent is a right often withheld from LGBTIQ+ people’: Melbourne’s inaugural Consent Festival

John Voutos — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:31:33 +0000

"We’re often excluded from sexual education or media depictions of healthy relationships."

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What it’s like navigating HIV when you’re in a serodiscordant relationship

John Voutos — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 23:38:51 +0000

“We need HIV-negative people to stop seeing us as ‘risky’ and start seeing us as equals.”

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Keeping the faith: reconciling sexuality and religion in the Greek Orthodox Church

John Voutos — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:30:43 +0000

"The church has to grow with the times in order to properly survive. Otherwise, it won't."

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‘It’s a double life’: family rejection and finding a new home in the drag community

John Voutos — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 07:22:43 +0000

"When I came home after performing one night, my mum told me to wash off my eyeliner. I had glitter on my nails and she brought nail polish remover and removed it herself."

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‘I fled to the city and never looked back’: LGBTI sex education in Sydney’s Bible belt

John Voutos — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:17:46 +0000

"I told [the doctor] my sexuality wasn’t just a t-shirt that I’ve put on and her response was, 'That doesn’t make any sense… I used to treat you when you were little.'"

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How Sydney’s drag scene has evolved with the lockout laws

John Voutos — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:35:44 +0000

"I've emailed over 300 venues and only got two or three replies back. It’s really hard."

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