Features Archives - Star Observer /category/features Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:22:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Features Archives - Star Observer /category/features 32 32 A Tribute To The Inimitable Maxi Shield /artsentertainment/a-tribute-to-the-inimitable-maxi-shield/241415 /artsentertainment/a-tribute-to-the-inimitable-maxi-shield/241415#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:22:58 +0000 /?p=241415 There are some people who feel larger than the rooms they stand in — and then there are people like Maxi Shield, who somehow made entire cities feel smaller and ...

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Anarchic Artist Collective Briefs Has Officially Come Of Age /artsentertainment/briefs-has-officially-come-of-age-feature/241407 /artsentertainment/briefs-has-officially-come-of-age-feature/241407#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:05:11 +0000 /?p=241407 “Circus with attitude, drag with muscle, and burlesque with bite”: artist collective Briefs is celebrating 18 years of their anarchic, fabulous shows. “She’s of legal drinking age now, she’s off ...

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Bro-Mosexuals: Tim Collins And Hannah Conda Are Real-Life Brothers in Wigs /artsentertainment/tim-collins-hannah-conda-brothers-in-wigs/241401 /artsentertainment/tim-collins-hannah-conda-brothers-in-wigs/241401#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:39:06 +0000 /?p=241401 The chance of two brothers from the same family both becoming professional homosexuals in wigs is not super high — but Hannah Conda and Tim Collins are living proof that ...

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Where Are Melbourne’s Lesbian Bars? Queer Women Are Building Their Own Nightlife Instead /news/where-are-melbournes-lesbian-bars-queer-women-are-building-their-own-nightlife-instead/241198 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:14:44 +0000 /?p=241198 It’s a question you hear a lot: where are the lesbian bars in this day and age? Amelie McIntosh explores how lesbian nightlife has evolved, and how queer women in ...

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Peach PRC Is All Grown Up, Glowing Up & Bringing LGBTQ+ Australia With Her /features/peach-prc-is-all-grown-up-glowing-up-bringing-lgbtq-australia-with-her/241106 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:51:28 +0000 /?p=241106 There’s something just a lil radical about watching a young Adelaide girl with pink hair and a bedroom full of big feelings turn herself into a full-blown pop phenomenon — ...

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Loch The Fuck In, Because Deadloch Season 2 Is Nearly Here (And It’s Gone Troppo) /features/loch-the-fuck-in-because-deadloch-season-2-is-nearly-here-and-its-gone-troppo/241104 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:42:16 +0000 /?p=241104 There are very few television shows that burrowed into the Australian queer psyche the way Deadloch did. The neo-noir detective-comedy didn’t just flirt with queerness — it was elbow-deep in ...

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Comedian Nick White On Absurd Characters, Being Queer In Comedy, & Loving The Sims  /features/comedian-nick-white-on-absurd-characters-being-queer-in-comedy-loving-the-sims/241089 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:22:13 +0000 /?p=241089 “I guess quite a bit of my material is about being gay, because being gay is so funny sometimes,” says viral comedian Nick White, while chatting about his new comedy ...

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EXPLAINER: Lesbian Action Group Try Third Legal Attempt To Ban Trans Women From Events /news/lesbian-action-group-explainer/241012 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:23:56 +0000 /?p=241012 A trans exclusionary group called the Lesbian Action Group (LAG) has been in court this week, appealing a decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that ruled the group ...

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The Ongoing Fight Against Queensland’s Trans Youth Healthcare Ban /features/the-ongoing-fight-against-queenslands-trans-youth-healthcare-ban/240734 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:07:01 +0000 /?p=240734 What began as a “pause” on gender affirming healthcare for trans youth in Queensland has become one of the most controversial and legally contested healthcare battles in the country — ...

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2026 Gifts Us Yet Another Glorious Midsumma Night’s Dream /features/2026-gifts-us-yet-another-glorious-midsumma-nights-dream/240732 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:51:51 +0000 /?p=240732 By the time the last glittering shows took their bows, Midsumma Festival 2026 had once again done something quietly radical: it carved out time and space for queer joy, creativity ...

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Mardi Gras 2026 Is Spotlighting The Huge Boom In Interest In LGBTQ+ Sport /features/mardi-gras-2026-is-spotlighting-the-huge-boom-in-interest-in-lgbtq-sport/240729 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:54:47 +0000 /?p=240729 The glorious few weeks that is the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a time for community — in whatever capacity that means to you. While some feel most at ...

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Black, Fat & F**gy: A Born Diva, Milo Hartill Is Changing The Game /features/black-fat-fgy-a-born-diva-milo-hartill-is-changing-the-game/240405 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:42:17 +0000 /?p=240405 “Multi-hyphenate diva & dickhead”, reads the email signature of Milo Hartill. But a slightly more succinct descriptor for the stunning Hartill is ‘entertainer’: someone faithfully dedicated to making us laugh, ...

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Queer History Is Back In Style In Queensland’s ‘Make a Scene’ Exhibition /features/queer-history-is-back-in-style-in-queenslands-make-a-scene-exhibition/240403 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:23:37 +0000 /?p=240403 When Queensland Museum curator Chris Salter envisioned Make a Scene: Fashioning Queer Identity and Club Culture in the 90s, it was more than an exhibition — it was a chance ...

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Engorge-ous: Reuben Kaye Is Standing To Attention & Ready For The Opera House /features/engorge-ous-reuben-kaye-is-standing-to-attention-ready-for-the-opera-house/240401 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:08:58 +0000 /?p=240401 Reuben Kaye is marching into the Sydney Opera House with Engorged — a show so tumescent, ballsy, and bulgingly inappropriate that even the Concert Hall might blush.  Returning as part ...

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Narelda Jacobs & Karina Natt On Rainbow Family & Writing Their Book As An Act of Resistance /artsentertainment/narelda-jacobs-karina-natt-on-rainbow-family-writing-their-book-as-an-act-of-resistance/239935 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:23:39 +0000 /?p=239935 When celebrated Whadjuk Noongar journalist Narelda Jacobs and communications specialist Karina Natt join our interview with their eight-month-old daughter Sanna, it’s clear that their new book If Queers Weren’t Meant ...

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Sandra Bernhard Is Coming To Australia — And She Feels More Radical Than Ever /artsentertainment/sandra-bernhard-is-coming-to-australia-and-she-feels-more-radical-than-ever/239933 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:12:14 +0000 /?p=239933 At this point in her career, there’s not much that Sandra Bernhard hasn’t done. Her career has encompassed many different facets of entertainment — and she’s always refused to be ...

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Jess Mauboy Is Ready To ‘Bring The Confetti’ At Mighty Hoopla Sydney /features/jess-mauboy-is-ready-to-bring-the-confetti-at-mighty-hoopla-sydney/239924 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:39:26 +0000 /?p=239924 For almost a decade, London’s Mighty Hoopla has been the spiritual home of queer pop lovers — a technicolour playground where chart divas, drag royalty, nostalgic bangers and unapologetic camp ...

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Meet Mitch Brown: The AFL’s First Out & Proud Bisexual Player /features/meet-mitch-brown-the-afls-first-out-proud-bisexual-player/239567 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:49:55 +0000 /?p=239567 The first thing you notice about Mitch Brown is how kind he is. And not the ‘media-rehearsed’ type of kind — just that down-to-earth, human sort of kind. When we ...

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Courtney Act’s New Children’s Book Is All Confetti & Rainbows /features/courtney-acts-new-childrens-book-is-all-confetti-rainbows/239565 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:00:41 +0000 /?p=239565 Whether on stage, screen or the page, Courtney Act knows the magic that happens when someone feels truly seen. Her new children’s book, Confetti and the Rainbow Garden, is a ...

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Mardi Gras 2026: A Lean Mean Glittery Machine, In A Brand-New Era /features/mardi-gras-2026-a-lean-mean-glittery-machine-in-a-brand-new-era/239561 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:48:17 +0000 /?p=239561 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) is entering a new chapter. After some tumultuous years, the festival is stripping things back, finding its feet again, and returning to what ...

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