Angels In America | Black Swan State Theatre Company | State Theatre Centre | Until 19th June | ★ ★ ★ ★ Known as one of the most quintessential stories of the AIDS crisis that ravaged the LGBT community in the 1980’s, Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels In America’ is an artful summary of the boiling cauldron of […]
Tags: 1980s, 80s, Adam Booth, AIDS, angels in america, art, Arts, Black Swan, Black Swan State Theatre Company, BSSTC, Felicity McKay, Health, HIV, Jo Morris, john stanton, Kate Cherry, kenneth ransom, local, Stuart Halusz, Theatre, toni scanlan, Will O'Mahoney
3 Jun 2016 /
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Black Swan State Theatre Company are staging a special 25th anniversary production of ‘Angels In America’, the groundbreaking story of the devastating AIDS crisis that shook the LGBT community in the 1980s and ‘90s. The play tells the bare and confronting story of eight characters whose stories interweave as they each navigate the role HIV/AIDS […]
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, AIDS, AIDS crisis, angels in america, belize, Black Swan State Theatre Company, hamilton, Health, HIV, Kate Cherry, kenneth ransom, oskar eustis, tony kushner, UCLA
15 Apr 2016 |
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Culture Club have revealed they will be returning to Australia for the first time in 15 years with the band’s original line-up. Boy George, Roy Hay, Mikey Craig and Jon Moss will be heading to Perth’s HBF Stadium to launch their massive world tour. The boys will be joined in Perth by Kids In […]
Tags: 1980s, 80s, Boy George, Culture Club, do you really want to hurt me, HBF stadium, karma chameleon, music
7 Apr 2016 |
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This Friday Connections Nightclub marks it’s 40 year history with the second of it’s Decadance parties. This time round ‘Electric Dreams‘ is celebrating the club’s second decade between 1985 – 1995. So what tunes were we really listening to in gay venues in the late 80’s? We headed into the archives to see what songs […]
Tags: 1980s, ABC, Bisexual, Connections Nightclub, Decadance, Electric Dreams, gay, Johnny Hates Jazz, Lesbian, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Modern Rocketry, music, Nitzer Ebb, Pet Shop Boys, Sinitta, Stock Aitken Waterman, The Communards, The Red Lion
3 Aug 2015 |
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In the lead up to their massive 40th birthday, Connections Nightclub are counting down the decades and looking back at the music and culture the Perth queer community have celebrated at the steadfast & iconic LGBTQIA+ venue. First up: 1975 – 1985, The Last Days of Disco.
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, ADGAL, Connections 40th Birthday, Connections Nightclub, Decadance, disco, DJ Cinnamon, Feminem, Last Days of Disco
17 Jul 2015 |
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