The second annual Proud Awards brought WA’s LGBTI community groups and entertainers together for a fabulous night of celebrations at Connections Nightclub. Hosted by the incredibly famous Famous Sharron, the evening was dedicated to acknowledging queer performers and those who work to make Perth’s LGBTI community what it is. All of the glamour on the […]
The Proud Awards return for their second year, celebrating the best of Perth’s LGBTI+ community groups, venues and entertainers with a fabulous ceremony. This year, the judging panel have already voted on Outstanding Community Organisation/Individual, Creative Artist of the Year, Entertainer of the Year and the prestigious Hall Of Fame Award – won for the […]
If you’ve been to Connections Nightclub or The Court Hotel while drag performers are working the stage, there’s a very high chance you’ll recognise the subject of this interview. Photographer, anthropologist and academic Claire Alexander is a fixture of Perth’s drag scene, documenting our local queens and touring RuPaul’s Drag Race girls alike – with […]
Some drag stars like to do Cher or Kylie, many do Liza, they can excel with a tune by Britney. Other dig a little deeper and pull out something from the classics. The Court Hotel became quite sophisticated during Drag Factory on Wednesday night when Ginava took to the stage with a little number from […]
For singer Róisín Murphy the creative process has always encompassed everything from the music, to the accompanying videos, and the photographs that go with each release. When ‘Ten Miles High’, the lead single from her new album ‘Take Her Up to Monto’, was released Murphy created the video herself. It showed her darting around London […]
Edward Sotomayor’s name was the first name read out as a victim of the Orlando shooting. The first of a batch of names released by the authorities as they slowly began the painful task of identifying 49 people who lost their lives at the Pulse nightclub. For local photographer Claire Alexander the confirmation that her […]
Today the Daily Telegraph launched a full on assault on a Sydney school that had proposed screening of new Australian documentary ‘Gayby Baby’. Dedicating its front page to condemn the school’s principal and publishing a cartoon of a child being doused in rainbows, while inside columnist Piers Akerman labels LGBTIQ Australians and their families as […]
If you’ve ever seen RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon perform, you’ll know she’s mesmerising. Add to her alluring presence the musical genius that is Major Scales, and you have ‘The Vaudevillians’. They’re the hottest act ever frozen alive, and they’re coming to Perth this month for Fringeworld. The show is driven by the 1920s […]
Local photographer Claire Alexander is using a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a project which will see her taking her skills to the international stage. Alexander has photographed local queens including Hannah Conda and Ruby Jewelz, as well as RuPaul’s Drag Race Alumni Ben De La Creme, Detox, Sharon Needles and many more. Alexander […]
OUTinPerth photographer Claire Alexander is seeking support through Kickstarter to fund a book of photography. Last year Claire traveled to Myanmar and created a series of images that have been exhibited around Australia. Now she is now hoping to return to Myanmar and publish a book of photographs taken on the trip. To reward people […]
