This year OUTinPerth is marking its 20th birthday. Launched as a free street press magazine in July 2002, the publication remained in print until 2019 when it transformed to a fully digital model. In this series of posts we look back at individual issues of the magazine and see what was happening in our community […]
Perth’s LGBTQIA+ communities came together to celebrate fabulous local talent, community spirit and enjoy a spectacular show at The Proud Awards 2021 ceremony over the weekend. Now in it’s sixth year, the awards have grown from a celebration of Perth’s incredible drag scene, to also honour others who work towards strengthening the local LGBTQIA+ community. […]
Five years ago today, OUTinPerth came back to life after a 10-day hiatus, when the news stopped being reported and the website fell silent. Just over a week earlier the OUTinPerth team were hard at work preparing the magazine’s June edition, and updating the website and social media channels, when they received an unexpected call. […]
Bananarama: Really Saying Something Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin Penguin In the late 1980s, Bananarama entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful girl group of all time. Not only did they have a swag of hits around the globe, they also wrote many of their songs, refused to be treated as sex […]
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has decided to name her new greatest hits compilation Songs from the Kitchen Disco. When the world went into lockdown Sophie kept fans entertained with her Friday night broadcasts from her home. The weekly concerts saw her singing some of her favourite songs and biggest hits from kitchen with her husband Richard Jones […]
We’re going to be doing a live chat session on our Instagram account on Tuesday nights from 6:00pm Western Australian time. OUTinPerth editors Leigh Andrew Hill and Graeme Watson will be logging on from their respective social isolating locations to discuss recent news, random trivia, community events and spark some conversation starters. Join us […]
EXCLUSIVE In the wake a shock election loss, new Labor leader Anthony Albanese has been travelling the country on a ‘listening tour’ to try and gauge what are the issues Australian people are really concerned about. As the party’s new leader he’s beginning a long journey, one which he hopes will lead to a Labor […]
Two years ago this week it looked like OUTinPerth would have to close its doors. The company that owned the magazine suddenly went out of business and within half an hour we went from writing stories about marriage equality and transgender rights, plus local arts and culture coverage, to packing up our belongings and wondering […]
When musical theatre actor Ian Stroughair branched out into the world of drag he created his alter-ego Velma Celli. Over the years Ian found himself playing a few drag roles in different theatrical pieces, and eventually he let his live drag persona live on in the world of cabaret. Now Velma’s bringing her acclaimed show […]
Editors from Australia’s largest LGBTI publications have met up to discuss the current marriage equality debate, the Macklemore controversy, and whether or not sport has a place in political debates. OUTinPerth’s Managing Editor Graeme Watson joined Matthew Wade from the Star Observer and Silke Bader of LOTL Magazine, on Melbourne radio station JOY FM’s regular […]
