I always forget that “Nar Nar Goon” Is actually a place hahahaha
omfg
Victoria is cooler then where ever the fuck you’re from
LOOK AT ALL THOSE MELBOURNE HIPSTERS.
always the best
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我要你的爱 / I Want Your Love (I Want You to Be My Baby) - 葛蘭 Grace Chang
you went to the shanghai club in the spiegeltent last night? jealous grabby hands.
An evening of contemporary Australian poets presenting new, recent and developing works.
Our poets include acclaimed and multi-published poet and author Peter Rose, also editor of Australian Book Review; Margaret Vandeleur, a master of the short piece, and author of the novel The Catch; the superb young poet Lia Incognita; the multi-award-winning Maria Zajkowski; queer crip activist and occasional poet, Kath Duncan; award-winning West Indian-Australian political writer and poetry slam champion, Maxine Clarke; the prolific and much published Tony Page, who has carved a reputation as a poet in Asia over the past decades; and the unforgettable young poet Rhys Rodgers, recently returned from performing in Europe and the USA.
Where: Hares & Hyenas
Date: Monday 30 January
Time: 7:30pm
Price: Full $15; Concession $10
Secret Side of a City//The Age
“…it takes a certain sensitivity - and some imagination - to discern the true nature of a particular story, or to guess what went on at a certain building, or to suspect the ulterior purpose of a public lavatory. ”People see a place differently if they have a particular interest,” he says. ”So you can be walking down Swanston Street in 1950, 1960 or 1970 and see things that other people don’t see at all - or see them but have no idea what they mean. Or you can see them with what might be described as a ‘queer eye’, a gay sensibility.”
Such places might be the vegetarian restaurant in Swanston Street that was once Val’s coffee shop - a much-loved bohemia frequented by artists, theatrical types, activists and camp men and women (as they were then known). Or what is considered Melbourne’s oldest gay pick-up spot, a urinal outside the Queen Victoria Hospital, known as such since the 1860s (it was removed in the 1990s).
Because homosexuality was criminalised for so long in Victoria, it was pushed underground into such places. ”For camp women and men, social disapproval made it difficult for romantic or sexual relationships to emerge in the ordinary ways available to heterosexuals - through family, church, clubs and at work,” Wayne Murdoch writes in Secret Histories.
The walks that Willett conducts range about the CBD and inner suburbs. This year’s walk, as part of the Midsumma festival, will focus on the ’50s, an era when suspicion, oppression and police entrapment of gay men were at their height.
The Midsumma history walk is on January 22. Bookings at midsumma.org.au, alga.org.au
a performance night featuring people of colour
spoken word, music and more
THURSDAY 26 JAN 2012
doors at 7pm
part of Midsumma & ‘They’re a Queer Mob’ at
BLAK DOT GALLERY 413 Lygon St, East Brunswick
wheelchair accessible - blakdot.com.au
$3 self-identified POC / $5 solidarity
pocthemic@gmail.com
poster by Arlene Texta Queen
super super sad to be missing this
This is why Melbourne wins.
I love my city.
I saw one of these the other day on an 86 tram. I thought it was sprayed on. It’s legit!
Melbourne is truly the city of hipsters.
Oh Melbourne. Why are we giving our trams dapper facial hair.
SHHHHH! IT’S IN DISGUISE! TRYING TO BLEND IN!
MY TRAM. MY CITY. I LOVE YOU. I MISS YOU.
that would be an amazing b movie.
Why isn’t it already a b movie?
Somebody make this movie.
Preferably Bollywood.
Oh my god yes.
CHOKING WITH LAUGHTER
FUCK YEAH GANESH
Ganesh would also have legions of friendly rats at his disposal. Including one giant one to use as a war steed.
But seriously, somebody fund this.yes someone make this movie
this was on last week as part of the melbourne festival! it closed on sunday though.
fuck but Candy Bowers is a genius
you should almost certainly go to her stand-up show “australian booty”, the last performance is tomorrow
I saw her show last night, it was super awesome. Go see this tonight if you can! (at the Lithuanian Club in North Melbourne)
(via arcadeparade)
Melbourne by night, c. 1905.
what i want to know is, where has our creepy smiling moon gone?
hey melbunnies! my friends are having a garage sale this saturday because they are moving away! there are all sorts of goodies, a whole bunch of really great books and dvds and cds, lots of furniture and clothes (masculine + feminine) and two bikes! (one of them is a folding bike, and it is mine and you should buy it) also there is a sink for sale.
you should go! it’s at 5/10-12 anderson road in thornbury, from 9am on the 24th.
woooo garage sales! maybe you will see me there!
