Country page 2024 – Australia

Country pages showcase events that have been directly registered on our site or discovered through online searches. For more information about the IDAHOBIT campaign, please visit our social media channels.

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Location: Little Theatre, University of Adelaide
Date: 16 May 2024, 19:00
Link: http://www.trybooking.com/CNUGM
Info: An exciting, epic production in two parts, and an important slice of USA history, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a complex, metaphorical and symbolic examination of sexuality in America in the 1980s by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Tony Kushner.

In Part 1, Millennium Approaches, Prior Walter is HIV positive. His Jewish boyfriend leaves him for a straight Mormon and he gets a hospital visit from an angel who says it is up to him to save humanity.
In Part 2, Perestroika, various forces have gathered in New York: the ex-boyfriend and his Mormon lover, the pill-popping ex-wife, the conservative mother, a rabid Republican lawyer, a drag queen and a dead activist… and Prior has the future of the world in his hands.

Full of humour and hope, this predominantly LGBTQ+ cast and characters captivate audiences in the contemplation of humanity and our progress towards a new millennium. It is spectacular, yet intimate. With Kushner’s erudite writing and some of Adelaide’s most talented performers, Angels in America is a theatre event not to be missed.
Playing at the Little Theatre until 25 May. Tix from trybooking.com/CNUGM

IDAHOBIT 2024 IN YARRA: QUEER HISTORY WALKING TOUR AND BREAKFAST

Link: https://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/events/2024/05/17/idahobit-2024

Join our queer history walking tour, community flag raising event and free breakfast for this year’s IDAHOBIT (International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Intersex Discrimination).

Every year on 17 May, millions of people around the world get together to tackle LGBTIQA+ discrimination for IDAHOBIT (International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Intersex Discrimination).

In Yarra, we’ll be marking this important day with:

A Queerways walking tour to acknowledge Yarra’s LGBTIQA+ historical places of significance.
Location: Meet at the Queerways Mural – Little Smith Street, Fitzroy.
Date: 17 May 2024, 8:00-9:15
The tour will be led by community elder, Tex McKenzie. Tex is an engaging storyteller who will share firsthand accounts and anecdotes of what life was like at those times and in those spaces. Dedicating his life to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Tex has lived through the arrival and departure of many of Yarra’s iconic LGBTIQA+ spaces.

Mayoral Pride Flag Raising and breakfast
Location: Collingwood Town Hall – 140 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford.
Date: 17 May 2024, 9:15-10:00
The walking tour will finish at Collingwood Town Hall followed by the Mayoral Pride Flag Raising, breakfast, coffee and a drag performance.

You are welcome to attend one or both of the events. This event is open to everyone. We invite all of our LGBTQIA+ community and allies to attend.