Reuben Kaye, Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
DNA’s Festival Guide is your handy, pocket-sized, rainbow-flavoured, glitter-speckled guide to the amazing LGBTQIA+ festivals and events that are happening across Australia over summer. From the spectacle of Mardi Gras in Sydney to the sexy...
DNA gratefully acknowledges those trailblazers who brought us to this place. And we respectfully acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose lands this Festival Guide was created. A digital version of this guide is available...
Midsumma Festival: 18 January to 8 February Midsumma (midsumma.org.au) is the beating heart of Victoria’s queer calendar: a threeweek celebration of art, ideas and identity. From drag, cabaret and theatre to visual art, forums and...
Melbourne’s gaybourhoods split into three easy zones. North is Fitzroy and Collingwood with bars, cabaret rooms, galleries and cafés. Southside, Chapel Street links South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor with fashion, gyms and late-night clubs....
This is Australia’s largest and longestrunning regional LGBTQIA+ festival. Daylesford is a spa town about 100 km outside Melbourne. With its queer country vibe, many Melburnians choose to “chill out” at the festival after a hectic...