It’s no secret Sydney’s nightlife has suffered under NSW laws, but artists like William Yang say the effect on LGBT spaces has been particularly profound
When photographer William Yang began capturing the dancefloors and stages of warehouse parties that electrified the Sydney queer community in the 1980s and 90s, he produced a vital pictorial record of a fresh, thriving LGBTQI culture driven by house music and unprecedented creative costuming and performance, but which today is squeezed by lockout laws and state regulation into diminishing spaces.
Once, queer scene parties were a “delirium sweeping over Sydney”, the 75-year-old says. “There was a dance party every weekend and on a long weekend there could be three or four. This went on for many years and coincided with the Aids pandemic in Sydney. I think the dance party was partly an escape from that grim reality.”
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