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...Formerly held as the after-party to Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Alice Is Wonderland has been brought forward this year-the hundreds of regulars who fly in from the rest of Australia and the world can't wait, it seems. Expect DJs from the country's mighty Spin F-X sound system and an atmosphere of good-natured debauchery. If you need a place to stay, one option is the Rainbow Connection, tel: (61-8) 8952 6441-central Australia's only gay and lesbian bed-and-breakfast. Book now, because it's going to be a full...
...Formerly held as the after-party to Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Alice Is Wonderland has been brought forward this year-the hundreds of regulars who fly in from the rest of Australia and the world can't wait, it seems. Expect DJs from the country's mighty Spin F-X sound system and an atmosphere of good-natured debauchery. If you need a place to stay, one option is the Rainbow Connection, tel: (61-8) 8952 6441-central Australia's only gay and lesbian bed-and-breakfast. Book now, because it's going to be a full...
...sophomore year, anecdotes about Patitucci’s antics verged on the absurd. How he took a week off of school for Mardi Gras, found himself at the Big Daddy strip club and fell in love with an exotic dancer named Raven. How he went to Disney World, drank a handle of rum and, at 7 a.m., vomited off the balcony of his hotel room while children looked on in wide-eyed wonder. How he got back his fake ID at the Quincy formal after his date, a waitress he picked up at Bartley’s, flashed the bouncer...
...We’re not going to The Game. We’re tailgating. Come on. Come ON,” said Peter D. Stemp ’04, who was wearing purple, silver and green Mardi Gras beads around his neck and a beer-soaked shirt...
There is a strange bipolarity in the Australian psyche. Compare the louche abandon of the Sydney Mardi Gras with the gruff, homophobic machismo of the outback. Contrast the shining, multicultural cities with rural outposts where shadowy, armed survivalists zealously prophesize an Indonesian invasion. And consider the country's strangely conflicted attitude to immigrants: for every legal settler that gives thanks for the unfettered hospitality of the Lucky Country?as Australia has been famously known since the 1960s?you can line up a woebegone refugee from Afghanistan, Uganda or China who rues the day he or she ever made landfall there...