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This popular pub spreads across four levels and offers drinking, dancing and dining — the higher you ascend, the fancier the place becomes.
Many long-time residents of Sydney, queer or otherwise, have at some point caught a drag show at Stonewall Hotel, across the road from The Oxford Hotel on Oxford Street. You'll find big vibes in a small space (plus an outdoor wooden deck) and events including queer-centric life drawing nights and lofi drag shows with big camp energy.
A grab bag of themes, patrons and specials are always on offer at this longstanding corner pub.
‘The Rat’ is a queer-run space that was established in 2009 to amplify the voices of Sydney’s non-conforming artists and performers, and can function as a theatre, a nightclub or a music hall, depending on how the space is set up. One level up you’ll find the main (street level) bar with an open floorplan and outdoor deck. Great for sightseeing and day trips.
Kylie and Danni Minogue, Jean Paul Gaultier, Anna Nicole Smith, Adam Lambert, Sam Smith, Ricki Lee Coulter, Jessica Maulboy and Jimmy Barnes have all enjoyed the Stonewall Experience.
If you are planning on having an amazing night out this is definitely the place for you.
For Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual activists, the word “Stonewall” signifies quite possibly the most important, single landmark on the day that Judy Garland died in the world wide struggle for gay rights.
Most chroniclers of the homosexual rights movement trace the beginnings of the movement’s militant phase to 1969 and New York’s lower-Manhattan (largely gay frequented) Stonewall Bar.
There, for the first time on record, homosexual patrons fought back when Stonewall was raided one hot summer night by New York City policeman, who came hoping to arrest gay individuals for engaging in then illegal homosexual acts.
Eyewitnesses claim that the stonewall patrons’ counter-riot began when one burly, Stonewall patron hurled a lidded metal garbage can filled with empty liquor bottles through a police car window.
Ever since that night, Stonewall has been revered as an enduring symbol of the gay militant spark lit that night, which has become a gay/lesbian/bisexual militant conflagration setting America – and the world – aflame with Gay Rights issues and conflicts.