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Logan St - an emerging eating/drinking/antiques hub - pause to ogle the kooky mural,
then order a 'Guerilla Warfare' cocktail from the moustachioed bartender.
Chalk Hotel
(
www.chalkhotel.com.au
;
735 Stanley St, Woolloongabba; 7am-late)
This sprawling South Brisbane
beer barn has something for everyone: seven bars, a beer garden, live bands on Fridays
and Saturdays, rock trivia on Wednesdays, cheap burgers and pizzas and big-screen sports.
And if you're a Brisbane Lions Aussie Rules football fan, you're on home turf.
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GAY & LESBIAN BRISBANE
Brisbane can't compete with the extravagent G&L scenes in Sydney and Melbourne, but what you'll find here is
quality rather than quantity.
For current entertainment and events listings, interviews and articles, check out
Q News
(
www.qnews.com.au
)
and
Queensland Pride
(
www.gaynewsnetwork.com.au
)
. Tune in to
Queer Radio
(
www.4zzzfm.org.au
;
9-11pm Wed), a radio show on 4ZZZ (aka FM102.1) - another source of Brisbane info. For lesbian news and
views,
Dykes on Mykes
precedes it (7pm to 9pm).
Major events on the calendar include the
Queer Film Festival
(
www.bqff.com.au
) held in April at the Bris-
bane Powerhouse, which showcases gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender films; and the Brisbane Pride Festival
(
Click here
)
, which happens in September. Pride attracts around 25,000 people every year and peaks during Pride
Fair Day held at New Farm Park mid-festival.
Brisbane's most enduring/endearing G&L venue is the Wickham Hotel (
Click here
) in Fortitude Valley, a clas-
sic old Victorian pub with good dance music, drag shows and dancers. The Wickham goes into hyperdrive for
both the Brisbane Pride and Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras festivals.
Other good options in the Valley include the gay-friendly clubs Beat MegaClub (
Click here
) and Family (
Click
here
), the latter of which hosts 'Fluffy' on Sundays, Brisbane's biggest gay dance party. Closer to the city, the
another perennially busy gay venue: a blue-collar, downtown, orange-brick pub with XXXX billboards, pool
tables, drag shows and bar food.
Entertainment
Most big-ticket international bands have Brisbane on their radar, and the city's nightclubs
regularly attract top-class DJs. Theatres, cinemas and other performing-arts venues are
among Australia's biggest and best.
Free entertainment street-press includes
Time Off
(
www.timeoff.com.au
) and
Scene
(
www.scenemagazine.com.au
)
.
Q News
(
www.qnews.com.au
) covers the gay and lesbian
scene. The
Courier-Mail
(
www.news.com.au/couriermail
)
newspaper also has daily arts
and entertainment listings, or check the
Brisbane Times
(
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
).
