![]() ![]() I remember feeling so moved by that as a young person.” While the punters were mostly white and male, backstage Jenek “just loved sitting in a dressing room with a 60-year-old queen and an 18-year-old queen” listening to “so much oral history – stories about Sydney in the 80s, during the Aids crisis, hearing stories about Sydney drag icons. “One thing that I did love about the drag scene was that it was – well, it wasn’t diverse in that there were no cis women,” he corrects himself, “but as far as ages and races and genders, other than cis women, it was really diverse.” And even my deviations from that – being feminine, or maybe having attractions that were not strictly homosexual – were sort of just ironed out.”īut on stage, it was a different story. “I can totally see how that experience was very narrow and limited to white, gay men. “I can see that that exact same situation might have been a hellhole for someone else, and so that was really interesting,” he says. ![]() These were related to his “prism of understanding at the time”, and how it filtered his memories. in dressing rooms and sewing bees.’ Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian ‘There was no access to if it wasn’t for the oral history. ![]()
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