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A Mardi Gras exhibition celebrates the pioneering role of Sydney’s early gay and lesbian underground performers including Australia’s first “queen of soul” Wendy Saddington.
A Mardi Gras exhibition celebrates the pioneering role of Sydney’s early gay and lesbian underground performers including Australia’s first “queen of soul” Wendy Saddington.
From the Archives, 1971: Hot pants on the rise
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From the Archives, 1971: Hot pants on the rise
50 years ago, clothing manufacturer Paul Chalmers returned from an international fact-finding mission with a simple message for Sydney: get ready for hot pants.
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The Sydney Morning Herald on March 4, 1971
âHot pants are a feature of the new seasonâs playsuits. â May 3, 1971.
Credit:Staff photographer
Manufacturer returns: Hot pants are for us next summer
At the end of January dress manufacturer Paul Chalmers took off on a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, London and home via New York.
Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang
Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang
They hung themselves from meat hooks, pelted their audience with offal – and blazed a trail for radical queer performance in Australia
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Sylvia and the Synthetics – Australia’s audacious drag provocateurs and underground LGBTQ pioneers – burned brightly and chaotically for the short two years of their reign.
In 1972, Morris Spinetti, the group’s “founding mother”, was performing as a mime artist with Australia’s first female rock star, Wendy Saddington, when the concept was dreamt up with Paul Hock and Denis Norton.