you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show. this week on the travel show. we ve got the struggle of equality being queer, and we ve got the struggle of equaltiy being indigenous in this country. how pride reaches one of the world s oldest cultures. things like this make me happy because it s ensuring that things are changing. how to see the world without being able to hear it. you would see that the smell is close, but then the next smell is different. and a teetotal tipple in the land of wine. it s good actually! i don t like it. hello there from sunny paris, where later on in the show i will be finding out whether the city of love is ready to relinquish its favourite drink, but first. we re off to sydney, which is celebrating 50 years since its first gay pride week. and five since same sex couples were given the same marriage rights as everybody else. so that s made this year s pride events all the more special, as jackie wakefield has been finding out. the
where australia s first nations lgbt community has been coming, and for the duration, they have renamed it marri madung butbut, or the gathering space. chocolate box grew up in a small town in new south wales and is now a drag act in demand. in fact, she won the miss first nations competition in 2019 and 2020, and is competing again this year for the title of supreme queen. i fell into drag because i was working as a bartender at a gay venue and i saw a drag and i said, that looks fun, and it looked like a way i could continue my dance career and like live out my dream basically, and i did it, fell in love with it, got asked to do a show and then asked to come back, and here we are eight and a half years later it s my job, it s fabulous. your cultural background, how does that come into your performance? the way we tell stories,
town in new south wales and is now a drag act in demand. in fact, she won the miss first nations competition in 2019 and 2020, and is competing again this yearfor the title of supreme queen. i fell into drag because i was working as a bartender at a gay venue and i saw a drag and i said, that looks fun, and it looked like a way i could continue my dance career and like live out my dream basically, and i did it, fell in love with it, got asked to do a show and then asked to come back, and here we are eight and a half years later it s myjob, it s fabulous. your cultural background, how does that come into your performance? how does that influence you? the way we tell stories, that s how we communicate, that s how we pass on our. there is no realfamily heirlooms, there s no material things, we tell stories, we pass stories down from generation to generation,
renamed it marri madung butbut, or the gathering space . chocolate boxx grew up in a small town in new south wales and is now a drag act in demand. in fact, she won the miss first nations competition in 2019 and 2020, and is competing again this year for the title of supreme queen. i fell into drag cos i was working as a bartender at a gay venue and saw a drag queen, i was like, that looks fun, and it looked like a good way i can continue my dance career and live out my dream, basically. and did it, fell in love with it, got asked to do a show, got asked to come back, and here we are 8.5 years later. it s myjob. your cultural background, how does that come into your performance? how does that influence you? the way we tell stories, that s how we communicate. that s how we pass on our.