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SIX Queens summon Linc to court!
“SIX: the musical is currently in the middle of a history-making season at the Sydney Opera House, holding the distinction of being the longest-running production to ever play in those hallowed halls at 125 scheduled performances – that’s even before you consider that technically they started the show before covid was even a word in our collective vocabulary!”
“The Queens issued an exclusive invitation to the Star Observer for an audience with them backstage at the Sydney Opera House and this humble footman was only too happy to oblige, thrilled to get to witness their star power in person after loving their incredible performance the week before.”
— Linc Jenkin, for the Star Observer
“9 to 5 The Musical, relies heavily on crude and outdated humour but it works, maybe because the ’80s seems like such a quaint time, compared to the hells-cape we’re trapped in currently.”
“But it does it in a way that proves that if dated dick jokes that we’ve all heard and seen before are delivered with a twinkle in the eye, the right amount of wood and a big dash of chutzpah, you can still get a laugh from an audience in 2022.”
— Linc Jenkin, for the Star Observer
AMERICAN PSYCHO REVIEW: “Despite the brutality of the subject matter, its pithy commentary elicits quite a few laughs from the audience, with the majority being gobbled up by Erin Clare, playing the psycho’s girlfriend’s best friend – Clare’s talent to garner laughs from a one-word line and a curl of her lip follows her from show to show.”
““Before we knew it, because of my connections as a journalist, I knew all the publicists and I was friends with a publicist at Mushroom and I convinced them that Tintarella di luna was a great song to cover and they convinced Michael Gudinski. He didn’t wanna do it but they hammered him with it, they would just continually play it in the big open office at Mushroom until he finally said ‘alright, just to shut you up, stop playing it, alright they can record it!’””
![“I was so scared of [being gay] that I would actually tie a rubber band around my wrist and every time I had a gay thought I would snap it, to try and associate pain and suffering with the gay thought. To try and train myself out of being gay,” he revealed in the interview.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9e00e07506c15771a57379/1620868628586-R9A72D1PBHS9G2MHT7C6/Mitcham.jpg)
“I was so scared of [being gay] that I would actually tie a rubber band around my wrist and every time I had a gay thought I would snap it, to try and associate pain and suffering with the gay thought. To try and train myself out of being gay,” he revealed in the interview.”
WAS HUGH SHERIDAN ROBBED?
“The controversy that has manifested itself from the announcement of actor Hugh Sheridan’s casting as Hedwig in Hedwig And The Angry Inch has many questioning what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’...”
SCIENCE SHOWS HOMOPHOBIA THE DOMAIN OF STUPID PEOPLE…
“While it seems bizarre that there needed to be a study to confirm this, take comfort in the fact that all of your prior, unstudied suspicions were correct – findings from a high-quality, national Australian dataset (n = 11,564) indicate that individuals with low cognitive ability are less likely to support equal rights for same-sex couples.”
MANILA BANS GENDER & SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION
‘Mayor of Manila, Isko Moreno, signed Ordinance 8695 or the Manila LGBTQI Protection Ordinance of 2020 in the Philippine capital city on October 29.“
POPE FRANCIS ENDORSES SAME SEX CIVIL UNIONS
“Homosexual people have a right to be in a family,” declares Pope Francis in documentary
Opinion Pieces
1000* DAYS WITHOUT A DRINK…
“Towards the end of 2017, I decided that I was going to try and get through 2018 without a single drop of alke-hol passing my lips.”
THE DAY I DECIDED TO BE A ‘GLASS HALF FULL’ KINDA PERSON
“I distinctly remember the exact moment in my life, at the age of 18 (now 40) when I made the decision that I was going to live my life as a positive person, a ‘glass half full’ kinda guy”
Pop Culture for the Star Observer…
“In what could have been a skit worthy of Saturday Night Live and can only be described as the most agonising 10 minutes of my lifetime (watch it if you dare), Tiffany Trump giggled and posed her way through an event that proved she’s got what it takes when it comes to being trusted to sell her father’s message.”
And then retweeted my article and then @’d me! (and PATTI LUPONE!)
“After an extensive five day search, the body of Glee star Naya Rivera was found in Lake Piru, the 12th such drowning in that lake since 1994.”
Cultural news for the
Star Observer…
“When it first opened on Broadway in the late 60s, it was a groundbreaking onstage portrayal of how gay men lived and related to each other and created families for themselves at a time when perhaps their own families were not so embracing.”
TREVOR ASHLEY CHANNELS CARLOTTA IN STAGE MUSICAL
Even though multi-faceted artist and noted costumier Martin Roberts started conceptualising the ideas for his latest exhibition Landscapes From The Anthropocene several years ago, you can see the influence last summers’ fires had on the finished works, which are set to be exhibited in the Blue Mountains during October this year.
International LGBTQI news for the
Star Observer…
SERBIA’S OPENLY LESBIAN PRIME MINISTER RE-ELECTED
“In a historical first for the representation of the LGBTQI community everywhere but especially for Californians, Justice Martin Jenkins – a justice of the California Court of appeals for the First District, could be the first openly gay man to serve on the California Supreme Court.”
