WORKS IN PROGRESS

DARLINGHURST AT DUSK

Exuberance and hope in the aftermath of trauma. The interconnected lives and hearts in the sunset of grief and dawn of a new millennium. 

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I’m still in the early stages of researching and figuring out how this project will take shape.

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This project's intent is to focus on Darlinghurst as inextricable from its human stories; the characters, the love, the lives, the tears, the kindness, the venues, the parties, the debauchery and hilarity, in the decade that came after the aids crises but before the scattering of gay life westward. 

Stephen Allkins said of his first visit to Darlinghurst in 1976... 

“I was home. That was it. It was the most fabulous place I’d ever been in my life … It’s full of gay people, and they’re all dressed to the nines. They’re not hiding under a rock … They’re expressing and happy.”

But what was it like at the turn of the century?  

Do you have some 90s-2000s Darlo stories to share? I’d love to chat with you.  Please be in touch - say hi in the form below and I'll set some time up. Or you can email me.

Thank you so much.

Debora

(Names will be obscured to protect the guilty, of course.)