SYDNEY was a spectacle of colour, costume and sequins last night as the gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade made its way down Oxford Street. More than 300,000 revellers watched the parade of 9000 people wind its way towards the city to celebrate Sydney's 32nd Mardi Gras festival.

The first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Salvador Dalí ever to be staged in Australia is coming exclusively to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as the sixth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series.

Personal Legend, Urban Myth, Gay Exhibition Gala Artist Reception for Fairy Tales on Saturday, June 13 To celebrate Gay Pride 2009, Casa Frela Gallery presents the group installation Fairy Tales: Personal Legend, Urban Myth, Gay Exhibition. Fairy Tales features drawings, paintings and sculpture by six gay artists: Brian H. Crede, Anthony Gonzales, Joel Handorff, Seth Ruggles Hiler, Tai Lin and Branden Charles Wallace. The exhibition opens on Saturday, June 13, 2009 and runs through July 13th, 2009. Casa Frela will host a gala artist opening reception on Saturday, June 13, 2009 from 4PM to 7PM.

Playhouse 8:00pm Friday 5th & Saturday 6th June 2009 Menopause the Musical is set in a department store, where four women with seemingly nothing in common but a black lace bra meet by chance at a lingerie sale.

Italian-based post modern everything musician Mike Cooper will perform at KickArts on Sunday 3 May at 2.00pm and present a live musical accompaniment for Paradjanov’s lauded film The Colour of Pomegranates using sampled elements from Paradjanov’s soundtrack of Armenian folk tunes and original material to create a new and stunning soundtrack.

KickArts Insider’s Party, which is KickArts annual member’s fundraising exhibition is on again and opens on Friday 24 April in Gallery One at 6.00pm.   The exhibition provides art lovers with a great way to acquire original works of art by some of Australia’s most highly respected artists at great prices.

Compact Prints is an exhibition that has been developed by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts and was first held in 2002. Originally a national event, the exhibition generated considerable interest from overseas and quickly expanded to include international printmakers.

The Wunderkammer (also known as Kunstkammer) is a predecessor to the modern museum and held encyclopaedic collections of objects and animals whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined as real or fake.  One such animal was the Wopertinger, later identified as a fictional animal, and is said to have inhabited the alpine forests in Bavaria.  The Wopertinger is thought to have been inspired by sightings of wild rabbits infected with a virus that produced the growth of antler-like tumours in various places on the rabbit’s head and body.

The Purple Lounge Launches “Unlimited” Gay and Lesbian Chat Line In a break with tradition, The Purple Lounge opens its doors Last week to Australia’s Gay & Lesbian community with the country’s first access voice chat-room The Purple Lounge is a ‘meeting point’ that can be reached from any mobile or fixed line phone and allows anyone in the community to broaden their existing social circle or introduce themselves as a newcomer, without the pressure of exorbitant pay-per-minute Premium Pricing

Revellers decked out in sequins, feathers, wigs and leather danced through the streets of Sydney on Saturday to the cheers of more than 300,000 people at the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.