Words by Abi Scaife
Amy Blue, a queer artist from Petersham, has created some utterly stunning art pieces celebrating the queer history, and gay legends, of Sydney.
Nicknamed the ‘Gay-B-Cs’ of Sydney by the artist herself, this collection of illustrations has been created to decorate Oxford Street in Australia,
"I wanted this collection of illustrations to capture a snippet of some of the people and events that have illuminated Oxford Street throughout its brilliant and colourful history," Amy told abc.net.
Who is on the illustrations?
A huge amount of people and places from queer history are included in the illustrations.
Some of those depicted include Doris Fish, a Sydney drag queen from the 1970s, the Unicorn Hotel and Black Ada's dance school, which was a front for a gay dance club in the 1920s and 30s.
What else is there to see?
Plenty of gay slang and other illustrations are included - from ‘voguing’ to art of various fruits, the illustrations are bright, colourful depictions of the history of LGBTQIA+ people in Sydney.
