As WorldPride descends on Sydney in one of the planet’s biggest celebrations of queer lives, images of youthful revellers will dominate television, print and online coverage and postings on social media.
So the arrival at Sydney Town Hall of the city’s first Coming Back Out Salon – already a fixture of the Melbourne queer social calendar – is something of a corrective. Welcoming all ages, the salon honours older LGBTQ+ people, recognising them as guiding lights.
