Welcome to our special CBR Pride edition of FUSE Magazine, with our covers featuring 80s spandex model and comedian Bob Downe and drag King Sparklemuffin. This issue includes the full Canberra SpringOUT Festival Guide.
You'll find the full SpringOUT 2025 Festival Guide in the latest issue of FUSE Magazine, available in print and online! Celebrate Diversity at SpringOUT Canberra's Premier Pride Festival.
SpringOUT is Canberra’s only pride festival. Held in November each year, it is a month-long pride festival that celebrates Australia’s most LGBTQIA+ friendly city and its LGBTQIA+ community in all its fabulous diversity.
The LGBTIQ.DIRECTORY, now in public for over 17 years, was created with help from the community in response to the identification that LGBTIQ+ people in Canberra and surrounding regions need a central place to find support, community and business pathways.
Queer Breathwork is a unique LGBTIQ+ gathering. Its purpose is to create a safe and supported space for Canberrra's LGBTIQ+ community and their allies to gather, process unconscious energies held in the body, access higher states of consciousness and inner wisdom, and celebrate Queer energy.
Over the years, the Matildas have emerged as a significant source of national pride in Australia. Their remarkable performance in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup not only captivated the nation but also set viewership records.
A three-night spectacular and a rare opportunity to see Canberra’s queer creativity unleashed across the region’s premier arts venues – The Q – Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, Belconnen Arts Centre and Tuggeranong Arts Centre! After selling out shows nationwide, a local lineup of queer brilliance is finally getting its moment in the spotlight.
Scroll through TikTok, browse dating profiles or sit at a cafe, and you’ll often hear people reference their astrological sign. Someone might proudly claim their Leo energy; others joke that they would never date a Scorpio.
The Queer Variety Show is a variety show that features Queer/LGBTIQA+ and Disabled (includes, chronic illness, mental illness, neurodivergent) people, with the occasional ally.
For more than five decades, William Yang has captured the intimate, joyful, and sometimes painful realities of queer life. Rising to prominence in the 1970s and ’80s, his candid portraits of Sydney’s gay community became iconic records of identity and resilience. During the AIDS crisis, his photographs bore witness to both devastation and love, creating an invaluable archive of lives too often erased.
