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Not your average Australian Creative.
Lived experience: Trans🏳️‍⚧️, Gay🏳️‍🌈, Mother, Wife, Dyslexic.
Trusted by the largest LGBTIQ+ organisations.
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This all-ages Halloween event welcomes everyone to skate, dance, and connect in a welcoming atmosphere IN COLLABORATION WITH UQ UNION QUEER COLLECTIVE @uququeercollective

Dress: You know what to do

What: GAY SKATE features live DJs delivering non-stop bangers and fun for all on roller skates, in-line skates or as a non-skating spectator

When: Sunday 1st November from 5pm to 7:30pm

Where: Skateaway Albany Creek
Upstairs 700 Albany Creek Road, Albany Creek. Brisbane QLD @skateaway_ac

Entry: $17.50pp + Skate or Blade Hire $8.50

Non-Skaters: Free

No booking, pay at the door

All Ages, All Welcome

Peer Support provided by @diversevoicesqld

#skate #halloween #meanjin #🏳️‍🌈 #🏳️‍⚧️

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LIVE: Planning the Halloween Skate playlist 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🛼🎃 #GAYSKATE #skatenothate #gayxmas #skate #pride

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🏳️‍⚧️🦈 incoming. Available on Finals day at Tropicarnage Cup and online at www.gayskate.com.au.

#🏳️‍⚧️ #🦈 #pride #GAYSKATE #transrights

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SWIPE >>>> to see what's up for grabs and then come and check out our stall for surprise new merch

See you 2nd - 5th October at Mt Warren Sports Centre. Check out @queenslandrollerderby
for info

#tropicarnagecup #rollerderby #skate #🏳️‍🌈 #🏳️‍⚧️

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Queer, trans and ally tees, pins, flags, accessories and more are up for grabs at Roller Derby Rivalry. Check out LIVE FULL CONTACT sport on skates feat @brisbanecityrollers and @whoroborosband at @superordinarybne this Saturday 19th September from 5:30pm

#rollerderby #meanjin #skate #brisbane #🛼

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⚡️THE RIVALRY ISN’T DEAD. IT’S JUST GETTING LOUDER⚡️

What a night! Big hits. Bad attitudes. Zero chill.

You thought that was it? LOL, we are just getting started..

@brisbanecityrollers are back for a rematch — and this time we’re bringing even more chaos to the track

💚🧡 19th September, 5:30pm 🧡💚
📍 @superordinarybne

Come watch Misfits & Devotchkas settle this the only way they know how… on skates, at speed and with absolutely no intention of playing nice!

🎟️ Tickets are limited!! - on sale now via our event:
https://events.humanitix.com/roller-derby-rivalry

Join us for a night of old school roller derby, live music, bbq, bar & market stalls

Our Punk Blockers will be hosting a fundraising bake sale for their trip to Nantes, France too 🇫🇷

Featuring @whoroborosband playing live! 🔥

🎥: @capturingtheawesome Storm Jury

#rollerderby #brisbanecityrollers #whatsonbrisbane #meanjin #magandjin

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Thank you @qcadgalleries & @brisbane.pride, QUEER HERE was a great time with incredible creatives. Thank you @capturingtheawesome and @beth.thompson.art for the bucketloads of support and PHOTOS² 💕

#queerhere #art #skate #gayskate #skatenothate

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Thank you @windmillprodco and @judevader for welcoming us in to be part of such a powerful and meaningful celebration of our community

#SKATENOTHATE
#mamadoesderby
#🏳️‍⚧️ #🏳️‍🌈 #🛼

📸 @_.cha_cha_real_smooth._ x @capturingtheawesome

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We are ready to rumble this Thursday to Saturday at MAMA DOES DERBY, featuring local skaters and produced by @windmillprodco as part of @brisbanefestival at @bris_powerhouse

Catch this amazing production and say Hi!

#mamadoesderby #brisbanefestival #skate #rollerderby #🛼

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QUEER HERE, a collaboration between QCAD Galleries and Brisbane Pride launches this week
@qcadgalleries @brisbane.pride

Exhibition: September 3 – 12 2026

Opening Hours: 10AM - 4PM, Tues - Sat

Celebration Event: Thurs Sept 10, 5PM

Location: QCAD Galleries, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, Magandjin

PRIDE IN THE M-F PLAZA

This project presents two photographs of a femme lesbian wearing playful outfits, roller skates, and rainbow pride accessories, set in stark contrast with police and security guards in a brightly lit shopping centre.

The retail setting with its polished surfaces and everyday ordinariness becomes an unexpected stage for protest, visibility, and queer presence during Loud & Proud Logan’s Pride In The Plaza project by Assorted Grains Inc

By placing a proud and visibly queer femme body in this commercially owned public space, I draw attention to the absurdity of needing to continue activism simply for LGBTIQA+SB community to exist safety and equitably in 2026.

The work responds to the ongoing right-wing backlash against LGBTQIA+ identities in Queensland, especially conservative transphobic government policy and public discourse. It explores the tension between resistance and celebration, where visibility and joy become survival tools as well as political acts.

Roller skating is central to this work: Gay Skate is both a grassroots community and a playful, powerful platform for activism. It brings us together to enjoy queer culture, reclaim our bodies and express ourselves through movement while building community cohesion and resilience.

Through humour, performance, and contradiction these images show that visible queer existence itself can be a form of defiance and they capture a moment during an unexpected era of regression and erosion of safety affecting the LGBTIQA+SB community.

Artist: Jas @gayskatebrisbane

Photographer: Storm Jury @capturingtheawesome

THANK YOU: Loud Proud Logan, Assorted Grains Inc, Luke Robinson, Grand Plaza QLD

Gallery Photo and Assistance
@beth.thompson.art

#gayskate
#queerhere
#skate
#pride
#resist

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Are you normal or do you put your skates in the Art Gallery? 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🛼

QUEER HERE, a collaboration between @qcadgalleries and @brisbane.pride
launches this week

Exhibition: September 3 – 12 2026

Opening Hours: 10AM - 4PM, Tues - Sat

Celebration Event: Thurs Sept 10, 5PM

Location: QCAD Galleries, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, Magandjin

PRIDE IN THE MF PLAZA

This project presents two photographs of a femme lesbian wearing playful outfits, roller skates, and rainbow pride accessories, set in stark contrast with police and security guards in a brightly lit shopping centre.

The retail setting with its polished surfaces and everyday ordinariness becomes an unexpected stage for protest, visibility, and queer presence during Loud & Proud Logan’s Pride In The Plaza project by Assorted Grains Inc

By placing a proud and visibly queer femme body in this commercially owned public space, I draw attention to the absurdity of needing to continue activism simply for LGBTIQA+SB community to exist safety and equitably in 2026.

The work responds to the ongoing right-wing backlash against LGBTQIA+ identities in Queensland, especially conservative transphobic government policy and public discourse. It explores the tension between resistance and celebration, where visibility and joy become survival tools as well as political acts.

Roller skating is central to this work: Gay Skate is both a grassroots community and a playful, powerful platform for activism. It brings us together to enjoy queer culture, reclaim our bodies and express ourselves through movement while building community cohesion and resilience.

Through humour, performance, and contradiction these images show that visible queer existence itself can be a form of defiance and they capture a moment during an unexpected era of regression and erosion of safety affecting the LGBTIQA+SB community.

Artist: Jas @gayskatebrisbane

Photographer: Storm Jury @capturingtheawesome

THANK YOU @loudproud.loganpride @assorted.grains @lukefromlogan @grandplazaqld

Cover Photo and Assistance: @beth.thompson.art

#gayskate
#queerhere
#skate
#pride
#resist

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#😭 #RIP #🏳️‍🌈 #🏳️‍⚧️ #💋

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