It’s World Pride 2023 and the queer globe is converging on Sydney Australia to celebrate diversity, inclusion, community and fabulousness!

To mark this momentous event the STAGES podcast is saluting the cast of captivating drag divas and personalities who have been featured on the podcast during the past 5 seasons.

They are artists who have appeared on national and global stages; thrilling audiences, making a difference, healing community and expressing unique and wondrous talents.

We spotlight these episodes so you can savour a second listen - or so you can sample the delights of these entertainers for the very first time.

A Diva a day for each day of World Pride!

Mitzi Macintosh is an adored drag identity who has worked in all the major Sydney venues over some two decades. Outrageous and subversive, with a heart of gold and possessed with immaculate comic timing, she is the drag persona of performer Graeme Browning.

Now residing in the UK, Graeme (and Mitzi) were back in Sydney for their first one-woman show – Mitzi Macintosh – My Life in Lipstick – when this conversation was recorded in 2018. The show was presented as part of the 40th Anniversary Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Browning’s knowledge of drag as an art-form and of a Sydney now past, is extensive He is very much one of the custodians of the vibrant drag scene that existed through the 80s and 90s.

Graeme Browning sat down with STAGES, three days after the 2018 Mardi Gras parade and party, to discuss his show, his process, and the art of the drag performer.

The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify and from where you find your favourite podcasts. Tune in daily for a history of drag in Sydney. Tell your friends, share the podcast, relish the stories and embrace your own sense of Pride.