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Capriccio's Club, Oxford Street, Darlinghurst 1981

Capriccio's Club, Oxford Street, Darlinghurst 1981

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Yang, William

National Library of Australia

Culture and customs

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after World War I enabled the elaboration of new cultures based on ethnicity, age and gender, which have combined to produce Sydney's cultural diversity.

Dance

Gay Lesbian and Transgender

Darlinghurst

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Inner-city suburb, now a centre of Sydney's gay community, which has been home to both gentry and underclass. The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School.

Oxford Street

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Street running south-east from Sydney's centre, along the line of a Aboriginal walking track, which became an important commercial area and was renamed after the famous London shopping street. Originally part of South Head Road built in 1811, this section was renamed in 1875.