It’s almost the biggest night of the year, and Disgraceland is getting into the full Mardi Gras swing with their second annual Arrivals Party – a mega celebration of everything Mardi Gras.

Coinciding with the Arrivals party, Courtney Act is launching a brand new production show, Carnival, that will blow your socks off. Featuring over $10K worth of feathers, plus Courtney, Daniel, Michael, Ame and Sarah-Jane, the Carinval show is everything Mardi Gras and a little bit more.

Disgraceland Arrivals Party starts at 9pm this Friday and is $10 all night long.

With Mardi Gras season rapidly approaching, billboards have popped up around the city to advertise the party! The billboard features a photo taken at Mardi Gras 2008 of the gorgeous Courtney Act along with fellow drag superstars Vanity Faire and Maude Boat.

It’s huge. 85 Federal laws that discriminated against same-sex couples and their families have been reformed. These historic 85 reforms reward decades of protesting. To celebrate, 85 artists are designing 85 T-Shirts inspired by each reform. 85 influential Australians are wearing these T-shirts with pride, to spread the knowledge across the country. Courtney Act & Shane Jenek are two of the spokes people for the campaign along side other influential Australians including Ruby Rose, The Veronicas, Richard Reid, Kylie Gillies.

Natalie Bassingthwaighte has dedicated her new single, “Love Like This”, to celebrate the Wear it with Pride campaign. This song and its video are key parts of the campaign, and the video features some of the influential Australian’s who have designed T-Shirts. Make sure you support this fabulous song and clip by buying it on iTunes. Look out for cameos by Shane & Courtney too!

Love Like This video clip:

Courtney is a key spokesperson for the Wear it with Pride campaign, stating that the reforms are “really important for everybody and they’re a really big step forward.” You can read an interview with her below:

Why did you decide to take part in the campaign?

This campaign represents real change and a step forward in human rights for our country.  Obviously we are all equal, that is a fundamental truth, and the law should have no standing or impact on our ability to feel so.

Having the law catch up and recognise our equality is important because along the way a lot of us, on both sides of the fence, have forgotten this. When people see each other as equal rather than greater or less than the human race comes together rather than apart.

In your opinion, why is this new campaign so important?

It’s extremely important that people know we are moving in the right direction because it is this awareness that inspires society and helps remind people that we are all equal. Bringing awareness that, under law, gay and straight people are now recognised as equal (except for that one itsy bitsy marriage thing) means legal segregation has ended and now hopefully social segregation can too. Perhaps when we stop focusing on our differences we will realise that they are far outweighed by our similarities.

There is lots more information, as well as the rest of the interview, online at http://www.wearitwithpride.com.au/law-reforms/workplace/courtney-act-shane-jenek/

Australian Drag Royalty Courtney Act and Trevor Ashley join the boys in the studio for a chat about their hit show now in Melbourne as part of the Midsumma Festival, Gentlemen Prefer Blokes. You’ll love the impersonations over the second half of the interview!

Hear the interview on Andy and Adrian’s website.

In the interview, Courtney talks about the hilarous Devil Wears Drag video, below:

Courtney Act will be performing on the inaugural Atlantis cruise from New Zealand to Mardi Gras. Courtney will be performing two live shows with a band in the main room on Monday 22/2/10. Other guest on board include Pam Ann & 2000 gay American tourists!

The Same Same Mardi Bar will be open for two weeks at Nevermind around Mardi Gras time, starting on Wednesday February 24 and closing on Saturday March 6.

This time around, the return of the Mardi Bar is even more exciting with the announcement of two very special hosts for the two weeks of fun, adult entertainer Brent Corrigan and transsexual Amanda Lepore.

The Same Same Mardi Bar takes over Nevermind on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst from Wednesday February 24. The full schedule of events will be announced closer to the launch, but one thing is certain – you’re not going to want to miss one night of this highly anticipated annual event series.

For more information see the article posted on SameSame.com.au

Courtney & Trevor ambush the Australia Open and cause a raucous hoping to win a spot in the Very Mixed Double match on Thursday and drum up a little bit of publicity for their Midsumma show Gentlemen Prefer Blokes

The Age – January 19, 2010

Melbourne Confidential – Herald Sun – 20 January 2010

Here is my Christmas Card for 2009. It is my 6th Annual card and I think… my favourite. Thank you to the gorgeous Daniel G Online for posing, Sam Dunn for the digital art, John McRae for the photography and Megan Fox for the tits!

Really I should have posted these each week as they happen… but alas I forgot.