For One Night Only

1 Dec 2023

Tex McKenzie – Out Proud Gay Man & Tireless Worker and Volunteer for the VAC & Thorne Harbour Health

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$Tex McKenzie – Out Proud Gay Man & Tireless Worker and Volunteer for the VAC & Thorne Harbour Health$

In this episode of For One Night Only (FONO), Pete Holmes talks with Out, Proud Gay Man, Tex McKenzie (Pronouns he/him) who has been an absolutely tireless worker and volunteer for the Victorian AIDS Council and now Thorne Harbour Health and we explore much of this history. Tex was born and bred in the “Darling” part of Malvern in Melbourne. His school years were difficult after he realised that he was different in year 3. His first job was as an usher in a straight porn cinema in Melbourne and then moved to more full time work with our postal service. In 1989 he started to volunteer at the Victorian AIDS council (now Thorne Harbour Health) and since then has had many roles including volunteer and health educator. He also worked at the Laird hotel as a an entertainer from the early 1990’s until the early 2000s. He been to many ALSO and leather/fetish parties as a worker and is known by most of the LGBTIQA+ community in Melbourne.

And does he have a mixtape for you? Think San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Skyhooks, Village People, Big Pig, Peter Sarstedt, Annie Lennox Judy Garland and many, many more.

Here’s the list of Tex’s songs but you’ll have to listen to find out more about each song:

Play Order	Song Title	Song Artist
1	Oh happy day	San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
2	I’m a Believer	The Monkees
3	Good Morning Starshine	Beverley D’Angelo
4	Living in the 70s	Skyhooks
5	Macho man	Village People
6	Fade to grey	Visage
7	Stand and deliver	Adam and the ants
8	Hungry Town	Big Pig
9	I only want to be with you	(The Immortal) Dusty Springfield
10	Vogue	Madonna
11	Where do you go to my lovely	Peter Sarstedt
12	Band of Gold	Freda Payne
13	Sing	Annie Lennox
14	My sweet lord	George Harrison
15	Spiritual High	Mood Swings
16	Somewhere over the rainbow	(The immortal) Judy Garland

For One Night Only is a late-night show on JOY 94.9 and a podcast where people from our rainbow communities get to talk through the mixtape of their lives so far.

Note: This podcast is exclusive to our Australian listeners due to music copyright requirements.