Connections Nightclub

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Connections opened on James Street in 1981, making it one of the longest continuously operating gay nightclubs in Australia. The fact that Connections has survived four decades in a city 2,700 kilometres from the nearest comparable gay scene is itself a testament to the depth and loyalty of Perth's LGBTQ+ community. The club operates across three floors with multiple rooms offering different music formats — mainstream pop and dance on the main floor, alternative and retro rooms catering to different tastes, and spaces suited to different stages of the night. The crowd at Connections spans generations in a way that few gay clubs can claim: regulars who have been coming since the early 1980s share the floor with patrons who were not born when the club opened. The institutional history of Connections is inseparable from the history of LGBTQ+ life in Perth. The club has operated through the AIDS crisis, through the gradual decriminalisation of gay sex in Western Australia (not fully achieved until 1990), through the marriage equality campaign, and into the present. It has been a refuge, a community hub, and a place of pure joy. The James Street address, a short walk from The Court Hotel on Beaufort Street, means that the two venues form a natural circuit for an evening out in Northbridge. For visitors to Perth, Connections offers something rare: a gay nightclub with genuine historical depth, a loyal community following, and the particular atmosphere of a place that has meaning beyond its function as a dance venue. The 40-plus-year continuity means that dancing at Connections is in some sense dancing with everyone who has danced here before.