Overview

• The venue’s Instagram was wiped and replaced with @new.name.coming, and manager Michael Lewis confirmed a new name is coming.
• The operators had promoted the space as created specifically for 18–35 (state of mind) gay men and said they wanted the crowd to be about 90% male.
• Community groups including Heaps Gay and local performers such as Jasmine Noud and Jedda Riley said the branding and targeting sidelined lesbians and trans women.
• Legal experts noted that excluding or privileging patrons by gender or sexuality may breach anti‑discrimination laws unless a limited exemption applies, citing past cases like Melbourne’s Peel Hotel and McIver’s Ladies Baths.
• The club is slated to open on Oxford Street in December and had borrowed its title from Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club, a song inspired by an inclusive West Hollywood bar.