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The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras is an annual event centred around a street para of up to 20,000 participants. Participants hi or reveal their 'te' inti a flurry of pat, feathers and glter.

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SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

A Mardi Gras exhibn celebrat the pneerg role of Sydney’s early gay and lbian unrground performers cludg Atralia’s first “queen of soul” Wendy Saddgton." name="scriptn * gay exhibition sydney *

A Darlghurst park next to a famo gay men's pick-up spot the 1960s and down the road om Oxford Street will be the ial home of Sydney's first queer mm. Key pots:The mm will be set up at Green Park Darlghurst ahead of WorldPri Febary 2023 The lotn is close to many signifint s for the Sydney gay muny, cludg Oxford Street, The Wall and Kgs Cross Victims of the AIDS epimic, many of whom were treated at the neighbourg St Vcent's Hospal, will also be memorialised by the mmGreen Park's bandstand will host var displays documentg the persecutn LGBTQIA+ people faced, as well as the rponse to the AIDS Chair David Polson said the exhibs would serve as a memorial for those who lost their liv to AIDS and to those who suffered om persecutn datg right back to the start of the lony. The Wall was a pick-up spot for gay men the 1960s.

(ABC Rad Sydney: Declan Bowrg)"It was a place where people felt safe to go do what they were dog, " Mr Fisher park is also close to Kgs Cross and Oxford Street, where gay bars and nightclubs have stood as after-dark safe spac. Oxford Street has been host to the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para.

Mr Fisher hoped the project would be able fd a permanent home at the se of the old Darlghurst Police Statn on Forb Street to "liberate" the buildg om s dark history towards the gay people were locked up and bashed at the statn bee of who they were, Mr Fisher said. ‘You have to image a time when there was nothg posive the media, or anywhere, about homosexualy’. Gay and lbian life went public the 70s.

JEREMY SMH GAY MAP OF SYDNEY, 2019

Speakg up and standg out, gay men and women took to the streets proudly mandg to be seen, heard and accepted. Drawg om the Library’s ltle-known llectns of gay and lbian posters, photographs, personal papers, oral history and ephemera, pays tribute to the people and events that drove this profound social change, offerg a rich and pellg ntext for ntug bat and issu around LGBTQI+ life today. The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras program ns om 19 Febary until 7 March 2021.

Jane Ward, thor of the 2015 Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, which ed the viral term “bro jobs” to scribe straight men havg sex wh each other. ) The lights are dimmed slightly and soft mic plays while the men gather, eher alone or small clters, and proceed to jerk off, all the while keepg nversatn to a mimum to ensure everyone stays the of the atten at Ra Cy Jacks are gay men. He nducts annual surveys of the group, and he says that while the majory of members are gay, about 10 percent of the Seattle Jacks’ 300 or so members self-intify as heterosexual, wh 25 percent intifyg as bisexual.

” Acrdg to a Slate piece on the phenomenon, approximately 10 percent of BateWorld’s ers self-intify as straight, while 5 percent refed to self-intify eher way—a number that pal parison to the more than 44, 000 gay ers of the se (50 percent of s dience; 30 percent intifi as bi, while 5 percent would “rather not say”), but is nohels signifint. As Slate wrer Kyle Mta put , “that’s a lot of not-gay dus wh profil on a webse for men who like to masturbate wh other men. ” And given the strict and arguably regrsive s erng male sexualy, which dictate that any man who so much as looks at another man has to be, if not gay, probably bisexual, ’s surprisg that so many ostensibly straight men are terted watchg other guys touch said, for some straight guys who attend jackoff clubs, lookg at or touchg other penis may almost be bi the pot.

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