News, featur and more om the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras
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FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS
1978: First gay Mardi Gras march, Sydney * sydney gay mardi gras history *
They asked for solidary activi on the Stonewall anniversary to ci wh their march agast the anti-gay Briggs Iniative on the California ballot.
Ken and others lled a meetg of lbian and gay groups and dividuals, which beme the Gay Solidary Group.
SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
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. * sydney gay mardi gras history *
Chants of “Out of the bars and to the streets” joed the sound of gay liberatn anthems ‘Glad to be Gay’ and ‘O to a Gym Teacher’.
SEMTICS SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
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The Gay Solidary Group, other groups and dividuals and me together for a massive polil and legal effort – the Drop the Charg mpaign. • 15 July – 2, 000 take part largt ever gay rights march wh 14 arrts.
The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras is not jt the cys largt LGBT event but the most prolific cultural ftival Atralia. Every year hundreds of... * sydney gay mardi gras history *
• 27 Augt – 300 march down Oxford St om the 4th Natnal Homosexual Conference wh 104 arrts. This was the thori’ attempt to keep the muny le, but Sydney’s gays and lbians would not get back le.
2012 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. On 24 June 1978 a small group of gay and lbian people operatg as the Gay Solidary Group staged a day of events Sydney.
Sydney's 'Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras' has been nng for over 40 years, but how did beg? BAZAAR unvers the meang behd the event. * sydney gay mardi gras history *
The tentn was to promote gay and lbian culture and to enurage polil activism agast the discrimatn they routely group anised a tradnal march and public meetg the morng and a street para at night.