First gay Mardi Gras | Natnal Mm of Atralia

Contents:

• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS SPOTLIGHTS ASIA-PACIFIC REGN PRI
• FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras – WorldPri 2023 |.

Uned we she: Sydney’s Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 2022 – pictur.

People preparg to march the 44th Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para. A member of the Gay Pri Atralia float arriv. In 2023, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and Sydney WorldPri uned to prent a tly global LGBTQIA+SB pri ftival.

UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR

In the Ftival Report below, learn more about the legacy of Sydney WorldPri for Intepri, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Sydney cy, First Natns muni, the Human Rights Conference and the broar LGBTQIA+ muny. The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras annual pri para celebrat the LGBT muny. The world-renowned Para returns to Oxford Street to celebrate Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras’ 46th anniversary.

They asked for solidary activi on the Stonewall anniversary to ci wh their march agast the anti-gay Briggs Iniative on the California ballot.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Ken and others lled a meetg of lbian and gay groups and dividuals, which beme the Gay Solidary Group.

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’.

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.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS SPOTLIGHTS ASIA-PACIFIC REGN PRI

• 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. Wele to a very special stallment of Queer Thkg – Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras are celebratg our 45th anniversary 2023 and over this four-part seri we’re takg you on a journey through time as we tell the full story of one of the largt pri movements the world.

For those the Asia-Pacific regn, a grand and popular celebratn is the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras celebratn, which dat back to 1978. At that time, the group were protters who me together to ntribute to ternatnal Gay Celebratns, as they were lled there at the time. This year's celebratn was huge, wh the famo profsnal drag queen Courtney Act makg a huge splash the celebratn down Mogue's gay in stat at the event has dated back to 1994 when she me to perform for the first time at the event's after-party at Moore Park.

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. 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.

FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS

Lead-up to Mardi GrasThe Stonewall rts that began the early hours of 28 June 1969 New York Cy were the rult of a police raid on a gay bar lled the Stonewall rts are wily nsired to mark the start of the ternatnal gay rights March 1978 the San Francis based Gay Freedom Day Commtee ntacted Atralian activists llg for solidary activi to support a march planned on the anniversary of the Stonewall march was opposn to the ntroversial Briggs Iniative which if passed would have mandated the firg of gay and lbian teachers California public Gay Solidary Group formed Sydney to mark ‘Internatnal Gay Solidary Day’ on 24 June Atralia, var groups and anisatns had been lobbyg, stagg monstratns and march, producg newsletters and a variety of other activi to promote their e. Makg historyAtralian Lbian and Gay Archiv print Graham Willett scrib the 1978 Mardi Gras as the ‘most dramatic moment of the backlash’ agast the mpaign for gay rights. Addnally, laws around obtag perms for street march and paras were such, the first Mardi Gras march was a major civil rights tone beyond the gay muny.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

Michelle Arrow on first Gay Mardi Gras.