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Contents:
- 'LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE': CONTROVERSIAL GAY PRI MURAL OF MAN WEARG BONDAGE GEAR SYDNEY'S CBD FACED WH PAT
- BEHD THE GLTER: SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA 2019 – PICTUR
- SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
- SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED
- GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI
- SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988
'LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE': CONTROVERSIAL GAY PRI MURAL OF MAN WEARG BONDAGE GEAR SYDNEY'S CBD FACED WH PAT
A ntroversial gay pri mural Sydney’s CBD has been faced followg days of divid opn among lols about s appropriatens. * sydney gay painting *
A ntroversial gay pri mural Sydney’s CBD has been faced followg days of divid opn among lols about s mural on Wynyard Street, loted adjacent to the tra statn of the same name, picted a man reclg on a uch mimal the batn of a leather bondage harns and the teddy bear head led some to suggt the artwork was too lewd for younger after 9:30pm on Wednday, vandals took to the mural wh purple, black and whe pat to pletely ver the YCKGay slogan wrten next to the man has also been pated over.
Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras llaborated wh a selectn of LGBTQI muny groups this year to create three signifint muny floats.
BEHD THE GLTER: SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA 2019 – PICTUR
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 painting *
Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras’ artistic director Greg Clarke ont of the Trans Pri muny float.
The Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras ntu to be one of Atralia’s biggt tourist attractns. It tak the form of a prott march of about 1, 000 people llg for an end to discrimatn towards gays and lbians. The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Associatn is formed.
SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
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An Aborigal float leads the Para wh a gay Indigeno man drsed as Capta Cook. The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Associatn's name chang to Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras Associatn.
Sydney’s first Mardi Gras was the last a seri of events produced as part of the Day of Internatnal Gay Solidary, on 24 June 1978, by the Gay Solidary Group, followg a morng prott march and a public meetg. At 10pm that night, people began to assemble at Taylor Square, wh the crowd surroundg a flatbed tck wh a sound system playg Meg Christian’s O to a Gym Teacher and Tom Robson’s Glad to be Gay as they set off down Oxford Street to Hy though the street ftival had a perm to “assemble and march”, the police kept forcg the tck to speed up.
SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED
Peter Tully, Philip Mills (Doris Fish), Ron Smh and Jeffery Hardy the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Workshop, Febary 1986.
Tirias, Tirias Hoe transgenr float the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Para, 1988.
GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI
One of the inic drag shows performg at the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras parti, Cha Reactn featured 10 drag queens drsed as Diana Ross on two giant ke stag, wh five giant ndl on oppose ends of the dancefloor.
Five of the ten drag queens the Diana Ross ‘Cha reactn’ show at one end of the Government Paviln, Sydney Gay Mardi Gras party, 1988. People sunbakg at a Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras revery party, Hill Street, 1992. The Helen Deminkos gettg ready for the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para, 1996.
SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988
John English and Ron Munster, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para, 1997. One of the most memorable and movg moments durg the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, was the the HIV/AIDS Remembrance Float durg the 1999 Para, which volved more than 1, 000 people om muny health groups and anisatns rryg a giant red ribbon wh the msage ‘Remember, It’s Not Over’ participants the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para are not all om Sydney.
Left, AIDS Remembrance Float, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, 1999.
Right, Melbourne Marchg Girls the marshallg area for the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, 2001. In October 1982, the Gay Bs Associatn (NSW), now Sydney Gay and Lbian Bs Associatn (SGLBA), held s first Fair Day at Shannon Rerve, Surry Hills, to “promote the products and servic of gays and lbians, bsmen and women”.