(PDF) The 78ers: Sydney Gay Mardi Gras begs | Stephen Tomsen

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• STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
• NSW PARLIAMENT APOLOGIS TO THE 78ERS WHO BEGAN THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• THE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGS

STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL

78ers are the participants the first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras held on 24 June 1978 and subsequent Mardi Gras was formed April 2017 to ially support participatn by and engagement wh a broad range of 78ers the lead up to the 40th Anniversary of Mardi Gras 2018. This group beme known as the 78ers and sce 1998 has led each year’s 78ers are the participants the events that took place 1978 that clu:• The first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para on June 24th, 1978• Prott at Darlghurst and Central Police Statns, 25th June 1978• Prott at Central Court Sydney, 26th June 1978• March om Mart Place to Darlghurst Police Statn, 15th July 1978• March to Taylor Square and Hy Park, 27th Augt 1978Are you a 78er? The first Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Sydney started a way that now feels faiar: stum, dancg and a pervasive sense of what began one night June, 1978, wh a large crowd of partygoers and this yellow flatbed tck …...

(Supplied: Ken Davis)The event would mark the nth anniversary of the Stonewall Rts New York, an uprisg that led to vlent clash between protters and police, and marked a signifint turng pot the gay rights movement.

Members of var lbian, gay and progrsive groups, cludg Ken, got together and planned a number of events, cludg a late-night ftival that would kick-off at Taylor Square groups felt galvanised by what was happeng overseas. However, spe Sydney havg the most visible gay and lbian populatn the untry, New South Wal was not at the vanguard of change ntact between men was a crime, punishable by up to 14 years prison.

NSW PARLIAMENT APOLOGIS TO THE 78ERS WHO BEGAN THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

You uld be sacked om your job if you were disvered to be gay, and same-sex attractn was still nsired abnormal by some the medil muny and relig was also the potential for vlence.

(Supplied: Sallie Colech)Ron At — a member of CAMP (Campaign Agast Moral Persecutn), a gay and lbian polil group — suggted a night-time dance party.

”As they began to move, another said they heard police radg ahead to “close off” Kgs the time they were on William Street, the para had turned to a were chantg: “Stop police attacks on gays, women and blacks!

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

Those march were signed to prsure police to drop the charg agast the protters, a mpaign that was ultimately 1979, a year after the clash wh police, the New South Wal Summary Offenc Act was 1982, the New South Wal Anti-Discrimatn Act was amend to clu protectn on the basis of sexual orientatn tn, workplac and other years later, homosexual acts between men were crimalised the state.

THE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGSTHE 78ERS: SYDNEY GAY MARDI GRAS BEGS

Creds:Reportg and rearch: Pl Donoughue, Alex Palmer, Chloe BriceInterviews: Mon Schafter Vio productn: Tejas Bhat, Jack FisherEdg: Ga McKeon, Mark DomanDign and 3D mollg: Alex PalmerDevelopment: Matthew Heffernan, Andrew Hystek-Dunk, Katia Shatoba Imag: Sallie Colech, Bran Gai, News Corp, Kev NguyenArchival footage of 1978 Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras: Scen om the film Wch and Faggots, Dyk and Poofters - © Producer Digby Dunn Atralia 1980Wh thanks to: Bec Ants, Lton Bser, Angela Stengel, Darcy Watt, Michelle BaddileyRead the full statement om Cath Emery, -chair of the NSW Police Force’s ternal LGBTIQ+ Employee Network, Pri 22 Feb 2023Wed 22 Feb 2023 at 6:41pm, updated 23 Feb 2023Thu 23 Feb 2023 at 3:17am. Follow the nversatn on SBS Atralia socials #WeRiseFor #MardiGras2021 and via The 2021 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras live Saturday 6 March 6pm AEDT on SBS On Demand or tch the full para at 7:30pm on SBS and Mnis clearly rells the terror she felt while shelterg a shop door as she wnsed the on that fateful Saturday, June 24, 1978. “I mean, the ps were pickg people up and bodily throwg them the police wagons, slammg the doors on their legs… They were very large, beefy men and they picked on small people, maly women, but some slight will rell the days leadg up to that very first Mardi Gras alongsi other veterans, known as the 78ers, an afternoon discsn durg this year’s ftival entled Then a public servant, Mnis – a proud lbian and active participant both the women’s and gay liberatn movement – had been off work nursg a broken foot followg a motorbike accint.

”Intertgly enough, given more recent bate about whether Mardi Gras has bee too party-foced and not polil enough, Mnis not both elements were always part of Mardi Gras’, the more polilly-foced Gay Solidary Group staged a prott that morng regnn of the Stonewall rts New York, 1969. Source: Atralian Lbian and Gay ArchivEnvisaged as a more light-hearted unter-balance, suggted by the Campaign Agast Moral Persecutn (C.

A solary tck played two songs on repeat - “Glad to be Gay” by UK outf the Tom Robson Band, and “O to a Gym Teacher” by Meg Christian. ”Chantg, “Stop police attacks on gays, women, and blacks, ” crowds me out of the Oxford Street shops and bars to see what was happeng and, spe havg a perm, the police were already antagonistic. “That allowed the police to jt pick up anyone and do anythg basilly, so uld be ed agast gay men, lbians, monstrators, Aborigals, ” Mnis says.