POOF DOOF SYDNEY: BIG GAY BOAT PARTIES - JANUARY, FEBRUARY & MARCH 2022 - POOF DOOF

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• UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR
• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS' FUN AND FLAMBOYANT DISPLAYS
• ?? THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• ANTHONY ALBANE TO BEE FIRST STG ATRALIAN PM TO MARCH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• ANTHONY ALBANE TO BE FIRST ATRALIAN PRIME MISTER TO MARCH SYDNEY'S MARDI GRAS PARAANTHONY ALBANE SAYS THE MOVE SHOWS HIS ERNMENT'S MMENT TO REMOVE EQUALY ON THE BASIS OF A PERSON'S SEXUALY OR INTY.ANTHONY ALBANE SAYS THE CISN TO MARCH THE SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARA LATER THIS MONTH IS ABOUT MOVG BEYOND TOLERANCE TO CELEBRATN OF DIVERSY. SOURCE: FACEBOOK / ANTHONY ALBANEKEY POTSANTHONY ALBANE SAYS HE WILL BE MARCHG THIS MONTH'S SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARA. HE WILL BE THE FIRST STG PM TO MARCH WH THE PARA SELF. MR ALBANE SAYS THE CISN IS AN IMPORTANT STEP MARKG A CELEBRATN, RATHER THAN JT TOLERANCE, OF DIVERSY.ANTHONY ALBANE WILL BE THE FIRST STG ATRALIAN PRIME MISTER TO MARCH SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS WHEN HE JOS THE PARA FOR THE WORLDPRIFTIVAL.THE PRIME MISTER SAYS HE WILL BE JOED BY FOREIGN MISTER PENNY WONG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN PARLIAMENT, WHEN HE TAK PART THE EVENT LATER FEBARY."I'LL BE THE FIRST PRIME MISTER NOT TO WATCH THE MARCH ON MARDI GRAS, BUT TO MARCH," HE TOLD A CROWD AT THE OFFICIAL OPENG OF PRI SQUARE AT NEWTOWN, SYDNEY'S NER WT.READ MORE'QUEER, LIFE, EEDOM': THE VOIC AT VICTORIA'S PRI MARCH THAT WERE SILENCED — UNTIL NOWIN 2016, MALLM TURNBULL BEME THE FIRST STG PRIME MISTER TO ATTEND THE GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS, BUT HE DID NOT MARCH THE PARA.THAT YEAR, THEN OPPOSN LEAR BILL SHORTEN BEME THE FIRST FERAL LEAR OF A MAJOR PARTY TO PARTICIPATE THE MARCH.MR ALBANE SAID ON SATURDAY HIS ERNMENT WAS MTED TO REMOVG EQUALY ON THE BASIS OF SEXUALY OR PEOPLE'S INTI."AND JT AS MY ERNMENT IS MTED TO REMOVG GENR EQUALY, WE'RE ALSO MTED TO NTUG TO MAKE GAS AND REMOVE THE AREAS WHERE THERE REMAS EQUALY ON THE BASIS OF PEOPLE'S SEXUALY, OR PEOPLE'S INTY - WHO THEY ARE.".. SPEAK A LOT ABOUT TOLERANCE - AND TOLERANCE IS REALLY IMPORTANT - BUT THIS IS ABOUT A STEP THAT IS WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN TOLERANCE," HE SAID.READ MORE'PETRI DISH OF HATE': WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE BEG URGED TO REPORT THIS TYPE OF CRIME"WE NEED TO CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSY, NOT JT TOLERATE , BEE OUR DIVERSY IS WHAT GIV OUR SOCIETY STRENGTH."MR ALBANE PAID TRIBUTE TO PROTTERS WHO MARCHED FOR GAY RIGHTS 1978, MANY OF WHOM WERE ARRTED WHEN THE FIRST PARA ON SYDNEY'S OXFORD ST WAS DISPERSED.SCE THEN, THE ANNUAL SYDNEY MARCH HAS GROWN TO BEE PART OF ONE OF THE LARGT LGBTQI FTIVALS THE WORLD.THIS YEAR, 12,500 MARCHERS ARE EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE AS THE PARA IS RPORATED TO THE 17-DAY WORLDPRI FTIVAL.LISTEN TOIRANIANS MARCH MELBOURNE PRI PARA FOR FIRST TIME
• POOF DOOF GAY CLUB
• GAY PARTI AND EVENTS SYDNEY
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

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

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.

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Image source, EPAThoands gathered si Sydney cricket ground on Saturday for the cy's annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras celebratn.

"We are a unique posn Atralia to be able to host events of this sle durg a global health panmic, and I mend the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras team for planng such a well-anised, Covid-safe event.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Sydney Mardi Gras is the largt gay party Atralia, and one of the biggt dat the LGBTQ Pri lendar worldwi. Beg the cy's ma gay pri event, Mardi Gras Sydney attracts thoands of partygoers every year. Sydney Mardi Gras first started through a gay rights para Sydney, on June 24, 1978.

Followg a day memoratn of the Stonewall Rts of 1969, LGBTQ lols gathered on Oxford Street at 10pm to march for equal regn, fight scrimatn agast LGBTQ people employment and hog, revoke anti-gay laws, and end police harassment. So if you are lookg to experience your pri down unr, the heart of the Atralian summer, be sure to pencil Sydney Mardi Gras to your gay events lendar this year. Then get planng your trip to Atralia’s hottt gay pri event.

FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS

Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras – WorldPri 2023 |. Authori and anisers have praised the muny for "peacefully celebratg" this year's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi 36, 000 spectators packed to the Sydney Cricket Ground last night for the official para — a ticketed and socially distanced event this year due to ronavis cheered on 5, 000 participants who marched on the field across 120 LGBTQI+ muny groups as well as a live mil 43rd Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) Sydney. "Closg out ftivi for the eveng's official celebratns was UK sger Ra Ora who performed a strg of her biggt Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras CEO Albert Kger scribed this year's Mardi Gras si the inic sports stadium as "a once a lifetime experience".

"Among the lourful stum and beatg mic, the spir of prott was as strong as ever has been, " Kger Ora performs durg the 43rd Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) Sydney.

"We are a unique posn Atralia to be able to host events of this sle durg a global health panmic, and I mend the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras team for planng such a well-anised, COVID-safe event. "The day was not cint-ee though, wh four people arrted wh the SCG jt before 8pm, after they entered the pch durg the 43rd Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) Sydney.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS' FUN AND FLAMBOYANT DISPLAYS

Photo: (Steven Saphore / SMH)Para goers take part durg the 43rd Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para at the SCG on March 06, 2021 Sydney, Atralia. The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para ually happens along Oxford Street but is beg held at the Sydney Cricket Ground this year due to COVID-19 rtrictns and ntact tracg requirements. "Sequs & sparkle fill SCG for Mardi GrasEarlier the day close to 600 protters ma their way down Sydney's Oxford Street this afternoon, marchg for LGBTQI+ rights ahead of tonight's event at Moore peaceful gatherg, anised by activist group Pri Prott, was granted an exemptn yterday om NSW Health COVID-19 Health granted the exemptn to exceed the current p of 500 people at protts after negotiatns wh event anisers to facilate easier ntact tracg at the group is marchg for LGBTQI+ rights and is took the same route as protters durg the first 1978 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi police whdrew an applitn to have the exemptn nied, there is still a heavy prence of law enforcement ensurg thgs don't get out of hand at the to 600 protters are makg their way down Sydney's Oxford Street, marchg for LGBTQI+ rights ahead of tonight's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

?? THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

(9News)Due to current COVID-19 rtrictns, this is the first year the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras will not have floats makg their way down Oxford Street. 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.

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.

ANTHONY ALBANE TO BEE FIRST STG ATRALIAN PM TO MARCH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

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. 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.

ANTHONY ALBANE TO BE FIRST ATRALIAN PRIME MISTER TO MARCH SYDNEY'S MARDI GRAS PARAANTHONY ALBANE SAYS THE MOVE SHOWS HIS ERNMENT'S MMENT TO REMOVE EQUALY ON THE BASIS OF A PERSON'S SEXUALY OR INTY.ANTHONY ALBANE SAYS THE CISN TO MARCH THE SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARA LATER THIS MONTH IS ABOUT MOVG BEYOND TOLERANCE TO CELEBRATN OF DIVERSY. SOURCE: FACEBOOK / ANTHONY ALBANEKEY POTSANTHONY ALBANE SAYS HE WILL BE MARCHG THIS MONTH'S SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARA. HE WILL BE THE FIRST STG PM TO MARCH WH THE PARA SELF. MR ALBANE SAYS THE CISN IS AN IMPORTANT STEP MARKG A CELEBRATN, RATHER THAN JT TOLERANCE, OF DIVERSY.ANTHONY ALBANE WILL BE THE FIRST STG ATRALIAN PRIME MISTER TO MARCH SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS WHEN HE JOS THE PARA FOR THE WORLDPRIFTIVAL.THE PRIME MISTER SAYS HE WILL BE JOED BY FOREIGN MISTER PENNY WONG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN PARLIAMENT, WHEN HE TAK PART THE EVENT LATER FEBARY."I'LL BE THE FIRST PRIME MISTER NOT TO WATCH THE MARCH ON MARDI GRAS, BUT TO MARCH," HE TOLD A CROWD AT THE OFFICIAL OPENG OF PRI SQUARE AT NEWTOWN, SYDNEY'S NER WT.READ MORE'QUEER, LIFE, EEDOM': THE VOIC AT VICTORIA'S PRI MARCH THAT WERE SILENCED — UNTIL NOWIN 2016, MALLM TURNBULL BEME THE FIRST STG PRIME MISTER TO ATTEND THE GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS, BUT HE DID NOT MARCH THE PARA.THAT YEAR, THEN OPPOSN LEAR BILL SHORTEN BEME THE FIRST FERAL LEAR OF A MAJOR PARTY TO PARTICIPATE THE MARCH.MR ALBANE SAID ON SATURDAY HIS ERNMENT WAS MTED TO REMOVG EQUALY ON THE BASIS OF SEXUALY OR PEOPLE'S INTI."AND JT AS MY ERNMENT IS MTED TO REMOVG GENR EQUALY, WE'RE ALSO MTED TO NTUG TO MAKE GAS AND REMOVE THE AREAS WHERE THERE REMAS EQUALY ON THE BASIS OF PEOPLE'S SEXUALY, OR PEOPLE'S INTY - WHO THEY ARE.".. SPEAK A LOT ABOUT TOLERANCE - AND TOLERANCE IS REALLY IMPORTANT - BUT THIS IS ABOUT A STEP THAT IS WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN TOLERANCE," HE SAID.READ MORE'PETRI DISH OF HATE': WHY MORE ATRALIANS ARE BEG URGED TO REPORT THIS TYPE OF CRIME"WE NEED TO CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSY, NOT JT TOLERATE , BEE OUR DIVERSY IS WHAT GIV OUR SOCIETY STRENGTH."MR ALBANE PAID TRIBUTE TO PROTTERS WHO MARCHED FOR GAY RIGHTS 1978, MANY OF WHOM WERE ARRTED WHEN THE FIRST PARA ON SYDNEY'S OXFORD ST WAS DISPERSED.SCE THEN, THE ANNUAL SYDNEY MARCH HAS GROWN TO BEE PART OF ONE OF THE LARGT LGBTQI FTIVALS THE WORLD.THIS YEAR, 12,500 MARCHERS ARE EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE AS THE PARA IS RPORATED TO THE 17-DAY WORLDPRI FTIVAL.LISTEN TOIRANIANS MARCH MELBOURNE PRI PARA FOR FIRST TIME

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. Michelle Arrow on first Gay Mardi Gras.

Gatherg momentumCapalisg on this and on the wellsprg of support that had emerged, the gay muny cid to keep gog wh the ia of a ntued to mpaign on different aspects of discrimatn agast them, and this also began to translate to a ut acceptance of gay people as ctomers and employe. Bs terg to gay and lbian people also beme more open.

However, this was not uniformly weled by the gay muny. For most of the early 1970s, radil gay activists had lled for the end of palism as an opprsive social force. Public fear about AIDS was so great that anisers of the 1985 Mardi Gras were unr tense prsure to prsure, bed wh the shock of seeg iends, lovers and partners sicken and die, fostered a termatn and rilience wh the gay and lbian muny.

POOF DOOF GAY CLUB

Not1 Robert Swie, Judh O’Callaghan and Glynis Jon, Absolutely Mardi Gras: Costume and Dign of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Powerhoe Publishg, Sydney, 1996, p. Pair of buckled slg back platform sho wh peek-a-boo toThe sho form part of Ron Munster's prize-wng 'Lucille Balls' stume worn at the 1994 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. ReferencHistory of the event, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi GrasRobert Swie, Judh O’Callaghan and Glynis Jon, Absolutely Mardi Gras: Costume and Dign of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Powerhoe Publishg, Sydney, Willett, Livg out Loud: A History of Gay and Lbian Activism Atralia, Allen & Unw, 2000Richard Wherrett (ed.

“This is a massive w for not only the right to prott but for the queer muny to say that the fight agast transphobia and homophobia nnot wa, ” the group said a statement. Earlier on Friday, the chief executive of the Sydney Mardi Gras said his anisatn was not gog to support the march bee uld not ndone protts vlatn of NSW public health march is due to take place on Saturday afternoon ahead of the official Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para, which has been moved to the Sydney Cricket Ground due to Covid-19 10, 000 people are expected at the Mardi Gras para at the SCG.

2 of 37Attributn: GettyThe Sydney Swans took a turn around their home stadium, wearg their uniforms and rryg pri flags3 of 37Attributn: GettyThe NRL was also reprented on the field as the float ntaed a glterg gby league ball and cheerlears add their own sparkle wh shy pom poms4 of 37Attributn: GettyFootball Atralian's float not only clud an flatable soccer ball but also Josh Cavallo - the man who last year beme the only openly gay profsnal footballer the world.

GAY PARTI AND EVENTS SYDNEY

15 of 37Attributn: GettyThey are tradnally the first group to start the para16 of 37Attributn: GettyA group of atten drsed up as Superman, arrivg together a super hero pack17 of 37Attributn: GettyPara goers arrived for the 44th Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para will be held at the SCG for the send year a row. 20 of 37Attributn: Edwa PicklFabulo Wonr Mama and Charisma Bell are ready for the 44th annual event will feature 6500 marchers and more than 160 glterg float, 21 of 37Attributn: GettyThe 44th Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para will be held at the Sydney Cricket Ground aga this will feature 6500 marchers and more than 160 glterg floats.

A fearlsly fabulo Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para took place Saturday March 3, wh an timated 500, 000 spectators lg the streets and on the rooftops and balni of Oxford Street to cheer on over 12, 500 marchers takg part the world's biggt celebratn of the LGBTQI Gras' 2019 theme was "Fearls, " a poignant acknowledgment of the way LGBTQI people across the globe urageoly exprs who they are. Reflectg on the Para, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras CEO Tere Casu said "People om all around Atralia me together on this glterg night to wns a lorful spectacle of prott and celebratn. Artists who performed at The Party clud ternatnal pop star Kim Petras, Jake Shears (of Scissor Sisters), Lemy Maldonado, and lol legends PNAU, Courtney Act, Pl Capsis, HANDSOME, and the eve of the 41st annual Para, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras also announced that their bid to secure the hostg rights for WorldPri 2023 had received a $192, 000 fundg boost om the NSW Government.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

A succsful bid would see Sydney bee the first statn the Southern Hemisphere to host WorldPri, the marquee ternatnal lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI) pri event. WorldPri 2023 would ci wh the 45th anniversary of the first Mardi Gras 2019 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para was proudly supported by the NSW Government through s tourism and major events agency Dtatn to Cori Mchell Photography for the great photos here.