About Sydney - Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras

Contents:

• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS
• UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR
• SYDNEY CELEBRAT 43RD GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

The 46th Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para will take over Oxford Street, Flrs Street and Anzac Para for the biggt night-time LGBTQIA+ Para the world. The streets of Sydney will once aga she wh pri and diversy as the inic Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para returns to Oxford St, Flrs St and Anzac P on Saturday 2 March 2024.

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. Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras acknowledg the Tradnal. Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras acknowledg the Gadigal people of the Eora natn, who are the tradnal owners of the land on which our celebratns are held on.

Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras – WorldPri 2023 |. In 2023, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and Sydney WorldPri uned to prent a tly global LGBTQIA+SB pri ftival.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

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.

FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS

2012 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

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

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.

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.

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.

SYDNEY CELEBRAT 43RD GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA

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. 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.