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Contents:

• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2018: YOUR GUI TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATNS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS – PICTUR
• 40TH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS BREAKS RERDS
• INSI THE UNDISVERED GAY MARDI GRAS
• PARTY LIKE A PRO AT NEW ORLEANS’ GAY MARDI GRAS CELEBRATNS
• 40TH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS BREAKS RERDS

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2018: YOUR GUI TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATNS

While the first official gay Carnival krewe, the Krewe of Yuga, was formed the late 1950s, “Gay Mardi Gras” had been gog on unrground way before then. Though no longer active, Yuga gave birth to other gay Carnival krew, cludg the Krewe of Petroni and the Krewe of Amon-Ra, both of which are still active. While on the surface Mardi Gras appears to be no more than a party, many say Gay Mardi Gras helped her the Gay Rights Movement the Uned Stat.

Here are some of the bt-known gay Carnival balls. Typilly held on the Saturday before Mardi Gras Day, Armei’ missn is to prerve the ctoms of gay Carnival and to help te those who seek to learn more.

One of the olst gay Carnival krew the cy, Petroni was found 1961 and has served as a jumpg-off pot for other krew. Other Gay Carnival Events. Get ready for the glter and sparkle, fabulo stum and jaw-droppg floats — tonight the 40th gay and lbian Mardi Gras para will take over this year is expected to be the biggt yet wh crowd siz timated at 500, 000 for a celebratn of four s of if you're planng to take the extravaganza, here's what you need to to look forThis one's the first time, and celebratn of the troductn of same-sex marriage, the para will clu a weddg!

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS – PICTUR

It is an annual event promotg awarens of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr issu and them. An timated 300, 000 spectators and 12, 300 participants ma last night's Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para the biggt yet - a ftg celebratn for the night's 40th "40 years of evolutn", the para honoured the 78ers who fought police btaly at the first ever march 1978.

Speakg of the event's enormy, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras CEO Tere Casu said: “The participatn of every sgle person this year’s special anniversary Para helped produce a dazzlg display of self-exprsn, reflectn and celebratn. "Jo Joel Creasey, Magda Szubanski, Urzila Carlson, and Patrick Abboud for the 40th Annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, airg tonight, March 4 at 8:30pm on SBS. 2018 marks the historic 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras.

The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Ftival kicks off on Friday 16 Febary 2018 wh seventeen sparklg days, jam-packed wh parti, performance, exhibns, fay and muny events that culmate wh the inic Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para on Saturday 3 March 2018. NSW Mister for the Arts Don Harw says “The NSW Government is proud to support the Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras. Cy of Sydney is the proud ernment partner of Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 2018, providg fundg for this memorative anniversary season.

40TH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS BREAKS RERDS

Arrivg for this weekend of Mardi Gras allows you to have an awome experience wh paras and gay balls, but wh smaller crowds.

Gay Mardi Gras Balls. In the late 1950s, the first gay Mardi Gras krewe – the Krewe of Yuga – was formed as a spoof of tradnal Mardi Gras krew. Gay rights have e a long way sce then, and the gay Mardi Gras krew have also evolved wh the tim.

INSI THE UNDISVERED GAY MARDI GRAS

Altogether, ’s the perfect settg for the livelit of gay cultur. The LGBTQ muny tak the spotlight at ftivals all year long, wh Southern Dence over Labor Day weekend attractg more than 125, 000 revelers to what’s e to be known as Gay Mardi Gras. Paras, stum, drag shows and themed parti abound durg Dence, then aga they’re a part of the cy’s Pri Ft, Mardi Gras, Halloween ftivi and even Easter, where the Gay Easter Para is one of three the French Quarter.

The Sats and Sners Lerary Ftival tak a more studied approach, brgg the gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and tersex lerati together for three days of spired mgs.

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.

PARTY LIKE A PRO AT NEW ORLEANS’ GAY MARDI GRAS CELEBRATNS

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. 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.

40TH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS BREAKS RERDS

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. John English and Ron Munster, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para, 1997.