The 2019 Mardi Gras Awards - Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras

Contents:

• THE SPLENDOUR OF SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2019
• BEHD THE GLTER: SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA 2019 – PICTUR
• SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2019: INSIR’S TIPS TO MAKE THE MOST OF CY’S HUGE GAY AND LBIAN PARA
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2019
• WHERE TO WATCH THE 2019 SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARATHE 41ST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARA TAK PLACE ON SATURDAY. HERE'S WHAT TIME YOU NEED TO BE THERE AND WHERE TO FD A GOOD SPOT TO WATCH.PARTICIPANTS TAKE PART THE 2018 GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA. SOURCE: AAPTHE UNTDOWN IS ON FOR ATRALIA'S LGBTQI+ NIGHT OF NIGHTS.NOW S 41ST YEAR, THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 2 MARCH.ALMOST 200 FLOATS WILL MAKE THEIR WAY ALONG THE INIC OXFORD STREET AND BEYOND, ONT OF AN TIMATED CROWD OF 300,000 PEOPLE.PARTICIPANTS WILL BE G OM AROUND ATRALIA AND ACROSS THE WORLD. SOURCE: AAP"DRAG QUEENS, DYK ON BIK, SYDNEY LIFAVERS, MUNY HERO AND MUCH MUCH MORE, E TOGETHER TO PRODUCE WHAT HAS BEE THE PARA THAT STOPS THE NATN," MARDI GRAS MATERIAL SAYS.BORN OM A NIGHT OF POLIL PROTT 1978, THE PARA HAS GROWN TO ONE OF THE BIGGT LGBTQI+ PARAS THE WORLD. THIS YEAR'S THEME IS "FEARLS".SYDNEY LORD MAYOR CLOVER MOORE SAID THE THEME AIMS TO SPIRE MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQI+ MUNY TO OVERE DISCRIMATN:"[THE THEME] REMDS THAT THERE IS STILL MORE TO BE DONE. IT DRAWS ATTENTN TO THE DAC BRAVERY OF THE LGBTIQ MUNY. IT ENURAG TO BREAK DOWN THE BARRIERS THAT STILL EXIST." "MANY LGBTIQ PEOPLE FEEL LONELY AND ISOLATED AND MARDI GRAS GIV YOU THE OPPORTUNY TO REACH OUT FOR HELP, TO BE FEARLS."HOW TO WATCH LIVETHE PARA WILL START AT SYDNEY'S WHLAM SQUARE (RNER OF LIVERPOOL AND OXFORD STREET) AND TAKE A 1.7KM ROUTE ALONG OXFORD STREET AND FLRS STREET, BEFORE ENDG AT MOORE PARK.PRE-SHOW CELEBRATNS ARE SCHLED TO START AT 7PM. THE PARA IS DUE TO START AT 7:30PM AND NCLU AT APPROXIMATELY 11PM.THE 2018 PARA. SOURCE: GETTYBUT ATTEN ARE ADVISED TO ARRIVE EARLY.ORGANISERS EXPECT ARRIVALS TO BEG AS EARLY AS 11AM, WH GOOD VIEWG SPOTS AVAILABLE ON OXFORD STREET UNTIL ABOUT 4PM.LATER ARRIVALS ARE ADVISED TO HEAD TO THE SOUTHERN END OF FLRS STREET AND MOORE PARK.A MAP OF THE PARA. SOURCE: SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASMARDI GRAS CEO TERE CASU TOLD SBS NEWS ON MONDAY "OUTSI OF BRGG A SE AND A HAND TO WAVE AT THE THOANDS OF MARCHERS AS THEY GO BY, WE WOULD REMEND SPECTATORS BRG ALONG SOME SNACKS TO ENJOY WHILE THEY WATCH THE PARA AS WELL AS A HAT AND SUNBLOCK IF YOU'RE PLANNG ON ARRIVG EARLY"."WE ALSO HAVE TO BE NSC OF THE IMPACT THE EVENT HAS ON THE ENVIRONMENT SO WE ENURAGE PEOPLE TO BRG A RSABLE WATER BOTTLE WH THEM RATHER THAN RELYG ON SGLE-E BOTTL."HOW TO GET THEREMARDI GRAS ANISERS ARE URGG SPECTATORS TO TRAVEL BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT WH ROAD CLOSUR PLACE AROUND THE CY.NSW TRANSPORT MATERIAL SAYS "PLENTY OF EXTRA TRAS AND B WILL N TO THE CY AS WELL AS ADDNAL LATE NIGHT SERVIC TO HELP YOU GET HOME AFTER THE CELEBRATNS".PARTICIPANTS GET READY FOR THE 2017 PARA. SOURCE: GETTYTOWN HALL, ST JAM AND MART PLACE STATNS PROVI ACCS TO THE NORTHERN SI OF THE PARA ROUTE AT DARLGHURST.CENTRAL STATN IS BT FOR THE SOUTHERN SI OF THE PARA ROUTE AROUND SURRY HILLS AND ANZAC PARA.MM STATN WILL BE CLOSED OM 5PM ON SATURDAY UNTIL 4AM ON SUNDAY.THE PARA TRADNALLY BEGS WH THE DYK ON BIK NVOY. SOURCE: AAPIF YOU'RE WATCHG OM HOMEON SATURDAY, SBS WILL BE LIVE STREAMG THE PARA S ENTIRETY VIA SBS ON DEMAND AND SBS ATRALIA'S TWTER AND FACEBOOK ACUNTS.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYTHEN ON SUNDAY, TUNE TO SBS AT 8:30PM FOR A FULL REPLAY OF THE EVENT.NEWS PRENTER NARELDA JABS, EDIAN JOEL CREASEY, THE FEED'S PATRICK ABBOUD AND LOL EDIAN ZOë COOMBS MARR WILL GIVE A NDOWN ON FLOATS, TERVIEWG PARTICIPANTS AND SHARG STORI OM THE PARA.THIS BROADST WILL ALSO BE STREAMED LIVE ON SBS ON DEMAND.PARTICIPANTS MAKE THEIR FAL PREPARATNS BEFORE THE 2018 PARA. SOURCE: AAPAS WELL AS FULL PARA VERAGE, YOU N ALSO WATCH QUEER CEMA WH SBS ON DEMAND'S QUEER BGE, WHICH BOASTS A WI SELECTN OF QUEER FILMS, DOCUMENTARI AND TELEVISN SHOWS OM ATRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD.AND WHILE YOU WA FOR THE PARA, YOU N TCH UP ON ALL THGS MARDI GRAS AT SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 28 FEBARY 2019 11:02AMUPDATED 2 MARCH 2019 10:37PMSOURCE: SBS NEWSSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• GALLERY: INSI THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• THE 2019 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA
• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2019: WHAT TO DO & WHERE TO STORE YOUR LUGGAGE

THE SPLENDOUR OF SYDNEY'S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2019

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BEHD THE GLTER: SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA 2019 – PICTUR

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SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2019: INSIR’S TIPS TO MAKE THE MOST OF CY’S HUGE GAY AND LBIAN PARA

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.

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.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2019

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.

Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras llaborated wh a selectn of LGBTQI muny groups this year to create three signifint muny floats.

WHERE TO WATCH THE 2019 SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARATHE 41ST SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARA TAK PLACE ON SATURDAY. HERE'S WHAT TIME YOU NEED TO BE THERE AND WHERE TO FD A GOOD SPOT TO WATCH.PARTICIPANTS TAKE PART THE 2018 GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA. SOURCE: AAPTHE UNTDOWN IS ON FOR ATRALIA'S LGBTQI+ NIGHT OF NIGHTS.NOW S 41ST YEAR, THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 2 MARCH.ALMOST 200 FLOATS WILL MAKE THEIR WAY ALONG THE INIC OXFORD STREET AND BEYOND, ONT OF AN TIMATED CROWD OF 300,000 PEOPLE.PARTICIPANTS WILL BE G OM AROUND ATRALIA AND ACROSS THE WORLD. SOURCE: AAP"DRAG QUEENS, DYK ON BIK, SYDNEY LIFAVERS, MUNY HERO AND MUCH MUCH MORE, E TOGETHER TO PRODUCE WHAT HAS BEE THE PARA THAT STOPS THE NATN," MARDI GRAS MATERIAL SAYS.BORN OM A NIGHT OF POLIL PROTT 1978, THE PARA HAS GROWN TO ONE OF THE BIGGT LGBTQI+ PARAS THE WORLD. THIS YEAR'S THEME IS "FEARLS".SYDNEY LORD MAYOR CLOVER MOORE SAID THE THEME AIMS TO SPIRE MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQI+ MUNY TO OVERE DISCRIMATN:"[THE THEME] REMDS THAT THERE IS STILL MORE TO BE DONE. IT DRAWS ATTENTN TO THE DAC BRAVERY OF THE LGBTIQ MUNY. IT ENURAG TO BREAK DOWN THE BARRIERS THAT STILL EXIST." "MANY LGBTIQ PEOPLE FEEL LONELY AND ISOLATED AND MARDI GRAS GIV YOU THE OPPORTUNY TO REACH OUT FOR HELP, TO BE FEARLS."HOW TO WATCH LIVETHE PARA WILL START AT SYDNEY'S WHLAM SQUARE (RNER OF LIVERPOOL AND OXFORD STREET) AND TAKE A 1.7KM ROUTE ALONG OXFORD STREET AND FLRS STREET, BEFORE ENDG AT MOORE PARK.PRE-SHOW CELEBRATNS ARE SCHLED TO START AT 7PM. THE PARA IS DUE TO START AT 7:30PM AND NCLU AT APPROXIMATELY 11PM.THE 2018 PARA. SOURCE: GETTYBUT ATTEN ARE ADVISED TO ARRIVE EARLY.ORGANISERS EXPECT ARRIVALS TO BEG AS EARLY AS 11AM, WH GOOD VIEWG SPOTS AVAILABLE ON OXFORD STREET UNTIL ABOUT 4PM.LATER ARRIVALS ARE ADVISED TO HEAD TO THE SOUTHERN END OF FLRS STREET AND MOORE PARK.A MAP OF THE PARA. SOURCE: SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRASMARDI GRAS CEO TERE CASU TOLD SBS NEWS ON MONDAY "OUTSI OF BRGG A SE AND A HAND TO WAVE AT THE THOANDS OF MARCHERS AS THEY GO BY, WE WOULD REMEND SPECTATORS BRG ALONG SOME SNACKS TO ENJOY WHILE THEY WATCH THE PARA AS WELL AS A HAT AND SUNBLOCK IF YOU'RE PLANNG ON ARRIVG EARLY"."WE ALSO HAVE TO BE NSC OF THE IMPACT THE EVENT HAS ON THE ENVIRONMENT SO WE ENURAGE PEOPLE TO BRG A RSABLE WATER BOTTLE WH THEM RATHER THAN RELYG ON SGLE-E BOTTL."HOW TO GET THEREMARDI GRAS ANISERS ARE URGG SPECTATORS TO TRAVEL BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT WH ROAD CLOSUR PLACE AROUND THE CY.NSW TRANSPORT MATERIAL SAYS "PLENTY OF EXTRA TRAS AND B WILL N TO THE CY AS WELL AS ADDNAL LATE NIGHT SERVIC TO HELP YOU GET HOME AFTER THE CELEBRATNS".PARTICIPANTS GET READY FOR THE 2017 PARA. SOURCE: GETTYTOWN HALL, ST JAM AND MART PLACE STATNS PROVI ACCS TO THE NORTHERN SI OF THE PARA ROUTE AT DARLGHURST.CENTRAL STATN IS BT FOR THE SOUTHERN SI OF THE PARA ROUTE AROUND SURRY HILLS AND ANZAC PARA.MM STATN WILL BE CLOSED OM 5PM ON SATURDAY UNTIL 4AM ON SUNDAY.THE PARA TRADNALLY BEGS WH THE DYK ON BIK NVOY. SOURCE: AAPIF YOU'RE WATCHG OM HOMEON SATURDAY, SBS WILL BE LIVE STREAMG THE PARA S ENTIRETY VIA SBS ON DEMAND AND SBS ATRALIA'S TWTER AND FACEBOOK ACUNTS.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYTHEN ON SUNDAY, TUNE TO SBS AT 8:30PM FOR A FULL REPLAY OF THE EVENT.NEWS PRENTER NARELDA JABS, EDIAN JOEL CREASEY, THE FEED'S PATRICK ABBOUD AND LOL EDIAN ZOë COOMBS MARR WILL GIVE A NDOWN ON FLOATS, TERVIEWG PARTICIPANTS AND SHARG STORI OM THE PARA.THIS BROADST WILL ALSO BE STREAMED LIVE ON SBS ON DEMAND.PARTICIPANTS MAKE THEIR FAL PREPARATNS BEFORE THE 2018 PARA. SOURCE: AAPAS WELL AS FULL PARA VERAGE, YOU N ALSO WATCH QUEER CEMA WH SBS ON DEMAND'S QUEER BGE, WHICH BOASTS A WI SELECTN OF QUEER FILMS, DOCUMENTARI AND TELEVISN SHOWS OM ATRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD.AND WHILE YOU WA FOR THE PARA, YOU N TCH UP ON ALL THGS MARDI GRAS AT SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 28 FEBARY 2019 11:02AMUPDATED 2 MARCH 2019 10:37PMSOURCE: SBS NEWSSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

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’s Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and an expected 300, 000 people will le Oxford Street to watch more than 12, 000 participants and hundreds of floats sli by as the sun sets.

But Mardi Gras harks back to a darker time when homosexualy was illegal and police btaly and timidatn was a night 1978, hundreds of Sydneysirs marched down Oxford St to show solidary wh gay people the US who were fightg their own civil rights mpaigns. All charg were later far om disuragg the gay and lbian rights movement, the police actn galvanised and here we are 41 years later wh a globally famo event. This year's program for the Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras ftival is s most diverse yet, wh a range of events, shows, ncerts, talks and exhibns welg Sydneysirs to expand their horizons and celebrate the work of both lol and ternatnal LGBTIQ+ talents and you're keen for a night out, wonrful events like Sissy Ball and Club Briefs prent an enthrallg cultural pe.

Curated by Charlie Murphy and Maeve Marsn, the event clus talks on subjects like: what means to be non-bary, queer rights Iraq, the aftermath of Safe Schools, the ath of the gay bar, and the prohibive st of medilly transng and lack of rmed re available to trans, tersex and genr non-bary a break om the bright lights and lose yourself some good old-fashned discsn. The muny rallied around the mural, wrg msag of love and support over the homophobic graffi. You n fd more rmatn on The Rise and Fall of St Gee Butch Monologu Source: Seymour CentrePrented by Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras and Theatre Works, this engagg piece of theatre is not to be as a "powerful and often humoro llectn of secret stori", The Butch Monologu are based on the te stori of butch-intified women livg both lolly and all around the world.

GALLERY: INSI THE SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

SBS Arabic 24 will report live om the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para to Arabic-speakg dienc around n watch the SBS para verage on Sunday March 3rd at 8. They asked for solidary activi on the Stonewall anniversary to ci wh their march agast the anti-gay Briggs Iniative on the California ballot.

Ken and others lled a meetg of lbian and gay groups and dividuals, which beme the Gay Solidary Group. Chants of “Out of the bars and to the streets” joed the sound of gay liberatn anthems ‘Glad to be Gay’ and ‘O to a Gym Teacher’. The Gay Solidary Group, other groups and dividuals and me together for a massive polil and legal effort – the Drop the Charg mpaign.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

• 15 July – 2, 000 take part largt ever gay rights march wh 14 arrts.

• 27 Augt – 300 march down Oxford St om the 4th Natnal Homosexual Conference wh 104 arrts. This was the thori’ attempt to keep the muny le, but Sydney’s gays and lbians would not get back le.

A new arts hub, a pool party and a vogug ball are some of the 100-pl events planned the fortnight leadg up to the a knockout 40th-anniversary year 2018, the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras has unveiled a diverse and forward-lookg 2019 program that’s packed wh muny events, dance parti, theatre, mic and fay-foced fun.

THE 2019 SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS PARA

The untdown is on for Atralia's LGBTQI+ night of s 41st year, the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para will be held on Saturday 2 200 floats will make their way along the inic Oxford Street and beyond, ont of an timated crowd of 300, 000 people. Source: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi GrasMardi Gras CEO Tere Casu told SBS News on Monday "outsi of brgg a se and a hand to wave at the thoands of marchers as they go by, we would remend spectators brg along some snacks to enjoy while they watch the para as well as a hat and sunblock if you're planng on arrivg early". 9NewsNatnalGallery: Insi the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras1 of 28Attributn: AAPKylie Mogue surpris fans at Mardi GrasIn Atralia for her Goln tour, popstar Kylie Mogue surprised fans at Mardi Gras by makg an unannounced appearance.

Tickets to the biggt events of Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 2019 are on sale now. Last year was a big one for Sydney’s Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Ftival.

The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Awards regnise excellence across 2019’s season of events, honourg those dividuals and groups among who go above and beyond to make the ftival extra special.

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2019: WHAT TO DO & WHERE TO STORE YOUR LUGGAGE

NOMINEES FOR THE RON AUSTIN AWARD FOR MOST FABULOUS PARADE ENTRY:​ NSW Gay and Lbian Rights Lobby, Heaps Gay, Life Whout Barriers. WINNER: Heaps Gay. Lifelong gay activists Peter De Waal and his late partner Peter Bonsall-Boone have been regular atten and strong supporters of Mardi Gras over many s.

Para-goers dance the streets of Sydney durg the annual Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para Sydney on March 2, 2019.

(SAEED KHAN / AFP/Getty Imag) The streets of Sydney, Atralia turned to a party on March 2, 2019 durg the Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para. The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 2019 is an annual LGBTQI pri ftival and para Sydney.