News and Event Updat - Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras

Contents:

• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS' FUN AND FLAMBOYANT DISPLAYS
• FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR
• SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS SHOULD STAND FOR SOLIDARY WH THE OPPRSED — NOT WH COPS AND CORPORATNS

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras – WorldPri 2023 |.

From the phenomenal para to poignant talks, dazzlg nights of live performance and visual feasts of fancy, the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Ftival returns 2021 wh a glterg program of events.

The 2021 Ftival kicks off Friday 19 Febary and nng for two weeks until Sunday 7 March 2021, culmatg wh the inic Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para on Saturday 6 March at the Sydney Cricket Ground. 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' FUN AND FLAMBOYANT DISPLAYS

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. 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. 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.

FIRST GAY 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.

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 GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

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.

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

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.

SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS SHOULD STAND FOR SOLIDARY WH THE OPPRSED — NOT WH COPS AND CORPORATNS

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. 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.

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’.