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The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras is an annual pri para celebratg the LGBT muny; attend by hundreds of thoands of people annually.

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SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Disver what’s on at the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and WorldPri 2023 and celebrate LGBTQIA+ muni Sydney. * sydney gay and lesbian mardi gras festival *

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.

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1978: First gay Mardi Gras march, Sydney * sydney gay and lesbian mardi gras festival *

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.

FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS

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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.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

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. 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.

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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.

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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.

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Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 2022 pictur: 44th annual ftival gets unrway .

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