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• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• GAY CANAL PRI AMSTERDAM 2024

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

Gay rights had entered the natnal spotlight. The march, held on June 28, 1970, was the first gay pri march the U. The month of June is wily nsired Gay Pri Month.

The first Mardi Gras was held on 24 June 1978 at 10 pm as a night-time celebratn followg a morng prott march and memoratn of the Stonewall Rts More than 500 people moved down Oxford St, llg for an end to discrimatn agast homosexuals employment and hog, an end to police harassment and the repeal of all anti-homosexual laws.

53 of the marchers were arrted although most charg were eventually dropped, the Sydney Morng Herald published the nam of those arrted full, leadg to many people beg outed to their iends and plac of employment, and many of those arrted lost their jobs as homosexualy was a crime New South Wal (NSW) until 1984. In 1981 the para was shifted to Febary, wh the name changed to the "Sydney Gay Mardi Gras an creasgly large number of people not only participated the now summertime event, but a crowd of 5000 me to watch .

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

This would ntue to bee an tegral part of the Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras. In 1988 the para was renamed the "Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras" at an Extraordary General Meetg.

By 1993, the Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras Para had bee the largt night time outdoor para the world. A signifint aspect of Sydney Pri Month is s homage to the Stonewall Rts, a pivotal moment history that sparked the Gay liberatn movement.

Sydney Mardi Gras is the largt gay party Atralia, and one of the biggt dat the LGBTQ Pri lendar worldwi.

GAY CANAL PRI AMSTERDAM 2024

Beg the cy's ma gay pri event, Mardi Gras Sydney attracts thoands of partygoers every year.

Sydney Mardi Gras first started through a gay rights para Sydney, on June 24, 1978. Followg a day memoratn of the Stonewall Rts of 1969, LGBTQ lols gathered on Oxford Street at 10pm to march for equal regn, fight scrimatn agast LGBTQ people employment and hog, revoke anti-gay laws, and end police harassment. So if you are lookg to experience your pri down unr, the heart of the Atralian summer, be sure to pencil Sydney Mardi Gras to your gay events lendar this year.

Then get planng your trip to Atralia’s hottt gay pri event. A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”.