A selectn of imag om’s the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, which celebrat s 40th anniversary this year
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
- GAY MARDI GRAS SYDNEY GO CORPORATE, CLASHG WH ACTIVIST ROOTS
SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2018: YOUR GUI TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATNS
If you're donng glter and grabbg a rabow flag to head to the 40th annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras tonight, then get a load of the tips to prepare for a sparklg celebratn of pri and of urse, same-sex marriage. * gay mardi gras sydney 2018 *
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! 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. It is an annual event promotg awarens of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr issu and them.
SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS – PICTUR
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.
This year the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para ma s way along Oxford Street for the 40th year a was a typilly loud, lourful and vibrant affair that mixed polics wh partyg, rnch wh glamour and memoratn wh celebratn. "The rnival may be over for Sydney's Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras" ran the headl at the time.
"Gay abandon — Mardi Gras on the rocks. "There'd be the ntroversi about whether people who weren't intified as gay or lbian should go. The money flowed and looked like always were years which lbian and gay life Atralia seemed to h the mastream.
40TH SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS BREAKS RERDS
(Supplied: Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras)The last state to crimalise male homosexualy, Tasmania, did so 1997. Anti-discrimatn legislatn provid a range of protectns to lbian and gay people and regnn of same-sex relatnships had creased. David Mills was a journalist wh the gay newspaper the Sydney Star Observer at the time, and says the muny was "ught between moments".
(Supplied: Sheona Whe, prted by Lucifoil Posters)From the mid-1990s onwards, some mentators began to e the phrase 'post-gay'. Profsor Reynolds explas that they were scribg "this sense that beg gay was one inty strand amongst a number for any dividual".
(Supplied: Norman Edwards (signer) Hardy (photographer) / Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras)But although dance parti were ls reliable sourc of fundg than they once had been, other optns were hard to intify and more and more parti were planned. The Gay Gam was to be held Sydney November 2002 and anisers for that event had adopted a seemgly tried and tted fund-raisg strategy — they would hold five dance parti of their own.
GAY MARDI GRAS SYDNEY GO CORPORATE, CLASHG WH ACTIVIST ROOTS
"There was a quote at the time, a gay activist sayg 'Mardi Gras is absolutely central to gay life Sydney, NSW and Atralia'.
"Together wh ACON, the Gay and Lbian Rights Lobby and Pri, we drafted a rcue plan. "Importantly, was the time of year when some of the gay anisatns and gay and lbian bs — pubs, clubs, newspapers — ma a b more money, and that actually kept them to be alive, and kept them to be important parts of the fabric of the muny as we go forward. One of Sydney’s most-celebrated and most important cultural events, the Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, celebrat s 40th anniversary this year brgg lour, self-exprsn and love to the streets of Sydney for three weeks.
What Is The Sydney Gay And Lbian Mardi Gras?