Now and the next 45 years - Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras

Contents:

• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• UNED WE SHE: SYDNEY’S GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS 2022 – PICTUR
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS SPOTLIGHTS ASIA-PACIFIC REGN PRI
• FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS
• SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Para Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras ParaUng over 6500 marchers across 160+ glterg floats, a star-studd le-up of special guts and a uple of surpris – this is one you’re not gog to want to miss!

In 2023, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras and Sydney WorldPri uned to prent a tly global LGBTQIA+SB pri ftival. In the Ftival Report below, learn more about the legacy of Sydney WorldPri for Intepri, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras, Sydney cy, First Natns muni, the Human Rights Conference and the broar LGBTQIA+ muny. The Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras annual pri para celebrat the LGBT muny.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

The world-renowned Para returns to Oxford Street to celebrate Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras’ 46th anniversary. Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras – WorldPri 2023 |. 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’.

SYDNEY GAY & LBIAN MARDI GRAS

The Gay Solidary Group, other groups and dividuals and me together for a massive polil and legal effort – the Drop the Charg mpaign. • 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. 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.

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

Now a weeks-long event, the pièce résistance remas the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, which has taken over Oxford Street (or 2021 and 2022, the Sydney Cricket Ground) annually sce 1978. The para is host to hundreds of floats and thoands of rabow, glter and leather-clad marchers, showsg the vibrant diversy of the LGBTQIA+ muny of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual. Its grassroots origs as a prott for gay rights borne of a sire to simply celebrate queerns rema at the heart of the event, regardls of how extravagant grows — and we turned to one of Atralia’s leadg experts on our untry’s queer history for the full story behd the glter.

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS SPOTLIGHTS ASIA-PACIFIC REGN PRI

Tradnally, the para is held on Oxford Street, the beatg heart of Sydney’s gay nightclub scene. Oxford Street is the home of Mardi Gras | FACEBOOK / SYDNEY GAY AND LESBIAN MARDI GRAS. While go by the name of ‘Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras’, ’s important to note that the event reprents all of the queer muny, not jt those who intify as gay or lbian.

“There’s been a range of studi that show alli have a really important role to play speakg out agast homophobia and transphobia … they also have a role to play helpg to make our society be one where everyone n be celebrated for who they are.

ALLIES have an IMPORTANT ROLE to play speakg out agast homophobia and transphobia.

FIRST GAY MARDI GRAS

Mardi Gras is an opportuny to she a light on gaps acceptance and queer rights | FACEBOOK / SYDNEY GAY AND LESBIAN MARDI GRAS. “It was part of a day of events that had been anised to draw attentn to the discrimatn that LGBTQ+ people were experiencg … It was arranged around the anniversary of the Stonewall rts, which were an event New York Cy 1969, when the police raid a gay bar lled the Stonewall Inn and patrons fought back, and sparked a lot of attentn that really drew attentn to that movement. Organised primarily by the Gay Solidary Group, the day’s events were set to clu a tradnal prott march and a meetg, but the eveng street para was more of a last mute addn.

On Oxford Street, a number of unrground gay bars had begun to pop up, but as Dr Robson explas, “At that time, was illegal to engage same sex, male homosexual activy New South Wal” — so unrstandably, the queer muny was still largely a hidn one. Why don’t we jt celebrate gayns whout any polil emphasis and see if we n’t volve the people the bars their own liberatn?

SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

Why don’t we jt CELEBRATE GAYNESS whout any polil emphasis?