Table of Contents hide. George Mouratidis Content manager at Stasher. You may also like. Stasher Destination Guides: Best things to do in February 26, February 19, Sydney's 'rainbow crossing' returns for Mardi Gras. Participants get ready for the parade. The parade traditionally begins with the Dykes on Bikes convoy. Members of the Tiwi Islands transgender community at Mardi Gras Participants make their final preparations before the parade.
Published 28 February at am , updated 2 March at pm. Topics that may interest you National. Australian Politics. Follow SBS News. Mardi Gras has enjoyed a fantastic partnership with SBS over the last eight years. Mardi Gras has enjoyed a fantastic partnership with SBS over the last eight years and while this chapter is coming to a close, we are proud of all we have achieved together. A dazzling display of pride and self-expression will descend on the Sydney Cricket Ground once more.
Today is Love Your Bookshop Day, an initiative of the Australian Booksellers Association which aims to celebrate bookshops across the country. If you can afford it, Mardi Gras has a number of viewing areas where you can relax and watch the spectacle.
But Mardi Gras harks back to a darker time when homosexuality was illegal and police brutality and intimidation was rife. On a night in , hundreds of Sydneysiders marched down Oxford St to show solidarity with gay people in the US who were fighting their own civil rights campaigns.
As they reached Kings Cross police demanded the crowd disperse. Many of the marchers were arrested and held in a local police station. All charges were later dropped. But far from discouraging the gay and lesbian rights movement, the police action galvanised it and here we are 41 years later with a globally famous event. We know, Mardi Gras without glitter is like the Fyre festival without limp cheese sandwiches and long departed influencers.
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