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Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras 1997

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Fair Day Gallery

Parade Gallery

Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is the major event of the lesbian and gay calendar in Sydney. Not just the parade or the party, but the whole of the month of February. Mardi Gras is a festival of art, theatre, film, sports, community events and shopping. It is a celebration of our diversity and our achievements. It is Pride embodied.

The Mardi Gras Parade has become the biggest triumph of our fight for rights and recognition. Thousands of lesbians, gay men, transexuals, bisexuals, families and friends are watched by over half a million people as we dance, mince and prance our way up Oxford and Flinders Streets. The parade has also been broadcast to tens of millions of people around Australia and the world. With around 200 floats, walking and marching groups and individual entrants (not forgetting Miss New Zealand), and a few surprises, it is not to be missed!

The first parade in June 1978 was not nearly as spectacular. It was part of a world wide celebrate of the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York. That first parade ended with a violent clash with police with many injured and 53 arrested.

So slip into something sexy, slap on some make up and join us in this year's Mardi Gras Festival, here on Pinkboard, elsewhere in CyberSpace and in Darlinghurst, Newtown, Glebe, Paramatta, Mosman, Sans Souchi, Mascot, Leichhardt, Manly, Redfern and throught Sydney.