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The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras or Sydney Mardi Gras is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ history and culture. [22]The term Mardi Gras derives from the celebration on Mardi (French for "Tuesday") when Gras (French for "fat") is eaten prior to the Christian abstinence period of Lent preceding Easter.
The first Sydney Mardi Gras was an evening street protest in support of gay and lesbian rights along Oxford Street in Sydney on 24 June 1978. [1] [2] [3] The protestors were assaulted and thrown in gaol, with many affected by the trauma for years afterwards.
A history of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras / by Graham Carbery (Melbourne, Vic : Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, 1995) AQuA has also been used as a key research facility for almost every LGBT historical work published in Australia.
In Oceania, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Australia is Oceania’s largest Pride event. [citation needed] The March of Pride (Buenos Aires) is the largest Pride event in Argentina while São Paulo Gay Pride Parade is the largest Pride event in Brazil, with Santiago Pride as the largest Pride event in Chile.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the world. The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras festival in Sydney, [7] is attended by hundreds of thousands of people from around Australia and overseas. One of the largest such festivals in the world, [8] Mardi Gras is the largest Pride event in Oceania.
The screenplay will take in the key narrative moments in the birth of Sydney’s gay and lesbian Mardi Gras and reimagines them in musical form. […] EXCLUSIVE: Australian outfit Bronte Pictures ...
The group Dayenu began as an idea in 1999 to create a gay and Jewish float for the 2000 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. [1] [2] [8] [9] After the parade the group began in order to offer permanent resources for LGBTQ+ Jews in Sydney. [1] [2] In 2013 Dayenu celebrated its bar mitzvah as it turned 13
Mardi is the French word for Tuesday, and gras means "fat." This name comes from the custom of eating all the fatty, rich foods in the house prior to Lent in order to prepare for fasting and ...