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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.
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 1978–2018 interactive Timeline on Google Arts & Culture [dead link ] Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives holds extensive collections relating to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, including records, photographs, publications, posters, artwork, T-shirts, badges etc.
24 June – The inaugural Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, a gay rights march is held in Oxford Street, Sydney to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York. [15] 25 June – Trudie Adams disappears from the Surf Life Saving Club in Newport, New South Wales. [16]
These were the marchers in Sydney’s first ever Mardi Gras peaceful protest in 1978, which called for gay equality and a decriminalization of same-sex relations. Many marchers were brutally ...
From 21–27 May 1978, 900 people attended Sydney's first gay film festival at the Paris Theatre. [4] One of the films, Word is Out [5], which included footage from the San Francisco Freedom Day Parade inspired Austin, a member of CAMP, with the idea of a street party which later became the first Mardi Gras in June of that year. [6]
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. ... Australian outfit Bronte Pictures is lining up ...
She was also involved with the 1978 protests that became the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and has advocated the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia. McCrossin is one of the group known as the “ 78ers ” who participated in the events in Sydney in 1978 including the first Mardi Gras , protests at Darlinghurst and Central ...
Peter De Waal was born in 1938. [1] As lifelong activists for the gay and lesbian community in Sydney, de Waal and his partner Peter Bonsall-Boone shared Australia's first televised gay male kiss, [2] established a counselling service from their Balmain home and confronted police during the first Sydney Mardi Gras parade in 1978.