Sydney’s Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras has seen many a battle in its lifetime. It’s baptism of fire in 1978 saw sustained police aggression and the arrest and assault of 53 men and women. And despite there being no arrests … Continue reading →
A couple of years ago someone posted a Comment on this blog asking, “if I lived in those times, would it have been possible to be happy as a gay male or not.” I replied that it most certainly was, … Continue reading →
It’s virtually impossible to establish when individual people living with AIDS (PLWAs) first marched in Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. My guess would be around 1985/86 as that’s when we began to see significant numbers of people with … Continue reading →
Individual Aboriginal people have participated in Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade since its inception in 1978. In 1982, for example, Roger McKay marched alone in the parade carrying the Aboriginal flag. He was determined to make the point that, no matter … Continue reading →
AIDS has certainly been subject to some extraordinary media distortions and deceit over the years. It’s usually the tabloid press (with special merit to Rupert Murdoch’s publications) that have produced the greatest amount of offensive rubbish. So it came as … Continue reading →