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 →
This month Australia celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The first one in 1978 ended in injuries and mass arrests when police attacked was had been a peaceful march. We’ve been through many things … 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 →
Australia’s ‘Reverend’ Fred Nile has built a career out of homophobic opportunism. He is the man to whom the media could turn whenever they needed a ‘controversial’ sound-byte on topics such as decriminalisation, HIV/AIDS and anti-discrimination. For several years he … Continue reading →