About 10.45am on Friday, I received the following text message from a friend and former colleague. "Watching you on tv xxx move out from behind Nat where do I buy merch?" Shortly afterwards, she added, "Ps I'm in WA forgot time difference". If you look closely at the video below, you'll see me as a … Continue reading Mardi Gras
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“It’s all going so fast”, I said to my colleague to the left of me. We were walking / marching / dancing along Oxford Street, as part of the "ABC Pride" float in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Even though ABC Pride is a staff-led initiative (it was not an “official” ABC float), … Continue reading ABC Pride in the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade
Having spent a few years in the early 1990s, living in Wagga Wagga, I was well aware of the story of Captain Moonlite, the bushranger, and the hold-up at nearby Wantabadgery Station in 1879. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Moonlite What I wasn't aware of until the mid 1990s, was the suggestion he had been involved in a same-sex relationship … Continue reading Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt
"What are your plans for Mardi Gras? Are you going to the parade? Are you going to the party?" have been the questions colleagues have been asking me over the last couple of weeks. When I've told them, "I'm actually a little shy, I'm not very good with crowds", they've seemed a little disappointed. But … Continue reading Pump Up The Jam
There were moments in the movie, Riot, where I had to look away. I'm not one for violence in movies, as I often find the violence in films is somewhat gratuitous. Though you wouldn't say that about this film, which recounts the events of the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1978. In … Continue reading Riot Preview Screening
There was quite a crowd tonight in Sydney at the National Art School. As part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for 2018, currently underway, there's a terrific exhibition called, "The Museum of Love & Protest", which commemorates forty-years since the first ever Mardi Gras. These are some of my favourite photographs from … Continue reading Museum of Love & Protest
As we head into Mardi Gras season in Sydney, and in particular the fortieth anniversary (though strictly speaking, it's half way through the year), I thought I'd re-share an earlier post from 2016. I recently had an email from someone interested in the oral history project I had been involved in back in 1998, celebrating … Continue reading Memories Of Mardi Gras 1978