The PM has joined a crowd of 50,000 people marching across Sydney Harbour Bridge for gay rights and marriage equality in a colourful end to the city's WorldPride Festival
A rainbow-hued crowd of 50,000 people has begun streaming across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of gender diversity, transgender rights and marriage equality in Australia, joined by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, foreign minister Penny Wong, celebrities and activists.
Jason ‘Whitney’ Coombes and his niece Alexandra George are marching across Sydney Harbour Bridge together.The walk was led by 45 “rainbow champions”, influential Australians in the LGBTQIA+ community, representing each of the 45 years since the first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and its original participants, known as the 78ers.
Albanese said this morning’s bridge walk was a moment of great symbolism.“It’s about saying everybody should be valued for who they are and that our society is strengthened by its diversity. It’s a celebration of that but also an acknowledgement, being led by the 78ers that social change doesn’t happen in a uniform way. And it’s not easy, and people have made great sacrifices.”
Szubanski said she was not out to overtly change minds: “We just go on being ourselves and hopefully they’ll realise, you know, it’s more fun to be with us than against us.”
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