Live and Proud was a drag spectacular, with Casey Donovan and Charli XCX among the many highlights
ll of Sydney seemed filled with lovers on Friday night, as a 500-drone light display burst forth in the sky, morphing from a flower to a heart to a diversity shark to a progress pride flag, officially heralding the beginning ofThe most rhetorical question overheard in Sydney’s Domain for the Live and Proud opening concert marking 17 days of some 350 events: are we allowed to stand and dance? For dance we didas an essential queer communal act, almost 45 years after the city’s first Gay Mardi...
WorldPride was a big coup for Sydney, and a slew of international video messages were beamed in: Stephen Fry informed us that Kings Cross and Potts Point taught him to be gay; White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge said something sassy, but in the deafening roar of audience adoration I have no idea what she uttered.
The political messages, meanwhile, did not go unheeded. Mardi Gras 78er Robyn Kennedy gave a powerful spoken-word performance as Sheldon Riley sang his composition Rise , accompanied by the huge Out and Loud Gay and Lesbian Choir. Their booming collective voice was thrilling. The New South Wales arts minister, Ben Franklin, used his moment on stage to announce the Perrottet government would allow Sydney’s queer museum Qtopia to make the former Darlinghurst police station near Oxford Street its “permanent” home, after the state had earlier resisted lobbying to relocate NSW Health administration functions from the building.
A month out from the NSW state election and on the eve of Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade, Equality Australia, Mardi Gras and ACON launched Act for Equality, a campaign calling on all NSW parliamentarians “to commit to action on outstanding LGBTIQ+ human rights issues”.
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