Mardi Gras fever is shaking Sydney at this moment, all we can do from this side of the planet is watching and hoping that we will be there some day in the future :)
Here is something about Mardi Gras...
The Sydney Mardi Gras is an annual LGBTQIA pride parade and festival in Sydney, Australia, attended by hundreds of thousands of people from around Australia and overseas. It is one of the largest such festivals in the world, and includes a variety of events such as the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and Party, Bondi Beach Drag Races, Harbour Party, the academic discussion panel Queer Thinking, Mardi Gras Film Festival, as well as Fair Day, which attracts 70,000 people to Victoria Park, Sydney.
Sydney Mardi Gras is one of Australia's biggest tourist drawcards, with the parade and dance party attracting many international and domestic tourists. It is New South Wales' second-largest annual event in terms of economic impact, generating an annual income of about A$30 million for the state.
The event grew from gay rights marches held annually since
1978, when numerous participants had been contentiously arrested by New South
Wales State Police. The Mardi Gras Parade maintains a political flavour, with
many marching groups and floats promoting LGBTQI rights issues or themes. Reflecting
changes since the first Sydney Mardi Gras, participants in the Mardi Gras
Parade now include groups of uniformed Australian Defence Force personnel,
Police officers from New South Wales State Police, as well as
interstate/federal police officers, firefighters and other emergency services
personnel from the Australian LGBTI community. Marriage equality was a dominant
theme in the 2011 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade with at least 15 floats lobbying for
same-sex marriage
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