#sydney worldpride 2023

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HIV+ activist & theatre maker Jeremy Goldstein reflects on his Sydney WorldPride Arts experience

Renowned HIV+ theatre maker and queer arts producer Jeremy Goldstein surveys Sydney WorldPride Arts for The Queer Review, and finds a radically inclusive multi-artform festival of gender, identity, and sexuality. Beyond the Mardi Gras and the usual circuit parties, WorldPride Arts reinvents the harbour city as one of the world’s greatest LGBTQIA+ cultural destinations. I came of age on Sydney’s…

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Extract: To Claud Bailey, who is 24 and from Sydney, Pride this year is like taking a holiday to a “gay utopia”.

“The world is a heteronormative place. So this is what it would feel like if the world was gay all the time in terms of how much is on and the fact that it’s all for us.”

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Did a pride march

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Sydney world pride 2023

This artwork I created to celebrate world pride. This year it is being held in Sydney, Australia from the 17th of February to the 5th of March. This is the first time the event is being held in the southern hemisphere.

I really hope that everyone can be themselves this year.

Happy pride!

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The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was held on this day, 24 June, in 1978 in commemoration of International Gay Solidarity Day, and the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. A parade of around 1500 people was ambushed by police, ending in 53 arrests.

43 years on, the event has now blossomed into the biggest queer festival in Australia. This year it was celebrated as part of WorldPride, and the original protesters - known as the 78ers - led 50,000 people in a Pride march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

[I mages: police arrest a young man at the 1978 march; 78ers marching at WorldPride with a rainbow, black and pink banner reading “78ers The First Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Australia; still out and proud; 1978-2023″]

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Kylie Minogue

Sydney WorldPride Opening Concert 2023

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Kylie out on Sydney streets ahead of her Worldpride performance.

2023

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Kylie Minogue - Sydney WorldPride Concert 2023

Happy pride to all of you wonderful people!!!!

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Kylie and Dannii Minogue

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Sydney WorldPride 2023 with its official theme 'Gather Dream Amplify' will be held between 17 February and 5 March during Australia's summer and consist of a 17-day combined 45th Anniversary Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras/WorldPride 2023 Festival.[63] The centrepiece will be a three-day LGBTIQ+ Human Rights Conference focusing on LGBTIQ+ people's experiences of discrimination and persecution in the Asia Pacific region and more broadly. Other stated signature events include:

Sunday 19 February – Fair Day

Friday 24 February – Opening Ceremony presented by AMEX

Saturday 25 February – Mardi Gras Parade

Saturday 25 February – Mardi Gras Party

Sunday 26 February – Laneway

First Nations Gathering Space

Wednesday 1 March – Friday 3 March – Human Right Conference

First Nations Gala Concert

Mardi Gras International Arts Festival

30th Anniversary Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival

Saturday 4 March – Bondi Beach Party

Sunday 5 March – Pride March (over the Sydney Harbour Bridge)

Sunday 5 March – Closing Ceremony

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With Courtney Act, Sydney World Pride 2023 (10/03/23)

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Call to uninvite PM from queer events after broken promises

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Call to uninvite PM from queer events after broken promises

Just.Equal Australia has declared Anthony Albanese should not be invited to LGBTIQA+ events or parades after broken promises to the community, including a shocking call on LGBTIQA+ inclusion in the next national Census.

Yesterday, it was confirmed the Albanese Government has vetoed counting LGBTIQA+ people in the 2026 Census, breaking a pre-election promise.

The decision came just weeks after the government dumped a key reform to protect LGBTIQA+ staff and students in religious schools from discrimination.

Just.Equal’s Rodney Croome declared, “Mr Albanese should not be invited to any LGBTIQA+ event or parade until he counts us in the Census and protects LGBTIQA+ teachers and students from discrimination.

“He may have marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for WorldPride last year, but in the eyes of many LGBTIQA+ Australians he has now pulled up the draw bridge to equality.”

‘Deep betrayals of trust’

LGBTIQA+ organizations, who’d worked for years on counting us in the next Census, found out about the government’s decision in media reports on Sunday.

Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh confirmed that day there would be no change.

“While the Australian Bureau of Statistics tests changes from time to time, it’s the government’s decision that there will be no change to the topics in the next Census,” he said.

The Australian Labor Party’s 2023 national platform argued LGBTIQ+ Aussies should be counted in the census. The policy platform also committed to ensuring the 2026 count gathers that data.

“The decision not to include us in the Census shows that in this Government’s eyes, we don’t count,” Rodney Croome said.

“Last year the Federal Government funded the development of a national LGBTIQA+ health strategy. But now it’s hobbled its own initiative by vetoing its main data source.

“Exclusion from the Census, plus the failure to protect LGBTIQA+ people from discrimination in religious schools, are deep betrayals of the trust of the LGBTIQA+ community.”

Religious discrimination reform dumped

On religious discrimination reform, Labor shelved proposed draft bills after repeatedly promising change, including before the 2022 election. An Australian Law Reform Commission report also recommended the law change.

At that time, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blamed the Coalition for the failure to reach an agreement.

“I don’t intend to engage in a partisan debate when it comes to religious discrimination,” he said earlier this month.

But Greens LGBTQIA+ spokesperson Stephen Bates argued Labor had refused to work with the Greens to pass the legislation.

Rodney Croome said a survey of LGBTIQA+ voters after the last election showed 21% shifted from Labor to the Greens, teals and independents because of Labor’s support for Scott Morrison’s anti-LGBTQIA+ Religious Discrimination Bill.

“Mr Albanese says he wants to promote social cohesion and prevent division. But by pushing LGBTIQA+ Australians back into the statistical closet he is doing exactly the opposite,” Rodney Croome said.

“The Government’s betrayal of our community will inevitably mean Federal Labor will lose yet more votes of LGBTIQA+ people at the next election.”

Read more:

Government blasted for ‘shameful’ LGBTIQ+ Census decision

‘Betrayal’: PM slammed for dumping key discrimination reform

ABS sorry to queer Australians hurt by exclusion from Census

‘In the dark’: Census slammed for snubbing LGBTIQ+ Australians

‘It’s gutless’: Gay former religious school student calls out PM

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this was worldpride 2023 in sydney which i attended, there was a march which went across the bridge and it happened just as the sun rose. one of the best moments in my life