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Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - 1/3/08
« on: March 02, 2008, 06:50:53 PM »
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Sydney gay pride event turns 30
Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - 1/3/08
The annual event is now a major attraction
Some 300,000 people have turned out in Sydney, Australia, for the 30th annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade.

This year's parade is the largest ever, with 10,000 participants, including a military contingent, strutting their stuff in colourful costumes.

The event has become one of the largest gay pride festivals in the world and generates millions in tourism revenue.

Members of the original 1978 march, which ended in clashes with police and 50 arrests, are being honoured.

About 100 ministers and clergy will offer an apology for the treatment of gays and lesbians.

'Still difficult'

The event attracts people from around the world. Air New Zealand put on a special "pink flight" from San Francisco to Sydney.

As usual, the lesbian motorcycle group Dykes on Bikes began the procession up central Sydney's Oxford Street, followed by nearly 200 of the original "class of '78" or their partners.

For the first time, an official contingent from the Australian Defence Force is taking part.

While Sydney has embraced its gay community, not all of Australia has, said one of the 1978 marchers.

"It is still very difficult for young people in country towns to come out as lesbian or gay, and even in outer suburbs and regional centres," Diane Minnis told The Age newspaper.

The parade includes 150 themed floats, moving dance floors, drag queens and a host of scantily-clad revellers stretching for 4km.

The annual event has become one of the city's major tourist attractions.

But it is all a far cry from the inaugural fancy-dress gay pride march 30 years ago.

Back then male homosexuality was still illegal in New South Wales and the march ended with clashes with police and 50 arrests.

Now it is arguably the world's pre-eminent gay and lesbian celebration.

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Re: Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - 1/3/08
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2008, 10:59:57 PM »
I hope one day real right wing governments are in power and all these parades are gone.
Turkey must get out of NATO. NATO must get out of Kosovo-Serbia. Croats must get out of Crajina. All muslims must get out of Christian and Jewish land. Turks must get out of Cyprus. Turks must get out of "Istanbul". "Palestinians" must get out of Israel. Israel must become independent from USA.

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« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2008, 11:53:03 PM »
Mardi Gras already was. And doesn't Catholicism preach against homosexuality? So why do they turn a Catholic celebration into a homosexual one?



It always been a homosexaul one here

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Re: Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - 1/3/08
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2008, 07:02:52 AM »
Sydney should be nuked and the earth salted.

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« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2008, 07:04:15 AM »
Sydney should be nuked and the earth salted.

This I totally agree on  :::D O0

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« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2008, 08:28:59 AM »
Sydney should be nuked and the earth salted.

This I totally agree on  :::D O0
Why? is it such a bad city?
Turkey must get out of NATO. NATO must get out of Kosovo-Serbia. Croats must get out of Crajina. All muslims must get out of Christian and Jewish land. Turks must get out of Cyprus. Turks must get out of "Istanbul". "Palestinians" must get out of Israel. Israel must become independent from USA.

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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2008, 08:40:49 AM »
Sydney should be nuked and the earth salted.

This I totally agree on  :::D O0
Why? is it such a bad city?

Its a rats nest full of muslims, and Gays, and the poor Jews have  to be around it.

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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2008, 08:48:06 AM »
Sydney should be nuked and the earth salted.

This I totally agree on  :::D O0
Why? is it such a bad city?

Its a rats nest full of muslims, and Gays, and the poor Jews have  to be around it.
Why not arrest all of them and ship them back to some arab land?
Turkey must get out of NATO. NATO must get out of Kosovo-Serbia. Croats must get out of Crajina. All muslims must get out of Christian and Jewish land. Turks must get out of Cyprus. Turks must get out of "Istanbul". "Palestinians" must get out of Israel. Israel must become independent from USA.

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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2008, 09:15:45 AM »
Sydney just needs a bid enema to get rid of all the sh*t.

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Re: Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - 1/3/08
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2008, 04:48:14 PM »
Sydney should be nuked and the earth salted.

This I totally agree on  :::D O0
Why? is it such a bad city?

Its a rats nest full of muslims, and Gays, and the poor Jews have  to be around it.
Why not arrest all of them and ship them back to some arab land?

We can't they have been here too long, many now have citizenship  >:(

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« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2008, 03:38:18 AM »
Sydney should be nuked and the earth salted.

This I totally agree on  :::D O0
Why? is it such a bad city?

Its a rats nest full of muslims, and Gays, and the poor Jews have  to be around it.
Why not arrest all of them and ship them back to some arab land?

We can't they have been here too long, many now have citizenship  >:(
Uhmmm? declare the state of emergence, martial law,....
Turkey must get out of NATO. NATO must get out of Kosovo-Serbia. Croats must get out of Crajina. All muslims must get out of Christian and Jewish land. Turks must get out of Cyprus. Turks must get out of "Istanbul". "Palestinians" must get out of Israel. Israel must become independent from USA.

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« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2008, 03:53:32 AM »
Uhmmm? declare the state of emergence, martial law,....

ON what Aussies will not uprise, at this stage. The Government has just increased welfare to keep the people happy.

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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2008, 05:42:16 AM »
Uhmmm? declare the state of emergence, martial law,....

ON what Aussies will not uprise, at this stage. The Government has just increased welfare to keep the people happy.
GREAT!!  ::)
Turkey must get out of NATO. NATO must get out of Kosovo-Serbia. Croats must get out of Crajina. All muslims must get out of Christian and Jewish land. Turks must get out of Cyprus. Turks must get out of "Istanbul". "Palestinians" must get out of Israel. Israel must become independent from USA.

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Re: Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - 1/3/08
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2008, 06:34:00 AM »
Uhmmm? declare the state of emergence, martial law,....

ON what Aussies will not uprise, at this stage. The Government has just increased welfare to keep the people happy.
GREAT!!  ::)

Tell me about it.  :(