It’s that time of year: Mardi Gras week, the culmination of the month long Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
Some cities connect with their gay pride events and others don’t. It’s hard to think of another major city that has embraced its gay pride event quite as Sydney has done. Furthermore, no other gay pride event has so captured the imagination of gay people everywhere. As the gay travel bible Spartacus put it, “a visit to Mardi Gras is an absolute once-in-a-lifetime must for every gay travelling man.” Indeed many fly across the world again and again to enjoy it.
The festival winds up with the annual parade along Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, this Saturday evening, followed by the party, which will probably become its own after-party at some point on Monday…
