Sydney Mardi Gras

The Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia is one in February, held annually since 1978 three-week gay and lesbian festival. During this period, more than eighty events. The Mardi Gras Festival Parade was with 9500 participants, 134 floats and 300,000 spectators in 2009, the largest event of its kind in the Welt.Teilnehmer are often dressed up and dancing to the music of the moving truck a choreography; various social groups such as Surf Life Saver or professional groups such as police officers take part in the parade in their work clothes.

The parade there in 1978 to commemorate the Stonewall riots - at a time when in the state of New South Wales, whose capital is Sydney, homosexual acts were still criminalized.

In 1994, the parade by the TV Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC ) was first broadcast live.