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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has continued its programme of community grants and support funded by valued partnerships with ANZ, Google and Facebook Australia, and from the organisations own surplus, delivering a total of $248,000 to LGBTQI+ community groups for this year’s festival season.  Three grants funds, the ANZ Community Grants, Google Parade Grants and Facebook…

May 1 it is hunties. The show, after months of teasing has finally announced its slated premiere across the world, via WOW Presents + (USA & Other territories), STAN (Australia) and TVNZ On Demand (New Zealand). It looks like the franchise is one of the first in the world to…

Eleven months after the countries leaders first agreed to a trans-Tasman bubble, two-way quarantine-free travel between Australia and New Zealand has been formally announced by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. From 11.59pm Wellington time on 18 April (9:59pm AEST), the NZ government will lift the requirement for Australian travellers…

With Australia’s international borders on a hard lockdown to the rest of the world, some people need to travel for a variety of reasons, like study, work or VISA requirements. The conditions and advice are changing all the time and flights are very rare from outbound and inbound services, so…

One of Sydney’s most fabulous community groups puts on a killer parade entry every year since 1997, and they always take a poke at the latest political issues facing our community and the world. This year it was a celebration of Trumps loss of the election and for our chance…

Mardi Gras hosted the first ever Pride parade in the world since the pandemic began. The covid safe event saw 35,000 spectators see the parade in a unique setting that was the Sydney Cricket Ground. Photos by the sensational Anna Kucera / SGLMG.

Australian streaming service, STAN has announced the cast of the first ever season of the hit TV franchise, RuPaul’s Drag Race at Sydney’s annual Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. Downunder Judges Michelle Visage and Rhys Nicholson ran through to new cast members on the jumbrotons at the parade whilst…

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70,000 + people came to the park to celebrate our community. With stallholders and live entertainment, the crowd made 2020’s Fair Day one of the most successful. Photos by David Lee.

The 2019 Perth Pride Parade was the largest Pride Parade we have ever seen, with over 110 floats and more than 5,000 people walking in the event. The parade was so large, registrations for the event hit capacity for the first time ever.  Photos: Davey Lee | Guidetogay