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New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/pride-and-protest-47-years-since-the-first-sydney-mardi-gras/

Pride and protest: 47 years since the first Sydney Mardi Gras

In June 1978, a small group of LGBTQIA+ activists took to Oxford Street to celebrate, protest and demand visibility in Sydney’s first Mardi Gras.

What began as a night of joy ended in violence, as police revoked the group’s permit and arrested dozens.

Forty-seven years later, their legacy is being honoured at the very site where many were held, in Darlinghurst’s former police station.

June 24, 1978

On June 24, 1978 (then marked as International Gay and Lesbian Solidarity Day) protesters gathered at Taylor Square for what they described as a “street party, carnival, festival or Mardi Gras.”

What began as a peaceful night-time march, skip and dance down Oxford Street soon turned violent.

Police brutally cracked down on the crowd, arresting and assaulting dozens of participants despite the permit they had.

Many of them were held at the old Darlinghurst Police Station, now home to Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ museum, Qtopia.

“You could hear them in Darlinghurst police station being beaten up and crying out from pain. The night had gone from nerve-wracking to exhilarating to traumatic all in the space of a few hours. The police attack made us more determined to run Mardi Gras the next year,” 78er, Ken Davis said.

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New permanent tribute to the 78ers

Today, that very site become a place of honour.

Qtopia Sydney will unveil a permanent tribute to those original marchers inside its main building at the former Darlinghurst Police Station.

The exhibition includes a newly commissioned commemorative photograph and a short documentary film about its creation.

Image: Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) recently published footage of the original 1978 Mardi Gras Parade

Sydney Mardi Gras has become an iconic LGBTQIA+ event

In the decades since, Sydney Mardi Gras has become one of the world’s most iconic LGBTQIA+ events. Moved to summer in the early ’80s, it now draws hundreds of thousands each year to celebrate in defiance and joy.

As Mardi Gras organisers wrote today: “Through the AIDS crisis, constant social and political attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, rain, hail and shine – we never stopped marching.”

“To the next 47 years and forever more. ️”

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

There are trans Roma women (for an equally marginalised and forgotten collective), and there are some local LGBT icons, but many people know better about the US pride originators than our own (including myself) because it is retold year after year as a universal experience.

And we don't even share the language! Many people do not even speak English and still know who Martha P. Johnson is. Not even articles in gay magazines will give the name of the people who organised or participated in the first gay parade in Spain in 1977 (8 years after Stonewall, because fascist dictatorship).

One of the biggest events in terms of LGBT celebration is Los Palomos, in Badajoz, and it takes place from the end of May to the beginning of June. And it takes place in one of the most rural areas of Spain.

I found this very interesting list of LGBT chronology of Spain, as a starter to know our history better.

In 1978 there had been a spate a murders of gay men which weren’t investigated properly by the cops. There was a public apology a few years ago; the murders of over 100 men had not been investigated during that era, evidence was ‘lost’ and no one was prosecuted for them. Reporting violence to the cops usually got you bashed by the cops, and this was nationwide. This was what our 78ers were confronting.

In Tasmania, our island state, homosexuality was only decriminalised in 1997. I remember lobbying politicians in Canberra to get them to push the state to change their laws in the mid 1990s. Back then it was legal to fire us if we worked with children and the media commonly referred to us as pedophiles. It was legal to evict us from our homes if the landlord thought we were queer. On Friday nights poofter bashing was a sport and dykes were fair game for ‘corrective rape’.

And yes I will use the terms we used at the time. I will reclaim every one of them if I have to, because I’ve been called them all by homophobes and often with violence.

Each bit of legislation had to be challenged and confronted by the queer leaders of the time. Each nasty little homophobe had to be confronted and shut down. So many people we owe our thanks to.

When it comes to marginalised groups within and allied to the queer community, queer Australians should always thank and stand with Indigenous Australians and sex workers. Quote from the 78er's site below:

The white men that did this have billions in generational wealth while my mother and grandmother both died from having inadequate healthcare.

When I say fuck mormon missionaries, I mean it so deeply and if I were capable of feeling hatred, it would be at that entire establishment.

Fuck. Mormon. Missionaries.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.