All Posts Tagged With: "mardi gras festival"

10,000 to march for gay pride in Sydney

The Times of India SYDNEY: Almost 10,000 people shimmied, strutted and strode through the ages on Saturday as Sydney celebrated its 32nd gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade. More than 100 floats with 9,500 performers filled the city’s streets, with Osama bin Laden and Michael Jackson among figures to feature in the “History of the [...]

27Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Rainbow colours fly over Town Hall

AAP The colours of the rainbow have been raised above Sydney’s Town Hall to celebrate the start of 2010 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival. The red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet striped `gay’ flag is regularly displayed along Oxford Street in Darlinghurst during Mardi Gras celebrations, but was for the first time [...]

19Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued