Comments on: Lessons From Sydney WorldPride – Keep Mardi Gras Vital And Rebuild Oxford Street /opinion/lessons-from-sydney-worldpride-keep-mardi-gras-vital-and-rebuild-oxford-street/222430 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Ian Gallaway /opinion/lessons-from-sydney-worldpride-keep-mardi-gras-vital-and-rebuild-oxford-street/222430#comment-653492 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:46:25 +0000 /?p=222430#comment-653492 The “rainbow ” is “fascist and cult like “? I don’t get that. The rest of the article I largely agree with

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By: John Walton /opinion/lessons-from-sydney-worldpride-keep-mardi-gras-vital-and-rebuild-oxford-street/222430#comment-653491 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 07:24:47 +0000 /?p=222430#comment-653491 Robert,
Whilst I also have mixed feelings about large corporate sponsorship (especially alcohol vendors!), I feel the greatest despair over the cookie-cutter model for participants that MG promotes. Whilst this parade was huge and impressive, the majority of entrants followed the formula of truck plus music, followed by synchronised dancers. No encouragement or evidence of wit, protest, scandal, or pushing-the-envelope. Would many of MG’s famous past participants have been allowed to March this year? Miss New Zealand? Ron Muncaster? The Chinese Women’s’ Swimming Team? St Trinnian’s wood work class? Fred Nile’s head on a plate? Does obtaining social equality mean we have to go back to not frightening the horses?

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By: Michael Fenaughty /opinion/lessons-from-sydney-worldpride-keep-mardi-gras-vital-and-rebuild-oxford-street/222430#comment-653490 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 07:17:11 +0000 /?p=222430#comment-653490 Robert Tait, I certainly didn’t feel anonymous marching proudly with my recently out niece in the 78ers contingent. Quite the opposite in fact. And if you want Mardi Gras to refocus on community groups, you can expect that old queens like me are going to be out there regardless of whether you’d prefer us to stay at home sipping a cuppa and nibbling on a Tim Tam whilst we watch the Parade on Aunty.

I grade your work a fail, with a note: must stop grey shaming the seniors.

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