Comments on: Mardi Gras’ “shameful” moment

By: Butto

Butto — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:03:24 +0000

In reply to Steve. Murdoch.... obeyed by his Liberal's

By: Butto

Butto — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:01:08 +0000

In reply to Norrie -. Agree. Id guess that for most of the organiser's it's just a "fun night out". I cant imagine any organisation that operates at a loss has the capacity to be aware of anything other then doing what the big boys say so they can have their fun party.

By: Butto

Butto — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:56:24 +0000

In reply to Ben. So if the crowd en mass chooses to boo a homosexual group they are excluded from community events? Seems the kind of example that proves there is no gay community and never has been. Do what the crowd does or back down? With that attitude I'm surprised the Mardi Gras started. Afraid of boos? Pathetic

By: Butto

Butto — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:52:09 +0000

No surprise to me. The majority of gay guys I know don’t care about anything political and are annoyed by difference in their fellow queers. Their is no quality that comes along with beung gay that means one is a decent human. Gays are as exclusionary as any other group.

By: Alanis Morrissette Isnt it Ironic

Alanis Morrissette Isnt it Ironic — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 04:50:50 +0000

The Mardi Gras board themselves were chanting “Let them stay” at Fair Day. Anthony should have had a stern talking to them about not being involved in F*#cking Fairday!

By: Paul of Forbes NSW

Paul of Forbes NSW — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 06:51:18 +0000

In reply to Steve. AGREED!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:24:31 +0000

Australia has turned into North Korea with suppression of free speech, the way we treat fellow human beings known as refugees in Manus Island and Nauru the equivalent to Nazi war camps, banning democracy on recent senate reforms that lockout minor parties, mandatory detention, guilty until proven innocent reforms, locking people up without a charge or even a trial for years, banning protests, metadata, CCTV on every corner, lockout laws, politicians telling us people who to marry! What happened to my country? George Orwell was 100% right in the book 1984!

By: Shayne

Shayne — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:29:20 +0000

Notwithstanding the general indifference or antipathy to asylum seekers (and by conflation, Muslims,) by a majority of self-interested and privileged gays, its good to see that at least another gay man agrees that there is No Pride In Detention, and that the parade is the place to protest those responsible for the ongoing abuses of gay men on Nauru and Manus.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:55:10 +0000

Mardi Gras – your finished. Just wait on the financial results,

By: Paul of Forbes NSW

Paul of Forbes NSW — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 02:52:45 +0000

Malcolm Turnbull is a cunt! He is gutless cunt, because he has refused to call an early federal election! He runs a dysfunctional government with a dysfunctional budget that has a whooping $200 billion deficit!

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 02:46:16 +0000

In reply to WTF. If New Zealand did declare war on Australia, I would personally welcome it, because that would mean Australia would have marriage equality! But that will not happen to be realistic, because they only have 4 million people, while we have 20 million more people!

By: WTF

WTF — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 02:39:42 +0000

What has happened to Australia? Just in the past 4 days we have had heat waves, a siege in Ingleburn, a man chain sawing a power pole and putting petrol on a cops face in Riverstone, dysfunctional Turnbull government can not organise a budget, Tony Abbott cheating on his wife, flooding of burst water mains in Campbelltown and Adelaide, what the fuck is going on? What’s next New Zealand declares war on Australia?

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 02:24:19 +0000

In reply to Mickey. What about the Greens? You can vote for them!

By: Mickey

Mickey — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 02:21:30 +0000

This country is a complete embarrassment! It should not matter what your sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or political belief is – at the end of the day the Mardi Gras is for all of us LGBTIQ people to have a bit of fun, and all it takes is just one complete dickface to ruin it! This is the reason why marriage equality is not allowed in Australia! Bill Shorten for Prime Minister I say for standing up to a homophobe Cory Benardi a few weeks back! If you vote Liberal, another 3 years of dysfunctional government, bad budgets, banning conscience or free votes on issues and will continue to cut funding to the safe schools and ban marriage equality! Half of my friends are actual members of the Liberal party and we still get along as best mates. I personally like the Liberal party in terms of being anti-unions and introducing Omnibus Repeal Bills! I do not like Labor sometimes because of unions, bitter infightings of leaderships and branch-stacking members, corruption, etc! The 2 party political system has done so much damage to Australia and our trading partners!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 01:35:17 +0000

No, Mr Copland.

It is not acceptable for parade participants to be jeered and booed by other parade participants for two kilometres.Doesn’t matter if it is Rainbow Labor, Liberal, Greens or Clover Moore.

And hiding behind statements like “no evidence that NPID were a physical threat to Rainbow Labor” is just plain mealy mouthed.

Thank you Mardi Gras for insisting on a safe environment for all LGBTI, regardless of political colours.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:39:22 +0000

Might be worth reading this: http://www.mardigras.org.au/latest-news/2016/3/8/statement-from-the-ceo-michele-bauer-regarding-parade

By: Jenny Mann

Jenny Mann — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 21:49:22 +0000

I’m a parade participant and strongly believe the parade is a platform for protest. I agree that there is No
Pride in Detention. But there is no place for one parade entrant to harass or abuse another parade entrant. We each have been given an opportunity to express our views, and we each are entitled to our space to do so. There are expectations of behaviour that are reasonable and should be followed. Just like in your website Simon where you lay down the rules of behaviour for those leaving comment ‘Don’t be rude and don’t be a bigot. I will delete anything that is patronising, attacks other commenters or is queerphobic, sexist or racist. No exeptions.’ Simon you have an expectation of behaviour for comments on your site, just as Mardi Gras have an expectation of participants behaviour.
And let’s face it, the outcome was: no one was arrested, no one was ejected from the parade , the float was simply moved back three places to separate the two groups. The NPID float was featured briefly in the broadcast ( and most floats don’t get a mention)and their message sent to viewers around the world. I think MG acted appropriately

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:59:35 +0000

It’s time we stopped pretending that the relationship between the police and our community is all good, it’s not. Police still continue to harass our community, target our parties and bars, they’re not welcome or needed.

By: Norrie -

Norrie - — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 07:58:03 +0000

Standing behind a politician using a public street to do a press conference, separate to the actual parade, and chanting “we’re here, we’re queer, refugees are welcome here”, is not “harrassment”. Telling young people they can be booted out of a political parade because the police bother squad are worried about them is collusion with organised oppression.