Mardi Gras
I am loath to write this piece for fear of being ghettoised as a lesbian writer - but it occurred to me today that, for people living in the big gay-friendly cities of the world, what Mardi Gras represents to the gay boy in the bush on the verge of suicide, the trans kid wrestling with gender and sexuality or the lesbian girl in the suburbs contemplating an unsatisfying yet completely acceptable marriage might be utterly lost.
As an out teenage lesbian in the large country town of Adelaide in the early nineties, light years away from London Pride, Wigstock NY, or Sydney Mardi Gras for that matter, the possibility of living a happy, successful life as an open queer seemed slight at best and positively dangerous at worst.
So I saved my coin, quite literally, and bought a bus ticket (as I couldn’t afford the interstate flight prior to the days of domestic airline competition) to attend my first Mardi Gras in Sydney.
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You wouldn’t believe what goes on after dark at Sydney’s picturesque Taronga Zoo. This has just come across The Punch’s desk and we couldn’t resist sharing it with you.
Australian Marriage Equality and New Mardi Gras have co-oped the critters at Taronga Zoo into next year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
For $250 a head “guests will enjoy exclusive after-hours access to the Zoo, a private viewing of the famous bird show, meet some of the Zoo’s most exotic residents and learn about the animals and their homosexual activities.”
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Paul says:
To all those people going on about Robert Downey Jnr in Tropic Thunder and the movie White Chicks… please grow a brain and do some research on the racist connotations behind “blackface”. This is not the same as parodying women, gays, or other races. Think about it for a minute.… Read more »
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Voxpop says:
Eric “Voxpop, I think it’s not so much about homosexuality, as “any port in a storm”. Um yes that’s why I said “the bizzare or more accurately, opportunistic, were squid and octopus” these animals don’t see enough of the opposite sex so take it where they can get it. Though… Read more »
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