Big-name Sydney Mardi Gras corporate sponsors have decided to reduce their visual presence in this year’s tarot card creative campaign after deeming it too risqué to associate their brands with.
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Singer Adam Lambert has been confirmed to perform as the headline act at this year’s Mardi Gras After Party, which will span across six venues at Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter precinct following the parade down Oxford Street.
The ABC will no longer film a “drag story time” event at Rockdale Library in Sydney’s south for the official Mardi Gras broadcast following backlash it has labelled “hateful and offensive”.
Hills Shire Council has passed a motion that rejects any encouragement or facilitation of drag events like drag story time, in which children are read books at public libraries by drag performers.
A group of men linked to the Christian Lives Matter group allegedly attempted to disrupt a drag story time event in Sydney’s inner west on Saturday.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has officially been announced as the main headliner for the Mardi Gras Bondi Beach Party.
The NSW Police Force says it has been officially uninvited from marching in the Mardi Gras parade.
The City of Sydney and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have cancelled this Sunday’s Fair Day due to bonded asbestos found in mulch at Victoria Park.
The “drag story time” component of a Mardi Gras event for queer families, held at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium on Saturday, was cancelled after a Christian group threatened to protest the event.
The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras has postponed this weekend’s two-day “Queer Futures” conference that was due to discuss everything from sports to the arts, politics and education – blaming the flow-on effects of Fair Day’s cancellation.