Photographs of the 2023 Mardi Gras on Gadigal, Sydney, including a press conference with Senator Lidia Thorpe at Sydney Town Hall and the Pride in Protest contingent of the Mardi Gras. Speakers at the Pride in Protest press conference called for an end to the corporatisation of Mardi Gras and an end to police being allowed to march in the parade. The first Mardi Gras in 1978 was a protest for gay and lesbian human rights, where police violently assaulted and arrested 53 people.
This year was said to be the largest attendance of a Sydney Mardi Gras ever, with crowds swelling as a result of the city also hosting World Pride. Around 300,000 people were estimated to have attended. It was the first time the parade returned to Oxford Street, after two years at the Sydney Cricket Ground following COVID concerns.
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