#78ers

[queerasfact]

The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was held on this day, 24 June, in 1978 in commemoration of International Gay Solidarity Day, and the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. A parade of around 1500 people was ambushed by police, ending in 53 arrests.

43 years on, the event has now blossomed into the biggest queer festival in Australia. This year it was celebrated as part of WorldPride, and the original protesters - known as the 78ers - led 50,000 people in a Pride march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

[I mages: police arrest a young man at the 1978 march; 78ers marching at WorldPride with a rainbow, black and pink banner reading “78ers The First Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Australia; still out and proud; 1978-2023″]

#mardi gras #78ers #queer history #australian history #pride #pride month #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #lgbt history #gay history

[taconafide2]

Who is this good for... Xingqiu??

#first xl weapon in inazuma then this LOL #but i'm afraid favonius might still be better #solid alternative i suppose?? #16cr and 78er yeah that's kinda insane

[cuntryclubs]

#intersectionality

#this is about cops btw #if ur a gay cop and u want to march at mardi gras why are you doing it as a cop? why do you want to represent the group that was responsible #for bashing the 78ers? why do you want to represent the force that just had an inquiry into their handling of hate crimes? why do you want #to represent the people that are responsible for hate crimes? why do you want to represent the force that is covering for at least one of #their own coworkers after stalking and murdering two men? why do you wanna rep cops so badly????? #‘one of their own’ because i think at least one other cop was involved in helping dispose the bodies but did see mention of another one but #not 100% if that person was also a cop or not #btw idc if ur gay if ur a cop you shouldnt be there like at all

[qnewslgbtiqa]

78ers to join Midsumma Pride March for the first time

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78ers to join Midsumma Pride March for the first time

A group of 78ers – the first Mardi Gras protesters from 1978 – will join the Midsumma Pride March in Melbourne for the first time this weekend.

The Victorian capital’s annual Pride March is on Sunday (February 4). Over 18,000 people and 400 queer organisations are registered to march before tens of thousands more spectators.

For the first time, an official contingent of 78ers will be among them, marching with their “Fearless” banner.

“78ers” refers to those who participated in the original Mardi Gras Parade violently broken up by police on June 24, 1978, as well as the activists who protested and campaigned to free those arrested.

Among the 78ers were many activists from Melbourne, as well as some who subsequently moved interstate to Melbourne.

On Sunday, 78ers from Sydney and regional areas will travel to Midsumma to march with local 78ers, some for the first time.

“Many of those activists in 1978 – including those at the first Mardi Gras – were from Melbourne. Many moved to Melbourne in later years,” a 78ers spokesperson explained.

“At the time, they shuttled back and forth. Planning the gay law reform campaign in the 1970s was not just state-based. The support and solidarity was national.”

That included snap demonstrations in Melbourne, as well as capitals Brisbane and Adelaide, the 78ers said.

Record turnout expected at Midsumma Pride March

On Sunday, the Midsumma Pride March will be a loud and proud celebration along Fitzroy Street in St Kilda.

Marchers will also include members of 400 other queer organisations, including Dykes on Bikes Melbourne, Boon Wurrung Elders, Rainbow Aboriginal Float, Minus 18, the Melbourne Rainbow Band and many more.

The march is a major event in the three-week  36th annual Midsumma Festival calendar. CEO Karen Bryant expects a record turnout at the Pride march.

“Our diverse LGBTQIA+ communities and allies will come together in spectacular fashion to march with those who can, and in solidarity for those who cannot,” she said.

Post-march celebrations continue afterwards at Catani Gardens on Sunday.

Next month, the 78ers will again lead this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. The Parade returns to Oxford Street, Flinders Street and Anzac Parade on March 2, 2024.

Read more:

Looking back at the original Mardi Gras protests, 40 years later

78er and historian recognised with Australia Day Honours

Explore Melbourne’s queer history on a walk ‘n talk tour

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#melbourne #midsumma #the 78ers

[archival-dodger]

Tonight marks the 45th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, one of the seminal moments in Australian queer history. Unfortunately— and in part because of the dominance of (US) American pride discourses, in part because of the transition of the parade from protest to celebration— there’s a general tendency to merely view Mardi Gras as ‘our Stonewall’ without understanding the broader context of Australian histories of sexuality and gender, or recognising the significant differences between Stonewall and Mardi Gras.

This year, I’m marking Mardi Gras by posting three excellent, accessible, and historically informed pieces on what happened on 24 June, 1978 & a piece about life for lgbtq+ elders, some of whom discuss the climate of the 70s and 80s:

ABC’s investigative, multimedia report on the 1st Mardi Gras— featuring interviews with the 78ers.

Sydney’s Mardi Gras: 40 Years of Pride and Protest— in pictures— Text by Nick Henderson, of the Australian Queer Archives.

The joy is waking up and liking who you are— Interviews with 6 lgbt+ elders, on their experiences growing up and growing to love who they are now.

It’s also worth noting that the ABC is airing a series on Australian queer history— Queerstralia— from Tuesday next week. Again, the Australian Queer Archives were one of the groups deeply involved in this, and I’m confident that it will be a genuine contribution to the public history of queer Australia.

Happy World Pride, and Happy Mardi Gras!

#history #historyblr #queer history #lgbtq history #trans history #gay history #lesbian history #australia #australian history #mardi gras #world pride

[fluffmugger]

The first Mardi Gras took place in very different circumstances. In 1978, homosexuality was a criminal offence in NSW and the march by gay rights activist on 24 June that year met strong police opposition and resulted in 53 marchers being arrested.

The documentary gives context to the gay rights movement of the time through contemporary interviews with the 78ers and others fighting for equality. In this clip, a lesbian activist talks about how important it is to own terms of abuse like 'dykes' and 'poofters' and make them terms of pride instead.

[theshampyon]

With the staging of the 45th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the fight for equality by the "78ers" — who staged the first march — has been well documented, but Queerstralia has dug much further back in time and explores the experiences of people across the country.

"There's so many interesting stories," says Coombs-Marr.

"Learning about lesbian convict games I found incredible.

"Australia was once known as the 'Sodom of the South Pacific'.

"We've got a gay bushranger, Captain Moonlight, and even before there was a word for transness, people we would now classify as trans were just living their lives, passing as the opposite sex, living out their genders in colonial times.

"Also, a lot of the First Nations' histories and perspectives that I've been lucky enough to be working on are really eye-opening. They're incredible histories and they just haven't been told."

[realasslesbian]

I feel like gays and lesbians need to take back our history. I don't want to see banners at pride proclaiming 'stonewall was a "riot" by """transwomen""". I want to see STORME DELARVERIE BLACK BUTCH LESBIAN STARTED THE REBELLION. Show me homemade signs like 'I WANT A DYKE FOR PRESIDENT'. During Pride History Month I want my Facebook feed saturated with stories about homosexual emancipation in the 1920s, about the butch/femme bar scene, about the Mattachine Foundation and the Daughters of Bilitis, the 78ers and other primarily gay and lesbian led organisations, movements and protests. I want young gays and lesbians to KNOW that they don't owe anyone else shit. Gays and lesbians fought for our own damn rights. WE'RE the reason for our own freedom (and the freedom of every other letter that's spent decades grifting off our hard work). We gotta bring back LESBIAN AND GAY PRIDE and make all these motherfuckers remember the damn fucking truth about who really did the heavy lifting💅

#lgbt #lesbian #gay

[notabled-noodle]

37. Do you have any LGBT+ idols?

yeah, a couple!

Hannah Gadsby will always be top of my list. she’s just so queer and so autistic and so intelligent… her humour has definitely shaped me a great deal. also her general approach to life.

and then in terms of activism etc… the whole 78ers crew are incredible and I think about them daily. I look up to them a lot

#ask games

[harlequin-ink]

#mardi gras #Sydney #lgbtq community #mardi gras 2024

[yesrandyandy42]

#lgbtq #mardi gras 2024 #lgbt🌈

[dreameasel]

i would love if xavier was a 94 fear streeter with his parents being 78ers but i feel like that timeline doesn't quite work and also it means that if i wanted to do anything in era it'd be via like, vincent or harlow and no one is interested in those two but me.

#pay no attention to the man behind the curtain / ooc. #i'm society's number one vincent enjoyer and i know it

[qnewslgbtiqa]

10,000 take to hot streets for Midsumma Pride March

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10,000 take to hot streets for Midsumma Pride March

10,000 people took to the sweltering streets of Melbourne today for the annual Midsumma Pride March. A confrontation between police and protestors during the march saw one person arrested.

The protestors surrounded police participating in the parade on Fitzroy Street and attempted to stop them marching. 

Footage of protest below.

18,000 people registered to march in today’s Pride celebration. Thousands more lined inner city Melbourne streets to watch the parade despite a predicted of 38 degrees.

Dykes on Bikes headed off the parade followed by Boon Wurrung elders and a Rainbow Aboriginal Float.

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Popped my #Midsumma cherry today and joined in the Pride March with several Melton Council workmates. It was amazing, the crowd lining the route were so supportive and joyful.

♥️🏳️‍🌈♥️ pic.twitter.com/CBkWhalHvo

— DarrenWheels (@DarrenWheels) February 4, 2024

Let’s play spot the @LiberalAus at #pridemarch2024 . Great presence from Teals, Greens and Labour. Always tricky for so called moderate @JohnPesutto who claims to be for every Victorian yet zero respect for the #LGBTIQIA community #pridemarch #midsumma pic.twitter.com/CFY62oZZts

— Kieran McGregor 🏳️‍🌈 (@KieranMelb) February 4, 2024

Midsumma Police Protest

A group called QueerKillJoys invited people to join them in protesting the police presence in the parade on Saturday.

“CRASH the Midsumma pride march TOMORROW!…PRIDE MARCH JUMP IN WHEN YOU SEE US become a great and perhaps damaging influence.”

On Instagram, QueerKillJoys described themselves as a “collective of queers formed to destroy pinkwashing and assimilation. There is no pride on the stolen lands of so-called Australia and its ongoing genocide of First Nations’ Peoples. There is nothing to celebrate in genocide against Palestine.”

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The cops marching at #midsumma work with other cops that beat us up, pepper spray us at refugee actions, climate change actions, anti fascist actions, pro Palestine actions.Many people protesting police today have been pepper sprayed by Vic police opposing Nazis or genocide #acab pic.twitter.com/vp08a4cRQh

— WACA (@akaWACA) February 4, 2024

Disgusted but totally unsurprised to see Victoria Police officers assaulting Queer people at Pride! They invade our spaces to pinkwash their violent behaviour and don’t hesitate to bash Queers. Say it with me: ACAB, no cops at Pride!! 🏳️‍🌈 pic.twitter.com/kLL7Mtd7L8

— hiero badge | انقذوا فلسطين (@hierobadge) February 4, 2024

More Midsumma:

2024: 78ers to join Midsumma Pride for the first time.

2023: Premier Dan Andrews joins Midsumma Pride March.

2022: Protesters marched in front of Victoria Police in Midsumma Pride.

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[archival-dodger]

Clockwise: Facade of the 1888 building, annotated readings for The Writing of Australian History, cover of Voices from 1978: The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a photo of the phrenology art installation.

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First day back on campus today, for my initial meeting with my Honours thesis supervisor. We talked 19th century sodomy trials and their media coverage in 19th century colonial Victoria, the importance of class and colonialism to histories of sexuality and gender, theories of social contagion and their spread via the press.

Afterwards went for phở, then home to find that my copy of Voices from 1978 had arrived-- a slim history booklet written by the 78ers.

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Readings:

For fun: Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller Thesis: The convict probation system, Van Diemen's Land, 1839-1854, with notes by Ian Brand Class: Letters to C. Harley Grattan The Study of History: A Synoptic View, R.M. Crawford History as a Social System, G.M. Dening

#studyblr #studying #university

[watchoutforkieth]

Shits Fucked

Doing research for uni on the first Sydney Mardi Gras. Watching an interview of one of the attendees and he starts tearing up. Not because he was bashed. Not because of the treatment they experienced back then.

HE TEARS UP BECAUSE NOTHING HAS CHANGED. This man honestly thought he was going to die in police custody because they were beating him so badly and he is upset because it feels like it was all for nothing

#Society needs to sort itself out #Mardi Gras #78ers #gay rights movement

[stmurphysoidontforget-blog]

Happy doesn’t even begin to describe this feeling. #love #marriageequality #loveislove #marriageissogay #lovewins🌈 #Pride #78ers #mardigras #findmeahusband (at Oxford Street)

#pride #lovewins🌈 #78ers #loveislove #mardigras #marriageissogay #findmeahusband #love #marriageequality