PRIDE
MOMENTS
IN HISTORY
Sydney Gay and Lesbian
Mardi Gras
Stonewall Riots
Pride in London
The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras is an
annual LGBTQ+ pride parade and festival
in Sydney, Australia, attended by hundreds of
thousands of people from around Australia and
overseas. It is one of the largest such festivals
in the world, and the largest Pride event
in Oceania. It includes a variety of events such as
the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and Party, Bondi
Beach Drag Races, Harbour Party, the academic
discussion panel Queer Thinking, Mardi Gras
Film Festival, as well as Fair Day, which attracts
70,000 people to Victoria Park, Sydney. The
event has been held annually since 1978.
The Stonewall riots (also referred to as
the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall
rebellion) were a series of spontaneous
demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+
community in response to a police raid that
began in the early morning hours of June 28,
1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich
Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New
York City. Patrons of the Stonewall, other
Village lesbian and gay bars, and neighborhood
street people fought back when the police
became violent. The riots are widely considered
to constitute one of the most important events
leading to the gay liberation movement and the
twentieth century fight for LGBT rights in the
United States.
Pride in London is an annual LGBTQ+
pride festival and parade held each summer
in London, the Capital of the United
Kingdom. The event, which was formally run
by Pride London, is sometimes referred to as
London Pride. Pride in London celebrates the
diversity of the LGBT (lesbian, gays, bisexual,
transsexual) communities with the colorful Pride
in London Parade, as well as the free festivity
events that take place in Trafalgar Square. This
event brings together thousands of people of all
genders, ethnicities, sexualities, and also many
people of different races. It is one of the longest
running in the country and attracts an estimated
1.5 million visitors to the city. The festival's
events and location within London vary every
year however the Pride parade is the only annual
event to close London's iconic Oxford Street.
The first Pride in London was help in 1972
attracting approximately 2,000 participants.
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