Posts tagged Steve Warren

Forty-two years ago, a group of activists and allies spilled out onto the streets of Sydney to celebrate before police brutality turned the night into …

Austin famously suggested that gay rights demonstrations should become a street party, leading to the first Mardi Gras in 1978.

‘Is it too late to say I’m sorry now’

SOME call him the ‘Godfather of Mardi Gras’ and with friends and the great and good of the local LGBTI community in tow, Ron Austin …

THEY were there at the first Mardi Gras and survived the ensuing police batons and trumped up legal charges, and at next month’s event it …