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| 30th Anniversary Sydney Mardi Gras |
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Organisers are stoked.
The people who put together this year's 30th anniversary Mardi Gras in Sydney sayd it has been some of the best ever staged.
A record 10,000 participants, some with very little on, turned out for the annual celebration of gay rights, singing and dancing their way along Oxford St in central Sydney over the weekend.
The parade included 150 themed floats and spread over four kilometres, watched by hundreds of thousands of people waving rainbow flags as a symbol of diversity and inclusiveness.
Mardi Gras organiser Marcus Bourget said the record number of participants had come from across Australia and overseas for the special anniversary event, which attracted anything up to 400,000 spectators.
``All in all it went really well,'' he said.
``The crowds were up on last year, but it's difficult to measure exactly how many people were there.''
He said crowds had been well-behaved, a sentiment echoed by police.
Mr Bourget said participants in the parade had put a lot of extra work in this year, with highlights including the original
78'ers, a group of Christian ministers called the 100Revs and an Australian Defence Force contingent who marched for the first time.
The 78ers, the marchers who staged Sydney's inaugural Mardi Gras
30 years ago in 1978, led the procession and drew a rapturous cheer as they paused on Oxford Street.
Diane Minnis, who was among the group, said she never envisaged their original 1,500-strong protest march could morph into today's multi-coloured spectacle and celebration.
Ms Minnis, aged in her 50s of Potts Point, said much had changed in the past thirty years, she said, but other things had not.
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