out of the bars and into the streets: how mardi gras is returning to its roots /

Published at 2016-02-29 20:57:06

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Along with the fun and celebration,Sydney’s annual LGBTI parade is emphasising political battles and campaigns for social justice this year Evelyn Gray and Nancy Mills are mothers with different experiences of raising LGBTI children. They are proud to be marching in the Sydney homosexual and Lesbian Mardi Gras on Saturday but each faces a different fight to achieve equality for Gray’s lesbian daughter and Mills’s transgender son.
Gray has been married for 40 years and has two daughters. One is heterosexual and married, the other is a lesbian unable to marry because of Australia’s laws forbidding same-sex marriage.
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Source: theguardian.com

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