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Essays On Air: On the Sydney Mardi Gras march of 1978

  • Written by Mark Gillespie, English for Academic Purposes Specialist, Anthropologist, Centre for English Teaching, University of Sydney
Marchers at the 1978 Mardi Gras parade. Sally Colechin/The Pride History Group, Author provided

On a cold Saturday night in Sydney on June 24, 1978, a number of gay men, lesbians and transgender people marched into the pages of Australian social history. I was one of them.

On today’s episode of Essays On Air, the audio version of The...

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