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Editor's note
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One cold Saturday night in Sydney in June, 1978, a number of gay men, lesbians and transgender people marched into the pages of Australian social history. Mark Gillespie was one of them.
On today’s episode of Essays On Air, the audio version of our Friday essay series, Conversation editor Lucinda Beaman reads Gillespie’s deeply moving essay on the original Sydney Mardi Gras march, in which more than 50 people were arrested and many lives were changed forever.
As the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras approaches, it’s worth revisiting the events of that night and reflecting on the remarkable lesson that, for oppressed minorities, there comes a time when enough is enough.
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Sunanda Creagh
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Marchers at the 1978 Mardi Gras parade.
Sally Colechin/The Pride History Group
Mark Gillespie, University of Sydney
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.
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