Australia is known for being a very multicultural society. In any multicultural society you’re bound to run into various subgroups. In the case of homosexual advocacy, it has been a long road to equality marred with police brutality and protest. The Sydney Mardi Gras parade started out as a protest march that took place on June 24th, 1978. Men and women assembled in Taylor Square in preparation to march down Oxford Street and into Hyde Park. The protest originally mean’t to serve as Sydney’s response to the Stonewall Riots which occurred in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, marking the beginning of the ‘“homosexual liberation”. At the time, homosexuals were still living in very repressed conditions, simply “coming out” could result in job loss
