Partying v politics: has Sydney WorldPride found the right balance?

. The major Pride March for equality will take place on Sunday across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

An attendee on Wednesday said the convention centre was packed on its first day, with a buoyant mood and engaged participants; delegates must pay a fee to attend but it is also being streamed free online.While the conference covers a broad range of global topics concerning LGBTQ+ rights, the large “official” WorldPride events are led by music, parties and dance music.

That night, a stone’s throw from the Harbour Bridge, was the Queer Sporting Alliance’s event Ba-skate-ball Jam: an all-queer basketball game, followed by a roller disco. QSA was founded by Stella Lesic, who calls it an antidote to the highly competitive nature of team sport in Australia, aimed at “everyone who was picked last for sports at school”. There’s no alcohol, but the atmosphere was intoxicating: pure queer joy.

‘To have such strong First Nations representation is phenomenal’: Cerulean is crowned Miss First Nation.Australian-born Peter Tatchell helped organise the UK’s first Pride march in 1972 and has been a global LGBTQ+ rights campaigner for 52 years. He says that although WorldPride is a symbol of the Pride movement’s success, it has lost its core message.

‘There are so many different people in our movement, who have their different needs,’ says Linda DeMarco.Organising a festival of this scale is “a difficult task” says Linda DeMarco.“There are so many different people in our movement, who have their different needs,” she says. “It’s a tough thing to get it all done at once.”

What? The “right balance” between grooming young children as sexual prey, or raping them? That’s what “world pride” is all about.

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