Last night was Mardi Gras in Sydney so the main streets in the city were shut off for the parade. It's always a hectic night so we arrived early and set ourselves up with some milk crates to stand on. We were lucky enough however to be invited to a house party some time later with a prime viewing position of the road from the balcony so the milk crates turned out to be unnecessary! The night started out with "Dykes on Bikes" - lots of scary looking lesbians (and some topless - even scarier) riding their bikes down the street basically. A while later the parade started, lead by the American transsexual Amanda Lepore...below is a photo of her outfit for the night...
Various other floats followed over the next couple of hours, although not many of them were as outrageous as I thought they would be. There was not the usual nakedness and OTT behaviour that you usually get with gays! There were floats dedicated to Osama Bin Laden and George Michael, as well as a float led by Australia's first gay Rugby Union club and a Michael Jackson Thriller zombie marching group. Favourites of the night had to be the dancing lifeguards and the Sydney Leather Pride Association dressed in leather buttless chaps and indulging in some light bondage (whips included) on their float.
After the parade had finished everyone headed to all the clubs around Oxford Street and Kings Cross: it was a very hectic night, but very good fun!
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