“I’d like to tell you about when we used to play Cowboys and Indians.”
Rusty Nannup is perched on a chair in her living room, looking through a pile of photographs chronicling 60 years of life.
A Yamatji Noongar trans woman, she grew up in the small Western Australian town of Cue. She now lives in an apartment in Sydney s inner-west.
“My cousin used to steal the bullets from our uncle, we’d light a fire and he’d throw in the bullets,” she tells SBS News with a wry smile.
“We’d have all these kids running around playing dead and all these live bullets flying around … we used to get flogged for that.”
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It’s that fabulous time of year again, friends. Mardi Gras season is upon us. And while we’re still very much in the pandemic times, the celebration of LGBTQIA+ pride is still going ahead – even if it looks a little different this year. Sydney’s Mardi Gras festival for 2021 kicked off on Friday, February 19, and will run through until Sunday, March 7.
Published February 1, 2021
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The full program for this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is here and after everything we’ve been through, my lord do we need the healing powers of gay Christmas. Fire up the smoke machine, apply some glitter and brace yourself, because this year there’s a lot of (COVID-safe) fun going down.