“Happy la-di-da” was the singsong greeting heard on Sydney’s Oxford Street last March: rhyming slang commemorating Mardi Gras, the city’s final mass event before Covid-19 hit. “Gay Christmas”, as it’s colloquially called, will look different this year – 35,000 ticket holders will watch the parade at the Sydney Cricket Ground, a more controllable environment than Oxford Street, traditionally lined with some 200,000 spectators. For 78er Kate Rowe,.
Rainbows are everywhere but no one s really around : Sydney s Mardi Gras in Covid times
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Rainbows are everywhere but no one s really around : Sydney s Mardi Gras in Covid times
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“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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