Happy Mardi Gras 2022 from your SUPRA Queer Officers!
With lockdown over and a slow re-opening of events, parties and dancing, there is a lot to enjoy this year. Check out the official Mardi Gras program!
Some of you may be feeling anxious after a difficult time in lockdown. Your self-esteem may be low, you may have experienced long periods of isolation and be feeling overwhelmed about going to crowded events and parties.
Just remember there is no one way to be part of our big, diverse LGBTQIA+ family! Stay true to yourself, stay safe and reach out for support if you need it.
Embrace yourselves and enjoy Mardi Gras!
Joseph Black and Yuning Zhang
SUPRA Queer Officers
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2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade
Saturday 5 March 2022
6pm
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade has taken place every year since 1978. The first Mardi Gras Parade ended in police violence and 53 people arrested, but the police crackdown fired up a community who would no longer be silent. Each year, for 44 years, nothing has stopped us from gathering to celebrate together, to call for change and to remember those who came before us.
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Parties, sex and safety during Mardi Gras
SUPRA wants all students who participate in the 2022 Mardi Gras season to have an amazing time and to remind you to look after your health, safety, and well-being, especially in relation to drugs, alcohol, sexual health and consent.
Read our tips on partying and hooking up safely.
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Support when you need it
The University has compiled a great list of support services for LGBTQIA+ students.
It covers support services at Usyd and in the community, as well as services that assist with study and employment for LGBTQIA+ students, and services that help protect your rights.
As always, SUPRA's caseworkers and legal service can provide free and confidential assistance to all LGBTQIA+ postgrad students.
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Reach out to SUPRA Queer Officers
We are the Queer Officers of SUPRA, and we are here to lend a helping hand if you need and want it, and to represent queer postgraduate students at the University of Sydney.
Find out more about what we do!
Contact: queer@supra.usyd.edu.au
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Usyd 2022 Mardi Gras float
2022 is the seventh year that the University of Sydney Pride Network has participated in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. This year their theme is ‘Enlighten, unite, shine bright’.
If you want to be part of next year's Usyd Mardi Gras float, join the Pride Network to be part of the fun!
Find out more about Usyd at Mardi Gras.
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Fun Fact
While the term 'transgender' was first coined in 1965, the history of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people goes as far back as human history. From Ancient Sumeria to Ancient Greece, to the Americas, the Pacific region and Australia, to Asia and Africa, humans have been living beyond the gender binary for thousands of years. |
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