{"id":504066,"date":"2026-02-25T23:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504066\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:17:09","slug":"mardi-gras-is-almost-here-how-well-do-you-know-australian-lgbtqia-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504066\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras is almost here. How well do you know Australian LGBTQIA+ history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Get your sparkles, feathers and rainbows ready: the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade is almost here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Saturday night, the streets of Sydney will be swathed in queer joy, but it took a long time to get to this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The basic rights of LGBTQIA+ people continue to be fought for across the world, including in Australia. After all, <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-02-23\/retracing-the-steps-of-the-first-mardi-gras-in-sydney-1978\/101881890\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/101881890\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the very first Mardi Gras was a protest<\/a>, not a party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">So, there is no time like the present to test how much you know about Australia&#8217;s queer history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A single black bar\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14cfaa222f9792a0ed7ff8aca9eb3f8e\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/>Loading<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Live broadcast of the <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/sydney-gay-and-lesbian-mardi-gras-2026\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade<\/a> starts Saturday 28 February at 7.30pm AEDT on ABC TV and ABC iview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get your sparkles, feathers and rainbows ready: the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade is almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-504066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}