After the New Year's Eve fireworks, which are broadcast every year on television stations around the world, the Mardi Gras parade is the second most crowded event in Sydney.
But its creators would never have thought that this parade, in fact the Australian version of Gay Pride, would one day become the cultural event bringing together the most spectators in the world… This is what happened on March 6. last, when more than 40,000 people converged in one of the city's stadiums to admire the floats and performers.
“I had chills when I entered the stadium, seeing all these people,
remembers Sylvain, a native of Aubervilliers who made his home in Sydney thirteen years ago.
There was an electric atmosphere, a post-war party atmosphere ”,
says the forty-something.
The 2021 edition was however very different from the previous ones: usually, the parade parades through the streets of Surry Hills, the gay district of Sydney, under the eyes of dozens.
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