FREE TO BE Festival-favourites, revamped returns and new queens on the block join the line-up for Sydney Mardi Gras 2025! Following the Mardi Gras Parade on March 1, 2025, the Party will host more than eight hours of music across the six venues at the Entertainment Quarter. US DJ Honey Dijon and English singer-songwriter Romy, who’s one third of UK group the xx and released her solo dance-pop album Mid Air last year, will headline the 2025 Party. Introducing Mardi Gras +, the 2024 open-access Festival line-up where creatives, sporting clubs, arts organisations, venues and promoters bring you events from across the LGBTQIA+ communities. Whether it’s a Festival institution, Mardi Gras premiere or a one-time wonder the following pages are filled with the creativity and passion that makes Sydney Mardi Gras 2025 is here! Free to party, free to celebrate, free to laugh, free to be Festival-favourites, revamped returns and new queens on the block join the line-up for Sydney Mardi Gras 2025! Free to party, free to celebrate, free to laugh, free to be Festival-favourites, revamped returns and new queens on the block join the line-up for Sydney Mardi Gras 2025! For all the tea and The Bondi Beach Party was added to the line-up in 2023 during Sydney WorldPride and held again in 2024 as part of Mardi Gras. However, it was confirmed in November that it would not be held in 2025. This came after a low attendance rate in 2024 and Sydney Mardi Gras facing financial difficulties. A glittering extravaganza Check out the incredible artists making Sydney Mardi Gras 2025 a festival for the ages! MARDI GRAS PARTY. The Mardi Gras Party 2025 is here to light up Sydney with a night of unparalleled energy and music. Across six incredible spaces, experience over 8 hours of world-class DJs, jaw-dropping performances, and the electric spirit of the longest Also new for 2025 is Mardi Gras + Qtopia, an exciting collaboration with Qtopia Sydney, the world’s largest centre for queer history and culture; and the Sydney Opera House will present Feeling The official Mardi Gras closing party sees Hill Street and its resident dance-pub The Beresford transform into an epic street party featuring the best house, disco and pop. This event was born from a few milk crates on Hill Street to become the ultimate way to wrap up your Sydney Mardi Gras celebrations. Mardi Gras Parade. When: 1 March 2025 SYDNEY GAY & LESBIAN MARDI GRAS 2025. 14 FEBRUARY - 2 MARCH . Abercrombie has teamed up with some of Sydney’s most sought-after LGBTQIA+ tastemakers and party institutions to curate a Mardi Gras program that celebrates individuality, diversity and connection under the theme FREE TO BE. The bulging pre Mardi Gras jocks, sports & fetish meat-up is back. Dirty beats. Sexy gear. Zero attitude. Join 100’s of like-minded guys into guys & their LGBTQIA+H friends, stripped down to their sexiest gear for sweaty d-floor grinds at Oxford St mega club, Universal. // Line-up Next month, Sydney’s biggest vogue ball, Sissy Ball, presented by Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Red Bull Music, takes over Redfern’s Carriageworks. Curated by Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist Bhenji Ra, Sissy Ball today reveals the vogue categories and first instalment of international and homegrown talent, judges and musical Samuel Barnett stars in this award-winning show, playing during the Sydney Mardi Gras (photo supplied). 4. Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen. The Sydney Opera House will be getting involved in the Sydney Mardi Gras this year by hosting this darkly comedic one-man show starring Tony and Olivier-nominated actor Samuel Mardi Gras has kicked off with a rainbow bang, with thousands lining up along Oxford Street to catch a glimpse of the famous Mardi Gras parade, and some famous faces spotted in the crowd. Sydney Mardi Gras 2025 is here! Free to party, free to celebrate, free to laugh, free to be Festival-favourites, revamped returns and new queens on the block join the line-up for Sydney Mardi Gras 2025! Mardi Gras has kicked off with a rainbow bang, with thousands lining up along Oxford Street to catch a glimpse of the famous Mardi Gras parade, and some famous faces spotted in the crowd. The Festival will wrap with the world famous Sydney Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday 1 March 2025. Festival theme: Free to be The 2025 Festival theme Free to be is a celebration of the strides toward true LGBTQIA+ equality while also acting as a global reminder that our fight is far from over, and that we are not truly free until we are all free It wouldn't be Mardi Gras without Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore and MP Alex Greenwich sitting on the back of a convertible. This time, they had very jazzed up campaign posters. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade 5 March 2022, Sydney Cricket Ground. In his first live performance in Australia in a decade, singer-songwriter Darren Hayes returns home to head up a superstar line-up for the 2022 Mardi Gras Parade at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday 5 March 2022.
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