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Mardi Gras Plus; Plan your Festival experience; Join the Festival. 2025 Parade applications; Fair Day 2025 EOIs; Mardi Gras + applications; Volunteer; 2025 tickets; MobTix; Accessibility; Sustainability. How to be a green festival-goer; Sydney Mardi Gras Packages. 3 Night Mardi Gras Package; 4 Night Mardi Gras Package; 7 Night Mardi Gras The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade returns on 1st March 2025 with over 10,000 marchers and more than 180 spectacular floats and the 2025 Festival theme, ‘FREE TO BE’, honouring the LGBTQIA+ community’s resilience, creativity, and unwavering pursuit of equality. The pop star’s performance is not the only thing expected to dazzle Sydney on Saturday night, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to flock to the city for Mardi Gras, one of the world’s biggest LGBTQI events. The 2025 Mardi Gras theme is “free to be” and will feature 180 floats and 11,000 marchers in its 47th year. Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras’ spectacular annual Parade hits downtown Sydney this weekend with the theme, Free To Be. On Saturday, 1 March, with over 10,000 marchers and more than 180 floats, this year’s Parade “honours the LGBTQIA+ community’s resilience, creativity, and unwavering pursuit of equality,” says SGLMG. Now in its 47th year, the Parade will kick off along [] Sydney Mardi Gras 2025: Dates, parade, tickets, schedule, events, and everything to know about 250,000 spectators and 10,000 marchers across 180 floats this year. ready from the start of The main event of Mardi Gras is the parade. This year, the 47th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is set to take over Oxford Street, Flinders Street and Anzac Parade on Saturday 1 March 2025. You can expect over 200 floats from every corner of our communities to make their way from Hyde Park to Moore Park, from 7pm until 11pm We’re back! The 2025 Festival returns 14 February – 2 March 2025. It’s time! We’re back world, the iconic Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival is set for 14 February to 2 March 2025. Celebrating 47 years in 2025, get ready for 17 days of unforgettable moments, international performers, parties, theatre, community events and more. The 78ers are people who took part in the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on 24 June 1978. They have led each year's parade since 1998. Source: AAP / Steven Saphore At Mardi Gras 2023, Ms Thorpe momentarily stopped the parade after laying on the ground in front of a float in protest. She was escorted away by officers, but was not arrested. One of Sydney’s most colourful nights will be in full swing this weekend as thousands are expected to descend on the streets to celebrate the 47th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. The world-renowned Sydney Mardi Gras Parade returns to Oxford Street, Flinders Street and Anzac Parade on Saturday 1 March 2025, and we’re inviting our communities to bring to life the 2025 Festival theme Free to be! Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Limited Level 2, 81-83 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia ABN 87 102 451 785 T + 61 2 9383 0900 | W: mardigras.org.au For any enquiries regarding your parade application or these conditions, please contact parade@mardigrasarts.org.au 2025 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade 2025 Parade Entrants FAQs.docx as at 31/7/24 4 of 4 11. WHAT IS THE GRANTS PROGRAM? Each year, Sydney Mardi Gras works with a partner to provide grants to community or NFP When is the 2025 Sydney Mardi Gras? The festival is being held from February 14 to March 2, with this year’s theme, “free to be”, inspiring events, floats and revellers throughout the fortnight. The 47th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is locked in for Saturday, March 1 (photo: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras) Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. The most recognisable symbol of the Sydney Mardi Gras is the world-renowned Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, which takes place on Saturday, March 1. Sydney Mardi Gras 2025 as it happened: Thousands line Oxford Street to celebrate city’s LGBTQ community By Megan Gorrey , Nick Newling and Lucy Macken Updated March 1, 2025 — 11.17pm first The Mardi Gras Parade. When: Saturday, March 1, 6:45pm to 11pm Where: Oxford St, Flinders St and Anzac Parade, Sydney Tickets: free, with tickets to special parade viewing areas, more info (some sold out) The Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is now in its 47th year and is the jewel in the crown of the two-week Mardi Gras festival. Winning entrants may also be promoted on Canva and Sydney Mardi Gras social media channels. Successful applicants will need to submit a project acquittal to Sydney Mardi Gras and Canva before the 31st of March 2025. Failure to do so may disqualify your organisation from future Mardi Gras Grants Programmes. Mardi Gras 2025 in photos Sydney Mardi Gras 2025. Credit: Dion Georgopoulos. 9 / 37. Coles float participants don red t-shirts and feathered headdresses. Credit: Watch free on iView (Australia restricted) Unlock iView and watch anywhere with NordVPN Sydney Mardi Gras Parade 2025 on Saturday, March 1 Starts 7.30pm AEDT / 8.30am GMT / 3.30am ET Watch the
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