Sydney Mardi Gras Kicks Off With Bad Drag, Sam Sparro, Film Festival

Last year The Sword attended Sydney Mardi Gras and sent you a few grumpy dispatches. This year we’re sitting it out, and we’re relying on others for a few glimpses of this end-of-summer shitshow for Southern Hemisphere homos.

One of the shirtless muscle queens in the crowd grabbed some shaky video of Sam Sparro’s grand entrance to the Harbour Party, featuring a team of dancers in vests and hats descending the stairs with him to the tune of “Black and Gold.”  Someone else grabbed some video of some un-stellar Aussie drag queens performing outside a bar on Oxford Street.  And also, for the lesbians and intellectuals among you, there’s a lesbigaytranny film fest going on simultaneously in Sydney, and below we have a preview.

We now conclude our coverage of 2009 Sydney Mardi Gras.

Sam Sparro at the 2009 Harbour Party, Sunday March 1:

Aussie drag queens Tora Hymen and Sugar Hit performing outside The Stonewall Hotel last week:

2009 Mardi Gras Film Fest Preview (official site here):

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2009 Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival  (Official Site)


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