By Andrew Creagh
Nicholas Parkhill, CEO of The AIDS Council Of New South Wales and DNA’s Editor, Andrew Creagh, celebrate Mardi Gras in Sydney.
I’VE SEEN a lot of Pride parades around the world and, at the risk of sounding parochial, I think Sydney’s Mardi Gras is still the best, largely, because it happens at night. I don’t know why other cities stage their Pride parades during the day. Here’s four things that don’t look good in bright sunlight: leathermen in buttless chaps, drag queens, topless dykes, go-go boys. They all look fabulous under the kinder, artificial light of night, but midday sun is pretty unforgiving.