Pride in Protest

TOMORROW: 🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY RALLY – SYDNEY 🏳️‍⚧️ WE’LL BE DEMANDING 🗣️ NO PINKWASHING OF GENOCIDE!!

No genocide and not in our name; no pinkwashing of crackdowns on free speech and Palestinian solidarity!!

See you TOMORROW from 1 pm at Pride Square, Newtown!!

2 MORE DAYS TILL 🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY RALLY – SYDNEY 🏳️‍⚧️ WE DEMAND:

* END OVERPOLICING OF OUR COMMUNITIES, AND
* ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE!

See you on Sunday, 29 March, from 1 pm at Pride Square, Newtown! 😼

3 DAYS TILL 🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY RALLY – SYDNEY 🏳️‍⚧️ WE DEMAND 🗣️ EQUALITY WITHOUT EXEMPTIONS!

Remove exemptions that provide the right for private and faith-based organisations to discriminate against LGBTQIA+ workers, teachers and students!

See you this Sunday, 29 March, from 1 pm at Pride Square, Newtown!!

Labor’s Police Minister expresses support for over-policing, on the anniversary of the raid on Veronica Baxter.

Shameless Police Minister Yasmin Catley defends sniffer dogs, endorses routine strip searches at Mardi Gras events.

Join us at the Trans Day of Visibility rally, March 29th at 1pm in Pride Square, to demand an end to over-policing of our communities!

🏳️‍⚧️ PROTEST POLICING & PINKWASHING! 🏳️‍⚧️ FIGHT FOR EQUALITY & TRANS LIFE! 🏳️‍⚧️

Join us on Sunday, 29 March, from 1 pm at Pride Square, Newtown for our Trans Day of Visibility Rally, where we’ll be demanding:

* Equality without exemptions! Remove exceptions in anti-discrimination law!
* End over-policing of our communities! Cops out of Pride, and out of our communities!
* Access to gender-affirming care! National hospital funding for gender-affirming health care, end state attacks on trans health and protect trans youth.
* No pinkwashing of genocide! No genocide in our name, no pinkwashing of crackdowns on free speech and Palestinian solidarity.

live blog coverage of Mardi Gras stand down

PiP’s Rohen commenting on Mardi Gras’ suspending Luna and Damien from the Board:

“In 2021, then Mardi Gras co-chair and current CEO Jesse Matheson stood down two SGLMG directors and Pride in Protest members. This is the emergency tactic to shut down dissent when the leadership – unquestioningly backing the two major political parties and big corporate sponsors – feel they are losing control.

“A majority of members backed motions at Mardi Gras’s last AGM to highlight trans rights and advocate for anti-discrimination reform. Faced with the opportunity to stand with our community, the organisation’s leadership instead chose to ignore us.

“Last night, the organisation took it one step further - shutting out the only directors who have consistently stood up for trans rights.”

Press Conference this morning on Pride in Protest-Elected Directors Stood Down from Sydney Mardi Gras Board Over Advocacy on Trans Rights

BREAKING NEWS: Mardi Gras Right-wing Leadership Suspends Board Directors After They Express Pro-Trans, Anti-Genocide Views

Links to our campaign, calling for the removal of Mardi Gras Co-Chairs, is in our bio.

Recent communications from the co-chairs of Mardi Gras spread several lies about members of the q***r and trans community, members of Pride in Protest, and Pride in Protest itself.

This is our third post in a series to clarify the truth and dispel the harmful statements made by the co-chairs.

Part 3: Pride in Protest stands in support of trans rights. Claiming that we have threatened the safety of Mardi Gras staff and that all criticism of the Mardi Gras leadership’s decisions is both orchestrated by us and unwarranted harassment is disingenuous and transphobic.