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‘Rainbows are everywhere but no one’s really around’: Sydney’s Mardi Gras in Covid times – The Guardian
Despite reduced capacity and a shift from Oxford Street to the SCG, marchers in this year’s parade hope it will be ‘electrifying but safe’
Happy la-di-da was the singsong greeting heard on Sydneys Oxford Street last March: rhyming slang commemorating Mardi Gras, the citys final mass event before Covid-19 hit.
Gay Christmas, as its colloquially called, will look different this year 35,000 ticket holders will watch the parade at the Sydney Cricket Ground, a more controllable environment than Oxford Street, traditionally lined with some 200,000 spectators.
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