Are you ready for our future? Destined for celebration, for pride, for progress and for dance floors filled with friends and chosen family, the following pages are filled with the wonderful and wild 2024 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival.
With over 100 events across 17 days our glittering city will be taken over with parties, talks, community events, sports, art and celebration. From 16 February to 3 March expect the unexpected as every part of the LGBTQIA+ communities band together to dare to dream and manifest our future.
Bigger than ever before, the 2024 Festival will feature 19 signature Sydney Mardi Gras events – with the dawn of Festival First Light, where simultaneous Welcome to Country Ceremonies will take place across the city, Ultra Violet, a wonderous world designed by and for LGBTQIA+ women, Bondi Beach Party, when the iconic shoreline transforms into a queer paradise, Queer Futures, our collection of talks and ideas panels designed to push for progress and Hot Trans Summer, a total t