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Sydney Mardi Gras: How one night of violence in 1978 forever changed Australia's LGBTQIA+ movement

The first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney started in a way that now feels familiar: costumes, dancing and a pervasive sense of pride.

But what began one night in June, 1978, with a large crowd of partygoers and this yellow flatbed truck …

... would end, a few hours later, in fear, arrests and brutal violence.

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