All of Sydney seemed filled with lovers on Friday night, as a 500-drone light display burst forth in the sky, morphing from a flower to a heart to a diversity shark to a progress pride flag, officially heralding the beginning of Sydney WorldPride.
The most rhetorical question overheard in Sydney’s Domain for the Live and Proud opening concert marking 17 days of some 350 events: are we allowed to stand and dance? For dance we did en masse as an essential queer communal act, almost 45 years after the city’s first Gay Mardi Gras ended in 53 arrests and some brutal police bashings.
