n 2009, Freedom 2 b[e] marched in the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras for the 3rd time. Freedom 2 b[e] is a non-profit organisation which provides support and information for GLBT people from church backgrounds. Based in Australia, with meetings held in Sydney and Melbourne. There is also a growing international online community. The [...]
On Saturday the 1st of March 2008, at the 30th Anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 35 Christian Ministers from the 100 Revs group joined the parade to say sorry to the GLBT community. Many more would have marched, but once denominational heads discovered who had put their names to the apology, [...]
We’d been standing for nearly three hours waiting for the parade to begin. The participants next to us began to move off indicating we were only minutes away from making history........I looked around at our Freedom2b group of 40 and couldn’t hold back the tears any longer. It had been a tough few days……there had been [...]