Proud to be here: Sydney WorldPride 2023
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17/02/2023
17 Days of WorldPride kick off today and Sydney, Australia is the location for WorldPride 2023 with this year's event also incorporating Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and the Mardi Gras Film Festival.
Sydney WorldPride 2023 represents the first time ever that the event is being staged in the Southern Hemisphere. The 2023 festival also coincides with the 50th anniversary of the first Australian Gay Pride Week, the 45th anniversary of the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the fifth anniversary of Marriage Equality in Australia.
WorldPride is a not-for-profit festival, While the traditional Pride month in the Northern Hemisphere is June, Sydney WorldPride 2023 is being staged Friday 17 February – Sunday 5 March 2023 to coincide with the usual timing of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and of course, the heart of the Australian summer!
Support Sydney WorldPride 2023! Check out their website to find out more about the unprecedented lineup of great events and how to get involved. You can also celebrate remotely with Beamafilm's great collection of films celebrating all kinds of love.
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POLITICS - PROTEST - PROFANITY
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The story of Jerusalem's controversial hosting of the 2006 World Pride Events.
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In 1950s small town Britain, a doctor develops a relationship with her young patient's mother.
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Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. Their romance lasted 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - separations, discrimination, temptations, jealousies and losses.
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A couple in love from Baja California Mexico are in the middle of the preparations for a huge wedding, the only problem is that their marriage is not legal, since they are both male.
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It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.
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1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
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Three funerals, three generations, two wars and one boyfriend waiting in Tel Aviv
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Following his son Gabriel's death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel's boyfriend Sebastian.
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The incredible true-life story of Michael Glatze, a high profile queer youth activist who created controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a Christian pastor.
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Therese Belivet works at a department store in Manhattan where she encounters the beautiful Carol but things take an unexpected turn when strong feelings develop. This stunning movie is based upon a 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel and inspired by the...
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Why is there such a stigma attached to "sounding gay"?
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Two Iranian teenagers grow a dangerous sexual rebellion.
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Ron Woodruff has AIDS. But he also has a plan.
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A loner and a star athlete form an unlikely friendship.
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16 year old Billie struggles with her mother's plan to gender transition. Her path to independence accelerates when her mother's plans mean that their time together is limited to Tuesday afternoons.
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A portrait of four kids - whose parents all happen to be gay.
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A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the first days of the French Revolution.
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An uplifting documentary about Ireland's superstar drag queen Panti Bliss as she rises from ‘giant cartoon woman' to one of the highest-profile activists in the LGBTIQ community.
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With the impending election of an extreme-right wing president in Brazil, trans activist and politician Indianara Siqueira fights to defend the LGBT homeless shelter she founded called CasaNem.
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