** The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark 10th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots ( which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ; later incorporating a festival ).

* October 20 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

* Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Sydney's pride parade, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, is one of the world's largest and is held at night

The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras is the largest Australian pride event and one of the largest in the world.

* Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Many festivals are held in Sydney, including the Sydney Festival, a celebration of free performances throughout January ; the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ( see below ); the Sydney Royal Easter Show, which unites rural and urban communities together in 1 annual event at Homebush ; the Sydney Film Festival and many smaller festivals such as Tropfest.

The pink triangle is the basis of the design of the Homomonument in Amsterdam, the Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial in Sydney, the Pink Triangle Park in the Castro neighbourhood of San Francisco and the huge Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks that is displayed every year during San Francisco Pride weekend in San Francisco.

Lauper embarked on an Australian tour playing at the Kings Park Botanic Gardens in Perth, supported by Katie Noonan and Kate Miller-Heidke on February 22, 2008, and she was the headline and final act at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Party, on March 2, 2008.

In 1981, the parade was shifted to February, with the name changed to the " Sydney Gay Mardi Gras ".

This would continue to become an integral part of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.

In 1988 the parade was renamed the " Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras " at an Extraodinary General Meeting.

1991 saw the eighth annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Film festival, a Mardi Gras event, included in a national film festival for the first time.

By 1993, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade had become the largest night time outdoor parade in the world.

On the same date the organisation reverted to its former name, " Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras " ( from " New Mardi Gras "), as more than 9, 100 participants joined in the 2012 Parade, on 134 floats.

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival culminates in the renowned Sydney Mardi Gras Parade, an LGBTQI rights protest and celebration of sexuality.

These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

* Troughman an Australian noted in the Sydney media for lying down in urinal troughs at Sydney Mardi Gras parties and other events.

Street Performers in the 2006 Sydney Mardi Gras

The Sydney Mardi Gras is an annual LGBT pride parade and festival in Sydney, Australia, attended by hundreds of thousands of people from around Australia and from overseas.

It is one of the largest such festivals in the world, and includes a variety of events such as the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and Party, Bondi Beach Drag Races, Harbour Party, the academic discussion panel Queer Thinking, Mardi Gras Film Festival, as well as Fair Day, which attracts 70, 000 people to Victoria Park, Sydney.

Sydney Mardi Gras is one of Australia's biggest tourist drawcards, with the parade and dance party attracting many international and domestic tourists.

Reflecting changes since the first Sydney Mardi Gras, participants in the Mardi Gras Parade now include groups of uniformed police officers from Australian Federal Police and New South Wales State Police, as well as interstate police officers, firefighters and other emergency services personnel from the Australian LGBTI community.

Marriage equality was a dominant theme in the 2011 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade, with at least 15 floats lobbying for same-sex marriage.

Parade entrants include members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Australian Defence Force, Amnesty International Australia, Australian Marriage Equality, City of Sydney, Fire and Rescue NSW, Taronga Conservation Society and DNA ( magazine ) among many others.

Approximately 300, 000 spectators watch the Parade as it snakes through the Sydney CBD and Darlinghurst.

The Grand Parade of the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

At its Melbourne end, the original alignment of the Melbourne – Sydney route followed Royal Parade northward from where it begins at its intersection with Elizabeth Street and Flemington Road.

Royal Parade becomes Sydney Road at Brunswick Road and then became the Hume Highway itself at Campbellfield.

The area called Merrion Gates, in Sandymount, Dublin 4, is roughly where the northbound Dublin DART line goes inland before the station at Sydney Parade, which lies to the north.

The main arterial road is Elizabeth Street, which becomes Royal Parade before becoming Sydney Road and the Hume Highway, the main highway heading towards Sydney.

Sydney Parade Avenue () Sandymount, Dublin 4, Ireland runs from the land formerly known as Ailesbury Park opposite the Merrion Centre at the Merrion Road end, to the sea of Dublin Bay at the Strand Road.

Ailesbury Road joins Sydney Parade at the DART station known as Sydney Parade railway station, originally opened in January 1835.

In A Painful Case by James Joyce, Mr. and Mrs. Sinico lived in a house called Leoville on Sydney Parade Avenue.

Ailesbury Road ( Bóthar Ailesbury in Irish ), Dublin 4, Ireland, is a tree-lined avenue linking Sydney Parade Station on Sydney Parade Avenue and the Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook.

In her free time, Sydney enjoys playing tennis, riding horses, growing tomatoes, hiking, knitting, reading, listening to all types of music and watching classic films.

The firm enjoys a dominant role in the design of sporting stadiums and arenas, including such globally prominent facilities as the new Yankee Stadium in New York, Wembley Stadium in London, Stadium Australia in Sydney, Wimbledon Centre Court, Minneapolis ' Target Field, San Francisco's AT & T Park, Chicago's United Center arena, Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh's Heinz Field, Houston's Reliant Stadium, Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, the renovation of Chicago's Wrigley Field, University of Phoenix Stadium, the renovation of Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg for the 2010 World Cup, London's 2012 Olympic Stadium, Miami's Sun Life Stadium, Ascot Racecourse, New York's Citi Field, Benfica's Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and the O2 Arenas in London, Berlin, and Dublin.

Bath also enjoys motivational speaking, and in 2003 she took a large role in the " Step to the future " youth leadership forum for school students in Sydney.

Using his extensive contacts Keating gained Labor endorsement for the federal seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election when he was 25 years of age.

* Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives holds extensive collections relating to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, including records, photographs, publications, posters, artwork, t-shirts, badges etc.

* In Sydney, CityRail operates an extensive interurban network of four main routes from Sydney.

The waste water plant covers a more extensive area which includes all resident of Farmville, Prince Edward schools, Hampden Sydney and north to the Cumberland County Court area.

After extensive touring in New Zealand he moved to Sydney, Australia where he played with many top jazz musicians including Don Burrows.

The NSW Government has provided extensive funding for ongoing evaluations of the Sydney MSIC, with a formal comprehensive evaluation produced in 2003, 18 months after the centre was opened.

Sydney has maintained extensive political, economic and cultural influence over Australia as well as international renown in recent decades.

London's river service network is not as extensive as those of Hong Kong or Sydney, but with recent investment in river public transport and the creation of London River Services, water transport in the British capital is experiencing a revival.

Rhodes features a foreshore path and cycleway, which links to an extensive network of foreshore parks in Sydney.

FIL's offices include asset management companies in 10 locations: London, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore and Sydney, and an extensive network of offices in 23 countries, employing more than 4, 000 people.

She sang in many opera houses on their extensive travels throughout Europe ( particularly in Naples, Italy ), North America and Sydney, Australia, where Bochsa died suddenly in 1856 and is buried there.

Protector was the focal point for the extensive Sydney Harbour defences that were established to protect against Nazi U-boat attack.

After an extensive search, the present site, about 300 kilometres south-west of Sydney, in the foothills of the Australian Alps, was chosen in 1908 as a result of survey work done by the government surveyor Charles Scrivener in that year.

King Street Wharf covering approximately five hectares, is a former maritime industrial area on the eastern shore of Darling Harbour, an inlet of Sydney Harbour, Australia, that has been redeveloped into a mixed use tourism, commercial, residential and maritime development as part of the extensive redevelopment in the general area.

It was influenced by the " shingle style " which was brought to Sydney by Horbury Hunt, and featured prominent gables and extensive use of shingles.

Writing from his extensive experience of treating cancer ( including more than 1, 000 melanoma cases ) at Sydney Hospital, Milton ( 1973 ) warned of the impact of the delivery of a prognosis, and how many of his patients, upon receiving their prognosis, simply turned their face to the wall and died an extremely premature death: "... there is a small group of patients in whom the realisation of impending death is a blow so terrible that they are quite unable to adjust to it, and they die rapidly before the malignancy seems to have developed enough to cause death.

For a century Cessnock was served by a very extensive railway network, originally constructed for the coal industry, but which, at one time, had considerable passenger services, including a direct train to Sydney.

An extensive number of bus routes operate in the district, operated by Hillsbus, Busways and Sydney Buses.

Another stalwart of the Sydney jazz scene, Bertles was a powerful and commanding tenor sax player who also had also gained extensive experience playing rock ' n ' roll as a member of Johnny O ' Keefe's backing band The Dee Jays from 1961 – 65, and he was also a regular session player on pop recordings by emerging performers such as Jeff St John.

After 15 months of extensive pre-production, the film was shot over a four month period in Mumbai and Sydney, Australia.

Cook and his crew remained for almost seven weeks and made contact with the local Guugu Yimithirr Aborigines, while the naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander made extensive collections of native flora, while Sydney Parkinson illustrated much of the flora and fauna of the region.

Hutchinson became a significant businessman in Sydney, forming business partnerships with Edward Eagar, William Redfern and Samuel Terry, among others ; he also had extensive land holdings in Sydney, its suburbs and the surrounding towns, and also in Melbourne.