Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2014

[bianco]

Mardi Gras 2014 | Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade – Saturday, 1 March

The Mardi Gras centrepiece and overall best loved Sydney event, a glittering procession of more than 9,000 people, outrageous floats, lavish costumes, stunning designs and dancing

Mardi Gras Party – Saturday, 1 March

Simply the largest gay and lesbian party in the Southern Hemisphere, immerse yourself in a rich choice of state-of-the-art venues with heart-pumping music and exclusive performances

The Laneway – Sunday, 2 March

Taking over two of Sydney’s hippest pubs and the connecting laneway, this official closing party hosts drop-in DJ’s, pop-up performances and star moments spread amongst 5 different party spaces

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People partying and having losts of fun.
...in the fun city.

 

[novasteve]

And the taxpayers get to pay for the HIV meds for all the newly infected

 

[bianco]

And the taxpayers get to pay for the HIV meds for all the newly infected

They do.
But hey...all citizens are equal, no matter their lifestyle.
Just because you make a mistake and misfortune befalls you, society doesn't cast you out.
...hetero or not.
Lots of hetero risk takers/no ideas getting infected with all sorts of things.
Life's just one big party in the harbour city.

The 'Christian' West is going to hell in a handbasket, so people are escaping...living a fantasy life.
Kinda like the Titanic, the band playing as the ship is sinking.

 

[PredFan]

Hey let them have at it. I'll be somewhere else.

 

[Tank]

Gross

 

[bianco]

The 'Dykes on Bikes' lead off the parade.
Long ago, many of them used to go topless ...but society today is more conservative, ...and their mission has evolved.

Dykes on Bikes ? Sydney

 

[GreenBean]

And the taxpayers get to pay for the HIV meds for all the newly infected

They do.
But hey...all citizens are equal, no matter their lifestyle.
Just because you make a mistake and misfortune befalls you, society doesn't cast you out.
...hetero or not.
Lots of hetero risk takers/no ideas getting infected with all sorts of things.
Life's just one big party in the harbour city.

The 'Christian' West is going to hell in a handbasket, so people are escaping...living a fantasy life.
Kinda like the Titanic, the band playing as the ship is sinking.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm


"the band playing as the ship is sinking" And the Band Played ON : Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

 

[bianco]

If only they'd used condoms and clean needles;

Gay community[edit]AIDS in the United States first struck gay men and IV drug users in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco due to their unsafe sexual and drug-taking practices.
Shilts' sources in the gay community tried to remember the last time everyone they knew was healthy, which was the U.S. Bicentennial celebration in 1976, when sailors came from all over the world to New York.[9] Some of them carried sexually transmitted diseases and rare tropical fevers. A marked difference in these cities arose in two phases of consciousness in the gay community: "Before" in 1980, and "After" by 1985. "Before", according to Shilts, was characterized by a care-free innocence, preceding the period when gay men were aware of a deadly infectious disease.[10] "After" signified the realization that gay men knew most or all of their friends were infected with AIDS, and the syndrome became pervasive throughout the media.[11]

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What's changed?
Nothing much, sad really.


AIDS Incidences on the Rise for African-American Population

AIDS Incidences on the Rise for African-American Population


The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 47 percent of all new HIV/AIDS incidences are accounted for African-Americans, while they only make up for 12 percent of the U.S. population. An alarming increase is especially seen for gay men and transgender individuals and although new HIV/AIDS incidences for African-American women have declined in the past years, they still made up for 64 percent of all new incidences in 2011.

Donna Hubbard McCree is associate director of the Health Equity Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention and says a lot of the situation has to do with social and environmental factors. “One of the most important factors is health insurance and access to health care. If a person does not have the means to protect themselves of getting infected or to visit a doctor when the infection has already taken place, they may end up in circumstances that increases their own risk and those of others,” she explains. Dr. Bruce Hirsh, a physician at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, says, “In the U.S. we have a great ability to treat HIV/AIDS. We can control the virus and make sure infected people can live a long life without too many inconveniences. The numbers, reported by the CDC, simply show our failures to follow through on care for the African-American population, for who AIDS incidences are on the rise.”