Executive Producer: Helen Shaw

Host: Dee Mason

Audio, editing, mixing: Studio Mason

How did a peaceful parade down Oxford Street in support of gay solidarity in 1978 turn nasty…. Ending in 53 arrests and claims of Police Brutality? … and then how did THAT morph into the huge and joyous event that mardi gras is today?

On the eve of World Pride and the 45th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras I got to meet some of the 78ers. The men and women who were there… on the night history was made. Listen to our podcast “78….. the story of the first mardi gras.