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3 Feb 2015

History of Pride March Victoria: celebrating 20 years

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Photo by Dean Arcuri

On Sunday 1 February 2015, Victoria’s LGBTI communities and their allies came together in solidarity, unified by their diversity to celebrate as they have done for the past 19 years.

The 20th annual Pride March saw Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, lead the march with his wife and members of his cabinet. Restating his mantra ‘Equality is not negotiable’, Premier Andrews became the first Australian state or territory leader ever to participate in an LGBTI-affirming march.

Photo by Dean Arcuri

Since the inception of Victoria’s Pride March, St Kilda’s Fitzroy Street has hosted the event. In 2015, over 140 groups, more than 4000 participants and some 50,000 spectators made the 20th march the biggest ever.

Photo by Dean Arcuri

JOY 94.9 has a long history of broadcasting from Pride March, and to mark this year’s significance, JOY’s specialist program director, Emily Dwyer, interviewed some of the original organisers of and participants in the inaugural Pride March. They included:

Darren Ray
Peter Dewildt
Liz Pain
Penny McDonald
Dean Beck
Linzi Kurileff
Colin Krycer

Photo by Dean Beck

History of Pride March Victoria: celebrating 20 years was produced and presented by Emily Dwyer. Post-production by Dean Beck; original audio provided by Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives © Colin Billings 1996. Thanks to Chris Furneaux for assistance with the production.