Parade protestors try to block Liberal Party float
Image: Department of Homo Affairs protestors in front of The Liberal Party Float.
Image: William Brougham
NSW police removed three protestors from Sydney’s 42nd Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade after they attempted to block the official Liberal Party Float.
Mardi Gras and NSW Police have come under fire after protestors in a queer activist group called the Department of Homo Affairs, were forcibly removed at roughly 10 pm for carrying banners denouncing the Liberal Party, whose official float travelled behind them.
The banners included slogans such “turn back their float,” with one protestor also wearing a Scott Morrison mask. While the Department of Homo Affairs were not officially registered as part of Mardi Gras celebrations, they took to the streets to march anyway in a peaceful yet satirical protest of the Liberal government’s recent actions.
Police confirmed that while the three protestors were arrested, no charges were laid.
In a statement made on Sunday NSW Police Assistant Commissioner, Tony Crandell described the protest as “disappointing,” claiming that their removal was made to keep the parade a peaceful event.
“Police have come a long way in building relationships with the LGBTQI community and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras event organisers,” he said.
“However, it was disappointing that we were requested to remove three people from the parade ground for unauthorised entry. Their removal was done to ensure the event could continue to proceed in a safe and peaceful manner.”
The Department of Homo Affairs protested the Liberal parties float in an action of “queer solidarity” with First Nations communities who oppose the planned circumnavigation of a replica of the HMS Endeavour around Australia.
A member of The Department of Homo Affairs, known as Officer Hazardous Material, told Star Observer that LGBTQI people have a responsibility to continue advocating for other marginalised communities.
“I think to be queer is to have a politicised identity,” they said.
“I think if you look at our roots they come from black, First Nations, trans women. Our roots come out of some of the most intrusive forms of political violence and being queer is inherently political.
“You can’t see a group oppressed by state violence and then ignore the rights of another group oppressed by state violence.”
You can’t love a country you can’t afford,
So you have nothing left but hate.
Sooner or later you have no option left but to enact on that hate on where it came from.
And if there’s millions of you-bye bye home affairs in control.
Give me the dept of homo affairs anyway!
Sooner or later the legal judgement of the protesters is how they look in designer sunglasses
-conservative logic being that if it looks upmarket ,it’s worth more money therefore of best character to remain unquestioned.
Right wing logic thinks if U are rich then U must be the best to be ahead of the rest.(Literally)
Left wing logic thinks that U only get ahead with the rich when U start to behead them.(Figuratively)
Democracy swings both ways on that one.