EXCLUSIVE:
Presenters have been introduced for ABC’s protection of The Sydney Homosexual & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade subsequent month.
Drag icon Courtney Act and ABCQueer’s Mon Schafter are again as hosts with Jeremy Fernandez and comic Mel Buttle returning as intrepid roving reporters.
They’ll delve deep into this 12 months’s theme of Free To Be with greater than 12,000 contributors anticipated to march and dance up Oxford Avenue for one of many largest LQBTQIA+ night extravaganzas on this planet.
ABC’s Head of Arts, Music and Occasions, Kath Earle, stated: “By means of ABC TV and ABC iview’s dwell broadcast all Australians have the chance to participate within the Sydney Homosexual and Lesbian Mardi Gras and have a good time Australia’s stunning LGBTQIA+ neighborhood. We’re proud supporters of the queer neighborhood and sharing their tales throughout all our platforms is extremely vital to us.”
On radio triple j’s Latifa Tee will even be internet hosting triple j’s Mardi Gras get together.
From Monday 17 February, ABCQueer will launch a brand new four-part collection, OK Boomer, OK Zoomer on ABC iview and YouTube. Teaming a younger queer particular person with an older queer particular person, this cross generational collection will ask the query “what would your life be like in a distinct time?”.
An ABC manufacturing: Supervisor Occasions and Partnerships: Janet Gaeta. Govt Producer: Rowdie Walden. Supervising Producer: Jess Skinner. Head of Arts, Music and Occasions: Kath Earle.
7:30pm Saturday 1 March on ABC.
