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The Straight Mardi Gras is bigger and better than ever this year, as the NRL launches the first round of 2024 in the LAS VEGAS.
These festivities are expected to last weeks, as every straight person in New South Wales and Queensland begin boarding flights to Nevada to take part in one of the greatest celebrations of heterosexuality.
This comes after decades of concerned old men demanding that they should get a ‘straight pride month’ if the gays and lesbians get one.
Since 1978, Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardis Gras has celebrated LGBTQI Australians through colourful dress, parades, floats – and in recent years, major corporations coming out as gay as well.
But, did you know that Straight Mardis Gras started in Sydney 70 years earlier?
That’s right, 1908 was the year of the first Sydney Straight and Hetero Mardis Gras which likewise included colourful outfits but replaced parades and floats for tackles and post-contact metres.
Another massive way in which the two events differ is that Gay and Lesbian Mardis Gras takes place over a week whereas the Straight Mardis Gras takes place every weekend for about seven months.
But now with the Las Vegas launch, it seems that this straight Mardi Gras has become a fully fledged Straight Pride Month!
“I still love my son even if he’s a Cowboys supporter,” said a supportive parent of one straight pride attendee, as he boarded a flight to the City of Sin from Betoota International this afternoon.
“He was born that way. Literally, in Townsville.”
So far it’s only alcohol and online sportsbetting brands that have co-opted this political movement.
