Sydney’s WorldPride festival is in full swing this week and the
Pullman Sydney Hyde Park – party central for the event – is making a big
statement with the largest and highest Mardi Gras installation in the
city.
The Pullman rainbow, designed and installed by Bamboozel Projects, measures 22 metres wide and 16 storeys high.
Still in Sydney, Ovolo Woolloomooloo is embracing WorldPride, with
drag queens stationed at reception at key times to meet and greet guests
and offer advice on the best places in town to celebrate the 17-day
festival.
Ovolo’s team of Drag Concierges will be led by Joshua Collins, aka
‘The thin Lizzi’, who is a front office manager at Ovolo the Valley in
Brisbane by day and drag entertainer by night.
“The best thing about working at Ovolo is we celebrate the LGBTQIA+
community all year-round and not just for Mardi Gras and WorldPride,”
Collins said.
Pullman Sydney Hyde Park makes a big statement for WorldPride.
WorldPride Sydney is the biggest celebration of the LGBTQ community
Australia has seen. Special guests this year will include Kyle Minogue.
The event includes a new Powerhouse Ultimo exhibition, Absolutely
Queer, where the two halves of Sydney’s LGBTQ story collide, showcasing
the fight alongside the festivities.
Anthony Albanese will be the first sitting Australian prime minister
to march in Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras when he joins the parade
for the WorldPride festival.
The festival, which will include more than 300 events, will end with
an expected 50,000 people walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on
Sunday, 5 March.