Faith @
2023 World Pride
& Sydney Mardi Gras
Queer Christian Roundtable invites people of all faith and spirituality to share in our events
for Sydney World Pride
17 February ~ 5 March
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the enduring sovereignty of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and South Sea Islander lands seas, knowledge,
kinship systems, and community wisdom,in these lands we now call Australia.
We bear witness to their immense compassion and hospitality in spite of the injustices and dispossession they have suffered under colonisation , as well as their diversity and resilience.
We honour the Elders past, present, and emerging. This is, was, and always will be Aboriginal land.
We particularly acknowledge the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Bidjigal, Darug, Dharawal people who are the Traditional Custodians of the Sydney Basin.
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As proud Supporters of our LGBTIQA+ community @
Sydney World Pride & Mardi Gras 2023
The Queer Christian Roundtable invites people of faith and spirituality to join us in our celebrations during the 2023 World Pride and Sydney Mardi Gras Festivals – held between 17 February and 5 March – the first time World Pride has been held in the southern hemisphere.
Check out our links here to discover shared events already planned by various groups.
UPCOMING LGBTIQA+ CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY & ROUNDTABLE EVENTS
- 21 February 2023, Shrove Tuesday 5.30pm- 7pm Pancake Pride Celebration Service
(Keynote joint Christian - Ecumenical/Interdenominational Event!) - Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/pancake-pride
5.30pm-7pm: Food & Music 7pm: Celebration, Word, Song, Reflections, Prayers
Come meet all the different churches, organization and community groups that forms the Queer Christian Roundtable - enjoy pancakes together and celebrate Mardi Gras (the actual day - Fat Tuesday a.k.a. Mardi Gras) and World Pride together. Enjoy food, music, worship and conversation in a relax atmosphere. All welcome!
You can also join the event live via Zoom from 6.30pm via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81326733717?pwd=emR3L2lrNFA2eGY0RTZjRnowWkgvUT09 more details for Zoom link can be found below at the Pancake Pride Celebration tab!
- 24 February 2023, 6.30pm-9pm Thanksgiving Mass for LGBTIQA+ Community @ Sydney World Pride & Mardi Gras
Join LGBTIQA+ Catholics in this thanksgiving service that will be celebrated with prayers, readings, reflections and songs to honour the variety and diversity that enriches our world and church, as we pray that discrimination and invisibility is overcome with justice and love.
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/lgbtqia-thanksgiving-mass
- 26 February 2023, 5:00pm (AEDT) St James’ Institute Public Lecture: Unashamedly Gay, Unashamedly Christian with Jayne Ozanne.
This public lecture will be preceded at 4 pm by Choral Evensong sung by the Choir of St James’. The music for the service will feature gay composers. https://www.sjks.org.au/event/unashamedly-gay-unashamedly-christian/
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Prayer for 2023 Sydney World Pride & Mardi Gras Festival
Queer Angels Exhibition (Dec 2022 - Marc 2023)
Photos taken during the launch of Queer Angels in December 2022 with thanks to Studio Commercial
Information on Queer Faces of Faith Exhibition held in the same venue can be found at https://www.amplifyqueerfaith.com.au
Queer Christian Roundtable Partners
"This website and the associated events and projects celebrating the faith and lives of our LGBTIQA+ communities are independently resourced by the Queer Christian Roundtable for World Pride - a collective of LGBTIQA+ affirming Christian churches, organizations and ministries to ensure LGBTIQA+ people of faith and Christian stories and contributions are fully celebrated without their faith or LGBTIQA+ identities being left out or impugned. These events have not been resourced or organised by the 2023 Sydney World Pride or Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras organizations,
though we support and echo their efforts in bringing greater flourishing for our LGBTIQA+ sisters, brothers and siblings.
The Queer Christian Roundtable for World Pride includes representations, organizers and leaders from the various organisations listed above.
We thank the generous support from individuals and organizers from the Queer Christian Roundtable for all their hard work and dedication in making these events accessible , including the hosting of this simple page.
We honour and acknowledge the Gardigal People of the Eora Nation upon whose ancient lands many of the physical events will be taking place, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and note that this land always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.
