Pride in Protest: The ABC's 'Riot' and the Birth of Mardi Gras

Forty years on, Sydney's Mardi Gras festivities remain both a celebration of the diversity of LGBTQIA+ communities and a reminder of the battles for equality fought and won. Marking this anniversary is Jeffrey Walker's Riot, which dramatises the historic events of 1978 – but its telemovie format is not without limitations, writes Glenn Dunks.

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Stonewall, Damon Herriman, Xavier Samuel, Jessica De Gouw, homosexuality, buggery, queer, gay, lesbian, LGBT, liberation, activism, fictionalisation, history.