Sydney's Oxford Street (Oxford Street) is known for its gay clubs, bars and saunas and sex shops. The world-famous Sydney Gay and Gay Carnival (Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras), which began in 1978 with a small protest, is held on the street every year.
Today, it attracts nearly a million visitors from around the world every year, and more than 200 decorated floats cross Oxford Street. So far, no event has driven Sydney crazy like the annual Mardi Gras parade.
Each issue of SX, a gay weekly published here, has a big ad "Welcome the world to Sydney, the city of homosexuality." Most of Sydney's young people with 'sexual orientation' prefer to live in streets near Oxford Street. On weekdays they invited friends to the cafe to talk to each other; weekend nights near the bar, where entertainment was bustling and grotesque elves roamed among them, drinking and drinking.
The president of New Mardi Gras, a gay group in Sydney, once said: "Gay groups like to gather in close proximity to live in order to provide a more intimate environment and everyone tends to live in the heart of major cities. About 80% of our gay members live near Oxford Street in Sydney. Two women or two men dancing together, it's sexy here. "
Sydney's gay Fans, New South Wales congressman, Sydney's female mayor is based on Oxford Street. Most of Sydney's gay community groups, including sports, music, literature and others, also gather on the street.
Every year before the Mardi Gras Carnival, there will be a two-week gay film festival on the street, which will attract gay films from all over the world. Like San Francisco and Amsterdam, Sydney has become a gay city. Even big companies that advertise in gay-service media acknowledge that the gay economy has become part of Sydney's mainstream economy.
