Melbourne Pride 2023
I took a lot of photos at this year’s Melbourne Pride march. Here are my favourites.
Waiting for the march to start
Photo of a man wearing tennis whites with rainbow coloured accents standing in a large, green field with several hundred people standing around and behind him. The man is holding a large rainbow pride flag on a wooden staff that is taller than he is.
Queueing up to start the march
Photo of a young person marching with a large group of people during a Pride parade. The person is holding up a sign that reads "Let's get one thing straight, I'm not".
Queueing up to march
Photo of two young women, both wearing matching green t-shirts, walking in a wide group of people - several of whom are wearing brightly coloured, pride themed clothes. One of the women is holding a small brown and tan dog in her hand.
Huddled over a phone, bisexually
Photo of three young women huddled around a phone in a large, green field. There are several people standing in a rough queue on the other side of the field. The three women are wearing the pink, purple, and blue colours of the bisexual flag. One of them has a bisexual pride flag draped across her back.
Bored with all the waiting
Photo of a young child lying belly-down, as if bored and defeated, on top of an inflatable pink beach ball in a large, green field.
Hanging loose with search and rescue
Photo of a woman in a search and rescue uniform of bright orange utility pants and black t-shirt. The woman is walking away from the photographer and towards a red search-and-rescue truck that's been decorated with pride flags. The woman has pale green-blue coloured hair and is holding a rainbow coloured strap in her other hand. She is giving the shaka (or "hang loose" sign) to her colleagues off camera.
Capturing the moment
Photo of a young man wearing a red, black, and maroon coloured singlet. The man has rainbow-coloured paint finger-drawn on his arms and face. He is taking a photo of the crowd around him with an interchangeable lens camera that he is holding up to his eye.
Watching the march from above
Photo of a woman and a man, both standing on separate balconies of a five-storey building, and both looking down at what's happening on the street below. The woman is using a pair of binoculars to take a closer look.
Watching the march from her balcony
Photo of an older woman with bright, white hair standing on the balcony of multi-storey residential building. The woman is using a pair of binoculars to look down at what's happening on the street below.
Watching the marchers
Photo of a woman standing by the side of the road watching the marchers at a pride parade walk by. The woman is holding a black, curly-haired dog in her lap. The dog is wearing a rainbow coloured bandana on its neck.
Walking back to his friends
Photo of a boy wearing a bright orange school-branded t-shirt that has lots of marker-drawn signatures on it. The boy is walking parallel to the people marching in the pride parade. Slung over his shoulder is a large pride rainbow flag on a long wooden stick.
Post Pride
Photo of the back of a man wearing a t-shirt that reads "PostPride". The man is watching the rest of his Australia Post colleagues cross the road at the end of the Melbourne pride march.
Flying with pride
Photo of several people wearing bright, Jetstar-orange t-shirts. These people have rainbow flags and bright coloured flowers draped around them. Two of the people are wearing large, mascot-sized foam airplanes with Jetstar logos on them.
(FYI. I used to work for Jetstar and was part of the first ever Jetstar contingent to officially march at Pride in Melbourne. #FlyingWithPride)
Tomorrow I’ll upload all the dog photos I took at pride, so stay tuned for that :)