SYDNEY — Almost 10,000 people shimmied, strutted and strode through the ages on Saturday as Sydney celebrated its 32nd gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
More than 100 floats with 9,500 performers filled the city's streets, with Osama bin Laden and
Michael Rolik, CEO of the Mardi Gras committee described the parade as a "rich tapestry of the serious and the trivial, the sexy and the cutesy, the personal and the public message".
New York transgender artist and entertainer Amanda Lepore was to lead the floats as Chief of Parade, promising to be as "naked as possible" -- save for a strategically-placed rhinestone.