The Sydney Swans are excited by the recent announcement that WorldPride 2023 will be held in Sydney.

LGBTIQ Pride is one of the key pillars of the Sydney Swans Diversity Action Plan with the Club striving to be a community leader in celebrating diversity.

The Club is committed to making everyone feel safe and welcome at the football with the core value of respect at the heart of everything we do.

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras won the right to host the international marquee Pride event, WorldPride 2023.

Members of the worldwide InterPride network of Pride organisations voted between Sydney, Montreal and Houston as the host city for WorldPride 2023.

The final results were Sydney 60%, Montreal 36% and Houston 3%.  The win was announced in Athens, Greece earlier this week at the annual InterPride AGM. 

Sydney WorldPride will be held over February and March to coincide with Mardi Gras 2023. This will be the first time ever WorldPride has been to the Southern Hemisphere and Asia-Pacific region. This is important as many LGBTQI communities within the Asia Pacific are still denied fundamental human rights.

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Co-Chair Giovanni Campolo-Arcidiaco says: “This is a major win for Sydney, Australia and the region more broadly. Bringing WorldPride down under means we can celebrate and shine a spotlight on the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQI community in the region.”

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Co-Chair Kate Wickett says: “We’d like to say a huge thank you to our Federal, State and Local governments, corporate and community partners, the extended team at Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as well as our global community for helping bring WorldPride to Sydney 2023. This has been a truly collaborative pitch.”

Click here to read more about the work the Sydney Swans as part of the LGBTQI pillar in the Diversity Action Plan.