Midsumma 2003

Melbourne's homosexual 'midsumma' festival is held from 18 Jan to 9 Feb 2003

A range of events are held, including 'pride march', a carnival, various art events and parties.

Over the past few years, we have monitored the numbers attending the events as well as the sponsors of midsumma and the MPs and Councils who offer their support.

pride march

Following our campaigns over recent years, we were pleased to see that the media did not give crowd figures for this year's midsumma 'pride march' held on Sunday 2 Feb at 5 pm!
In fact, most media TOTALLY IGNORED the pride march!

The ABC didn't mention the midsumma pride march. Only Channel 10 mentioned the march - they said 'tens of thousands' but didn't commit themselves to a figure.

The Papers : The Herald Sun didn't say anything and The Age had one photo towards the back - showing two people in a virtually empty park and NO mention was made of the crowd size!

We estimated that the crowd was less than 10,000 people - there appeared to be less than last year. (... last year the organisers said there were 50,000 + spectators!)

How many were there? See our photos. . .

For a full report AND pictures of the crowd see 'Midsumma 2003 - Bulletin 2'.