Every year, hundreds of thousands of people line Sydney’s Oxford St to celebrate the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. For Sandi Banks, who was at the very first Mardi Gras in 1978, the commemoration is bittersweet; she still remembers the physical bruises and mental scars she received on that night.
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