Over 5,000 people have gathered in the wee hours of this morning in front of the Sydney Opera House to be photographed nude in the name of art and diversity as part of the Mardi Gras festival. Gay, straight, male, female, black, white, yellow, young and old — they came, just before dawn, to be a part of celebrity photographer Spencer Tunick’s latest installation, Mardi Gras: The Base – a tribute to the equality and sameness of individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Said Tunick: “Gay men and women lay naked next to their straight neighbours and this delivered a very strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society… It was difficult to get the straight people to embrace the gay participants … I was happy we got it in the second set-up.”
Damn, this was definitely one event all of us at Gays.com HQ would have died to attend.
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