Community Awards 2024
For one last time we gathered to celebrate Our Future… at the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Community Awards. It was our chance to recognise the brightest and boldest in our communities who, through their dedication, talent and pride, made the 46th Sydney Mardi Gras Festival a shining success.
Congratulations to the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras Community Award winners:
PARADE
Best Choreography
Winner: Different Strokes Dragon Boat Club
Runner Up: The Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Best Satirical and/or Activist Entry
Winner: Order of Perpetual Indulgence
Runner Up: Drag Storytime is not a crime
Best Float Design
Winner: Studio Kink and the Sydney Fetish Community
Runner Up: Architecture with Pride
Best Individual or Small Group
Winner: Total Metamorphisis
Runner Up: Brisbane Gay Gardeners
Ron Muncaster Award for Best Costume
Winner: Emerald City Kickball
Runner Up: Big Thick Energy
Ron Austin Award for Most Fabulous Parade Entry
Winner: DIY Rainbow
Runner Up: The Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Special Commendation
Colours of Our Community
Queer and Gender-Diverse Pole Dancers
Mini Matildas
Spirit of 1978
Winner: Order of Perpetual Indulgence
VOLUNTEERS
Excellence in Teamwork
Winners: “JP” John Paul Ciappara & Jan Beattie
Excellence in Leadership
Winners: Rod Dever & Fiona Carter
Excellence in Service
Winners: Karla Burrows & Joel McKinnon
Excellence in Innovation
Winners: Ron Boyd & Peter Cowan
Best Newcomer
Winners: Bea Chew & Teaghan Barrish
ICARE Award
Winners: Mihal Guttman-Jones & Ryen Partin
Special Acknlowledgement
Winners: Christian Lush & Jen Rogers
Volunteer of the Year
Winners: David Robinson & Lori Chacko
Special Commendation
Alan O’Riordan, Adrian Hinder, Avalon Carnall, Cass Britt-Brewster, Cain Cooper, Daniela Plata Acosta, Eva Schafroth, Rahul Marwah, Jose Arthur Barbosa Mileo, Lyne Woods, Meredith Nigh, Paul McInerney and Vanessa Britt
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
C.Moore Hardy
Damian Furlong
Doris Fish (aka Philip Mills)
Graeme Browning (aka Mitzi Macintosh)
John Bridges
Kevin Golding
Lynne O’Brien
Nick Parker
Rob Patmore
Shane Jenek (aka Courtney Act)
Vicktor Petroff