Please note: this clip contains descriptions of violence and some scenes of violent arrest. The last three minutes of this clip are silent.
File footage of a gay rights march from 15 July 1978 that proceeded through the Sydney CBD, along William Street to Kings Cross, stopped outside Darlinghurst Police Centre and finished in Hyde Park.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.