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Speaker 1: Our top End Pride is excited to present Whopping nineteen

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Speaker 1: events over two weekends for the Katherine Pride Festival and

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Speaker 1: the Darwin Pride Festival, which begin on the seventeenth and

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Speaker 1: run up until the twenty sixth of June. And Top

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Speaker 1: End Pride Chair Ambersayer's Hunt said that it is going

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Speaker 1: to be a huge celebration for the lgbt qia plus

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Speaker 1: community and their friends, family, visitors and allies. And she

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Speaker 1: joins me on the line right now, Good morning to you, Amber. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we're just having a bit of an issue with your

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Speaker 1: phone line there.

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Speaker 2: Can you hear us? Okay, yeah, I can hear you.

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Speaker 2: I can hear I can hear you perfectly now?

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Speaker 3: And how will move?

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Speaker 2: How big has Pride become in the top End?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's starting to get very big. I mean that

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Speaker 3: was out with our plan a few years ago, was

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Speaker 3: to try and get it in line with the he's

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Speaker 3: around Australia and make it a really you know, an

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Speaker 3: event that others would want to come to, you know,

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Speaker 3: visitors and other you know, other people from around the

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Speaker 3: world and around Australia.

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Speaker 1: Now, what are some of the most well, what are

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Speaker 1: some of the things that are going to be happening. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: over it sounds like it's going to be massive. Nineteen

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Speaker 1: events over two weekends. What are some of the wonderful

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Speaker 1: events taking place?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Okay, So in Catherine we've got we've got Bears

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Speaker 3: and Bombshell Bingo that's selling really well at the moment.

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Speaker 3: We've also got Dime with Pride which we had last

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Speaker 3: year and that's that's actually sold out that one unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: so if if you missed out on that one, there's

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Speaker 3: drink and draw. So we've got the fabulous wonder Mama

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Speaker 3: coming up from Sydney and she's a qualified artist and

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Speaker 3: she's going to do a couple of sittings down in Catherine.

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Speaker 3: I think they're selling really well as well. With a

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Speaker 3: few more spots left, and that Catherine will mean with

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Speaker 3: a picnic Day, so that's on Sunday Fans Day. Come

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Speaker 3: on down and enjoy them stalls and some entertainment and

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Speaker 3: it's just a really family orientated place for kids to go.

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Speaker 3: There'll be some drag queens story time as well. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be really great, really great EVNT in

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Speaker 3: Catherine is it the first meet a couple of days

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Speaker 3: Respite do you.

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Speaker 1: Need a couple of days rest before you get back

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Speaker 1: into some more events?

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Speaker 3: There is that, right, that's right, we all come back

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Speaker 3: to Dow and do it all over again.

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Speaker 1: Now, is that the first time that you've held that

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Speaker 1: there've been events for Catherine for Pride, for Top End Pride.

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Speaker 3: No, this is officially our second Catherine Pride. But the

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Speaker 3: year before that we did a Top End Dow and

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Speaker 3: Pride on the road a road show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, rong.

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Speaker 3: We took ad and Pride to Catherine in a road

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Speaker 3: show and it was really well received. So after we

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Speaker 3: it was like, yeah, no, these guys need their own festival.

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Speaker 3: So that's why we push forward. And now there's a

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Speaker 3: Catherroom Festival and the Darwin Festival.

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Speaker 1: And what are some of the most important messages coming

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Speaker 3: Well, fears, because it's about our fear, strength and our resilience,

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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. So it's about being seen. It's

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Speaker 3: about you know, having visibility in the community and inclusivity.

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Speaker 3: It's it's really important that that everyone knows that they

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Speaker 3: it's about. It's about being seen, so you know, making

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Speaker 3: safe spaces for everyone to come together, however you identify.

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Speaker 3: And in particular this year, the trans community is especially

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Speaker 3: the kids have been getting a bit of grief federally

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Speaker 3: their loved and you know, support it.

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Speaker 2: And how look.

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Speaker 1: When you when you look at something like that, when

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Speaker 1: you talk about something like that, how important is it

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean they're important for our community because it's

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Speaker 3: it's hopefully safe spaces where they can come and be

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Speaker 3: they don't they don't you know, sit at home and

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Speaker 1: For them at the most the community, whether or not

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Speaker 2: Do they like to get involved?

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Speaker 3: Of course, Yeah, we've got some amazing allies and obviously

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Speaker 3: family and friends, and yeah, our family days are often

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Speaker 3: it's a great thing. And those kids will grow up

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Speaker 1: To absolutely one hundred percent correct and such an important message.

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Speaker 1: Heyber that the crossing in the city is looking beautiful again,

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Speaker 1: finally been sort of brightened up a bit.

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Speaker 3: I know how awesome is It looks fantastic, so bright

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Speaker 3: and just in time for our parade, which starts on

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Speaker 3: and in you know, not literally but you know.

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Speaker 2: What I mean, clothes as slice as we're going to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well we don't want to be doing that

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Speaker 3: too soon. Yeah, so we'll go on the parade that

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Speaker 3: Day in the in Civic Park and that'll be really big.

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Speaker 3: There's I think it's fifteen or something seventeen stalls up

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Speaker 3: there again, a variety of allies services that the LGB

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Speaker 3: which are selling really fast. So if anyone wants to

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Speaker 3: to be just fantastic. And there's the Fluro Fiercely Thureau

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Speaker 3: ow and Entertainment. So and then we're flying up DJ

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Speaker 3: Kitty Glitter and Dan Murphy for that from Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Awesome.

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Speaker 3: So that should be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun,

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Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you joining us this morning to

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about it.

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Speaker 2: Amber says Hunt.

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Speaker 1: If there is anybody out there listening this morning who's thinking, oh,

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Speaker 1: I want a little bit more info, can they find

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Speaker 1: it on Facebook or head to a website or somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, we've got our Facebook page and we've also

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Speaker 3: got top end top Endpride, dot com, dot au. Go

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Speaker 3: there and they'll be able to find their tickets. Tickets

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Speaker 3: for almost everything except dime A Priority is sold out. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: dime Re Priete is sold out. All the rest are available,

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Speaker 3: and yeah that it will just be a fantastic, really

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Speaker 3: really busy weekend. Guarantee that won't be able to speak

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Speaker 3: come next Monday, the twenty seventh.

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Speaker 2: So we won't ask you.

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Speaker 1: We won't ask you on for a debrief to find

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Speaker 1: out how it's gone.

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Speaker 2: You might not have a voice left.

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Speaker 3: That's as long as I think I'll be okay.

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Speaker 2: Oh and lovely to speak to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you joining us and letting us know

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Speaker 1: a bit more about Pride Week. Such a wonderful event

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Speaker 1: and so great to see so much on.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for your time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Awesome. Thank you, Katie, Thank you