Midsumma Pride March 2023 Marching Order
Pride March 2019 - photo by Suzanne Balding
The Order in Which Groups will March
PARTICIPANT ARRIVAL TIMES
Wave B - 9:00am
Wave C - 10:00am**
Wave D - 9:15am
Wave E - 9:15am
Wave F - 9:30am
Wave G - 9:30am
Wave H - 9:45am
Wave I - 10:00am
Wave J - 10:15am
Wave K - 10:30am
Wave L - 11:15am
* In some instances, two different waves are arriving at the same time. This is due to the varying sizes of each wave.
** Wave C contains many organisations that service members of our community who have access requirements and as such have been allotted a slightly later arrival time.
The arrival time for all vehicles, drivers and passengers is between 9:00 - 10am, regardless of your wave.
THE WAVES
Pre-March Procession
- Pre1: Dykes on Bikes Melbourne
- Pre2: Rainbow Riders Victoria
- Pre3: Melbourne Motorcycle Tourers
Wave A: Indigenous Pride & Council Representatives
- A1: Indigenous contingent
- A2: City Of Port Phillip
Wave B: Youth
- B1a: headspace
- B1b: Orygen
- B2: Minus18 Youth
- B3: Rainbow Connections Mornington Peninsula (Celeste de Vis)
- B4: Little Dreamers
- B5: Thornbury Primary School
- B6: Social Justice in Early Childhood
- B7: Eastern Diversity Group (Family Access Network)
- B8: St.Kilda Park Primary School
- B9: St Kilda Primary School
- B10: Youth Projects
- B11: Swinburne Senior Secondary College
- B12: Carey PRIDE Group (Carey Baptist Grammar PRIDE Group)
- B13: OCGA Pride (Old Carey Grammarians Association)
- B14: Wesley College
- B15: P.E.G.S. (Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School)
- B16: SRCS Stand Out Group (Sydney Road Community School)
- B17: Camberwell High School
- B18: Coburg High School Stand Out
- B19: Mentone Girls' Grammar - CHROMA
- B20: Melbourne Grammar School Pride Alliance
- B21: The King David School
- B22: PRIDE WGS (Westbourne Grammar School)
- B23: Strathcona Girls Grammar School
- B24: McK SC Pride Club (McKinnon Secondary College)
- B25: Xavier College
- B26: Eltham High School
- B27: Collingwood High School Proud Parents club
- B28: Collingwood College Pride Club
- B30: Buckley Park College
- B31: Overnewton Anglican Community College
- B32: Virtual School Victoria LGBTQI+ Club
- B33: Scouts Victoria
- B34: Girl Guides Victoria
- B35: Maroondah Youth and Children's Services
- B36: Knox City Council Youth Services
- B37: Baseline for Young People Rainbow Group (City of Whittlesea Youth Services)
- B38: Manningham Youth Services
- B39: Rainbow Alliance Stawell
- B40: Rainbow Playgroup (Kensington)
Wave C: Access and Inclusion
- C1: Switchboard
- C2: Liberty Disability Services
- C3: Uniting AgeWell
- C5: Performing Older Women’s Circus (POW Circus)
- C6: Matrix Guild of Victoria (A Voice for Lesbians aged 40 and Over)
- C7: Queer south Asians
- C8: Victorian Disability Worker Commission
- C9: 澳紐彩盟 ANTRA Inc (Australia & New Zealand Tongzhi Rainbow Alliance Inc.)
- C10: Pride Of Our Footscray
- C11: Deaf-initely Pride
- C12: Guide Dogs Victoria
- C13: Lifeview Residential Care
Wave D: Queer Community Groups & Organisations
- D1: Motafrenz Car Club
- D2: Thorne Harbour Health (Victorian AIDS Council)
- D3: Victorian Pride Centre
- D4: The Pinnacle Foundation
- D5: GLOBE Victoria
- D6: Out for Australia
- D7: MGLC and shOUT (Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus and shOUT Youth Chorus)
- D8: Bisexual Alliance Victoria
- D9: Bi+ Community of Melbourne (Melbourne Bisexual Network)
- D10: Transcend Australia
- D11: Transgender Victoria
- D12: Seahorse Victoria
- D13: The Shed
- D14: Aces+ Melbourne
- D15: Parents of Gender Diverse Children (Meagan Moss)
- D16: Rainbow Dads Victoria
- D17: Bent Twigs Alliance
- D18: Frankston Mornington Peninsula LGBTIQA+ Collaborative
- D19: Queer as Foxtrot
- D20: Goulburn Valley Pride
- D21: Castlemaine Pride
- D22: Melbourne Rainbow Band
- D23: VicBears Inc.
- D24: VicPAH (Victorian Pups and Handlers)
- D25: Queerspace (drummond street)
- D26: Spaced Out - Melbourne based LGBTI Science Fiction Group
- D27: Rainbow LARP
- D28: Rainbow Atheists/Humanists Australia
- D29: Australian Rainbow Vets and Allies
- D30: Pride and Pawsome
- D31: Folsom Down Under
- D32: Drag Kings of Melbourne
- D33: Support Melbourne Drag
- D34: Lesbians of Australia Facebook group
- D35: JOY Media
- D36: Athena’s Hand Queer Party
- D37: Chillout Daylesford
- D39: Gippsland Pride Initiative Inc
- D41: GROUSE Melbourne
Wave E: Organisations Showing Pride
- E1: National Australia Bank
- E3: SEEK
- E4: Proud at Woolworths Group
- E5: Glamazon (Amazon)
- E6: AGL Shine
- E7: Dan Murphy's
- E8: RACV
- E9: PostPride (Australia Post)
- E10: L'Oréal Australia
- E11: Adobe Pride
- E12: Jetstar - Flying with Pride
- E13: Corrs Chambers Westgarth
- E14: Richmond Football Club
- E15: Riff Raff Radical Marching Band and Feminista Melbourne support the LGBTQIA+ community of Iran
Wave F: Cultural and Spiritual Organisations | Sports Clubs
- F1: Jews of Pride
- F2: ACCEPTANCE MELBOURNE
- F3: Melbourne Inclusive Church
- F4: Glam Slammers (Tennis Australia)
- F5: Rainbow Sports Alliance (Proud2Play)
- F6: Queer Sporting Alliance
- F7: The NOMADS Outdoors Group
- F8: Bent Kranks cycling and mountain bike club
- F9: 69ers Tenpin Bowling
- F10: Melbourne Spectres Basketball Club
- F11: Handball Victoria
- F12: Kingston City Rollers
- F13: Melbourne Surge water polo club
- F14: St Kilda Bowls Club
- F15: Melbourne Chargers Rugby Club
- F17: Melbourne Argonauts Rowing Club
- F18: Melbourne Spikers volleyball club
- F19: Melbourne Wranglers
- F20: Melbourne Frontrunners
- F21: Shuttlecats Badminton Club
- F22: Melbourne Smashers Badminton Club
- F23: Glamourhead Sharks
- F24: Gisborne Senior Women's Football Team
- F25: AFL Pride Collective
- F26: AFL - Pride and Allies Group
- F27: Victorian AFL Clubs & Pride Supporter Groups
- F28: South Sea Roller Derby
- F28b: Melbourne Skaters For Pride 🛼🏳️🌈
- F29: Recreational Rollers Victoria Inc.
- F30: LAHRC - Latin American & Hispanic Rainbow Community
Wave G: Emergency Services | Individuals, Friends & Families
- G1a: Emergency Management Victoria
- G1b: Fire Rescue Victoria
- G2: CFA (Country Fire Authority)
- G3: Victoria State Emergency Service
- G4: Life Saving Victoria
- G5: Victoria Police
- G7: Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority
- G8: The GEO Group Australia
- G9: Ambulance Victoria Pipes & Drums
- G10: Ambulance Victoria
- G11: St John Ambulance
- G12: Nunga and Very Impressive Seeking Love (Very Greer Impressive)
- G13: Mornington Peninsula Queers (MPQs)
- G14: Maria Dimopoulos
- G15: Melgudi gays
- G16: Natasha Howell
- G17: Love and Support
- G18: Rebekah Jeffrey
- G19: Rainbow fam
- G20: Rissa Belle
- G21: Mikaela and Simon
- G22: Eileen Lin
- G23: Kelly Gong
- G24: Lw
- G25: Pip Serpentina
- G26: Anthony Cercone
- G27: Annalisa Cercone
- G28: Saffire-Rose Fletcher
- G29: Alex Miles
- G30: Fruity Stackers
- G31: Alicia Baik
- G32: lily
- G33: Tara Akritidis
- G34: Mikayla Mahood
- G35: Kaitlyn Law
- G36: Embrys Yong
- G37: Hannah Uren
- G38: The zany family
- G39: Michelle Christian
- G40: Sniggy
- G41: Yasmin Kuluk
- G42: Simon Chitre
- G43: Radioactive
- G44: Michelle Rose
- G45: Aria
- G46: Maggie Clancey
- G47: Hartley Chng
- G48: Luke and Beth
- G49: Abigail O'Connor
- G50: Kai Knight
- G51: Individuals
- G52: Social Butterflies
- G53: Individual
- G54: Bounce for Pride
Wave H: Organisations Showing Pride & Political Representatives
- H1: Chemist Warehouse
- H2: Microsoft GLEAM ANZ
- H3: Zoos Victoria
- H4: Amnesty International
- H5: Rotary Club of Prahran
- H6: Australian Retirement Trust
- H7: Rainbow Labor
- H8: United States Consulate Melbourne
- H9: [email protected]
- H10: Ernst & Young
- H11:Norton Rose Fulbright - Pride Network
- H12: Russell Kennedy Lawyers
- H13: Ashurst Australia
- H14: JLL PRIDE
- H16: Liberal Pride
- H17: [email protected]
- H18: OPEN at Mattel
- H19: Nous Group
- H20: Sportsbet Queer Squad
- H21: Telstra Spectrum
- H22: Accenture ANZ
- H23: CPA Australia
- H24: URBNSURF MELBOURNE
- H25: City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band
- H26: Independent and Proud (Zoe Daniel and Monique Ryan)
- H27: Nike
- H28: [email protected] Victoria
- H29: Viva Energy Australia
Wave I: Community Care & Healthcare
- I2: The Y
- I3: MacKillop Family Services
- I4: Fostering Connections & Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
- I5: Irabina Autism Services
- I7: Neami National
- I8: Candella
- I9: Berry Street
- I10: Better Place Australia
- I11: Society of Australian Sexologists
- I12: Sexual Health Victoria
- I13: Living Positive Victoria
- I14: Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)
- I15: Launch Housing
- I16: Sacred Heart Mission
- I17: Clean and Sober
- I18: NTV Pride (No to Violence)
- I19: Melbourne City Mission
- I20: Anglicare Victoria
- I21: TaskForce Community Agency
- I22: The Salvation Army - Social Mission
- I23: Brotherhood of St Laurence
- I24: VincentCare Victoria & Pride in Place
- I25: Odyssey House Victoria
- I26: Uniting with Pride
Wave J: Educational Institutions & Student Union Groups | Primary Health Care & Community Care
- J1: Keypath Education
- J2: Monash University
- J3: Monash University Queer Health Collective
- J4: Victorian Medical Students' Queer Health Collective (MD Queer)
- J5: MSA Queer
- J6: RMIT University
- J7: Deakin University
- J8: Deakin Pride
- J9: Australian Institute of Music
- J10: TAFE Victoria
- J11: Pride at VU (Victoria University)
- J12: Swinburne University of Technology
- J13: SSU (Swinburne Student Union queer collective)
- J14: Swinburne Ally Network
- J15: NICA Students (The National Institute of Circus Arts)
- J16: Burnet Institute
- J17: QueersInScience
- J18: WEHI
- J19: Murdoch Children's Research Institute
- J20: The Royal Children's Hospital
- J21: Royal Melbourne Hospital
- J22: Pride in the North (Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health)
- J23: Women's Emergency Care - The Royal Women's Hospital
- J24: Better Health Network
- J25: Melbourne IVF
- J26: Austin Health
- J27: Northern Health - Pride In The North
- J28: Your Community Health
- J29: St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
- J30: Western Health
- J31: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- J32: Cancer Council Victoria
- J33: Monash Health
- J34: Pride in the North (DPV Health)
- J35: Pride in the North (Banyule City Council & Banyule Community Health)
- J36: Pride in the North (Whittlesea Community Connections)
- J37: Epworth Pride (Epworth HealthCare)
- J38: Alfred Health
- J39: Nexus Primary Health
- J40: Pride in the North (Kilmore District Health)
- J41: Grampians Health
- J42: Eastern Health Rainbow Community
Wave K: Local Councils | Government Affiliated Organisations & Unions
- K1: LGPro
- K1b: Team Melbourne! (City of Melbourne)
- K2: Darebin Pride (City of Darebin Council)
- K3: City of Whittlesea Council
- K4: Nillumbik Shire Council
- K5: Yarra Ranges Council
- K6: Glen Eira City Council
- K7: Kingston City Council
- K8: Pride @Manningham (Manningham Council)
- K9: Maribyrnong City Council
- K10: City of Stonnington
- K11: Bayside City Council
- K12: West for Pride
- K13: Greater Dandenong City Council
- K14: Cardinia Shire Council
- K15: Pride in the North (Hume City Council)
- K16: Monash City Council
- K17: Moonee Valley City Council
- K18: Brimbank City Council
- K18: Merri-bek City Council
- K19: Hobsons Bay City Council
- K20: Bass Coast Shire Council
- K21: NBN Co
- K22: Pride in Water
- K23: Greater Western Water
- K24: Union Pride (Victorian Trades Hall Council)
- K25: Australian Education Union
- K26: Victorian Public Sector LGBTIQ+ Pride Network
- K27: Victorian Ombudsman
- K28: Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
- K29: Development Victoria
- K30: WorkSafe Victoria
- K31: Victoria Legal Aid
- K32: Respect Victoria
- K33: Library Pride (Public Libraries Victoria)
- K34: Parks Victoria
- K35: V/Line Pride
- K36: Metro Trains
- K37: Travelling with Pride (Department of Transport)
- K38: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
- K39: Yarra Trams
Wave L: Organisations Showing Pride & Political Representatives
- L1: Ford Australia
- L2: John Holland
- L3: Symal (Symal infrastructure Pty Ltd)
- L4: Queer Greens (Greens Victoria)
- L5: AIG
- L6: Northern Trust
- L7: Nelson Alexander
- L8: Kmart
- L9: O'Ziriguidum Escola de Samba
- L10: Wild Secrets (PHE International)
- L11: Fiona Patten's Reason Victoria
- L12: Origin Energy
- L13: Arup
- L14: Jacobs
- L15: Elevation Performing Arts
- L16: PACCAR Australia
- L17: PaperCut Software
- L18: bp Pride
- L19: OMD
- L20: WSP
- L21: Kao Australia
- L22: Motorola Solutions
- L23: Intrepid Travel
- L24: The Walt Disney Company
- L25: Greyhound Racing Victoria
Wave M: Midsumma Festival
- M1: Midsumma
How is the marching order decided?
- Groups are assembled together into sections called "waves" according to similar areas of interest or themes.
- Marchers with special needs or living with disability are placed early in the march, since a long wait or lengthy exposure to the elements would adversely affect their health.
- Non-queer identifying businesses and organisations showing pride are very welcome, but they do not march ahead of queer advocacy and diverse gender and sexuality (DGS) representative groups. No non-queer identifying corporate businesses (even if they are Midsumma Festival partners) pay to be a part of the march nor do they get to march ahead of queer not-for profit groups.
- Some placement is determined by Main Stage call times, to get artists and crew to Catani Gardens in time to perform at the post-Pride Celebrations.
- Some contingents request a late start time and don't mind being towards the end.
- Over 40,000 people line the streets to support the march each year and the march needs to be as exciting as possible in every wave, not just at the start. The final marching contingents are just as important as the first.
- The balance of the remaining contingents are organised based on volume of sound clashing, vehicle/pedestrian safety or significant placement history.
- The Midsumma team always marches last.
- Midsumma Festival spends considerable time curating the march to be as fair as possible and can only enter into conversation about line-up requests with non-profit queer organisations that may from time to time express interest in marching with particular other non-profit queer organisations.