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Arohi Chapman-Barber performs the Haka along Oxford Street during the annual Mardi Gras parade on March 02, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. It is the first time Haka For Life have had a float in the Sydney Mardi Gras parade. The float is designed like a Waka Canoe, which is significant in Maori culture, with the theme of One Waka, One Love, we’re all in the same boat together. Haka For Life is a charity organisation focused on men's health, wellbeing and suicide prevention in the Maori community. The organisation believes there is a stigma the Maori warrior race that implies that people who identify as LGBTQI are not warriors. The Sydney Mardi Gras parade began in 1978 as a march and commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots of New York. It is an annual event promoting awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and themes. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
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