Midsumma festival for 2015- Carnvial day

As part of Bupa's best blog competition for 2015

The Midsumma festival is a huge festival for all.

It is a free festival for all where it is celebrating queer culture in Melbourne. Queer. gay, lesbians and all others came to this fun filled festival. And also dogs came as well. The carnival was at Alexandra gardens just near Flinders st station.

Free massage

I won free spin classes

posterboard

Messageboards where people wrote messages of support  (here and below)

Free health checks (here and below)

Free water

Writing messages on a bike

The Mushroom Co stall

You can buy your picnic packs here

Yoghuraddiction. I just had lunch so no froyo.

Food trucks

bowling competition

One of the ladies on display

Students it is ok to be gay or queer or a lesbian in Australia compared to other countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. In Australia you have rights such as being treated fairly and equally. But sadly some people don't.

This festival is like Orientation day where a lot of health services are being promoted. There was a lot of free activities for visitors to take part in such as the badminton and spin cycle challenge. I did the spin cycle challenge and although I won nothing I still had a good time. I even felt good afterwards.\

Do bring a picnic rug to sit on as well as your lunch or dinner as food there is really expensive and there weren't that many food stalls. There weren't a lot of seats at Alexandra Gardens. There were plenty of free condoms though to promote safe sex.  There were even some HIV tests and Latrobe uni was there with their Queer Department. I wish that RMIT did the same as their queer department never gets promoted enough.

The bands were good though and Dame Diamonds was just great. I didn't really like the Strictly Ballroom performance- that was bad. In fact some of us got on our feet and started dancing.

There was a dog parade but we didn't stay for that as someone had to catch the train home. But the dogs that came to the event were cute and very friendly to pat.

Do go to next years carnival and thanks to the organisers for such a great carnival