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More than 80 skydivers gathered over the Australia Day Weekend for Pride Boogie, Australia's first LGBTQIA+ skydiving festival. Australian Skydiving is as diverse, as it welcoming. Pride Boogie celebrated this diversity, encouraging all Australians to get involved in this daredevil sport no matter their age, sexuality, gender or background. The Pride Boogie kicked off with a spectacular 3 Flag Jump, with skydivers flying the Australian, Indigenous and Pride flags to symbolise the inclusive nature of the sport, to recognise the Yuin people as traditional owners of the land where the Pride Boogie took place, as well as mark Australia Day. After the flag jump, the skydivers took to the skies making more than a 1000 jumps over the weekend, including the Big Gay Way. The Big Gay Way consisted of LGBTQIA+ jumpers in formation, flying streamers to represent the colours of the Pride Flag. The challenge has been set to form larger formation of LGBGTQIA+ skydivers in the future. Immediately after jumping the Pride Starcrest, Ebbony Bradford proposed to her partner, Shana Harris, an absolute highlight of the Boogie, with celebrations of their engagement going well into the night. Pride Boogie is Mardi Gras for LGBTQIA+ adrenaline junkies. Jumping out of planes at 15,000 feet makes equals of us all as can be seen by how many straight people came together to celebrate the weekend with their queer brothers and sisters. Australian skydiving is a sport for everyone, so get involved and see what the stoke is all about. Pride Boogie is set to become an annual event on the Moruya calendar, an annual celebration of good times, community and adrenalin. Pride Boogie was the idea of Marcus Bourget, a former chairman of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

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