Kate Rowe
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That's not what happened though, is it?
What did you come to realise about yourself once you truly got clean and sober?
And what do you do about that once you know that?
There's a missing piece of the puzzle, though, that finally helped you connect all those fragmented bits of you, wasn't there?
Yes.
So you're not really getting much community in Ruby's nightclub there.
No, no.
June 1978.
Yeah.
You were there for the very first Sydney Mardi Gras, that famous Mardi Gras.
Yeah.
What was the atmosphere like when you all assembled for the start of that?
So it had gone from Oxford Street in Darlinghurst up to King's Cross, the L.A.
La Main Fountain there.
That's right, yeah.
And what happened once this party started seemingly to fizzle out at that point?
And drunk, you say?
Some of those police would have been the same police who had been extorting protection money from gay nightclubs.
I'm not surprised.
So were you dragged in and charged?