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Samantha Lock in Sydney

INSANE: Sydney s absurd and wonderful progress shark becomes worldpride icon | Vintage Vibes

Progress Shark has become Sydney World Pride festival’s unofficial mascot and queer icon.
Progress Shark has become Sydney WorldPride festival’s unofficial mascot and queer icon. Photograph: Abram Powell

When an event thrusts a city into the global spotlight, designing a mascot is a highly deliberated undertaking. But in Sydney, where the month-long WorldPride celebrations have just commenced, it has happened entirely by accident.

And the result is a giant great white shark wrapped in rainbow Lycra.

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