Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Trans woman Alita Morgan, 49, remembers growing up in La Perouse in Sydney’s eastern suburbs in the 1980s, in an era when gay men were ridiculed, bashed and pelted with rocks “like it was a sport”.“The way people spoke to each other back then was atrocious. There was a lot of homophobia here.”Keiron Brown, Sarah Martin, Alita Morgan, Aunty Barb Simms and Russell Weston will represent the LaPa Legends when the float debuts in Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade.Credit: Janie BarrettMorgan, a Yorta Yorta woman who lives in Chester Hill, has returned to La Perouse to join LGBTQ community members and their allies, who have links to the area’s Aboriginal population, as they prepare to debut the LaPa Legends float in Saturday’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.“To come back and connect with everyone doing this float for the first time has been healing in a way. I think things have changed, definitely. Because I remember the homophobia from the ’80s, I know how important it is for the young ones to see that it’s OK to be you,” Morgan said.Read the full story here.
