Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras members have voted to remove two members of activist group Pride in Protest from the organisation’s Board at a dramatic Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) following months of internal feuding among the Board directors.

Mardi Gras (SGLMG) members gathered in Sydney for the EGM on Saturday (July 4). In late May, a Pride in Protest and Mardi Gras member’s petition reached a threshold to trigger such a meeting, which is separate to the organisation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM).

The petition followed a months-long dispute over trans rights and political advocacy motions that SGLMG members passed at last year’s AGM and a feud between the directors over the organisation’s response.