What SF Dyke March Meant to me

The gathering of thousands of Lesbians at San Francisco Dyke March  was the height of my Pride Season.

Only there and at Michigan Womyns Music Festival were WE the majority and gathered en masse. I went from 1994 to the last year I was in the  SF Bay area, 2013.

I loved how Dykes of all stripes attended. But slowly unlike Michfest which kept its focus on Lesbians and womyn till the end, the organizers began focussing on the cause of the year, gay men would crash it because it was close to the Castro, and bisexual women brought their boyfriends. Young Butch women were beginning to transition to FTM and more Mtfs were attending.

The nail in the coffin was when from the stage one of the organizers announced SF Dyke March was for " All past present and future women" utterly changing its focus away from Lesbians/Dykes and towards the Trans movement.

    - In Sisterhood,
      - FeistyAmazon