Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:34:54 -1000 From: Mia H H Lam Subject: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade 2000 Prelude to Gay Pride Parade... WHAT: Dyke 2K March WHEN: Saturday, June 24, 2000 TIME: start time is 7:30pm START LOCATION: The march will start from Dolores Park END LOCATION: The march will conclude at the Street Party Celebration at Market and Castro Streets WEB SITE: www.fireworx.org/dykemarch.html San Francisco Gay Pride Parade WHAT: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade WHEN: Sunday, June 25, 2000 TIME: start time is 10:30am START LOCATION: The parade will start at Market and Beale END LOCATION: The parade will proceed west on Market Street to Market and Eighth Street which is an entrance to the Celebration Site located in the San Francisco Civic Center WEB SITE: www.SF-Pride.org ================================================================================ Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 09:25:51 -1000 From: Mia H H Lam Subject: Dyke 2K March Be There or Be Square! Saturday, June 24, 2000 3:30 pm: Entertainment in Dolores Park, 3:30 pm: Dolores Street at 19th Street, San Francisco 7:00 pm: Rally in Dolores Park 7:40 pm: Dyke March steps off from Dolores Park 9:00 pm: Street Party 9:00 pm: Market and Castro Streets, San Francisco The march and rally are completely wheelchair accessible and the entertainment and rally are sign interpreted. Why We Do It We celebrate dykes who dare to fight for freedom. We will never go back! We won't go back in the closet! We won't cave in to threats and violence! We won't roll over for the rightwing! We won't give up our children! We won't attack immigrants! No retreat! Dykes who dare fight for freedom, for power, for sisterhood, for love, for our bodies, for self-defense, for dignity, for human rights, for our children, for joy, for liberation, for ourselves, for control of our lives, for sex, for equality, for justice, for all women, forever. a damn lesbian production-satisfaction guaranteed This Year's Hot Line-up This year's keynote speakers are Dorothy Allison, and Jewelle Gomez, two fierce and fabulous dyke authors and activists. Also featured is Sulma , a Puerto Rican activist, speaking about the resistance to the US Navy on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. Hundreds of protestors are trying to stop the U.S. Navy's bombing "excercises" which have ruined the island's ecology and recently killed a civilian. Also on stage Bands: Barrie White aka Fresh, Carole Pope, Hail Marys, Jill Knight, Judea Eden Project, Kindness, Tulis and Veronica Black MCs: Fairy Butch aka Karlyn Lotney and Tina D'Elia DJs: Elyssa, Cari Campbell, Chili D., Deena Davenport, Edaj, Ellen Ferrato, Lady GFunk, Olga T., Page Hodel and more! Dancers: Aja, Keebo, Richelle and more! Mo' Better Babes Last year 50,000 women took the streets to celebrate dykedom! The 1999 Dyke March was fierce, fiesty, feminist and fun. We look forward to an even greater turn-out this June. All this with no corporate sponsors, no permits, no politicians and no men. The San Francisco Dyke March is the largest grassroots demonstration of Dyke Power in the world! This year the festivities start at 3:30 pm with live music, DJs, T-shirt sales and fun for all in Dolores Park. We Need Your Help! If you want to volunteer, send an e-mail (see below) or call us at (415) 241-8882 to get details about upcoming projects and meetings. Leave your name and number and our volunteer coordinator will get back to you. To Contact Us Voice Mail: (415) 241-8882 E-Mail: SF Dyke March Dyke March T-Shirts This is our main fundraiser (since we're not taking money from beer and tobacco companies) and a cool way to show you support the Dyke March. They are 100% cotton and stunning. Here's the hot new Y2K design. All the shirts are black with a strong yellow and red design. We Have Your Style We offer regular T-shirts, tank-tops, and baby doll style. We Have Your Size S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXXL Order Your T-Shirt in advance. Supplies are limited--we often sell out. To order your T-shirt in advance, call our voice mail at (415) 241-8882. Someone will get back to you and to get details, about sizes, quantities and mailing addresses. The price for each shirt is $15-$25 sliding scale. Plus extra for postage depending on how many shirts you are buying and where they are going. Folks often write to us with questions about the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade. For complete, up-to-the-minute info about the Pride Parade, check out their website. Click on this image to go there. by Kris Kovick I remember occupying Market street at last summer's Dyke March, thousands of us cruising, vogueing, whiplash flirting, trawling for love, when suddenly the procession slowed down. Women ran into shops to get a soda or a beer or a CD or a video. Those merchants had to realize we were a dynamic force, like a big finger-fucking tidal wave snail trailing down the boulevard. I wondered, is this divisive, in an age of AIDS, raging racism, and brutal poverty, is it okay for us dykes to be together like this? And then I looked up. We were surrounded by those huge apartment buildings on Market Street. Two guys way at the top had stripped the sheets off their bed and spray-painted on them, "We Love our Lesbian Sisters!" and hung it on their balcony. Yeah, it's okay to be here for each other; in fact, it's essential. The Dyke March is the largest lesbian event ever, bigger than all the festivals combined, and it is organized by a small band of radical kick-butt dykes, the Mafia of consensus, who trace their politics back to the Blue Stockings of the Suffrage movement at the turn of the century, through the Red Stockings movement of radical feminists in the sixties, and on through the Birkinstocking of the seventies, and still on to the fishnet stockings and feminist boot girls of the 90s. The theme of that year's event was "No Retreat!" -- a concept borrowed from the fight to save affirmative action. We will not retreat to the closet, just as women and people of color will not retreat to subservient roles. Living in the closet is a form of exile, not only from one's family and community, but more significantly, from one's own self. It is the solitary confinement of sexuality, and it is intolerable. Life, Liberty, and Lingerie This year is the seventh annual Dyke March, and although it begins at Dolores Park, the exact route is a secret because the organizers don't have a parade permit. You see our girls take the Right to Assembly pretty seriously. They are constitutional connoisseurs. And you won't see any politicians on the sound truck/stage/float, either. This is a grassroots, down-home, every woman kinda event. No corporate sponsors, no admission fee. And there is no official titty policy. whatever! It's okay for men to march, but they must first complete two thousand years of evolution. This year's keynote speakers are Dorothy Allison and Jewelle Gomez, both fabulous dyke authors and activists; also on stage, performance artists, hot DJs, Club Q dancers, and Cindy Crawford backstage shaving everyone's pussy. After the rally and march, there will be a street party in the Castro with music blasting the gay ghetto 'til the cops show up in riot gear. Although the March is organized by a small band skilled and highly politicized volunteers, the event attracts the broadest spectrum of lesbian ladies, butch bo-hunks, sapphic primates, menstruating cross-dressers, spit muffins, bitchy bitches, little bastards outta Carolina, Bay Area Career Women, hags SF, riot grrrls, patio daddy-o's, handsome homegirls, homeric tomboys, hard and soft ballers, rugby widows, corporate nuns in sensible shoes, bike messengers from hell, power femmes with Tourette's Syndrome, backyard butches and their dogs, balloon smugglers, funpigs, menopause babes, baby daddies, dykes like us, young carnality on parade, plus geeks of all ages, genders, and colors, all without controversy or scandal. It's a miracle. It's three hours of monolithic lesbian unity, the vision of the Matriarchy. It's also the Mardi Gras of the clit. For sure you'll get lucky. In fact, the Dyke March is to celibacy what the remote control channel changer is to the linear narrative. So, stir it up! For more info Voice Mail: (415) 241-8882 E-Mail: SF Dyke March A million thanks to FireWorx for hosting the Dyke March web site.