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Happy @NYCDykeMarch! While there is no in-person #NYC Dyke March, I feel my body being pulled to Bryant Park to lineup--& early, mega awks, and super fun cruising. Here's a brief herstory of the #DykeMarch, brought to you by the @LesbianHerstory Archives records collection...
The #LesbianAvengers held other marches before 1st #NYCDykeMarch. On 10/30/92, as part of #TakeBacktheNight, the LAs set up a shrine to H. Mae Cohens & B. Mock, a #Blacklesbian and white gay men, who were killed in an OR firebombing of their house...
... The Avengers ate fire for the 1st time. They "lit torches off of each other's tongues to signify that we would take the fire that burned them and put it into ourselves to avenge their murders. This was our first fire-eating," per #MaxineWolfe, archivist and activist.
The first Dyke March took place in Washington DC during the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation on April 24, 1993. It was organized by the (fucking awesome) #LesbianAvengers. Over 20,000 women participated in the march.
Inspired by the dope turnout in WDC, the NYC Lesbian Avengers decided to hold a NYC-based Dyke March on the Saturday of Pride weekend. (The corporate Pride Parade is on Sunday.) Then as now, the Dyke March is anti-corporate, anti-racist, and anti-police...
... While the NYPD now cordons off half of Fifth Ave for the March, the Dyke March has never and will never request a permit. The march is a march of protest. Toplessness--and eventually those with top surgery (meaning an increased pro- #trans ethos)--are welcome.
There are now Dyke Marches in so many cities and countries! Vancouver held the first in 1981, and then Toronto has held the longest-standing (on & off again) march for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyke_March
This year, the @NYCDykeMarch is not holding a Dyke March. Instead at 3:30 pm EST you can attend the NO MORE TEARS FROM BLACK QUEERS at the Brooklyn war memorial for a march in celebration and defense of #Black #queer and #trans lives. #Blacktranslivesmatter 
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There is also the radical Queer Liberation March ( @queermarch) on Sunday June 28 at 12.45pm for the Queer March for Black Lives & Against Police Brutality. They will step off at 1pm sharp, again with no permit! #BlackLivesMatter 
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And go Boston! "The Dyke March is off. But this ‘anti-corporate alternative’ is still active in Boston this summer":: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-dyke-march-is-off-but-this-anti-corporate-alternative-is-still-active-in-boston-this-summer/ar-BB15zPMs ...
... "With no Dyke March this year, comm members...have turned their attention to supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Dyke March committee members have attended Boston protests, sporting Pride flags and signs bearing messages like 'Dykes Against Racism Everywhere.'"
Oh and to be clear, these are my notes from my research in the @LesbianHerstory Archives, which allows me to tell you that the original and abso kickass NYC Dykes Against Racism Everywhere (DARE) ended shortly before the 1st Dyke March. ...
In 1983, DARE worked to try to gather momentum to stop Contras in Nicaragua and their parternship with the CIA. They protested against police brutality and who they represent. In 1984, they worked in solidairty with #NativeAmerican women's protests and ...
... co-sponsored Intl Wrkg Women's Day Event marching against war machine from intrepid to TimesSq military recruiting station. In 1991, they co-sponsored Not Yet Censored artistic forum at Clit Club, marched against apartheid and KKK, and, very notably, the protested...
... as I was saying, DARE protested Bacall's lezbar who used claims of "dress code" to keep out some WOC. They also held potlucks to support women in Bedford prison, anti-right wing lack of support for women, esp. Third World Women. #bcsomedykesareawesome
