Showing posts with label Dyke March. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dyke March. Show all posts

Friday, June 23, 2023

About 'Hey, Queer!,' the Dyke March after party at the Bowery Electric

"Hey, Queer!" takes place tomorrow (Saturday) at the Bowery Electric ... billed as "the only live RockNRoll NYC Dyke March Afterparty." 

A host of bands (including the Queers of Noise Supergroup doing your favorite covers) and DJs are on the bill. 

The event is from 7:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Find ticket info at this link. The Bowery Electric is at 327 Bowery between Second Street and Third Street. 

This year, the 31st-annual NYC Dyke March steps off from Bryant Park at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Details here.

Sunday, June 26, 2022

At the 2022 Dyke March

Images by Stacie Joy 

On this Pride weekend, the 30th annual edition of the Dyke March took place yesterday, with thousands of participants marching down Fifth Avenue from Bryant Park to Washington Square Park. 

The official site notes that this is a protest march, not a parade: 
The March is a demonstration of our First Amendment right to protest and takes place without permits or sponsors. We recognize that we must organize among ourselves to fight for our rights, safety and visibility.

Thousands of Dykes take the streets each year in celebration of our beautiful and diverse Dyke lives, to highlight the presence of Dykes within our community, and in protest of the discrimination, harassment, and violence we face in schools, on the job, and in our communities. 
Organizer Nate Shalev talked about the march's diversity with Gothamist:
There's just simply no other space like it, where trans dykes, butch dykes, femme dykes, all dykes feel like they have a space where they can be who they are and celebrate who they are. And that means being angry, and that means being joyful, and you don't have to be anything except whatever the thing is you are."
There was a heightened feeling of fury yesterday following the seismic ruling by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. EVG contributor Stacie Joy was on lower Fifth Avenue and in Washington Square Park for the March... 
Back to Gothamist: 
Celebrations around the Washington Square Park fountain after the long, hot trek accurately reflect what march participants feel at the end of the road, Shalev confirmed: "It's always really wonderful, because it's allowing dykes to exist in whatever space they need."
Previously this weekend on EV Grieve