This year it is more important than ever to celebrate LGBTQ+ PRIDE. Here’s a taste of Long Beach, CA’s Dyke March. I was the emcee for the rally. My wife, Kimberly Esslinger was on the organizing committee and also created the first “Dykes After Dark” event– a poetry reading open mic– last year the poetry event was a pop-up with 15 people. This year the coffeehouse was filled to the max- 80 people or so, and the Dyke March itself had over 400. This is the thing: we need places to gather. And if you build it, we will come.






















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Lesbians are still allowed to gather, in our current Woke World? None of my friends who are lesbians even go to Pride anymore, because they say it’s turned into a celebration of male fetishes.
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I am heartened greatly to know that there was such a fabulous big Dyke March. In Montreal a couple of years ago it was a year for dykes to lead the lgbt+ parade (old tradition of taking turns each year) and the front was taken over by a group of trans folk with Kill all Terf signs. To witness your beautiful news and photos is healing and hopeful.
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what bothers me the most here is that once again we see women separating themselves from other women at a time when we desperately need to come together as one united front –
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