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The Biggest Dyke March Ever
Early showers did not dampen a wildly successful show of lesbian determination
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This year’s Dyke March was led by a large contingent of lesbians in
wheelchairs.
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This year’s Dyke March, an non-permitted
event held the afternoon before
the Pride March, was the largest
I’ve ever witnessed — about three
times the typical size. Rain put a damper on
things for about 20 minutes at the top, but then
the sky improved and a spirited march from
Bryant Park to Washington Square Park ensued.
It all ended with a romp in the fountain
in Washington Square.
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NYPD Sergeant Arthur Smarsch, in plainclothes, has marched with
the Dyke March for years.
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The message was: it’s not over.
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The fountain at Washington Square Park always provides relief
after a spirited march.
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This year’s Dyke March was led by a large contingent of lesbians in
wheelchairs.
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Drummers are always a big presence.
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Activist Maxine Wolfe, who has a long history of leadership on
AIDS and at Park Slope’s Lesbian Herstory Archives.
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Leslie Cagan has long been a leading antiwar activist in New York.
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Historian Blanche Wiesen Cook and her spouse playwright and poet
Clare Coss.
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