Dyke March and the Avengers
Dyke March is an annual event that is a critique and response to Pride Fest. It calls attention to the capitalist nature, and invisibility of queer women and other marginalized GLBT groups. It also is all inclusive and very empowering to all queer people who are involved.
The Twin Cities Avengers is the group that organizes the march each year. They are committed to queer women's survival, and visibility as well as raising consciousness about queer women’s issues as well as fostering community. Their mission “is to raise awareness within our group and society about many issues including: gender oppression, heterocentrism, women's choice, capitalism, safer sex, struggles against war, racism, violence, and the environment as they relate to queer women locally and globally.” .
The Lesbian Avengers was founded in 1992 Sarah Schulman to raise lesbian visibility and to turn ideals into "concrete confrontation.”
Founding members of the Lesbian Avengers feared that lesbians and lesbian issues were becoming invisible in the gay movement that tends to focus upon gay men and their struggles with HIV, mainstreaming, and marriage rights.
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