Stonewall Was A Fucking Riot: Photos from the Minneapolis Trans March and Dyke March

On Saturday, June 27  trans folks, dykes, queers and allies brought a radical and witty critique to Pride.  In the afternoon,  members of the trans community and cis-gendered allies gathered at Mueller Park in the Wedge for the third annual Trans March, then marched down the center of Lyndale Avenue to Loring Park.  The march grew to about a hundred people [revised count based ~150-200] as it progressed to sounds of  "Oppress us? Just try it!  Stonewall was a fucking riot!" and a soundtrack of Dirty Sanchez and Chumbawamba.

In the evening, more than two hundred [revised count per tc avengers of at least 500] people met at the Walker Arts Center for the fifteenth annual Dyke March.  Marchers circled through downtown carrying signs reading "Homophobia Is Learned", "What Would Sylvia Rivera Do?" and "Be the bomb that you throw" [among others, of course].  Folks chanted, "We're here, we're queer, we're not going shopping!" , "Exploitation and starvation can't be solved by corporations", "Corporate Pride--don't buy it!" and the popular "One in ten is not enough--recruit, recruit, recruit!" 

*A note on the photos:  all photos at the trans march were taken with permission; the dyke march was fairly large and there were other media folks there, plus I felt that things were happening too fast to get individual permission (although of course I took pictures pretty much of people who seemed comfortable being photographed).  If you appear in a picture but would prefer not to, please contact Indymedia or leave a note in the comments--we want our photography to be consensual!