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“Collaboration with them, for this, just seemed like coming full circle,” said Walker. Shortly thereafter, the Dyke March committee reached out to say they wanted to throw their resources and support behind her initiative. She soon got to work getting the event off the ground. It was in late May, after a text exchange with a friend that Walker realized she wanted to organize a Juneteenth march centered around the transformative potential of love. “That’s one of my legacies of sadness,” said Walker. Yet when people started mobilizing around HIV/AIDS and other issues relevant to the Black community, the white lesbians were nowhere to be found. so when it’s time for you to come with me.
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“ I thought-because I’m here, a Black queer, I’m marching with all of you white faces, you see my heart. Though in some contexts white people did find ways to fight for her, said Walker, that’s not what happened in the dyke world. Walker said that one officer “raised his billy club to smite me from the planet,” but a white man jumped in front of her. Protesters came after one of their comrades had been arrested and was being denied their medication. Walker was also active with ACT-UP, and it was through that work that she had an especially distressing encounter with the police that rushed into the group of activists she was protesting with outside a station house.
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In a phone call on Friday afternoon, she recalled helping to organize the city’s first Dyke March, which occurred in June 1993. The primary organizer of the event, Valarie Walker, is no strange to New York City’s lesbian community. For about four hours, Black queer women along with many others took to the streets to demand justice for Black people killed by the police and a transformation of the criminal legal system.Ĭoming on the heels of last weekend’s Black Trans Pride March, the Juneteenth for the Break the Chains with Love March was also a moment of reckoning for New York City’s dyke community, an evening in which the leadership and experiences of Black women were placed front and center. Thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Friday evening and marched into Manhattan in what was likely the city’s first ever Juneteenth event organized in collaboration with Dyke March.