2011-07-22
Halifax Dyke And Trans March
History
- July 23, 2010: Organized by MaryKateArnold?: "On Friday, July 23, 2010 (i.e. Friday during Pride week) from 6:30 to 8:00pm, Halifax will host the first Halifax Dyke and Trans March. The march route will start at Victoria Park and end on Gottingen Street.
- The Halifax Dyke and Trans March is a political demonstration where we take to the streets to promote visibility and create space for queer women and trans people, protest the oppression of members of our diverse communities, and celebrate our strength. The march is open to all women, whether they identify as dykes, lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, asexual, or something else, and to all transsexual, transgender, intersex, and two-spirited people. Allies are encouraged to show their support by watching and cheering from the sidelines.
- There are some photos here
- 2011: Renamed to DykeAndTransMarch!
- July 22, 2011: This is a march by and for queer women and trans people (“Queer women and trans people” here includes dyke, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, questioning, pansexual, omnisexual, asexual, transsexual, transgender, intersex, bigender, genderqueer, and Two Spirit people), that seeks to not only celebrate our identities, but to challenge continued oppressions, particularly gendered oppression (“Gendered oppression” refers to patriarchal social constructs and the gender binary), experienced within our diverse communities.
This march is open to our allies of all identities and orientations.
We are an alternative to the Pride Parade. We offer a political space for people within queer communities who are marginalized by corporate Pride and by the commercialization of “gay identity.” We seek to create a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space, therefore we choose to operate independently of the police.
- July 27, 2012: On Friday July 27, 2012 at 6:00pm, members of Halifax's queer and trans communities will hold the second Halifax Dyke & Trans March during the city's annual Pride Festival.
We are holding the march to not only celebrate our identities, but to challenge continued oppressions, particularly gendered oppression, experienced within our diverse communities. This is a march by and for queer women and trans people, and is open to our allies of all identities and orientations. The march will start in front of the Spring Garden Library and wind its way through the city, ending in the Halifax Commons.
The Dyke & Trans March is being organized by a group of passionate volunteers, and is autonomous from Halifax Pride. We need your help to fund advertising and promotion, a sound system for the rally, an accessible bus, and materials for banners and signs.
Cheques can be made payable to RebeccaRose with “Halifax Dyke & Trans March” written in the memo field.
- 2013: There were a few queries in the Google group about planning in June & July 2013.
- July 22, 2016: via Facebook: "This year's Dyke & Trans march will be taking place on July 22nd at 6pm in front of the Halifax Central Library!
- RadPrideHalifax is also hosting a materials making event for the march on Thursday July 21st from 2-5pm in the Wellness room of the Dalhousie Student Union Building at 6136 University Ave. Materials, supplies, and snacks will be provided for FREE, so come come on down and make yourself some sweet banners and placards for the dyke & trans march!! "
- December, 2022: the Google planning hasn't been used since 2013.
- July 17, 2025: RadPride organizes a revival of the dyke and trans march.
Organizers
Organized by: Jaime Mary Burnet, Rory Corn, Rena Kulczycki, Michelle Malette, MaryKathrynArnold?, Nixon Hughes, Jordan Roberts, Jacqueline Vincent, Owen Johnstone, Maddox Elliot Greene, Liz Markman, Rebecca Rose, Andrew Jantzen, Shay Enxuga, Elizabeth Malette
The discussion / planning group is archived as Google Group "halifaxdykeandtransmarch".
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