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NEWS & LETTERS, June - July 2008
Pride Weekend
Tens of thousands filled every inch of Dolores Park for the 16th Annual Dyke March in San Francisco on June 28. The theme this year was visibility: visibility of protest and of our power, visibility which saves lives and may save our rights to live, to love and to be recognized. Visibility to counteract the many ways we are made invisible. Featured speakers included a doctor demonstrating a breast self-exam and dykes from former Yugoslavia. The march stretched over 10 blocks. The previous day saw the 5th annual transgender march with a focus on transgender civil rights. Sunday's 38th Annual Pride Parade of over a million was also a celebration of the May 15 California Supreme Court's decision that denying gays and lesbians marriage is a violation of their civil rights.
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