Polywog 🏳️🌈 (she/her)Successfully spent the entire weekend at #Pride (including walking in all 3 of the #transmarch #dykemarch and the official parade, as well as some park time at the abolitionist-pride event hosted by #NoPrideInPolicing and two patio-hangs with friends), and did NOT get sunburned. A minor miracle?
Pax Ahimsa GethenI attended the #SanFrancisco #TransMarch every year from 2014 to 2023. My recent post for @assignedmedia.org includes a number of photos I took of #TransWomen at that event: https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/sisters-in-arms-photo-gallery-transfem-pride
For context, here's my write-up of the 2016 #SanFrancisco #TransMarch that explains what happened when mayor Ed Lee and supervisor Scott Wiener tried to take the stage.
https://funcrunch.org/blog/2016/06/26/embracing-our-legacy-at-the-trans-march/
I'm no fan of #SanFrancisco mayor Daniel Lurie, but not sure how I feel about him being booed just for attending the #TransMarch. I was at the 2016 event when pols were booed off the stage but that was different; Lurie wasn't officially speaking AFAIK.
Mayor Lurie Booed Out of Dolores Park as SF Trans March Kicks Off Pride Weekend
SF’s 2025 Pride Weekend opened Friday with the annual Trans March from Dolores Park to the Tenderloin District. Prior to the march, tensions flared when Mayor Lurie showed up and was loudly booed, shouted down, and chased away by attendees.
Yes, *that* dawn personI don’t have any photos from yesterday’s #transmarch because:
I was tired and peopled out before it got moving
kind of blown away by the support and lack of protest on the sidelines
kept looking around for people I might recognize
I put my Blåhaj hooded bath towel on and did a weird shark march-dance most of the time: funnest protest ever!
I was tired and peopled out before it got moving kind of blown away by the support and lack of protest on the sidelines kept looking around for people I might recognize I put my Blåhaj hooded bath towel on and did a weird shark march-dance most of the time: funnest protest ever!
John SchragI went to the Trans March today in Toronto. I don't normally do parades, as I don't care for the crowds, but trans folk have been putting up with a lot recently and I thought I should show my support.
I was really glad I did; I've been complaining for years that the big Toronto Pride Parade has been getting too crowded, dull, and corporate, and lacking the fabulousness it used to have. But this event was great -- it was full of the kind of energy, resistance and joy I remember from Pride in the 80s and 90s. And that makes sense, because the current stakes for trans folk are high, as they were for cis gays and lesbians back then.
I saw lots of friends in the parade, who'd all run up and hug me and my husband as they passed by. We'd cheer them on their way.
And the march was huge! It was great to see all the support. I'll include a few pictures below.
catsynth / amanda cBack at HQ from the SF #TransMarch with lots of footage to share! We'll get on it after our Shabbat / Sci Friday.🏳️⚧️📹🤳🏼🪐
Neville Park
Today is the Trans March in Toronto. This cis guy is going to head downtown later to stand on the sidelines and cheer on my trans friends and relatives.
But first I need to do my gender-affirming body modifications, such as trimming my beard to make it look more full, doing resistance training to try to get more muscular, and cutting my nails short.
Edit: the march is *tomorrow*, not today. A side effect of retirement is not knowing what day it is.
Terra FieldIt’s finally the week of SF trans march and I cannot wait until Friday. Nothing in my life has been as healing as being around thousands of us in one place and this year of all years I really, really need it. Let me know if you’re going! 🏳️⚧️ #TransMarch #TransMarchSF https://www.transmarch.org/