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Dyke Day LA, run by a nonprofit, is free and welcomes attendees of all ages. “We have the best girls in town right here.”ĭyke Day follows a lineage of grass-roots Pride gatherings that have aimed to center people who identify as femme, including the first Dyke March, in 1993, in Washington, D.C., followed by New York the same year. “I’m just happy to be here with all my girls,” said the musician Lana Del Rey. There were plenty of newcomers and allies in the crowd. American Sign Language interpreters and accessible paths ensured that all in attendance would feel welcome. Elsewhere, artists recorded oral histories from patrons of lesbian bars that had closed between 19.
and other forms of kink demonstrations of how to administer Narcan, a nasal spray, to reverse an opioid overdose and resources for gender-inclusive health care. In tents dotting the park, there were workshops on B.D.S.M. “I think the sense of programming there is like: ‘It gets better, that’s why we’re partnering with JPMorgan Chase,’” she said.ĭyke Day, by comparison, is staunchly anti-corporate. Mekleit Dix, a 25-year-old researcher who splits her time between New York and Los Angeles, said that Dyke Day was a welcome counterpoint to to the heavily branded hubbub in West Hollywood.
Hannah Einbinder, the 27-year-old comedian and “Hacks” star, said, “There are very few centralized areas or bars or restaurants that are dedicated to queer femmes or non-cis male queers, so it’s nice to be here.” She added that it was “rare” to find this kind of scene in Los Angeles.
However, attendees were split, mostly along generational lines, about whether the word “dyke” suited the moment, when labels like “nonbinary” and “genderqueer” are used to affirm identities that are more fluid. The name asserts that a term once widely taken as a misogynistic and homophobic slur can be seen as a positive, liberating label. Since its first iteration in 2007, it has gone from a scrappy Eastside alternative to the spectacle of West Hollywood’s Pride celebrations to an essential - if unofficial - event on the city’s Pride calendar, open to “dykes of all genders.” (According to the organizers, that means everyone but cisgender men.) Known as Dyke Day LA, this annual Pride gathering takes a homespun approach to a month typically packed with corporate-sponsored parties, parades and concerts one organizer estimated the crowd at about 1,500. Last weekend, droves of people descended on a 15-acre park in northeast Los Angeles for an afternoon of picnicking, mingling, cheering on drag performances and a puppy costume competition, and more.