To drive this mission even further, ten years or so after its founding, the Dyke March itself was taken out of Andersonville, an affluent, mostly Queer friendly neighborhood on Chicago’s Northside, and transformed into a rotating march that kicked off in a different Chicago neighborhood every few years. It was done to raise awareness and empower those who identify as female, and others who felt marginalized and/or felt invisible at Chicago’s Pride Parade, among the onslaught of commercial and political candidate floats. Read more: The Hostile LGBTQ Protest Helped No One in Israel or Palestine ■ Linda Sarsour Doesn't Need to Make Zionist Women Feel Comfortable ■ Do anti-Trump Feminists Value Terrorists More Than Jewish Women? ■ We in the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Have a Problem With anti-Semitismĭyke March has taken place for over 20 years. This march is a private event and you are offending the organizers of this event." "That may be what the flag means to you, but other people find it offensive. In part, by carrying this flag, it has allowed me to show the pride I carry for me and my identities, as well as my communities.
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While there is always work to be done as far as including and empowering LGBTQ Jews within Jewish spaces, the community as a whole has come a long, long way. This flag I received from my congregation, Congregation Or Chadash, which was founded over 42 years ago when the Jewish community still closed its doors to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews. envoy at pride event: 'Hatred toward LGBT community threatens all of us'įor over ten years, I have marched in Dyke March, carrying this same flag, without incident. The wrong way for Jewish leaders to battle anti-Semitism and the anti-Israel left in the LGBTQ community
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Why? Because I was carrying a rainbow flag with a single Jewish star.Ĭhicago 'Dyke March' bans Jewish pride flags: 'They made people feel unsafe' You are putting them in danger by being here." I was told this by Chicago's Dyke Collective organizers, volunteers, and even other marchers.
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"You have to leave because you are making people feel unsafe.