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Gather with community members and allies to celebrate Pride month at the Boston Common.
This year marks the 25th Boston Dyke March, a grassroots Pride event intended for anyone who believes in an “anti-capitalist, intersectional gender liberation,” according to the event website.
Hosted at the Boston Common, this year’s celebration features three musical guests, a youth poet, and two speakers.
Ideas Not Theories, a theatrical percussion company for “unconventional instruments;” shallow pools, a Boston-based band in the shimmer pop genre; and Kayla Blackburn, a singer-songwriter who graduated from Berklee College of Music, will all grace the stage at the Parkman Bandstand.
The Pride celebration will also include a poetry reading from Matali, who came to the march from BAGLY.
Attendees will also hear from two speakers, Number Ten and Michael Cox. Number Ten has been involved in the Dyke March since 2008, and will share “the committee’s experiences of organizing, promoting and fundraising prior to the ascendancy of social media,” according to the event site. Michael Cox is the executive director of Black and Pink Massachusetts, a volunteer organization working to abolish the criminal punishment system, and is “a butch queen on a two-fold mission to dismantle the prison system and to build stronger communities.”
The event will kick off at 6:30 p.m. June 10 for some pre-march programming with the march starting at 7 p.m. Centered at the Parkman Bandstand, the march will also have community tablers and a merch tent.
In addition to being ASL interpreted and wheelchair, stroller, and scooter accessible, the event will be livestreamed for those at high risk of contracting COVID. Organizers are also asking attendees wear a well-fitted, high-quality mask during the march and on the Common.
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