Dallas Queer & Trans March, 3/23/2025.
A militant LGBTQ+ March in Dallas!
A militant march in Dallas! Astounding!
I took video at various stages of the march and pictures of the rally and other parts of the march and put them in a single video.
Update: I have decided to not call it Dallas’ Stonewall. I decided that march was composed of a group culturally seperate from the larger Dallas Gay community. Some Gays were there in the March, but overall the fraction of persons who were Gay was less than half maybe. My enthusiasms got the better of me.
I have one long segment in the video which shows the entire march existing the parking lots and going onto the streets to show how many people were there.
I saw that the parade was supported by Stonewall Democrats online, but their banner wasn’t there. I didn’t see Omar Narvaez or Chad West, our Gay Dallas City councilors at the event either.
This march took me back to the 1970s when Harvey Milk was shot and we marched on San Francisco City Hall. Also, later the candelight march down Market Street. There was fire in the movement then. However, I have to be careful not to let nostalgia color my perceptions.
For some years now there hasn’t been any type of Gay or LGBTQ+march in Dallas, let alone with a militant spirit. I don’t count the little walk around within Fair Park as any real march. Nor has there been a march in the Gayborhood, also known as The Strip on Cedar Springs for some years now, and that wasn’t in June, like almost all the marchines in the United States, but in September. This was to avoid Gay liberation. This post is about an article in D Magazine, in 1996, which talks about how the so-called “leadership” was so brilliant to avoid radicalism like Larry Kramer’s activism.
In this post, read the online copy at the Digital library at the Univ. of North Texas. It has an extra page which really tells you the atittude of the Gays who ran things then.
I don’t agree with the more radical ideologies of the trans movement and some of the thinking of the LGBTQ+. I think like many modern ideologies, they divide the world into the Elect and the Damned and they don’t explore accomodation, but instead it is unilateralism, my way or the highway, and no dialogue. Their opponents are much the same way.
I also think that the current trans ideologies are not so radical, but are some type of derivation from the managerial methods of neoliberalism (which is very different than liberalism), and isn’t so radical as some might think it is.
However, I report what happens, not what fits into some ideology, and also this march is about many things.
In Thailand they have Kathoey, Ladyboys, going back centeries, and some accomodation of them. However, there transwomen are not in men’s sports or women’s locker rooms. There is some type of arrangment to accomodate people. Visiting Thailand, I could feel that trans there were accomodated. I would like to see some delegation to go there and find how things are arranged. I don’t know if it will be done. We will likely have instead a conflict where there are winners and losers and excess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey
Whether these activists will be successful or not is one question, but I think that the days of the accomodationist Dallas Pink Mafia are over.
News coverage.
https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-03-24/dallas-queer-and-trans-liberation-march
My husband and I were gonna be there. Unfortunately I got to feeling bad and wound up unable to go. BUT still donating and writing and supporting our community.