Mark Richards

Marilyn Wann

​In the 1990s when I was producing a print 'zine called FAT!SO?, a friend and contributor who provided brilliant stories that got reprinted in cool places like the Utne Reader always wanted her bio say, "Betty Rose Dudley is a fat, working-class dyke from Missouri."

I'm thinking about Betty a lot because she died last week. Betty lived in a state of something called "intersectionality" (a fabulous term developed by African-American feminists). It's about claiming all aspects of oneself. In the Bay Area, people who made fat pride community were also making feminist, queer, and disability rights communities. Betty lived at that intersection. In claiming all of herself, she was gently, determinedly loving and activist as a result. It's a kind of activism that I imagine expands livable space for all of us, whatever our mix of differences. I'm so grateful for all I've learned from Betty and from local fat/queer community.

As Queer Pride weekend wound down recently, rad fatty Max Airborne (a founder of the Fat Girl 'zine collective) posted online, "First there was the pride march, then the dyke march, then the trans march. I wonder what march will evolve next for our communities?"

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Kate Conger

​Pride Weekend is the time to celebrate queer culture, and San Francisco does it best -- by turning the city into one long runway. Sure, there's a week's worth of pregame parties, the dyke march, the parade, and then abundant afterparties, but we all want to be the main event. And we do it by dressing up.

Pride is a gay holiday, and appropriate attire is a must. There are two approaches to assembling the perfect Pride outfit -- the Halloween version, featuring rainbow socks, tangled wigs, and DIY duct-tape pasties; or the Christmas version, which looks a little classier and involves diving into the back of your closet for that one treasured outfit you've been dying to wear all year. The main difference, as I see it, is that one is a costume and one is an ensemble.

I used to go for the former, trying to see how much rainbow jewelry I could pile on without collapsing under the weight, but lately I've been attempting to keep it classy. I spent the weekend cruising for like-minded fashionistas. Here's a look at some of them.

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This weekend's Pride festival drew 100,000 people to San Francisco. Here's a taste.

Calibree Photography

​With the news that New York had at last legalized gay marriage, this vision of a rainbow America couldn't have been more timely.

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