ABSTRACT
The route of the march had been carefully planned to represent both a concern with commemorating local lesbian historic spaces and symbolically contesting spaces of dyke oppression. The first important spatial reference was the launching of the march from Parc milie-Gamelin, a square located between the Universit du Qubec Montral and the city's gay village. The march was led by the lesbian president of the city's gay and lesbian community centre, two banner carriers in Pride Montral tee-shirts, and two topless march leaders. The counter-discourse that the LGBT Women's March circulated was that lesbians and queer women are also part of the LGBTQ coalition movement. The Radical Dyke March, on the other hand, sought to increase lesbian visibility in society and in opposition to the established LGBTQ coalition by creating an autonomous movement, supported only by other new left, feminist, and queer social movement groups.
