‘Queer Joy is Resistance’: SF’s 55th Pride Parade looks to the past to push forward

FOR DYKES ON BIKES Women’s Motorcycle Contingent member Sabine Balden, Sunday’s Pride Parade in San Francisco was different yet somehow eerily the same as the early days of LGBTQ struggles.  

Balden’s bike had a sign in front of it reading, “Angry Old Queers” surrounded by flames. The fire motif spread to her outfit, which was lined with red flames, nodding to her previous job as a firefighter.