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Dykes on Bikes (DOB) is a chartered lesbian motorcycle club with 22 chapters〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official website: Chapters )〕 and numerous affiliations. They are known for their participation in gay pride events such as Pride parades, and significant LGBT events like the international Gay Games. They most likely were originally put at the front of the parade for logistical reasons and have remained there as a symbol of LGBT pride, defiance, liberation and empowerment. The contingents are fiercely independent and self-reliant in the DIY and feminist traditions and have been studied as a social phenomenon as a "complex, multilayered form of consumption-related cultural resistance that raises awareness of social injustice and discursively informs social meanings in everyday life outside the festivals." Along with drag queens, the DOB have been criticized for not portraying a more acceptable image of LGBT culture but supporters counter that they are seen as highly visible icons of gay pride who refuse to assimilate and conform to mainstream society gender roles and indeed remind of the butches and queens who helped lead the Stonewall riots launching the modern gay-rights movement. The Dykes on Bikes have been criticized for using the term ''dyke'' in their name rather than lesbian but the group has registered the mark in the United States, after a battle to demonstrate that the terms ''diesel-dyke,'' ''bull-dyke,'' ''bull-dagger'' and dyke all have historically negative connotations but have been re-appropriated as self-referential terms of endearment and empowerment distinct from ''lesbian'' and indeed awards and events utilizing those names are now used by the LGBT community. In keeping with the tradition of motorcyclists' rejection of the norms of middle-class, middle-America, the Dykes on Bikes teach, by example, that women can be masculine and challenge the dominant sexual and cultural expectations of what a woman is and what she can do and achieve.〔 == History == Although the term specifically was coined by actual dykes on bikes at the first gathering at the 1976 San Francisco Pride parade, it could have been used prior to then, but came into formal use at that time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=KQED.org website )〕 Dykes and motorcycles have been regularly intertwined in lesbian fiction〔 and the term is sometimes used derogatorily against any woman rider who isn't with a man. According to Harley-Davidson historians female riders did everything men did from long distance riding to enjoying lazy Sunday afternoon rides with friends. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dykes on Bikes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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