It's been quite a few years since we've seen a loud and proud throng of queer women rallying in Dolores Park and marching in the annual Dyke March, as the event was getting smaller and more disorganized before being officially cancelled last year. But it is back on for Saturday, June 28.

Dyke March has always had the air of a renegade protest march, in comparison to the increasingly corporate, downtown-dominating SF Pride Parade that happens on Pride Sunday. But putting the march together took serious organization, and the longtime leaders of the Dyke March either aged out or bowed out of the organizing over the last decade.

Infighting in the organization, as well as some lack of experienced leadership and a dearth of sponsors, led to the Dyke March getting canceled in 2024 — though a small, unsanctioned march happened anyway, marching from Dolores Park to the Castro, much as it did every year since the pandemic, despite the lack of organizing.

But the actual, organized Dyke March, at its peak, included thousands of marchers, trolley cars for the elderly and disabled, and a full, roaring contingent of Dykes on Bikes leading the way, just as they do at the Sunday parade.

That will all hopefully return this year, as the march organizers say the 33rd Dyke March will take place on Saturday, beginning with a rally in Dolores Park that starts at 11 am, and the march leaving from 18th and Dolores at 5 pm (ish). The march has had different routes in the past, sometimes circling through the Mission and disrupting traffic before heading to the Castro. But the Chronicle reports that it will take its "usual route" to the Castro and back to Dolores, which may mean marching up Dolores to 16th, or down 18th to Valencia, turning, and then heading up 16th to Market and over to Castro Street? Or just straight up 18th Street.

We only know that Dolores Street between 18th and 20th streets will be closed to traffic Saturday afternoon to accommodate the crowds, and we wouldn't recommend trying to drive around Castro or 18th Street that afternoon either.

The rally at the park will include performances by East Bay Dyke superstars Skip the Needle, jazz pianist Tammy Hall, as well as comedian Marga Gomez, and drag king Leigh Crow with her band Velveeta. The rally stage will also feature speeches by retired San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, and Imani Rupert-Gordon, president of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights (formerly known as the National Center for Lesbian Rights).

As for who should join the march, organizers say, "All Dyke contingents and individuals, as well as all cis and trans women-identified people of any orientation, are welcome to join the Dyke March. Allies, please cheer your support from the sidelines."

Organizers are also still seeking volunteers and donations to cover $100,000 in expenses for the march — a fundraising goal which they said this week had reached 70%. You can register to volunteer here, and donate here.

The organizing also continues after the march this week, with Dyke March Town Hall events scheduled for August 20 and September 27. At the September town hall, there will be an election for new board members for the Dyke March organization.

As SFist recounted last year, the first dyke marches occurred in June 1993, simultaneously in New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta. The marches were spearheaded by the New York chapter of the Lesbian Avengers, a group that had just two months before organized a contingent to march in the massive 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.

A decade ago, participants in the Dyke March tried to reignite the rebellious nature of the march by forming a splinter group, in opposition to a sanctioned parade route and prescribed, two-hours-earlier-than-usual start-time in June 2015. The splinter march, vowing to "take back Dyke March," said it was acting "in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and in protest against the displacement of people and queer community institutions in San Francisco."

Previously: Dyke March Raising Funds to Come Back Strong

A bar dedicated primarily to celebrating women's professional and collegiate sports, which also doubles as the first lesbian bar to open in the Castro in decades, makes its debut on Wednesday.

After a few construction and city-permitting delays that caused them to miss the opening of the Golden State Valkyries season, Rikki's is having its grand opening on Wednesday, June 11, just in time for Pride Month. The bar and restaurant at 2223 Market Street fills the space left vacant last year with the closing Copas — and it happens to be just a few doors down from 12-year-old gay sports bar Hi Tops.

As we first learned in January, Rikki's is named in honor of late San Francisco bar owner, activist and softball enthusiast Rikki Streicher, who died in 1994. She was the owner of onetime lesbian bars Maud's, in Cole Valley, and Amelia's, now the Valencia Room. The Eureka Valley baseball diamond also bears Streicher's name.

Co-owners Danielle Thoe and Sara Yergovich, who met while playing in the queer soccer club the San Francisco Spikes, say they wanted to open an inclusive space where everyone is welcome. And, as Thoe tells Hoodline, women's sports will dominate, but sports fans will be able to catch Warriors, 49ers, and Giants games on the bars 15 TVs as well.

"We want to prioritize women's sports, but not exclusively show them," Thoe says.

The Castro hasn't seen a dedicated lesbian bar since the Cafe San Marcos closed in the 1990s, and other women's bars around the city like the Lexington Club have now become distant memories.

But, 2023 saw the opening of Mother on 16th Street in the Mission District, and that queer-centric, lesbian-owned spot landed on Bon Appetit's list of Best New Bars in the country in 2024.

The food menu at Rikki's, with items mostly priced under $20, was created by JD Voss, former chef-owner of SoMa gastropub Jamber. It features bar-friendly fare as well as some healthful, unusual-for-a-bar items like a dish of roasted and spiced carrots with feta dip, and a dish of sugar snap peas with either white bean dip or burrata. For vegans and vegetarians, there's also a quinoa salad with citrus and burrata, and a beet-based veggie burger.

Among the more standard bar/pub fare is a smashburger, a cornflake-crusted hot chicken sandwich, duck fat confit chicken wings with either Buffalo sauce or a dry rub, and beer-battered fish and chips. There is also a bacon-wrapped bison meatloaf served with mashed potatoes and brown-butter carrots.

The drink menu includes classics like an Old Fashioned, a Cosmopolitan, and a Tripple Espresso Martini, and signature offerings like The Queen Is King (dedicated to tennis legend Billie Jean King), featuring vodka or gin, blue spirulina, white peach, lemon and soda.

There are also six beers on tap featuring local brewers, including woman-owned Local Brewing Co's Pride-themed Gay Crush. And several low-ABV and N/A cocktails available as well.

Mayor Daniel Lurie is expected to come bless the opening at a press event Tuesday, and passersby may have seen the place come alive with some friends-and-family events over the last weekend.

On Wednesday, WBNA fans can expect to see games on the screens at Rikki's being played by the LA Sparks and Las Vegas Aces, as well as the Minnesota Lynx and Seattle Storm, both at 7 pm PT. And regular hours at Rikki's will be 3:30 pm to 10 pm on weekdays, and 3:30 pm to midnight on weekends.

See more photos and the menus below.

It hasn't exactly been the most organized and controversy-free event of the Pride Season, but this year's Dyke March is apparently coming with some extra organizational turmoil.

As KQED reports, members of an organizational committee for the annual Dyke March have all dropped out, amid some "inter-community conflicts around racism and trans-inclusion." There have also reportedly been some deaths among the group's leadership, and some members were simply burned out.

A new committee has apparently formed and was meeting for the first time today, but they decided, per KQED, not to formally hold a march this year, focusing on recruiting supporters and sponsors for next year. The official Dyke March website still shows information from 2023's march.

"Marginalized groups [and] communities don’t always have the time and resources available to get through difficult times, such as reviving after a global pandemic,” says a rep for the march, M Rocket, in an emailed statement to KQED. “Many of us are working class, holding down multiple jobs to stay afloat in one of the most expensive cities in the country."

It has been Pride Weekend tradition since 1993, when the first Dyke March tromped through the Mission District. It was always a grass-roots, protest-like affair, in keeping with the origins of Gay Freedom Day celebrations, and helped establish visibility for the Bay Area's large and proud queer and non-binary, female-centric community.

The name itself, Dyke March, embraces and owns the old epithet for queer women, and was indicative of a punk, Gen X lesbian attitude — a fuck you toward discrimination and anyone who would try to use the word "dyke" pejoratively.

The first dyke marches all occurred in June 1993, basically simultaneously in New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta. They were launched by the group Lesbian Avengers, who had marched a few months earlier at the massive March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, with the New York chapter of the group spearheading the effort.

Here in San Francisco, the Dyke March showed some signs of splintering almost a decade ago, with a renegade second march breaking away from the planned route in 2015. Marchers called the splinter march an act of defiance "in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and in protest against the displacement of people and queer community institutions in San Francisco," and the splinter group vowed to "take back Dyke March" from forces that were trying to make it less of a protest.

At issue, at that time, was an agreement by the official organizers to start the march two and a half hours earlier than usual, at 3:30 pm. That agreement, forged in solidarity with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the city, was made in an effort to address the crime that was threatening Pink Saturday in the Castro, which traditionally happened every Saturday before Pride. Like Halloween in the Castro, Pink Saturday was threatened with cancellation because of shootings and crime it had attracted in recent years. That cancellation ultimately came to pass in 2016 after a subdued, daytime version happened in 2015.

But many Dyke March participants wanted to flout the agreement, march off on their own, and disrupt traffic as was tradition — instead of following a permitted and sanctioned route.

That happened, and it led to some chaos and scuffles with police, as well as a couple of arrests.

The following years saw the march itself shrink in size, even though the traditional daytime gathering in Dolores Park has remained pretty huge every year, except for 2020. The 2019 march drew thousands, but by the time it made it to the Castro it was not the large and loud affair it traditionally was, with the bevy of Dykes on Bikes barely there.

In 2023, a march that was perhaps about two blocks long marched up from the park into the Castro, but it also seemed like a subdued affair. The march organizers previously announced that they would not be holding an official rally in Dolores Park as they had done previously.

Another renegade march is likely to take shape on Saturday, as KQED notes. And if it gathers steam and moves through the Mission and Castro, it would be more in keeping with the original Dyke Marches — though there's something to be said for organizing and making sure people know where they're going.

First, on Friday, the 21st annual Trans March will start with its own rally in Dolores Park, and at 6 pm will proceed on its usual route to the Transgender District in the Tenderloin. It's the 21st march but this is the 20th anniversary for the event, which first happened in 2004.

The Civic Center Pride celebration will be ongoing Saturday and Sunday, and Sunday's Pride Parade starts down at the foot of Market Street at 10:30 am.

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Photo: Jay Barmann/SFist

Just over a year after Phyllis Lyon passed away at the age of 95, the home that she shared for over five decades with her wife and life partner Del Martin is being declared a city landmark. And it's the first time a piece of lesbian history is getting landmark status in the western U.S.

The unassuming one-bedroom home at 651 Duncan Street had belonged to "Del and Phyl" since 1955, and as the Chronicle notes today, it was pioneering even that they had purchased it together as a couple at that time. It was the place where they founded the pioneering organization The Daughters of Bilitis, and it remained Lyon's home home until her death last year. (KALW did a piece last summer about the "village" of queer caregivers who allowed Lyon, who suffered from dementia, to remain in her home with near constant care, partly by lying about the fact that they were caregivers.)

On Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to grant city landmark status to the home, which will come with a brass plaque out front that will join the couple's initials imprinted in the concrete of the sidewalk.

"The home they shared for more than half a century was the site of many community gatherings and has clear historic value that needs to be preserved and memorialized,” said District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman on Tuesday, who sponsored the resolution. "I’m proud of this historic action to create the first local landmark focused on the history of the lesbian community."

The landmark designation also had to pass muster with the city's Historic Preservation Commission.

Lyon and Martin, whose names were also given to the women- and queer-focused Lyon-Martin clinic — now Lyon-Martin Health Services, a division of HealthRight 360 — first moved to the Castro in 1953, and bought the Noe Valley home two years later. They became fixtures of both the local LGBTQ activist movement and the lesbian social scene well into their later years — and in 2004 they were officially married in San Francisco City Hall, the first to be given a marriage license by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Shayne Watson, an architectural historian who specializes in LGBTQ heritage sites, tells the Chronicle that the early meetings of the Daughters of Bilitis happened at 651 Duncan. "They provided a place for lesbians who were really, rally, really in the closet to hang out and dance have holiday potlucks, so they wouldn’t have to go home and hang out with their homophobic relatives," Watson says.

Martin, who died in 2008, has a daughter from a prior marriage (before she came out as a lesbian), Kendra Mon, who helped oversee Lyon's care in her later years. After Lyon's passing, the home was left to her, and she sold it to a new owner in September 2020, as the Chronicle reports. The property actually includes an adjacent vacant lot, 649 Duncan, and the new owner, Meredith Jones McKeown, sounds like she was aware of the landmarking plans for the Lyon-Martin House — but she tells the Chronicle that she plans on building a new home on the vacant property, and doesn't support that being landmarked.

The next steps are likely to include a plaque on the street below the house, but there are other ideas in the works as well. A group called "Friends of Lyon-Martin House," which includes fiscal sponsor the GLBT Historical Society, say they would like to see the one-bedroom cottage become something useful, like a student residence and a center for LGBTQ+ activism and history.

The Board of Supervisors still has to take a second, ceremonial vote on the landmarking next Tuesday.

Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a Facebook post, owner Lila Thirkield says she made the decision to sell "with a heavy heart," but declining sales the last couple of years combined with a raise in her rent has made the business unsustainable.

She blames the decline in business to gentrification in the neighborhood, of course, suggesting that a segment of her clientele has been forced to leave the city.

And this news comes a year after we saw the closure of beloved Hayes Valley gay bar Marlena's, and in the same year that Latino gay bar Esta Noche gave up the ghost in the Mission.

From Thirkield's posting:

Eighteen years ago I opened The Lex to create a space for the dykes, queers, artists, musicians and neighborhood folks who made up the community that surrounded it. Eighteen years later, I find myself struggling to run a neighborhood dyke bar in a neighborhood that has dramatically changed. A few years back my rent was raised to market rate, and though it was difficult, we seemed to weather it at first. But as the neighborhood continued to change, we began to see sales decline, and they continued to do so. We tried new concepts, different ways of doing things, but we were struggling. When a business caters to about 5% of the population, it has tremendous impact when 1% of them leave. When 3% or 4% of them can no longer afford to live in the neighborhood, or the City, it makes the business model unsustainable.

Please know that if I thought The Lexington Club could be saved, I would not be writing this. I understand what a huge loss this is to the community. It is difficult and painful to lose our queer spaces. However, my faith in queer San Francisco still runs deep. It is the best place in the world and dykes and queers are still an integral part of this city. They always will be. I have spent the better part of my adult life facilitating and creating community among dykes and queers in SF and I will not stop. The Lexington Club had an incredible eighteen-year run. It will forever live on in my heart, as I’m sure it will for many of you. To all who were a part of it - thank you for your contribution to a great chapter in San Francisco and a great chapter in my own life. And, of course, a huge thank you to my amazing staff. We made some incredible memories, and we will make more.

It's unclear if the closing is imminent, or what the new owner's plans for the space might be.

Thirkield says she's done an interview with former Guardian publisher Marke Bieschke which is due online at 48Hills tomorrow.

In the meantime, fans of the bar should get over there for one last game of pinball or pool, and to toast this latest death in the city's LGBT bar scene.

Updates as warranted.

Update: The 48 Hills interview with Thirkield is now online, and in it she says she there will, in fact, be a closing party and the sale is not quite complete. Also, she says, she will be keeping The Lexington brand alive through one-off parties, including maybe some events at the other bar she's a partner in, Virgil's Sea Room.

* Some may argue the case for Wild Side West, which remains a LGBT-friendly neighborhood bar in Bernal Heights, open since 1962, with a historic link to the lesbian community, but anecdotally we understand it is more of a mixed bar these days.

On Saturday, thousands of elated queer folks (and their straight supporters) converged upon Dolores Park to take part on the 20th Dyke March. The annual ode to our Sapphic sisters wound its way around the Mission, spilling feverishly into the Castro for the chaotic Pink Saturday party.

Led by Dykes On Bikes, the march is more for locals and has the grassroots feel of Gay Freedom Days of yore (especially when compared to todays politically saturated and corporate-reliant Pride Parade.) Here are a few scenes from yesterday's Dyke Martch extravaganza.

Beginning today, the city's LGBT community will begin three days of public events that are widely seen as one big party, but which really have their roots in protest and should still be seen as such. Given that rights and recognition for transgendered people are truly the final frontier in the civil rights fight, the 10th Annual Trans March this evening should be viewed as the most important event of the weekend, politically. Allow us to delve into a little history...

The thing we call the Gay Pride Parade was, once upon a time, called the Gay Freedom Day Parade — a better name, if you ask us, because at this point gay folks are pretty proud enough, but not always completely free. The inaugural event in San Francisco was a small 20- to 30-person march of "hair faeries" followed by a "gay-in" in Golden Gate Park in the summer of 1970, commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. That same weekend in New York City, there was the first large Pride-like march dubbed the Christopher Street Liberation Day March.

This all of course began with an uprising of homos, drag queens, and trans people who fought back against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969. The night's rioting, which included a lot of thrown beer bottles and was arguably motivated, in part, by the rioters' grief at the death of Judy Garland (her funeral had occurred earlier that day) led to three days of riots and tensions with police throughout the Village. Seen as the birth of the LGBT civil rights movement — though the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, spawned by police harassment of trans women in the Tenderloin, happened three years earlier in 1966 — Stonewall's anniversary is still marked by major Pride celebrations in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and other cities on the last weekend in June.

San Francisco's first big parade came in 1972, and it featured upwards of 2,000 participants and a march down Polk Street to Civic Center with makeshift floats on the backs of old pickup trucks. It was initially dubbed the Christopher Street West parade, featured a poster with a upraised fist and the words "Gay Pride," and in keeping with San Francisco's place in hippie history, it was way more nude and kooky than the equivalent event in New York. As the Chronicle notes in a recent slideshow of historic photos, "A full third of the photos [from the 1972 event in the Chronicle archive] showed at least one naked penis in the frame."

We like that San Francisco's celebrations were always a little more tawdry than New York's, but they're also bigger, and for all their spectacle they're more rooted in activism than the current Pride parade in NYC — as Justin Vivian Bond recently pointed out, "I loved [Pride] in San Francisco because there was a real end — you marched and at the end, everybody was there together and there was a show or whatever. But here you just go down and disperse. There's no real formation of community around it — I feel like it's almost designed to dissolve community." See some footage of the 1977 parade here, which came up Market Street from downtown, as it does today.

The iconic photo of Harvey Milk in the parade, wearing a lei and carrying a sign that said, "I'm From Woodmere, N.Y." comes from 1978, the year he died. The Civic Center celebration that we all know began in 1982, and the annual event was known as the Gay Freedom Day celebration, followed by International Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day, and only became officially known as Pride, or the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration, in 1995.

Dyke March began in 1993 and still bears some more of the protest nature and grassroots-y-ness of the original Gay Freedom Day events, with handmade signs, light nudity, no real floats, and most people on foot. It remains a lively, community-based event that stands in contrast to the more flashy, corporate-sponsored Pride parade. Now it begins with a day-long rally in Dolores Park, and culminates with a Saturday evening march through the Mission and Castro. This 2002 documentary short profiles some of the tens of thousands who came out for that year's march.

The first Trans March was in 2004 and featured several hundred marchers who came out in response to an anonymous email call to be more visible, and "to encourage more trans and gender-variant people to come out; to build connections among ftm, mtf, bayot, crossdressers, sadhin, hijra, transvestites, bantut, drag queens, drag kings, mahu, transsexuals, bakla, travesti, genderqueers, kathoey, two spirit, intersex and those with other labels for themselves and no labels for themselves, those who see gender as having more than two options, and those who live between the existing options." The march now begins with a rally in Dolores Park this afternoon, and takes marchers from the Mission to Turk and Taylor, the former site of Compton's Cafeteria. Check out a video of the 2011 Trans March here.

So, to all LGBTQI people out there, take a moment between drinks this weekend to recognize our history, how far we've come in light of this week's landmark Supreme Court rulings, and not to take our hard-won freedoms for granted.

Today the Bold Italic brings us a new piece by local literary wunderkind Michelle Tea (Valencia, Rose of No Man's Land), who is actually not a wunderkind anymore. She's 40. She's an established S.F. writer and, like many a bohemian around her age, she suddenly heard the loud ticking of her biological clock and decided she needed to have a baby. The trouble is, like many women her age, she realized she might be too old already, and she wasn't even in a committed a relationship. "Burst into tears before your computer. Flash on the 'I can’t believe I forgot to have children!' T-shirt with the picture of the ’50s-era woman sobbing into her hands.

Being the avid memoirist that she is, Tea wrote a couple of pieces just two months ago for XO Jane about trying to get pregnant as a single, 40-year-old lesbian, and about how her friends tried to dissuade her from child-rearing in a most San Franciscan fashion. "You can’t just go and put the baby in the other room when you want to have sex," and "You like to take off and go to Paris," they said.

But Tea was determined to spawn, and she tried for a year using a children’s oral medicine syringe from Walgreens and sperm from a drag queen/activist friend named Quentin, to no avail. It turns out she had fibroids all over her ovaries and a fairly low egg count.

But, as luck would have it, she's not single anymore. She now has a terrific new girlfriend ten years her junior, and that's the chapter she now tells in the Bold Italic. Girlfriend Dashiell, who's "more like a boy than a girl," is therefore "not keen on the idea of getting pregs." So, they're going to have one of her eggs inseminated and Tea plans to carry it, and you can be sure we will hear more tales about the trials and tribulations of pregnancy and childbirth in the years to come.

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San Jose resident Fiona Walshe, 39, is mad. She went to see comedian Eddie Griffin perform in Pleasanton recently, and he wasn't very nice to her. Walshe says that she and her partner, Leslie Champlin, were sitting in the front of the stage at Tommy T's Comedy Club on July 13 when Griffin stepped out, telling the audience 'he was already drunk and had been drinking for nearly a week." According to Mercury News, Griffin noticed that the CEO wasn't laughing, so said comedian taunted her from stage, saying she was "rigid" and that she looked like a "librarian." After noticing Champlin's hand on her shoulder, that's when Griffin went in for the kill.

"I get that you could get heckled about your hair or what you are wearing," she said. "But when he saw (Champlin's) hand on my shoulder, you could see his facial expression change. It was like that action gave him the green light." He then allegedly shouted something derogatory about her sexuality and that he would "show them a good time." He also allegedly pumped his hips in Walshe's face.

Things escalated when Walshe liquified Griffin by throwing a drink at him. A video posted on YouTube by a patron also in attendance at the same performance "revealed loud heckling inside the club after Walshe, unamused, grabbed her glass and threw her drink in Griffin's face." Behold:

"I was like a deer caught in headlights," Walshe explained to Mercury News, adding, "I felt violated and stunned. I wasn't expecting it to be so harsh and derogatory ... That's when I threw my drink at him, because I didn't think he was going to stop. He was thrusting his genitals at my face, and it felt like it was the only defense I had -- to throw my drink at him to stop." Walshe was then attacked by Griffin, who threw water bottles at her and Champlin. A few salt and pepper shakers were also tossed their way as they were being escorted from the club.

Walshe will sue the comedian and club owners if she doesn't receive and apology.

This brings other similar comedian-v-heckler litigiousness to light. In 2010, noted comedian David Chappelle had made anti-transgender remarks at a patron at the New Parish in Oakland. Most recently, Daniel Tosh joked to his audience about wanting to see a female heckler get gang raped.

Meet Lisa. Her friends really want her to sit down, but also to stand up. This marvelous video was captured by SFist friend Jack Shamama in the hours just following Saturday's Dyke March and rally in Dolores Park, and it's really a masterwork in guerrilla drunk cinema. It's important to understand that all three of these women are quite intoxicated. This incredibly difficult process, of getting Lisa off the corner, actually took more than fifteen minutes, but thankfully, the video has been edited down for your amusement.

This is an SFist *exclusive*, by the way.

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Another fake Muni ad has been discovered, this time on an outbound 38 Geary. It mocks local artisan purveyors Bi-Rite (while making a crude reference to lesbians), reading, "Bi-Dyke: Organic Produce for the Organic Asshole." Ugh. This most recent faux advertisement follows fake ads for Du Beers, Tartine, Tums, and... Marine fellatio.

David Kaik, the reader who sent it to SFist, explains: "I studied it for a little while before I got off and noticed a few things. There are dildos coming out of the bag, under the logo it says 'Fuck You' and there is a name in the lower right corner that says, 'GRATIS.' Maybe the pen name of the person/group doing these? I've looked at some of the others and they all have the name (illegibly so) "GRATIS" written on the lower right corner. This aside, I don't think 'AdBuster' was the authors first choice."

These ads first appeared on Muni Diaries last week. We're not sure from where they derive, but they sure are exciting if not totally offensive.

One Million Moms, which is a coalition of (we assume) at least one million mothers, has found the latest threat to the angelic youth of America: the Urban Outfitters catalog. Specificially, the controversial, headline-sparking girl-on-girl makeout session photographed for page two of the the debatably fashionable retail outlet's Spring lookbook. Writing in an exciting, exclamation-laden blog post titled "Trash Your Teen's New Urban Outfitters Catalog Today!", the moms lay out their call to action:

WARNING! The April 2012 catalog from Urban Outfitters has begun arriving in home mailboxes the last couple of days. On page two of this catalog is a picture of two women kissing in a face holding embrace! The ad and catalog are clearly geared toward teenagers.

Ignoring for a moment that many of us wouldn't have thought twice to look at an Urban Outfitters catalog, had One Million Moms not brought this sultry item to our attention — We might also point out that the catalog is geared towards people who enjoy novelty books, USB-equipped record players, and pre-cut jorts, but no one seems to be concerned about those items which some of us clearly find offensive.

The Moms continue:

Before your child has a chance to read the newest Urban Outfitters catalog call to unsubscribe from their mailing list at 1-800-282-2200, and then throw it away. When you call be sure to let them know why you are unsubscribing. Tell them you will also no longer shop at their stores if you hear this type of advertising continues. The content is offensive and inappropriate for a teen who is the company's target customer.

OMM, for the record, is the same group that suggested we boycott Glee by leaning on the show's sponsors at Olive Garden and Chili's. And they might even have a thing or two in common with the hipster supply company — Urban Outfitters' CEO Richard Hayne, who also owns Free People, Anthropologie and one terrible combover, is a noted supporter of Rick Santorum's failed presidential campaign.

Anyhow, for now, millions of American teens will have to ask their cool, older friends to drive them to the mall to buy clothes they will later regret. Just like they always have.