Parade:

The San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade and March is at 10:30 Sunday, June 24, on Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Civic Center. www.sfpride.org

vKate Brown of Dykes on Bikes starts her engine at: http://bit.ly/dykesonbikes. and what is not on here is that I am currently the treasurer. I earned my patch in 2003.

How I earned my patch: There are a set number of meetings you have to attend. You have to help with some fundraisers and go on enough runs with us for us to get to know you, and you to get to know the club and make sure it is a good fit. The patch is the Dykes on Bikes logo. We registered it with the United States trademark office. That took us all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

How the parade starts: We get the signal from the Pride coordinator and tell everybody to start their motorcycles. Then you can hear the roar of motorcycles starting from the front and going all the way to the back, several blocks. Hundreds of motorcycles starting their engines and coming down. Then it starts to reverberate off all the buildings. All the windows are shaking. It’s fantastic.