[1] She co-founded the Dykes on Bikes (DOB) after their 1976 San Francisco Pride parade debut, and rode with them each year from 1978 until her death in 2018.

[3] She moved to San Francisco, California, into the city’s gay district, The Castro, and became a manager of photocopier centers for Charles Schwab Corporation, and other brokerages and law firms.

[3][5] In June 1976, a group of 20-25 lesbians decided to ride their motorcycles in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade which had started in 1970.

[6] One of the riders noted them as being “dykes on bikes” which was overheard, and reported in the city’s main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle.

[3] Brook Oliver, lead attorney in DOB’s effort to trademark,[8] said, “Soni was the founding mother of Dykes on Bikes,” and added “She was the inspiration and the mentor that allowed Dykes on Bikes to flourish all over the world.”[3] In the first decade of riding in the pride parade the participants would just gather at the event and ride.

[3] Wolf was alarmed when a Wisconsin woman wanted to monetize the group’s name for a line of clothing, she noted dyke had been used to disparage lesbians for years, and vowed to take it back.

[3] Twenty-four expert witnesses provided evidence that DOB had reclaimed dyke for the lesbian community, and the term was used to empower.

[13] In July 2007 the Supreme “declined to hear the case, rendering a decision in favor of protecting the name Dykes on Bikes in the court of appeals binding”.

[3] The same defense to allow historically oppressed minorities to use re-appropriated slurs was presented in an amicus brief to a 2017 Supreme Court case, Matal v. Tam, which decided 8-0 in favor of striking the law that PTO used against the DOB.

[11] She died at age 69 from complications of pulmonary disease and pneumonia at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California.

[21][22] The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history,[23] while The Wall’s unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.