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Event
Information:
The
San Francisco Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender Pride
Celebration, usually known as San
Francisco Pride, is a parade and
festival held in June each year in
San Francisco to celebrate the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people and their allies.
The 40th anniversary parade included
over 200 parade contingents, and is
described on the official website as
"the largest gathering of LGBT
people and allies in the nation. The
San Francisco Pride parade is a
world-renowned LGBT pride parade. It
is held on Sunday morning of the
Festival. The route is usually along
San Francisco's Market Street, from
Beale Street to 8th Street. The
parade starts nominally at 10:30 am,
though it is hours before all the
contingents are able to get onto the
parade route, and the last
contingent doesn't leave the parade
route until 2-4 pm.
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the details for this year's
SF Pride, with live coverage, here.
A
two-day (Saturday and Sunday)
festival has grown up around the
Sunday morning parade. It is a
collection of booths, dance stages,
and vendors around the Civic Center
area near San Francisco City Hall.
On the Sunday of the parade, an area
of the festival called Leather Alley
features fetish and BDSM oriented
booths and demonstrations. The
festival is traditionally held in
the last full weekend in June. This
commemorates the Stonewall riots.
There have been proposals to move it
to different dates, for instance to
July 4 in 2004. The independently
organized Trans March is held on the
Friday before the parade while the
Dyke March and Pink Saturday events
are held the Saturday night of the
festival in The Castro.The first
event resembling the modern San
Francisco Pride celebration was held
in 1970--a small "gay-in" in Golden
Gate Park. Since 1972, the event has
been held each year. The name of the
festival has changed over the years.
The event organizers each year
select a theme for the event, which
is reflected in the logo and the
event’s publicity.
The
Rainbow Flag identified with the Gay
community was originally created by
Gilbert Baker for the 1978 San
Francisco Pride Parade. It
originally had eight stripes, but
was later simplified to the current
six stripes. A six-stripe Rainbow
Flag flies over Harvey Milk Plaza in
the Castro, arguably the best known
gay village in the world.
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