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SFist Tonight, 12/5: Repeal Day Party

Leanne Maxwell — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:20:55 GMT

DRINKING: FunCheapSF has the scoop on 21st Amendment Brewery's annual celebration of Repeal Day with 5-cent beers, a march against Prohibition, a secret speakeasy event (password required!), and the tapping of the cask of Repeal Day IPA. Costumes encouraged! (4 p.m. to Midnight, 21st Amendment Brewery & Restaurant, 563 2nd Street)

TREE-LIGHTING: Rita Moreno and Peter Coyote will be taking part in tonight's tree-lighting ceremony at City Hall, which begins with a concert by the San Francisco Boys Chorus, followed by remarks by Mayor Ed Lee and Consul General of Japan Hiroshi Inomata. (5:30 p.m., City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place)

LITERARY: Quiet Lightning reading series, which "revolutionized literary readings by eliminating introductions and banter and publishing each month’s show as a book," celebrates its two-year anniversary with readings by a big line-up of Neighborhood Heroes. (7:30 to 9 p.m., Beat Box, 314 11th Street)

Pink Triangle Ceremony Tomorrow, Volunteers Still Needed

Leanne Maxwell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:30:03 GMT

Tomorrow morning is the annual Pink Triangle Ceremony on Twin Peaks. The Pink Triangle, which can be seen from miles away, commemorates the gay victims of the Holocaust and is a reminder of the on-going inhumanity to repressed minorities going on now around the world.

Special guests Cloris Leachman will be telling "The History of the Pink Triangle," and Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado, who recently returned from Iraq, will speak of the outrageous and tragic events that are taking place there toward the LGBT community. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band will perform.

The organizers still need volunteers to help with set up from 7 to 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning and for the break down on Sunday from 6 to 7 p.m. Please bring both a hammer and work gloves, and wearing layers and closed-toe shoes is recommended. They warn that there might be poison oak. Yikes! Pink Triangle t-shirts, coffee, and donuts will be provided.