SF News Several Big Corporate Sponsors Decline to Participate In SF Pride This Year, Because Trump Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, and booze conglomerate Diageo are among the corporations that are backing away from supporting San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebrations this year, marking some shameful fair-weather-friend behavior in a time of frightening fascist action.
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History of Pride Weekend In San Francisco San Francisco plays host every June to one of the biggest LGBTQ gatherings in the world, reminding everyone that this city is still the epicenter of the queer universe — even if that universe has grown much bigger since the early days of "gay liberation."
Arts & Entertainment SF Hotels Roll Out Pride Flags to Compete With Castro's The Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill now has a bigger Pride Flag — and a Progress Pride Flag at that — than the Castro's flying atop the building. And the Beacon Grand's is even bigger.
SF News FBI Issues Unusual Warning About Potential Terrorist Threats to LGBTQ Pride Celebrations ISIS-affiliated terrorists or their supporters could be plotting an attack on a public gathering during Pride Month, and the FBI and Homeland Security have issued a public warning in order to raise awareness of the potentially heightened threat.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Mayor London Breed Wore a Tutu and More Images From SF Pride 2023 SF Pride was certainly back in full force this year, with BART noting that ridership on Sunday was even up about 20% higher than in 2022. And here are some photos from the parade itself.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Pride Weekend Comes Off Without a Hitch Pride meant BART was very busy on Sunday, and so was the Castro; a suspected drunk driver drove off a Santa Cruz cliff; and a mother suspects her toddler was sickened by contaminated sand at Stinson Beach.
Arts & Entertainment NY Artist Says Market Street Rainbow Laser Light Installation Is Plagiarized Yvette Mattern, a visual artist, created a rainbow laser installation over a decade ago in New York City, and she has brought it to over a dozen cities since then. She says that Illuminate the Arts plagiarized her work in creating their similar Market Street installation for Pride last year.
SF News ABC News Is Doing a 'Pride Across America' Live Broadcast Sunday Including NY's and SF's Parades In a first, ABC News is doing a live national (streaming) broadcast on Sunday that will span the LGBTQ Pride celebrations and parades in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, with special correspondents covering each.
Arts & Entertainment Immersive Theatrical Party 'Pride In Gotham' to Deliver Campy Batman Experience Inside Historic Hibernia Bank A pretty unique Pride Week offering kicks off Tuesday night at the historic, long shuttered and barely-seen-for-decades Hibernia Bank space at Jones and Market, and it's sure to be a campy queer romp in a very gay Gotham City.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: San Francisco's 2022 Pride Weekend Felt Like a True Return to Form When the pandemic came down in a life-altering thud back in March of 2020, life as we knew it changed forever. The past two years have seemed like, more than anything else, a race to a semblance of normalcy; SF Pride reached that finish line over the weekend.
SF News Largely Peaceful SF Pride Celebrations End On Weird Note With Crowd Fights, 'Bear Spray' Incident The full scale SF Pride Parade and Civic Center celebration went off mostly without incident on Sunday for the first time in three years. But the mood was slightly marred by some end-of-day (probably drunken) chaos.
SF Politics SF Transgender District to Boycott City-Sponsored Pride Events In Response to Mayor's Support of Police "The mayor’s decision — her seat of power, and her role and leadership in one of the most progressive cities in the world creates a domino effect," the district says in a statement.
SF Politics [Update] Breed Joins Police, Fire Department in Boycotting Pride Parade Over Ban on Police Marching in Uniform Mayor Breed, the SF Police Officers Association, and the fire department all say they’ll refuse to appear in the SF Pride Parade, in response to a 2020 decision that barred police from marching in uniform at the event.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's First Ever Black Pride Kicks Off With Bar Crawl, Expo, and 'Slayers Ball' Coinciding with the traditional last-weekend-in-June Pride celebration in San Francisco, Oakland Black Pride is having its first-ever series of events focused on the Black LGBTQ+ community of the East Bay.
SF News There Will Be Another March on Polk Street on Pride Sunday Returning to the protest origins of Pride, and for the second year in a row without an official (and heavily corporate-sponsored) SF Pride parade, there will be a People's March and Rally down Polk Street and in Civic Center on Pride Sunday.
SF News The Original Pride Flag Has Returned to San Francisco Thought to be destroyed after sustaining water damage while in storage, a piece of the OG Rainbow Flag — undeniably the most defining symbol of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — was rediscovered in 2019; a portion of that same flag now sits inside a glass display box in the Castro.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants to Be First MLB Team to Display Pride Rainbow Colors on Uniforms For Saturday's home game against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants will sport LGBTQ Pride colors on their uniforms for the first time — and becoming the first team in Major League Baseball ever to recognize Pride Month in this way.
Arts & Entertainment Pink Triangle Lighting Ceremony Was Shrouded In Fog, But Pelosi Showed Up Tuesday night's ceremonial lighting of the newly electrified pink triangle on Twin Peaks was — sort of predictably — inundated by Karla the Fog. But it was attended by activists and dignitaries alike, and an LGBTQ marching band.
Arts & Entertainment Pride Month Kicks Off With Pink Torch Procession From Oakland, Pink Triangle Lighting On Twin Peaks For the second year running, the big pink triangle that is usually installed on the hillside overlooking the Castro for Pride is being illuminated with 2,700 LED nodes, and the lighting ceremony is being preceded by a Pink Torch Procession that begins in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment New Online LGBTQ Magazine Details Bar Reopenings and Pride Parties Happening Again In-person nightlife events are starting up again, and a new online weekly event listing site called Fa-Word details all the events and reopenings that are here and queer in SF.
SF News San Mateo County Cities to Fly 'Progress Pride Flag' For Pride Month; SF to Fly Traditional Rainbow Flag Across San Mateo County, city and county flagpoles will be flying the Progress Pride Flag in place of the traditional rainbow Pride flag, in recognition of greater inclusivity.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: New LED Pink Triangle Installed On Twin Peaks CalTrans has been sending "violations" to people who don't have FasTrak, SF is rescinding the temporary ban on reusable shopping bags, and a new study estimates the per capita cost of COVID-19 testing in CA counties.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rainbow Flags Return to Market Street An Oakland city audit blasts the police commission, PG&E just had its bankruptcy plan unanimously approved by state regulators, and SF is opening three new COVID testing sites.
Arts & Entertainment Eye Zen's 'OUT of Site: SOMA' Digital Production To Explore South of Market's Queer History Pride Month in San Francisco this year continues to shapeshift as more events either altogether cancel or adopt entirely online programs. One creative adjustment to the current times is Eye Zen's performance-driven, queer history tour of SOMA that's set to digitally debut in June.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Canceled For the First Time; Organizers Promise 'Grander' Festivity In 2021 Following a week of vague messaging that gained some negative momentum in the press, SF Pride officially announced Tuesday that the 2020 parade and celebration in late June is canceled and will not be postponed to the fall.
