Arts & Entertainment Oakland Pride Draws an Estimated 50,000 People to Downtown Oakland Parade and Celebration The news wasn’t all bad coming out of Oakland this weekend, as the 14th annual Oakland Pride brought a parade, concerts, dance pavilions, and tens of thousands of people to show Oakland being “Rooted in Pride.”
Arts & Entertainment Juanita MORE! Hosting Pride Month Fundraiser Friday at Saks Fifth Avenue, Has Now Raised $1 Million in Charitable Donations The fashion of Mr. David Couture and the fashion icon Juanita MORE! will hold a free fundraiser for LYRIC this Friday at SF’s Saks Fifth Avenue, as Juanita has now raised a staggering $1 million for local charities over the last 30 years.
Arts & Entertainment 78-Member, All LGBTQ+ International Pride Orchestra Performing First Ever Concert Thursday Night You may not have ever seen the New York Philharmonic or the Metropolitan Opera, but you can see some of their musicians perform live, as the brand new International Pride Orchestra debuts Thursday with an all-star cast of all LGBTQ+ musicians in an event hosted by Peaches Christ.
SF Politics Gay Shame Pillories London Breed, Gay SF Supervisors in Pride Month Installation at ATA The queer activist collective Gay Shame is at it again, this time with a Pride Month installation at Valencia Street’s ATA that delivers satirical mockeries of Mayor Breed, and Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey.
Bay Area Sports Otherwise Despicable LA Dodgers Will Join Giants in Wearing Pride Logos for ‘Pride Night’ Game In SF It’s believed that it will be the first major American sports game with both teams wearing LGBTQ+ Pride logos, when both the Dodgers and the Giants will sport Pride-ified logos on their hats and uniforms for their June 11 Pride Night game.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Announces They Are Definitely Doing the Full In-Person Parade and Everything in June Mark your calendar for the final weekend in June, as SF Pride says the whole Pride Weekend-long lineup is back on for an in-person celebration June 25-26, 2022.
Arts & Entertainment This Uncovered Footage Shows SF Drag Queens Living Their Best Lives at a 1968 Costume Ball 60 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for men wearing women's clothing in public to be arrested. Nevertheless: A group of drag queens prancing along Columbus Avenue in San Francisco — circa 1968 — carried on living their most authentic (and fabulously camp) lives.
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.
SF News Livermore Farmers' Market ‘Suspended’ After Cookie Vendor Scolded for Handing Out Pride Flags The latest ‘complaining white woman’ brouhaha comes from Livermore, where a farmers' market crackdown on Pride flags has led to the director’s resignation and a suspension of the event.
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.
SF News Guy Who Brought Loaded Semi-Automatic Gun To Pride Event Gets 18 Months in Prison The 22-year-old San Francisco man who brought a loaded handgun with eight additional rounds into this year’s SF Pride festival gets prison, and had prior gun charges.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Oakland Pride, Feat. Alex Newell and Andra Day It's time again for the Bay Area's much smaller, much more recently inaugurated LGBTQ Pride celebration, Oakland Pride. On Sunday, for only the eighth time ever, Oakland celebrates its LGBTQ people with a
SF News Resist-Themed Pride Draws More Than A Million To Downtown SF, Avoids Major Violence With 250 contingents marching, Sunday’s San Francisco Pride parade was the largest ever in the event’s history. But even with this year’s resistance-themed political overtones, the parade and Civic Center
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Lips Light Show Coming To Twin Peaks Pink Triangle For Pride Weekend Since 1995, the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle has festooned our annual SF Pride weekend celebrations with a gigantic, one-acre pink homage to the LGBTQ community that’s visible from 20 miles away. But
SF News SFPD Warns Of Pride Bag Inspections, Size Restrictions As you of course know, San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebration is this weekend. Part of hosting the "largest LGBTQ celebration in the country," the San Francisco Police Department says, is ensuring the safety
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To Pride 2017 No doubt, this year's SF Pride is going to be one for the books, if only because as the nation remains bitterly divided about its identity and its future. So in some part
SF News SF Pride Parade To Officially Look More Like A Protest This Year, Will Lead With 'Resistance' Contingent At least in 2017, the annual Pride parade and Civic Center celebration on Sunday isn't going to be just about straight teens and allies wearing rainbow socks. SF Pride announced Monday that this
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Juanita More! Kicks Off Pride 2017 With Three New Murals In SF "2017 marks my 25th year in drag in San Francisco, so these murals are very special to me," says local drag icon Juanita More!, a performer and fundraiser who is equally at home
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Goats Prepare Twin Peaks For Pride's Big Pink Triangle In a little more than a week, Twin Peaks will again be home to the Pink Triangle of San Francisco, the Pride commemoration, the icon's website reads, "of the gay victims who were
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Main Stage To Feature Ronnie Spector, Betty Who, And More Plans for next weekend’s for SF Pride are beginning to crystallize, as the downtown and Civic Center areas typically draw a million people in a two-day fest that culminates in Sunday’s
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's LGBT Pride Parade Is This Weekend The 7th annual Oakland LGBT Pride celebration goes down this weekend, and attendees should expect live music, parties, and, of course, a parade. Headliners include Deborah Cox and Lisa Lisa, and there will
SF News Man Shot At Last Year's Pride Celebration Can Sue Organizers, Judge Rules The San Francisco Pride celebration was marred by an act of violence last year when an innocent bystander was hit by gunfire as two groups of men argued. The man fortunately survived, and
SF News Uber Driver Accused Of Refusing To Drive Gay Couple During Pride A couple celebrating Pride were dismayed when they say their Uber driver refused to drive them after the two men exchanged a quick kiss. The men allege things got even worse, reports ABC7,
Arts & Entertainment 'Still Here, Still Queer': Scenes From Dyke March 2016 It's not the Lesbian Parade, it's the Dyke March, and that wording might tell you everything you need to know about the event's 24th incarnation this past Saturday. The festivities began, as is
