SF News Saturday Links: California SEIU President Hospitalized, Arrested at ICE Protest in LA Over 6,500 local residents have been impacted by the closure of SF-Marin Food Bank's 13 pop-up pantries; Mr. S Leather is being sued over its mouth gags; and CA union president David Huerta was hospitalized and remains in federal custody following an ICE protest in LA on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Writer Harper Steele, Longtime Friend and Documentary Partner of Will Ferrell, Named SF Pride Grand Marshal Harper Steele, the former head writer for 'Saturday Night Live' who gained national attention last year for the Netflix documentary 'Will & Harper,' has just been named the Celebrity Grand Marshal of San Francisco Pride.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Bar Ivy Room Is Boycotting All the Liquor Brands Who Yanked Their Pride Sponsorships After booze conglomerate Diageo pulled their sponsorship dollars from this year’s SF Pride festivities, Albany’s live music bar The Ivy Room has decided that they will no longer stock that company's brands, including Ketel One and Johnny Walker.
SF News SF Pride Catching Some Flack for Turning Down Request to Make Deported Makeup Artist Grand Marshal We may have another SF Pride controversy like the Chelsea Manning grand marshal fiasco in 2013, as some activists say they’re being denied requests to make deported makeup artist Andry Jose Hernández Romero this year’s honorary grand marshal.
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.
SF News SF Pride Looking to Bolster Security for 2025 Celebration, Anticipating ‘More Threats’ as Hate Speech Rises The first SF Pride of the Trump 2.0 era is planning for a bigger potential threat vector from far-right hate actors, amidst policy attacks on the LGBTQ community and an emboldened sense of entitlement from those engaging in political violence.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
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."
SF News BART Offering 'Most Robust Service Ever' For Pride Sunday BART is planning to run trains every five minutes through San Francisco starting Sunday morning, in what it says is its "most robust service ever" for San Francisco's Pride Parade.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Hopes to Have Legal Cannabis Sales and Smoking at Civic Center Plaza Party A highly historic feature could be puffing up at this year’s SF Pride celebration, with Civic Center Plaza planning to host SF Pride’s first-ever legal marijuana sales and consumption area — though the permit has technically not been approved yet.
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.
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.
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.
SF News SF Health Officials Put Out Call For Mpox Vaccinations Again Ahead of Pride If you're among the group of people most likely to be exposed to the mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — in the event of a new summer surge in cases, the SF Department of Public Health would like you to please consider seeking out your second dose if you never got that.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Rescinds Invite For 80s Rocker Dee Snider to Perform After Weird Anti-Trans Tweet SF Pride thought they had a real publicity coup in the making with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister — who no one under the age of 45 is likely to remember — agreeing to perform his 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" at this year's Pride festivities.
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 Pride Hired a Crisis PR Firm to Broker Compromise Deal With Police Over Parade Boycott Turns out that recent compromise deal for police to march in the SF Pride parade was drawn up by a tech industry public relations firm SF Pride hired for $4,000 a month, hoping to tell, in their words, a “fun and urgent story.”
SF News Breed Got Her Compromise With SF Pride, Small Number of SFPD Officers Will March in Uniform in Parade SF Pride relented and Mayor London Breed and the SFPD were able to reach an acceptable compromise Thursday about the banning of police uniforms in the Pride Parade — just in time for the Pride Flag raising at City Hall.
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 The Pride Weekend ‘People’s March’ Will Return This Year, Possibly In Direct Competition With the SF Pride Parade San Francisco could be a two Pride Parade town this year, as the upstart People’s March on Polk Street is planning to return — on the same day as the SF Pride Parade, and possibly even the same time.
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 SoMa LGBTQ Mainstays Oasis and The Eagle Reopen For Pride; Oasis Unveils New Party Slate Both Oasis and the Eagle Tavern are reopening indoors and out this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, bringing LGBTQ nightlife back to SoMa in time for Pride.
