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.
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.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline and SF Pride Partner To Host IRL Movie Nights at Oracle Park The first-ever Pride Movie Nights at Oracle Park — with this year’s theme organized around the ideas of inclusivity and togetherness — will feature in-person film screenings of the Tony Award-winning musical film adaptation of "In the Heights," plus a second unannounced feature picture, in June.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Won't Have a Parade In 2021, But There Will Be Some In-Person Events SF Pride announced Wednesday that there are plans for some in-person celebrations this June, however there will be no parade on Market Street and no Civic Center stages for the second year in a row.
SF News SFPD Is Asking For Protesters' Help In Identifying Protesters Who They Say Attacked Officers During 'Pride Is a Riot' March San Francisco police aren't likely to get a lot of help in identifying some rowdy demonstrators who allegedly attacked them with wooden shields and vandalized a police van on Pride Sunday in the Mission.
SF News 'People's March & Rally' Reminds San Francisco the Fight for Equality Isn't Over on SF Pride's 50th Anniversary Pride in SF this year saw the pandemic shutter its iconic parade and almost all other events. But, one of today's LGBTQ rallies galvanized the notion that the fight for radical, all-inclusive acceptance isn’t over — and helped reintroduce Pride to its activist origins.
Arts & Entertainment Photos and Videos: San Francisco's Emblematic Pink Triangle Glows for Its 25th Anniversary For its 25th anniversary — set in the middle of a worsening pandemic — the Pink Triangle this year isn't made up of large tarps and sailcloths, but rather 2,700 LED nodes that glowed hot pink Saturday night, managing to even pierce through the thick fog wrapping Twin Peaks.
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Big Freedia on Creativity During Lockdown, Future Projects, and Her SF Pride Performance Saturday Big Freedia has been a trailblazing LGBTQ figure in the music industry since she roared onto the scene with her first LP, “Queen Diva,” back in 2003. And she's primed to "bring some heat" Saturday with her headlining performance for SF Pride 2020's virtual celebration.
Arts & Entertainment Big Freedia Announced As Headliner for SF Pride 2020, More Artists Join Two-Day Online Celebration San Franciso Pride's virtual June 27–28 tribute to LGBTQ luminaries and queer solidarity now includes "the Queen of Bounce" Big Freedia as its headlining performer, with other notables like singer-songwriter Betty Who as well.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Still Doing An Online Film Festival in Late June, Announces Lineup The full Frameline is still postponed til fall, but they’re filling your late June with an online mini-Frameline called “Frameline44 Pride Showcase”— which includes a drive-in show in Concord!
Arts & Entertainment GLBT Historical Society and SFAC Galleries To Display '50 Years of Pride' Exhibit, Digitally To commemorate San Francisco Pride’s golden anniversary, the GLBT Historical Society and SFAC Galleries are partnering to bring "50 Years of Pride," a collection of 100 photographs taken over the five decades of SF Pride, to the masses — completely free and available online.
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.
Arts & Entertainment SF Mayor Says Normal Pride Celebration May Not Be Possible After a number of local publications covered the strangely vague stance being taken by SF Pride concerning the late June parade and weekend-long festival, SF Mayor London Breed made a comment Wednesday suggesting that it won't be happening.
SF News SF Pride Looks To Ban Alameda County Sheriff's Office From Parade Amidst Moms 4 Housing Eviction In protest against the handling of the eviction of Moms 4 Housing from their West Oakland home, seven members of San Francisco Pride push to ban the Alameda County Sheriff's Office from participating in this year's Pride parade.
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.
SF News SF Pride Board Calls For Charges To Be Dropped Against Protesters Who Halted The Parade After arrests were made and charges filed against two of the protesters who linked arms and lay down across Market Street to disrupt the San Francisco Pride parade last month, the board of SF Pride gave a press conference this week asking that those charges be dropped.
SF News A Dozen Protesters With A Lengthy List of Demands Halted SF's Pride Parade For An Hour A group of people protesting the police, corporate participation in Pride, the incarceration of trans people, and a half dozen other things laid down across Market Street Sunday morning and temporarily blocked the Pride parade from moving.
Arts & Entertainment A Quick And Dirty First-Timers' Guide To Pride Weekend In SF It is upon us: LGBTQ Pride. Parties have already been happening, but the partying begins in earnest on Thursday and continues through Sunday for this big gay (and lesbian and trans and queer +++) weekend — which is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the bar riot that started it all.
Business & Tech Over 120 LGBTQ Google Employees Say They Don't Want Google Marching In SF's Pride Parade An open letter from disgruntled Google employees comes after the company refused to allow them to protest from within the company's contingent at Sunday's Pride parade. But SF Pride says Google is still marching.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From SF Pride Weekend, Trans March, Dyke March, And The Parade While tension and violence have marred a lot of demonstrations and celebrations around the world in the last year most notably the Bastille Day massacre in Nice last year, and this past weekend's
