The Trans March is one of the largest trans events in the country and the mission is to inspire all trans and gender non-conforming people to realize a world where they are safe, loved, and empowered.
See a movie at the SF International LGBTQ+ film festivalįrameline is the world’s longest running and largest showcase of queer cinema and this year’s festival features 174 films, incuding 59 US premieres. There will be a Hella Gay Dance Party in the Coral Reef, a Studio 54-inspired party inside of the piazza, and cocktail stations throughout. Go to a Pride party at the California Academy of Sciencesĭrag queen extraordinaire Heklina will be performing at this Pride-themed party that celebrates equality and self-expression and gives you a chance to explore the museum at night. While the Parade and Celebration are the biggest events of the weekend, there’s a lot of other fun and important stuff going on, so we highly recommend you make time to check some of it out.
Other Pride events (for you party animals out there) San Francisco LGBT Pride | Eric Wagner/flickr Dance outside at iconic drag queen Juanita Moore’s famous rooftop party at Jones that benefits the GLBT Historical Society, head to The Stud from 2pm to 2am for 10 parties in 12 hours, go to the Mighty Real poolside Pride party at The Phoenix Hotel, or, if you’ve asked for Monday off, don’t miss one of the wildest parties of the weekend, Sanctuary’s Glow-in-the-Dark Closing Party at 1015 Folsom that goes until 8am on Monday. Of course, there’s lots of wild stuff to do following the Parade. The official VIP Party is close to selling out, but if you can snag a ticket, you’ll get to dance under City Hall’s Rotunda while enjoying live entertainment, beverages, and bites. There will also be over 200 vendors selling art, food, and beverages, including beer, wine, and cocktails. That party will have 20 stages and gathering spaces, including a leather alley, homo hip-hop stage, country-western dance corral, queer youth space, and faerie freedom village. The official Pride Celebration takes place at Civic Center Plaza from 11am to 6pm.
Want to join in on the festivities? Here’s everything you need to know about how to celebrate Pride in San Francisco: Of course, we do this in the most fabulous way possible because this is San Francisco and that is simply who we are. It’s a time to put the LGBTQ+ community in the spotlight and show our support, give people whose voices have been marginalized a chance to be heard (and help ensure their voices won’t ever be diminished or disparaged again), celebrate for those who live in places where they can’t, and remind people that there’s still more work to be done. Though Pride is certainly a party it’s a lot more than that, which this year’s theme “Generations of Resistance” hopefully illuminates. That party includes a two-day festival and a parade on Sunday where over a million spectators line up along Market Street to watch 250+ contingents march through the heart of the city, led by the famous Dykes on Bikes who rev their engines and set the pace for the parade. Pride is celebrated for all of June in San Francisco, but the official celebration actually takes place on the last weekend of the month.
Though it started small, San Francisco LGBT Pride has grown to be the largest gathering of LGBTQ+ people in the world with a mission to “educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and liberate our people.” The first Pride event in San Francisco was a “Gay-In” on June 27, 1970, exactly a year after the LGBT patrons of the Stonewall Inn in NYC’s Greenwich Village rioted in response to police harassment and arrests. For me the more than know about it come the better," Loughridge said.How can people change their mind about us if they don’t know who we are? ~ Harvey Milk "I'm very proud to be a part of White Center. In some ways, they want the neighborhood to stay under-the-radar - but they also want as many people as possible to have fun there. Anju, a Korean-fusion restaurant, slings kimchi mac-and-chesse balls and craft cocktails.
Visit on a Saturday afternoon, you'll see the Beer Star tap house packed with families. Loughridge and Maring acknowledge White Center is undergoing gentrification on all sides.