Produce our print magazine, Inside Pride, but we curated a Community Events Calendar with user-generated Without a traditional Parade and Celebration, we chose not to Partnerships go in both directions, as well. The more than 100 generous individuals over both nights who assisted both our team and Frameline’s. We simply could not have executed our vision without
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Pride Movie Night at Oracle Park functioned smoothly. Wysinger’s longstanding belief that the fights for LGBTQ+ liberation and racial equality are inextricablyĪs we have done in years past, SF Pride worked with the volunteer-management team at TurnOut to ensure that Underscores its importance in the quest for social justice, and also buttresses Board President Carolyn Smaller-scale event in 2020.) The fact that Juneteenth won recognition as a federal holiday this year (The two organizations had worked together on a similar, AAACCĬo-executive directors Melonie Green and Melorra Green - affectionately known as “The Twins” - were selectedĪs Community Grand Marshals for 2021, and SF Pride lent our support to a wonderful Juneteenth solidarity Perhaps the strongest synthesis was between SF Pride and the African American Art & Culture Center. To produce events of this scale - and for the first time at that! - SF Pride has partnered with severalĮarly on, the collaboration with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco yielded a truly exceptionalįundraiser and long-overdue survey of LGBTQ+ culture in a historic neighborhood (Chinatown Pride, March 25).
Performances of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black national anthem. Oratory came from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who went on to introduce SF Pride Executive Director FredĪdditionally and in keeping with SF Pride’s belief in centering Black voices, both films opened with Rafael Mandelman, who district encompasses the Castro.
Sakura, a RuPaul’s Drag Race competitor) along with live and pre-recorded announcements That combined local DJs and drag performers with nationally recognized names (such as hostess Rock M. While movie-goers were primarily there for the feature films, Pride curated two diverse, hour-long pre-shows Queen - San Francisco’s reigning empress, Juanita MORE! - across the stadium in a golf cart, alongĮqually photogenic companion in a full-size puppy costume. Proper Red Carpet experience for VIPs and invited media on both evenings. To makeĪccessible as possible, ticket prices began at $19.99, with several tiers up to an on-field pod experienceīecause Frameline45 is a world-renowned film festival, the staff of both organizations endeavored to create a The more expressly LGBTQ-themed West End musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Major League Baseball, while on Saturday, June 12, an audience of approximately 4,000 people was treated to
Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical In The Heights on the One week later, Pride Movie Night at Oracle Park screenedįilms. Game against the Chicago Cubs (“Pride Day,” June 5). Month, the San Francisco Giants wore uniforms with inclusive patches in the colors of the Progress Flag in a Has begun to make enormous strides in LGBTQ+ inclusion and representation more generally. This partnership with Giants Enterprises and the long-running LGBTQ+ film festival, Frameline45 14, at the Cityscape Lounge in the Hilton Union Square Hotel). In addition to the third annual SF Pride Pro-Am Golf Tournament (Oct.Ĩ-9 at TPC Harding Park) as well as the inaugural Ken Jones Memorial Awards Reception and Fundraiser (Thursday, Oct. Rainbow, we also began an initiative called ‘SF Pride 365’ to deliver content throughout the calendar year. In our effort to broaden our reach and highlight leaders in the various communities under the overall LGBTQ+ Pride Movie Nights at Oracle Park, and on June 18, we supported the African American Art & Culture On Juneġ1-12, SF Pride partnered with Giants Enterprises and Frameline, the long-running LGBTQ+ film The organization opted to strengthen ties with other nonprofit organizations in San Francisco. Unlike 2020’s largely virtual Pride, however, Large-scale, in-person events for the second year in a row. Owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Directors of San Francisco Pride decided not to mount
Revelers to Civic Center, as well as more than 100,000 spectators cheering on some 280 contingents withĥ0,000 marchers to the Parade down Market Street. These actions - the nuclei of the Parade and two-day Celebration that have comprised San Francisco Pride forĭecades - also formed the heart of #SFPride51, which was initially expected to draw hundreds of thousands of Year earlier, LGBTQ activists in San Francisco held a small march down Polk Street followed by a “gay-in” at On the last weekend of June 1970, to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising on the other side of the continent a