SF is celebratg Gay Pri Month wh the theme "Lookg Back and Movg Forward," to remd of the activists who me before and those who will e after .
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As has been the trend over the past , many of the floats had rporate affiliatns cludg Apple and Tla, but there were still plenty of homegrown standouts, like CHEER San Francis, the San Francis Lbian/Gay Freedom Band and D’Arcy Drollger, the cy’s drag lreate, a lorful Ford tck. A dmmer the San Francis Lbian/ Gay Freedom Band march the cy's annual Pri Para on June 25, 2023.
Wh homosexualy still nsired a crimal offense 1969, police raids of bars like Stonewall were all too mon. To memorate the events at the Stonewall Inn a year prr, the muny held a prott march on Polk Street, followed by a “gay-” piic Goln Gate Park.
Among sr of n’t-miss films, standouts clu Framele’s ftival opener “Fairyland, ” which explor the early days of gay liberatn through the ey of a young girl growg up San Francis wh her gay father the 1970s and '80s.
In the cy that practilly vented gay, we're exced to get back to the fun of celebratg San Francis Pri. * san francisco gay pride festival *
This year's ma stage performance lp clus Prcs Nokia, an alternative rapper who got their start performg New York Cy’s gay nightlife scene, Shn Ross, a mol, mil artist and fx Beyonce hater, sger Hayley Kiyoko, San Francis's first-ever drag lreate D’Arcy Drollger and many more. Other n’t-miss para participants, anizers say, clu Vera Newman’s wild and lorful Verasphere, the high-flyg cheerlears of Cheer San Francis, the San Francis Lbian/Gay Freedom Band and the rporate ntgent of Alaska Airl, who are known for puttg on que a show. The 52nd annual San Francis Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Pri Celebratn and Para (Pri 52) is back live and person this weekend after gog virtual 2020 and as a ticketed social distancg event at Oracle Park 2021.
The San Francis Dyke March is for women only, wh the tent of celebratg their love for one another, straight and Gay. Lnched to fame the early 1970s and fluential electg Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official the cy, the Castro is fully open about s herage.
And, ’s a big ol’ party: most recently, over 288 groups and an timated 50, 000 marchers took part the San Francis Gay Pri Para, wh hundreds of thoands of people watchg.